First of all, let me just say congratulations to the Rockies. They played an unbelievable NLCS. Their team and their fans are totally classy. I hope they can take it all the way. I also promise to take down my Helton voodoo picture before the World Series gets started. It seems to have worked pretty well. He had a terrible series, at least at the plate. I am sure I was responsible.
Secondly, I just wanted to pass this along. My sister sent me this cool quiz. It lets you see which Presidential candidate matches your beliefs. Pretty cool. Try it out. I would like to hear your comments. Is this accurate? I will share my results later.
http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460
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Dane, my condolences to you on the heartbreaking sweep of your Diamondbacks. We, who reside in Minnesota, are well acquainted with the perpetual heartbreak associated with our sports franchises.
Okay, I'll break the ice on this one. I'm a sucker for almost anything political. The candidate that I should vote for is Joe Biden (score: 40), with a 4-way tie between Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards (score: 37).
I disagreed with Joe Biden on Iraq (I favor a scheduled withdrawal of troops), immigration (I'm pretty hard core - no amnesty, children shouldn't be citizens. I'm not into the fence building, but no blanket citizenship.), and health care (I'm against universal health care.)
I don't feel like we can have a dramatic withdrawal of troops from Iraq, but we do need to get out and have a plan in place to get out. Maybe the public doesn't need to know about it, but the plan should be in place. A total unending quagmire, in my opinion.
I believe that a blanket amnesty to all illegals makes a mockery of citizenship in our country and is a slap in the face to all of the people who became citizens the legal way. There is a process in place if a person wants to become a citizen. Is it easy? No, but it shouldn't be easy. If a person wants to partake in the perceived blessings that this country offers, it should be worth the effort. I don't like the current policy that all children born in the U.S. are automatically citizens. Building a fence might take it to a level that I'm not necessarily comfortable with (somewhat Michael Savage'esque), but I'm pretty hard core on this issue.
No matter what Michael Moore may say, universal health care in Canada doesn't work well. This is based upon real life experience. My sister is a RN at the hospital in Roseau, Minnesota. She sees Canadian patients every day that she works.
In Canada, a person can get a clinical appointment, which tells you how ill you are. However, you may have an extremely difficult time receiving follow-up treatment. A certain amount of money is allocated to each province per year for follow-up procedures, and when the money is gone, no more treatment is available.
So, it is September, and your doctor tells you that you need to have your gall bladder out, but you might have to wait over a year to have the procedure done. (A real-life, extremely painful situation my sister witnessed.)
My sister said that they see people who have what would be considered minor medical problems in the U.S. (easily treated), and end up dying (yes, dying) because they cannot get the necessary follow-up testing and treatment in Canada.
Private health insurance may not be perfect (high costs, accessibility to low and middle income people, etc.), and I'm all for trying to improve the system, but I'm against universal health care. Not willing to take the risk.
Top two:
Chris Dodd 70
Barack Obama 67
Bottom two:
Tom Tancredo 1
Fred Thompson 1
...but I will probably vote for Barack. The country is ready for a Brother...
As for Universal Healthcare, I trust the government running it more than the "free market", if that's what you can call the drug companies and insurance industry.
looks like i'm voting for rudy, suprisingly, views seem more in line with hilary and barack than mr thompson who i really like.
sorry bout the dbacks, while not a huge fan of the rox, while living in laramie i did manage to listen to many of their games on the radio the last few summers. they have languished long enough. at least we won't have to watch the train wreck that is the yankees.
following the vikes today, somehow they lead 14-7 despite only 83 total yards and 1/2 the time of posession in the third.
I must like underdogs, because I have never voted for a winning Presidential candidate. I think, having taken this test, helps to explain why. My lowest pick had a score of 8 (Romney) and my highest only had a score of 20 (Paul) and I agree with him on less than half the issues!
I am a registered Libertarian, so I tend to agree with Dems on social issues and Repubs on economic issues. I have equal disdain for liberals who want to create a nanny state and right-wing religious nuts who want the state to push their social beliefs on everyone else.
I do not want someone from Iraq telling me how our nation should be built. It is ludicrous for us to do the same to them. I am ashamed that we as a nation have allowed someone who avoided the responsibilities (and lessons) of Vietnam to take us down this road. Democracy in Iraq would be nice, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. A government that poses it’s will on other nations is also more than capable of doing the same to it’s own citizens. Let us hope that lessons we are learning in Iraq will stay with us longer than those we should have learned in Vietnam.
Health care is a bit more tricky. I don’t like either choice. I am leery of universal health care coverage, but I also agree with Ekwon. Having the insurance industry decide my health care needs is NOT a free market health care system. They make money by DENYING me services. I think my needs would be best served by doctors. They need freedom from fear of litigation and from having the government and the insurance industry making my choices for them. But I know it is too logical to have health experts run health care. So given the poor choices of having lawyers, health insurance employees or government bureaucrats running the system, I lean toward--and I have a tough time stomaching this--government bureaucrats.
I guess not surprising to me I had Giuliani as my number 1, but was surprised to see Romney as #2. I'm not big on politics.
I also think we should close the borders, but should allow the roofers to come in because they are good workers and don't seem as lazy as many workers I see around the country.
I think we should get out IRAQ because a war between religous nuts will never be finished.
Death penalty - fry the rapist, child molesters and be rid of the gangs.
Universal health care run bye the Government sounds like a bad idea. Just think if we had it know, then the Bush haters would have one more thing to blame him for (fire in California, Hurricane in New Orleans, bridge collapse in Minneapolis)
I took this twice -- once right away and once after reading people's comments. I still came up with the best score with Dennis Kucinich. I understand he's pretty much to the left, but otherwise I don't know much about him.
I'm all for pulling people out of Iraq immediately. We have no business there and having one more person die from either country is too many. Iraq is a way for GWB to wield his power, when he just looks like a fool. Well, gee, that's not the only thing he's done to make him look that way, but I'll stop now before I start name calling.
I'm wary of universal health care and I don't understand what the privitization of Social Security really means. I would like to see our health care system revamped and get away from all the pharmaceutical stuff. I believe we are overmedicated with drugs and with the advertising for drugs. I can't wait for the day when one of my kids asks me what ED is? I'm sick of the commercials and I don't believe most drugs really help us. Instead they cause more side effects that need more drugs and then they all make more money (FDA, drug companies, etc.) and we get sicker and need more health care.
My major hot button right now is education and there were no questions about that on the survey, so I'm assuming it's not on the list of hot issues at the federal level. If the federal government would stop mandating and start supporting then our school districts would be able to stop asking for more of the taxpayers money. Did you know that 99 school districts in MN are asking for levies on Tuesday? I understand most of that is a state issue, but I would still like to see equalization. Afterall, education is the core of everything we do. I read a quote from someone who said, "You think education is expensive? Try ignorance." I would rather pay taxes for schools than for prisons or other reform programs.
Well, enough of the soap box. Now I'll go comment on the latest post.....
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