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Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion
A 3-year-old Onion video titled "Martial Law Plans Revealed?" has swept across the internet recently, and taken the gullible along with it. The video has some preaching from the highest mountain top about the evils of a government turning fascist, and an equal number explaining until red in the face what The Onion is.
HAHA I love explaining to my left wing friends that the Onion is not real..... now I can tell teh same to my right wing friends!
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I think this is the very definition of a Slow News Day.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
There should be a law. If you're to fucking stupid to realize what The Onion is, or that something came from The Onion, you don't get to comment about politics. Ever.
When we already have a press like this?
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Finally, a real choice!
You mean "blue in the face". Red would imply embarrassment. Those would be the other folks, not the ones getting blue in the face.
"Should event occur in urban areas.... Jesus.... (haunted) That's.. classified."
Seriously, people are complete and total retards. And I mean that in the 3rd grade definition, not in any clinical sense. This should not be news to anyone, especially those of us who've been kicking around the internet for more than a couple of weeks.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Hah. Hilarious. Some people will believe anything I guess.... Tinfoil hats: engaged!
"You killed my yogurt!" --Fred Fredburger
I believe they mispronounced the french when naming their news channel but you get the idea.
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All of a suddan I crave fried onion rings so the article isn't totally a waste of time.
More like swept across 2 dozen facebook entries.
Worst. Editorial promotion to frontpage. Ever.
It's War of the Worlds 2010.
After all, America is the country that was sure it was being attacked by Martians only a couple generations ago, when Orson Welles did his "War of the Worlds" radio show.
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I think we ignore The Onion as a serious news source at our peril, especially now that mainstream media has all but abandoned serious reporting themselves. Imagine what could have been avoided if people had listened in 2001. It's like their reporters had used a fricking time machine!
...remember what they said about Gillette in February 2004? And then what happened in September, 2005?
(Now let's watch as The Onion replaces the writings of Nostradamus as the road map to an apocalyptic future.)
Try citing The Onion AV Club as a source on Wikipedia. No one will believe you. Condescendingly, they'll explain that The Onion is satire.
You mean, there are only morons on Facebook?
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First against the wall when the revolution comes
to prepare for the day when something like this turns into a stand alone complex?
Moving on, our next topics are Santa Clause, Jesus, the Tooth Fairy, and honesty in government.
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This is definitely humorous (and sad), but it still doesn't top China
I totally agree! Also if you don't speak English - how the fuck are you expected to know what's going on? Or if you don't own your own house. Or aren't white. Or a man.
I'm not sure I'm watching the right video. The one I saw is a congressmen reading a bill about response to *zombie* threats.
"Flesh eating," "airborne infection," "urban outbreak."
Please tell me I watched the wrong video.
The government is fascist today, was fascist under Bush, has been fascist since the Bretton Woods agreement. No - it's been fascist since the Constitution was passed. The government is really just the enforcement arm of the international banking guilds who coin the currency and inflate the money supply through unbacked credit. Of course this is the usual misdirection - "See! Only a dweeb who believes fake news would think the American government is a fascist dictatorship." Meanwhile, the government abridges your speech, your right to own weapons, what foods you can eat, what herbs you can grow, what you can and can't do with your own personal property. Some people were just born to be slaves, I suppose.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Poe's Law points out that it is hard to tell parodies of fundamentalism (or, more generally, any crackpot theory) from the real thing, since they both seem equally insane. Conversely, real fundamentalism can easily be mistaken for a parody of fundamentalism.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe's_Law
...That you can find here.
"The plural of anecdote is not data" -- Bruce Schneier
Kindra Arnesen has come out against the bill. She also was quoted saying "Y'all don't know wut all the numbers mean but I'z do because I'z a fishermans wife and I gots maps behind me"
As a result, all her followers have been writing letters to congress in opposition to the bill.
Onion news ISN'T REAL!? This sets me back on some things I believe to be fact... oh dear...
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
After all, in 2001, they had Bush's inaugural address as "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Over"...
