Vote Curry
I am voting for Democrat Chip Curry for state senator of District 23, from Waldo County.
Curry believes in local control. He understands that Mainers are outspoken, straight shooters, who make their own way and don’t need cookie-cutter laws written by out-of-state interests. Unlike his opponent, he won’t turn his back on Maine people in favor of the out-of-state, big money of the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Curry is strong on education. He understands that vouchers and virtual classrooms can never replace all that our children get from viable and vital community schools. He and his wife, Chris Goosman, have spent their lives investing in, and inspiring, local students. Our kids are better off because of it.
Curry understands that women are not second-class citizens. He wants his daughter to have the same chances as any other child. He believes in equal pay, equal opportunities and, unlike his opponent, supports a woman’s right to choose her own health-care options.
We currently have a governor for whom 61 percent of Mainers did not vote. Unlike his opponent, Curry will not be a rubber stamp of approval for the LePage agenda.
If you believe that it’s time Maine politics got back to The Maine Way, where we put the integrity and ingenuity of our people first, join me in voting for Curry.
Jeanne Mcintyre
Waldo
Step in right direction
Recently I’ve received several fliers in the mail from the Maine Republican Party on behalf of Republican Senate candidate Charlie Summers. Each one makes certain that voters know that Summers would work to repeal Obamacare if he was elected.
I’m a 23-year-old college graduate who is still searching for a full-time job. I am also unlucky enough to have been born (as far as my doctors can tell) with a tumor in my head that was discovered about six years ago. While I’m lucky that it’s not cancerous, it still requires yearly MRIs and other tests, to make sure it doesn’t grow.
Because of Obamacare, I have been able to stay on my father’s insurance, while looking for work, and can afford to have those tests done. I also sleep comfortably knowing that I can no longer be denied coverage for my pre-existing condition.
If Summers and the Maine Republican Party consulted the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, they’d know that Obamacare is both financially prudent and helpful to average Americans.
I’m very proud to be able to vote for Independent Angus King for Senate and Democrat Mike Michaud for Congress, both of whom will defend this important step forward in health care. I don’t particularly like talking about my situation, but I’m sick and tired of hearing how Obamacare is an attack on our freedom when I, and many of my friends, have benefited from this law. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Kyle Leathers
East Millinocket
Vote Mailoux
I write to encourage support for attorney Randy Mailloux for Waldo County probate judge. Mailoux has the knowledge, wisdom and experience, both as an attorney and as a judge, to best serve residents.
I have been involved with several cases where Mailoux has represented people with interests adverse to my clients. In each of those cases, I have found him to be an extremely capable and professional attorney.
In addition, throughout the years, I have consulted with Mailoux for advice about cases I have been working on. He is a wealth of information on all matters relating to probate issues, and his advice, like his approach to legal matters, combines his vast knowledge with practical applicability.
Mailoux lives in Waldo County and knows and cares about the people of Waldo County. I believe he is the best candidate, and I believe he can bring a much higher level of expertise, experience and knowledge to that position.
I encourage you to vote for Mailloux on Nov. 6.
Donald Brown
Bucksport
Supporting Damon
These next two years our legislators in Augusta will be called on to make some key decisions affecting the future of our state. What to do about a $750 million shortfall could be one of the easiest.
It is important that we send the best and most competent men and women to Augusta to serve the needs of our state. That is why I am supporting Rep. Doug Damon, R-Bangor, in District 16, for a second term. As a freshman legislator these past two years, Damon proved he could be both competent, effective and a man who represents all the constituents in his district.
Even though I have been a registered Democrat for more than 50 years, and do not always agree with Damon, I have been impressed with the quality and quantity of the number of bills he was able to help pass. I know from experience Damon has a strong work ethic. He also has integrity and compassion for everyone, no matter their status or circumstance. I like the fact that he is very supportive of anything affecting our region of eastern Maine.
George Dandaneau
Bangor
Energy issues
Some people will agree with what I will say here, and many will not. Maine law requires motorcycles to run with headlights because it seems easy for car drivers to miss seeing the motorcycles.
I would like to suggest that the lights be required to be off in the daytime when windshield wipers are not on. Reasons for this are:
Lights require a small amount of energy, to burn the lights and to replace them more often.
I don’t want people to get into the habit of thinking that anything worth not hitting has lights. There are pedestrians and bicycles.
Contrary to what some say, lights do not increase safety. They enable you to see a vehicle from so far away that it doesn’t matter. Up close where you can hit them, they are perfectly visible in the daytime without lights.
I notice that Old Town police do not normally have their lights on in the daytime. Let’s follow their example.
