mawilson

As I said, it's terrible but is it important? The news is full of beatings, stabbings, shootings and worse. These are daily occurrences pretty much everywhere.

It's pretty terrible, but I have to ask - so what?

Telling and dangerous.
Cockroaches are worthless so we exterminate them.

It's also meaningless. How does anyone measure that?

This sentence is very telling - it nullifies and trivializes an entire nation and their accomplishments.

That's a bit of stretch isn't it? Suggesting that both sides need to try to put aside the past to move on doesn't imply any 'personal discomfort'.
You do seem to be twisting a neutral argument into something it isn't.

Your approach to this reeks of extremism. Extremists like to portray every possibility other than their own as a binary between bad and worse.
Extremists are the reason this problem continues to persist. Extremists poison the well of discourse.
You should be ashamed of yourself.

No, but they created Comverse and Checkpoint Software and Teva Pharmaceuticals and hundreds of high-tech companies. Or did they steal that from a Palestinian hummus cart?

They only pretend to hate it. GWB grew government more than any Democrat.

That's not going to create jobs. A government bureaucrat to police 5-10 sexually active women - imagine how many government jobs will be created.

You mean illegal pharmaceutical products? Clearly the government will have to ban those.

Just because they bleed, they think they are connected to life more than us.

The biggest liar here is Mr "I will cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term" Obama.
The guy who backloaded his budget numbers to claim $4 trillion in growth reductions over the next 12 years and trumpeted it as a resounding success.

He could have refused to sign an extension into law and let the Bush tax expire - for everyone. Instead, he embarked on his class warfare campaign against the rich, insisting that the tax cuts should expire only for the 1%.

The biggest liar here is Mr "I will cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term" Obama.
The guy who backloaded his budget numbers to claim $4 trillion in growth reductions over the next 12 years and trumpeted it as a resounding success.

Just because they bleed, they think they are connected to life more than us.

See, I have no problem with abortions myself. Actually more women should have them (or just not get pregnant period). I'm pro population control.
My problem comes in though, when it comes to a father of a child. If a father doesn't want a child, he's still responsible for it by law. If he wants the child and the mother doesn't, she can abort the child and there's nothing he can do about it.

They both matter. They are both human. You are arguing a false dichotomy. In this case, the mother's chances of survival even after the abortion and after chemo therapy were slim to none. People die from cancer all the time.

The life of a fetus is just as important.

Free will doesn't give you the right to do anything you want.

The biggest liar here is Mr "I will cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term" Obama.
The guy who backloaded his budget numbers to claim $4 trillion in growth reductions over the next 12 years and trumpeted it as a resounding success.

The life of a fetus is just as important.

And I think you should pay 100%. That's right, all your money should go to the government. Then the government will give you "free" healthcare, housing and food stamps. Maybe even throw in a cellphone.
Don't like it? Too bad, because I'm going to set up a super PAC to lobby for a special provision in the 2013 tax code just for you.
A government of the super PACs, by the super PACs, for the super PACs! Fuсk yeah.

And I think you should pay 100%. That's right, all your money should go to the government. Then the government will give you "free" healthcare, housing and food stamps. Maybe even throw in a cellphone.
Don't like it? Too bad, because I'm going to set up a super PAC to lobby for a special provision in the 2013 tax code just for you.
A government of the super PACs, by the super PACs, for the super PACs! Fuсk yeah.

Why? Obama appointed one as his Treasury Secretary.
If anything, I'd say that was worse, especially since Romney has not been proven to be one.