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I have the Onion on my RSS feed, and sometimes their posts my jaw drop open and I have to rub my eyes, only to realize my feed has pwnd me yet again.
Why do I M2 everything negatively?
Idiocracy
Is it just me, or does that sound like an awesome description of Z-Day?
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And dont tell me its not real! It IS real! I know it!
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
This is absolutely hilarious. He says "classified" for literally every other word. People really thought this was real?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/24103.html
Go back to sleep Slashdot. It's all just a hoax. Your government has everything under control.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Ones in software sure that I've Code sharing very sick and its myself. This isn't standpoint, I don't dying' crowd - seesion and join in [klerck.org]?
Al Jaffee beat them to the punch 31 years ago!
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Sounds like the US is preparing itself too. Wonder what the equivalent of MAGINOT BLUE STARS is going to be? There must be something eldritch you can do with tens of thousands of TSA staff combined with teraherz scanners... (For obscure references, see http://www.goldengryphon.com/Stross-Concrete.html)
that the slashdot posting system is too slow, and allows too much time for consideration before posting a comment. We need an option to improve ability to fire off knee-jerk reactions unthinkingly. This whole episode is misrepresenting slashdot posters as being less reactionary and idiotic than twitter users.
Nullius in verba
You sheep don't understand!
When the news of this leaked out "they" decided they could hide it by pretending it was humor--why do you think it ended up on The Onion?
Another Poe's Law casualties.
There's no scientific consensus that life is important.
Ignorant people are easy to find, especially among the younger set.
Reminds me of Christina Maldonado's fail back in May. It would be funny if it weren't so sad and scary.
Finding morons on FaceBook is not news. Finding someone on FaceBook that is NOT a moron would be big news, when and if it ever happens!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
"Is your son a computer hacker?" which trolled a certain techie site hard...
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The video wasn't "faked" it was edited to remove context.
Even watching the whole video, she used some pretty stupid language in relating her story despite her intentions. The more damning thing in the video is the crowd's reaction to her attitudes back then ("send him to his kind" followed by chuckles, "yeahs!", etc.). Her claim that the language she used was "how she felt then" is partially not true because it was a way of her as a speaker relating to the crowd.
No, it's not good the context was taken away, but Sharpton / Jackson do this all the time and nowhere do we find the appropriate vitrol for those two. Anytime an issue comes up "intent" and "context" are never relevant for those two.
Whoa, what the hell? They really were involved in an embezzlement controversy, and an internal ACORN investigation found that poor management led to bad behavior on the part of employees. Based on your statements, I'm guessing you visit nothing but left-wing blogs and so have a completely one-sided perspective of nearly everything. Frankly, I find it amusing that the left gets to experience what it's like to have allegedly edited footage portray you in a bad light after all those years of heavily edited "documentaries" like Michael Moore films and Outfoxed.
Pretty much the entire Obama era so far has been an example of the left experiencing all the things they did to the right and an administration doing all the things Bush did. The country didn't change at all.
For a second I thought the Slashdot headline was an Onion-esque headline, reporting the blindingly obvious and mundane as if it were news.
Because it's happened before -- it's how the whole Harry Potter moral panic got started. True story.
The original article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/harry-potter-books-spark-rise-in-satanism-among-ch,2413/http://www.theonion.com/articles/harry-potter-books-spark-rise-in-satanism-among-ch,2413/
And the snopes article: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/potter.asp
It's right there in their constitutions!
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Although to be fair, Arkansas recently repealed their ban on "idiots" voting
http://bit.ly/cYrrmI
Please change the title of this idiots article to "Something happened today", as the current title, "Onion story blown out of proportion" is only 97% recyclable.
As someone who has read The Onion since it was just a newspaper, you have to give them their props. They do such a great job; the stuff is so well produced that it's almost believable.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
you're all just too cruel using the truth.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
That people will believe almost anything (and of course spam all their friends with it) if it eases that "cognitive dissonance".
I hear you. People need to chill the frak out and not just run with the fears in their head.
I think what this actually reveals is how much people let their fears dictate their actions in normal, every day life.
