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abard124

36-year old male in Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States.

Online:	1 Week Ago	Name:	Alex Private
Updated:	2 Weeks Ago	Gender:	Male
Joined:	1 Year Ago	Birthday:	- Private -
President:	Barack Obama (D)	Email:	- Private -
Ideology:	Progressive	Education:	Not Saying
Party:	Democratic Party	Ethnicity:	White
Relationship:	Not Saying	Income:	Not Saying
Interested:	in Women	Occupation:	Not Saying
Looking:	No Answer	Religion:	Jewish - Conservative

About Me:	I am that guy who filled in all the reasons for his political beliefs. Revere me. Or at least make a good rebuttal.
Activities:	everything
Beliefs:	Atheist Jew. If you don't like it, too bad.
Books:	Dude, Where's my Country, Kluge, What Happened
Movies:	Monty Python (Holy Grail and Life of Brian), Holes, Sicko, W., Frost-Nixon, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Airplane, Spaceballs, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Blazing Saddles
Music:	Everything that doesn't suck.
Quotes:	"It's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game" -Anonymous "I know not with what weapons world war 3 will be fought, but world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein
Sports Teams:	NCAA: LONGHORNS (\m/ Hook 'em \m/), Ducks, Beavers NFL: Cowboys, Texans, Chargers, Seahawks, Packers NBA: Blazers, Rockets, Spurs MLB: Mariners, Astros, Rangers (I won't hold it against them that George Bush used to own them)
TV Shows:	SNL, CNN, Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, Family Guy, The Office, Monty Python, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Late Late show

36 Debates

Substantially Increasing Social Services for People in Poverty in the United States

Social services are fine the way they are. some should even be abolished, or lessened...

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Updated 2 Weeks Ago

Nuclear power is a good idea

Today, for the first time in his whole presidency, I was severely disappointed in President Obama. He announced over $8b in federal loan guarantees for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in nearly 3 decades, and promised that it was "only the beginning." [1] He claimed that nuclear power would be beneficial to the environment and the economy. However, even in praising, he admitted that it had "serious drawbacks." He said that they would try to remedy that problem by having lead...

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Updated 2 Weeks Ago

Gun control

You might be asking, am I going to start a gun control debate every time there is a horrible massacre? Maybe so. Because every time I see reports of mass murders and massacres, we all pretend to feel bad about it and we all pretend that we think mass murders are horrible things, but then we go on with our lives and don't do anything at all to prevent more mass murders. Is that not the definition of insanity? Today, in Alabama, a faculty member opened fire and killed at least 3 people because...

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Updated 3 Weeks Ago

The legalization of Marijuana in the United States would benefit all Americans.

"I would like to debate this topic again. This is one of my favorite topics, and in my last debate over this topic, my opponent only posted one round." The legalization of Marijuana in the United States would benefit all Americans. 1. The distribution/use of alcohol is FAR more dangerous than the distribution/use of Marijuana. 2. The alcohol industries and tobacco industries have both flourished in any economy, why wouldn't the Marijuana industry flourish? 3. Marijuana is already b...

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Updated 4 Weeks Ago

Drugs are bad.

I would like somebody to tell me how drugs are not bad. Any type of drugs. Even pharmapsudical drugs. <---- Bad on the immune system....

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Updated 1 Month Ago

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Debate Statistics
Debates:	36
Lost:	19
Tied:	0
Won:	17
Win Ratio:	47.22%
Percentile:	98.05%

