Apparently, our President is a worthless piece of s*it who has ruined our country...now, while I think he is being a HUGE wuss for not trying harder to get past Republican filibustering, I hardly think he is the anti-christ some people are claiming. For instance, I would like to see any one of them (all with no more than a high school education, barely...) try to take the problems that last guy left us with and turn it around in about a year. Go ahead and get rid of the debt that is so high it is in the numbers that are hard for even mathematicians and physicists to comprehend...go ahead and make all of those other countries that think we're a bunch of ignorant assh*les love us... 
And it kills me how some people take our cushy existence here in the US for granted, like everyone should just have a gun, SUV and swimming pool because they were born here....these same people also think that god should be all up in the government like the "good old days" because there are just too many of us "tree hugging hippies" ruining everything with our free-thinking on topics like abortion and gay marriage...
I swear, I can see the movie Idiocracy playing out before within 20 years thanks to these people having all their kids and teaching them to be as dense as they are! 
Which brings me to my new favorite quote "No, I don't wanna go hug a tree because they never hug back!"
Thanks for watching...and even if you think I'm full of crap, I still enjoy a good discussion. (but I reserve the right to roll my eyes and ignore you if you're rude or stupid, sorry, but it's my blog)
I will say that we all need to pay attention to the budget, debt, and deficit and what the elected's do with it as well as how they try to manipulate us by talking about it. It is common for both parties to talk about lowering debt, passing a budget, and then yelling "what about the children?" when it comes time to cut individual programs. It is a form of blackmail and we need to watch out for the narrow side of that wedge. Increasing the debt ceiling every year is as crazy as not having one or setting it to 100 Trillion. There are a lot of issues, but keep an eye on health care. Nullification of federal laws by the states is a major event, and the courts have a lot of work ahead of them. This is going to be an exciting time.
There are idiots around, and I tend to think a lot of people are idiot drivers or idiots about courtesy, but it's hard to be accurately informed on everything going on in our government. Mainly because is not perfect, and they are not objective. Choosing a story to print is a form of bias. I think a lot of people do want the same thing here, but I will not agree Obama is a moderate. There are different ways to approach it, but to say we should chill out and not care is wrong in my book (some people make this supposition and it leads to lots of bad things historically).
Avoiding conflict in our arguments is also meritless. Adults should find conflict and discuss it. It's okay to disagree, but some think the #1 goal is to avoid conflicting opinion wherever possible.
Religion is kinda good at recruiting and sometimes that means free education along with the sales pitch. See: Latin America
EVERYONE must agree you should go Pink though.
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