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Re: Personhood redux: The law and you

karela — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:04:34 -0000

The state needs to stay out of bedrooms and out of a person's body. It is ironic to me that we have to watch people screaming about their freedoms every day of the week and that those same people are so anxious to take over other people's lives. If this law was about prosecuting men for abusing their sperm by leaving it laying around everywhere, we wouldn't be discussing this. A pregnant woman is a real person. She isn't just a machine that is being used to produce new people. The state has no business imposing itself. If it becomes a crime to be pregnant, who will have the babies, my friends?

Re: Little Buddy Child Tracker Makes Spying on Your Kids Easy

karela — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:40:00 -0000

Seven year olds don't need to have autonomy as much as they need to be protected from creeps who snatch kids on their way home from the bus stop. Ask the little Duggar girl who spent all those years living in a creep's back yard and having his babies. Yuck.

Re: Little Buddy Child Tracker Makes Spying on Your Kids Easy

karela — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:35:39 -0000

I would say that if you find your kid with a kidnapper before the kidnapper harms them, then you are indeed protecting them. That's the idea behind an alarm that goes off if your kid leaves a certain area and a GPS system that can tell you where they are. If the little Duggar girl had had one the day the creep snatched on her way home from the bus stop, she wouldn't have had to live in a back yard tent for eleven years and bear the guy two children starting at the ripe old age of thirteen. That's the kind of stuff Mom and Dad would like to protect their kids from. My only complaint is that the thing needs to be smaller and come in cheap multiples so that you can sew it into their clothes. People are projecting their ideas of freedom onto children who need protection more than they need the freedom to play hookie. It would also come in pretty handy for all the kids that get lost in National Parks every year. This device would never be used on a teenager because any teenager with a brain would notice the big blue thing in his/her backpack and loan it to a friend at school while they went to the mall during study hall and then reclaim it before they went home.

Re: Little Buddy Child Tracker Makes Spying on Your Kids Easy

karela — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:23:29 -0000

What fun is it to be seven years old and kidnapped on your way home from school? If it were me, I'd really like it if my Mom brought the Mounties to take me back home before the creep hurt me. How about you?

Re: Another Day, Another ‘Birther’ Forgery

karela — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:13:12 -0000

And then there's the little fact that he passed a top level security clearance in order to serve on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before he was elected to the Presidency and again when he ran for the Presidency. This country isn't in the habit of giving the codes for nuclear war to anyone who hasn't been checked out.

Re: Another Day, Another ‘Birther’ Forgery

karela — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:08:04 -0000

The state of Hawaii went paperless around the year 2000. The information was loaded on the state computer system, but the actual original paper was destroyed for Barack Obama as it was for hundreds of thousands of other Hawaiians. The state officials verified all information was correct and the birth announcements from two papers at the time of his birth are still available. He was born there and he's an American citizen. His mother got him up at 4:30am when he was a six year old living in Indonesia to study because she said he was an American and he had to know what that meant and to know all he could possibly know about his country. How many Americans do you know who were raised with such a love for their country?

Re: Another Day, Another ‘Birther’ Forgery

karela — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:00:06 -0000

First of all, the state of Hawaii has validated his birth there multiple times and that is absolutely all a birth certificate is-----a piece of paper from the state where a person was born that says the state verifies that person's birth occurred in that state. Secondly, around the year 2000, the state of Hawaii went paperless. All information was loaded into the state computer system and Barack Obama's original paperwork was destroyed along the paperwork of hundreds of thousands of other Hawaiians-------that's what it means to go paperless. The top Hawaiian official in charge of this information has reviewed the files as has the Republican governor of the state and both have repeatedly verified that Obama was born there and the original birth announcements from two local papers are still available. This is a dry hole. There is no conspiracy. I'm sorry if you didn't vote for the President and don't like him, but he is a legitimate President as were Eisenhower and Reagan and Lincoln and F.D.R., etc. etc. These people don't like the President and they're trying to find a way to have it their way, but this one won't work. It's a big fat lie and it's been debunked by every non-partisan panel in the country.

Re: DeMint: Health Care Is a Privilege, Not a Right

karela — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:39:16 -0000

They say such things because they can and they can get away with it because they have convinced a certain percentage of low information and/or greedy people that their world will cease to exist as they know it and great calamity will befall them if the country meets basic survival needs of it's citizens. They're counting on the people who die from neglect being too weak to vote before they go.

Re: DeMint: Health Care Is a Privilege, Not a Right

karela — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:35:52 -0000

Food is a privilege, not a right. Shelter is a privilege. Water is a privilege. Anything that can be used to turn a profit is a privilege and the right of the wealthy to make a profit is more important than the right of the poor to survive. And of course, a greater profit can be taken on items necessary for actual survival. This is just good business.

signed: Senator DeMint

Re: McCain Campaign Investigated, Dismissed Obama Citizenship Rumors

karela — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:09:39 -0000

"The libs evil agenda of peace, prosperity and health care."

