You should see what the Black community says about Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas and Michael Steele. See what they said about Bill Cosby, when he called to task his own community. It is no wonder that most are (D).
I am paying attention, I just understand that the black leadership is mostly (D) because it enslaves another generation of blacks to failed politics of race baiting and class warfare. As if the (D) party has done anything to actually help get people out of the Gettos.
Talk about failed leadership. The problem is that everyone still expects the government to hand them something for "nothing" and then squanders it. Katrina Cash cards are a great example. Being spent on strippers and guns and...... rather than buying things to improve one's life (computer, education....)
The failed leadership of BOTH (R) and (D) in this regard is HUGE. Government being Paternal to a whole race is just evil. It is modern Slavery and Racist. It is sick.
State requires only certain textbooks for the upcoming year, and typically textbook requirements change enough each year, often in spite of the fact that there is nothing that really changed in the textbooks year to year.
The whole Textbook issue is a HUGE issue for students and school districts, as the state LIMITS what is allowed. The political cronies and educational illites (sic) in charge are lining their pockets by requiring pointless changes.
I saw one ridiculous example where a mathbook was tossed out because one of the questions made a reference to "snow" in one of the word problems. Someone complained that it was discriminatory to inner city students who have never seen snow.
Mind you, snow had nothing to do with the actual question, other than being a description of condition (skier I believe) of weather. Insane!
How the hell are we suppose to sit in Ivory Towers and look down upon the commoners if education is free from us political and educational elites?
I mean, we need to make sure that people are certified by a piece of paper to prove that they've bowed before the altar of Education properly.
This includes requiring each new student to buy overpriced textbooks, brand new each year. Please, won't anyone think of the poor professors and teachers???
The legacy of wise men, self reliant and fiercely independent would turn over in their graves if they knew the Moral decadence that is being embraced by this country.
These men, many lost their entire worth, for a cause greater than themselves. I don't see that much anymore.
Instead we have people whining why the government doesn't give them all the things they think they deserve... for nothing.
Is anyone else around here disturbed that here we are at 2008 in America, and we have a person who has had no experience at anything useful is running for President? Oh wait, he is the Holy Anointed One, blessed be Obama and the Temple built in his Honor.
---I'm still waiting for anyone to tell me anything that cat's actually "done". One piece of legislation, one change, ANYTHING useful, besides give glorious speeches which admittedly he does well.
You are ignorant. The supposed "theocracy" you speak of, created the same documents as "Declaration of Independence" and the phrase "all men are created equal" and the Constitution which prohibited prosecution based upon Religious beliefs.
I only wish you would be more tolerant of my intolerance.
The leaders of the American religious left have assembled an engine of ignorance with their attempts at subverting science and reason. These are the people who would make us fear status quo as corruption and immorality because they know it will be the downfall of the head of the power structure if Americans were t orealize that secularization has led to a whole host of problems in Post WWII Europe. They allow their followers to believe it is immoral to deviate from the far left agenda or accept anything as a norm as slavishly devout homosexuals and transsexuals and all other forms of sexual deviancy. They teach all sorts of crazy things like man is subject to the state rather than the state subject to man, and a whole host of elitist attitudes such as those in ivory towers know best for everyone else. This false hierarchy gives people an excuse to not look at their life and the consequences of how they live it but rather blame everyone for their own problems and gives them a scapegoat they can always use to pass the buck instead of taking responsibility for themeselves and the problems they create for themselves.These systems that tend to classify people according to supposed inborn status traits are the anachronisms of a true caste society they originated in the 1930's and are meant ot take from others that which they don't want to work for for themselves, and subjugate everyone to their own misguided ideals.
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See, Your side is just as whacked out as the other.
It doesn't matter what the US and Western Countries do, the whole globe has got to be on board, or at least a SIGNIFICANT portion of it.
The problem with Global Climate Change fanatics, is they want only WESTERN countries to change, with little or no expectation of change from the REAL polluters (China, India and third world countries).
No, Global Climate Change isn't about climate change, it is about government change.
