Tag: politics
member name: Bert B.
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July 09, 2008 12:03 AM EDT --
"And Bert, well I just guess that Bert is typical of the kind who complain about "Big Brother" while asking the same big brother to fix all of their problems."
The above comment . . .
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April 19, 2006 12:16 AM EDT --
I love fireworks. From the ground-level explosion that launches the rocket, it climbs quickly to its apogee, then blossoms into a spectacular explosion. The show is short-lived, fading quickly, . . .
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January 05, 2006 08:06 PM EST --
One of the joys of the Internet is that it is easy to pick a subject…in this case, quotes regarding religion by prominent historical figures…and mine a seemingly inexhaustible lode of information. . . .
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April 02, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
I was reading about the numerous bills being proposed in state legislatures around the country that defend a pharmacist's right to refuse service to people who are trying to fill prescriptions for . . .
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October 28, 2008 09:00 PM EDT --
THE BIG NEWS on the Internet yesterday was that federal authorities arrested two skinhead cretins who were plotting to kill over a hundred black people, including Barack Obama.
Now, these . . .
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August 07, 2009 10:20 PM EDT --
The confirmation vote for Sanya Sotomayor was 68-31.
There are 60 Democrats in the Senate.
Therefore, 8 Republican heroes voted for confirmation of a liberal, Hispanic judge with 17 years . . .
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November 19, 2006 01:59 AM EST --
Let me start by assuring you that the name I use here on Gather is my real name, Bert Bigelow, and the picture I use for my icon is an actual picture of me. The information in my profile is accurate, . . .
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November 05, 2008 02:09 PM EST --
I am happy that Obama won. I think it shows that Americans showed that they could see past the race issue. The result is not so much a rejection of McCain...although his campaign disillusioned . . .
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June 13, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
This article appeared on the AlterNet web site today. I think it is an important issue. Here, we have a vaccine that is "100 percent effective at protecting against the most prevalent . . .
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June 27, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
The Supreme Court decided yesterday that the District of Columbia cannot ban the ownership of handguns. Citizens have a right to defend themselves, says Antonin Scalia, who wrote the majority . . .
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September 05, 2009 11:48 PM EDT --
The speaker was elderly and distinguished-looking, with a mane of carefully-coiffed white hair. He was speaking to an even older audience in an auditorium in a retirement community.
“Make . . .
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April 20, 2006 02:29 PM EDT --
I usually don't do this...publish somebody else's work. Gather should be for writers, not bloggers.
I will make an exception in this case, because it is such an important article, and so . . .
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November 21, 2008 12:49 AM EST --
Devout religious believers often deplore the “moral relativism” of liberal/progressive thought, claiming that absolute moral standards, as defined by their sacred scriptures, are necessary . . .
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May 13, 2009 10:54 PM EDT --
Kara Neumann of Weston Wisconsin died on Easter Sunday.
She died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a result of undiagnosed and untreated juvenile diabetes. This is a treatable disease, and Kara should . . .
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March 18, 2006 02:56 PM EST --
"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of . . .
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September 10, 2006 01:53 PM EDT --
One of the things I find the most threatening that the Bush administration is doing is it's massive funding of "faith based" charitable activities. Even worse, it allows . . .
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October 18, 2006 03:54 PM EDT --
I read an interesting piece by Brooke Allen in the LA Times yesterday. Allen recently completed a book called, "Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers." This is a subject . . .
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June 28, 2008 11:09 PM EDT --
Some people do not like what their kids will experience in public schools, so they "educate" them at home. Is this good or bad?
First, I must admit that I have some bias here. . . .
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July 18, 2008 10:57 PM EDT --
A man named Elbert Hubbard published a book in 1910 called "A Little Journey to the Homes of the Great." The book is a series of interviews with the intellectual giants of that time, and . . .
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September 27, 2009 08:54 PM EDT --
This is the fifth in a series of fictional discussions with my imaginary friend Al.
To understand the background for this piece, I recommend that you read one or more of the previous . . .
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