Please, just name one person. Just one, whose rights have been violated.
And please expound on your elegant, “Yeah, right,” by explaining why Ben Franklin included the words “essential” and “little temporary.”

I love the way you let Gimpel's assinine posts go unanswered. Good one.

I've tried to read your replies to his other blogs. I couldn't even finish most of them. I had to prop my eyelids open with toothpicks.

I understand that you are living on a totally different planet than the rest of us, but can you spare us from YOUR drivel? I love people like you. You make it so easy for the rest of us to realize why the Democrats are so screwed up. Blame everything on Bush. That's the obvious answer, right? It was Bush's fault that Katrina flattened Mississippi. And all anybody talks about is New Orleans...which, by the way, didn't even take a direct hit. That couldn't have possibly been Nagin's or Blanco's fault, right? It's all Bush's fault that Isreal is bombing Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. Isreal doesn't have the right to defend itself...at least that's the way I think you look at it. It was Bush's fault that tsunami hit Indonesia too, isn't it? As much as I abhor the Clintons, I could not, in all sanity, think of blaming either one for a natural disaster or blaming them for another country for defending themselves from an entity that wants to wipe them off the face of the earth. You think we should have just laid down and rolled over after 9/11, don't you? What do you think our response to 9/11 should have been? Diplomacy? Read your history books. That doesn't work. Show of force works.

And, speaking of Katrina, she couldn't have possibly had anything to do with the price of gas, right? Even though she shut down half of our oil refineries...but wait...I forgot...Katrina was Bush's fault anyway. The loop is closed.

And why are you so obsessed with who Gimpel works for? I find that strange, in itself. Who cares who he works for? What possible difference could it make? Maybe he works at SRS....maybe he works in a machine shop....who cares? Except you. By the way....who do YOU work for? The ACLU maybe?

I don't agree with a lot of Bush's politics lately, but I swear I haven't seen a mass of Republicans trying to "distance" themselves from him as you claim.

mydtwc,

Apparently, I struck an exposed nerve with Katrina, which was honestly not my intent. I'll hit on that again later.

The first thing I want to say is that you have a tendency to dole out some pretty undeserved insults. The only thing that I said to you was that your comments were boring and that they were "drivel"...just as you have said about other's posts. I never called you stupid, or assinine even. That has been your description of anything that YOU don't agree with. I never told you that you asked a stupid question. That would be completely rude. But since YOU did, my "stupid question" was supposed to be facetious (but you seem to have absolutely no sense of humor and take everything way too personally). And how dare you accuse me of being medicated. You are the one that sounds like you're ready to blow a head gasket at any moment. Why do you have to be so hostile? Why can't we have an intelligent conversation without you getting OBVIOUSLY angry?

I've not brought religion into any of this, but I'm about to. The Jesus that I know (yes, from reading the bible) was a meek man...the Lamb of God. No, he did not thrive on conflict, or violence of any kind. He was definitely all about peace and the old cliche (in layman's terms) "Why can't we all just get along?" In my own little world, I ask that question all the time. But the answer is simple....they (Islam) do not WANT to get along. They want to wipe all Christians (and Jews), otherwise known as "The Infidels" off the face of the earth. How pompous is that? I also know that history tells me that Christians from a century ago were also into destroying our assumed infidels....something I don't agree with either, but it happened. I'm willing to accept that whatever they believe. I'm sure they believe it with the same faith that I have in Jesus Christ. Just leave me and mine out of it.

It will all work out in the end...either Christians and/or Jews are right, or Islam is right. We, on earth, will not know that until "judgement day", but until then, I will continue to believe what I believe in faith and if I'm wrong (which I don't think I am) then I'm wrong. But I prefer to believe this over the alternative....Jesus taught me to love, not hate. I confess, I have not read the Koran, but it seems that Mohammad taught the exact opposite. I've known many Muslims in my life and they all deny that Islam is about hate. So I choose to believe (in faith) that they are telling me the truth and the ones that are waging Jehad are plainly fanatics.

