Re:Best examples of heresy I can think of
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I would rather drive with meth users than sleepy users. Meth users don't nod off.
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The Bush boys do a LOT of lying. But they genuinely WANT Bin Laden as they wanted Saddam Hussein.
The fact that the Taliban wanted "proof" is nothing more than a smokescreen. Osama Bin Laden is a folk hero in those parts and fought hard for the Taliban during the Soviet years. The idea that they would give up Bin Laden is as naive as the belief that Sudan was ready to give him up to Clinton.
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I'm starting to see their point. But somehow we need to find a new way that allows women to have careers at some point, and also to be primary care givers for their children until they get into pre-school. Day care just isn't working out.
Don't forget that we also have a more mobile society now. When people move all over the country for jobs, grandparents (grandma especially) lose their roles in providing a lot of primary care for their grandchildren.
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If they can get Noam Chomsky to buy in, I'll believe it;-)
I think this can be summarized as the difference betweeen intellectual argument and trolling.
In other cases, there are policies put in place simply to avoid lawsuits. It's not Orwellian, it's sound fiscal policy.
BTW, I had my own little run in with the thought police on campus. Basically, I made some statements that were harmless (if not liberal minded) but misworded and taken out of context. They went as far as getting the police involved for a "sexual harassment" investigation. For making statements like.
"Frat boys are obsessed by women with big tits." "Those girls wearing the burlap(burka) dresses would look a lot better with less fitted dresses." "Hi, how are you doing today.";-)
Of course this was in the heyday of political correctness. The prime motivation was legal in nature, not political. When dealing with an emotionally chaotic (nutty, narcassistic slut) young woman, you have to make sure to frisk the boys to avoid a lawsuit;-)
Saying your Christian is pretty much accepted anywhere. It's when Christians try to force their beliefs on other that liberals get bitchy. Or when Christians try to subsidize their religion using public funds.
If god wanted extra funding for a church, he would release mana from heaven. God doesn't need any help from Uncle Sam.
Re:The first 15 posts on this are things you cant
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White people fuck and exchange drugs as well.
Actually, I think the casual term is "white trash". All those white welfare babies didn't come from oversexed, oversized black dicks.
So do some numerical analysis and count what percentage of the local "bubba" population is mooching and what percentage of your "negroe" population is working. YOu could be surprised if you work the numbers. It's also possible that you haven't been where all the black folk work REALLY hard for lower black wages.
Oh, and next time you think that drugs is a "black" thing. Close your eyes and repeat after me.
The ultimate stupidity in this are the dumbness of generalistic labels.
Liberal means FREE. So anything that advocates freedom from regulation or restriction is liberal - strictly speaking. The only REAL liberals are libertarians.
Conservative is CONSERVATION. It means maintaining the status quo or preserving something. Well fifty years ago, conservatives may have been trying to maintain the status quo. Now their trying to RETURN to something past. Also conservatives are often VERY FAR from preserving things like the environment.
This is all about grouping into tribes and throwing shit at the other tribe because they AREN'T yours. In the case when your tribesman try to be moderate the tribe leaders beat the shit out of them until they fall in line or switch tribes.
The euros have it right in having a multi-lateral political system. The sides are formed in a chaotic fashion through coalitions. The coalitions fall apart and reassemble as the political winds shift. No one party can rule without forming a coalition with similar minded parties.
are hopelessly "IN THE BOX" and are only regurgitating crap they read in a management book.
People who "think outside the box" don't sit around thinking up stupid cliches.
Re:The first 15 posts on this are things you cant
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Yes, but it does make the individuals that engage in the described activity seem to be hypocrite reverse racists. This has the side effect of alienating voters who might otherwise be sympathetic.
So I think that one has to weigh the benefits of being "morally justified" vs undermining your political objectives by pissing off white southerners. Your choice I guess.;-)
Re:The first 15 posts on this are things you cant
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My favorite example is why some African-Americans can & do use the term "nigger" to describe themselves without inpunity or shame, but if a white person does so, they can/will be fired and their lives ruined. Why is it a double standard, and it's a negative hateful word. Why do blacks in certain circles constantly use it?
I'm kinda torn on this one. I would get upset if someone called me "baldy" but amongst like kinds it effectively serves to mock others who use the term in a negative way. I don't think this is unique to black Americans. Women will often call each other "bitch" in a friendly way.
Even us "geeks" or "nerds" have embraced the term and nuetralized it. Though I think that the goal here is to make it widely acceptable. If someone called a Slashdotter a "geeky nerd" they would probably say "thank you". If black Americans wanted to kill off the use of "nigger", they would do the same.