The Invisible Hand of the Free Market is what punches workers in the nuts.
"Most corrupt and legally sanctioned forms of tyranny hide in plain sight as democracies with free elections. The toughest lesson is that ALL elections are distractions. Nothing conceals tyranny better than elections. Few Americans accept that their government has become a two-party plutocracy run by a rich and powerful ruling class. The steady erosion of the rule of law is masked by everyday consumer freedoms. Because people want to be happy and hopeful, we have an epidemic of denial, especially in the present presidential campaign. But to believe that any change-selling politician or shift in party control will overturn the ruling class is the epitome of self-delusion and false hope. In the end, such wishful thinking perpetuates plutocracy. Proof is that plutocracy has flourished despite repeated change agents, promises of reform and partisan shifts." - Joel S. Hirschhorn, author of Delusional Democracy, 2008
14 signs of fascism
http://www.rense.com/general37/fascism.htm
This looks like it has much more to do with Zombies than with a government takeover. Still, it does make one more critical of classified spending.
As funny as this is, what site other than Facebook had commentors thinking this was true?
It would be much more humorous had this been carried by some right-wing blog.
You know what I think of this? Those opinions are Classified.
While the Onion's broad satires should be obvious to a precocious 6 year old, that does not reduce the obligation to monitor our "leaders". If we do not, this will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
She did not complete her first term as governor of Alaska.
Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night. Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Sadly, if you don't know what The Onion is, this is just as believable as Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) thinking that Guam will tip over if there is too many people on it. http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/3169-rep-hank-johnson-guam-could-tip-over-and-capsize
Paranoia will destroy-ya!
And you thought that the right-wing nutjobs were uneducated. To be completely fair, has anybody heard of "The Garden Plot" circa 1959, or "Shiva" circa 1970?
I killed da wabbit -Elmer Fudd
Wait, wait... there are some morons on Facebook?
And they can all vote.
And why would black people have a problem with the word niggardly? It's derived from the same place we get the word nigger. And for a stretch of a few hundred years, when white people would say the word nigger, they would then go out and rape, beat, and kill black people.
So, that's why they get upset when a white person says it, and not when a non-white person says it. It's part of their cultural memory. What is so difficult to understand about that?
Isn't "slow news day" what Idle is for?
As well as Germans, Nazis, Russians and Communists.
All four of those are VERY different things and no two of them are synonymous to each other.
Or maybe I am wrong.
Maybe in your universe Fascist is synonymous with Italian and American is synonymous with racist cowboys?
Also, as someone has pointed out below - Nazis and Fascists were ALWAYS actively against Communists.
Regardless of the Hitler-Stalin pact - which was a ruse for both sides, only it was German dictator who decided to break it first.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Many people have been ignoring the negative effects of Dihydrogen Monoxide. It is a silent killer.
http://www.dhmo.org/
Grandfathers and great-grandfathers of most people here fought a war against the Right.
Maybe you heard of it - it was called World War 2.
So, slamming those fuckers is not just common sense - it is in our genes too.
The actual thing Palin and the Tea Baggers spun and outright lied about was a change in Medicare that would reimburse doctors for having a sit down with Elderly patients to talk about end of life care. There was no panel, there was no committee, it was merely a medical billing/policy change to talk about end of life with the patient. It something that is needed so badly in the health system, and couple reduce suffering and costs.
How that spun into Death Panels I don't know. Why the Media gave legs to the story I don't know. Why the democrats dropped the language I do know. They don't have a collective spine.
Why, US Constitution alone was officially declared obsolete by Congress 17 times so far.
And each time it was amended to be more up to date.
Until it goes obsolete again.
Oh and...
Since you believe that every US president back to 1800s was a traitor and all - does that mean that Sarah Palin is more qualified (in your book) than ALL THOSE PRESIDENTS?
Based on the fact that she is NOT the president, so she had no chance to break 9th and 10th amendment?
Somehow, I really don't think that NOT BEING PRESIDENT makes her instantly qualified FOR ANYTHING.
Also... I've seen public toilet janitors more intellectually qualified than her.
