Silly Texans

[Japher]

Sloww, you're a bastard

but, you're OUR bastard... you and many others

[Mr. Harley]

Kuciwalker - sorry about the name change . I also choose to vote on a plethora of issues, but for me an individuals viewpoint on personal freedom in general trumps economic issues, as long as one of the individuals running is not an utter economic moron. I agree - it's a balance and I suspect we only disagree exactly where to place it.

I have found though that the DP serves as a pretty damn good bellweather of where the individual stands on social issues in general. Equal justice, due process, creating courts friendly to individual rights - those all play out with a certain predictability in today's parties. Sadly many of those friendly to that are unfriendly to other issues like gun rights, but as you noted - single issue voting is stupid.

[Chemical Ollie]

Re: Back to the slammer, Thompson. We've got a padded couch waiting for ya'

Originally posted by Winston
Caught.

Condemned killer Charles Victor Thompson's three-day run to freedom ended on a bicycle Sunday night in front of a liquor store in Shreveport, La., police said.

The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force got a tip Sunday that led Shreveport police and the U.S. Marshals Service to the 200 block of 70th Street, where officers saw a man they thought to be Thompson on a bicycle talking on a pay phone in front of the liquor store about 8:02 p.m. When asked to identify himself, the man replied, "You know who I am."

Asked again, he responded, "My name is Charles Thompson."

Thompson, 35, appeared to be intoxicated, and police said they did not know who he was talking to on the phone. He was arrested and booked into the Caddo Parish Jail, where he will be held until he can be returned to Texas, said Lt. John Martin of the Harris County Sheriff's Office. A court hearing is expected to occur today in Shreveport.

Houston Chronicle article

Looks like my gut feeling about his "dangerousness" was correct.

[Winston]

Yes, marvelous. Just like my trusted tiger repellant rock.

[SlowwHand]

No, what you did was overestimate his intelligence.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Mr. Harley
I have found though that the DP serves as a pretty damn good bellweather of where the individual stands on social issues in general. Equal justice, due process, creating courts friendly to individual rights - those all play out with a certain predictability in today's parties. Sadly many of those friendly to that are unfriendly to other issues like gun rights, but as you noted - single issue voting is stupid.

Your correlation fails massively in the case of Catholics

[Winston]

Charles Thompson back in court earlier today.

[Winston]

And here's the prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Catherine Evans.

I know whose side I'm on.

[Mr. Harley]

But Kuciwalker - I was a Catholic and I didn't do single issue voting back then.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I have found though that the DP serves as a pretty damn good bellweather of where the individual stands on social issues in general.

I don't think applies very nicely in the US, especially where you do have a decent amount of libertarian minded people (not members of the Libertarian Party, mind).

[Mr. Harley]

Imran, I noted bellweather, and I should have specified politicians. Individuals vary, and one thing that attracts me to this board is that their are a VERY high number of people who believe in many libertarian ideals, without the lack of practicality of the true believer - apologies to Berzerker. I also may have become a bit jaded, having now lived the last 21 years of my life in the Bible Belt. Their are NOT many libetarians in this part of the country, and most of those are tax/federal libetarians who are very comforable with laws compelling behavior.

[Japher]

I also may have become a bit jaded, having now lived the last 21 years of my life in the Bible Belt.

That's why there is marketing... you think the bible is real? It's just a marketing scam by the wine makers and waffer bakers to sell more goods... nothing to do with "god"