If lights were required to be off in the daytime, we could require headlights to be off immediately but give some 10 years for current cars with nonremovable running lights to get off the road.
Edward R. Huff
Old Town
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20008687
Here are some interesting polls. Seems the world wants Obama too. Well, there is one country that would prefer Romney and that’s Pakistan.
How about the country where Obama/Romney REALLY matters? Most polls in the USA show the majority wisely favoring Romney over the socialist candidate.
We use an electoral college system in this country though.
You preach Jesus but you never preach what Jesus preached. Do you have anything nice to say? I said a prayer for you. God Bless.
“Do you have anything nice to say?’ Yes, see above reply to bunyan1. I wish the same for you, too.
There is no Socialist candidate. I’m old enough to remember some real Socialists, like the Rev. Norman Thomas, the Socialist Party candidate for president in several elections.
Socialism is the collective (often, but not always, government) ownership of the means of production — such as having the government own the factories, stores, TV networks, lobster boats, farms, etc. The Shakers were Christian socialists, and the Hutterites still are.
Of course, actual socialsm is not supported by either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. Anybody who says Obama is a socialist is either completely ignorant or deliberately lying.
There is quite a difference between Quakers and modern Socialists and its applications. Death Camps for one.
You write: ” There is quite a difference between Quakers and modern Socialists …”
First, Quakers are modern. I know several.
Second, I never mentioned the Quakers. I mentioned the Shakers — three of whom, I believe, are still alive in Sabbathday Lake, Maine — and who practiced Christian Socialism in the United States for centuries. And I mentioned the Hutteites, who still exist, and still practice Christian Socialism. There are about 42,000 Hutterites in the United States and Canada, and they have practiced communal farming for about 125 years.
They take their inspiration from the biblical book, the Acts of the Apostles, which says that the first followers of Jesus held all of their goods in common, and gave to each as they had need.
Personally, I think that outside of religious communities and co-ops socialism doesn’t work very well. But religious groups like the Shakers and the Hutterites have been very successful with socialism. And many co-ops succeed.
So Heistheone calls Obama “the socialist candidate” and you say Socialism means “Death Camps for one.” Are you saying Obama wants death camps? Don’t you see the disconnect here?
I’m merely pointing out that actual socialism is an economic (not political) system, and it refers to the collective ownership of the means of production. Anyone who claims that Obama is a socialist — whether Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, or Heistheone — is either completely ignorant or deliberately lying.
The fact remain some of the biggest monsters in modern times, who killed hundreds of millions of their own people, called themselves socialists. You can play definition games if you like. You would still be wrong. Come take a walk with me through a few bone piles I’ve been to if you need proof.
The disconnect is that while you lay claim that socialists are some soft fuzzy group of people that just want to share belies modern history. People like you are the reason these monsters come back.
You complain that I use the correct definition of socialism — as if facts are bad things.
Socialism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy (democratic republics) and dictatorship are political systems. It is possible to have capitalist dictatorships. It is also possible to have socialist democratic republics.
Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production.
Socialism is the collective ownership of the means of production. If that’s not true, then socialists don’t believe in socialism!
This is basic! Everyone should have learned this stuff in high school.
Of course, I agree that left-wing Communist dictatorships, such as those under Stalin and Mao, were brutal totalitarian regimes who killed millions. Likewise, right-wing Fascist totalitarian regimes under Hitler, Mussolini and Franco also killed millions.
It is dictatorship that is the culprit in these sad examples.
At the same time, I believe that you and I agree that “state socialism” makes a very poor economic system.
I just have a problem with those ignoramuses (and/or liars) who, to mislead the voters, claim that Obama is a socialist. I don’t call Romney a fascist, because that would be equally untrue.
Can’t we have a rational political discussion without these lies?
Appeaser.
What?
I’m ardently anti-dictatorship, anti-Fascist, and anti-Communist.
I’m pro-democracy. I’m a former small business owher, a genuine capitalist.
What on earth are you talking about?
You have no rational answer to the fact that words have actual meanings, so you just ignore the meanings — and insult me.
I thought you were better than that. People on this site say you are a troll, and I should not try to reason with you. You just hurl insults. Mayby they’re right.
Yet I’m a patient guy, and so I keep trying to get you to understand common sense.
My point it seems, escapes you. I merely equate Socialism with the things it does in the modern world. You seem to equate socialism with Shakers & small time religious denominations.
You say: “It is dictatorship that is the culprit in these sad examples.
At the same time, I believe that you and I agree that “state socialism” makes a very poor economic system.”
