Depends. Do dark angels get a motorcycle or a shitty Cavalier? lol.
I understand Nancy Pelosi has a limo. That should give you hope.
I think we disagree about what freedom is. I do agree that freedom is about trying to financially make a better life for yourself. However, I also tend to think that freedom is about being able to see a doctor when you're sick instead of suffering.
Walk into any ER in the country. They are bound by law to treat you for free. But for some reason, that's not good enough. I find the idea of "free health care for all" stupidly simplistic and idiotic. Who the hell in their right minds would want to, on purpose, make their health issues a liability to the government? You think "the poor" have it shitty now, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Your desire to have people (I assume you think of yourself being exempt like most liberals) surrender one of the most basic areas of their lives to be controlled by government is just about the most anti-humanitarian idea I have ever encountered.
You, Lanie, don't think things through to their logical conclusion. Not doing so is how Type A liberals are able to sell their crap to Type B liberals like yourself. If you are not familiar with my definition of Types A and B, let me know. I will be glad to educate you about your fellow travellers.
I think freedom would be about not having to choose between your baby's healthcare and working a job where you won't be able to afford their healthcare. That's not freedom. That's entrapment.
That's amusing. You haven't seen entrapment until you are trapped in the non-mercy of a government run "health care" system which weighs whether or not your little sickly baby is worth the precious tax dollars it takes to save him.
"Madam, this is your child's fourth bout with chronic diarrhea this year. The Ministry of Health says we cannot waste any more resources trying to keep this flawed child alive."
I think freedom is about not having to choose between working tonight and your child's safety at home (due to not having a babysitter). That is not freedom.
Where's the father and why do we collectively think it's just great to dismiss him? Answer: Modern liberalism. Any more confusion?
That's crap disguised as freedom. To me, freedom is about ways to train people for jobs, not a sink or swim survival of the fittest society.
You can't disguise freedom. It's like the air we breath. It's invisible, but entirely necessary in order to live a healthy life.
I don't believe in people living off of the government, but I do believe in helping people out when they're in bad shape. I also believe in taking care of our elderly. They took care of us. Living to be old wasn't as common during the supposed "Great Generation" (I don't think).
Yes, people lived to ripe old ages even as far back as The Bible. The idea of life expectancy is entirely subjective and based on very arbitrary standards. It has less to do with health conditions than situational realities. We don't die near as often by being kicked in the head by a horse as we use too. We do die much more often in car wrecks these days, but current analysis doesn't take that into consideration.
People use to take care of there own. They usually had no other choice, nor would they have wanted one. It's part of being moral and having strong character - you know, those two things modern liberals have spent a century trying to weed out of the American gene pool.
How is the women's rights movement about controlling women? So a woman's right to vote is controlling her? A woman's right to stay at home with the kids or to work a full time job is controlling her?
Women voting was hardly a liberal accomplishment. In fact, the more I hear from you, the more I think it was a bad idea. Voting is an individual freedom. That makes it a conservative issue.
I agree about the hypocrisy regarding people like Palin. I remember asking conservative women that same question. I told them that I was glad they were taking up for a persecuted woman, but where were they when liberal women went through the same stuff? Nowhere to be found. The hypocrisy runs both ways. For a while, I thought a brand new women's movement was about to start and conservative women were about to lead it. I saw conservative women reacting the same way I had seen liberal women reacting for years. The outrage. I have to admit I was excited about it (the outrage) even though I'm not conservative.
What liberal woman who was in the right has been attacked just for being liberal? I must stress "in the right" to mean their goal was not the destruction of the American way of life. I'm intrigued. I must know this woman's name.
Women in Islamic countries. Go look on websites other than NOW.
What's wrong with looking at the New York Times? It's the same shit. Modern American liberals and the radical muslims have a common goal. The Modern American liberal embraces the radical muslims over their own countrymen because the Modern American liberal thinks the radical muslim can hasten the downfall of the United states of America.
That is why when it comes to radical muslims, the modern American liberal can forgive the fact they treat women like cattle and hang homosexuals. Nothing beats beating America! Why is that? What is the motivation for forsaking one's own worldview when convenient?
In regards to what Europe thinks of as liberal and conservative, I first heard that from a Canadian, not a professor.
Well, you've answered your own problem.
Lanie, have you EVER given a thought to who is going to support the world when the world's piggy bank known as the United States of America is no longer able to support the socialist nations of Europe or the unchangeable third world hellholes of Africa?
Given that state of the world, one must really hate mankind to wish upon the world a socialist United States of America.
Think about it, dear. Think long and hard. Think it all the way through until logic takes you to an oasis of understanding.
The first tool in the Bag to Reality is a new understanding that there is no gray area. The world really is black and white. The gray area is for children, adult fools, and the Tooth fairy.
