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August 31, 2013 10:07 AM UTC
15 Comments
I like to keep a fairly open mind and give people the benefit of the doubt. Schultheis' comment is a fine example of the republican dinos. What is nice to see is of the 6 comments that responded to his, 5 of them pretty much condemned him for his nasty attitude. Out of the 20 comments on the page, only 5 of them show that dino mentality. To me that says things are indeed changing and the dinos are going extinct. Wishful thinking, perhaps.
Schultheis' statement is truly disgusting.
truly…
and just for clarification…
@EC…you are using the term "dino' as in dinosaur, not the political acronym…correct?
Yes, as in Dinosaur. Yikes, I didn't realize my faux pas at the time. I was so flabbergasted by what he'd written. Dinosaur was the nicest thing I could come up with.
Schultheis's comment is all that and more,but what you'd expect from that sector of th Republican party. I think I'dlike to figure outwhether they have an official rotationfor members or spokesholes to get out fron and establishthe outer-lowest limits to which they'll go on any one issue.Nationaly their bench for such tasks is deep- Limpballs,mAnn Coulter and any number of other legislators, commenters, and the rest of the shameless willing to help establish those lower limits.Statewide the roster is not that broad although they do have the help(?) nation-wide spokesholesThe qustion that's always uppermost in my mind is do these people really believe what they're saying or are they ranging or firing for effect?
I'm convinced they do believe the outrageous things they say – and they also say them for effect. On some level of consciousness they realize (or at least some of them do) that they are a dying breed. So they become more extreme and outrageous so that they can feel as if they're having an impact. Pathetic.
I presume that Dave Scultheis had a mother . . .
. . . look how he turned out.
(Not at all a slam against mothers, btw — just pointing out that there's never just one story, and that there's always more to any story … )
Not to mention that kids either start out or wind up without two parents, one of each gender, for all kinds of reasons. Some have a lousy mother and a lousy father. Some have such awful one of each gender parents they wind up dead of brutality or neglect. His concerns are simply about what he finds personally distasteful, not based on anything factual or practical. The use to which he puts those concerns is political, nor humanitarian.
make that "not".
This is really offensive because Mark and Greg have done a wonderfully compasionate and beautiful thing in finding a child through the foster care system for adoption. These are children who do not have families for whatever reason and sadly children who grow up in the foster care system and are not adopted tend to have a whole bunch of negative outcomes including worst academic results, emotional trauma, higher incidents of drug abuse, homelessness, etc.
Only about 20-25 percent of children in the foster system get permanently adopted. But once they do, those children tend to have similar life outcomes as the general population. The earlier they are adopted as Lila has beem, the better the outcome.
In other words, Mark and Greg are doing an enormously compasionate thing in adopting Lila. They are making sure that Lila will have the same chance at a regular life as most other kids and that is a beautiful thing to be celebrated not smeared as "child abuse." What a horribly distgusting thing Mr. Schultheis is saying…it's a new low even for him.
I looked it up in "Dukes' Dictionary of Ethics"…
Schultheis is a synonym for scumbag.
Powerful comment Vertigo and wise words as well.
This guy once said the most patriotic people he knows are Ollie North, Phyllis Schlafly, Jerry Falwell, and his very good friend James Dobson. They do, or did, like to set the conservative agenda for the state and local levels through the secretive Council for National Policy. It makes one wonder which country he thinks they are so patriotic about.
http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/stealth-race-elicits-headless-rabbits-lemon-drop-memories/Content?oid=1109027
He should run for governor or something.