On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:21:03 -0400, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:00:12 -0400, HK wrote:

Representative Frank has been out of the closet for a long, long time.
It is the conservatives who keep getting outed.

It's not the point. One does not need to be Republican or Democrat to
be gay, bi, straight and/or any other thing.

Plus, that Republican will lose his seat over this.

Can you say the same for Studds and Frank?

No...

Public immorality is different for you folks on the left - Republicans
pay the price, Democrats don't.

Unfortunate, but true.

Why should Barney Frank lose his seat for being gay?

He should have lost his seat for allowing a gay prostitution ring to
operate out of his apartment. He says he didn't "know"? Ok.

Would it have been any different if he was straight and ran a
prostitution ring out of his apartment?

Has nothing to do with being gay.

It's interesting when a Republican is outed because Republicans make
such an issue of what they believe to be "morality."

True - and they are held accountable for their lapses.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:21:03 -0400, HK wrote:


It's interesting when a Republican is outed because Republicans make
such an issue of what they believe to be "morality."

True - and they are held accountable for their lapses.


Nothing to do with gays or "morality", but my daughter-in-law emailed this
to me this morning. Makes you realize where we are headed as a society as
we allow more and more government regulation of our lives:

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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they
were pregnant.



They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get
tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs
covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we
rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took
hitchhiking .

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster
seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with
sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back
when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the
bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no
150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's,
no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us
forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and
tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out
very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
the bell, or just walked in and talked to the m!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't
had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem
solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We
had freedom, failure, success and responsibility , and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them...CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as
kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives
for our own good.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave
(and lucky) their parents were.



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