That should have been a big enough clue that the author was using satire to make a point, but apparently not big enough for some.

Re: McCain Campaign Investigated, Dismissed Obama Citizenship Rumors

karela — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:01:14 -0000

Obama HAS. He was born in Hawaii and he has offered exactly what the State of Hawaii presents as it's certified birth certificate. They have a state law that protects their citizens privacy. They do NOT release or copy the original birth certificate. All Hawaiians get their passports with the form the state offers. The Senators and Representatives from Hawaii prove their identity with the state of Hawaii's forms. This is the official birth certificate of the state of Hawaii and Obama presented it ages ago! If you don't like it, you could try to get the state of Hawaii to change it's laws, but until then, this is the way it is.

Re: McCain Campaign Investigated, Dismissed Obama Citizenship Rumors

karela — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:56:26 -0000

#1: It's against the law of the state of Hawaii to show the original. That may be because it contains private information that is protected by law, but it wouldn't make any difference. These people won't believe the Republican Governor of Hawaii that she has seen it and that it is authentic, nor will they believe the head of their health services who said the same after checking it out. If they released all of the personal information that is on his original birth certificate, it wouldn't do any good. These people are not interested in facts. If they had the name of the hospital and the name of the doctor and all of the other personal information found there, they would simply institute a vast investigation of all those details. Obama's step grandmother, who never saw him before he was in his twenties, misspoke through an interpreter and immediately corrected herself about where Obama was born. The birthers just took out the immediate correction and ran with the mistake. They would try to do the same with every person who's alive or has a relative or friend who's alive who worked at or near the hospital when Obama was born. That would draw some crazies who are looking for some fame and it would go on and on.

If the Obama administration chose to do anything, it could send some experts to look at it, but I doubt that it would do any good.

#2 No white President has ever been treated like this. It's very shabby.

Re: McCain Campaign Investigated, Dismissed Obama Citizenship Rumors

karela — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:45:46 -0000

According to the natural borners, the only people in America who can be President are Native Americans. Everybody else who is here now was born to a "furriner" at some point in their chain.

This is a bunch of hooey from a few people who really hate the idea that a brilliant black man is in the White House. A whole lot more Americans are really glad that he's there in these times of trouble. That's why we put him there and that's why we have his back.

To the birthers:
Go home. Drink your moonshine. Tell yourselves that you're better than blacks because that's the only way that you can feel like you have any power in the world. Thank goodness that your numbers dwindle, but it would be a blessing to the country if you could all just get over yourselves. Slavery is over as is Jim Crow and America just isn't going to tolerate your ****.

Re: birther movement continues

karela — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:15:48 -0000

Yeah, it would take a mass conspiracy-----that goes back to the time of his birth when his birth announcement was published in the Honolulu newspaper. And then of course there are the friends and relatives who knew him as a kid in Hawaii, the pictures taken there with his family when he was a little kid, the friends of his mother's who remember what a cute baby he was when he was born. But you're right, crazy people don't care about proof.

Re: birther movement continues

karela — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:08:37 -0000

Hawaii is a state in the Union. Their legal word is and should be as compelling as that of of New York, California, Texas or Ohio. The state of Hawaii has many times repeated it's certainty of Obama's birth there and his legal citizenship. If the Republican party really cared as much about the rule of law as they claim, instead of about partisan below the belt bashing, they could put this entire thing to rest. All it would take would be a strong statement of Obama's legitimacy that was presented by Republican and Democratic House and Senate leadership and that was signed by the House and Senate Republicans and Democrats. They know that this is ridiculous. Why should the state of Hawaii be treated as though it weren't a "real" state in the United States of America. Since 1959 Hawaii's senators and congressional representatives have been proving their citizenship with Hawaiian birth certificates. This is only a big deal because the President is black and has a funny name. Time for the Congress and Senate of the United States to step up and speak for what they know to be the truth. How about a little patriotism from the elected leaders of the country???

Re: Candidate to confront deputies over raid

karela — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:43:59 -0000

Guess the Sheriff's department supports the republicans and hates gays and lesbians huh? That's disgusting. And why should she have to give the creep her birth date? Since when do you have to give your birth date to a cop for a ticket? He could have asked to see her ID but why ask her age aloud in front of guests? And for Pete sake, eight cop cars, a helicopter, battery, arm twisting, throwing people on the floor and pepper spray for a noise complaint that the nearest neighbors never heard? This is police abuse and it certainly makes San Diego Sheriff's department look like thugs. Jerks!

Re: Tancredo, Buchanan Bruised by Racist ‘Karate Chop’

karela — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:46:31 -0000

Alcohol doesn't make you a racist, it just loosens up your inhibitions so that you feel free enough to express those thoughts by hitting a black woman on the sidewalk in George Town and calling her the "n" word. Now that he isn't drinking and he's had his public s-p-a-n-k-i-n-g, he doesn't express his hatred in public anymore. That doesn't mean that he's changed inside. He was very welcomed by the far right and they knew what he was. He felt comfortable and accepted over there in the far right whacko land and the point is that we all know that now. This isn't about Epstein. It's about the Tancredos and Buchanans who made him feel so welcome, accepted and agreed with.

