Robert, I’m curious. I don’t mind if you think I’m a weirdo — you’re welcome to think so. I know that people with non-mainstream opinions & values often seem like weirdos.

But again, I’m curious. What is it that makes my opinions & values weird? Are they just too unusual/extreme to be worthwhile?

Maybe it’s just me being dense, but I honestly don’t understand how eliminating people before they’re born can be a good thing. Unless you believe in some magic transformation that happens which cause a person to come alive **zap** as soon as they’re birthed. Maybe one of you can help me understand this magic. Or can you help me understand why it’s ok to cheat the helpless out of a fulfilled life?

Eugenics, anyone?

You may not want to sound like it, but you would seem to be one.

I’ve been following your blog for a while, because of your interest in Open Source, and specifically Inkscape. But your title caught my eye enough to comment.

Without wanting to sound like some sort of extreme weirdo (which I like to believe I’m not…), I think it’s significant that while you jokingly warn “or die”, Obama consciously supports death. He has a policy to get rid of living, but helpless humans, for no reason but that they’re unwanted.

I won’t say the “A” word, since it creates knee-jerk reactions, but here in New Zealand (where I live), we have about 18,000 helpless human beings killed every year because doctors pressure their mothers to have them “eliminated” before they’re born.

I know as soon as you make the connection, you’ll class me as extremist or fundamentalist (I’m neither), but ask yourself: would you let Obama slit your grandmother’s throat because she was unwanted? Would you let Obama cut your helpess baby into pieces, because it was unseen? He would do both of those things, in cold blood.

Some references, in case they help:
Press coverage of Obama’s position on human life: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13103.html
Number of cold-blooded murders of unwanted babies last year here in New Zealand: http://www.stats.govt.nz/products-and-services/hot-off-the-press/abortion-statistics/abortions-year-ended-dec07-hotp.htm?page=para002Master

Tract pour peser sur le sommet international G20 du 15 novembre 08 à Washington

« Pourvu que nous nous ressaisissions, la grande crise mondiale peut être l’occasion de construire un monde meilleur. Elle peut aussi être ce qui va nous entraîner vers l’abîme.
Nous sommes face à une échéance décisive : la grande réunion monétaire et financière des vingt principaux pays du monde, le 15 novembre. Le défi est ainsi lancé aux responsables politiques, mais nous savons tous qu’ils ne sont pas à la hauteur.
Nous devons donc, nous autres citoyens, monter sur la scène de l’histoire. »

Les vérités qu’il faut dire
Un Nouveau Bretton Woods

« L’avantage des crises est qu’elles changent les règles du jeu. Il dépend de nous que ce ne soit pas pour le pire, mais pour le meilleur. »

Lire l’intégralité du tract : http://solidariteetprogres.org/IMG/pdf/TRACT_2008_11_03_NBW_1_.pdf

David C.
david.cabas.over-blog.fr

The Republicans like to call repealing tax cuts for the wealthy and giving tax cuts to the poor and middle class “socialism” because Obama foolishly described it as “spreading the wealth.” But it’s really more “shifting the burden.” We have stuff we have to pay for and someone has to pay for it. We can’t just keep maxing out the national credit card.

But more importantly, we’ve seen two things… Tax cuts do not provide long-term, lasting stimulus of the economy. The prime driver of the economy is consumer spending. Tax cuts for the rich will create investment in the way that they’ll need to pur their surplus income somewhere, such as the stock market or financing corporate bonds. But tax cuts for the middle class results in new refrigerators, new cars, more spending at restaurants, etc. And the wealthier people who sell the cars, own the restaurants, etc., are the ones who benefit. And if they pay a slightly larger percent of their increased profits to generate that, they still end up with more after-tax dollars in their pockets at the end of the year… and everyone benefits.

If you reap the most benefit from the infrastructure and services that our taxes pay for, then it’s only fair you pay for more of it than the people who reap less. That’s what a graduated tax (which we’ve had for decades) is.

It’s not socialism and it’s not going to hurt the economy. After 8 years of getting robbed, the fact that you’re still willing to buy the Republican “trickle down” theory is astounding.

Poor grasp of economics warning!

Not that I liked McCain any better. I voted third-party. They won’t win, but voting for them will at least help them continue to get enough money to keep the “two” parties on their toes.