And let's not even start about their mental qualifications compared to her.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
This whole premise sounds like something you would read on the Onion itself: "OFFICE COWORKER THINKS ONION IS REAL NEWS."
I meant to write, "It seems like it's derived from the same place..."
But why use the word? It's going out of your way to use an obscure word than can confuse people in the first place.
Do Italians get to declare a racist epithet when someone yells out "Swap" because it's close to the sound of "wop"? I'm of German descent, can I complain when someone talks about their "route" because it's close to "kraut"?
Calling a german kid a kraut today is meaningless - he doesn't experience any racism due to his German heritage. Same goes for almost any other Euro country, at least in most of the US. Maybe just after the War it would be a different story. Certainly at the turn of the 19th Century, being Irish was almost as bad as being black, but it wasn't institutionalized racism. There weren't separate legal rules for any non-black citizen.
It's only been 50 years since legal racism ended, and less than 20 years since plainly racist attitudes ceased to be tolerated. Go talk to any person from the south over 60, and they can tell you about how they were humiliated by Jim Crow laws, or even humiliated because they were white and enforced them. Talk to their kids, and they can tell you all about the racism they have encountered, even as a kid in the 80s (which I remember.) I worked for people as a teenager who would not allow me to hire black people, even for construction work.
I have never even heard an anecdote about an employer who refused to hire Germans or Italians, unless it was retold from the 1930s.
Words mean things, and even the head of the NAACP said that people who take "niggardly" as a racial slur need to be given a dictionary.
And anyone who uses that word for race baiting purposes should be called a fucking prick, because that's what they are.
"Brietbart is the guy who destroyed ACORN with false accusations and edited video"
Not true, ACORN destroyed themselves. And for the record, they were and are a problem, since they apparently hate the democratic process ("laws? we don't need no stinkin' laws!")
I agree that Regan advocated for and implemented a lot of the excesses of the early 80s- but I think his boss, Ronald Reagan, is the one who should be held responsible.
From the headline, I thought this *was* an Onion story.
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Boredom is bliss.
This is not a "troll" post at all. It's so typical of partisans to censor things they disagree with.
Although to be fair, Arkansas recently repealed their ban on "idiots" voting
It is quite hard to run a decent election when there are only two legal voters.
Erm....I can't view Facebook, due to having personal data and all, but there isn't a single comment in the link that doesn't look like a well crafted sub-parody. I suspect the linked article is a bit of shameless self-promotion akin to the ones you won't see on MY BLOG!!!!
Whoops.
Seriously, there's far better parodies out there. The Onion for instance, or even better, Tom Chiver's non-parody blog...
Please consider this account deleted, I just can't be bothered with the spam anymore.
Left-wing moderators are modding up spun's comments and modding down bonch's comments. It's typical liberal censorship.
This typifies the split between Left wing nut jobs and Right wing nut jobs. Left wing nut jobs will carefully interconnect various loose fragments of established facts (IE the Carlyle Group includes members of the the Bush Family and the Bin Laden Family, and that the Carlyle group met on the morning of September 11th, 2001 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington DC) into grandiose conspiracy theories (IE Bush and Bin Laden conspired for 9-11 to happen). Right wing nut jobs tend to either a make shit up out of whole cloth (IE Becks various chalkboard conspiracy diagrams that derive from an anagram he makes up of Obama’s name or that Obama is a Secret Muslim or Obama is not an American Citizen by Birth) or as in this case: take something that is a fairly obvious parody and construe it as fact.
I suppose the moral is that Left Wing Nuts research their craziness more then Right Wing ones.
It wasn't until after the Stalin regime that the Comintern or "international communism" was considered to be a joke. It was considered a real entity in 1939, and had real adherents.
The cooperation of Western communists, on Stalin's orders, was invaluable to the Nazis before June 22, 1941. That isn't Russian - French, British, etc communists.
I think you might have a pear/apple issue yourself, or are badly misinformed.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Uh, the NAACP didn't denounce the New Black Panthers. They're actually involved in the dismissal of their voter intimidation case.
