Aerothorn on 17/8/2011 at 00:52
Ack, I think I made things worse.
PigLick on 17/8/2011 at 03:50
Naw, though who the fuck is cctoad really? I dont believe he has ever volunteered any personal info, apart from vague hints.
Starrfall on 17/8/2011 at 03:58
I was going to make a serious comment but got to "if the point is you know, we're gonna get up here and say 'y'all go have sex and go have the.. whatever is goin on...'" and now I just can't stop laughing
Ghostly Apparition on 17/8/2011 at 06:45
what i thought was funny was the interviewer says that abstinence only education doesn't seem to be working as Texas has the 3rd highest teen pregnancy rate in the country, and perry replies "abstinence works" and the audience even laughed..lol
Muzman on 17/8/2011 at 09:42
Y'all keep having baybis. Yur naht applyin yur abstinance currectly
Shug on 17/8/2011 at 11:50
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Naw, though who the fuck is cctoad really? I dont believe he has ever volunteered any personal info, apart from vague hints.
He's a top secret agent in the US military
CCCToad on 17/8/2011 at 13:04
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Earn it, motherfucker.
Exactly the point. Its an almost fundie mentality where everyone deserves to be treated like shit except the ones who are "on your side".
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This is a new low for you. Completely uncalled for. It's like saying you're partly responsible for innocent Afghani casualties in the war.
Were any innocents to be killed and I act in any other manner than to try to prevent it before it happens or to ensure accountability was held, I would be guilty. I would be especially guilty if the way I acted was to, say, write up a report protecting those in command from any consequences for their actions and gleefully accepted a promotion for it.
What exactly is your role in it? All I know is that you are a lawyer working for Goldman.
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what i thought was funny was the interviewer says that abstinence only education doesn't seem to be working as Texas has the 3rd highest teen pregnancy rate in the country, and perry replies "abstinence works" and the audience even laughed..lol
The impression I get from the "abstinence" crowd is that they think just having a class is going to change kid's values and attitudes. My opinion is that whatever your opinion on sexual conduct is, you should teach it to your own damn kid and stop trying to force your views on mine.
Still, it ties into a poorly understood cultural phenomena about the South. Evangelical culture is an extremely judgemental, black and white one. Oddly enough this doesn't result in people avoiding social taboos but only making sure to indulge in those taboos privately. That's why the North has more alcohol use but less alcoholism, more sex but less STD's and out of wedlock births, and more drug usage but fewer overdoses per capita.
You can imagine the kind of behavior this bizarre dissonance produces. You'll have guys with no qualms about sex but won't risk being seen purchasing condoms, girls who (true story) will refuse to read curse words while studying a Shakespeare play yet engaged in binge drinking and orgies, and the guy who wears loud, obnoxious "Jesus saves" clothing everywhere but gets stoned every night. Most radical evangelicals are just hypocrites.
Back to Perry he's been picked out as a carbon copy of Bush. He's got some serious issues for the right that, if the GOP actually was driven by its base, would have instantly disqualified him. In many ways (ie, the NAFTA highway) he's far more globalist friendly than the base would usually tolerate and his term as Texas Governor saw an explosion in both spending and debt. Yet because he's pro-war and loudly makes hay about "values" Fox news laps his bullshit up.
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To put it another way: Ron Paul will not win the primaries. He will not come anywhere close to getting a majority of votes. The views you mentioned are not being carried by any of the other GOP candidates.
And the reason why he will not win the primaries is for reasons that I've already described. The pro-war, pro cronyism GOP establishment feels threatened by him and thus will ensure that he is evaporated from any media coverage.
edit: Also, I recommend watching PBS Frontline's (
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/etc/synopsis.html) The Warning The Financial crisis wasn't simply something that happened because nobody saw it coming. It was due to complete regulatory failure. Money was being made and nobody wanted that stopped, even if the cost was crashing the entire economy.
Rug Burn Junky on 17/8/2011 at 13:12
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Exactly the point. Its an almost fundie mentality where everyone deserves to be treated like shit except the ones who are "on your side".
No, only those who repeatedly, consistently and egregiously say stupid, unsupportable shit.
Like you.
Now, you said you would ignore me. Do it. Or was that just as full of shit?
CCCToad on 18/8/2011 at 12:54
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I'll do it just as soon as you demonstrate that you are capable of writing a single post towards me that lacks adolescent obscenity hurling.
All you have to do to be rid of me is play nice just once.