That seems to me to blame “dictators” and not their philosophy. (Appeaser might not be the right word here, maybe apologist) Socialism is inherently the culprit because no matter who “rules” it is the taking from one group and giving to another. Sometimes, in fact most of the time, against their wishes. Millions of murdered in the name of Socialism make my case.
Yes, I blame dictators for their philosophy of dictatorship. I don’t blame Christian socialists like the Hutterites for their philosophy of Christianity, or the fact that they work together for the common good.
When the Apostles practiced socialism — sharing goods in common, and giving to each according to his or her need (Acts 2:44-46 and Acts 4:34-35) — their philosophy of Christian socialism was greatly admired by their non-Christian and non-socialist neighbors.
Sharing, and giving to those in need, is not the philosophical problem here.
The philosophical problem in dictatorship is dictatorship. All people should be able to participate in the political process, and rights — freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion, etc. — should be protected.
And as national policy, I’ve never known of the economic system of government ownership of the means of production to work very well. So I’m pro-capitalist and anti-socialist.
But I don’t think that co-ops or labor unions are bad boogeymen. And I don’t think that capitalists like Obama are socialists, because that baseless accusation doesn’t stand up to the facts.
Penzance. Hope you read this. Disqus won’t let me respond to you.
The difference as I see it in the socialism of those minor religions you speak of and the modern socialists come back to how they go about there business. The minor religions are voluntarily socialist. I have no problem with that but the dictators and mass murders enforce their brand of socialism with camps and a bullet to the brain if they disagree with the new distribution of wealth. Socialism is the culprit because for the majority of people it is not voluntary.
While I am at it I confess to have problems with the European brand of Social Democracy.
Europe has a history of Racism, arrogance and socialism and a mixture of the two. I am suspicious of them because they could just as easily slip back into their history if the EU were to break up. Look at Greece. As soon as they had to pay their own way. They started blaming the Turks and immigrants and a variety of radical socialist parties of the left and right came to power in their parliament. My sense is the Europe is always just a short rise in the unemployment rate away from some dictatorial Socialist government of the left or right. Hitler or Stalin. The basis of which is their Socialist mindset.
My point, it seems, escapes you.
Socialism should be equated with socialism.
Heistheone equates socialism with people who support and promote capitalism like President Obama.
Yes, some socialists have done some terrible things. And some on the right (the Ku Klux Klan, Hitler, etc.) have done terrible things as well.
But let’s understand what socialism actually is. Let’s not accuse supporters of capitalism — President Obama for one — of being socialists.
Norman Thomas, a Presbyterian minister, was the Socialist candidate for president of the United States several times. He was a good man.
Mao and Stalin were Communists, and they had almost nothing but distain for democratic Socialists like Norman Thomas and Eugene V. Debs.
Based on what you just wrote, I should assume that you’re supporting Romney.
Obama and Romney both support capitalism — Obama’s “Obomneycare” health plan sends all of our insurance business to capitalist insurance firms, and is based on what Romney got passed in Massachusetts (a plan Romney has flip-flopped on, as he has done with every position he ever had).
Romney favors the billionaires — he won’t agree to keeping the middle class tax breaks unless the billionaires get a big tax break, too, expanding the deficit. Obama’s plan to keep the middle class tax breaks but let the billionaires go back to the Clinton-era rates is more responsible than Romney’s. Etc., etc.
So while they both support capitalism, and both oppose socialism (which isn’t even a real issue), Obama is more responsible. Romney’s plan is a secret, and he’ll tell us what’s in it after the election.
Romney-Ryan also want big government to tell women what they can and can’t do with their bodies (Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s comment on pregnancy resulting from rape being God’s will, which is identical to Ryan’s position, and reflects on Romney’s support for Mourdock).
Excellent Post! Now if only people would copy it and post it over their computer so we wouldn’t have to go through this argument again…. Oh well…
You can make all the textbook definitions you like. The people Penzance named above called themselves socialists. That’s good enough for me. The fact that folks like you say they weren’t reeeaaalllllyyyy socialists are no more than appeasers waiting for the next holocaust.
You say, “The people Penzance named above called themselves socialists.” Yes, the Hutteites, and the Shakers, have called themselves Christian socialists.
Hitler, Franco, and Mussolini were all fanatically anti-Communist right-wingers, and identified themselves as such. They allied themselves with other conservatives (at least until their conservative allies were no longer useful).
You are the one who says that socialists are not people who believe in socialism (the collective ownership of the means of production).
You want words to mean any darn thing you like — socialism is just an all-purpose yet meaningless insult you and heistheone throw around.
People who support capitalism, like Obama, are, in your book, socialists. It doesn’t matter to you that it’s just not true.
