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You don’t address a single issue I wrote about in the other blogs. No big deal, I didn’t expect you would be able to. Call the writer an idiot without any supporting statements since you can’t compete or debate on your own “turf”.

With all the homosexuals running around, don’t you worry about having your rear end sticking up in the air while your head is in the sand?

Anyway, the first set of items on your list is a good start. Most are significant whether you vote conservative, liberal, or someplace in between. You might add government spending and energy policy.

You don’t address a single issue I wrote about in the other blogs. No big deal, I didn’t expect you would be able to. Call the writer an idiot without any supporting statements since you can’t compete or debate on your own “turf”.

With all the homosexuals running around, don’t you worry about having your rear end sticking up in the air while your head is in the sand?

Anyway, the first set of items on your list is a good start. Most are significant whether you vote conservative, liberal, or someplace in between. You might add government spending and energy policy.

sorry about the double post

First, thank you for your suggestions I will add them to my list-although I think the energy policy issue would be covered when addressing the myth of "man-made global warming". As far as responding to you, that is somewhat difficult to do as considering I have no way of contacting you...evidently you do not have a blog here on TH (note the underline under the name of those who do). So it makes it difficult to have a dialog with someone who is unwilling to establish their own "turf". In any case if you want to keep posting your comments on my blog that is your right. I am curious if you bother to go to other blogs or not, and why you bother to post on mine if what I say is so offensive and mindless. Why waste your time? Why not go to a blog where you can have an intelligent dialog?

I have just looked at my list and was going to add your suggestion about government spending, but saw that issue would be covered in both the U.S. Constitution and in socailism vs. capitalism. Perhaps I need to be less general and more specific about the issues. In any case thank you for your suggestion. If you have anymore positive and constructive ideas to add to the list please feel free to post.

Again, I ask if you go to other blogs here on TH and "comment" on them? If so could you please let me know which ones as I would like to read what they have to say also.

is pretty much all we really need to look at. Maybe toss in the police records of some of 'em...

I would also address the treatment of the vets from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Remember when Napolitano said that the tea party members would use them for potential bombings or violence, etc? That really ticked me off.

true-conservative, here's some input. THE issue is liberty versus license or tyranny. The federal government has (distilled) but one enumerated function: to protect individual liberty.

1. the U.S. Constitution Yes, it's the supreme law of the land, and we are to be a nation of laws, not of men.

2. pro-abortion vs. pro-life If a fetus seriously endangers the life of the mother, abortion would be "self-defense". Otherwise, abortion is denial of the rights to life and liberty.

3. homosexual/lesbian "marriage" If two consenting adults wish to marry, they have an unalienable legal right to do so. To deny them is license.

4. shamnesty for illegal aliens Crossing our border was illegal. The remedy is deportation.

5. the 2nd Amendment It's but one of many, each covered under #1.

6. national security at home and abroad Liberty.

7. education No enumerated authority.

8. the global warming myth Any law of "solution" would violate liberty.

9. socialsim vs. capitalism Any group of Americans who wish to live socialisticly, say in a commune, are free to do so. Any attempt to impose said on you or me is a violation of my unalienable right to liberty.

Thanks for your response-I am not sure what you mean by everything you said, but I will go through each one and address them as best I can. That is what this is all about, yes? A back and forth discussion of the subject? Your first point;

"1. the U.S. Constitution Yes, it's the supreme law of the land, and we are to be a nation of laws, not of men."

I agree with this 100% and that is why it is first on my list. It is evident that many of those currently in office do not care for the document or are clueless about what it says or means. Furthermore, it appears that many citizens of the U.S. are clueless about what the document contains and what it means. I would encourage everyone to actually read the document and do a just little research on it-who wrote it, and why it was written, etc. This may seem like a "no-brainer" to you and others here on TH (basic U.S. History right?), but evidently it is not-e.g.the "federal gumminit run schools" aren't doing the job they're supposed to be doing. If they were then they would be teaching themselves out of a job as "public education" is not a right guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution nor in any of the Amendments. It is something that is taken up in the constitutions of the states and is consequently a function of the states, not the federal government-therefore the Federal Department of Education is UNCONSTITIONAL (hmmmm, what is the annual budget of the F.D.E.-how much would the budget be reduced if it was eliminated?). Sorry to go on so long, but I wanted to make my point. I will respond more later, but family calls for now.

I know what the underlined username denotes. I generally go to blogs when the user makes a comment in one of the threads that catches my eye. You can do a search on my username and it will show all of the comments (or many if not all) I have made in the threads and the blogs. Politically, we aren’t that far apart. I’m not a hard-core conservative but rather a very conservative moderate. If you read my posts, you’ll see I jump on content rather than issues. Issues always have at least 2 sides and neither side is stupid, or immoral, or unethical, or any other generalizations that both parties use. Individuals have those traits. With a straight face, can you honestly say that the least intelligent person of one party is smarter than everyone in the opposite party?

This investigation is the perfect example. Outside interference in a police investigation is called obstruction of justice or some similar charge fitting the specifics of the interference. It is a crime because amateurs are not welcome at a crime scene. A police commissioner does not go to the crime scene or jog the elbows of the people doing a detailed, difficult job. I can go on for paragraphs why the investigation by Congress should wait. Bottom line is that ANY information that Congress would receive would come from the people or agencies currently involved in collecting info and evidence. And they are not done. President Obama’s mistake in this was acknowledging politicians who are trying to put a political spin on this. This will be investigated thoroughly and properly in due course.

No one on this site will admit they were wrong about this investigation 6 months or a year from now (see birthers as an example). This is good press now. If this thread (delay the invest.) is correct and this is an attempt at spin and advancing the Muslim cause, I will admit I was wrong and apologize every day for a week (or 1 day). Are you willing to do the same if these charges are baseless? Can you admit it when you are wrong? The vast majority of my posts have detailed information to back up what I say. You ask how we can have a dialog without me having a blog. You managed to call me an idiot without giving reasons or having an email address. I have responded. That’s a dialog. I can give you an email address but would it matter? Can’t you give any reasons or examples in your posts why you say I’m an idiot? The statement that brought me here today was what sacrifices had another poster made towards the war effort. As a Viet Nam veteran, my efforts are obvious. (I covered that in my post about the meaning of the oath of allegiance that all servicemen swear to) What efforts have you made? My email address is available upon request

A quick response to the Constitution being the law of the land. I also agree to that. But here is the split. What you or I or drpete think the Constitution means is nothing more than our opinions. Claims that any given activities or controls imposed by the government are unconstitutional, are nothing more than personal opinion until the Supreme Court agrees with you. If they agree, that activity or control stops. Under that Constitution and our laws, the Supreme Court decides the interpretation of the Constitution. Our Constitutional rights are not violated until they say they are. You can argue about it but a 5-4 conservative Supreme Court has last say. Personally I believe in the 2nd Amendment but don’t think ammunition that can pierce body armor and automatic weapons should be available to the general public. Many NRA members would disagree with me. The court decides.