Bible rules
In the letter Bible Rules ( BDN, July 30), the writer cites Paul (Romans, 1:26-27) to establish the sinfulness of homosexuality.
Citing the Bible, one can also establish the virtue in rape, if the rape is of women, even if the women are one’s daughters, young and virgin. See Genesis, 19:8. Incest, too, is acceptable: Genesis. 19:36.
Is it possible that the Bible is not an indisputable authority on matters of moral conduct?
Karen Saum
Belfast
Saturday night
Thanks to little thinking by LePage and his cronies, a quiet evening at Maine lakes has become something in our memories. The stupidity of legalizing fireworks in Maine is affecting many, and the joys of summer evenings interrupted.
Had hopes of a romantic, candlelit dinner for two under the stars; sorry for the ill-timed 15-minute barrage of fireworks six camps down. Romantic conversation can’t compete, let alone be heard over the din. It’s Tuesday.
Trying to get your baby granddaughter down for her night’s sleep; sorry, but somebody had the urge to shoot off several rounds of loud fireworks. After all, it’s Saturday night.
Settled in for the evening and just getting into “Doc Martin;” sorry you have to put your volume up to 27, but geez, the boys down the way feel like setting off fireworks on a Thursday night.
Sitting with your glass of wine, watching the bats swirl and dip, listening to the loons’ calls across the lake; oh, sorry, but somebody has a need to shoot off 10 or so rounds of firecrackers or some other obnoxiously loud exploding devices. The mood is gone. The loons are silenced. After all, it’s any night on a Maine lake.
Ah, LePage’s Maine, the way life should be. Not.
Tonya L. Troiani
Meddybemps
Doughnut holes
I know firsthand how hard it can be to keep up with expenses every month. The cost of living, the price of just about everything and a shaky economy can be tough to handle. For years, I also had to take a prescription drug for my diabetes. As I had Medicare Part D, the program paid for most of my drug costs for the first six months of the year, but once I fell into the prescription drug coverage gap (the “doughnut hole”) that same drug came with a price tag of over $400 per month.
For anyone who might be doubtful that the Affordable Care Act will make a difference, it is worth noting that over time it closes the doughnut hole completely, which will make a huge difference to millions of Americans across the country and right here in Maine. While I don’t take that drug anymore, I remember when the winter months came and I would start getting my oil bills and wondering if I should heat the house, cut down on food or take the drug that I needed so badly then.
I know many people who have very limited incomes and if you are making decisions like that every month, it is frightening, to say the least. I am glad to see that over time, affording one’s prescriptions will become less of a challenge for our at-risk neighbors and families.
Debbie Mullen
Boothbay Harbor
Car buzz
My car learned not to weave when fueled with 10 percent alcohol. Now the corn lobby wants to serve 15 percent, which is more alcohol than the average wine and three times the buzz of an average beer.
My car can hold its liquor but little kids such as weedwackers, lawn mowers, snowblowers and outboards get sick on 10 percent and will end up in the ER with cirrhosis of the carburetor on 15 percent booze.
I understand chemistry so I sober up my own gas, but it’s a chore and I would buy pure gas if it were for sale. Many others would, too. What happened to capitalism and the free market? Demand is supposed to create a supply. When will people rise up and end this nonsense?
When will we realize that it’s sinful to use food as fuel in a starving world? Shame on us! Enough! Bartender, shut us off!
Gerald Metz
Addison
Economic insurance
In his recent July 23 Op-Ed, Joel Allumbaugh argued that Obamacare will have adverse effects on Maine’s economy, while singling out that seasonal businesses will be among the hardest hit.
What he failed to mention is that insuring our part-time and seasonal workforce is one critically important way we can support their vital contribution to the economy, and because of a new Maine program, it’s affordable for employers to do just that.
Maine received a $40 million grant in 2009 to create and operate the Part-Time Worker Coverage Voucher Program. The voucher program, which is operated by DHA, allows employers to offer their part-time and seasonal employees health insurance at only 5 percent of the cost for the same coverage offered to their full-time employees. The employee also pays a limited portion of the monthly premium based on their income level. The remainder of the premium comes out of the $40 million federal grant.
It’s innovative programs like this, and Obamacare, that will help us sustain a healthy and productive part-time and seasonal workforce in Maine, at a cost that employers can afford.
