I'm getting tired of this expression. Especially in the political realm. I'm not sure who's appealing to Common Sense in all things issue related: The Common Sense Medical Plan! But Common Sense tells me someone certainly is. It's the typical, oversimplified nonsense I expect from politicians.
I'm all for Common Sense. Indeed, we could all benefit more if people used Common Sense a little more generously than they/we do. But when it comes to politicians, to people who run governments, is Common Sense all we're missing and therefore all we need to right any sinking ship?
Common Sense tells me if my car won't start and the gas gauge is on empty: I need more gas! What Common Sense does not tell me, and here's the inherent issue with the expression and application, is that my car will then start. There could be a host of other problems that keep the car from starting. Bad gaskets (whatever those are), lose spark plugs (non-sparking spark plugs?), a bad hose (these are all things in cars right?) could all be reason. Heck, the car might not even have an engine. Common Sense allows you to diagnose, not treat.
So I see these adds that appeal to, in their nuanced, subtle ways, Common Sense tells us if we all could have cheap, affordable, government provided health care, everything would be better. for all of us. No. Common Sense tells us only that it would make sense, for everyone to have health care, not that it would be a panacea for the ironically ailing industry. Or, in the interest of unbias, that drilling in ANWAR will alleviate the gas crunch forever.
We need leaders who know cars. Who know that the car needing gas is just one approach to making sure it's up and running. Give me your platform of vague and nuance and Common Sense, of promises enough to fill a tank. But it's going to take more than a sense of the common to fix problems. It will need that, but you're going to have to know a lot more than how to fill up the tank if you want my vote.
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Take two aspirins and call the doctor. You may need some bed rest. Common Sense for your vote!
Love Hillary C
I am afraid that anyone who is pro-life cannot be for either Clinton or Obama. Their positions on this one subject alone is very extreme to the left.
Both candiates are really no different in their positions and are extreme leftists.
Read and do your homework about each of them and never be swayed by their smooth talk.
Lastly, each is a protege of Saul Alinsky; enough said.
I don't see why one issue should sway someone's position to or away from a certain presidential candidate. Granted, abortion is important because it is a matter of life and death, but then again, so is war - which the Republicans royally screwed up. To turn a presidential election into a one-position debate is to simplify a very complex process.
Oh well, the old canard of linking war to abortion. I guess that we should have just simply given up during WWII because FDR certainly screwed up some aspects of that. If you don't think that the threat is real and in some respects worse than what we faced during WWII, you are not paying attention.
Funny, thought that the majority of both parties voted for the authorization. The difference is the the Dems threw in the towel after four or five months and have openly supported the enemy ever since.
Bottom line, hard to be a christian and support abortion from conception to within minutes of birth.
There are certainly more than one issue in any election and a complete review of every candiate is required.
Common Sense: When was this memo produced?
draft presidential memorandum that stated: "A number of arguments for deployment of a less-than-perfect ballistic missile defense are most persuasive. A ballistic missile defense, even though of limited capability, could be very effective against a simple attack by a minor power, a small accidental attack, or a small attack constrained by arms control measures.
"Such a defense would contribute to the deterrence of blackmail threats and to the stability of arms control agreements. A ballistic missile defense of limited capability would contribute to the deterrence of large attacks by raising doubts about the attacker's ability to penetrate. Such a defense, even though limited, greatly complicates the design and tactics for offensive systems."
Any takers on this bet? Oil will be a $200/bbl prior to year end. I am on the side of 200/bbl and enjoying every minute of the upward trend.
Continue to sit around and pay 5 to 6 bucks for a cup of coffee and discuss the cosmos of your navel. Drill in ANWAR? Keep your dirty rotten filthy hands out of my ANWAR. Drill offshore the Florida and Calif coasts? You filthy pervert do not touch my oil there. Continue to ban between 75 to 85% of domestic onshore and offshore drilling? Your darn right you sicko, keeping thinking like that and you will be forced to register as a Level 3 enviro offender.
For the Clinton and Obama lovers? Isn't this just special.
http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/bill-ayers-stepping-on-us-flag-in-2001.html
Enjoy as you continue too loose your country by supporting these two above.
Do your homework. Read their party platforms. Question, Question, Question.
Wow, start a conversation on common sense and you get Slim Pickins riding the missle from Dr. Strangelove.
Nice. Couldn't agree more. My contention was simply on simple, "hot-button" issues that candidates claim to have all the answers to -- simple, quick fixes. My point was that it takes someone with more than an ability to point out the obvious with the obvious solution.
Whatever.
Try and offer a new and falsely clever perspective on the idiocy IN the whole process and get speeches on how it's the other side mucking it up for everyone. Typical political mumbo-jumbo.
So did I actually start a conversation on common sense? I don't think so. Slim Pickins riding a missile makes a lot of sense right now. So probably not.
The best you can do is question. That much I agree with.
What the hell happened here? I've had more lucid conversations with severe schizophrenics at the psych-ward. How is it that politics brings out the crazy in people?
Just to clarify, I worked there, I wasn't admitted.
Yes, I have met some of these rather unique individuals but alas it may just be only one person having a town meeting in the mind, and only one person showed up
"severe schizophrenics at the psych-ward"? Have always been curious about these loonie nut-jobs. Do any hear strange voices in their heads? Have any been conducting townhall meetings and they are the only ones there? Seen any Abe lincoln wanna be's or cross dressing George Washington types?
I'm not sure if those are real questions, but I'm going to treat them as if they are. Since this post has lost any unifying theme already, I'll add to the chaos by talking about my time at the psych ward.
First, I will suggest not using the phrase "loonie nut-jobs." You'd be surprised how many "normal" people go through life with mental disorders, even schizophrenia. With that said: Yes they hear voices and sometimes they even see hallucinations. Those are common symptoms of the disorder. I could tell story after story about such hallucinations. Some are very funny, others sad. As for dressing like Lincoln and Washington, no. However, I've met both Jesus and Satan (two different people, thankfully). Perhaps one of the more interesting people I met believed that the only reality in the world was himself. Nothing else exists except for a demon who torments him daily, and at the end of this life, he will be with the demon in eternal torment! When he would speak with me, he would say that I was just an illusion projected upon him by the demon. Thus, I don't really exist! I always told him that his view of the world was able to make sense of the problem of evil, but he could not account for the problem of good - a problem that I think is too often overlooked. (Aaron will now point you to Chesterton)
I'm stepping off my soapbox now.
If you are not aware of this pending decision, be warned. If the decision is in favor of the stupid polar bear observe what will occur in the stock market, oil futures and the price you will pay at the pump.
Here is some background from attorney Hugh hewitt (has handled this law for twenty years)
Nothing yet from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on the court-mandated decision on whether or not the polar bear is a "threatened species."
The deadline is May 15.
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2008/03/27/pbip_the_approach_and_outbreak_of_polar_bear-induced_paralysis.
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2008/04/10/the_polar_bear_tractor_beam_how_the_endangered_species_act_could_accomplish_what_al_gore_couldnt
"The delayed decision announcement by the USFWS has prompted outrage by the public and several Congressional inquires into the reason for the delay," according to the Defenders of Wildlife.
Are you outraged? Or will you be outraged if a listing effectively drives the price of gas to new heights as every carbon-emitting federal action comes under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act?
This occured the other day.
The Mental Hospital...
I was walking past the mental hospital. The patients were chanting "13...13....13...13."
The fence was too high to see over. I saw a little gap and looked through to see what was going on.
Some jerk poked me in the eye with a stick.
Then they all started chanting "14...14...14...14...."
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