FREEDOM of SPEECH Discussions - TBD2024-03-29T05:47:43Zhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/groups/group/forum?groupUrl=freedom-of-speech&id=1991841%3AGroup%3A1399667&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWhat's in a name?tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2014-02-28:1991841:Topic:16713792014-02-28T21:46:32.121ZLoveLife&Laughterhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/FredStieg
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<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><font>Fifty years ago, Fred C. Koch helped found the John Birch Society, rightly considered to be a radically right, somewhat wacko group.</font></font></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><font>His godzillioaire sons David and Charles, creators of the Tea Party, can now pursue the very same policies of the John Birch Society … masquerading as…</font></font></font></p>
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<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><font>Fifty years ago, Fred C. Koch helped found the John Birch Society, rightly considered to be a radically right, somewhat wacko group.</font></font></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><font>His godzillioaire sons David and Charles, creators of the Tea Party, can now pursue the very same policies of the John Birch Society … masquerading as 'conservative'.</font></font></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><font>Here is a definition of conservative:</font></font></font></p>
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<li>“<font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><strong><em>holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation</em></strong>, typically in relation to politics or religion. Synonyms: traditionalist, conventional, orthodox, old-fashioned, dyed-in-the-wool, hidebound, unadventurous, set in one's ways. Antonym: radical.”</font></li>
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<p><font color="#000000">“</font><font color="#000000"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><font>Conservative” doesn't describe these people any more then “Tea Party” does. The “Tea Party” started with the very well organized old campaign buddies of presidential hopeful Libertarian Ron Paul, but quickly became the party of the “Social Conservative”, now better named – “The American Taliban”. </font></font></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><font>Neither does “Libertarian”:</font></font></font></p>
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<li><span style="color: #785b6b;">“</span><font face="Myriad-Web-Pro"><font color="#785B6B">The central idea of libertarians is that people should be permitted to run their own lives as they wish,</font> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="color: #785b6b;"><em>the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others</em></strong></span><font color="#785B6B">.”</font></font></li>
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<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><font>So, who are these people that originally were slave owners? Don't we need the proverbial “box” to put them in that describes what they are?</font></font></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><font>I say, “Capitalist Extremist” or "The John Birch Society". They need to stop hiding who or what they really are ... Who or what do you think they are?</font></font></font></p> Stolichnaya Up With a Lemon Twist, Shaken not Stirred Pleasetag:teebeedee.ning.com,2014-01-02:1991841:Topic:16503852014-01-02T18:20:27.417ZLoveLife&Laughterhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/FredStieg
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532467/How-favorite-drink-speaks-volumes-personal-politics.html" target="_blank">What Is Your Preferred Beverage?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532467/How-favorite-drink-speaks-volumes-personal-politics.html" target="_blank">What Is Your Preferred Beverage?</a></p> Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo....tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-12-24:1991841:Topic:16473522013-12-24T01:54:05.728ZProblemAgainhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ProblemAgain
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2059608176?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2059608176?profile=original" width="670"></img></a> <br></br><br></br><br></br>People have had enough of the intolerance HG...<br></br><br></br>The left preaches it.... (Not everyone ) but some of these groups that DEMAND tolerance are the most intolerant out there ....<br></br><br></br>I will be there on Jan 21<br></br> <br></br>Dec 23, 2013 - 12:32 pm<br></br>macdaddy<br></br><br></br><br></br>You are intolerant unless you see things their way. If you march…</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2059608176?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2059608176?profile=original" width="670"/></a><br/><br/><br/>People have had enough of the intolerance HG...<br/><br/>The left preaches it.... (Not everyone ) but some of these groups that DEMAND tolerance are the most intolerant out there ....