[gackle]

Originally Posted by ozzy gurl

I'm also feeling very strongly about this topic right now due to a conversation held in one of my classes today, so if I offended anyone, I didn't mean to.

You and me both I guess and rightly so. This is probably the most polarized topic in America the past few years. As far as I'm concerned you can get as passionate as you'd like as long as the debate does not disintegrate into baseless character assassinations. With that being said...

Originally Posted by ozzy gurl

If you don't like where our country is headed, why don't you leave? I'm not being sarcastic. It's a quite serious question. I'm sick and tired of people saying that they hate where our country is going, if so-and-so is elected they are leaving, etcetera.

Please tell me where I ever said this. I love our country and the soldiers fighting for it. They give Pupart the same right to petition that gives me the right to state my positions against that petition. It's ironic that you mention this though because the only people that I'm aware of that threaten to leave the country are left-leaning celebrities. As far as I'm concerned, it discredits them when they claim they're going to leave the country then never do it. Congrats to Pierre Salinger - he was the only one that ever followed through with his promise. Challenge for you, ozzy gurl - find me a conservative person who has threatened to live somewhere outside the country when a democratic president took office. On a side note, if you offered me land and a house on the southern island of New Zealand I just might take you up. The pictures I've seen from there look like heaven.

Originally Posted by ozzy gurl

The point of living in America is that you don't have to like what is going on, but the founding fathers didn't exactly mean for everyone just to sit on their keisters and complain. They meant for people to actually do something if they don't like it...that's what our constitution and BOR is for.
And don't think that Democrats are the problems for all of America's woes. Pointing fingers solves nothing.

You're right. When my republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry, recently issued an executive order mandating the new HPV Gardasil vaccine for all girls entering the sixth grade I called both my state rep and senator expressing my outrage as well as left a comment on the governor's comment line. I also asked my senator and rep what we need to do to impeach this republican as this is not the first time that he has really angered his base. In addition, I called a statewide talk show doing exactly what you suggested: people were complaining about the executive order so I called to exhort people to stop complaining, get organized, and do something about it. Perry campaigned for relection on the platform of being tough on border security then two weeks after he got reelected (no, I didn't vote for him) he said this:

He said the campaign rhetoric did not foster good relations with Mexico.
“Good neighbors do not foster fear and engage in divisive appeals,” he said. “They seek solutions.”
Perry said he is opposed to building a fence or wall along the entire border with Mexico.
“Strategic fencing in certain urban areas to direct the flow of traffic does make sense, but building a wall on the entire border is a preposterous idea,” he said.
“The only thing a wall would possibly accomplish is to help the ladder business.”
Perry said the federal government needs to quickly enact immigration reform, and he said he supports a guest-worker program that would bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows.

So the democrats aren't the only ones. So here's where you come in, ozzy gurl, because I'm at a loss. Please tell me what action I can take as a single person and citizen of the U.S. to help our soldiers win the war and get the hell outta there? I'd love to hear your suggestions.

Originally Posted by gackle

God bless us all.

When I wrote all, I meant all, including Pupart and ozzy gurl.