Greg White
Brunswick
Florida Act
Your lead editorial (BDN, July 31) points to those covered by Medicare and Medicaid as the culprits in instances of improper payments for Medicare and Medicaid services. While that may not be your intent, that is the impression given. Certainly there are cases in which individuals are not eligible, and intentionally provide false information to qualify, but these instances are dwarfed by those of corporate health care providers/hospitals, group and individual practices, phony drop boxes set up by criminals, etc. There are a number of well-known categories employed/billing for services not rendered, upcoding, duplicate claims, excessive services, kickbacks.
The largest such scheme so far is that perpetrated by Columbia Hospital Corporation, whose CEO at the time is now my governor in Florida. HCA paid a $600 million fine for fraudulent billing practices amounting to over a billion dollars. Under oath at deposition, Rick Scott took the Fifth Amendment 75 times. He escaped prosecution and went on to spend $75M of his wealth to win a three-way race for governor of Florida.
Under his direction, Florida is suing the federal government to prevent implementation of the Affordable Care Act in Florida.
Fred Ames
Fort Kent
Good letters all.
Debbie MullenI agree that no one should have to choose between eating, keeping warm or having needed medication available. But folks need to understand that the needed medications are not more affordable but rather paid for by someone else. In other words, because of lack of planning and preparation, someone else has to pay your bills.
If she has Medicare part D she must be retired and living on a fixed income and as far as you know she may have payed in far more taxes towards the Medicare system than you have or ever will. Poor planning may have nothing to do with it so why don’t you stop being such a pompous a**.
Part of what is wrong with this country are people who think like you that because a person falls onto hard times it’s their fault due to lack of planning.
What wrong with this country is that people have grown accustomed to government trying to fix their problems for them. Once that expectation is out there, you have as an example, generation after generation on welfare. People get lazy knowing that someone else pays for their sins or mistakes. People genuinely in need should be provided for but when 49.6% pay no fed income taxes there is a problem of perceived entitlement
So, are you saying that my daughter is in the situation she is in, being diagnosed with an extremely rare cancer, that normally effects young men, at the age of 23, is her own fault for lack of planning and preparation?
That’s, what he thinks, there’s a lot like him out there.
And they all watch Fox News.
Greg White
What you describe is not a program but welfare. Where did the $40 million come from? This is just a redistribution.
You do have a rather one track narrow mind . This is not welfare. It’s designed to help the “real” small businessmen and women succeed which in turn will add income to the state’s revenue stream.
They took my money and gave it to someone else to use. That’s welfare
No, that is not welfare
What’s your definition of welfare, then? Seems to me that ex_ungue_leonem explained exactly how it works.
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It is not my job to give comfort to someone or anyone else. It is my choice but the libs and dems in order to buy votes confiscate my legally earned money and redistribute it to win elections. Of the people who pay no fed income taxes, most vote to continue the “free” money. 62% of those living in poverty have 2 or more flat screens in their homes, that I helped pay for. I have no flat screens nor do I own a cell phone. Why? To save money for my retirement
Similar to you, I have no flat screen TV, I have the cheapest cell phone, and a ten-year-old car, and like you I’m saving for retirement. But, rather than feeling sorry for myself, I’m thankful for the many blessing that I do have.
Do some poor people (and some rich people) abuse the system? Yes. Some, like Romney, hide multi-millions in off-shore tax havens. So let’s do a better job of policing such people.
But you say, “It’s not my job to give comfort to someone or anyone else.” Of course, the Republicans want to comfort the rich as much as possible. It would be unfair if the rich had to contribute their fair share.
“Am I my brother’s keeper?” asked Cain (Genesis 4:9).
By posing the question, the Bible gives the strong implication that the answer is “Yes.” As a Christian, it is my responsibility to live compassionately, to seek justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God — I recommend Micah 6:8, and also the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, and the Sermon on the Plain in Luke.
Many Republicans today prefer the “gospel of greed” preached by atheist Ayn Rand (the namesake of Sen. Rand Paul), but I’ll stick with Jesus. “Be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate” (Luke 6:36).
The bible talks of charity and not the confiscation of my legally earned money to give it to someone else that already has two flat screen tv’s. There are many people like the idolized Soros and Sussman who hide a lot more than Romney has ever earned but those names never come up when a lib is posting. The dems have plenty of slime to go around but you always seem to forget how filthy your own house is. Ayn Rand was brilliant and accurate. Watch the French vote with their feet when taxes are raised to 75% to support a corrupt socialistic system
Nobody is conficating your money or mine — we pay taxes because we are a part of the “We the people” who form the United States of America. You can’t build an Interstate Highway System all out of your own pocket, and I can’t do it out of mine either. But we both want to be able to use the highways. And so we form a government — we the people — and we all agree to be a part of society, so that we can all benefit.