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•	Abortion	ProComments This topic is not set up well. I am moderately pro-choice, but ademately anti-abortion and pro-alternative, I just think it shouldn't be illegal.
•	Affirmative Action	ConComments It's racism/sexism in disguise
•	Border Fence	ConComments build a 50 foot fence, someone will build a 51 foot ladder. A fence is a huge waste of money. The only way to reduce illegal immigration is to improve things in Mexico.
•	Campaign Finance Reform	ProComments I support McCain/Feingold. It's not right for corporations to be treated as individuals, because they aren't.
•	Civil Unions	ConComments I am strongly against civil unions, but once again, it's a bad category. I am for full on Gay marriage.
•	Death Penalty	ProComments mildly, only for mass murder
•	Drug Legalization	ProComments I've had a change of heart here. I feel like drugs should be legal, but if they cause you to do something illegal, you shouldn't be able to use that as an excuse. Also there should be laws around them similar to our dwi laws.
•	Environmental Protection	ProComments Abso-freakin'-lutely. It is the most important thing in the world, because nothing else matters once we're dead.
•	Estate Tax	ProComments better than sales tax
•	Euthanasia	ProComments It's your body, you should have the right to end your own life, or decide what to do with it if certain things happen.
•	Flag Burning	ProComments Not clear if it means laws against or doing it itself. I interpreted it as meaning whether or not it should be legal. Seriously, flag burning isn't as bad as some things.
•	Flat Tax	ProComments I'd much prefer a progressive tax, but I'm afraid of a reverse progressive tax.
•	Gay Marriage	ProComments If you take away gay marriage, you'd better also take away straight marriage.
•	Global Warming Exists	ProComments Climate change is a better term. But a rose by any other name, it still exists, and that is a scientific fact.
•	Gun Rights	ConComments Guns are dangerous and they kill people. I understand that most that are used to kill people are from the black market, but many of those come from stealing from those that have them.
•	Labor Unions	ProComments If it wasn't for the workers, you would have a less comfortable life, so you'd better respect them.
•	Late Term Abortion	ConComments Here's where I break on Abortion. Embryo is always okay, early fetal stage is fine, later and it's iffy.
•	Medicaid & Medicare	ProComments Everyone has the right to healthcare.
•	Medical Marijuana	ProComments Just let people be comfortable....
•	Minimum Wage	ProComments Unfair to workers. Everyone that works deserves money, and factory workers work way harder than CEO's, so they deserve some gratification, even if it means minimum wage, its better than no wage at all.
•	Missile Defense System	ConComments Fighting fire with fire doesn't work.
•	NAFTA	UndComments On the one hand, free trade helps international relations, but on the other, it often outsources jobs.
•	National Health Care	Pro
•	National Retail Sales Tax	ConComments very unfair with no regard to wealth. There are some people who are very rich that don't buy much, and there are some people who are very poor due to overspending. Plus I live in Oregon, so I don't want to ever pay sales tax :-)
•	Patriotism	ProComments This is a horrible question! I live in America, and I wouldn't live anywhere else.
•	PETA	UndComments On the one hand, I support all unions, but I don't support what they stand for. However, the first amendment allows for them to do what they do legally.
•	Police Profiling	UndComments Absolutely not by what most Americans think of profiling, but maybe the way they do it in the Ben Gurion airport, but to a smaller extent.
•	President George W. Bush	ConComments A puppet to a bunch of Neocons! gotta love it!
•	Progressive Tax	ProComments Rich can pay.
•	School Vouchers	ConComments Maybe we should fix the public school system instead of giving it up altogether.
•	Social Programs	Pro
•	Social Security	ProComments Everyone should feel safe when they retire
•	Term Limits	UndComments For executives, yes. For legislators, no. FDR was a great president, but 4 terms is too much. Legislators, however, mostly just make the bills and vote on them, so it makes sense to let them stay as long as people like how they vote.
•	Tobacco Rights	ProComments I used to feel that it should be illegal, but that kind of takes away rights. It should, however, be highly discouraged.
•	United Nations	ProComments Although it isn't terribly productive, we need a good way to communicate with the countries of the world.
•	United States	ProComments huh? Of course I love my country!
•	War in Afghanistan	ProComments It was right to start with, but it is a problem that we haven't found Osama yet.
•	War in Iran	ConComments That is asking for nukes to be thrown at us.
•	War in Iraq	ConComments It ended when we killed Saddam and decided that there are no WMD's. What more do you want, Mr. GOP?
•	War on Terrorism	UndComments That's kind of an umbrella for the last 3
•	Water Boarding	ConComments Once we invented the polygraph, we don't need to torture. Tortured people can get away with lying. Polygraphs work 99.9% of the time. Even if terrorists are trained to beat them, they're also trained to lie under torture. Water boarding is torture.
•	Welfare	ProComments Everyone who can't work deserves the same amount of opportunity as those who can.
•	World Trade Organization	N/O