poingly

@poingly (605)

United States • Age 43

Joined myLot 15 years ago

www.theendofirony.net

Discussions (18)

poingly's Discussions

Truths about the mosque in Lower Manhattan

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 1 Aug 10

I've heard a lot of people getting upset over the mosque to be built in Lower Manhattan, claiming that it is too close to Ground Zero. More specifically, they have said time and time again that they don't want to have a mosque...

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Alan Greenspan names the most captialist country on the planet....

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 14 Jul 10

...and it's China! Does this freak anyone else out? I mean, with all the right wing and libertarians rallying around the free-market system, is China their pinnacle of this? Kind of a scary thought. If China is the apex of...

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Only 26% of Americans know how many Senators is required to break a filibuster.

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 29 Jan 10

I find this shocking, but a recent poll was released today that only 26% of Americans know the number of Senators required to break a filibuster. This is just a shock to me, and sort of falls into that whole "Are You Smarter Than...

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What do higher taxes for the rich mean?

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 21 Jan 10

I have often heard the argument that we cannot raise the taxes on the rich, because then this will mean that they will somehow lose their motivation to try and be rich. Perhaps someone can explain this argument, because I really...

economy

question

taxes

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Did Judas go to heaven?

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 20 Jan 10

This was an interesting debate two friends of mine once had. One argued "yes" saying that he was doing the will of Jesus (Jesus foretold it; therefore it was his duty to betray Jesus); the other argued no saying that betraying...

jesus

judas

religion

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Jay Leno vs. Conan O'Brien

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 16 Jan 10

Maybe I just missed the discussion, but I have yet to see anything up here on the whole Leno vs. Conan thing...or maybe more accurately Leno and Conan vs. NBC. Anyway, I've never found Jay Leno all that funny, so I was happy...

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Have you ever dreamed about someone who ended up being real?

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 16 Jan 10

So I had a dream the other night, and for the most part is a pretty uneventful dream. The only thing of note was a person of major importance in the dream was a person who I interacted with in the dream. It was pretty vivid, so...

dreams

friends

visions

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How many people should a conjoined twin be allowed to marry?

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 13 Jan 10

Should a conjoined twin be allowed to marry two people? Should a single person be allowed to marry both of the conjoined twins? Do either of these fall under polygamy? It is certainly a unique (and rare) situation, but what do you...

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"Funnest" iPod ever

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 11 Jan 10

Has anyone seen those ads for the iPod Touch that claims it to be the "funnest" iPod ever. Does it bother anyone else that this should technically be the "most fun" iPod ever. Maybe I am just a grammar traditionalist here, but I...

fun

Should some people get two (or three, or four) votes while others only get one?

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 10 Jan 10

So this is sort of spawned off another discussion on here that I was reading. My parents live in a vacation community (though they have retired there full time), and an issue came up where many local residents who owned...

elections

politics

voting

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Universal health care is the only Christian option

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 8 Jan 10

The Pennsylvania Hospital that Ben Franklin founded in 1751 has the following inscription: "Take care of him and I will repay thee." For those who are not in the know, this is from the story of the Good Samaritan from the Bible....

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Constitutional challenge for my conservative friends!

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 15 Dec 09

Health care. I know, I've brought it up before. The conservatives have often said, "Show me where health care is in the Constitution." Well, my friends, that is simply not the way the Constitution or law making works. If Congress...

America can and will control its own population, EXCEPT....

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 14 Dec 09

It seems population control is all the buzz these days. Sure, there are plenty of countries where this is a problem, but I'm not sure America is one of them. I've looked at the stats, and it looks like we're averaging two children...

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Is the bed bug epidemic a myth?

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 14 Dec 09

I'm not saying bed bugs don't exist, and I'm not saying they can't be a problem. However, in recent years, people have really been stepping up the efforts to tell people not to take items off the side of the road for fear of bed...

bed bugs

nyc

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Posts have ratings??

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 11 Dec 09

Haha. I just got a private message explaining to me that posts have ratings! How strange! They warned me that my liberal views will often garner people just negatively rating the discussion simply out of political ideology. To be...

mylot

politics

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Something I really want Glen Beck to say...

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 11 Dec 09

After seeing the South Park episode "Dances with Smurfs," I would love to see Glen Beck say, "What happened to my schooool!?" Just sayin'; I think it would be pretty amazing.

Happy International Human Rights Day!

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 10 Dec 09

I just wanted to wish everyone on here a happy International Human Rights Day! It is today (december 10), after all! Yay!

holidays

politics

rights

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Universal Health Care now! (for the US)

poingly @poingly (605) • United States 9 Dec 09

Though I have no doubt that with each and every day, Congress and insurance companies make health care more and more of a mess, I do believe strongly in universal health care funded by taxes. Here is some reasoning. (1) Make it...

health

politics

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