Tag: politics
member name: Rick McGirr
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September 28, 2006 11:32 AM EDT --
Here are the top ten reasons I don't watch commercial TV, as a rule:
10. Repeated viewings of stupid, nebulous, or obnoxious commercials nauseates me.
9. Repeated use of predictable plots, lines, . . .
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May 08, 2007 02:03 PM EDT --
Take all your Obamas Clintons, Edwardses, Gulianis, McCains, whatever, whoever is running and jockeying for money and position in the ongoing, already interminable presidential race for 2008… PLEASE! . . .
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October 04, 2006 02:03 PM EDT --
Why No Push To Remove Bush?
Lately, we see more and more cracks in the moralistic, patriotic façade of the policy makers. We also see people in the media one by one start to realize . . .
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September 23, 2008 11:53 PM EDT --
We can expect George Will to criticize a Democratic presidential candidate. I find it surprising that Mr. Will would level the strong and deeply questioning comments towards John McCain that he . . .
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September 11, 2006 07:37 PM EDT --
I'm not budging
No appeals to fear
Will sway my dogged determination
To seek what is right...
Beliefs
I believe
Give me space
Time for one cleansing load of air...
The game . . .
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May 15, 2007 07:32 PM EDT --
I would like to draw your attention to an article posted by Carolee (life is good on my side) K, entitled, "One Nation Under God?" I commented on the article and I'd like to use . . .
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May 25, 2007 01:01 PM EDT --
Memorial Day. Big flippin' deal.
You dwell on the heroism of the dead, and don't think a minute about how we are ever going to stop piling up the bodies. How does that . . .
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April 28, 2009 12:10 AM EDT --
Just thought I'd share an article about another attempt by Christian right wingers to breach the wall of separation and establish Christianity as the official religion of the land. Thanks. . . .
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September 14, 2006 01:55 PM EDT --
WHAT ARE WE TEACHING OUR YOUNG?
I can't help it. I see the young man in that TV ad jogging through the neighborhood. I listen as he shares his thoughts with us. It's . . .
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July 04, 2006 01:23 PM EDT --
Some random musings in honor of the 4th of July, 2006…
Can yesterday fulfill?
Can tomorrow sanctify?
If time is a dimension
What is I?
People who favor a strong military have . . .
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August 29, 2006 04:46 PM EDT --
Hi, all. This is a delusional diatribe, a set of rambling ruminations, an overtly over-generalized overview, a plaintive, pontificating plethora of thoughts about my generation of . . .
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November 09, 2006 12:04 PM EST --
Hi, folks. I'm Rick. Been a Gather guy since June or so. I have been ranting and raving on this and other forums. I've been finding that there is no political party that . . .
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May 18, 2008 12:06 PM EDT --
I have been inspired by Berf, to write at length about my attitudes towards gay people. What started as a simple comment to Berf's article, turned into an expose of my feelings and how I came . . .
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September 26, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
This article is in response to a question posed on August 17th by Troy Stouffer, who publishes regularly on Gather under the moniker, Cacoethes Scribendi. In an article dated Mr. Stouffer asked, . . .
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July 21, 2008 01:00 PM EDT --
Obama and McCain ought to be best friends. They behave exactly the same. I suppose I will vote for Obama, because McCain is too old and hangs out with too many nazi-types. McCain is . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:29 PM EDT --
Some questions for those who still support the "war on terror":
How much violence is too much? At what point do the mounting deaths overtake the "value" of continuing . . .
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September 18, 2008 07:46 AM EDT --
Someone wrote to me and said that the fact that old-warrior McCain and shallow hypocrite Palin are even given any consideration at all as viable candidates points to a preference . . .
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April 08, 2009 10:31 AM EDT --
President Obama's recent order rescinding President Bush's ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) was a victory for all. Now our tax dollars can . . .
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September 28, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
Gather 'round the campfire, folks, and sing this tune together, to the tune of "Home On The Range"...
Oh give me a home where the skeptical roam
Where it's good to ask questions all . . .
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April 27, 2009 01:03 PM EDT --
The following is a comment that I posted April 27, on Dave McGill's article, "The Toll - 4/26/09 - Bloody Month Raises Fear of Civil War". As usual, my thoughts overtook my sense of . . .
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