Also, they DID accuse the Tea Party of being a racist movement, and they're holding a march against the Tea Party before the mid-term elections.
YOU'RE flat out wrong. It's unfortunate you got modded up by liberal moderators, because you're spreading total misinformation.
Just that makes this pretty big news I think..
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If you can't add, then don't show your ignorance in public! The entire deficit is the fault of the Bush years - trillions in tax cuts for the extreme wealthy, trillions in unpaid bills for two wars, the most expensive one against a country that had nothing to do with any attack against the USA but which embarrassed the Bush family, an attitude of waste that will affect our people for generations. President Obama is trying to work the nation out from under this incredible pile of debts without destroying our American way of life.
It is a lie that President Obama doubled the growth of the deficit. The destruction of our economy didn't just rise from the incredible deficits created by the Republican Greed, but also from the relaxation of banking rules created in the 1930s to protect us from depression and financial manipulation, the lax enforcement of what financial rules were left in place, a failure to maintain the nation's physical capital, Interstate Highway bridges falling down, sewers collapsing, boil water orders in areas with water systems unable to maintain sanitary water supplies.
All of these were features of the Republican regime, along with gifting contractors with millions of dollars with no product required, no oversite, rape being a protected job benefit of the rapists, all brought to you by the Republican administration of President Cheney and his puppet George.
Once George figured out whose interests were being served by President Cheney, he stopped doing what Dick told him, and as a result nothing was done until the towering institutions of Wall Street began to fall, nearly crushing all of us. Then the Republicans struck us all again in our wallet, to save the banks too big to fail.
The mainstream media is owned by those who benefited from Bush tax policies, the mega-rich! Anyone who really believes in a liberal media is snookered by the reich-wing noise machine. They kill and maim liberals for their beliefs, and attack our own government, and still media people act like the Republicans are patriots, instead of trying to end freedom by turning us all into wage slaves.
Mark my words. If the Republicans currently in charge of the party control the government again, it will become a prison offence to be in debt, and you will have to work off your debt in prison, at a prison wage of $0.25 an hour, for the rest of your life. Slaves! That's the plan behind the current treatment of the unemployed by the Republicans riding their filibuster in the Senate. Not President Obama's plan, but Newt's and Mitch's and Ron Paul's and Dick Cheney's.
These crack-pots taking hate about the government, attacking census workers and inspectors, they're talking hate against US because we are the government. That's what a Democracy means, or a Republic. The government is run by we the people via elections taking place, and winners running things as long as they do a good job. The Republicans just can't get over losing because they did a crappy job.
Statistically, when the American government is in the hands of the Democratic Party, things go well, economically, socially, in the work place, people work hard, make a good living, repair the American infrastructure, and depend upon their government gto do a good job. When Republicans take charge, stocks don't go up, income is stagnant, work is hard to find and poorly paid, infrastructure is left to fail and fall apart, even the rich fail to do as well as they do when the Democratic Party is in charge.
I cannot imagine how the Rs continue to hoodwink people every decade or two, when for a hundred years their governance has failed by every means of measurement, every time they put big powerful Wall Street poobahs in charge, and they run the nation into the ditch. And still they expect to be given the keys again. P. T. Barnum was right, there's a sucker every minute!
in reality had a lot in common, especially in their approach to individual rights and freedoms, but also in the power institutions they developed and in the methods of control they used. The structures of the NSDAP and VKP(b) were almost indistinguishable. Even the art they produced looked pretty much the same, their favorite marches set to the same music (check out Horst Wessel and Marsh Aviatorov), which is not surprising, considering that to be a writer in Nazi Germany one had to belong to the Imperial Chamber of Writers, and in the USSR, to the Soyuz Pisatelei (union of writers), both party control organizations. It it important to know this to understand the relationships between them.
Of course, ideological similarity does not preclude conflict, and may in fact exacerbate it, just like similar rival religious cults may have more hatred for each other than for the rest of the world.
The comment about decisions that "could have been just as easily gone the other way" suggests complete lack of understanding of how totalitarian ideologies work. One does not suggest to go back on the basic tenets of such an ideology, no matter how disastrous they are. It takes at least the change of the leader, often by death of the latter.
