Thumbs up for Arizona and Constitutional rights

[srkruzich]

LOL Uhmm flint,  the first amendment doesn't apply in this forum.    Teresa owns it and the 1st amendment only applies to the people in dealing with government.

I do own it Steve.. but 1st amendment still applies.. 

Yes i do understand that, and it applies because you wish it to.  You don't legally and constitutionally have to though.

[Anmar]

Imagine how dull these forums would be if Teresa ran around locking threads.  I may have been upset at the occasional lack of moderation, but in the end, at least she's fair.

[flintauqua]

Sorry, I was thinking and typing rather slowly, so this kind of refers back a few posts.

In my opinion, a public forum, like this one, is a hybrid of "press" and "assembly".  If people with one set of generally common viewpoints are allowed to express those viewpoints, then others should be allowed also.  

I mis-interpreted the tone and context of what Teresa meant in the quote I threw back at her.  My gracious apology for jumping to an incorrect conclusion.

The one point I have been trying to make is this:

Not everyone that isn't far right is a leftist, not everyone that isn't a strict libertarian is in favor of totalitarianism.  (And I am not lumping libertarians and the far right together, I know those are two completely different spectrums, based on two very different sets of ideals and beliefs.)

If the far right and the strict libertarians would stop lumping everyone that doesn't believe as vehemently as they do into the same category as their polar opposites, they might find out that we do share a lot in common.

Do I think Ron Paul is the devil?  No, I agree with a quite a few of his positions.  Would I vote for him for President.?  No.

Did I vote for Obama? No.  Do I believe he is the devil incarnate? No.  

Do "we the people" need to do something about an out of control Congress and/or Federal Government?  Yes.  Is every member of the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and every person in every agency of the administrative branch evil?  No

I could say more, but it's time for the wife and I to celebrate my birthday.

From the Center

Charles

[Teresa]

Well you have a wonderful Birthday Flint.. Relax and enjoy being old.. errr old-er.. yeah.. older... 

[Jo McDonald]

Have a Happy Birthday - and be a good boy.  Don't blow cake icing all over the table when you "put out the candles", and make sure you have a HUGE wish!!

[flintauqua]

Thank you ladies.  Started to go out and about, but Angie got called in to work.  That's what happens when you live three blocks from the plant.  (McKee Baking, makers of Little Debbie snack cakes, Yum-Yum.)  And since I'm still in what I thought would be a short gap in my employment history . . . things revolve around her.  Oh, what am I saying, everything revolves around her anyway. 

Perhaps, my difficulty in finding gainful employment has altered my demeanor of late.  That and being on the downhill side of Forty.

I'll try to remember the above words when formulating my posts here in the politics section.

Charles

[sixdogsmom]

I want to get this in here before the thread gets locked for being off subject. Happy Birthday Charlie! 

[pamsback]

  Happy Birthday 

[greatguns]

Hope you have a wonderful evening on your birthday.

[Catwoman]

Happy Birthday, Charlie...Hope that you get to eat 'from the center' out on the cake!