Hello all! I came across America's Debate entirely by accident while searching for big cat species of North America. How'd that happen?! Anyway, my name is Keisha, I'm wife to one, mother to three kids, one cat and two American Quarter Horses. I'm a native Okie who enjoys a slow, simple life. I have a love/hate relationship with technology. I will not own a cell phone but can't do without an electric can opener. My husband and I are in the process of building our own house with our own hands and our own money. When we aren't busy with the house project, I enjoy watching my kids be rowdy, rambunctious kids and spending time with my horses. My favorite way to unwind after a busy day is sitting on the front porch with a cold beer, listening to the crickets, whippoorwills and coyotes.

I'm the only registered Republican in my family of Democrats and non-voters. My interest in politics and government comes and goes, depending on what is going on in the world but I am always a supporter of our troops and a proud American. I have strong opinions on immigration, abortion, religion, war and don't get me started on what a waste NASA is! I am strongly against ADD/ADHD medications for children. I'm for keeping America's rural areas rural, and against imminent domain. I'm against developers buying out struggling family farmers, kicking them off their land, only to tear up the land to build golf courses, tennis courts and overpriced homes for high falutin rich folks. I'm for restrictions on medication purchases to slow or end the meth problem. I've seen the great results that law made in Oklahoma and I believe it should be extended to a Federal Law. I'm for truckers. Both my Dad and big brother are over the road truck drivers. if you've got it, a trucker brought it!

I think I've made this a little longer than I intended. Did I mention I tend to ramble? If you would like to know more, please don't hesitate to ask!

Welcome to the forum, rhinosgirl.

Do you have girls or boys? What are their ages?

So, why are you called Rhinosgirl? ...and whats wrong with NASA? ....space exploration rules!

...and welcome to the forum by the way

Welcome aboard, rhinosgirl!

A gift from your new friends!


Happy debating!


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Welcome aboard, rhinosgirl. Love your avatar.

Welcome from a fellow cat person.

Welcome to the forum!. I use to live in Ada years ago as a kid.

Thanks for the welcome Mrs. Pigpen. My oldest is my boy Trace, he's 9. Then there are my two girls, Alyssa, who turns 7 in two days and Karsen, who I like to say is 2 going on 12. They are a handful but I wouldn't trade them for anything.



Well, the reason I am called rhinosgirl is because when I met my husband in high school, he drove an old Chevy truck, all fixed up and fast running and he likes to say I fell in love with his truck before I fell for him and he called the truck "rhino"...that's why I'm rhinosgirl. We still have that old truck by the way.

I didn't have a problem with NASA until they started trying to blow apart comets to study them. I'm no scientist and I don't claim to know everything about space, or even a little bit about space, but it didn't seem very wise to be blowing apart a comet like that without knowing what would happen. Just to see what it was made of? Does it really matter what the comet is made of? If it's going to hit us, it's going to cause damage no matter what it's made of. For all they knew, firing that probe into it, it could have changed the trajectory of the comet and sent it hurtling right at us.

Aside from that personal issue with NASA, I think there are more important things, right here on Earth that we could be learning about and spending money on. To my way of thinking, it doesn't make much sense to spend all that money to find out if human life can exist on some distant planet when we have a perfectly good planet right here. Are we studying these other planets because we need another planet to destroy once we've royally messed this one up? Bad idea. I understand studying the moon and knowing all we possibly can about it because it directly relates to us and our planet, but I don't see the sense in studying Mars and Jupiter. It is human nature to learn and know everything we can about our surroundings but I personally would prefer to see a cure for cancer or AIDS in my lifetime rather than pictures of rocks from other planets. So, that's why I dislike NASA. I'd be glad to hear why you think space exploration is great and why I should reconsider my opinion of NASA.

Thanks for the welcome!

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I came across it by accident too. I am looking forward to good debate as a solid conservative though.