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• Family Probes Death of 8-Year-Old Daughter Believed ‘Murdered’ to Harvest Organs

  May 15, 2013 at 9:25pm

  In reply to 2dogs.

  Your comment is completely false. As a paramedic, I can assure you the doctors don’t even look at your ID to see if you are donor until one of two things occur.
  1) You cannot be revived after significant amount of effort.
  2) You are in a vegetative state and the family requests that you be taken off life support.

  The doctors could care less in the ER if you are donor.

• City Threatens Child’s Remarkable Playhouse Over Zoning Laws

  April 30, 2013 at 2:37pm

  “They were actually warned by code enforcement authorities when they were constructing the playhouse back in December, but proceeded to build it anyway.”

  They clearly knew what they were doing was against the historical district regulations. They made the choice to continue building it, probably with the intention of fighting it later if they had too. What they probably weren’t expecting was a $1000 variance fee and a $25 daily fine while they were fighting it. They didn’t think through their decisions in the past very well and now they have a choice, tear it down or come up with the money and fight.

  I also wonder if “I can’t afford $1,000 to just apply for a variance. I don’t have that type of money” really means I don’t want to use it for a variance. Because why on earth do you have a massive playhouse with electrical and a T.V. for your kid if you don’t have $1000 in savings?

• Gun Store Running AR-15 Giveaways on Facebook Sees Page Shut Down — And Facebook Hasn’t Contacted Him to Say Why

  April 21, 2013 at 10:22pm

  Why does someone pay thousands of dollars to advertise on Facebook when that company is openly hostile towards their beliefs? It is well known that Facebook is a heavily left leaning company. Why do conservatives give it money?

  I am not saying get off Facebook. Use it for free. Create pages for free. But give your advertising dollars to like-minded companies. You could even use those advertising dollars to point people to your Facebook page. But why give them your dollars directly?

  I say leech off these companies. Use their services and don’t engage in behavior with them that generates them money (paying for advertising, clicking on ads, participating in surveys, or even more importantly buying their stock) But honestly, how many of you actually hold Facebook stock? Check your portfolio, you may not use Facebook, but don’t be surprised if you find it lumped in a mutual fund you own.

• Gun Store Running AR-15 Giveaways on Facebook Sees Page Shut Down — And Facebook Hasn’t Contacted Him to Say Why

  April 21, 2013 at 10:05pm

  In reply to Baddoggy.

  @Pittac1

  Seriously. You hurl an insult with every comment. Your profile was created today and you only post on this story. Looks like you are somehow tied to the company. Really not a good impression to be insulting on every comment.

• Gun Store Running AR-15 Giveaways on Facebook Sees Page Shut Down — And Facebook Hasn’t Contacted Him to Say Why

  April 21, 2013 at 9:55pm

  In reply to welovetheUSA.

  @TheDHndrsn

  Your comment is awesome!

• Gun Store Running AR-15 Giveaways on Facebook Sees Page Shut Down — And Facebook Hasn’t Contacted Him to Say Why

  April 21, 2013 at 9:52pm

  In reply to revelation2012.

  @Pittac1

  I am assuming you are in some way associated with the company in the article. Which is why I am singling you out. If you are not, I am sorry.

  The store is getting free advertising on The Blaze. This is the target audience. This is going to generate traffic to the website. Don’t ruin it by being mean. You may be right on some issues, but being mean about it isn’t honorable and doesn’t show integrity.

• Gun Store Running AR-15 Giveaways on Facebook Sees Page Shut Down — And Facebook Hasn’t Contacted Him to Say Why

  April 21, 2013 at 9:49pm

  In reply to TJexcite.

  @Pittac1

  You don’t pay “to be there”. Be nice. You pay for advertising.

• Gun Store Running AR-15 Giveaways on Facebook Sees Page Shut Down — And Facebook Hasn’t Contacted Him to Say Why

  April 21, 2013 at 9:46pm

  In reply to Godfather.1.

  @Pittac1

  First, lets all be nice. What happens to you stinks but we have to separate a few issues. You don’t pay for Facebook or your page. Pages are free. Advertising on Facebook is separate and not a requirement for having a page. If you chose to advertise on Facebook, I would recommend firing your marketing guy. Because you gave $8,000 to a liberal organization that actively (and financially) fights against your beliefs… way to go. You just helped fund the “big company” that then gets to step on the little guy (yourself) as well as financed their ability to step on all our rights.

  Honestly, didn’t it worry you that you were spending 8k on advertising with a company with whom you have no legal recourse or binding contract if they decide to shut your page down? They could change their TOS on a moments notice and boot every gun page. I honestly struggle to understand that reasoning.

  Now let me be honest. I have never done any advertising without considering the ROI. My guess is you do the same. Would you have spent the 8k on Facebook if you didn’t think it would produce a financial return? Did you spend 8k on advertising and not see any return? I would empathize more if you spent 8k at one time and then they shut your page down. But, that obviously isn’t the case because that 8k helped you get to 27k visitors in your own words.

• ‘She Has the Right to Stay Home’: TheBlaze Readers Respond to S.E. Cupp’s CPAC Boycott

  March 4, 2013 at 11:54am

  In reply to whatdoibelieve.

  @BOT

  Marriage is a human religious institution. I don’t say that as a negative, just as a fact. There is no other species on the planet that practices marriage. You do have some some species that remain monogamous but that is only one aspect of what modern marriage encompasses. The Bible itself has numerous examples of non-monogamous marriage throughout the OT including the OT law for widows without children.

  As a society that claims to be 70% Christian (we are lying to ourselves) marriage wouldn’t be devalued if removed from government as it is a covenant relationship with God. I would suggest that Christians have done a pretty good job at devaluing marriage as-is.

  Correlation != Causation

  “political revolutions that brought about societal collapse were preceded by a sexual revolution in which marriage and family were devalued”

  Why do you think a society fell into sexual revolution in the first place? That statement could probably be better written as:

  “political revolutions that brought about societal collapse were preceded by [God and following Jesus being] devalued”

  Removing the special government benefits of marriage removes government control over an incredibly important religious institution. Getting government generally out of our personal lives (and especially our religious beliefs) is a really good thing.

• ‘She Has the Right to Stay Home’: TheBlaze Readers Respond to S.E. Cupp’s CPAC Boycott

  March 4, 2013 at 9:38am

  The heart of the problem is that marriage and so many other services relating to marriage (that are social / religious) have been adopted by the government. Why is gay “marriage” a problem.

  1) Because it goes against our religious values. Yes it does, but that is why marriage should be a religious covenant and not a government institution. The moment it became a government institution it immediately watered down the spiritual meaning of it.

  2) A good estate plan can cover the same legal concerns as marriage including visitor rights, beneficiaries, living wills, etc.

  3) We tie all sorts of stuff to marriage like health insurance and then force employers to provide said coverage. How about insurance covers just yourself or insurance that covers you +1. That +1 could be your married spouse, parent, child, etc. Better yet, lets start to disassemble the insurance mess we have, implement tort reform, and allow multi-state competition.

  What annoys me is that both liberals and conservatives what the government out of their lives on some issues but all up in someone else’s business on another issue. When you inflict your values on someone else, don’t be surprised when they do it right back.

  My call to fellow Christians. You don’t want homosexual couples adopting. How about living up to James 1:27 and then maybe you will not have to worry about it. The adoption crisis and social security is only necessary because Christ followers have dropped the ball an