This war in the middle east is some 4,000 years old and not until the 21st century is it being fought for somewhat right reasons. We aren't necessarily fighting for a religious reason, we are fighting against an evil that has reared it's ugly head, once again. Only this time, we don't have a territorily defined enemy. We didn't bring the terrorist to Iraq nor did we create them. They were already there. And now, they are everywhere. In every country in the world. Over the last 800 years, the fanatics have spread their hatred for "the infidel" over the entire planet. There are terrorist attacks in every region of the world. That sounds like a losing battle, but my Bible, and my faith, tells me that we will prevail. I have to believe that or I will be betraying my faith.

As far as the number of people we have lost during the present war vs. the number of our SOLDIERS we have lost during other wars..ie. WWI, WW2, Korea, Vietnam.....you can look it up for yourself. Just google it. This is bearly a drop in the bucket. But one thing is certain....it was all worth it. Freedom is not free. Just go to DC and look at the Korean War memorial. That's what's inscribed at the bottom of one of the monuments. As a matter of fact, just go down to Broad Street right before you get to 5th street going north. There's a big stone monument that repeats those exact words. Freedom comes at a cost and I lay down my hat (coat, or whatever piece of clothing (or my body) down to our soldiers that are willing to give their life so that I can live in a place without worry of bombs blasting my neighborhood, or some nut blowing themselves up in the middle of Walmart while I'm trying to go on with my life.

Now, as far as me being on here for 28 weeks and not noticing the blogs....I have no clue how you know how long I've been coming to the augusta chronicle and I don't really care. I go to the chronicle to find out about local news and to look at the movie schedule, or maybe the classifieds every now and then. I actually have a life. I do not thrive on starting, or finishing arguments with people like you. Not that you deserve an explaination, but one of the blogs just happened to catch my eye the other day and out of curiousity, I clicked on the link and started reading. I wasn't trying to get into a "blog war" with you or anybody else. No, I do not have multiple sign-on names. Man, how paranoid are you? Trust me, there is no boogey-man. I'm an honest person and have no desire to try to "fool" anyone of my identity. And if you must know, I work for a local credit union. That's all the info about myself I'm giving.

So at least you could tell me, and Gimpel, what type of business you are in. I fessed up. Can you?

I'm really tired now, and if you really want to know what I think about your Katrina comments, I'll oblige....just not tonight.

well, neither side can "argue" with the other, but we should be able to reason... would you mind telling why you think liberals can't argue with conservatives, and conservatives can't argue with liberals?
and do you think we can have reasonable dialogue?
sad we have to seem so different, when the world views us as largely the same...

Gimpel, the problem is people take the labels such as liberal, conservative, democrat, republican...these labels are so divisive. I am not any of these things. I am just me. Everyone talks along "party lines." I do not believe the country can be divided into just two sets of opinions though.

Washington was right in denouncing political parties and warning us against them. I think politicians in these two large parties are often corrupt. Both parties are out to serve big business/themselves.

I voted for W. Bush his first time around. I am not too proud to admit I was wrong though after four years and I did not vote for him this last time. I believe others will not swallow their pride once they "choose sides" as it seems. Since you like Ronald Reagan let me say I used a question he posed once during the last election when choosing to not vote for Bush again...I asked myself, "Am I better off now than I was four years ago?" The for me and the country is definately a no.

I liked the idea of less national government controling things ( one of the supposed ideals of the conversvative) yet I see under our current administration the goverment growing into something akin to what was in the fictional novel "1984."

Even the President has a system of checks and balances. He is not an emperor. He is not above the law. When someone who served under Richard Nixon claims that Bush has done worse actions than even Nixon, you know that some even in his own party do not like him.

Finally, we do need to show a national strength, but to have a cocky president he basically called out Iraq, North Korea and Iran, then attacked the first, shows that he is not afraid to start world war III. Even though Iraq tried to show they had no weapons of mass destruction we went in anyways( as the Downing Street Memos proved later was going to happen regardless). So why shouldn't Iran and North Korea be trying to get weapons to defend itself. As I have said previously in other posts, people let patriotism lead them to think we are "the good guys" like some hero in a movie, when in actuality, we are just as bad as the the supposed "evil" countries that we fight with. The real key is we do what is best for ourselves....just look up the history of how Saddam Hussein came to power.