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The fridge went on the fritz last week, and I fixed it myself. I wouldn't be much of a geek if I couldn't fix things that break. Somethings aren't worth fixing, and I have a slush fund for such things, or I miss my next vacation. Or, I'll do a couple extra side jobs to pay for the nicer things in life.
I don't do without. I do without things I don't "need".
You've bought the lie that you need credit to buy things. You can have WAY more things without CREDIT than with it.
Credit = interest. Interest = drain on resources.
If you bought a house, a crummy run down dump, but something you could save up for, and referbished it, and built it up, and lived in it 4 - 5 years, you could resell it for more, and buy a better home that needs work and do the same thing.
There is something about sweat equity that most americans are unwilling to consider. They want the nice house now, don't care about payments and will find a lender that will sell them the bill of goods that they want to buy.
Then they get caught up in the whole "housing boom" and now they are upside down in houses they can't afford to keep.
If that is NORMAL, I don't want it, thank you very much for the offer though.
People buying things that they otherwise can't afford = disaster... every time!
But I live above my means, because I don't pay interest on things I don't need. I don't buy things before I can afford them.
As for my income, I made 50K last year, and my wife doesn't work. So I readily admit that I'm not normal. And just because I'm outside of normal, doesn't mean my opinion doesn't count. It just is evidence that one can do things that aren't "normal" if one has the mind to do them.
Most people are sheeple, and as such, it is their opinions that don't really count (or shouldn't count). But I actually have a brain, and drive, and commitment to an ideal.
IF I don't use credit, then a "black mark" is meaningless.
And, with all those "black marks" on my credit, then anyone accepting my SS# and credit history, gets what they deserve.
But you raise an interesting point, though it is obscured. If I don't use credit, and someone issues credit in my name to someone other than me, how would I prove it? How would I even know it?
In that case, the credit companies have broken system (yeah, we all know it too). In this case, I'd sue everyone involved ruining my reputation.
I'm wondering why nobody has gone after them for slander or libel (which ever applies), in a civil tort?
If you hand over the job of monitoring your credit to someone else, you get what you deserve. THEY don't care about your credit rating.
And those companies relying upon credit monitoring services to get info on your credit deserve to be scammed.
If someone buys something in my name, using my credit score, from someone who doesn't know me from the guy down the street, they get what they deserve!
Take a look at my credit report. I don't use credit. Period. Never have, never will. Don't need it.
The problem is that we tend to assume that SS# is "private". It isn't.
We (collectively everyone) ought to just assume that our SS# and lives are being tracked, because we are.
I live my life as if I'm being tracked. I don't own a Credit Card because of it. I don't want my purchases being tracked and traced. I pay cash, which is getting harder and harder to do.
And that stupid VISA commercial where everything stops when a person uses cash, is not helping.
And the loss of community has really pushed the anonymity movement. In days of old, you had to have a "relationship" with the people who bought and sold. Somewhere along the way, that was lost in favor of cheaper prices. We have, collectively, started to see the repercussions of this throughout society.
Now, to buy big ticket items, all you need is a fake ID, a Good SS#, and be gone, and nobody seems to care that we've lost the humanity in the process.
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You should see what the Black community says about Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas and Michael Steele. See what they said about Bill Cosby, when he called to task his own community. It is no wonder that most are (D).
I am paying attention, I just understand that the black leadership is mostly (D) because it enslaves another generation of blacks to failed politics of race baiting and class warfare. As if the (D) party has done anything to actually help get people out of the Gettos.
Talk about failed leadership. The problem is that everyone still expects the government to hand them something for "nothing" and then squanders it. Katrina Cash cards are a great example. Being spent on strippers and guns and ...... rather than buying things to improve one's life (computer, education ....)
The failed leadership of BOTH (R) and (D) in this regard is HUGE. Government being Paternal to a whole race is just evil. It is modern Slavery and Racist. It is sick.
You'd be right, except for one thing.
State requires only certain textbooks for the upcoming year, and typically textbook requirements change enough each year, often in spite of the fact that there is nothing that really changed in the textbooks year to year.
The whole Textbook issue is a HUGE issue for students and school districts, as the state LIMITS what is allowed. The political cronies and educational illites (sic) in charge are lining their pockets by requiring pointless changes.
