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  • Posted by jrbirdman 5 years, 11 months ago
    "29). Stupid Fathers: Fatherhood is constantly looked upon as either a needless cultural habit or an outright joke. A 2008 study by a fatherhood advocacy group noted that fathers are all too often portrayed negatively on TV sitcoms. And Rebecca Hagelin noted in 2009 that commercials, TV shows, and the media often portray fathers as hateful, uninterested in their families, or not nearly as smart as the kids in the family."

    Thank you! I've noticed this trend for the past 10+ years and I'm tired of it. Glad to see someone else is noticing.
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    • Posted by LibertyBelle 5 years, 11 months ago
      What do you mean, 10+ years?! On TV sitcoms, fathers have been portrayed (with few exceptions) as stupid non-entities for more than 50 years! One exception that comes to mind is James Evans, Sr. on "Good Times". But I believe they killed him off. Or maybe John Amos quit because they were giving J.J. too much attention.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 5 years, 11 months ago
    I have just one thing to say about one item on the list: "birtherism." I am a "birther." I believe that, to be a natural born citizen of any country, you have to be born in-country to two citizen parents. I consider it a proud and select thing to be a natural born citizen. I am one. I recognize that this means many cannot be natural born citizens of any country, if they were born in one country to citizens or subjects of another. So be it. Emmerich de Vattel defined those who are naturally citizens because they were born that way. John Jay wanted to preclude any foreign influence controlling the government, so he said no one should be President who has any alienage in his background.

    Thomas Jefferson got in on the "citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution" clause. They wrote that in so as not to shut him out.

    Chester A. Arthur "skated" on the natural born citizen requirement by hiding his Irish parentage.

    Obama similarly "skated" by denying that "natural born citizen" needs to be anything but born in-country. His "born in-country" claim is dubious at best, but even if you grant it, his father was a British colonial subject, and that's enough to disqualify him!
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    • Posted by Andy 5 years, 11 months ago
      Both parents have to be citizens. You can still be a citizen, but not natural born. Non natural born citizens can have a natural born baby.

      I didn't know that about Jefferson. I thought he was as natural born as you could be at the time.
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    • Posted by LibertyBelle 5 years, 11 months ago
      The 14th Amendment says "All citizens born or naturalized within the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." It says nothing about where the parents were from.
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      • Posted by Temlakos 5 years, 11 months ago
        That applies to the right to vote, and to hold any office of honor/trust/profit other than the Presidency.

        But the phrase "citizen of the United States" and "natural born citizen" are not the same, nor do they mean the same.

        The statement you quoted is an example of positive law. Someone posits a proposition that shall be law.

        The Vattel definition (which I quoted) of "natural born citizen" is an example of natural law. It proceeds from the very nature of citizenship and nation-statehood.

        That simply says that all natural law starts with the proposition that a particular class of persons have every right to be considered citizens of a country (a) in which they themselves were born and (b) of which their parents were themselves citizens at the time of the birth of the index person. Notice that I said and, not or. Both must hold.

        John Jay made sure every Framer had a copy of Vattel's Laws of Nations, in which the definition appears. He insisted to the very end of the convention that the only persons who ought to be Presidents of the United States are those having roots in the United States and nowhere else.

        And for this purpose, "born in the country that would become the United States, to two parents who were both loyal subjects of the polity that so transformed" is the functional equivalent of "born in the country to two parents who are both citizens thereof at the time." That is why even George Washington was a natural born citizen. Thomas Jefferson was not; he had French parentage. So the Framers wrote in an exception they knew would apply to him. They made that allowance in the spirit of "no...ex post facto law shall be passed."

        All that Amendment XIV, Section 1 says is that a person born in the United States cannot be deported from the United States. I think it would be very difficult to recognize banishment or ostracism as a valid punishment for a crime under this Constitution. I say this even though ancient Athens invented the banishment concept, and ancient Rome practiced it extensively.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 5 years, 11 months ago
    We had two competing news papers when I was a kid. The Waterbury Republican and the Waterbury American.
    Needless to say, the american...wasn't American.

