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Honus · #31 03-09-2014, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

It's because, like many behaviors, it falls neatly under the "slippery slope" theory of morality.

But you already knew that. What you really meant to say is that you think the argument is obnoxious and without merit and wish it would go away.

I agree that it is obnoxious but I see not evidence that it is without merit. Do you?

Likewise, I see no evidence that a theory linking botany and necrophilia is without merit.

Botnst · #32 03-09-2014, 09:07 AM

Now that's silly. One is a subject area and the other is a behavior.

Try another analogy.

Honus · #33 03-09-2014, 09:17 AM

I see no evidence that a theory connecting experimenting with plants and having sex with dead people is without merit.

Botnst · #34 03-09-2014, 10:05 AM

Okay, let's see the causal link. What have they in common that one would assume increasing one might increase the other.

davidmash · #35 03-09-2014, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Air&Road

LINKED? No one has LINKED homosexuality to pedophilia or beastiality. Many HAVE, however, pointed out the precedent that is set by the redefining of marriage.

Of course you are obviously much more intelligent, much more educated and much more successful than Dr. Carson. He is the person who has probably been the most noted and successful neurosurgeon, in terms of lives saved via neurosurgery, than anyone else in history. We are all very proud to have someone here on our forum with such massive intellect and massive success that they are beyond Dr. Carson..

Come to think of it, there have been people who claim that when a white person disagrees with Obama, they are racist. By this logic, you must be racist.

Educated and intelligent. Apparently yes. Seems neither he nor you have any concept of what consent means. I know grade school kids with a better grasp of the law than he or you apparently have. Of course I'm sue he know the difference and sees the failure of his argument but he like all politicians caters to his base and in this case it's the GOP base who would like to see people deprived of their equal rights.

His career as a surgeon has nothing to do with him linking crimes against children and animals with homosexuality.

davidmash · #36 03-09-2014, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

It's because, like many behaviors, it falls neatly under the "slippery slope" theory of morality.

But you already knew that. What you really meant to say is that you think the argument is obnoxious and without merit and wish it would go away.

I agree that it is obnoxious but I see not evidence that it is without merit. Do you?

Yes I do see it completely with out merit. By do you believe the argument has merit?

davidmash · #37 03-09-2014, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

Okay, let's see the causal link. What have they in common that one would assume increasing one might increase the other.

You first. Let's see your link between homosexuality and beastiality.

Honus · #38 03-09-2014, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

Okay, let's see the causal link. What have they in common that one would assume increasing one might increase the other.

Nothing, as far as I know.

cmbdiesel · #39 03-09-2014, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Air&Road

I too am absolutely NOT a fan of Rick Perry. Wouldn't give you fifteen cents for him. His speech at the CPAC, however, was OUTSTANDING. Proves that even a blind squirrel finds a pecan every once in awhile.

It's about principles. The principles he encouraged were EXACTLY correct. Basically he pointed out that the government should not be in the education business or the healthcare business. These comments are exactly correct.

Correct principles are correct principles, no matter who is voicing them.

Another great speech at the CPAC was Dr. Ben Carson. He talked about some solid principles, proposing that control be put back in the hands of the people instead of the government. It is obvious that it is now in the hands of a few self serving idiots that would sell their momma on a street corner for one vote.

I sure hope for the southern youth that the government doesn't get out of education.... poor slobs are disadvantaged enough already without db's like Perry gutting their education to line their pockets. Not to mention that they would start teaching even more religious claptrap.
I think our country has a compelling reason to stay on top of education.
You decry the slipping position our country holds in the world, and then argue against one of the few things we can do to restore our position.

Correct principles are not really correct principles when they are merely window dressing designed to buy your vote.
Kind of like that worthless mouthpiece Carson. He should have his MD revoked, as he has clearly decided that he would rather forget all that he knows about being a doctor and instead be a career politician.
Have you donated to his campaign yet? He is expecting the check soon.

cmbdiesel · #40 03-09-2014, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

It's because, like many behaviors, it falls neatly under the "slippery slope" theory of morality.

But you already knew that. What you really meant to say is that you think the argument is obnoxious and without merit and wish it would go away.

I agree that it is obnoxious but I see not evidence that it is without merit. Do you?

I have not seen evidence which indicates that there is merit to that statement, despite hearing it touted it as truth at every convenient opportunity by those who oppose rights for the homosexual crowd.

Has there been a study of people who screw animals to determine if there is a link?
Maybe those people start with hetero sex... would that be evidence that having hetero sex leads to sex with animals?
I bet they all engaged in onanism.... should we add 'bestiality' to 'hairy palms' and 'blindness'..?

MTI · #41 03-09-2014, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MS Fowler

Only to Progressives and modern Liberals.

and to moderate conservatives and winning non-district elections by GOP candidates . . .

Hatterasguy · #42 03-09-2014, 12:56 PM

That rifle is about all that we have left in CT...

tjts1 · #43 03-09-2014, 12:59 PM

CPAC is where right wing nut jobs 2016 hopes and dreams go to die.

Idle · #44 03-09-2014, 01:32 PM

So CPAC closed out with a call to drill for oil everywhere in order to supply Europe with oil and gas. That's the political take. Just drill everywhere and everything will be OK.

This morning I asked an oil producer for his take on this and he thought it was great. Only two things were holding him back: The price of oil and natural gas is too low to justify drilling in the areas he has under lease, and even if the price of NG increased he would have to wait almost a year for a rig since they are all working at the moment.

Conservatives love to find simple solutions to complicated problems, but their main problem with this is that there are no simple solutions for complicated problems.

Can we solve our energy problems by drilling more wells? Yes.

Now where do we get the money for drilling, the rigs to drill with, the people who know how to operated the rigs, the production people who know how to operated the fields, the distribution network for the new fields, the ports to export the products, the ports to receive the product, the pumpjacks to remove the oil from the ground......? Once all those little items are taken care of the US can ramp up drilling for oil, but to to plan to do otherwise is to put the cart before the horse.

Hard problems have hard solutions. Otherwise they would not be hard problems.

Idle · #45 03-09-2014, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by MTI

or as one columnist headlined: Come for the Crazy, Stay for the Party.

The best

Perhaps the oddest moment of the convention so far was when the Senate minority leader, who is facing a tough reelection fight in his home state of Kentucky, brought a rifle onstage as Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" blared from the P.A. system. The gun was a gift for retiring Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) as a lifetime achievement award from the National Rifle Association. Yes, this happened.

pish . . you call that a rifle?

I was told that the rifle was a gift to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) for all of his work in the Senate that led to blocking much of what Obama wanted to do during his first term. Coburn is very ill; so ill that he is leaving the Senate two years before his term is up so this may be his last CPAC.

His health condition is no secret here in Oklahoma and he has been very open about it.

I would bet the rifle will wind up in a museum somewhere, perhaps in the OK capitol building.