<br/><br/>I will be there on Jan 21<br/> <br/>Dec 23, 2013 - 12:32 pm<br/>macdaddy<br/><br/><br/>You are intolerant unless you see things their way. If you march lockstep with these thinskinned individuals, then you are tolerant.<br/><br/>Flag my post and see if I give a flying monkeys ass.<br/> <br/>Dec 23, 2013 - 12:53 pm<br/>AtascaGuy<br/><br/>If the 1/21 event is not a ChickFila sponsored event - that would be GREAT.<br/><br/>I hope and pray it is a grass root event!<br/>Lead by right minded/like minded people who<br/>love these United States!<br/><br/>If we are lucky maybe this event can be a tipping point<br/>leading to a resurgence and strengthening of faith based<br/>Christian values in these United States.<br/><br/>That would be awesome!<br/> <br/>Dec 23, 2013 - 02:43 pm<br/><br/><br/><br/>I'll start the effort. Please start sending me donations so I can start buying tents for the event as well as bumper stickers, camo, and duck calls. Lol.<br/> <br/>Dec 23, 2013 - 02:54 pm<br/>abisho1</p> Phil Robertsontag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-12-20:1991841:Topic:16467592013-12-20T22:54:17.378ZIoruachhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Iorouch
<p>Question of the day: Should Phil Robertson be free to speak his (probably rather feeble) mind or should he have kept his yap shut? </p>
<p>Second question: Does anyone give a s***? </p>
<p>Question of the day: Should Phil Robertson be free to speak his (probably rather feeble) mind or should he have kept his yap shut? </p>
<p>Second question: Does anyone give a s***? </p> Why have Christians lost this power?tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-12-12:1991841:Topic:16442822013-12-12T06:20:34.772ZLoveLife&Laughterhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/FredStieg
<p>We had it for centuries.</p>
<p>The study's <a href="http://freethoughtreport.com/map/" rel="nofollow">interactive map</a> gives a good, broad, overview of which countries punish apostasy and blasphemy by death (black), with prison time (red), or place legal restrictions on (non-)religious speech and thought (yellow):The countries that impose these penalties are Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and…</p>
<p>We had it for centuries.</p>
<p>The study's <a href="http://freethoughtreport.com/map/" rel="nofollow">interactive map</a> gives a good, broad, overview of which countries punish apostasy and blasphemy by death (black), with prison time (red), or place legal restrictions on (non-)religious speech and thought (yellow):The countries that impose these penalties are Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. </p>
<p>With the exception of Pakistan, those countries all allow for capital punishment against apostasy, i.e., the renunciation of a particular religion. Pakistan, meanwhile, imposes the death penalty for blasphemy, which can obviously include disbelief in God. </p>
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<p><span>A pipeline that emits more carbon than 51 coal plants and creates only 39 permanent jobs is a "no-brainer"?</span></p>
<p><span>A pipeline that emits more carbon than 51 coal plants and creates only 39 permanent jobs is a "no-brainer"?</span></p> The Latest on Global Warmingtag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-11-15:1991841:Topic:16305542013-11-15T10:59:27.774ZLoveLife&Laughterhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/FredStieg
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<p>When the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology announced it would be holding <a href="http://science.house.gov/hearing/full-committee-hearing-strengthening-transparency-and-accountability-within-environmental">a hearing</a> on the Environmental Protection Agency’s transparency and accountability, it seemed as though the event might be strictly political in nature. After all, seventeen out of twenty-two Republican members of the committee …</p>
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<p>When the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology announced it would be holding <a href="http://science.house.gov/hearing/full-committee-hearing-strengthening-transparency-and-accountability-within-environmental">a hearing</a> on the Environmental Protection Agency’s transparency and accountability, it seemed as though the event might be strictly political in nature. After all, seventeen out of twenty-two Republican members of the committee <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/26/2202141/the-anti-science-climate-denier-caucus-113th-congress-edition/">deny that climate change is occurring</a> — how much could really get done?</p>
<p>That scenario played out a little unexpectedly at the hearing today, where the biggest “<a href="https://twitter.com/DarrenGoode/status/401035583880847360">red meat question</a>” asked to McCarthy was whether or not she has signed up for Obamacare.</p>
<p>The question was asked by Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), following accusations that the EPA has been performing unethical human testing on the health effects of particulate matter. Looking visibly confused, McCarthy tried to respond that the accusations were false. But Broun interrupted, noting that he only had a few seconds left for his questioning.</p>
<blockquote><p>Broun: Let me ask you one more question because my time’s running out. Are you signed up for Obamacare?</p>