    By the late 50's everything started to take on a "Communist" bent...it would be easy to see these days but it wasn't so apparent in those days unless one read: The Naked Communist; circa: 1958.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 5 years, 10 months ago
    Are you awake?
    Do you SEE (for yourself) the MSM = propaganda tool of the LEFT?
    Do you SEE FB/Twitter/GOOG censoring non LEFT POVs?
    Do you SEE the corruption?
    Do you SEE the EVIL?
    Are you a SLAVE?
    Are you CONTROLLED?
    Are you a SHEEP?
    ARE YOU AWAKE?
    DO YOU THINK FOR YOURSELF?
    LEARN THE TRUTH.
    FACTS.
    HISTORY.
    THE GREAT AWAKENING.
    THEY ARE LOSING CONTROL.
    RESPECT OPINION OR ATTACK THOSE WHO DARE CHALLENGE THE NARRATIVE?
    IT’S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.
    WHO ARE THE TRUE FASCISTS?
    WHO ARE THE TRUE RACISTS?
    WHY DOES THE ANTIFA FLAG MIMIC THAT OF THE NAZIS?
    COINCIDENCE?
    FOR HUMANITY - WAKE UP - LEARN.
    FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
    WHERE WE GO ONE, WE GO ALL!
    Q
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    • Posted by 5 years, 10 months ago
      Heck, the GOP is a propaganda tool for the left most of the time;^)
      F
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      • Posted by Dobrien 5 years, 10 months ago
        Many are and those corrupt RINO'S are soon to be extinct.
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        • Posted by Dobrien 5 years, 10 months ago
          Who enforces federal law?
          Justice_1.jpg
          [Updated]
          James Baker - FIRED [reported today - resigned [false]] / removed Jan/FIRED 4.21
          Lisa Page - FIRED [reported today - resigned [false]]
          Testimony received.
          Tracking_y.
          [Added]
          Mike Kortan, FBI Assistant Director for Public Affairs - FIRED [cooperating under 'resigned' title]
          Josh Campbell, Special Assistant to James Comey - FIRED
          [DOJ]
          David Laufman, Chief of the Justice Department’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section [NAT SEC - HRC email invest] - FIRED/FORCE
          John Carlin, Assistant Attorney General – Head of DOJ’s National Security Division - FIRED/FORCE
          Sally Yates, Deputy Attorney General & Acting Attorney General - FIRED
          Mary McCord, Acting Assistant Attorney General – Acting Head of DOJ’s National Security Division - FIRED/FORCE
          Bruce Ohr, Associate Deputy Attorney General – Demoted 2x - cooperating witness [power removed]
          Rachel Brand, Associate Attorney General – No. 3 official behind Deputy AG Rosenstein - FIRED/FORCE
          Cross against House/Senate resignations/final term announcements + CEO departures.
          CONSPIRACY?
          FAKE NEWS?
          THE SWAMP IS BEING DRAINED.
          TRUST THE PLAN.
          JUSTICE.
          Q
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    • Posted by Dobrien 5 years, 10 months ago
      4am the CIA drops the MSM narrative for the day.
      MSM is FAKE NEWS.
      Propaganda.
      Talking points [4am] - private email addresses.
      Paid contractors.
      JUDGEMENT DAY.
      Q
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  • Posted by Solver 5 years, 11 months ago
    Can’t forget this genocidal classic,
    "Republicans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm."
    -- Michael Feingold of the Village Voice in 2004
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 5 years, 11 months ago
    Excellent article and disturbing. I had no idea that the leftist ideology was that pervasive that far back. I'm a comic book collector and I'm finding that both Marvel Comics is leaning left while DC is already there. I have noticed that even television and movie adaptations have gone Left. A number of movies from Hollywood have gone the same route. This is a serious undermining of our Democratic Republic. I don't understand This hatred by a small minority in this country is very disturbing. I beginning to think that our educational system has failed. Leftist ideology has crept into our educational system. Even watching the local news that some of the presenters haven't been educated in Civics that was taught fifty years ago. Even, when I was in High School I had an English teacher that was liberal-oriented and wrote in my high school yearbook "Dear Hawk, What can I say-Make Love not War? It's been a great time. I enjoy and admire your diligence and dedication."
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    • Posted by Solver 5 years, 11 months ago
      The hatred they are planting is growing. Leftist ideology is spreading, progressed by main stream media. The educational system based on reason is failing. In the universities, marxist loving professors are talking about violent revolution as being absolutely necessary.
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  • Posted by editormichael 5 years, 11 months ago
    Not very well written, still the article has some accuracies.
    But I didn't see anything about the vicious smears the "news" media used against Barry Goldwater, and his supporters, in 1964.
    Riding into San Francisco for the convention, I bought a local "news" paper and immediately saw a "news" photo of a man named Don Warden leading, according to the photo caption, "an anti-Goldwater demonstration."
    Looking at the signs being held up, I wondered. And, yes, a few days later when I met Don Warden, speaking to a gathering of us Young Americans for Freedom, I learned he was in fact pro Goldwater!
