You assume far too much. Not surprising coming from a leftist troll.

Do you think I come here because people "care"? That's you my little imprisoned friend. ------------------------------------------------- Imprisoned? What the hell are you talking about?

What I am is none of your business, and children are not carrots. They have their own deals to make, their own lives to live, and ultimately, in your faith, they alone account for their lives to God. What they do here is their business not yours. You just pay the bills because you brought them into the world. That's how it works here. ----------------------------------------------- So, now religion is nobody else's business if the subject isn't 9-11 and the global war on terrorism. Your hypocritical stripes are showing.

Don't tell me. You're a Christian. I can just tell. ------------------------------------------------ How can you tell oh wise one?

"that's" as in the contraction of "that is". Learn Bloody English! ------------------------------------------------------- Nobody cares about your grammar Nazi machinations, truly. Stop pretending you're relevant.

she's 25 + years old and doesn't want my empathy I'm sure. ---------------------------------------------------------- Why would she want what she can't spell?

Really Katie? That is shameless? How about going after Obama's deceased mother like this --------------------------------------------------- Go after Obama's dead mother? With or without a shovel?

Too cynical? Hardly. Just a student of human nature.

Like I said, exchanges with some Libertarians help me to see the light so to speak. And believe you me, Cicero and Moshe were not touchy feely about it. -------------------------------------------------------- Moshe is an idiot. I'd think twice before dropping his name in conversation. Cicero is a decent guy, wickedly intelligent.

And Kristol is certainly not irrelevant. He and Buckley and them started the Neoconservative Movement which got us into modern empire building and these industrial wars. Do you disagree? --------------------------------------------------------- Our current situation was built long before the ascendancy of neoconservativism. Look no further than Woodrow Wilson. That said...military intervention and economic intervention, the two hallmarks of neocon, are not exclusive to said ideology. WWII was in no way related to the politics of Irving Kristol and didn't make FDR an imperialist. This empire really is no empire, not in comparison to say the Brits of the early 20th century or Nazi Germany.

I couldn't care less about their feelings, a fact everyone knows. Here's the thing...as a libertarian, my duty lay in exercising my informed vote and being realistic about the ability to change the minds of others. If you actually think you can change the mentality of anyone who has reached their 30th birthday, you are living in the land of Oz. Many here have served in the military, have seen horrific stuff, have had children, raised them, seen them accomplish great things. If you're interested in changing minds, go teach high school.