govt shutdown looms

Danzig · #1 10-03-2013, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Because it has nothing to do with religious principles and everything to do with maintaining the current system of economic and social stratification. Women who do not have individual, independent control over their reproductive lives are not free.

The day the poor whites in Appalachia realize they have more in common with the poor blacks in inner cities than they do with the rich whites in gated communities is the day we'll see real change in the nation. Not until then.

Hell, even the Moral Majority movement started as a reaction against Carter's taking away tax benefits that let Southern Whites continue segregation through the guise of "religious schooling." The post-Nixon GOP saw an opportunity and grabbed it.

http://www.religiondispatches.org/ar...ndgender/6801/

so true.
and this, on people who are being impacted by the shutdown, in ways they didn't expect:

http://news.msn.com/us/unexpected-sh...gs-mortgages-1

joeydb · #2 10-03-2013, 01:37 PM

If it prevents taxpayer funded abortion, they can keep the government shut down ad infinitum. This far and no farther.

Danzig · #3 10-03-2013, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by joeydb

If it prevents taxpayer funded abortion, they can keep the government shut down ad infinitum. This far and no farther.

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look up 'hyde amendment'.

jms62 · #4 10-03-2013, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig

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look up 'hyde amendment'.

Why feed the trolls?

Danzig · #5 10-03-2013, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by jms62

Why feed the trolls?

because i like that picture?

Danzig · #6 10-03-2013, 02:48 PM

more tales of woe:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...-shutdown?lite

jms62 · #7 10-03-2013, 02:50 PM

Will be interesting to see what this is all about

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...s-shots-fired/

Danzig · #8 10-03-2013, 01:55 PM

will saletan, on why the shutdown has occurred....and it's not over obamacare. but did anyone think it was?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...utdown_as.html

these same morons were howling about sequestration. no deal was ever made, even tho congress set a 'red line' to force a compromise. now, here we are again.

i am so fed up with these pols.