Conservative Media Bubble?

[shoxlax]

Clod! Welcome to the conversation. Glad to see that you haven't changed your homophobic ways. It's really sad that you are a face to our proud University on this and other message boards.

As to the budget, it's hard to balance a budget when you you are trying to wind down and pay for two wars that your incompetent predecessor left behind. But PLEASE keep trotting out that 47%/50% line as much as possible, as it will only ensure that your backwards facing party never makes any progress in a national election anytime soon.

Seriously the wars? Obama knew what he inherited and he promised the following three things in his first term: cut the deficit in half, 5.6 % unemployment, and a balanced budget. Oh and shovel ready jobs. How did those promises go? If the impossibility of overcoming these wars in his first term was so apparent to you guys, why wasn't it so for Mr. Hope and Change? Had he said it will take me two terms to fix all of this, I wouldn't believe him but at least he would be consistent with his base.

[shoxlax]

I'm reminded that one should never argue with a fool, as onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

See you in four years clowns, back to lurking.

You keep saying that, yet you keep posting.

[shox1989]

I don't give a **** if you are democrat or republican, but I really question the intelligence of someone who would "rehire" a person who has done such a poor job balancing the budget of our country....



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I made that mistake in 1984 by voting to re-elect Bush after he inherited record surplus budgets and turned them into record deficits.

I wasn't going to make that mistake again by voting for Obama or Romney. Romney's promises were to INCREASE defense spending by a couple of trillion, INCREASE medicare by $716 billion and cut taxes by up to $4.8 trillion. I didn't see much chance of either one of these clowns balancing the budget in the next 4 years so I voted Libertarian for the first time in my life.

[Rocky Mountain Shock]

Get that C@$# outcha mouth emJizzle, I can't hear a damned thing you are saying...


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Just when I thought this conversation couldn't get any more entertaining, Cold gives us this gem. God bless you. Anyway, don't mind me, carry on... :)

[WstateU]

Please stop... I can't take it any longer!

[pinstripers]

Reno county had a "gay rights" proposal that was defeated. The jist of it was that landlords would not be able to refuse to rent to a gay person. I can see both sides of this, but if I am making payments on a building, I think I should have the right to rent it to whoever I want.................

[RoyalShock]

Reno county had a "gay rights" proposal that was defeated. The jist of it was that landlords would not be able to refuse to rent to a gay person. I can see both sides of this, but if I am making payments on a building, I think I should have the right to rent it to whoever I want.................

A couple of minor clarifications here. 1. It was the City of Hutchinson, not Reno Co. 2. IIRC, it was specifically related to evicting a tenant or terminating employment on the basis of sexual orientation.

[BOBB]

Reno county had a "gay rights" proposal that was defeated. The jist of it was that landlords would not be able to refuse to rent to a gay person. I can see both sides of this, but if I am making payments on a building, I think I should have the right to rent it to whoever I want.................

Even Jews?

[tropicalshox]

Reno county had a "gay rights" proposal that was defeated. The jist of it was that landlords would not be able to refuse to rent to a gay person. I can see both sides of this, but if I am making payments on a building, I think I should have the right to rent it to whoever I want.................

Isn't that already against the law?

[pinstripers]

Even Jews.

[pinstripers]

Why would anyone own property if the government tells the owner what he/she may or may not do with it?

[BenWSU]

Wonder if you discriminate against someone how eminent domain by a wreckless govt would come into the picture

[GoShockers89]

Fun with hypotheticals:

(1) Small business owner whose plant in Hutchinson employs 250 people dies. His son, a homosexual who has lived the last 20 years in San Francisco, inherits the family business and returns home briefly to run things until he can dispose of the business at a price he likes. Son discovers everyone at the plant is straight, fires many of them, and replaces them with lesser qualified homosexual technicians from California.

(2) Man and wife live in same apartment building for 30 years together after losing family farm during downturn in mid-1980s. Man is elderly, legally blind, and cannot drive. Wife is infirm and eventually passes away. Man is able to function at a minimal level by utilizing senior services in the county and has memorized the number of steps from his door to the mailbox, trash bins, etc. at the complex. Current building owner sells complex to young investor from out of state, who happens to be gay and is not a fan of straights. New owner evicts old man on the basis of sexual orientation because he is straight.

I am assuming the two posters immediately above me have absolutely no problem with either of these, since they are allowed under the ballot measure.

[GoShockers89]

As a sidenote, just how incredibly effing dumb do you have to be as a supervisor to expressly fire someone "because of sexual orientation" in a freaking at will employment state? Whoever the test case is for the employment prong of that measure could give Forrest Gump a solid run for last place in reading at a 2nd grade level.

[pinstripers]

Is it wrong? Yep. Should it be illegal? Not sure about that...............