I didn’t say “that socialists are not people who believe in socialism (the collective ownership of the means of production)” I just identify their actions with their philosophy. You ignore it.
When Mao had his Army rob villagers of the crops those farmers had produced to redistribute it to other villagers starving on forced collective farms, then shooting the people they robbed. That is what Socialism means to me.
When Pol Pot drove millions out of the cities to live or die as he built a socialist society, that is socialism to me.
You can intellectually divorce socialism from what it does to people with textbooks definitions all you want. I can’t.
As for Obama I made no mention of him as a socialist. You made that up. But if you really want my two cents on the subject…. If he were a true capitalist he would get out of the way and let business and capital do its thing.
Common misconception: Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were not right-wing. They were atheists, and atheists are not right-wing. Christians are right-wing. Atheists who believe that Christians are their enemies, and murder them by the millions, are left-wing.
Hitler and Franco were raised Roman Catholic. Mussolini became a catholic mainly to appease the church after having seized some of their property. Of course, claiming to be catholic and actually practicing, like all christianity, doesn’t really mean much. It is too often used for political or social purposes.
Ayn Rand, the darling of the right, was an atheist.
Hitler, Franco and Mussolini were life-long Roman Catholics, at least according to the Roman Catholic Church.
The Pope signed a treaty with Hitler’s dictatorship that recognized the legitimacy of that dictatorship.
Uh, no. That’s a blatant lie.
All three of those men were right-wingers.
All three of those men were devout believers in God. All three were at least nominally Catholic, and Franco was a devout traditional conservative Catholic.
Sorry, but I am a Catholic. I know how a Catholic is supposed to act. You can still act like an atheist, even though you call yourself a Catholic. Hitler was raised Catholic, but he later rejected even the existence of God. Hitler slaughtered millions of Catholics, including priests and nuns, some of whom are now Catholic saints. Franco killed many priests, among many other Catholics. I don’t know how many people Mussolini killed, but totalitarians are not right-wingers. Please don’t call someone a blatant liar when you are not sure of the facts.
So, basically, your definition of “left winger” is “anyone who I disagree with.”
So when right-wingers like Hitler, Mussolini and Franco — and, I presume, the Ku Klux Klan — do things you don’t like, you simply deny that they are who they say the are (conservatives) and you label them “left-wingers” so you won’t have to own up to the fact that there are bad guys on both sides.
Liars claim that Obama is a socialist?
class warfare = socialist
tax the rich = socialist
stated intent to redistribute wealth = socialist
direct government investment in private businesses (Solyndra, etc.) = socialist
nationalization of the health care system = socialist
stated intent for government to bankrupt a private industry (coal) = socialist
main voter constituency financially supported by government = socialist
The truth is, Obama is a dyed-in-the-wool socialist, and he makes no attempt to hide it.
While it would take too long for a post here to refute all of your statements, it is worth looking at a couple. Nationalization of the healthcare system would require the government to take 100% ownership of all hospitals, and clinics, and to be the only source of income for those in the medical profession. the ACA isn’t even close.
The money the government loaned Solyndra was actually a government backed loan guarantee and in no way gave the government possession or even control over Solyndra. The Us government has been giving money in one way or another to the oil and energy industry for at least 100 years, yet never did anyone complain about socialism. The government has also been giving grants and loans to educational institutions and medical research facilities.
Please show your source for the claim of “stated intent to bankrupt a private industry (coal)”. The current slowdown in coal production is due to a reduced demand for industrial quality coal used primarily to make steel and other metal fabrication. Another factor is the increased used of natural gas for heating, instead of coal.
Your claims read like a printout of propaganda sheets from right wing groups like the Heritage Foundation, and sound like radio broadcasts from that fat, overpaid, loudmouth drug addict, Rush Limbaugh.
ACA – government dictates the operation of the healthcare industry. My sister and brother-in-law are chiropractors. ACA has forced them to purchase govt-approved software that must be used for every patient. If they do not use it, they will be fined for each payment they are supposed to receive from an insurance company, and the fine gets greater for each year the software use is not implemented. After about 3 years, the fines make it uneconomical to stay in business. The govt can withhold payment for the service on the condition that “the software is underutilized.” In govt-speak, that means that if you don’t include enough personal, private information about the individual you are treating, you will not be paid. This is happening right now in Oct. 2012. My sister knows an optometrist in Central Maine who is going to pay the fine for 2 years, and then go out of business. The ACA will drive many healthcare practitioners out of business, and we will have a shortage of doctors. Socialism/nationalization: govt dictating to private business how they must conduct their business.
