I don’t think a divorce will be necessary, this is till death do we part and thank goodness your generation is almost out of here.

4/24 2:15-3:15pm event: Corona del Mar High School – Jews Killed Jesus, love fags! 2101 Eastbluff Drive WBC to picket this High School, and the goofy Jewish bastards who pretend they have a cause against the Lord and against His anointed. Check out this good verse: Romans 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Is this what you blind Christ-rejecting Jews are protesting on behalf of? Latest news from Orange County reads: “A former Corona del Mar High School teacher has been charged with molesting two young girls and keeping hundreds of images of child pornography at his home, prosecutors said today.” Stop lying to these children, putting them into the hands of child molesters, repent while you can! “Rent” is but the catalyst for this epic event. AMEN!

I have included the list for the states that receive the most federal dollars per tax dollar paid by their residents:

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

And here is the list of the states that receive the least for what their residents pay in federal taxes:

1. New Jersey ($0.62)
2. Connecticut ($0.64)
3. New Hampshire ($0.68)
4. Nevada ($0.73)
5. Illinois ($0.77)
6. Minnesota ($0.77)
7. Colorado ($0.79)
8. Massachusetts ($0.79)
9. California ($0.81)
10. New York ($0.81)

Notice any trend here, because you should. It is us whom should be complaining not you. Coincidentally Florida usually is around the $1.00 mark. SO you see socialism is alive and well here in America. It is just we are already redistributing the wealth to the red staters to a degree.

Lets not forget, that Ann Coulter whom could live anywhere she chooses, splits her time between blasphemous Connecticut and New York, not South Dakota and Arkansas. As far as everything else that Tony said, good luck living in that world. I believe Hannity & O’Reilley both also live in the tri-state area (CT, NY, NJ).

OK Mr. 1950′ Law Student,

When I mentioned in my previous post to “Think”, and you said you did, I believe that you missed a very important part of the “Thinking” process. What you did was recall, everything you’ve heard, been taught, or believe regarding the subject at hand. The vital part of thinking, especially when new ideas come into play, is “questioning”. Why you believe what you do, why things are the way the are, and what are the results of applying new ideas to the status quo.

In your post (# 92) you state your new ideas and solutions to your problem, by way of separating the left and right, and again I am left feeling that you’re not thinking.

Let me paint a picture for you of your ideal new state void of all the undesirables that you speak of, and of course with that goes all that they contribute to society.
You would not want to import anything from this so called undesirable part of the country, or from anyone like them on this planet……….

On the TV you have the Fox news, the Christian channel, Rush Limbaugh, and in prime time spot you have a talk show with Ann Coulter.

In theaters you have, um, nothing, there are no theatres as Hollywood is banned.

On the radio you have K Love christian radio network, and K LDS for the Mormon sect, if you let them in.

Fashion and clothing………… I guess the women will make all your clothing, because you wouldn’t buy designer clothing from all those homosexuals in the fashion business, and I am talking not of just Armani, Versace, Banana Republic, Gap, Old Navy, A&F, but also of good old Walmart.

Art, someone I’m sure will paint landscapes of your Eutopia.

Financially, you are kidding yourself if you think Wall Street is coming over to your side………. Noone loves Fashion, Art and Theatre more than those guys.

This, of course is just a glimpse into your new world, and it’s a good thing you don’t have all those things to buy, because as Sebbe (see previous posts) so beautifully outlined above, you wouldn’t have the financial means to afford many of them.

Take a look at your everyday life, the movies you see, the restaurants you patronize, the clothing you wear, the design of the car you drive, the architecture of the places you live and work, the music you listen to, the tv shows you watch. Every one of them have so called “undesirables” associated with them.

And, BTW, if you put this new model of Utopia up for people to join, even Ann Coulter would probably stay on our side…………. just because of the fact that we are the reason she has a job.

Tony

Very Nice !

I’m curious where r u going to set up shop? In the Dakotas perhaps?

So lets tally we have: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, The District, Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, and I guess we have to take Florida.

You have: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska (we’ll give you the second district two even though it wasn’t yours), North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming.

It looks like our states equal about 74 percent of the output of the American economy. So good luck to you.

Would you like the red blue map from 2004 or 2008? 2008 seems fair, since most of these issues were at heart. Its also rather funny how you say you don’t want to pay for these things. You see, look at the state by state list of who pays taxes and what they get back in return. It is the red states whom are the benefits of this socialism, not the rich blue states. (Hawaii is blue and does get a lot more back they are an exception), but besides them almost every blue state is a loser in federal dollars while almost every red state is a winner. Weird how that works isn’t it? [img]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege2008.svg[/img]

Dear liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950′s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let’s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.

