A few things. First, Canucks @ Bruins today. The way we're playing I'm thinking the Canucks win 3-1. B's are really hurting for goals.
Agreed, the Beantown Bears production has dropped off a mite as of late but Spud is sure they'll pick it up.
The real season (ie. post season) doesn't start fer a while now.
If the Sedins show up healthy Spud imagines yer score is within the realms of the possible perhaps even the probable but Spud is hate to jinx his team before a game so we'll just leave it at that.
Neither the Rep nor Dem party is monolithic. While the "religious right" is certainly a vocal part of the party... I know a good number of Reps who don't toe that line. In fact, there are plenty of social moderates in the party.
Yup there are moderate pro-choice Republicans and pro life Democrats.
Spud has rarely met an individual with a purely monolithic political philosophy.
Spud's an unabashed lefty in terms of equal rights fer gay folks, reproductive choice fer women, unfettered free speech, privacy rights, anti-authoritarian government, pro-social justice, anti-death penalty, pro-separation of church and state etc.
But even Spud falls down with the left on gun rights which Spud sees as being integral to one's right to self defense, ie. the right to protect the "Life" in "Life, Liberty and Happiness".
Spud is also a fiscal conservative in that Spud sees an endless debt spiral as being essentially bad fer the long term prospects of any society.
Spud doesn't mind informed partisanship in the sense that people who feel strongly on an issue and who are well informed on that issue who choose to debate that position with intellectual honesty and a respect fer differing views.
Wot Spud objects to is blind partisan hackery where everything one side does is good and everything the other side does is bad irrespective of the facts.
All that said, I think it's a misnomer to label Reps as the "values" party just as it's a misnomer for people of my ilk to label the Dem party as the party of "no values."
Agreed.
See Also: Using the tag "Real Americans" or "Real America" to underscore that fact that rural populations tend to vote conservative while urban centers trend progressive.
Fact is, Ooh, its the hardcores libs and hardcore cons who seem to be at the heart of this forever impasse in DC that goes over the dead ground of impassable absolutist polar opposite positions rather than concentrating on the things that can be agreed upon by moderates in both parties.
The bigger picture is that the system itself is broken because of the over-influence corporate money has on the nominating and campaigning of candidates and their eventual governing.
Both sides are owned by people who's long term interests and agenda are not compatible with the long term needs of the American people.
The house is on fire and DC argues endlessly over wot color to paint it.
Slapstick.
Be Well.
