On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:07:22 -0400, dick balaska wrote:

> Am 2017-03-17 11:16, also sprach Jim Henderson:
> 
> 
>> I'm leaning slightly more towards medical, though he is losing the
>> right here as well now, and they have a 'darling' in Pence who will do
>> as he's told -
> 
> I was gonna say, Pence scares me more than Donald. At least the Drumpf's
> chaos may prevent total disaster.  Pence actually has government
> experience and could streamline that.

Pence doesn't have temper tantrums on Twitter and the nuclear codes.  
While there's a lot about Pence to dislike, at least he doesn't have the 
temperament of a 5-year-old and his finger on the button.

Baby Groot with that kind of power is funny.  Trump with that power is 
anything but.

>> and who has strong conservative credentials (anti-gay, anti-
>> legalization, anti-church/state separation).
> 
> I like popping brain cells in my conservative friends by pointing out
> that pro-gay is a conservative PoV.  It's individual liberty and it
> doesn't affect you at all.

Indeed.  Same thing with legalization of marijuana (and other drugs, for 
that matter).

>> Many on the right love that shit.  It's all about personal freedom so
>> long as it's stuff they like.
> 
> That cuts both ways.  There was a Yale professor who wrote that maybe it
> might be ok to wear a Halloween costume that may be considered mildly
> offensive, and the snowflakes were not interested in the conversation;
> and ran her, and her husband, out of town.
> (I blame the parents, who have completely sheltered these kids their
> entire lives.)

I kinda agree.  Cultural appropriation is something to be aware of, but 
the 'melting pot' that is the US means that we blend stuff together - and 
as Bill Maher pointed out a few weeks ago, we need to stop apologizing on 
the left for 'stupid shit'.  I don't always agree with Maher, and he gets 
a lot of things wrong (such as his stance on the first amendment - it's 
colored by being pushed off the air with "Politically Incorrect" after 
people boycotted advertisers - he doesn't understand that the boycott 
*was* a first amendment expression relating to freedom of association.  
The first amendment doesn't give him the right to an audience or the 
right to a TV show - or the right to social consequences for saying 
things people don't like), but I do like that he says what he wants to 
say, and doesn't care what people think.  Sometimes he's a schmuck when 
he does that.  A lot of times he's not.

>> Otherwise, let the state crack down on it hard.
> 
> And then blame Obama/Clinton/Clinton for making it this way.

Naturally; it's never *their* fault.


-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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