Two Sentz is Here!

So here goes nothing. I am throwing my hat into the ring, one of the three rings of the circus that has come to be known as SBYnews. Thanks for the invite Joe. I have watched this site grow over the past year or so and I saw the discussion (or lack there of) grow in intensity as the election drew near. Some of the commenters on here were down-right bigoted, racist, ignorant low-lifes. No offense if that’s you. And of course, many comments from my side (the blue or Democratic side) were never allowed to be seen. I know that infuriated many people, myself included. So I started my own blog called “Two Sentz – Spreading the Blue Truth” where we allow all comments uncensored and in real-time. Joe has informed me that I am not allowed to link to it so you’ll have to “Google” it. Let me also add that Two Sentz will still be my main endeavor so keep checking it, but I will occasionally post here to.

Along the way at Two Sentz we picked up a troll who constantly played devil’s advocate and purposely tried to get under our skin by using racist and derogatory comments when referring to Barack Obama, democrats, liberals etc. He did raise good questions though, as many do here. Here is an excerpt from a Two Sentz discussion between this Anonymous troll and myself. First the troll:

Come on here guys what the heck? I see you spilling half truths more than a little. How about that drug screen for all the money you will give away, how about abortion for birth control, come on you guys convinced a bunch of people who if they had to take a reading writing test would flat out fail, bunch of dead beats looking for more. Once the general public sees their money taken, how bout your 401k (if you have saved) more worthless individuals getting cash for nothing, and lets not forget public safety against our enemies. Why do you think they wanted him elected, because like Jimmy Carter they will attack and we will cower under this guy. Besides how does someone like him attend Princeton and Harvard...at the public trough of course. I bet half you guys are unemployed and waiting for your check. So all you guys, until you are willing to talk turkey about Chicago crime rate, until you will address the homegrown terrorist he hangs with, until you are willing to discuss the drug testing for public money, AND LETS NOT FORGET THE BIRTH CERT. Has anyone seen a copy or the original of this document? Keep giving it away, then when they come for yours you can all live together. No you guys will kill yourselves at the public trough. NOT ONE OF YOU HAS THE STONES TO DISCUSS THE ISSUES I PUT FORTH.

As you can see, he brought up lots of issues worthy of discussion but like many of the threads I have read here, it is more like a rambling tirade instead of civil discussion. Well I couldn’t let this go unanswered so I had to give him my response. This should give you some insight as to my opinions and position on some issues and hopefully it will serve as a good introduction of me to you the readers.

Drug screening for handouts? I assume you mean the "public trough" you speak of. That is SOOO broad; if you want to talk about it we need to narrow it down some. I will pick one example for us: unemployment. Let's say a drug addict got fired and applied for unemployment. Let’s also say he had a wife and three kids and he was the bread winner and the only way he could provide in the immediate future was to apply for unemployment. Would you be ok with his young children going hungry if he failed a drug test? They didn't do anything wrong. Would it be fair to punish them? Would they have some other assistance? I do think in general it is a great idea but there are problems. Logistically it would be a major undertaking. It would probably create a whole new industry. Who would pay for the drug test? Would all the test administrators in effect be getting a government handout for doing the tests? In some cases it would be easy to enforce and others it would be very hard. Some instances might be scholarships, Medicare, welfare, social security, maybe more. What if certain drugs were legal? Would you be fine with pot heads getting scholarships? If no, maybe your problem is more with drug abuse. Anyway, that is a huge topic.

Abortion for birth control? First of all, abortions reached their peak as a percentage in 1982 and in actual numbers in 1990 and have been on the decline ever since. That is great. I am personally against abortion and would never encourage any woman to have one. I know a few women who have had one and none of them are happy about it. They all wish they had kept it. If you read up on it I think you will find that is the sentiment. It is really devastating and to suggest that women just willy-nilly get them instead of using birth control I think is misguided. I guess the real question is Roe v Wade? I don’t think it will be overturned. I think abortion will happen regardless, they always have. Do you try to make it safer while continuing to make it rarer or do you make women go rogue? I don’t know. Whose interest is at heart? The mother or the unborn? I don’t think it can be both and there is where the choice comes in and thus the division. Another huge topic and one I think has two components, the legal and the moral. I’d love to get more into this but this damn post is so long already.

The 401k’s? You can see my post for my thoughts on that:
http://twosentz.blogspot.com/2008/11/401ks-iras-and-guaranteed-retirement.html

I don’t think we will “cower” behind this guy. I don’t think we will be as combative either. I think we will find a better and more respectable balance.

Attending Princeton and Harvard? Scholarships and loans of course. Plus he had to get some pretty damn good grades. Even if I could afford those schools, I doubt I could have gotten in? Could you? I don’t know if affirmative action helped him if you were implying that.

None of us here are unemployed. We are all married too and all but one has kids.

So, as for the comparison with Chicago and Iraq. Are you comparing civilian deaths to civilian deaths? Iraq has more. Military deaths to military deaths? Iraq has more. All deaths? Iraq has more. Civilian to military? Apples to oranges. Remember too, Barack Obama doesn’t work for the Chicago police force either. I would blame law enforcement, not him. Look at D.C.’s crime rate. Do you blame George Bush?

Bill Ayers. What can I say? Try fightthesmears.com. You can find supporting arguments for either side on the internet. I think Barack is telling the truth. I trust Barack. And why isn’t anyone up in arms about Bill Ayers being a college professor then, if he is so bad? Just saying.

And the birth certificate, well, I suggest you take a trip to the State records office of Hawaii if you still have doubt. According to snopes.com, it’s actually undetermined if McCain is a natural born citizen since he was born in Panama. I say whatever, he is obviously an American.

So my “stones” are now on the table here at SBYnews. I hope that table doesn’t turn out to be a chopping block and I end up regretting this decision. Oh, and this anonymous commenter never did reply back to the points I raised so if you are out there, let’s see what you got, Jack. And sorry for the excessively long post, I know most people don't want to bother with ones this long. Thank you if you are still reading.