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President Trump, along with our Republican majority House and Senate and state governments, as well as our SC majority, are all a good start.

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ORIGINAL: Awareness

Basically Bosco, it seems weird to me that so many Republicans - many of whom live in the poorer states - are so dumb they vote for a government that continually makes their lives far worse. Social assistance goes down when Republicans are in power and unemployment goes UP.

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ORIGINAL: Awareness

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Awareness.
Put up or shut up.

Christians aren't allowed to practice their belief and should be forced to provide services to gay people against their will, but Muslims should be able to preach and adhere to a doctrine that entitles them to murder.

Basically, you hate white people and white men most particularly. You are certifiably insane.

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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amazing you want religious freedom for everyone but muslims???

Why not limit the religious freedom of a death cult

Are you insane?

Rather, how insane are you

Nope, its your constitution that is the problem for you (and the others that think what they think is gonna happen)
It aint. Not unless your constitution is changed.
Nothing to do with me.

Our constitution has never been a suicide pact. All we have to do to return to sane government is vote out the majority of insane Muslim-hugging "liberals" and keep them from anointing insane activist leftist judges

President Trump, along with our Republican majority House and Senate and state governments, as well as our SC majority, are all a good start.

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

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ORIGINAL: Awareness

Basically Bosco, it seems weird to me that so many Republicans - many of whom live in the poorer states - are so dumb they vote for a government that continually makes their lives far worse. Social assistance goes down when Republicans are in power and unemployment goes UP.

The unemployment rate (so far) has done nothing but plummet since Jan, this year. Oh, the rich are getting richer (stock market), but they're expanding and making jobs.

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Look, I was one of those voters that only voted for President Trump because of the she-cunt, running against him. I am embarrassed by his tweets (I'm sure they're written by some adolescent, somewhere) and his public tantrums. His backing of Roy Moore was more than just an embarrassment, it was an affront.

All that said, as it stands, right now, the economy is not one of the things that's moving in the wrong direction.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: Awareness

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Awareness.
Put up or shut up.

Christians aren't allowed to practice their belief and should be forced to provide services to gay people against their will, but Muslims should be able to preach and adhere to a doctrine that entitles them to murder.

Basically, you hate white people and white men most particularly. You are certifiably insane.

So you cant you pathetic idiot, as usual, all mouth and shorts

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ORIGINAL: Awareness

Well that's kind of the issue. Trump inherited a robust economy from Obama (economic effects take longer than that) and the economy is already fine.

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Team Obama: Sorry, America, the ‘new normal’ may be here to stay

The good times may be over for good. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York yesterday, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the US GDP growth rate, adjusted for inflation, is now projected to run a little above 2% a year. That would be a significant downshift from the 3.4% average growth rate from the end of World War II until 2007.

Look at it this way: If the US economy grows at its traditional rate between now and 2040, it would double in size to $37 trillion vs. just 50% growth to $27 trillion at the slower pace. And remember, that growth gap — $10 trillion in 2040 – is cumulative. It would persist year after year and get larger as time passes.

So what’s wrong? An excellent New York Times piece today by reporter Binyamin Appelbaum notes that while economist accept slower growth is partly the result of long-term trends, they also think the aftermath of the Great Recession and the Not-So-Great Recovery are playing a role. Among the former factors, you have (a) the demographically-driven decline in labor force participation and (b) an apparent productivity slowdown starting in the mid-2000s as the pace of technological innovation and diffusion has slowed.

Among the latter factors, you have causes that will seem more or less explanatory, depending on political leanings. Conservatives will like the paper, “Quantifying the Lasting Harm to the U.S. Economy from the Financial Crisis,” by Stanford University economist Robert Hall. He points to the growth in disability and food-stamp programs as hurting labor-force participation. Liberals, on the other hand, will see much wisdom in “A Model of Secular Stagnation” by Gauti Eggertsson and Neil Mehrotra, which argues post recession deleveraging and an increase in inequality “can lead a permanent (or very persistent) slump.”

In his speech, Lew said, “that many today wonder whether something that has always been true in our past will be true in our future.” (Indeed, the 2013 Obama budget declared, “In the 21st Century, real GDP growth in the United States is likely to be permanently slower than it was in earlier eras … .”) Signs abound that the answer to that question is, “No, it won’t.” And while Washington should debate appropriate policy responses, it first needs to accept the reality of trends, both old and recent, that are fundamentally making America’s pursuit of happiness more difficult.

http://www.aei.org/publication/team-obama-sorry-america-the-new-normal-may-be-here-to-stay/

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Jesus himself was persecuted cruelly, and warned his followers to expect the same. He was unjustly accused, and subjected to violence and degrading execution. The New Testament describes the persecution endured by his followers in the years that followed – imprisonment, flogging, seizure of property and death.

