Who would you like to be stranded on a deserted island with? A conservative or a liberal?

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Saturday February 11, 2012 · 6:47 PM PST

2012/02/11 · 18:47

Here’s the scenario. A group of seven people set off to sail the South Pacific in a 40-foot sailboat (Sloop Rigged for what it’s worth). A bad storm hits, damaging the boat and forcing the captain to seek an island to beach it on to keep from sinking. He finds one; and they manage to land safely; but it’s totally deserted; communication is gone and it appears that they’re going to be on this island for some time.

Politically speaking, who would you want to share this island with and why?

Is it possible to be a Christian fundamentalist and a liberal at the same time?

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Sunday September 18, 2011 · 4:24 PM PDT

2011/09/18 · 16:24

I’m about to interview a fundamentalist preacher who claims to be a liberal and ask him that very question.

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Friday September 16, 2011 · 3:43 PM PDT

2011/09/16 · 15:43

The pundits on TV are concluding that the president is a one termer; the Republicans are strutting and bragging; James Carville is advising the president to panic, fire and indict; what’s going on? To answer this question, I knew it was time to seek the advice of the smartest guy in my neighborhood. He wasn’t hard to find. I knew I could always find him in my local 24-hour Fitness club.

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Monday August 22, 2011 · 6:19 PM PDT

2011/08/22 · 18:19

Obama and the Democrats, with their strange style of negotiating, offered to give the Republicans nearly everything they asked for in the recent debt ceiling negotiation, but the Tea Party wing pressured the Republican leadership to turn the offers down. What do the Tea Party members—aka, the radical wing of the Republican Party—hope to accomplish by their willingness to plunge the country deeper into a recession?

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Tuesday July 12, 2011 · 10:12 AM PDT

2011/07/12 · 10:12

During the recent tragedy in Japan, a very old man described his experience in escaping the tsunami that dealt such a terrible blow to his country.

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Tuesday July 12, 2011 · 8:13 AM PDT

2011/07/12 · 08:13

When it comes to negotiating with the Republicans over reducing the deficit, the Democrats are in a no-win position.

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Friday October 29, 2010 · 9:38 PM PDT

2010/10/29 · 21:38

We all see the world differently.

I use photography to define my very personal world. I like to think that my pictures define who and what I am.

I see the world from one particular angle, that is true. But I like to believe that I am open minded and am willing to see the world from the angle that you use to define yours.

This is not easy today when the world is being defined with distortions and half truths, and sometimes, out and out lies.

mvetrie

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 6:05 PM PDT

2009/08/12 · 18:05

I've been puzzling over what could possibly be the motivation of the Right in attempting to confuse the issues related to the health care debate. It's obvious that they don't want a real debate; they offer no plans for change; they make it clear they are quite happy with the status quo.

Republicans are the party of status quo. They have had it their way for many, many years and have nothing more to offer except, the more things change, the more they should stay the same.

They have gouged, gorged, ripped, raped, wrung, stiffed, pigged out, and stolen about every asset this country has at the present time, forcing us into many generations of debt to recover. Why wouldn't they want more of the same?

But what could they possibly hope to gain by offering total lies and fabrications about the health care issue that can be so easily proved or disproved? How about the one that claims there are provisions for death squads to come to my home and snuff out old guys like me? I mean, Americans are really stupid people, I admit, but this claim is so outrageous that it is too easily proved or disproved. It is way too exorbitant to be believed. Isn't it?

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 11:55 AM PDT

2008/09/10 · 11:55

Why do the Republicans have a great advantage in November? Why might they win the election even though, by every reasonable measure, they should be soundly trounced because of the last eight years?

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Monday April 28, 2008 · 12:54 PM PDT

2008/04/28 · 12:54

I should explain why I have titled this posting "Uncommon sense," and not "common sense" the title of one of Tom Paine's pamphlets giving the reasons for American independence.

I have recently decided that "common" sense is just that--common. And there is nothing about it that is very wise or intelligent. A synonym might be "stupid sense," a conclusion that I have come to after observing the race for president, a rare opportunity to study just how stupid is a large segment of the American people.

After nearly eight years of suffering from the effects of the thrashing of nearly every value and ideal in our society by the present Republican administration, the race is basically tied between the Democratic candidates and the Republican, John McCain.

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Sunday April 27, 2008 · 5:33 PM PDT

2008/04/27 · 17:33

I was working out at my local gym when I bumped into a friend I hadn't seen in a while. I believed he was a good solid democrat, and knew that he even liked to think of himself as a liberal. Some months before we attended a Bill Maher show together at HBO (and of course, only liberals appreciate Bill Maher.)

In the past, we had spent some time railing about George Bush and what he had done to this country. I assumed we were on the same page about the presidential candidates because of our mutual dislike of Bush.

While discussing the candidates, out of the blue, he expressed some discontent with Obama. This was a surprise to me because in the past I had assumed that we basically held the same attitude about who we were going to support in the election.

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