What I DO find hypocritical is the whole "African American" line of thought. At some point Jesse Jackson determined that referring to someone by the color of their skin was a negative stereotype. So he wanted the previously acceptable term "black" changed to "African American". However, he still called white people... well he still called us white as in "white devil", "white oppressor". Not "Euro-American Devil" or "Euro-American Oppressor";-)
In other words, it's OK to negatively stereotype dark skinned people but FINE to stereotype white people.
I've recently started seeing "black" being used again in the media. Maybe it's Fox News, I dunno;-)
The only way out of the cycle is education - but not facts and figures, instead the freedom to think and postulate, debate and conclude. The sort of education that we (at least in the UK) tend to reserve for the 18+ year-olds who go to college.
Nice point. That's why conservatives HATE college profs. They teach people to think independently. That makes them harder to control.
To counter, they have to subsidize groups called "young republicans", "fraternities" and "secret societies" that re-establish group think and subservience to the system.
Of course, liberals also have their share of "group thinkers" (political correctness) and that's wrong to.
Napolean can up with the idea of putting odd street numbers on one side and evens on the other. That doesn't change the fact that he was an egotistical genocidal maniac.
He railed against the nobles of Europe and subsequently declared himself Emperor. I think this is just the kind of rhetoric the article referred to.
Well, Stoker go the idea after traveling to Transylvania and talking to the locals. Somehow, the memory of old Vlad haunted the locals. He must have done SOMETHING exceptionally gruesome to provoke that memory.
One Anecdote tells of Vlad inviting all the sick and poor of his land to a feast. He subsequently barred the entrance to the hall and set everyone on fire. That's what Vlad called "Welfare Reform".
Of course this is marked troll. Because I must be a Troll if I criticize a man who claims to be a living god along with the Jesus freaks who go along with it.
For the record, I think Jesus is pretty cool. But I don't think that Rev. Moon is Jesus. Nor do I think any fundamentalist would abide his horse-shit if he published a liberal propaganda rag instead of a conservative one.
And for the record, Scientology is full of shit to as well as Clinton's attempts to shield them from German cult busters.
Personally, I believe that NASA should be split into two separate organizations. One would concentrate on space science and adding to human knowledge. The other would focus on putting men in space.
We'll call it the orbital transportation administration. Heck, they could even merge that with Amtrak;-)
Re:The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth
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This is very typical of the Limbaugh slur against "liberals". Pick some stupid topic and repeat it constantly until people start believing it. Good work "Rush";-)
The Washington Times is NOT mainstream media. The Washington Times is a specious propaganda rag owned and operated by the esteemed Reverend Sun Myng Moon.
It's not surprise that the moonies want to go the the moon. Maybe if we let them go, the whole cult will commit suicide there. From that perspective, it may be worth the investment;-)
Next time you go to vote Republican, remember they are in league with the Moonies and the Washington Times. The man claims to be god and wants everyone to worship him. How hypocritical can an evangilist be????
Instead NASA could simply could have sent blueprints for a trans-solar subway on-ramp to the Ape planet. It would, of course, be shaped like the Statue of Liberty. It's very natural since she is pointing towards the stars.
It's a little known fact that the french originally built lady liberty in order to reach Mars. Once they figured out it didn't work, they gave it to America as a "goodwill" gesture;-)
The capsule concept was oringinally abandoned because it received bad ratings. Apparantely, the cheap, dependable capsule model didn't look like a spaceship.
Spacelab wasn't a spaceship either. And it got ratings equivalent to DS9 when compared with the svelt swashbuckling Enterprise.
So a plan was hatched to create a vehicle that LOOKED like a spaceship and seeingly WAS a spaceship. It was a space-station that looked like a plane which was REALLY expensive to launch and retrieve. It was VERY complicated, thus astronauts could talk about it for indefinite amounts of time during interviews.
Of course, the public eventually bored of that as well and so has congress. So we're back to the cheapo, disposable, dependable flying washing machines. It only cost us $500 billion to reach the conclusion.
That seems to be a critical threshold in comprehension. After we spend $500 billion on Iraq, we may figure out that it's a waste of money as well;-)
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I would rather drive with meth users than sleepy users. Meth users don't nod off.
The Bush boys do a LOT of lying. But they genuinely WANT Bin Laden as they wanted Saddam Hussein.