I saw one ridiculous example where a mathbook was tossed out because one of the questions made a reference to "snow" in one of the word problems. Someone complained that it was discriminatory to inner city students who have never seen snow.
Mind you, snow had nothing to do with the actual question, other than being a description of condition (skier I believe) of weather. Insane!
How the hell are we suppose to sit in Ivory Towers and look down upon the commoners if education is free from us political and educational elites?
I mean, we need to make sure that people are certified by a piece of paper to prove that they've bowed before the altar of Education properly.
This includes requiring each new student to buy overpriced textbooks, brand new each year. Please, won't anyone think of the poor professors and teachers???
when was the last time a pro life candidate ran for anything on the (D) side of things?
They promote "choice", but in the end don't offer a "choice".
There is much more variance on the (R) side of things than on the (D) side.
Mind you, I'm (L) and I don't like either of (D) or (R) very much.
And if you want to see "funny", you should watch the (L) convention. Starchild is a poster boy of "funny", not that there is anything wrong with it ;-D
I prefer NinaFS.
It won't go down on anyone, and you can't hide the dead and buried files forever.
"endowed by their Creator"
Nuff said.
The legacy of wise men, self reliant and fiercely independent would turn over in their graves if they knew the Moral decadence that is being embraced by this country.
These men, many lost their entire worth, for a cause greater than themselves. I don't see that much anymore.
Instead we have people whining why the government doesn't give them all the things they think they deserve ... for nothing.
Is anyone else around here disturbed that here we are at 2008 in America, and we have a person who has had no experience at anything useful is running for President? Oh wait, he is the Holy Anointed One, blessed be Obama and the Temple built in his Honor.
---I'm still waiting for anyone to tell me anything that cat's actually "done". One piece of legislation, one change, ANYTHING useful, besides give glorious speeches which admittedly he does well.
You are ignorant. The supposed "theocracy" you speak of, created the same documents as "Declaration of Independence" and the phrase "all men are created equal" and the Constitution which prohibited prosecution based upon Religious beliefs.
I only wish you would be more tolerant of my intolerance.
The leaders of the American religious left have assembled an engine of ignorance with their attempts at subverting science and reason. These are the people who would make us fear status quo as corruption and immorality because they know it will be the downfall of the head of the power structure if Americans were t orealize that secularization has led to a whole host of problems in Post WWII Europe. They allow their followers to believe it is immoral to deviate from the far left agenda or accept anything as a norm as slavishly devout homosexuals and transsexuals and all other forms of sexual deviancy. They teach all sorts of crazy things like man is subject to the state rather than the state subject to man, and a whole host of elitist attitudes such as those in ivory towers know best for everyone else. This false hierarchy gives people an excuse to not look at their life and the consequences of how they live it but rather blame everyone for their own problems and gives them a scapegoat they can always use to pass the buck instead of taking responsibility for themeselves and the problems they create for themselves.These systems that tend to classify people according to supposed inborn status traits are the anachronisms of a true caste society they originated in the 1930's and are meant ot take from others that which they don't want to work for for themselves, and subjugate everyone to their own misguided ideals.
---
See, Your side is just as whacked out as the other.
It doesn't matter what the US and Western Countries do, the whole globe has got to be on board, or at least a SIGNIFICANT portion of it.
The problem with Global Climate Change fanatics, is they want only WESTERN countries to change, with little or no expectation of change from the REAL polluters (China, India and third world countries).
No, Global Climate Change isn't about climate change, it is about government change.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Yup, completely unbiased there. No Problem. We'll just go with what you said.
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You've never seen my personal IT Bible, the Archives of the BOFH.
He exemplifies keeping a system running smooth THROUGH vindictive and dishonest means.
He's my Hero.
The fridge went on the fritz last week, and I fixed it myself. I wouldn't be much of a geek if I couldn't fix things that break. Somethings aren't worth fixing, and I have a slush fund for such things, or I miss my next vacation. Or, I'll do a couple extra side jobs to pay for the nicer things in life.
I don't do without. I do without things I don't "need".
I prefer Chili.