Solyndra – a govt-guaranteed loan. No provisions for payback. Amounts to direct govt investment in the company. Taxpayers put up the entire loan. Nothing will be paid back. That is socialism. General Motors is another example. Taxpayer money went there not mainly to maintain the business, but to guarantee union health benefits and pensions, and deliver Michigan to Obama in the 2012 election. Private investors went broke. The govt has $26 billion”unaccounted for” in the GM deal. The UAW union preserved $26 billion in member benefits in the deal. That is socialism.
Obama bankrupting the coal industry – Obama’s face, Obama’s voice, Obama’s words, from 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTIhyMa-Nw
The reason for the charge is that part of the money goes to the AMA as part of the Obamacare buyout.
1) The American Chiropractic Association (the ACA) is not the government. It is an association of chiropractors, as its name indicates. The members (the chiropractors themselves) run the ACA.
I don’t know the facts of the story you tell, but it sounds bogus and I’ll bet you have the rest of your facts wrong as well (if you think the ACA is part of the government, that’s the first fact you got wrong).
2) The Obama administration’s support of loans to a capitalist (as in privately owned) firm, Solyndra, doesn’t make Obama a socialist. It’s the opposite — his support of capitalism makes him a capitalist. Okay, it didn’t work out very well. Has everything you’ve done in your life worked perfectly? If something in your life doesn’t turn out as you hoped, does that make you a socialist?
3) The coal industry is not bankrupt, although it is in decline and would be in decline regardless of the Obama administration’s policies. I watched the somewhat lengthy video you suggested: in summary, Obama said (almost 5 years ago) that, while he supports technologies that sequester greenhouse gasses from coal, we should let the market decide what technologies (gas, coal, nuclear, etc.) are the most economically viable. That’s how capitalism works.
Yes, we are burning less coal to produce electricity than we did five years ago, and yes, the Obama administration wants cleaner air. I want to be able to breathe clean air, too. The coal industry would be in trouble regardless of air quality standards because of the cheap price of natural gas right now. Because of fracking technology, gas is cheaper than coal. The fact thatObama wants the market to decide doesn’t make him a “socialist,” it makes him a capitalist!
4) You have shown clearly that you don’t know what the word “socialist” means, and you shouldn’t use words you don’t understand.
I know that it is inconvenient for right-wingers that words have actual meanings.
Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production.
Socialism is the collective ownership of the means of production.
I didn’t say you are a liar. I said that either you are hopelessly ignorant or deliberately lying. You are one or the other. That doesn’t mean you are necessarily a liar, you could just be an ingnoramus.
Not one for insults are you? What was that?
That was a choice for Heistheone. I’ve already given him the benefit of the doubt that he probably isn’t deliberately lying — he’s probably been listening to professional liars like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn “Too-Nuts-Even-For-Fox” Beck, and Sean Hannity, and their cohorts.
So “Heistheone” is merely misinformed.
Ignoramus is too strong a word, and I apologize for that.
Ignorant is the alternative, and there’s no shame in ignorance if you genuinely wish to get the facts. There is a cure for ignorance, and it’s a matter of becoming better educated. So most of the time I try to be patient. I’m less patient with Heistheone than with you because he is so nasty and extremist.
Lost my patience above, and so I’m sorry for that. It doesn’t change the fact that Heistheone is consistently wrong.
Very good answer. Don’t waste your time with cheesecake.
Yeah. Don’t waste your time on cheesy… You might have to feel some guilt about the effects of your collectivist philosophy.
I’m generally a very patient guy. I realize that right-wingers have trouble with the fact that words have actual meanings. But I keep hoping that they will listen to common sense.
I understand. But that isn’t why he posts here. Keep it up though, because your comments are informative and I enjoy reading them as I’m sure others do as well.
How long are the ignoramuses on the right going to insist that our Democratic president is a socialist. Intelligent people have had to listen to idiots mouth this dumb meme for the last 4 years in their desperate search for justification of their intense dislike for President Obama. He is not a socialist. You know this. Only very very stupid people believe this.
I forgive you, also.
You do more for the democratic cause than any democrat could. You are like EJ: you make me a liberal with your uneducated mythological belief system.
