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Jun 15, 2006 07:47 EST
By Dave Pidgeon, Staff

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QUOTE(tugrad @ Jun 21 2006, 12:40 PM)


Hey, my agenda is also similar. I want to have the same legal protections for my family as striaght people have. I also want to be free to raise my children in a country where I am not subject to institutionalize discrimination. I would like to be able to work without fear of being fired just because I live with another woman.

I guess these things can be pretty threatening.


Cool, you and your partner have children? That's great! I agree, I want to be free of this oppressive institutional discrimination as well. In the mean time me and my long term partner will marry soon. Both families and a preacher will be present to marry us.
Here is some humor
>In case you were wondering about what was going on up north? Linda
>
>Subject: Flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada
>
>
>Winnipeg Herald
>
>Manitoba Canada
>
>May 31, 2006
>
>The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has
>intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop

>the
>illegal immigration. The actions of President Bush are prompting the
>exodus
>among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt,
>pray,
>and agree with Bill O'Reilly.
>
>Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology
>professors, animal-rights activists and Unitarians crossing their fields
>at
>night.
>
>"I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood
>producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose
>acreage
>borders North Dakota. The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry. "He
>asked me
>if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't
>have any, he left. Didn't even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?"
>
>In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences,
>but the liberals scaled them. So he tried installing speakers that blare
>Rush
>Limbaugh across the fields. "Not real effective," he said. "The liberals
>still got through, and Rush annoyed the cows so much they wouldn't give
>milk."
>
>Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals
>near
>the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them
>across
>the border and leave them to fend for themselves.
>
>"A lot of these people are not prepared for rugged conditions," an Ontario
>border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a drop of drinking
>water.
>"They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet, though."
>
>When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often
>wailing
>loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rum ors have been
>circulating about the Bush administration establishing re-education camps
>in which
>liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and watch NASCAR races.
>
>In recent days, liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of
>crossing
>the border. Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to
>buy
>cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans
>disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping

>buses
>and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen passengers on Perry Como and
>Rosemary Clooney hits to prove they were alive in the '50s.
>
>"If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we
>get suspicious about their age," an official said.
>
>Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating
>an
>organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon movies.
>"I
>feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't
>support
>them," an Ottawa resident said. "How many art-history majors does one
>country
>need?"
>
>In an effort to ease tensions between the United States and Canada, Vice
>President Dick Cheney met with the Canadian ambassador and pledged that the
>administration would take steps to reassure liberals, a source close to
>Cheney said.
>We're going to have some Peter, Paul & Mary concerts. And we might put some
>endangered species on postage stamps. The President is determined to reach
>out," he said.
>
>
edgemont1
QUOTE(deepthroat @ Jun 21 2006, 12:51 PM)
You tell me. I've never needed one.


me neither. lol
edgemont1
I have an idea. If the pa legislatures want to pass an amendment saying marriage is between a man and a women then they should pass an amendment defining a man as a manly man and women must be, well, womenly. If not one can not get married.

edgemont1
QUOTE(dodgecrew @ Jun 20 2006, 08:43 PM)


Well billy, I would be shocked if you were to reply to me that you do indeed have children. Only those that have children can fully understand all of the feelings that are involved with them. From that first day that we put our firstborn on the bus for her first bus ride to kindergarten. Or the time that my wife and I were at the pediatrician with our very ill 2 year old and listening to her tell us that they want to test her for cystic fibrosis. Or the time that our firstborn was knocked from our arms as we were bobbing in the ocean and a huge wave knocked all three of us underwater and when my wife surfaced the two of us were no where to be found and when I surfaced I saw my baby floating face down in the water. You have no idea what fear for your child is until you experience a sight similar to that!!!!!!

Am I afraid.....I can tell you this. Not a day goes by that I do not pray for all of my family. I pray for their safety......their health....their choices that they make. I also pray that God will give to me each and every day the much needed wisdom that I need to be the father and husband that I need to be for each of them. Do I fear for them.....especially in this day and age when they could be shot at school or kidnapped by some psycho.......yes. Could I do this without a strong faith in my God to answer my pleas........absolutely not!!!!!


you see the above response to my question about your OPINION that what if your children would turn out to be gay. There is where I pull my perception out of your post but you say I pull this out of thin air. If a = b then your posts = thin air?
BuffaloBill
QUOTE(edgemont1 @ Jun 21 2006, 01:55 PM)

>The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has
>intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop

>the
>illegal immigration. The actions of President Bush are prompting the
>exodus
>among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt,
>pray,
>and agree with Bill O'Reilly.
>
>Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology
>professors, animal-rights activists and Unitarians crossing their fields
>at
>night.
>
>"I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood
>producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose
>acreage
>borders North Dakota. The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry. "He
>asked me
>if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't
>have any, he left. Didn't even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?"


That is hilarious-I found a better-formatted version, and am emailing to all my friends, liberal and conservative. Its always good to have a good-natured laugh at ourselves. I'm just disappointed the author somehow managed to leave out soy milk and Birkenstocks
(I hate the soy, love my Birks!).
Mansfield
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