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Bluenorthwest

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15. If I as a gay man decided I could speak to all people based on the words of a few

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 10:00 AM

Dec 2011

others, I'd get to spew all manner of rhetoric all day long. Thus, I find it petty to see you speak to a poster who did not write those things as if he did. Note, that apparently some of us can not simply be as we are without someone calling us 'not Sanctified' or as Rick Warren did just prior to his Inaugural gig, equating us to pedophiles and incest.
When I see the pearl clutching on DU, I just shake my head and wonder. So many of the most ardent supporters defended Rick Warren's honoring, defended Donnie McClurkin, who called us child killers in the national media. Yet some DUer's opinion makes for an explosion of stress. To repeat: Presidential surrogates called gay people 'child killers' and 'pedophiles'. In the press. So this burden you endure, it does not strike me as all that important compared to that which others endure all day each day.

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We're not oddballs or unrealistic nutjobs. [View all] mmonk Dec 2011 OP

K&R me b zola Dec 2011 #1

What is your definition of "well to do?" NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #2

I know, but I don't think he's mentioning the million specifics? Merely a GENERAL CONCEPT that Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2011 #5

I retired from an auto factory so I am not rich NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #11

Nope. You and I are the people we DO NOT mention regarding having to pay more taxes Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2011 #12

Property taxes are local, not nation wide issues, Don Bluenorthwest Dec 2011 #13

Don't agree about this not being a federal issue NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #19

I know, Don. People are living on the edge. Right wingers have destroyed this country. Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2011 #25

I'm a Marxist. Tax the 1% at a 99% rate socialist_n_TN Dec 2011 #35

You don't think I would be against that do ya? NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #37

They may not be directly a federal tax issue hootinholler Dec 2011 #28

That much of an increase is unconscionable. dawg Dec 2011 #20

$1200 is what the taxes on our home were when we moved in 22 years ago NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #21

Some people can't really understand a problem until they face it themselves. dawg Dec 2011 #22

And how much of that was attributable to the housing bubble? mmonk Dec 2011 #23

Most of it is attributable to our factories closing up NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #24

I was asking because home re-evaluations mmonk Dec 2011 #27

I haven't noticed that argument. mmonk Dec 2011 #6

The problem is that property tax is now the major form of wealth tax eridani Dec 2011 #26

You have a house? abelenkpe Dec 2011 #29

k&r unapatriciated Dec 2011 #3

I AGREE!!! And you're right. Opposers don't argue their position straight up. nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2011 #4

apparently, it's alright here to call someone defending the President 'morally bankrupt' bigtree Dec 2011 #7

That was not me and I don't condone that approach. mmonk Dec 2011 #10

If I as a gay man decided I could speak to all people based on the words of a few Bluenorthwest Dec 2011 #15

I see bigtree Dec 2011 #17

No sir, I must disagree. dawg Dec 2011 #8

Why do you hate UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2011 #9

hehehe SammyWinstonJack Dec 2011 #16

I'm a proud liberal leftie... ananda Dec 2011 #14

They do have that glazed over look. mmonk Dec 2011 #18

++ Those ideas are only extreme when viewed from an extreme point of view. DirkGently Dec 2011 #30

Exactly. mmonk Dec 2011 #33

purists don't accomplish much. MjolnirTime Dec 2011 #31

define "purist". nt tomp Dec 2011 #34

be careful, or some idiot will call you a PURIST Skittles Dec 2011 #32

I don't see too many people accusing others around here of being WI_DEM Dec 2011 #36