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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    That's hardly applicable to this situation. Single parents have a harder time raising children. There is no empirical evidence that gay couples have a harder time raising children, at least none that I am aware of.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    While I'm not going to argue in length over the rest of this, I cannot stress just how much I disagree with this. Laws are not based on principle. They are based on reality. After all, every court in this land has the right to permanently strike down a law based on merit. If a politician creates a law saying "No one shall declare themselves Warlord of the Moon", that is technically fair "in principle" and most everyone on the planet would agree that no, it's not right for someone to declare themselves Warlord of the Moon. But you don't go creating a law based on that "principle", especially in this country, because any judge would strike it down due to its lack of discernible impact on society (laws have to be applicable and have a reason to exist or they can be nullified) and whether it's a just law "in principle" is completely irrelevant in the eyes of the court.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Well said. Nobody with a brain. America has spent the past ten years not throwing the right people in jail. No war profiteers are in jail. No sleazy bank profiteers are in jail. Now, there will be no IRS officials in jail. But hey, we've got lots of poor black men in jail for slinging the drugs that white people want. That counts for something, right?
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Obama made my blood boil with his stance on SSM being a state issue. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, civil rights cannot be a state issue and Obama's stance was pandering of the highest level. Even the most adamant Libertarians (the rational ones, anyway) admit that civil rights are the one thing that needs to be cast with a broad brush in a Republic. It transcends culture and regional "needs". You can't have people losing and gaining fundamental rights simply because they crossed an invisible line within the same nation, otherwise that nation begins to break down on a base level. Which is where I depart radically from the views of, say, Rand Paul (who I respect in some regards and vehemently disagree with in others).
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    We don't? Really? I'll ask Parker about it. Email me at brock@twinsdaily.com and we'll get you set up through an alternative method.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I can't think of any, which is why I've long believed that the more rights we grant to people, the better off we'll be as a society. There simply isn't much of a downside to giving rational adults the rights they want/need. The overwhelming majority of the time, the only people who care are old folks who just want things "they way they were", which is hardly a reason to do anything, really. In 40 years, gay marriage opponents will have either adapted to modern culture or their grandchildren will be mortified every time they speak, just as my generation was mortified every time we heard a parent/grandparent utter the word nigger in conversation.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. Let's not confuse substance with verbosity. Decartes may have been a very smart man and may have had some good points in his meditations but that doesn't mean they weren't circular and that the main premise was lacking in substance because of it.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    You can get cute with bumping that all you want but Keye's argument was entirely non-sensical. Listen to the actual content instead of the big words he's throwing around for effect. It's a circular argument and is completely devoid of substance.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeesh. It will be interesting to see how it plays out as we find out more. Pretty ugly stuff.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    It's the first non-wiki and non-news link when you Google "Tea Party". Tea Party - Join the Movement. Support the Tea Party. Or you can just assume the web developer guy doesn't understand how Google works and how websites gain priority and "legitimacy". I suppose that's logical.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I couldn't help but laugh at that video. It was basically nothing more than an incoherent string of words that led directly back to the same point, which was "Gay people shouldn't get married... because of stuff. In principle." He sure did dress it up purdy, though.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    To continue the pragmatist line of thinking, gay marriage makes sense from a financial standpoint. Married people tend to be more stable. Having a built-in support network, they tend to rely on the state less and give more to it. Also, allowing gay people to marry means there will be more adoptions, given that gay people can't have children on their own without artificial insemination or a surrogate mother. More adopted children means less of a state burden in the foster care system, as there are plenty of children to adopt in this country. All in all, I can't really see a justifiable reason not to allow it.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Prevalent, yes. But not nearly as prevalent as we've seen in the underground polygamous cultures spread around this country. Going to middle school in rural Utah, I saw some pretty ugly sides to polygamy, such as the girls who were pulled out of school by their fathers the MOMENT they were legally allowed to do so. If we can find a way to empower those girls and do away with some of those horrible elements that are so intertwined with polygamy, I would have zero issues legalizing the practice. I haven't looked up any stats in a long time but there's a much larger chance of birth disorders with children from familial relationships. If I recall correctly, the chances of two first cousins having a child with birth defects is about the same chance a woman of 40 has of birthing a child with similar problems. I don't feel like looking it up but once you get closer than first cousins, that number jumps quite a bit (as you'd probably expect). If you have "inbred" children borne from "inbred" children (two generations of familial relationships), that number jumps to the stratosphere.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I can't speak for anyone else but it's not based on emotion for me... It's based entirely on the fact that gay marriage does not affect me one bit and I generally avoid preventing consenting adults from doing things that do not affect me. What's your reason?
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Bookmarking the lyrics to the Lollypop Guild for future reference.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Brodin has been banned for three days. If you're reading this, do NOT try to create another account or all accounts will be banned permanently.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, brother.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Except that those problems are still prevalent in polygamous marriages. In fact, you could say that modern polygamy is built on those principles, especially after it went underground. And there's a significant difference between "if you have a child after 40, there's a 4% chance it could suffer mental disabilities" versus "you have a child with your sister, there's a 50% chance it will carry a regressive gene and will suffer from mental disabilities". Let's not even pretend they're the same thing. EVEN THEN I'm not entirely against familial relationships, provided extensive gene testing is done beforehand as a common sense precaution. Hey, it's not on me. Not my problem who loves whom. But when the risk is so high versus the amount of people who wish to partake in such a thing, society as a whole probably isn't going to agree with me.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    It's not liberals. From the Tea Party website (pay particular attention to #15): 15 Non-negotiable Core Beliefs 1. Illegal aliens are here illegally. 2. Pro-domestic employment is indispensable. 3. A strong military is essential. 4. Special interests must be eliminated. 5. Gun ownership is sacred. 6. Government must be downsized. 7. The national budget must be balanced. 8. Deficit spending must end. 9. Bailout and stimulus plans are illegal. 10. Reducing personal income taxes is a must. 11. Reducing business income taxes is mandatory. 12. Political offices must be available to average citizens. 13. Intrusive government must be stopped. 14. English as our core language is required. 15. Traditional family values are encouraged.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I know. I'm just suggesting that it's hard to say whether his value will drop, raise, or stay the same. There's still a lot of baseball to be played before trade season revs up. If Josh is anywhere close to his 2012 numbers (let's say an .850 OPS), his value will actually be higher this season. Less contract left, better track record of health and production. And with the weather heating up, it's not unreasonable to expect him to hit a few more dingers through June and part of July. Or he could break his face on a pitching machine tomorrow. Anything is possible.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Pretty hard to get too fired up about a fourth place team playing a fifth place team on one of the first truly nice days we've seen in Minnesota this year. Plus, it's a home game. Some users are probably in the stands.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Hey, they scrapped out two runs. The lineup is spent and needs a break for at least two innings.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Eh, hard to say. He ended April with a .944 OPS before absolutely collapsing in May. Two weeks ago, he looked just like the 2012 version of Josh Willingham. Then in May, he looked like Aaron Hicks at the plate and Oswaldo Arcia in the field. Time will tell if he recovers. His OPS is still close to .800.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    *in Ron Burgundy voice* Well done, everybody. Really top-notch work.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Vance Worley > Mike Pelfrey Mike's stats just didn't line up with those saying Worley should be demoted. At some point, Pelfrey was going to start giving up flyball and line drive moonshots and it's not surprising that it began to happen the moment he pitched in 70+ degree weather.
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