For fuck's sake, they used Communists as an excuse to form the Axis.
Oh, and this little anecdotal piece of history should give you a clue just HOW Nazis treated Communists.
And if you are particularly dense about believing in YOUR lies instead of proven truth...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps#Camps_before_the_war
The first camp in Germany, Dachau was opened in March 1933,[5] The press statement given at the opening stated:
"On Wednesday the first concentration camp is to be opened in Dachau with an accommodation for 5000 persons.
'All Communists and--where necessary--Reichsbanner and Social Democratic functionaries who endanger state security are to be concentrated here, as in the long run it is not possible to keep individual functionaries in the state prisons without overburdening these prisons, and on the other hand these people cannot be released because attempts have shown that they persist in their efforts to agitate and organise as soon as they are released.'[5]
But yeah, sure...
Nazis were cooperating with Communists AND putting them into concentration camps at the same time.
Shit.. those must have been some awkward meetings.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
All your base are belong to us..... hahaha
This is what I'm talking about. For some reason, black men are outliers in: not receiving an education, not getting a job, and landing in jail far more than any other racial group.
http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_reducingracialdisparity.pdf
These dynamics are partially true in regard to drug offenses, where African Americans are particularly overrepresented in drug arrests. Evidence of racially disparate treatment of drug arrestees is apparent by viewing the rate of reported drug use among African Americans. According to self-report data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, African Americans constituted 14% of drug users in 2006, only slightly higher than their percentage in the general population. Yet African Americans represented 35% of those arrested in 2006 for drug offenses, 53% of drug convictions, and 45% of drug offenders in prison in 2004 (the most recent year for which prison data are available)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/national/20blackmen.html
The share of young black men without jobs has climbed relentlessly, with only a slight pause during the economic peak of the late 1990's. In 2000, 65 percent of black male high school dropouts in their 20's were jobless — that is, unable to find work, not seeking it or incarcerated. By 2004, the share had grown to 72 percent, compared with 34 percent of white and 19 percent of Hispanic dropouts. Even when high school graduates were included, half of black men in their 20's were jobless in 2004, up from 46 percent in 2000.
Incarceration rates climbed in the 1990's and reached historic highs in the past few years. In 1995, 16 percent of black men in their 20's who did not attend college were in jail or prison; by 2004, 21 percent were incarcerated. By their mid-30's, 6 in 10 black men who had dropped out of school had spent time in prison.
In the inner cities, more than half of all black men do not finish high school.
You shouldn't use examples as definitions, as it's hard to find a consensus in what constitutes a generalization of that term.
Jesus classified ?
"I have yet to meet a single person from the left mistake Onion with real news.... seems like a whole lot of people on the right have been duped."
Poster is saying Republicans are idiots, someone explain how this is "Insightful" and not Flamebait? I marked him as flamebait but apparently too many people have modded him as insightful already.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
so long as criticizing & blaming & pretense of concrete knowledge of fiction thread out so well, 'stuff that matters' becomes....? uncle sam not our friend? not truthful/open with us? certainly only an exaggerated imagination would conceive such thoughts at all. orwellian balderdash all of it.
meanwhile; the corepirate nazi illuminati is always hunting that patch of red on almost everyones' neck. if they cannot find yours (greed, fear ego etc...) then you can go starve. that's their (slippery/slimy) 'platform' now. see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
never a better time to consult with/trust in our creators. the lights are coming up rapidly all over now. see you there?
greed, fear & ego (in any order) are unprecedented evile's primary weapons. those, along with deception & coercion, helps most of us remain (unwittingly?) dependent on its' life0cidal hired goons' agenda. most of our dwindling resources are being squandered on the 'wars', & continuation of the billionerrors stock markup FraUD/pyramid schemes. nobody ever mentions the real long term costs of those debacles in both life & any notion of prosperity for us, or our children. not to mention the abuse of the consciences of those of us who still have one, & the terminal damage to our atmosphere (see also: manufactured 'weather', hot etc...). see you on the other side of it? the lights are coming up all over now. the fairytail is winding down now. let your conscience be your guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. we now have some choices. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on your brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.