If you don’t like having a government, you are welcome to go to Somolia to see what it is like where there is no functioning government.
As for Jesus, he was dealing with the Roman Empire. The Emperor was a dictator. We, on the other hand, have created our own government, and we get to vote (something the Romans didn’t allow the people to do). In our system, we want our (yes, our) government to reflect our values. Because we have a voice in our government, I want my (and your) government to reflect compassionate values.
You may prefer the atheistic greed of Ayn Rand, but I’ll stick with Jesus — and yes, if he could have gotten the Roman Emperor to hold free and fair elections, I’m sure he would have also asked for compassionate governmental policies.
P.S. Soros and Sussman aren’t running for president. I’m talking about Romney’s unAmerican behavior because he wants to be president.
What ex described is taxes. Whether or not he agrees with what the money is ultimately used for does not mean it is welfare.
Just how much of “your”money do you think you contributed to any of these programs? I find that the people who pay the least sometimes holler the most.
They take my money too, it’s part living in this country. the difference between us is, you think, you should live here for free. I’m willing to give my share to be free.
I’m willing to pay my fair share but when 49.6% pay no Fed income tax, my fair share pays for all others as well. Libs aren’t good with math so wouldn’t expect you to appreciate.
I know a woman – who is 98, she worked from the age of thirteen until she turned sixty-six and then basically retired, except for continuing to work a couple of part time jobs into her early eighties. Her retirement and Social Security is of a level that she pays no income taxes – she is part of that 49.6% you are claiming “pays no Federal income taxes.” She paid her share year after year. Are you really going to use that statistics as a foundation for your argument? Maine, as the oldest State, has a lot of people who paid for years and now are part of that 49.6%. You need a better stat to make your case.
We all want efficiency in government spending – and we want accountability – but misleading statements, grouping all individuals who fall into a category is not the best way to try to win your argument.
The country did pretty good in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s when the top bracket was as high as 70% down to the 40%. A lot of people got rich even when the brackets were higher – And, the good old U.S of A did pretty good too.
49.6% refers to working people not retirees. How much money have you saved for retirement or will that become my problem as well. I have saved close to $1MM so I wouldn’tr have to rely on anyone else. How much have you planned for?
I understand, more then you think, there are more people living below or near poverty now. Many of them had good jobs, but have lost them. Not everybody is a lazy no good,
times are hard, if you don’t want to pay taxes, get a job at wal-mart. You’ll work harder for less money, then get called lazy because, you don’t make enough money to owe taxes.
No everyone on the dole is a victim
Happens all the time, ex. Maybe you should retire to the Caymans.
At least I could do so without playing the victim and asking for a handout. Dems got have poor people to buy votes from
And Republicans have large corporations to buy elections for them. See, I can use large, sweeping statements too.
How does a corporation buy votes? Do they use taxpayer money to do so like the libs and dems? Do corporations buy votes with handouts?
You missed my point. How can you make large sweeping accusations with no support and expect anyone to take you seriously? If you want to criticize Democrats, fine. State what you disagree with, why you disagree with it, what we should do instead, and why that is the best option. If you can’t do that, then your opinion is meaningless to people who don’t already agree with you.
The dems largest voting block is the poor. Without the poor to buy votes from the dems have no purpose or opportunities to win elections. For this reason, the dems will perpetuate poverty. Thats not a large sweeping statement but an accurate assessment of what dems do. Now explain how a corporation buys votes using taxpayer money?
You didn’t even read my post did you?
1. Can you cite the source that states the Democrat’s largest voting block is the poor?
2. Can you show how they are buying votes, once again, citing your sources?
3. Hate to break it to you, but it’s a large sweeping statement to say that all Democrats and liberals want to perpetuate poverty to get votes.
Until you can present a reasoned argument for your point of view, beyond “Democrats are bad hurr hurr”, I have no reason to waste my time attempting to debate you.
So ridiculous and hateful.
Data please.
You could go live in Somalia. There is no government there.
Gerald Metz
Thank the environmentalists for this huge mistake. Its right up there with wind turbines. US gov mandates the production and infusion of ethanol to the point that farmers can no longer afford corn for feed. Since the gov mandates production, everyone else is getting squeezed out and higher food prices will be a result. Thanks libs!
