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Miss Kitty
Meow
...you gunning for the SoWal Nobel Peace Prize?
Douglas the Intrepid
Beach Fanatic
I would recommend napalm for the whole politics sub forum and have done with it...The rut you are referring to has more to do with the general lack of interest in listening to other peoples point of views and more to do with just pontificating and sermonizing some members very narrow spectrums of belief. 
NotDeadYet
Beach Fanatic
It's become the forum version of talk radio. Not possible to have an intelligent discussion here anymore.
Nice try, Geo, but I fear it won't work.
Nice try, Geo, but I fear it won't work.
sunspotbaby
SoWal Insider
Boy, this thread is Something Else! Thanks Geo, i'm glad there is something else to talk about. 
passin thru
Beach Fanatic
It's true, and it's reflective of a nation-wide politics thread that has become stuck, mired down in sermonizing & intolerance & plain old spite.
If folks spent half as much energy in offering ideas on what we should do, instead of what we shouldn't do -- or half as many words on what (or who) they're for and not what (or who) they're against -- we'd all be way better off.
We need to remember the ways to converse, discuss & debate .... to solve problems ... and not simply the ways to diss, belittle & hate.
If folks spent half as much energy in offering ideas on what we should do, instead of what we shouldn't do -- or half as many words on what (or who) they're for and not what (or who) they're against -- we'd all be way better off.
We need to remember the ways to converse, discuss & debate .... to solve problems ... and not simply the ways to diss, belittle & hate.
MommaMia
Beach Lover
How about an example?
If folks spent half as much energy in offering ideas on what we should do, instead of what we shouldn't do -- or half as many words on what (or who) they're for and not what (or who) they're against -- we'd all be way better off.
We need to remember the ways to converse, discuss & debate .... to solve problems ... and not simply the ways to diss, belittle & hate.
Let's take the War in Afghanistan for an example. How would you begin the conversation? It is an important debate. Nation building? Defense of our homeland? How should the U.S. determine where to send our armed forces?
If folks spent half as much energy in offering ideas on what we should do, instead of what we shouldn't do -- or half as many words on what (or who) they're for and not what (or who) they're against -- we'd all be way better off.
We need to remember the ways to converse, discuss & debate .... to solve problems ... and not simply the ways to diss, belittle & hate.
Let's take the War in Afghanistan for an example. How would you begin the conversation? It is an important debate. Nation building? Defense of our homeland? How should the U.S. determine where to send our armed forces?
Jdarg
SoWal Expert
I have some basic Afghanistan questions. We went in with gusto after 9/11 and then all attention went to Iraq, right? Why didn't we finish the work in Afghanistan, especially since that was the location of the known, real threat of Al Queda? So it seems while we were busy in Iraq, the Taliban and Al Queda had plenty of time to get busy and organize, and now it is looking to be impossible to get the bad guys out.
If we had never invaded Iraq and kept the focus on Afghanistan, would the current situation there be different?
What a mess- I hate to think it might have worked out a bit better.
cabythesea
Beach Lover
And now, for something completely different...
How about them Cowboys?
How about them Cowboys?