<p>McCarthy: No I am not.</p>
<p>Broun: Why not?</p>
<p>McCarthy: Well because <strong>I’m lucky enough as a federal government [employee] that I have health care available to me</strong>which I’ve signed up for. In a few years, when that’s not the case, I’ll be happy to have other available health care opportunities…</p>
<p>Broun: Well the president says health care opportunities is much better than forcing most federal employees into Obamacare and obviously if you are not signing up you don’t think it is. Mr. Chairman I’ve run out of time, I yield back.</p>
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<p>The statement seemed to strike a chord with Texas Republican Rep. Steve Stockman, who later began his questioning by pointing out how much he “loved” that McCarthy felt she was “lucky enough” not to have to have Obamacare.</p>
<blockquote><p>Stockman: I think though earlier <strong>you gave me my favorite tweet of the day</strong> which I’m going to send out, which is … “I’m lucky enough not to have to sign up for Obamacare.” That’s wonderful. I wish my constituents could say the same.</p>
<p>McCarthy: I actually think I was referring to, I’m lucky enough to have access to good health care which the Affordable Care Act will expand…</p>
<p>Stockman: I still will take your quote <strong>for the record</strong>. I wrote it down. It’s really good.</p>
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<p>Stockman <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveWorks4You/status/401043485152645120">kept his word</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveWorks4You/status/401038408073494528">tweeted about</a> McCarthy’s comments on Obamacare after the hearing, misquoting her actual statement.</p>
<p>He did not tweet anything about EPA transparency or accountability.</p> Just another ‘responsible’ gun owner...tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-11-03:1991841:Topic:16257812013-11-03T02:18:37.152ZLoveLife&Laughterhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/FredStieg
<p>Here’s the problem with the right’s twisted gun owner mentality: gun owners are <em>always </em>responsible until they are not. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to ban guns. I’ve been accused of that a gazillion times, but I don’t want that. I want to limit the access to guns for crazy people who think this is okay. We have a 65-year-old man, who came out of his house one night and shot some kids who were pulling a Tping prank on their principal. Sure these kids were not supposed to be…</p>
<p>Here’s the problem with the right’s twisted gun owner mentality: gun owners are <em>always </em>responsible until they are not. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to ban guns. I’ve been accused of that a gazillion times, but I don’t want that. I want to limit the access to guns for crazy people who think this is okay. We have a 65-year-old man, who came out of his house one night and shot some kids who were pulling a Tping prank on their principal. Sure these kids were not supposed to be TPing their principal’s house, but should their punishment be death?</p>
<p>The principal did not press charges on any of the kids. I’m sure the principal took the TPing to be the joke that it was; he does work with kids every day, after all. But his neighbor thought it was within his right to sentence them to death, and it is a story we hear too often. A gun owner believes that the logical solution to whatever is taking place is to fire their weapon and kill the other party. George Zimmerman’s murder of Trayvon Martin is a perfect example.</p>
<p>The right likes to scream about their ‘responsible’ gun owners’ Second Amendment rights. For them, that sacred right that seems to trump all else, including the right to live without fear. Or even the right to live. That is a huge problem, and the people who continue to pretend that it isn’t? They’re stupid.</p>
<p>There was no reason for this man to shoot at these children. Yet, he thought it was within his right to do so. Where do you think he adopted that mentality from? I’ll give you a big hint: they use an elephant as their logo.</p> Who Is Crazy?tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-11-03:1991841:Topic:16256122013-11-03T01:11:58.509ZLoveLife&Laughterhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/FredStieg
<p><span>The split is not between Democrats and Republicans; as is often the case lately, it's between mainstream Republicans and Tea Partiers.</span></p>
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<p><span>The split is not between Democrats and Republicans; as is often the case lately, it's between mainstream Republicans and Tea Partiers.</span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-7" style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/gop-senate-candidate-spoke-neo-confederate-conference-august" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;">...before Marxism was born. Read all about it!</span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-7" style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/gop-senate-candidate-spoke-neo-confederate-conference-august" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;">...before Marxism was born. Read all about it!</span></a></span></span></p>