Politics and religion.

[Grace]

Chocolate milk and cigars.

That's my last guess.

And my last answer - you're still way off the mark

[Puckstop31]

Hooray for free speech?

http://www.canada.com/Coulter+event+...231/story.html

I am not in any way a fan of Ann Coulter. Her border line satire crosses the line too often. IMO. But this is quite something, no? I thought Canukians were a tolerant people?

[Grace]

Perhaps Canadians draw the line at hate mongers -

“I hereby encourage you to educate yourself, if need be, as to what is acceptable in Canada and to do so before your planned visit here,” University of Ottawa academic vice-president François Houle wrote.

“Promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges.”

[blue]

Perhaps Canadians draw the line at hate mongers -

Maybe you're right.

“an embarrassing day for the University of Ottawa and their student body, who could not debate Ann Coulter . . . who chose to silence her through threats and intimidation, just like their vice-president did.”

[Puckstop31]

Perhaps Canadians draw the line at hate mongers -

Never forget Gretchen... Rights to Free Speech are meant to protect controversial speech.

If you start drawing lines.....

[Catty1]

I read some of that story, and still did not understand what the VP's office was so upset about. What group is Ann Coulter supposedly attacking? I admit I know nothing about her.

[Lady's Human]

The first amendment was directly intended to protect people like Ann Coulter. She makes political statements, frequently controversial political statements. I have an intense dislike for people on either side of the spectrum who push the envelope on free speech, however, they have a right to speak.

Unlike some, if I don't like what someone is saying on the air, I simply change the channel or turn off whatever medium is being used to disperse the speech, or, in the case of the local paper, cancel my subscription.

They have a right to speak.........however it isn't mandatory that anyone listen.

If the students in Canada wanted to protest Ms. Coulter's appearance, they should have just not gone to the speech. Empty rooms don't get much coverage.

[Lady's Human]

Want to see something really telling and frankly disappointing on how much people follow politics and at what level they pay attention to it?


Here are the most popular (as in most viewed) "news" items on CNN's web site:


Biden's f-bomb
Teen has weight loss surgery
TARP watchdog slams Obama foreclosure program
Health reform's legal fight

VP Biden curses, and it's the leading story on CNN by 10 to 1, looking at their chart.

The bottom two stories have less than 1/10th of the hits that the fluff piece about VP Biden's verbal slip do.

The most influential piece of legislation in 50 years, and hardly anyone is paying attention.

A huge waste of public money (TARP) slammed by the committee given oversight of the program, and hardly anyone is paying attention.

I betcha people could give me the complete description of Jesse James' girl toy, though.

[Grace]

Never forget Gretchen... Rights to Free Speech are meant to protect controversial speech.

If you start drawing lines.....

I'm not drawing lines, Canada is. Apparently their provincial and Federal laws pertaining to free speech are different than ours.

[lizbud]

Interesting article I read today. Seems that there is a name for the
crazy reaction to Obama's efforts to fulfill his campaign promise to America.



http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...p:mostpopular1

[RICHARD]

I do want to know about the sudden shift in the idea that the government should stay out of our lives.

People were a fracking paranoid about BIG government, yet they invite them into the HC arena and that will give them even more access to our medical records?

That makes me laugh, so why not just merge the Patriot act with health care reform? Or, did we forget about the intrusion just for the sake of the current regime?

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I am starting to think that BO is being punked my the white people that are supposedly there to advise him?

Rahm Emanuel is a punk and a bully.


I can hardly wait until he tosses out a wet one.

[Lady's Human]

So.....

Bush derangement syndrome is a crock, But the first mentions of the same thing associated with the new Pres. is reality?

No link to the poll mentioned, and all in all reads like a sales pitch for the authors new book.....which is mentioned in the beginning of the article rather prominently.

It's pure drivel.

By the way, before you say I'm just panning it because it is pretty much an anti-conservative hit piece (which it is), I enjoy well written political commentary from either side.

This ain't it.

[RICHARD]

BOMBSHELL MCGEE!


LOL, My Nickname was CenterFire Sanchez.

[Grace]

From Politico.

I love the responses dealing with why women politicians don't cheat

Power women breakfast
By: Kiki Ryan
March 25, 2010 04:44 AM EST

How do female politicians differ from their male counterparts? They (typically) don’t cheat.

So said the women — senators all — who gathered Wednesday for a breakfast panel discussion hosted by the U.S. Capitol Historical Society.

“You just don’t have the time,” laughed Kay Bailey Hutchison. “With all the multitasking [women] do, who could plan that whole scheme? Getting a flight to South America?” she asked.

Kirsten Gillibrand concurred: “While I’m at home changing diapers, I just couldn’t conceive of it.”

The panel discussion — which also included Dianne Feinstein and Susan Collins — took place in the Kennedy Caucus Room and was moderated by Cokie Roberts, who called the 17 women serving as U.S. senators “the last bastion of nonpartisanship in the Senate.”

The ways in which female politicians support one another — across party lines — was much discussed. But sisterly bipartisanship extends only so far — and not as far as Sarah Palin, it seems.

Said Feinstein of Palin: “She was inexperienced, had a lack of knowledge and [had] a limited worldview.”

[RICHARD]

From Politico.

I love the responses dealing with why women politicians don't cheat

LOL,

Dianne Feinstein?
Cheating?

Her brother wants nothing to do with her, what does THAT say about her?

DF's better days were in the third quarter of the last century.....if that.

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Fulfulling his promise to America? Or shoving his filthy agenda up our rear?

Even he doesn't know what in the HCR.

Not unless he grew a brain and read the darn thing.

And 99.9 percent of the people in the country have not read it.

So, what does that saw about the 49.45 percent of the people who are in favor of it and don't have the faintest idea as to what it means to the country.

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The HCR is akin to putting air into a tire that's gone flat.

No idea as to the cause of the leak.. It will fix itself.

Morons.