The persecution facing Christians is among the largest human rights violation issues in today’s world. It is estimated that 200 million Christians in at least 60 countries are denied fundamental human rights solely because of their faith. (The statistics on this page bring together the research of the Christian charities Release International, The Barnabas Fund and the World Evangelical Alliance.)

The most common forms of persecution of Christians are violence against people and property, exclusion from education and employment, and removal of access to housing, Bibles or food and water. This kind of persecution occurs in countries where Christians form a minority of the population or in countries where the government regards any religion as a threat to their authority.

It is tragically true that there have been incidents where Christians have fought back or initiated violence against those of other religions. The vast majority of Christians and their leaders deplore this. It is completely contrary to the teaching of Jesus.

In the UK there is no apparent direct persecution of Christians. However, there has been a rise in an aggressive kind of secularism which is intolerant of Christianity. Some Christians sense that their ideas, symbols and activities are being marginalised. As evidence of this they draw attention, for instance, to Christian images relating to Christmas being replaced with symbols of winter by some city councils. In some situations Christians have found the implications of their beliefs to be unacceptable to their employers.

On UK television, Christians long to see themselves portrayed as normal and reasonable. It is not uncommon for Christian characters to be presented in drama as narrow-minded or hiding evil intentions behind a show of religion. While this does not constitute persecution, it fosters an attitude of mistrust in which prejudice can thrive...

Michel Gove, minister in the 2010-2015 Government:

The contrast between the Christianity I see our culture belittle nightly and the Christianity I see our country benefit from daily could not be greater.

Dr Taj Hargey, imam of the Summertown (Oxford) Islamic Congregation:

Christianity is under siege in this country. Britain’s national religion has never been so marginalised and derided by the public institutions that should be defending it.

Jonathan Wynne-Jones, journalist, writing in the Daily Telegraph:

Once faith has been made to look ridiculous, the attempts of believers to rebut the criticism will be met with deaf ears. And then the line between ridicule and persecution becomes even thinner.

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"Are Christians being persecuted?"

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So retails sales are up, jobless numbers are down, but the economy is fucked?

Dude, that's not even a story Fox News would try and tell. Just face it, the country is going into 1.5 trillion dollars of extra debt so that billionaires can buy more planes and yachts. It's the biggest theft of taxes in American history.

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ORIGINAL: longwayhome
Incidentally the Qur'an is very specific about what constitutes a just war.

"A military Jihad has to obey very strict rules in order to be legitimate.

The opponent must always have started the fighting.
It must not be fought to gain territory.
It must be launched by a religious leader.
It must be fought to bring about good - something that Allah will approve of.
Every other way of solving the problem must be tried before resorting to war.
Innocent people should not be killed.
Women, children, or old people should not be killed or hurt.
Women must not be raped.
Enemies must be treated with justice.
Wounded enemy soldiers must be treated in exactly the same way as one's own soldiers.
The war must stop as soon as the enemy asks for peace.
Property must not be damaged.
Poisoning wells is forbidden. The modern analogy would be chemical or biological warfare."

Dude seriously. Islam is started by Muhammad right? Yet he attacked Mecca despite Mecca folks wanting to talk and not fight, and then he conquered Mecca.

ALL BECAUSE, allies of Mecca robbed his allies.

Just some bullshit excuse to conquer another city.

He made up this rules, but he certainly is a cunning one who knows how to make up rules to suit himself to start wars and hypocritically disobey his own rules too when it suits him.

The originated of Islam is the role model and we can just look at his actions to form conclusions of what this religion is about.

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ORIGINAL: longwayhome
Incidentally the Qur'an is very specific about what constitutes a just war.

"A military Jihad has to obey very strict rules in order to be legitimate.

The opponent must always have started the fighting.
It must not be fought to gain territory.
It must be launched by a religious leader.
It must be fought to bring about good - something that Allah will approve of.
Every other way of solving the problem must be tried before resorting to war.
Innocent people should not be killed.
Women, children, or old people should not be killed or hurt.
Women must not be raped.
Enemies must be treated with justice.
Wounded enemy soldiers must be treated in exactly the same way as one's own soldiers.
The war must stop as soon as the enemy asks for peace.
Property must not be damaged.
Poisoning wells is forbidden. The modern analogy would be chemical or biological warfare."

Dude seriously. Islam is started by Muhammad right? Yet he attacked Mecca despite Mecca folks wanting to talk and not fight, and then he conquered Mecca.

ALL BECAUSE, allies of Mecca robbed his allies.

Just some bullshit excuse to conquer another city.

He made up this rules, but he certainly is a cunning one who knows how to make up rules to suit himself to start wars and hypocritically disobey his own rules too when it suits him.

The originated of Islam is the role model and we can just look at his actions to form conclusions of what this religion is about.

Do you ever read anything with an open mind?