You can thank the senators and the farmers from the corn belt for your ethanol angst. They could care less if it goes for food as long as they line their pockets. Blaming environmentalists and liberals is just more of your BS.
There wasn’t an environut liberal who was against ethanol. The senators hid behind the environuts saving the planet. Another unintended consequence will be higher costs for food agencies and therefore many more around the world starving to death. Thanks Libs!
Even more, blame ADM and Cargill, the agribusiness empires. The farmers are just along for the ride.
Mr. Ames, Florida is experiencing the same buyers’ remorse for having voted in Governor Rick Scott as Maine is experiencing for having voted in Governor Paul LePage. Rest assured that both will be one-termers.
Correction: The only Floridians that are upset with Gov. Scott are the liberals. We Conservative Floridians will be voting for him for another term.
By the way, we’re backing his effort to keep Obamcare out of the state. We don’t need it, don’t want it, and will fight it until we win out.
The July Mason-Dixon poll shows 51% disapproval of Scott and 40% approval (with only 29% of Floridians having positive feelings for him). Given your assertion that only liberals are upset with Scott, this must mean that a majority of Floridians are liberal.
Wake up and smell the coffee. Obamacare is here to stay, President Obama will be re-elected (carrying Florida and earning 332 electoral votes compared to Romney’s 206) and Scott will be booted out of office and likely have to find other ways to scam Medicare and Medicaid as a private hospital executive.
Why you would like someone who has engaged in fraud is a puzzle to me. Is fraud a foundation for the Republican party? We have a Republican Speaker of the House here in Maine who similarly defrauded MaineCare, although not on the grand scale that Scott fleeced Medicare.
Obama will lose in November. Obamacare will be repealed or defunded piece by piece. And Gov. Scott will get another term.
Now, one of us is wrong. And we’ll find out who is wrong in November.
It’s even worse for Scott in the Quinnipiac poll released yesterday: 52% disapproval and 36% approval.
I give you facts and you give me wishful thinking. It is like talking to a child who still believes in unicorns and Santa Claus.
I guess this willful denial of facts is why you disbelieve climate change (and likely disbelieve evolution). It is sad.
On Election Day, the people will speak. Funny how polls don’t seem to matter on Election Day.
And that’s the trouble with you far left libs: you don’t believe in unicorns and Santa Clause. I feel sorry for you.
Who you callin’ far left?
Yes, Virginia, I do believe in Santa Claus — I’ve just never heard of the (apparently) legal term “Santa Clause.”
Wasn’t that a Tim Allen movie?
He’s on record of denialism on evolution.
So? Don’t I have the right to believe in Creationism? Or should I line up behind the lefties that don’t believe in individual thoughts or beliefs?
Don’t forgot to mention that I believe homosexuality is a choice and that global warming is a hoax.
It just proves that facts and reality is irrelevant to you.
Maybe homosexuality is a hoax and global warming is a choice.
Of course you can believe in any falsehood that you fancy, EJ. Freedom of speech (and thought) gives you the freedom to be as wrong as you like. You repeat thoughtless dogmas on this site nearly every day.
Just tryin’ to fit in with the thoughtless dogma the lefties tout daily.
You’re so hateful.
You have that right on Creationism but you and others are forbidden from teaching this non-factual concept in lieu of real science, at least in public scho0ls . We’re also well aware of your other stances.
So you prefer your children to be taught a theory based on fluid baselines that change with each new scientific discovery, proving that it has no more weight than Creationism or Intelligent Design. Evolution has valid points. However, the main point in the Evolutionary Theory is to eliminate God or a higher being from the process. This can not be done.
The one simple scientific truth that busts evolution is the fact that life cannot be created from non-life. Something had to intervene in order to introduce life into the mix.
Actually yes. I like the fact that science can admit it is wrong when there is enough proof to prove that it is wrong. Some people could learn something from that.
Good to see that you say that evolution has valid points. You seemed to be dismissing it out of hand. However, the main point in the Evolutionary Theory is not to eliminate God or a higher being from the process. That can not be done although some defenders of evolution may give that impression. That can neither be proved nor disproved by anyone. Remember that Darwin was religious and one reason he delayed publishing his results was the reaction the findings would get. Plenty of us people of faith/Christians, especially scientists, subscribe to the theory of evolution.
As for the origin of life, that seems to be the only other thing you and others have against evolution (so the rest of it does ring true doesn’t it). I’m a scientist so I keep up with research findings in a lot of fields. Self assembly of molecules is being worked on with good progress. Even the apparent need for a membrane is being researched including an collegiate research project I just read about today (at a church college, no less).