The fact that the Taliban wanted "proof" is nothing more than a smokescreen. Osama Bin Laden is a folk hero in those parts and fought hard for the Taliban during the Soviet years. The idea that they would give up Bin Laden is as naive as the belief that Sudan was ready to give him up to Clinton.
I'm starting to see their point. But somehow we need to find a new way that allows women to have careers at some point, and also to be primary care givers for their children until they get into pre-school. Day care just isn't working out.
Don't forget that we also have a more mobile society now. When people move all over the country for jobs, grandparents (grandma especially) lose their roles in providing a lot of primary care for their grandchildren.
If they can get Noam Chomsky to buy in, I'll believe it ;-)
I think this can be summarized as the difference betweeen intellectual argument and trolling.
;-)
;-)
In other cases, there are policies put in place simply to avoid lawsuits. It's not Orwellian, it's sound fiscal policy.
BTW, I had my own little run in with the thought police on campus. Basically, I made some statements that were harmless (if not liberal minded) but misworded and taken out of context. They went as far as getting the police involved for a "sexual harassment" investigation. For making statements like.
"Frat boys are obsessed by women with big tits."
"Those girls wearing the burlap(burka) dresses would look a lot better with less fitted dresses."
"Hi, how are you doing today."
Of course this was in the heyday of political correctness. The prime motivation was legal in nature, not political. When dealing with an emotionally chaotic (nutty, narcassistic slut) young woman, you have to make sure to frisk the boys to avoid a lawsuit
HorseShit!!!!!
Saying your Christian is pretty much accepted anywhere. It's when Christians try to force their beliefs on other that liberals get bitchy. Or when Christians try to subsidize their religion using public funds.
If god wanted extra funding for a church, he would release mana from heaven. God doesn't need any help from Uncle Sam.
White people fuck and exchange drugs as well.
Actually, I think the casual term is "white trash". All those white welfare babies didn't come from oversexed, oversized black dicks.
So do some numerical analysis and count what percentage of the local "bubba" population is mooching and what percentage of your "negroe" population is working. YOu could be surprised if you work the numbers. It's also possible that you haven't been where all the black folk work REALLY hard for lower black wages.
Oh, and next time you think that drugs is a "black" thing. Close your eyes and repeat after me.
"Crytal Meth, Crystal Meth, Crystal Meth, Crystal Meth".
The ultimate stupidity in this are the dumbness of generalistic labels.
Liberal means FREE. So anything that advocates freedom from regulation or restriction is liberal - strictly speaking. The only REAL liberals are libertarians.
Conservative is CONSERVATION. It means maintaining the status quo or preserving something. Well fifty years ago, conservatives may have been trying to maintain the status quo. Now their trying to RETURN to something past. Also conservatives are often VERY FAR from preserving things like the environment.
This is all about grouping into tribes and throwing shit at the other tribe because they AREN'T yours. In the case when your tribesman try to be moderate the tribe leaders beat the shit out of them until they fall in line or switch tribes.
The euros have it right in having a multi-lateral political system. The sides are formed in a chaotic fashion through coalitions. The coalitions fall apart and reassemble as the political winds shift. No one party can rule without forming a coalition with similar minded parties.
I've often found that people who use the term
"think outside the box"
are hopelessly "IN THE BOX" and are only regurgitating crap they read in a management book.
People who "think outside the box" don't sit around thinking up stupid cliches.
Yes, but it does make the individuals that engage in the described activity seem to be hypocrite reverse racists. This has the side effect of alienating voters who might otherwise be sympathetic.
;-)
So I think that one has to weigh the benefits of being "morally justified" vs undermining your political objectives by pissing off white southerners. Your choice I guess.
My favorite example is why some African-Americans can & do use the term "nigger" to describe themselves without inpunity or shame, but if a white person does so, they can/will be fired and their lives ruined. Why is it a double standard, and it's a negative hateful word. Why do blacks in certain circles constantly use it?
... well he still called us white as in "white devil", "white oppressor". Not "Euro-American Devil" or "Euro-American Oppressor" ;-)
;-)
I'm kinda torn on this one. I would get upset if someone called me "baldy" but amongst like kinds it effectively serves to mock others who use the term in a negative way. I don't think this is unique to black Americans. Women will often call each other "bitch" in a friendly way.
Even us "geeks" or "nerds" have embraced the term and nuetralized it. Though I think that the goal here is to make it widely acceptable. If someone called a Slashdotter a "geeky nerd" they would probably say "thank you". If black Americans wanted to kill off the use of "nigger", they would do the same.
