California's IOUs being traded on Craigslist

[Bluemoon06]

OK.  I am just curious as to how people think.  I usually ask people why they don't like this or that to understand how the American mind works.  I was watching C-Span this weekend (what kind of nerd am I?)  And this congressman was going on and on about how America had the greatest economy, and the greatest healthcare and the greatest schools system.  If he had said any of those I would not have thought about it but because he was going on and on, I wondered why is it that if you tell an American that America is the best country, they accept it as a matter of fact without asking for criteria?

One thing I wonder about is the thinking behind Americans not wanting to make it legal for homosexuals to marry each other.  When you ask people why they are against gay marriage, they invariably say it is harmful to the family.  But gay people by definition can’t breed, so what family are they hurting?  Well they can adopt, but they can adopt now married or not.  So how is them marrying changing adoption?  What I have deduced is that they don’t like homosexuals and they see outlawing homosexual marriage is like outlawing being homosexual.  But it doesn’t it just harasses them.  They are going to be homosexual anyway.  There have been homosexuals since Sodom and Gomorrah.  I was just trying to figure out a legitimate reason to be against it.  As long as they don’t make it mandatory that I marry one I don’t have a problem with it.

[Hooch]

How about "open" gays in the military? Do you think it is a good World image for our marines to skip around and hold eachothers hands? I'm talking about the real sissy type gays.

I agree with you on the gay marriage as long as they can't adopt. I don't think it's right to psychologically twist a child up that way.

[Bluemoon06]

I agree with you on the gay marriage as long as they can't adopt. I don't think it's right to psychologically twist a child up that way.

Gays can adopt now married or not.  The issue is not gays married the issue is that people want to outlaw being gay.  These laws don't outlaw that, they just try to make it more difficult to be gay.

My problem is the concept of gay.  I am not heterosexual or gay.  I am an engineer and a father that likes to play golf.  I am only gay or heterosexual when I am looking for someone to have sex with.  A person that defines themselves by who they screw is weird.  If I can be a protected class because I like to screw guys, I should be a protected class if I like to screw ugly girls, or skinny girls or fat girls. 

[Rich_in_CT]

Good luck with those traded IOUs, from what I understand it may be very hard for the holders if they aren't the name on the front to cash them.  Some banks are taking them for a small fee and from what I gathered only certain banks can do that and have to be some how certified to do it.  I don't think John Smith is going to be able to cash John Doe's IOU when the money becomes available.