Here is a model separation agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

We don’t like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).

We’ll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s and rednecks. We’ll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood .

You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we’ll help provide them security.

We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values.. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N.. but we will no longer be paying the bill.

We’ll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.

You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We’ll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute Imagine, I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.

We’ll practice trickle down economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot. Since it often so offends you, we’ll keep our history, our name and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I’ll bet you ANWAR which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,

John J. Wall
Law Student and an American

P.S. Also, please take Barbara Streisand & Jane Fonda with you.

First of all, congrats on the good news !

Now on to the previous comment………
Oh yes, let’s go back to the 50′s……………. Wasn’t it Grand !
Give me a break !

You mean back when homosexuals weren’t able to be seen or heard ?
Can I say two words………. Larry Craig

Back when women knew their place in the world ?
Keeping their mouths shut

Back when you knew everyone looked and acted the same as you, everywhere you went thanks to segregation ?

Back when White people had the right to spit on, beat, degrade, discriminate and in some cases kill Black people because they were considered “Not Equal”

Back when the “Church” was a symbol of the ideal society ? ……….. Even though all those parents had no idea the priests were molesting their children ?
And of course getting away with it because in the 50′s, you didn’t speak of such things.

Face it, the 50′s were great for one sect and only one sect in this country…………. Heterosexual White Men. They had all the rights, dinner at 5, a wife that did as they said, and good little children that looked and behaved so well out of fear of their father and the church.

And as far as GOD is concerned………. Help was sent in the form of jesus Christ, a man that walked the Earth just as we do, and preached that we all have the ability to be “GOD” like……….. By being giving, loving, kind human beings. And what did the righteous society do about that ? Crucify him.

THINK !!!

TOTO… We SURE AS HELL aren’t in KANSAS ANYMORE….

GOD …HELP US!!!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.co.....ok-fo.html

Is it right? Hell no. But as a teacher you decide if you are willing to compromise your principles in order to keep your job. The is the sad reality of it. A story I have heard time and time again. And why you are always seeing the same old plays done year after year.

Sorry for the pessimistic view, but that is from my experience.

For interested people in submitting their story for the case study. wendoll74@gmail.com

This had nothing to do with the principal being a bigot, it had to do with the politics between the drama teacher and the principal.

A little background. I am a former drama teacher who was also an “out lesbian” in a small district in central MO. I directed a production of “Grease” (that had been approved). And due to 4 complaints by members of a local church my production of “The Crucible” was canceled (had also been approved by admin beforehand). After a media frenzy (Google Fulton Grease) I ended up resigning.

I am now working on my master’s degree in arts administration and my thesis is on this very topic and the creation of an organization that trains teachers and small arts organization on how NOT to have this happen to you.

As much as I would like to stand up and say bigot, down with the principal, I can’t. I followed up this story by going to the Orange County Register to read the article. There I found several disturbing points that did not fair well for the teacher.

1. You do not declare or advertise that you are directing a play until you have secured the rights to that play. You cannot secure the rights (especially through MTI, the company that holds the performance rights to RENT) without ordering the scripts at the same time. The teacher should have had a script to provide to the principal.

2. According to the student the school version was “less-risqué”. According to the MTI site, RENT/school ed. is listed as follows

“School Edition-RENT Two Acts, Book Musical, Pop / Rock, Rated R
This adaptation has been carefully done, working with the Larson estate to retain the dramatic intent of the groundbreaking rock musical, and consists of minimal changes to language and the removal of one song (CONTACT) to make it possible for many schools to perform this piece”.

Yes, it may be a school version, but still listed as rated R. For this, it would have been VERY advisable for the teacher to run it by admin. In many schools, students can not even view a rated R’ film unless they have a permission slip. Would be interested to know the district policy on this.

3. It is standard policy for school districts to request to review any script before a production is approved. Not sure what the policy is, BUT any drama teacher who wants to protect themselves should insist the administration reads the script and get the approval in writing. That way if there is any problems later on the administration is kind of “forced” to stand up for the teacher…(in theory at least).

Again, I am not here to condemn anyone, but to point out that in this case, it may not be so cut and dry “bad school district bigots”.

Good luck with future productions. If anyone has a similar story and would like to be interviewed as a case-study for my thesis drop me a line.

