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Keep Lowering the Bar: On Everything

November 18th, 2008 Comments

Want to become a successful candidate, business, tool, whatever - then keep lowering the bar towards people interacting with you. Companies that raise the bar towards interaction with the business and the people involved in the business will eventually fail. No matter how large you are, the people want and enjoy easy access. Even if [...]

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This Republican Party Bothers Me

September 29th, 2008 Comments

(I am a registered independent and my views align with the Libertarian, Republican, and Democratic Parties, yes, all at once. I consider myself a social libertarian, something I conjured up on my own to explain my views, which are too complex to explain here.)
The Republican Party of the United States over the past several years [...]

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Abortion Should Be Rare

August 13th, 2008 Comments

Feministing has a post up today regarding abortion and the Democrats new platform (PDF warning) for the 2008 election. The whole of the article essentially focuses on how “safe, legal and rare” has become “safe and legal”. My main area of concern is as follows:
The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and [...]

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Is It Wrong To Be Enthusiastic Over A Politician

August 9th, 2008 Comments

A recent McCain political ad, emded here from John McCain’s YouTube channel.

The ad compares Obama to Paris Hilton (I learned writing this post, that Paris Hilton has a website.) and Britney Spears and asks that just because someone has a lot of enthusiastic followers doesn’t make him ready to lead. This ad just doesn’t make sense to me. Wouldn’t [...]

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Criticizing America

April 6th, 2008 Comments

Recently there has been a political storm brewing over Reverend Wright. This man was Senator Obama’s former pastor and his sermons are to put it bluntly rather controversial. Here is a video of one them receiving the most coverage from the media outlets, at the end of which he says “God damn America”. This has [...]

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