My hypothesis: "green" "consensus" shortens life, and political correctness kills.

Neither make quality of life any better, except for the elites that sell the modern day 'indulgences' (and even then, they are so hooked on control, power and money, they still sell out, like Al Gore to Oil-Jazeera.)

'Air quality' 'regulations' make everything you need to live cost more, too. Even cell phone coverage in Southern California, is worse and more expensive because of all the red tape and pointless rules.  And with all the fines and fees, the bureaucracy still runs in the red, or worse.

This is a parable, and my favorite analogy of, liberal rage... http://youtu.be/TCDbY_lXS5A

If I were Chik-fil-A I would offer this guy a job; contingent only upon him stopping making these reckless videos of himself. (That's what would show that he has learned anything from the mess he's made.)

That's what I've wondered since this first came up. If you're Chief (insert blank) of anything, why would you allow yourself to get wrangled into a public debate that has nothing to do with the company, that by your mere job title alone, you represent. I don't know why society allows 'journalists' to spin up, into a storm, the passive, interview responses of Chik-fil-A's president.

HOWEVER, once you've seen that storm, and its effect on that business, WHY would you ever actively insert yourself (and inevitably your company name,) into that mess?

I have to say I don't feel sorry that this guy lost his position, and I don't believe, after seeing these videos, that his company wasn't already considering it, before hand.

I am a collectivist. I believe in what is the most humanly best possible, for the most possible humans. I am a collectivist that came to realize that the best thing for the collective is having the most liberty for the individual, coupled with individual responsibility, with government limited to precious few responsibilities and regulation. My favorite brushes have been with my own rage with my own ignorance, as I realize that the most effective way to make someone feel responsibility (for anything) and to seek the best outcome, is for them to own it, and themselves.

Collectivism is always the best possible solution for all of humanity's problems... next time. (Not now, we never get it right, now)

I believe that with freedom from State-sponsored religion should come freedom from State-sponsored atheism.

Maybe it's just me?

I had no idea. Kudos Jef. (Except, couldn't you find a nice Mormon girl? you just HAD to go on TV, and date a gentile.) ((LOL))

On a serious note, (and to add more merely anecdotal conversation,) I only personally know a few individuals who were excommunicated from the LDS Church. One wanted to be bi-sexual at the time, but has had enough, and has rejoined, the other sadly committed suicide.

There are all sorts, and as far as American Pop Culture goes, Mormons are just another part of it, at the coincidental nexus - that just as they "get noticed" on a national scale, it seems they have been left behind with the part of the culture that doesn't like the way the culture is headed. So we are faced with being accepted as fellow crusaders in a quest to preserve what's good about it, by the same type of people, who back when America seemed so much better, would reject us as an aberration. (Which may explain some of the Mormons on the left, like Harry Reid) 

I wonder if Jews felt this at the time they were finally being viewed as mainstream America, too?

Is it just me, or does referring to it as the "Batman Shooting" or the "Dark Knight Shooting" just add to the perversion?

They've managed to come up with something that sounds even LESS like something the government should be involved in, and more like something that needs to be left to families, loved ones.

Line them with Korans? Moat of pigs blood? (sorry I'm not in a serious mood.)

To answer the headline: No, but I have lost a conservative spouse to a brain tumor. Literally, my wife got a lesion near her brain stem, and turned into a raging progressive, and she left me, and later was committed to an asylum for paranoid schizophrenia by her mother.

It is a case for taking literally the "liberalism is a mental disorder."

If anything, it will have a "break-even" effect, because of added energy to limit government. No? Wishful thinking?  Too much choir, not enough preacher?

I wonder if anything politically, smart or otherwise, can be made from ObamaCare, or shall I say the ObamaTax, having originated in the Senate, rather than the House, in conflict with Article 1, Section 7, of the US Constitution, and the fact that it steals billions and billions from medicare.

This is the type of politics that needs to stay local.  In any case, and I don't mean to be mean, but if all the Libertarians I know showed up in bathing suits, the community standards would ban swimsuits, not because of lewdness, but revulsion.

Circuses. People gonna' have 'em one way or another. Sorry to be rude; Spain must be rubbing off on me, and sometimes I get sick of the paradoxical stereotype holding true, that the Spaniards most likely to get along with me as more conservative American, also tend to be more sensitive when it comes to perceived insults towards monarchy.  So, usually I hold my tongue on the matter. I don't sense the same restraint here, so...

Monarchy,

meh.

Because, back during the World Youth Day here in Madrid, Catholic acquaintances accepted my Mormonism, as co-defenders of traditional family life, and they said it was going to be a great movie.  Since then, I've been interested in seeing this movie about the people fighting to keep their religious freedom, against Mexican state-sponsored atheism.