Election Arguments

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Overheard...

If Paul Martin or the Liberals remain in office, with their documented support for the GLBT community, at least when he fucks me up the ass, it won't be punishable by law.

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[miket61.livejournal.com]

I'd go with the first definition, although I'm not that strong on protectionism. Throw in personal responsibility, and you're there.

A lot of the recent interference into civil rights was a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and they wisely set up the Patriot Act so that major parts of it would expire and require re-examination. I think it's being toned down.

I went to a school with very Liberal professors (in the U.S. sense). They made it quite clear that people were generally incompetent and we all needed a government-based organization to tell us how to think and behave. And, of course, they were qualified to be part of that elite group that hands out instructions for everyone else.

These days the Democrats don't have any issues; their entire operation has been reduced to blocking everything the Republicans do on general principle, and occasionally claiming that changes in bankruptcy or voters' registration laws discriminate against black people.