Just don't put in any Greece
I usually don't buy new cars. They are a poor investment.
Last couple of cars I've bought were lease returns, and cost me less than 1/2 the price of a new car. Both were in great condition.
My ego isn't tied up in "new" things, or other material goods.
You want to work for an employer that does credit checks?
I sure don't.
If they don't want my experience, drive, work ethic, skill and expertise, all because of a credit check, then I don't want to work for them.
I don't want to be nice little corporate drone, living in a Borg Cubicle. No thanks.
why?
Why is it irrelevant?
You've bought the lie that you need credit to buy things. You can have WAY more things without CREDIT than with it.
Credit = interest. Interest = drain on resources.
If you bought a house, a crummy run down dump, but something you could save up for, and referbished it, and built it up, and lived in it 4 - 5 years, you could resell it for more, and buy a better home that needs work and do the same thing.
There is something about sweat equity that most americans are unwilling to consider. They want the nice house now, don't care about payments and will find a lender that will sell them the bill of goods that they want to buy.
Then they get caught up in the whole "housing boom" and now they are upside down in houses they can't afford to keep.
If that is NORMAL, I don't want it, thank you very much for the offer though.
People buying things that they otherwise can't afford = disaster ... every time!
You are right. I'm not normal. Never have been.
But I live above my means, because I don't pay interest on things I don't need. I don't buy things before I can afford them.
As for my income, I made 50K last year, and my wife doesn't work. So I readily admit that I'm not normal. And just because I'm outside of normal, doesn't mean my opinion doesn't count. It just is evidence that one can do things that aren't "normal" if one has the mind to do them.
Most people are sheeple, and as such, it is their opinions that don't really count (or shouldn't count). But I actually have a brain, and drive, and commitment to an ideal.
Credit is a choice, not a necessity.
You assume too much.
I own my cars, paid cash for each of them. I own my house, never had a loan on it.
Just because 99.99999% of the population does it one way, doesn't mean everyone does.
I'll tell you the next hardest thing to do without credit (cards) is rent a car. It can be done, but not easily.
And no, I don't own a tin foil hat.
IF I don't use credit, then a "black mark" is meaningless.
And, with all those "black marks" on my credit, then anyone accepting my SS# and credit history, gets what they deserve.
But you raise an interesting point, though it is obscured. If I don't use credit, and someone issues credit in my name to someone other than me, how would I prove it? How would I even know it?
In that case, the credit companies have broken system (yeah, we all know it too). In this case, I'd sue everyone involved ruining my reputation.
I'm wondering why nobody has gone after them for slander or libel (which ever applies), in a civil tort?
If you hand over the job of monitoring your credit to someone else, you get what you deserve. THEY don't care about your credit rating.
And those companies relying upon credit monitoring services to get info on your credit deserve to be scammed.
If someone buys something in my name, using my credit score, from someone who doesn't know me from the guy down the street, they get what they deserve!
Take a look at my credit report. I don't use credit. Period. Never have, never will. Don't need it.
The problem is that we tend to assume that SS# is "private". It isn't.
We (collectively everyone) ought to just assume that our SS# and lives are being tracked, because we are.
I live my life as if I'm being tracked. I don't own a Credit Card because of it. I don't want my purchases being tracked and traced. I pay cash, which is getting harder and harder to do.
And that stupid VISA commercial where everything stops when a person uses cash, is not helping.
And the loss of community has really pushed the anonymity movement. In days of old, you had to have a "relationship" with the people who bought and sold. Somewhere along the way, that was lost in favor of cheaper prices. We have, collectively, started to see the repercussions of this throughout society.
Now, to buy big ticket items, all you need is a fake ID, a Good SS#, and be gone, and nobody seems to care that we've lost the humanity in the process.
I would, if I were a lawyer, suggest that since the iPhone has access to IP space, that indeed they do have access to the "whole" internet.
TCP or UDP are connection protocols, which I also suspect also are complete.
This means, that if you want gopher, write your own client.
This is reason why Governments shouldn't get involved in such things. Too ambiguous.
Someone should do a study on this.
Don't let congress know, we'll spend 2.5 million studying this effect.