>>Well, you've got the Dutch guys, who tend to be pretty liberal, and I fit in pretty well with them. These days, one is often described as the loonie left if one believes that no one should starve while others eat, no one should die from inadequate medical care while others receive it, no one should freeze to death or die of heat stroke while others have shelter. Period. Working or not, immigrant or not, documented or not, addicted or not, criminal or not. My principle is simple: we are all equal in our humanity, and that consideration is primary for me in deciding whether others should get what is needed to survive, and indeed, thrive.
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>Sign me up for that "loonie left." I couldn't have said it better.
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>Tamar
Sign me up for the schizophrenic left and right <g>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