How someone who is educated and living in the United States is not a Christian is beyond me. We have scads upon scads of written material that shows the proof of God’s existence. The history of the Catholic Church is just overflowing with what happened in the early church, and has thousands of stories of miracles and saints, and about how people and society have been profoundly positively influenced by believing in Jesus Christ and trying to live by his principles. I personally have had an old injury instantaneously healed by a miracle, while at a Catholic healing service on Oct. 27, 2007, in Sherman, ME. I saw more than 20 other people healed that same afternoon. Some had minor pains and conditions, but some had been victims of serious injury and disease. They were all made whole in a matter of seconds, one person at a time as they were prayed over. Stuff like this happens all the time in the Catholic Church. It should be trumpeted as front page news every day. Jesus Christ is alive and well in the Catholic Church, but liberals try mightily to stomp out any evidence of Christ from society. To say that Catholicism is “mythological” is just a result of centuries of deliberate attempts by liberals to try to erase God from society. Unfortunately, the liberals have succeeded in deluding many, many people with their Big Lies. They will find that the idea of “mythological” will be reversed into stark reality when they meet Jesus Christ, shortly after they die.
“We have scads upon scads of written material ….”
Yes, and all written by man. And you wonder why people would question it?
We also have thousands of documents, some from the church itself, about how the catholic hierarchy condoned corruption, rape, child molestation, destruction of entire cultures, torture, murder, and on and on.
I’m educated and I am not a Christian. Most of my peers in college were not believers either.
The bible is a fantastic book of great historical fiction.
It was written by superstitious ancients that didn’t have any idea of how the world worked or that it was in fact round and not flat. They simply took a little bit of knowledge and created a fantasy to satisfy their fears. They embellished and told tall tales courtesy of bad wine they were tripping on.
The author of Revelation was an exile living in a cave with no human contact. He used his great imagination and drank copious amounts of bad wine which resulted in a vision quest of sorts and he dreamt all of it and wrote it down.
Heaven sent? No, it was simply the wine and the alcoholic who drank it to comfort himself.
So Christians are uneducated, eh? I am a dentist, and my wife has a Masters in Education/Guidance Counseling. Two of ours sons are college graduates, and one is in his 2nd year of chiropractic school. Both of their wives are college graduates. One of our sons is in his 3rd year of college, and he intends to pursue graduate work after that. One son is a high school graduate, and another is a high school senior.
My 5 siblings and all their spouses are college graduates. 4 of them own businesses. 2 are chiropractors, and 3 are dental hygienists. 1 has a high position in a Fortune 500 multi-national technology company.
I think that as a family, we are educated. And we all have another thing in common – we are all serious Catholics. Maybe it’s you who is uneducated. Have you ever thought that Christians may know something that you don’t? What is more valuable to learn than how your soul can be saved for all eternity, and how you can avoid going to hell for all eternity? Jesus asked, what good would it do for a man to gain the entire world, if he were to lose his soul? So I ask, what good would all the education in the world do you, if you were to lose your soul?
Jesus Christ came to earth claiming that he was God, and he proved who he was by performing thousands of miracles. Before he went back to heaven, he founded a church, soon after and still known today as the Catholic Church. He gave the leaders of the Catholic Church the same authority that he had to teach in matters of faith and morals. He also told the leaders of his church that he would be with them always, to the end of the world. He has backed that up by performing millions of miracles over the past 2000 years, through the hands of specially-gifted Catholics. I am a recipient of one of those miracles, an instantaneous healing of a 27-year-old nagging injury, which doctors told me only surgery could correct. I have seen other miracles happen before my eyes, too, and I have read and heard about thousands of others.
All it takes is a little reading and observation, and you can learn the truth about Jesus Christ and Catholic Christianity. The resources available are gigantic in number. Maybe you should use the fruits of your education to learn what’s really important in life.
Actually, the fact that you are uneducated makes you a prime candidate for the Democratic Party. They rely on you not knowing the truth.
By the way, when you’re arguing with someone else, don’t drag others into the conversation. That just shows your ignorance.
I was not arguing with anyone. I was pointing out his belief in a mythological system. I brought you up because you share that same unenlightened mythology, and, since you propound it here in a public forum, I feel I have a right to call you on it. You consider yourself educated because you embrace unprovable notions with which you would rule others? I point out your lapse in logic and therefore you claim I am uneducated and ignorant. I think you call me names because my adherence to logic affronts your personal illogical belief system which you insist on forcing onto others. When folks call others names, they’ve run out of facts.
Here are a few examples of lacks in logic:
– Believing in Evolution as fact instead of theory.
– Believing that a fetus is not a life even though the heart beats at 11 days and there is brain activity at 22 days.
– Believing that people are born gay with no conclusive scientific evidence.
– Believing that global warming exists in spite of historical proof of trends.
– Believing that people that believe in God are uneducated.
Just remember that you bantered the “uneducated” label before I did.
I’ve never told you evolution is a fact. Do you believe creationism is a fact?