As another poster stated, science is always being reevaluated and is capable of correcting where needed and progressing. This is its primary strength.
Agreed. However, if God or a higher being cannot be eliminated, then Creationism and Intelligent Design are still valid theories and should be taught along with evolution.
Yes, Creationism and Intelligent Design are valid religious theories, and can be taught in the home, in churches, and in comparative religions classes. Because both of these theories postulate God, and because God is not a testable scientific hypothesis, both of these are religious ideas rather than science.
Evolution is a scientific theory, well established by the evidence, and should be taught in science classes.
We should not teach religion in science classes, as if science and religion were the same thing. Science should be taught in science classes, and religion should be taught in the home or in churches and synagogues.
Evolution is a scientific theory that cannot and will not ever be completed without a higher intervention of some kind. Creationism and Intelligent Design are equally scientific and should be taught along side of evolution. But, the left wing progressives are afraid of any mention of a God or higher spiritual being, so they throw in the “religious” aspect in order to push their anti-god, progressive agenda. Talk about banning critical thinking.
In Texas the Republicans are trying to eliminate the teaching of critical thinking in high schools. Pretty scary. And since Texas influences our national textbooks, that is doubly scary. Why would anybody want to eliminate critical thinking?
Jefferson and Madison and Washington – the Founding Fathers – would be extremely worried about this, don’t you think? They knew an educated populace is essential for keeping a democracy a democracy and away from the despots control. Sadly, half of America watches Fox News and have absolutely no critical thinking skills to refute Roger Ailes lies. We’re going downhill fast.
So, EJ, why does Texas wish to eliminate the teaching of critical thinking?
I just Googled “texas critical thinking”. Every liberal paper and blog is carrying the story. That debunks that one.
In truth, critical thinking is no longer promoted in the majority of our colleges and universities nowadays. And the result: ultra-liberal progressives like Obama.
I met my 6th grade teacher a couple of years ago and she told me that the thing she remembered most about me was my ability to question everything. I haven’t changed. I wasn’t taught critical thinking, but it’s always been a part of my life.
So why is it you are so unable to question the trite dogmas that you spout daily? Why is it that you are so blind to overwhelming evidence?
I have questioned them. And I question everything else that has any wiggle room.
This is proof that the Republican Party is devolving, while the rest of us continue to evolve.
Your predictions never come true.
Romney won’t be able to garner enough electoral votes, and he appears to be losing ground in key swing states. That could all change, but he is going to have to run a better campaign.
People understand that Romney is an annoying little wimp. In order for Romney to win, he will have to change who he is — again.
Fraud…thy name is Obama.
I point out two Republicans who have actually been found to have fraudulently billed MaineCare and Medicare and you level an unsubstantiated charge at the President. As he campaigned on promises to end the Iraq War, hunt for bin Laden, re-regulate Wall Street, pass health care reform, and save the auto industry, I judge that he has done what he said he would do and done it well. If that be fraud, you and I obviously speak different languages.
Quixotic at best, malfeasance at worst.
I’m sure there are hard-working Floridians of all persuasions who would disagree with you about Romneycare.
Nonsense! I suffer NO remorse for voting for Governor LePage and will do it again in a heartbeat! He is NOT a politician who tells you one thing and someone else the opposite. He is what he is….and I like it!
As LePage had a 56% disapproval rating in April (only 38% approved) per a MPRC poll and has dug a deeper hole since with his comments about the IRS, understand that most Mainers disagree with you.
Never have a higher percentage of Maine high school graduates been able to read and write better than their governor.
Gerald Metz – Ethanol should be banned just for the damage that it does to engines of all sizes. Besides that, the production of Ethanol causes more pollution than the refinement of gasoline. But, the libs gotta have their causes, even if those causes cause more harm than good.
Agreed that the ethanol fuel debacle should be reversed. However, the interests behind it are ADM, Cargill etc., who are pretty conservative.
Doubt that this is a “lib” conspiracy, it is corn farmer-lobbyists getting big subsidies to “grow” fuel.
Stupid use of good farmland, if you ask me, sooner put up a wind machine.
Fred Ames….. exactly! Spot on.
Yup, Greg, innovative programs are a threat to the hegemony of big insurance companies and those that profit from them. They will always object.
Karen, nice try. Rather than have his visitors (Lot) violated by homosexuals he offered his virgin daughters instead. Was he wrong? Absolutely.
