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| Ideology: | Conservative | Education: | High School | |
| Party: | Republican Party | Ethnicity: | Other | |
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| About Me: | I hope to present debates outside the quotidian norm. I am a devout societal malcontent with a religion and an attitude. I am undergoing a classical Christian education. I work at the local library, which is just amazing, especially compared to my former employment at McDonald's. I love to read and write, and I write and read to love. I mildly support McCain-Palin, mostly because Obama is a untested socialist dark horse with radical, freedom-sapping tendencies. All in all, not a good thing for America. I blog at www.mosingsonlife.blogspot.com |
| Activities: | Cycling, Football, Hiking, Soccer, Bowling. Soccer is the best sport in the universe. |
| Beliefs: | I am generally a orthodox Calvinist Christian, with strong Pro-Life views. I believe in the free market but not in reason being the ultimate power in the universe. I like cats better than dogs, Fords better than Chevrolets, Turner better than Monet, Football more than baseball, and Vaughan Williams and Brahms over Vivaldi and Rachmaninoff. I'm center-right politically, and I would have voted for Fred Thompson first and Mike Huckabee second, should they have attained the nomination. |
| Books: | J.K. Rowling, Tom Clancy, John Grisham, Timothy Zahn, Jonathan Stroud, James Herriot, (many, many more) and recently, Jorge Luis Borges, and Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Shadow of the Wind. |
| Movies: | Patton, Lord of the Rings, Amazing Grace, August Rush, DARK KNIGHT!, Wall-E, The Queen, Adam's Rib, Bringing Up Baby, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Tucker, The Thin Man, The Scarlet Pimpernel, the 1985 BBC Pride and Prejudice. |
| Music: | Red Hot Chili Peppers!! to the max, Third Day, Newsboys, Norah Jones, Weezer, Rihanna, White Stripes, Raconteurs, Ozzy, Jeremy Camp, The Beatles, CREAM!, Hendrix, and much more. |
| Quotes: | "It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God." --Mary Daly "Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease." --Heraclitus "The world will ever bow to those who hold principle above policy, truth above diplomacy, and right above consistensy." --Macaulay (Speaking about ending a sentence with a proposition) "That is the type of pedantry up with which I will not put." --Sir Winston Spenser Churchill "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." --Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America "Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." --Margaret Thatcher |
| Sports Teams: | The Green Bay Packers rock! Yes, I am a died-in-the-wool cheesehead. Minnesota Twins, and the American and British national soccer teams. |
| TV Shows: | We don't own a TV, but I enjoy watching Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, Fawlty Towers and Monty Python on YouTube. The thing these shows have in common is that they are BBC productions and thus rarely shown on these shores. Thank heavens for YouTube and British television, I say. |
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| High School: | Baldwin Christian School, Class of 2010
Baldwin, Wisconsin, United States
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The War On Terror is justifiable and effective.
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Turner's Rain, Steam, and Speed is a truer impressionist painting than Monet's Impression, Sunrise
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Prayer should not have been removed from public schools.
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This is a Poetry Battle
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Cornwall should have a devolved Assembly/Parliament
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| Debate Statistics | |
| Debates: | 28 |
| Lost: | 3 |
| Tied: | 1 |
| Won: | 24 |
| Win Ratio: | 88.89% |
| Percentile: | 98.80% |
| Elo Ranking: | 3,240 |
| Statistics based on completed debates. | |
| Activity Statistics | |
| Forum Posts: | 8 |
| Votes Cast: | 179 |
| Opinion Arguments: | 0 |
| Opinion Questions: | 0 |
| • | Abortion | Con |
| • | Affirmative Action | Con |
| • | Animal Rights | N/S |
| • | Barack Obama | N/S |
| • | Border Fence | Pro |
| • | Capitalism | N/S |
| • | Civil Unions | Con |
| • | Death Penalty | Pro |
| • | Drug Legalization | Con |
| • | Electoral College | N/S |
| • | Environmental Protection | Pro |
| • | Estate Tax | Con |
| • | European Union | N/S |
| • | Euthanasia | Con |
| • | Federal Reserve | N/S |
| • | Flat Tax | Pro |
| • | Free Trade | N/S |
| • | Gay Marriage | Con |
| • | Global Warming Exists | Con |
| • | Globalization | N/S |
| • | Gold Standard | N/S |
| • | Gun Rights | Pro |
| • | Homeschooling | N/S |
| • | Internet Censorship | N/S |
| • | Iran-Iraq War | Pro |
| • | Labor Union | Con |
| • | Legalized Prostitution | N/S |
| • | Medicaid & Medicare | Con |
| • | Medical Marijuana | Con |
| • | Military Intervention | N/S |
| • | Minimum Wage | Pro |
| • | National Health Care | Con |
| • | National Retail Sales Tax | Con |
| • | Occupy Movement | N/S |
| • | Progressive Tax | Con |
| • | Racial Profiling | Pro |
| • | Redistribution | N/S |
| • | Smoking Ban | Con |
| • | Social Programs | Con |
| • | Social Security | Pro |
| • | Socialism | N/S |
| • | Stimulus Spending | N/S |
| • | Term Limits | Pro |
| • | Torture | N/S |
| • | United Nations | Pro |
| • | War in Afghanistan | Pro |
| • | War on Terror | Pro |
| • | Welfare | Con |