I never told you I didn’t think a fetus was alive. Why do you presume that is my view?
I never told you there is a gay gene. Why would you deny folks their civil rights because you don’t believe they were born gay?
So global warming is not happening because it’s happened before?
I never said that people who believe in God are uneducated. I said people who preach Jesus to me are uneducated. There is no place in public discourse for your belief in Jesus.
“uneducated mythological belief ”
Walks like a socialist, quacks like a socialist must be the hater of the rich and successful, Blamer in Chief Nobama
Unfortunately it will continue as long as the news corporations think it will attract attention and contribute to sales, and as long as scaremongers like Limbaugh can make money on it.
I think you should worry more about the Protestant Reformation since you have earlier denounced Martin Luther as the tool of the devil and less about Mitt Romney. And how does an ultra-orthodox Catholic support a Mormon? A little inconsistency, no? Your polls are likely from Mars. Obama will win, thank (my) God, and you can return to the Middle Ages and the Inquisition.
I wish that everyone will be granted the salvation of their souls, including you. I’m positive, for way too many reasons to list here, that by following the teachings of the Catholic Church, you will have the best chance to be saved. Satan considers the Catholic Church to be his arch-enemy on earth, because the church was founded by Jesus Christ as Christ’s earthly guide to lead us to salvation. Satan worshipers even have as their highest ritual the Black Mass, which is a mockery of the Catholic Mass.
So yes, Martin Luther was duped by Satan, and Luther’s “success” is one of Satan’s greatest triumphs. I’m sorry that offends you. Like I said, I wish for your salvation as well as that of everyone else. What I have received in return for that hope for all people, is that many liberals have told me that they hope I burn in the hottest parts of hell. I forgive them for that, as I know they don’t understand where I’m coming from.
You seem to have a lot of bitterness toward the Catholic Church. That Church has been here for 2000 years. Since the Church is made up of people, and people are sinners, many sins have been unfortunately committed by people who represent the Catholic Church. The Church has owned up to those sins, and has not condoned them. And those sins still do not negate the truth of Catholic teachings, which come from Jesus Christ and his apostles.
Luther, on the other hand, committed the serious sins of apostasy and heresy. Not only did he not disavow them, he gloried in them. And because of Luther’s great sins, hundreds of millions of people have fallen into heresy, apostasy, agnosticism, and atheism. Like I said above, a great triumph for Satan. Since I want all souls to be saved, I have a rather strong dislike for Satan.
As far as Romney goes – we don’t live in a Catholic nation. I have to settle for the best possible choice. I would much rather see the quasi-Christian Romney as president, rather than the anti-Christian, and strongly anti-Catholic, Obama.
You claim to be a christian, yet you lie about Obama being anti-christian and anti-catholic. It is a known lie being perpetrated by those who cannot accept a black man as President. It has been debunked many times. Of course, if you follow the catholic way of thinking, I can understand how you came to such twisted thinking.
Jesus Christ did not found the catholic church. He was a Jew who taught from Jewish texts. His followers, and their followers, founded the church.
Does any criticism of the Loser in Chief mean that someone is a racist. I would love a Herman Cain or a Colin Powell as Leader in Chief. The real racism is that the entire black population, despite being the group that has suffered the most under the current regime, will unabashedly support a black man.
A criticism is legitimate if it is based on fact or a disagreement with his policies. If you disagree with Obama’s policies then argue against the policy instead of fabricating lies with no basis in fact. The oft repeated claims that Obama is anti-christian, a moslem, socialist, communist, anti-American, anti-business, etc. are simply bold faced lies with the only intention of disparaging him and his policies. They are perpetrated by those who do not have any valid argument, and by those trying to affect the opinions of the less well informed.
For that reason I will always call the liar on their lies.
So how does lying make someone a racist. You are the racist by raising it and why not address the true racism in this election. Obviously too painful a topic for libs. Duplictious. So when lies are raised about Romney I guess thats an anti cracker thing
You people are disgusting throwing the race card out there and ignoring true racism
Trace the history of the name calling against Obama since he took office. It is part of the attempt to paint him as “other”, not American, etc.
Your attempt to call me a racist because I brought up the subject is laughable.
You are a racist for bringing it up and its anything but laughable. You are a pathetic individual.
You have no rational argument so you just insult people. How sad.
You might want to brush up on your history a bit prior to commenting. Martin Luther was rebbelling against a corrupt and venal institution. You know the institution that allowed Purchasing dispensations for the wealthy, squeezing the serfs that resided on church owned lands, and a host of other reprehensible acts. You might want to look up the Borgia popes, you know the one who had sex with his illegitimate daughter. Your institution is corrupt at it’s core, and only seeks power and wealth for itself.