    One more example for now: A friend who went on to international fame as writer and radio host and who is still, after all those years, a columnist and constant interviewee, told me the he saw a truck from NBC (apparently the "B" stands for "Bolshevik") "news" carry not only its "news" crew but a small bunch of neatly dressed young black people, and the NBC-created signs, to a site outside a gathering of Young Americans for Freedom.
    The NBC "news" crew then arranged them for the best camera angles and directed them so that the "news" story could show further proof that Goldwater and YAF were, yes, even back then, "racist."
    Nasty Bolshevik Company might well be the worst of what was then the three "news" networks, and it continues to this day lying and distorting and falsifying and, yes, lying.
    All in favor, I don't need to add, of the left-collectivist agenda.
    ABC used to carry signs to the protests it covered, and in my circles we referred to CBS as "Communist Broadcasting Company" because of its virulent left-collectivist bias -- yes, including the sainted Walter Cronkhite.
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    • Posted by 5 years, 11 months ago
      Thanks for sharing that history, Michael.
      I was too young to vote in '64 but even to me the LBJ ad falsely tarnishing his reputation was a manipulative fraud indicative more of LBJ's character than Goldwater's.
      Thanks also for putting the link to Lori's article at Liberty Unbound on your FB page. I posted it as a topic here.
      BTW, did you move to SV?
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      • Posted by editormichael 5 years, 11 months ago
        Lori is one of the best, and most disciplined, writers I know. I really envy her professionalism. She sets a time to sit down and write -- and does it!
        Yes, I now live in Cochise County, though quite a way outside the big city.
        Cochise County, Arizona, is a beautiful high desert area just filled with the nicest, most cordial and open people I have met in these United States.
        We have gorgeous scenery and significant history and nice weather.
        We are trying to bring rational and liberty-loving people into this large area with very few people -- our county population is about 127,000 -- to help change the balance of (you should pardon the expression) power.
        Our website is www.freestatewest.com.
        We also have a Facebook page. Come visit -- both our pages and our county.
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        • Posted by 5 years, 11 months ago
          Thanks. Next time I'm driving by (Atlanta to LA), perhaps we can meet for a coffee. I lived in Phoenix area several times ('82,'91,01') and I like the desert when its under 105F.
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          • Posted by editormichael 5 years, 10 months ago
            Remember: This is most definitely NOT Phoenix! We are not trying to be San Francisco. And 105 here is nicer than, say, 85 in Atlanta -- quite pleasant, really.
            Remember also: It's Dry Heat.
            I-10 runs through the north end of Cochise County, so it would be feasible for you -- AND EVERYONE ELSE READING HERE -- to drop in ... and look around for your next, and better, home.
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            • Posted by 5 years, 10 months ago
              I was in Phoenix at 121F- the day they closed the airport because the aircraft had not been tested at that temperature. Dry heat or not, it was too hot. All the concrete and steel made it worse. I would have enjoyed being in Flagstaff that day. I made lots of visits to other areas of AZ when I lived there, too, but not south of Tucson.
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              • Posted by editormichael 5 years, 10 months ago
                Different world, Phoenix. Lots of left-collectivist rich people so, never mind trying to maintain the natural environment, there is a lot of lawn irrigating and there are many swimming pools, so, despite the state motto, in Phoenix it's not Dry Heat.
                In fact, with the relative humidity, often-high temperatures, and rotten government and component politicians, it can be a close approximation to Hell.
                However, here in Cochise County, we're high desert, mostly keeping our natural environment -- and for people in greener places, look up Xeriscaping -- so do not get the temperature extremes of that hellish capital.
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      • Posted by editormichael 5 years, 11 months ago
        Perhaps ironically, I was a journalist, off and on, starting as a teen in 1968, in radio and TV. Then, much later, in "news" papers.
        When I speak of "news" media bias, I know from inside the business.
        And I can relate dozens of examples I know personally, first hand.
        One more example: In Moultrie, Georgia, the "news" paper is the Observer, often called the "Disturber."
        It is such a Democrat paper, or was then, in 1994, when Saxby Chambliss ran in the Republican primary, even though his office was two very short blocks from the "news" paper's office, the Observer never mentioned his name!
        Chambliss went on to be elected anyway, and even became a senator.
        Well, when I decided to leave, I went around to the various people I had reported on to say goodbye.
        One intriguing black lady with whom I did a lot of stories said how sorry she was that I was leaving: "Until you came here, the only time we [meaning black people] were mentioned in the paper was in the police reports'!
        Oh, the so-called city editor also left the paper -- to go to work for the Southern Poverty Law Center!
        And, for everyone's information, the first public act by the sainted Walter Cronkhite after leaving CBS was to join the left-collectivist lobbying group called "Common Cause"!
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