Comments on: Obama On My Mind http://www.atomic-robo.com/2009/09/14/obama-on-my-mind/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: powerstaffing http://www.atomic-robo.com/2009/09/14/obama-on-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-9385 powerstaffing Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:56:08 +0000 http://www.atomic-robo.com/?p=951#comment-9385 I’ve actually sat down and run the numbers and even when my health care cost less because I worked for someone else it still cost more than in these other places. thats it's I’ve actually sat down and run the numbers and even when my health care cost less because I worked for someone else it still cost more than in these other places. thats it's

]]> By: powerstaffing http://www.atomic-robo.com/2009/09/14/obama-on-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-9331 powerstaffing Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:47:01 +0000 http://www.atomic-robo.com/?p=951#comment-9331 I’ve actually sat down and run the numbers and even when my health care cost less because I worked for someone else it still cost more than in these other places. thats it's I’ve actually sat down and run the numbers and even when my health care cost less because I worked for someone else it still cost more than in these other places. thats it's

]]> By: Brian! http://www.atomic-robo.com/2009/09/14/obama-on-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-12316 Brian! Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:37:00 +0000 http://www.atomic-robo.com/?p=951#comment-12316 I will remove all political content for Ryan's benefit. Bob says he has seven apples when he knows he has three. Steve says he has six apples because he counted that he has six apples. Bob and Steve said very similar things, but there's a qualitative difference between what they said. Abortion: the most diplomatic thing I can say is that human beings have a right to autonomy even though human biology means there's gray area that makes everyone feel icky with respect to embryos which do not yet have autonomy. <b>PS: CLOSED THE COMMENTS BEFORE IT GOT TOO SILLY IN HERE. IT WAS JUST GOING TO GO ON FOREVER.</B> I will remove all political content for Ryan’s benefit.

Bob says he has seven apples when he knows he has three.

Steve says he has six apples because he counted that he has six apples.

Bob and Steve said very similar things, but there’s a qualitative difference between what they said.

Abortion: the most diplomatic thing I can say is that human beings have a right to autonomy even though human biology means there’s gray area that makes everyone feel icky with respect to embryos which do not yet have autonomy.

PS: CLOSED THE COMMENTS BEFORE IT GOT TOO SILLY IN HERE. IT WAS JUST GOING TO GO ON FOREVER.

]]> By: Mike http://www.atomic-robo.com/2009/09/14/obama-on-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-12315 Mike Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:16:00 +0000 http://www.atomic-robo.com/?p=951#comment-12315 "Finally, if you can allow for the possibility of "sane Christians" and recognize that some might be frustrated by how others behave, then how can you so easily lump everyone who disagrees with you into the category of children who need to be put in a corner?" Because the "sane Christians" aren't doing anything to STOP the crazy ones? People mostly thought Scientologists were maybe a little weird but harmless, until Tom Cruise went out there and acted like a lunatic. It shone a light on how crazy those guys are (and honestly, rightly so...if you do some digging, you can find things written by other authors that were apparently THERE when Hubbard was bet that he couldn't start a religion and get someone to join it) and HE became the face of it. If you want people to take your group seriously, don't let your resident nutbag (and every group has at least one) be the one in front of the cameras. If you let that happen, and you don't do anything to stop it, then it's awfully hard to argue when people believe the nutbag is representative of you all. "WOW - this is like a microcosm of our country – the comments here are bogging down in "politics" while Scott and the Widget, burdened with REAL problems, kind of get forgotten and left to fend for themselves." Quoted because it bears repeating. (Also, just because I feel like stirring the pot a little, my personal philosophy on abortion is the "one penis no vote" theory. I'm not personally in favor of abortion, but I also don't see where I should get to exert control over and FORCE other people to agree with me. Pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion, it means you have the freedom to do what you think is best for you.) “Finally, if you can allow for the possibility of “sane Christians” and recognize that some might be frustrated by how others behave, then how can you so easily lump everyone who disagrees with you into the category of children who need to be put in a corner?”

Because the “sane Christians” aren’t doing anything to STOP the crazy ones? People mostly thought Scientologists were maybe a little weird but harmless, until Tom Cruise went out there and acted like a lunatic. It shone a light on how crazy those guys are (and honestly, rightly so…if you do some digging, you can find things written by other authors that were apparently THERE when Hubbard was bet that he couldn’t start a religion and get someone to join it) and HE became the face of it. If you want people to take your group seriously, don’t let your resident nutbag (and every group has at least one) be the one in front of the cameras. If you let that happen, and you don’t do anything to stop it, then it’s awfully hard to argue when people believe the nutbag is representative of you all.

“WOW – this is like a microcosm of our country – the comments here are bogging down in “politics” while Scott and the Widget, burdened with REAL problems, kind of get forgotten and left to fend for themselves.”

Quoted because it bears repeating.

(Also, just because I feel like stirring the pot a little, my personal philosophy on abortion is the “one penis no vote” theory. I’m not personally in favor of abortion, but I also don’t see where I should get to exert control over and FORCE other people to agree with me. Pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion, it means you have the freedom to do what you think is best for you.)

]]> By: Ryan http://www.atomic-robo.com/2009/09/14/obama-on-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-12314 Ryan Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:47:00 +0000 http://www.atomic-robo.com/?p=951#comment-12314 "I don't want to read anyone's medieval ideas on the topic :" My point illustrated yet again. “I don’t want to read anyone’s medieval ideas on the topic :”

My point illustrated yet again.

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