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Re: Lightfoot calls Palin ‘a shot of adrenaline’ for the McCain campaign

misterrogers — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:14:42 -0000

The reasonable people of Iowa sent Lightfoot packing with his tail between his legs years ago. No small Irony that he landed in Texass. Why in the world does anyone care what he thinks about anything?

Re: Does Palin want women jailed, executed for abortions?

misterrogers — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:42:31 -0000

As always Doug, a very thoughtful piece. I have another angle for consideration.
For abortions to be considered murder, with all of the penalties that go with that offense, the embryo must be legally endowed with the same rights as post-birth human beings. When a person is intentionally killed by another person it is called murder. When a person is unintentionally killed by another person it is called manslaughter. If an abortion, the intentional killing of an embryo, is murder, then is a miscarraige, the accidental or unintentional killing of an embryo, to be considered manslaughter? Right now we investigate every death of a human being to determine cause. Would there be "miscarraige police" who would investigate the reason for every miscarraige? What would happen if it was discovered that the mother of the miscarried embryo had smoked a cigarette, consumed a glass of wine, or engaged in some other sort of behavior that might be deemed "risky" to the embryo? Does the mother go to prison?
It's simple: if abortion is murder, then miscarraige is probably manslaughter.
Pray that this never becomes the law.

Re: Hubler challenges GOP on ethanol

misterrogers — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:59:12 -0000

The sort of disingenuous fear-mongering on display below gets us nowhere as a nation, which I suspect , is the underlying purpose of the message. Perhaps you and your ilk (Congressman King prominent among you) were not paying attention in Iowa in the 80's when the packing plants opted to break the unions which provided good-paying jobs to Iowans who lived in and contributed greatly to the economies of towns like Perry, Marshalltown, Carroll, and Sioux City, in order to "cut production costs" so that we could all have bacon on our Whoppers whenever we want at no extra charge and the owners could get fat with profit. Maybe you missed it when that plan backfired as the replacement workers, still Iowans, could not survive on what they were being paid and left in search of a living wage. And you must have missed these same packing plant owners sending recruiters to Mexico, Africa, Bosnia and elsewhere to acquire a fresh stock of "willing" workers, leaving the towns to figure out how to deal with them once they arrived with their families to work for $7 an hour with no benefits.

Unfortunately political leaders from both parties have spent the past thirty or so years chickening out on the issue of undocumented workers, to the point where it is now so deeply metastasized into our dysfunctional economy that, like a virulent cancer, it will cause great pain to cure it - if there is a cure to be found.
In that vacuum it's so easy to peddle fear, as we see below, but so counter-productive to our true mission as a nation.

As a daily reader of this blog I am pleased to see consistently excellent articles, and am equally disappointed by some of the comments, as illustrated below by Brittanicus. Up until now I've refrained from joining the fray, but you can expect to hear more from me in the future. So we're clear up front, don't expect to bait me into a back and forth discussion unless you really have something to say and can say it with a civil, intelligent tone because
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with with an unarmed person.

This is Mister Rogers ... welcome to my neighborhood.