tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194369.post112827109036057622..comments2023-03-26T01:08:27.768-07:00Comments on Last Left Turn Before Hooterville: ConfessionAlicia Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14458700009032102949noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194369.post-1129323545701196192005-10-14T13:59:00.000-07:002005-10-14T13:59:00.000-07:00There just has to be some kind of checks-and-balan...There just has to be some kind of checks-and-balances, is all I'm saying. I'm not arrogant enough to think my opinion is the only one that matters, but when only one party controls everything, it's hard to rein in the hubris and excess. Daniel is right in saying that gerrymandering was used by Democrats also, but what's different about now is the lack of any restraint about it because the 'loyal opposition' can't do anything about it. <BR/><BR/>I have always maintained that the way the system is set up excludes the possibility of getting a truly principled person in office, because of the very nature of politics - the wheeling and dealing, the quid pro quo, the trading of money for influence. So how do you keep one side or the other from going hog-wild?<BR/><BR/>Daniel didn't misunderstand me about Tommi - I was the one who mentioned 'forced abortions'. What I mean by that is that women (from China or elsewhere) are told they can get American jobs if they pay 4 or 5000 dollars. When they get to Saipan, they're either working in the sweatshops, or 'dancing' in the bars, which really means prostitution. If they become pregnant, they are given the option of having an abortion or losing their jobs. They have no money to go home, so there really isn't an option.<BR/><BR/>Quote from an ABC report:<BR/><BR/> ABCNEWS Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross has found that legal loopholes allow foreign workers to be shipped in to face conditions that few Americans would tolerate.<BR/><BR/>Most of the workers are "young women from China who have been promised by recruiters that they are going to good jobs in America," Ross reported.<BR/><BR/>"Instead many find themselves kept behind barbed wire, in rat-infested labor camps, and put to work in huge Chinese- and Korean-owned garment factories--often under sweatshop conditions--making clothes for the American market," he said.<BR/><BR/>The clothes can legally be labeled "Made in the USA." <BR/><BR/><BR/>Here's the <A HREF="http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/sweatshops/saipan/abc040100.html" REL="nofollow">link,</A> to the article if anyone is interested.Alicia Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14458700009032102949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194369.post-1129305651759955932005-10-14T09:00:00.000-07:002005-10-14T09:00:00.000-07:00Thankfully, the Repubs are starting to lose their ...Thankfully, the Repubs are starting to lose their grip on the media and the minds of the public. This always happens to any party that stays in power for too long. They get greedy and arrogant and this leads to their downfall. This time is no different.<BR/><BR/>Daniel must have misread your comments about Delay and thought you meant someone supported forced abortions when you were saying that Delay is the one who makes this claim. Daniel chastises you for not providing supporting evidence and then in the next paragraph makes many claims about religion being censored without providing any supporting evidence. I find it very strange that the religious right thinks that relaxing the protections of the first amendment will somehow protect religion more than it does now. This is a position that I have never understood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194369.post-1129060511403689842005-10-11T12:55:00.000-07:002005-10-11T12:55:00.000-07:00While your outrage at gerrymandering is generally ...While your outrage at gerrymandering is generally shared by everyone who gets affected every time it happens somewhere in the country it is important to note that this practice has been in place for something like a humdred years and the Democrats were the most active redistricters ever while they were in power.<BR/>Also, it would be a good idea to cite examples and/or links when you make accustaions like people supporting something as evil as forced abortions. Abortions of any kind bother me, but forcing one on an unwilling woman is worth a good butt-kicking followed by another butt-kicking, followed by another butt-kicking, followed by something at least as atrocious as forcing a woman to have an abortion. This is one reason I am usually outraged at the Chinese government and I will not tolerate in the US. So, please cite an example of actual support for this evil if one exists so I may know if I should be outraged.<BR/>Also, you speak of the shut-outs Tom Delay has done . . . he must have learning from the Democrats in the 50s-92. It is turnabout, and while it is not good it also has a long history in Washington.<BR/>As for the first amendment, why aren't you outraged at the way liberals have abridged free speech where religion is concerned? Teachers get fired for mentioning the word "God" without prosteletizing. Children get suspended from school for praying on school grounds or ministering to a freind. Religious displays on public property and ones on private property that are seen by a large segment of the public get banned or sued. Since when did free speech mean free to speak about anything but religion?<BR/>This is not to say that you don't have some valid complaints here. I just thought you might enjoy some perspective from someone who is a student of history/law/politics and so forth. It's how I became a conservative in the first place.Daniel Levesquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03888561243311690245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194369.post-1128519957311990172005-10-05T06:45:00.000-07:002005-10-05T06:45:00.000-07:00You are so correct, J_G! Welcome!You are so correct, J_G! Welcome!Alicia Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14458700009032102949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194369.post-1128514613904423852005-10-05T05:16:00.000-07:002005-10-05T05:16:00.000-07:00I'll have switch parties now because the dems neve...I'll have switch parties now because the dems never would do such a thing. waa!!!;-(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com