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14 years ago @ RightWingRocker - Welc... - Great Euphemism for Yo... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ RightWingRocker - Welc... - Trying to Have it Both... · 0 replies · +1 points
It seems to me that a second constitution is being created by our current government. Its new principles are often in conflict with those of our traditional document as amended. These new principles are established by government fiats rather than amendments. Should this new constitution be allowed to develop? Do modern world crises differ that much from the international milieu that existed when our country was formed? Should anyone have the power to rule and control the entire world's population? I think not, but what options have we?
It seems to me also that campaigner Barack Obama should have put on his "listening ears" when confronted by Joe the Plumber. Instead, he hinted about the new constitution-by-fiat. A redistribution-of-wealth amendment would never make it into our time-honored original Constitution.
In the current world business climate, should governmental slave markets replace entrepreneurial free markets? Instead of that new unauthorized constitution, a second Declaration of Independence document might be what is needed now. What has been happening in recent years is not just the usual government intrusion into our lives.
14 years ago @ RightWingRocker - Welc... - Trying to Have it Both... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ RightWingRocker - Welc... - Testing 123 · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ RightWingRocker - Welc... - Testing 123 · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ RightWingRocker - Welc... - Testing 123 · 0 replies · +1 points
He has chosen attorney general Eric Holder as his running mate.
Get your Weiner-Holder bumper stickers early, before they are all gone!!!!!
14 years ago @ RightWingRocker - Welc... - KABOOM! - Osama bin Laden · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ RightWingRocker - Welc... - I was Invited! · 0 replies · +1 points
Liberal : A person so open minded their brains have fallen out.
14 years ago @ RightWingRocker - Welc... - Jackson: Obama - The \... · 0 replies · +1 points
If the government would charge a 3% Stupidity Tax, they could pay off the national debt.!!!!!:D
14 years ago @ RightWingRocker - Welc... - Bachmann Throws Down t... · 0 replies · +1 points
The bottom line might not be a comparison but a goal to point toward or work for. Your goal might be to become a professional ball player, and you sacrifice a great deal to reach that goal. However, in our society, if you reach it, you are richly rewarded as long as you keep that level of talent. However, our society will not tolerate reckless disregard for others. Many professional players forget the point of a sport and concentrate only on fame and fortune.
At the start of ball games, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played and/or sung. It has become a tradition, and for many people, it has no meaning unless you happen to be a soldier defending the freedoms we take fore granted. The pledge of allegiance is often muttered as many nice words without thinking of the bottom-line "with liberty and justice for all." What does it mean to be an American?
We look at our struggling legal system and wonder if justice is the bottom line or winning is. When lawyers are not paid unless they win, it seems that the bottom line is the dollars for the attorneys and their clients rather than justice. What happened to "tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth"?
What can we expect from another generation if the lesson they learn from us is that the most important thing in life is to take care of No. 1, namely ourselves? We are not all gifted or educated equally. We are part of smaller groups divided by many criteria -- geographical area, income, race, size, sex, family, etc. Our bottom line of life is affected by all these things. We need everyone to make this a better place. We need people with a heart to care as well as people to make us think of priorities and principles of living together.
Many organizations have a mission statement to define their purpose. It is a vision about what possibilities are. Maybe we should start with our mission statement of this great country. "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility ... establish this Constitution for the United States of America." We need believers and doubters, whatever the cause, to keep us honest to ourselves and to one another. Without these principles as our bottom line, we will find chaos become the bottom line.