The happiness that is.

[tal_greywolf]

Ever since moving to Houston, my emotional mood has swung around nearly 180 degrees.  In Fort Walton Beach, the job I was doing was pretty much a dead end, no opportunity to progress and expand my skills and abilities.  But now, here in Houston, I'm able to figuratively stretch my wings and get involved with new things and opportunities that didn't

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[srmalloy]

Tyrant Abe an honest president? We are talking about the president that unilaterally suspended habeas corpus and ordered thousands of citizens arrested without warrants, who closed courts by force, who closed newspapers that printed editorials critical of him and his conduct of the war, often arresting their editors as well, who censored telegraph communications, who ordered the blockade of Southern ports without a declaration of war, and who deported a sitting Senator who criticized his conduct of the war? The same person who took our country into a bloody civil war, claiming that the United States was a permanent compact between the states and could not be dissolved, while only fifteen years earlier said:
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole

[tal_greywolf]

Oh, I know, but a lot of today's Republicans seem to venerate him in the same fashion they venerate Ronald Reagan. Which is why I made the comment in the fashion I did, as more of a humorous take on just what today's Republican party views as an honest politician.

And some areas of the Union were willing to fight for ending slavery. Iowa actually had it in their state constitution that any slave who enters its borders was to be considered free and no longer property in any sense of the word. This is the same state that ruled that the concept of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness applied to all couples, whether two males, two females or a male and a female.

[centauress]

There are many times I think back to the heady days of Republicans when they had merely evil or not-empathetic leaders Nixon, Bush, Reagan. I like to say Bush Sr was at least competent-evil vs W Bush who was incompetent-evil. I miss the competent part! I honestly considered voting my first time for Bush Sr... And don't think it would've been a disaster had he remained president.

But since 2000? They've cut taxes multiple times and then blamed everything on Democrats and gays and muslims. It's crazy.

Whenever someone tells me that Democrats have moved left or right, I just remind them that what really happened was that those who paid attention are Democrats now. And it sucks for me, from the left, because there's no actual balance.

And the people who don't have time to pay attention to the parties? The news is seriously doing them a disservice, never telling them who really is lying.