"The current rate of extinction is around 10 to 100 times the usual background level, and has been elevated above the background level since the Pleistocene. The current extinction rate is more rapid than in any other extinction event in earth history, and 50% of species could be extinct by the end of this century. While the role of humans is unclear in the longer-term extinction pattern, it is clear that factors such as deforestation, habitat destruction, hunting, the introduction of non-native species, pollution and climate change have reduced biodiversity profoundly.' (wiki)
"I think the bottom line is, what kind of a world do you want to leave for your children," Andrew Smith, a professor in the Arizona State University School of Life Sciences, said in a telephone interview. "How impoverished we would be if we lost 25 percent of the world's mammals," said Smith, one of more than 100 co-authors of the report. "Within our lifetime hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions, a frightening sign of what is happening to the ecosystems where they live," added Julia Marton-Lefevre, IUCN director general. "We must now set clear targets for the future to reverse this trend to ensure that our enduring legacy is not to wipe out many of our closest relatives."--
"The wealth of the universe is for me. Every thing is explicable and practical for me .... I am defeated all the time; yet to victory I am born." --emerson
no need to confuse 'religion' with being a spiritual being. our soul purpose here is to care for one another. failing that, we're simply passing through (excess baggage) being distracted/consumed by the guaranteed to fail illusionary trappings of man'kind'. & recently (about 10,000 years ago) it was determined that hoarding & excess by a few, resulted in negative consequences for all.
consult with/trust in your creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), whilst badtolling unprecedented evile, using an unlimited supply of newclear power, since/until forever. see you there?
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." )one does not need to agree whois in charge to grasp the notion that there may be some assistance available to us(
boeing, boeing, gone.
The funniest part is that over 500 comments had to be entered in the postage-stamp sized box Slashdot provides in the Idle section.
Hm. It strikes me now that the idle section fits perfectly on a phone screen. Idle indeed!
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Some laugh and spread it.
Some love to fear it.
Some like to ruin it.
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I guess this means a new round of ALL CAPS EMAIL CHAIN LETTER WARNINGS IN 48 PT COMIC SANS TELLING ME TO SEND THIS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND NOT TO LET THEM TAKE THIS COUNTRY AWAY FROM US WITHOUT A FIGHT. TEA PARTY FTW!!!
What's strange is that the all caps part bothers me more than the crazy far-right subject material of those things.
I could tell that wasn't legit without even watching it. The 12th District of Pennsylvania is the one held formerly held by Jack Murtha. There hasn't been a Republican elected there since 1972.
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You DO realize that the NBPP is all of three guys, don't you? Of course it is nothing like the Tea Party and I never said it was. Where do you see me comparing the two?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
The only way that could have been closer is if he'd dropped the 'level'. And then it woulda been creepy.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
Finding morons on FaceBook is not news. Finding someone on FaceBook that is NOT a moron would be big news, when and if it ever happens!
The funny thing is even people who are not normally morons seem to become so on Facebook. I know a perfectly intelligent guy, but on Facebook he's wittering on about farmville, zombies, mafia and how he has nearly 2,000 friends.
Go back and take basic government and basic economics, then go look at the actual economic numbers for the past 10 years.
The President has very little control over the economy. That power belongs to Congress. The actual economic numbers say we were doing great until 2006 when the Democrats took control of Congress. They immediately set forth destroying the economy all the while blaming Bush for it. They got away with it because there are so many people just like you that completely fail to understand the basics of how everything works.
It's also a proven fact that the tax cuts to the rich not only improved the economy but total tax revenue went up. Did you understand that? The total amount of taxes we collected went UP after we cut taxes on the rich. Again, basic economics that you fail to understand.
It's also been the Democrats who consistently blocked efforts to prevent the housing meltdown. Even Clinton tried to prevent it but was blocked by his own party. Again, simple facts you completely fail to grasp.
Media does the hype many times
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