The problem is that right now, all the conservative comms and blogs seem to be talking about is the latest crap from the mainstream media and things Obama supporters do against McCain supporters that rarely, if ever, get picked up for national news, when a man yelling "Kill him" about William Ayers at a Palin rally suddenly is all across the nation, being spun as a huge crowd screaming death threats about Obama. I really am quite sick of the latest trash from the liberals, and any liberal who thinks it's them against the conservatives ought to take a look at the internet and realise that, here at least, the conservatives are either a minority or a VERY silent majority for fear of being called 'bots' and 'racists' and 'inhuman'.
I know I have conservative friends. I really wish they'd show up. --;;;; Even if it's just to say, "I agree." Sometimes an "I agree" can go a long way.
To your disagreements, in brief: -I have my reasons, mostly due to the scientific definition of life, but I doubt any amount of debate would get either of us to concede the point. -Well, I don't care what other people do, honestly, so long as they respect my boundaries. My main issue is that, from other answers I've seen to this question, some people only really care about sexual compatibility, and I just can't see not marrying/partnering with an otherwise wonderful human being because they aren't quite as good in the sack as you'd prefer. That and, at least with younger teenagers, sex can be seen as the be all and end all of a relationship. But... Just don't expect it of me, and I don't care WHAT you do. -It wouldn't bother me so much if they, despite moving here illegally, developed loyalty to the nation and obeyed all the laws, but I live in an area with a lot of Hispanic immigrants, legal and illegal, and that just doesn't happen. Whatever happened to immigrants like my great-grandmother, who refused to teach her grandchildren Italian because they were Americans? Of course, I may just be bitter because I spent this past summer trying to get a job, and every place I applied to ended up hiring people who couldn't even understand English. *grumble* -I think it's more to do with flag protocol and the circumstances under which flags have been burned in the past. I mean, if you were to pay me a million to do a flag burning ceremony (the only proper way to dispose of an old, worn flag), then I'd do it. But if you just wanted me to burn a flag for the shock value... The first non-ceremonial flag burnings that I ever heard of were from my parents talking about Viet-Nam War protestors who had communist sympathies. The ones mentioned on the news are done by anti-American protestors. I don't want to do something like that, and I have a hard time believing anyone who lives here could do such a thing, just because of what I assosciate it with.
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I know I have conservative friends. I really wish they'd show up. --;;;; Even if it's just to say, "I agree." Sometimes an "I agree" can go a long way.
To your disagreements, in brief:
-I have my reasons, mostly due to the scientific definition of life, but I doubt any amount of debate would get either of us to concede the point.
-Well, I don't care what other people do, honestly, so long as they respect my boundaries. My main issue is that, from other answers I've seen to this question, some people only really care about sexual compatibility, and I just can't see not marrying/partnering with an otherwise wonderful human being because they aren't quite as good in the sack as you'd prefer. That and, at least with younger teenagers, sex can be seen as the be all and end all of a relationship. But... Just don't expect it of me, and I don't care WHAT you do.
-It wouldn't bother me so much if they, despite moving here illegally, developed loyalty to the nation and obeyed all the laws, but I live in an area with a lot of Hispanic immigrants, legal and illegal, and that just doesn't happen. Whatever happened to immigrants like my great-grandmother, who refused to teach her grandchildren Italian because they were Americans? Of course, I may just be bitter because I spent this past summer trying to get a job, and every place I applied to ended up hiring people who couldn't even understand English. *grumble*
-I think it's more to do with flag protocol and the circumstances under which flags have been burned in the past. I mean, if you were to pay me a million to do a flag burning ceremony (the only proper way to dispose of an old, worn flag), then I'd do it. But if you just wanted me to burn a flag for the shock value... The first non-ceremonial flag burnings that I ever heard of were from my parents talking about Viet-Nam War protestors who had communist sympathies. The ones mentioned on the news are done by anti-American protestors. I don't want to do something like that, and I have a hard time believing anyone who lives here could do such a thing, just because of what I assosciate it with.