Re: Tancredo, Buchanan Bruised by Racist ‘Karate Chop’

karela — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:38:54 -0000

Yeah, those pesky people who vote democratic----in droves----tend to think that calling, the most experienced federal judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court in a hundred years a racist, is somehow not a good thing to do. The republican party is so out of touch with America outside of the deep south that they think if they send their non elected minions to do the wet and dirty work of calling Sotomayer a racist that people won't figure out that it's a ploy. Elected republicans, for the most part, would certainly do this too if they thought it would work for them. Mitch McConnell looked pretty silly claiming that he was so busy governing a small body of republican senators that he had no time to say that it was a bad thing for Limbaugh and Gingrich to use the dirty words in reference to a well respected and long time federal judge. Get real Mitch. That may play in Dixie, but you're not in Dixie and the whole country is listening. 2010 is coming and you're shrinking, shrinking, shrinking. I don't think the republican party noticed, but a large majority of those minorities they so dislike are voting democratic. After this they should expect an even larger shift.

Re: La Raza blasts Tancredo for Klan comparison: ‘Get his facts straight’

karela — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:24:07 -0000

It means the united race, i.e. one people that includes all people. That isn't racist or exclusive. That is the very essence of inclusive. As Obama says, We are one people. The race of human beings.

Re: Conyers on Obama: ‘Why is he becoming so conservative now that he’s got the job?’

karela — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:37:47 -0000

We just got rid of one President who ruled by thuggery and used tricks to force things on the country without benefit of representation in the Congress. Bush wrote more executive orders than any President ever before and the result was more like a dictatorship than a government. I think that singling out any person or group of persons with a law is a violation of civil rights, but Obama is right on this. The changes need to come through legislation so that they'll be permanent and respected. Otherwise, the next time we get a Republican President, he'll just write a new executive order and we'll be back where started and perhaps worse off than we are. Bush's way was more like a dictatorship. Obama believes in Democracy. All Americans should be able to respect that. Just because the Democrats, and I am one now, are in power, is no reason to start acting like a bunch of thugs. If we one up Bush's ways, the next Republican will one up ours and Democracy as we have known it will be on a slippery slope.

Re: The Visionary Minimalist

karela — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:20:32 -0000

Wonderful and eye opening article!

Re: McCain's Wise Man -- Political Wire

karela — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:13:53 -0000

And if McCain loses after running the dirtiest campaign maybe ever, he'll be known forever more as a Dirty Loser. Hope he's thinking of retiring. He won't get much done after this.

Re: Tracking Polls Diverge -- Political Wire

karela — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:25:41 -0000

p.s. on the skewed poll results. It seems to me from my observations that sometimes the polls that are skewed republican have very low numbers which has the effect of keeping the Real Clear averages artificially low. It also seems that the numbers are artificially high for Obama in their polls and I think this is also a tactic designed to make people feel they can relax more than they should. In general, don't base your actions on polls. Just get to work!

Re: Tracking Polls Diverge -- Political Wire

karela — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:21:22 -0000

OK folks, this is what happened with hotline/diageo: Until a couple of days ago their polls were based on something like a general population of 42% democrats and and36% republicans. Over night they changed it to 40% democrats and 38% republicans and weighted all their results accordingly. Therefore, their new numbers make it look like there are a whole lot more republicans voting for McCain than there are democrats voting for Obama. This does not accurately reflect the proportion of registered dems to registered repubs by any estimate in the country except theirs. Hence, they have weird numbers. There are a lot of mean spirited, foul mouthed and sexist comments on this blog-----and they're all reacting to false information as above. Don't panic. 528.com may be overly optimistic, but his premises are interesting. He says that many pollsters are skewed toward their particular parties and he weights his findings to account for that. Anyone who has closely followed Fox News Polls and Rasmussen Polls (Rasmussen frequently appears on Fox News as a pundit and is a staunch republican) knows that not all polls are created equal. Gallup has a long standing good reputation, but let's not take anything for granted. I'm donating and making phone calls and blogging and involving my friends in the election. A friend has knocked on 2,000 doors and made 2,500 calls. We're organizing a huge get out the vote effort. Stop fussing and get to work! We need help.

Re: Bloomberg/LAT Poll: Debate Changed Few Minds -- Political Wire

karela — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:05:15 -0000

I went to the LA Times/Bloomberg poll. It shows McCain with an 18 point edge on Obama on foreign affairs before the debate and a 7 point edge after the debate. I'd say that was change. Obama went from 61 before to 69 after and McCain went from 79 before to 76 after. The poll also gave Obama a 13 point lead on being more presidential. It's best to read the poll details for yourself instead of just reading the spin interpretations. One more thing: the numbers were more marked on some questions in Obama's favor when only undecided voters were asked.