Later his daughters schemed to get impregnated by their father because there were no men left. We’re they wrong? Absolutely. Because the Bible tells what actually happens it is in no way an endorsement of their actions.
And yes, homosexuality is condemned throughout Scripture…. Old and New Testsment.
I don’t know about you but as a father, I would offer myself before I would offer my children. Yet Lot is considered a good man – a righteous man. According to you he knew this mob was homosexual. His future son-in-laws were also in the house, why not offer them after the mob refused the daughters? His daughters knew their purpose (according to God) was to bear and raise children. How were they to fulfill this purpose if they believed there were no men left?
I really don’t expect you to reply but ask that you think about it.
Jack
The Sodom men were rapists and, in that culture, even worse because they were violating Lot’s responsibility for hospitality.
Some refuse to connect the context of hospitality in the previous chapter of genisis to the destruction of Sodom in the next. The showing of hospitality and respect to strangers was considered to be righteous (it’s in the previous chapter).
Jack
And thank God all that’s irrelevant considering we are not and never have been a theocracy.
“I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;she must be quiet.” 1 Timothy 2:12
Why are the people against same sex marriage for biblical reasons not also against female teachers?
Doesn’t matter- it’s not the Constitution.
And that’s the important part.
It matters more than you realize- until it’s too late.
This is amazing! I didn’t know that people from 1950’s south had a time machine!
Be careful what you wish for …..
The story of Sodom is the story of the attempted rape of Lot’s angelic (male) visitors. Rape is an act of violence and non-consent, and is always wrong, whether it is opposite-sex rape or same-sex rape. The story of Sodom has nothing to do with same-sex love. It has everything to do with violence (including Lot offering the rapists his daughters, as if they were his property to dispose of as he pleased).
“Homosexuality” is never mentioned in any properly translated Bible, as ancient Hebrew and Greek had no equivalent word. Same-sex love is never condemned in the Bible.
Those who oppose fairness and equal treatment under the law pick and choose their Bible verses, pulling a handful of verses out of context and misinterpreting them in order to justify prejudice.
The Bible in general, and Jesus in particular, shows concern for outsiders and those who are perceived to be different. We are told — time and time again — to welcome the stranger, to protect the weak, and to seek justice for the oppressed person.
You are wrong to misquote a small handful of verses out of context, as if those six verses (out of more than 31,000) were what the Bible is about. The core teachings of Scripture call us to seek justice, to treat others fairly, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.
Good letter Gerald, my scooter had to have a carburetor cleansing few years ago due to this stuff. The additives work for now but think 15% may be too much. Save it for needed food.
With the lack of corn caused by the Global Warming drought in the midwest, the percentage of ethanol in gasoline will have to be lowered. With the lowering of the use of expensive ethanol used in gasoline, the price of gasoline shouldn’t increase as fast.
Tonya L. Troiani–good letter.
Just one more of Lepage’s Mistakes.
Tonya – I too have had my lake-side solitude blasted by frequent barrages of fireworks this summer. Not my image of Maine life.
Obama is going to lose and Romney is going to repeal Obamacare. Bet on it.
Stay away from casinos, you’re on a losing streak.
Like when Bush camaigned and said he was going to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage? lol
Romney is going to repeal Romneycare? And replace it with what? He was for it before he was against it. Romney stands for nothing — he’s a wimp who has rejected every position he ever had, and now he has no positions on anything, except that he will say anything to get elected.
They call him “Mitt the twit” in England for his offensive “charm offensive” over there. He couldn’t even manage an easy visit to the Olympics without getting our allies (including the Conservative Prime Minister) angry.
Karen Saum . . .you speak the truth re: moral conduct!
But don’t ya just love all that fairy tale stuff . . you know . . like a man living in the belly of a whale for three days??!
We can be so gullible!
Tonya L. Troiani
You should take a tip from everybody else in Meddybemps;
Start drinkin earlier, and you won’t notice the loud fireworks.
On our side of Meddybemps Lake, that’s exactly what we do.
not everyone in maine is a drunk
like you and your family
I love fireworks
last week, at 4am, i drove by a house that was
setting off fireworks the night before
i let go my loud exhaust on me truck
when lepage leaves office,he will move
straight to his home in florida
…..he will never experience living in
maine and listening to the damage
he has done to this state’s neighborhoods
Anyone who sets off firecrackers on their property in a neighborhood with other homes is low class. Anyone who enables, encourages or supports them doing so is of the same class.