Republican Debate?

[Ridgerunner]

E.M. Silkies :

It really has come down to control. Did you know Congress is trying to pass a bill that will stop farmers from cutting and selling hay? Yeah, just heard about that one yesterday. I'll be doing some research on that. What are the farmers going to do if they can't sell what their making and what are the other farmer with livestock going to do if there's no hay to be bought? It's all about control. It limits our self sufficiency and that REALLY bothers me.

If you find out something and start a thread on it, could you please PM me a link for the thread or put the link here? I'll subscribe to this thread for a while longer.

That may be linked to the Clear Air Act. My take was that although the EPA announced they were not going to look into the dust raised by farmers bailing hay, something is happening to restrict the EPA from looking into something they were not going to look into. I just saw a quick blurb on it.

Since everything has to be partisan, some are saying it is related to only the dust raised by farmers bailing hay, while others say the language is so broad it is an attempt to stop the EPA from looking at any manufacturing or power plant emissions. It will be interesting to see what your research finds.​

 

[Amigo]

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You're talking about union thugs right?

 

[cupman]

How could you possibly mistake what I said for unions?

 

[Amigo]

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Because of what you said.

Have you ever seen what happend on 8/28?

 

[rufus]

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Malignant is what popped into my mind. It is all consuming, totally uncaring, very self servicing and in the end very deadly.

Rufus

 

[Whispering Winds]

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I'm sorry you feel this way.

Me too. I was raised Republican, but that was when a Republican WAS a Republican and a Democrat was a Democrat. They spout so much crap now, you don't know which party/cause they are really for. . .we spend so much time blaming and talking and blaming and talking, that a lot of that energy could be used to help someone. Even helping one person is better than wasting so much time of our lives blaming and talking. THAT is what I get sick of.

 

[AquaEyes]

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Would you agree that many atheists behave as if their beliefs or lack thereof meet the definition of dogma? I do agree that Seneca had an aversion to how tyrants might use organized religion to their own purposes.

Nope...I don't agree...just as people who don't play sports aren't considered athletes in their non-sport playing. The only thing in common is something they don't do, and that's not enough to unite into a dogma, which requires a set of beliefs. Saying "Nah, I don't think so" on one point does not constitute a set of beliefs. Even among atheist writers, the often-used analogy to answer the question of why atheists don't unite into a form of beliefs is that as a "group" they have no cohesive attributes, and attempting to get them to come together is a lot like herding cats.

 

[frostbite]

I think cats are Atheists.

 

[AquaEyes]

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Because, I think, Amigo is a kid....be nice.

 

[AquaEyes]

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Nah, they're Agnostic. They'd have to be capable of comprehending what a god is first before they could believe they exist.


Or, as I've often heard, they're not Atheists, because to be so, they'd be denying their own existence.