Are you planning to tell EJParsons that he belongs to a false religion? Just wondering.
Many have tried. All have failed. Including you.
All religion is man made and false.
All religions but one. There is a True and Living God, the Creator of the Universe, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. All others are false.
Those you mention are also false and man made.
God only exists in the minds of those who need a crutch to get through life.
Lock that thought in your mind. It may haunt you for eternity.
Try to convince Jesus Christ of that when you meet him, shortly after you die. Hopefully you will realize the truth before you die, though. I am praying that you do. God bless.
Heistheone thinks everyone except the most right-wing Roman Catholics have false religions. That includes both me and you.
Thought the polls were dead even nationwide for Romney and Obama. Don’t think the Socialist Party has run a candidate for some time. If they are, who is it?
There are a number of candidates for president…at least six will be on the ballot in Maine.
Do you think the media in this state, this country has done a good job informing you?
Why do only two candidates debate?
Research the reasons for behind these questions and you will learn a LOT MORE about politics in the good ol’ USA…
It is possible that you and I agree that there should be more reporting in the media about the other candidates for president. The Libertarian Party and the Green Party — and others — have candidates, and many people might support them if they were not subject to a media blackout.
Stewart Alexander / Alex Mendoza : Socialist Party Candidates
They’re on the Florida ballot along with 11 others. We even have Rosanne Barr and Cindy Sheehan on our ballot running under the PFP (Peace and Freedom Party).
Can anyone imagine the mess this nation would be if Rosanne Barr were President? She might be the one that could make Obama look good.
I saw that. Did you note who was missing from that list?
Given the fact that most peoples around the world have never had America’s best interest in there hearts and minds it would only make sense that they would be in favor of the Loser in Chief
Didn’t republicans scream about Obama when he suggest that everyone check their tire pressure to help conserve oil? Yes Turing off the lights will save some energy.
Very thought provoking letter, Kyle Leathers of East. That provision of Obamacare allowing young adults to stay on their parents policies until age 26 is helpful to a lot of families in this tough job market. It’s certainly better to have them insured through their parents than uninsured and playing medical roulette.
Excellent letter indeed, Kyle Leathers. Rest assured that, if God forbid, Summers is somehow elected Senator, he’ll readily sign up for the best healthcare system in America, that provided for members of Congress. What greater evidence of his hypocrisy? He should instead not sign up for it and pay for his own. And what health plan does he currently enjoy as Maine’s Sec. of State? More evidence of his double standard. But for folks like Summers, the plight of a Kyle Leathers doesn’t cause him any lost sleep.
Kyle Leathers–I am glad for you that you have health insurance but the fact remains that the ACA does little to reduce the overall cost of healthcare in our country. Almost 50 million Americans do not have insurance and many of them have conditions that require ongoing care. Many of them will die because they cannot afford insurance or treatment. Obamacare does little to make health care more affordable and nothing to reign in the insurance companies that are squeezing over thirty cents from every healthcare dollar.
Countries that place the welfare of their citizenry above the welfare of their corporations and billionaires have universal health care. My dream is that one day the United States will also straighten out it’s priorities and join the rest of the civilized world.
I agree we need universal health care, until that this is better than the R’s offer which is nothing.
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Kyle Leathers, good letter. I have a granddaughter who if it weren’t for the ACA would have been saddled with the cost of an apondectomy while trying to work her way through college.
Romney and virtually every Republican running for office say that they will repeal the ACA given the opportunity. They have yet to say what they propose in its place. I suspect that it will not benefit the average American, if they have any plan at all.
It’s a law. Congress has to repeal it. Romney is running for president not king. And as far as I know he still has to follow the law and Congress is the only one that can vote to repeal the law that is Affordable Care Act.
Anyway, they don’t have any replacement plans for Obama care except let the states decide whatever. That’s not a plan. That’s irresponsible.
Irresponsible, gee you think so? What a bunch of idiots.
Referring to the Rs? Especially R&R?
You are correct, Congress has to repeal the law. If the Republican/Tea Party retains the House and take over the Senate. It will more than likely be repealed if Romney is President he would sign the bill to repeal the ACA. If Obama is re-elected he would likely Veto the bill.
Romney said on one of the Sun. shows that we have in place where if you have a heart attack EMT’s will pick you up and take you to the emergency room where they treat you. As best as I can tell that is their plan, I have heard nothing else.
Kyle Leathers: good letter.
I am supporting Huey Long, James Michael Curley, George Washington Plunkett, and Richard Croker.