What I DO find hypocritical is the whole "African American" line of thought. At some point Jesse Jackson determined that referring to someone by the color of their skin was a negative stereotype. So he wanted the previously acceptable term "black" changed to "African American". However, he still called white people
In other words, it's OK to negatively stereotype dark skinned people but FINE to stereotype white people.
I've recently started seeing "black" being used again in the media. Maybe it's Fox News, I dunno
The only way out of the cycle is education - but not facts and figures, instead the freedom to think and postulate, debate and conclude. The sort of education that we (at least in the UK) tend to reserve for the 18+ year-olds who go to college.
Nice point. That's why conservatives HATE college profs. They teach people to think independently. That makes them harder to control.
To counter, they have to subsidize groups called "young republicans", "fraternities" and "secret societies" that re-establish group think and subservience to the system.
Of course, liberals also have their share of "group thinkers" (political correctness) and that's wrong to.
Yeah, here in the states people who can afford it (have health insurance) ALSO use the system.
;-)
Everyone else goes to the emergency room
Yeah,
Napolean can up with the idea of putting odd street numbers on one side and evens on the other. That doesn't change the fact that he was an egotistical genocidal maniac.
He railed against the nobles of Europe and subsequently declared himself Emperor. I think this is just the kind of rhetoric the article referred to.
Well, Stoker go the idea after traveling to Transylvania and talking to the locals. Somehow, the memory of old Vlad haunted the locals. He must have done SOMETHING exceptionally gruesome to provoke that memory.
One Anecdote tells of Vlad inviting all the sick and poor of his land to a feast. He subsequently barred the entrance to the hall and set everyone on fire. That's what Vlad called "Welfare Reform".
Not so fast. I hate Dubya too. But remember Clinton was hated by millions as well.
;-)
The difference may be that Dubya may be hated by billions, though the vast majority of his haters are overseas.
All the "amazing" things he were for "horrific" purposes. There is a difference between famous and infamous.
Best article I've read in a LONG time.
Of course this is marked troll. Because I must be a Troll if I criticize a man who claims to be a living god along with the Jesus freaks who go along with it.
For the record, I think Jesus is pretty cool. But I don't think that Rev. Moon is Jesus. Nor do I think any fundamentalist would abide his horse-shit if he published a liberal propaganda rag instead of a conservative one.
And for the record, Scientology is full of shit to as well as Clinton's attempts to shield them from German cult busters.
Yeah, that was kinda the idea underlying my sarcasm.
;-)
But I do agree with you. Even if you are an Anonymous Coward
Personally, I believe that NASA should be split into two separate organizations. One would concentrate on space science and adding to human knowledge. The other would focus on putting men in space.
;-)
We'll call it the orbital transportation administration. Heck, they could even merge that with Amtrak
This is very typical of the Limbaugh slur against "liberals". Pick some stupid topic and repeat it constantly until people start believing it. Good work "Rush" ;-)
The Washington Times is NOT mainstream media. The Washington Times is a specious propaganda rag owned and operated by the esteemed Reverend Sun Myng Moon.
;-)
It's not surprise that the moonies want to go the the moon. Maybe if we let them go, the whole cult will commit suicide there. From that perspective, it may be worth the investment
Next time you go to vote Republican, remember they are in league with the Moonies and the Washington Times. The man claims to be god and wants everyone to worship him. How hypocritical can an evangilist be????
Everyone always assumes that was earth.
;-)
Instead NASA could simply could have sent blueprints for a trans-solar subway on-ramp to the Ape planet. It would, of course, be shaped like the Statue of Liberty. It's very natural since she is pointing towards the stars.
It's a little known fact that the french originally built lady liberty in order to reach Mars. Once they figured out it didn't work, they gave it to America as a "goodwill" gesture
The capsule concept was oringinally abandoned because it received bad ratings. Apparantely, the cheap, dependable capsule model didn't look like a spaceship.
;-)
Spacelab wasn't a spaceship either. And it got ratings equivalent to DS9 when compared with the svelt swashbuckling Enterprise.
So a plan was hatched to create a vehicle that LOOKED like a spaceship and seeingly WAS a spaceship. It was a space-station that looked like a plane which was REALLY expensive to launch and retrieve. It was VERY complicated, thus astronauts could talk about it for indefinite amounts of time during interviews.
Of course, the public eventually bored of that as well and so has congress. So we're back to the cheapo, disposable, dependable flying washing machines. It only cost us $500 billion to reach the conclusion.
That seems to be a critical threshold in comprehension. After we spend $500 billion on Iraq, we may figure out that it's a waste of money as well