Thanks,
Wendy

This is about kids, and somewhere this evening, a teenager in Orange county is HATING themselves because they are once again being told by the “Powers that be” that they are not good enough, that they are worthless, that they are immoral……….. and we’re discussing presidential ranking.

This is not a partisan issue, the Republican party is supposed to be a conservative party on issues regarding taxes, spending and government regulation………… but they have allowed themselves to be overtaken by the religious right, which by the way has no place in government.

The principal of this school and the religious right has my blessing in believing what ever they want to believe regarding homosexuals, but they have no right in forcing those beliefs on anyone not seeking them, nor should they have a say in our government regarding the rights granted to, or in recent cases taken from homosexuals.

BTW, I do use the words, we and our in my comments above, because I have been guilty of the same behavior many times. Over the past couple days I have checked back on this comment board and it just became very clear to me how I felt 30 years ago as a 14 year old boy in a Catholic high school in upstate NY, that spent so much time wishing I could be the same as everyone else, and many nights wishing I would just die.
I have spent much of my life having to learn for myself that everything I that was told to me as a young person was not true, I’m not immoral, a sinner, some freak of nature. I wish I had known one person in my life back then that could have shown me that I was okay, even though I was different. I’ve decided that I want to become the “Adult” figure that I never saw as that teenage boy.

Let’s get beyond our ego’s and differences for a moment and think about the kids !

Tony

I was too young to really be aware during his presidency, but this is my feeling. I think the portrayals of him trying to please 50 percent + 1 of the public are fairly accurate.

You called him a failed President. I felt I had to respond. It’s not like I posted a survey of conservative republicans and their views on past presidents, LOL.

It’s an overall ranking which takes into account the categories of economic management, international relations, public persuasion, crisis leadership, administrative skills, relations with congress, vision, pursuit of equal justice for all, and performance within context of times.

Oh, and I have found that the first Bush is actually pretty highly regarded by a lot of people. I don’t get it either, but it’s something I’ve noticed when talking to people, especially other academics. Beats the fuck out of me why they like him so much.

Yes, Reagan was such a failed President that he ranks number 10 overall (above Bill Clinton at #15) in a ranking of the Presidents by HISTORIANS. http://www.c-span.org/Presiden.....nking.aspx

What scares them is that more and more of the country respects and agrees with the ways and views of Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank especially those of us that are young.

They are also obsessed with trying to alter history’s view of their savior (and failed president) Ronald Reagan. As far as Bush the first, well, I think everyone would just assume forget about him.

I personally believe what is really the nail in the coffin for them, is that, now their own children, my generation, for the most part have turned against their failed ideologies.

@Vernon – thank you for Franklin’s quote it is one of my favorites.

As for someone sputtering that at least Bush “kept us safe”, well I can’t even begin to address that here and now, except for to say we are now paying the price for W’s actions and will I fear be paying them for a long, long time and this is a common reaction from the know-nothing crowd.

To blame the problems of not only the economy, but our image abroad on F.N.M.A. (Fannie Mae) and F.H.L.M.C. (Freddie Mac) is well, to reactionary for words. Our problems stem back decades and the “foreclosure crisis” was just the tip of the iceberg that finally brought the “house of cards” down.

– Just one young man’s opinion.

Hell no. Keep the 1950s far, far away, please. One can argue about the appropriateness of drug use in a high school production, but would you oppose some other play that contained sexual content and profanity that’s both legal and common for teens in our country today? Who cares if high schoolers say ‘fuck’?

As it happens, I am against extreme gun control myself, and as for abortion, I’m inclined to take the “safe, legal, and rare” line on that issue. My only problem, really, with the G.O.P. is how they’ve been hijacked by social conservatives (especially the religious right) who have subsequently perverted what the Republican party was originally all about. I think the Libertarians are closer to true Republicanism than the modern Republican party is, and a lot of my views correlate with theirs.

I agree that we’re all in this together. I just don’t believe that there’s going to ever be any significant progress as far as making the Republican platform less reprehensible until the religious nuts get the boot. Being a gay Republican in this day and age is all but an utter waste of time, in my opinion. And yeah, I know it’s wrong to generalize, but every LCR I’ve ever met has basically been a greedy douchebag. Not saying they’re all like that, but I haven’t seen much else coming from them. All I can think of is the Jews who spied for the Nazis to save their own asses.

That being said, I don’t hate gay Republicans. I am simply less inclined to react favourably toward them. They have negative cool points from the start, so they have to work harder to gain anything resembling favour from me.