If you actually believe what you're saying to be true, then you're expressing racism. If you don't, then you're just trolling. See my other post, and tell me the system isn't rigged.
I read the bio. I'm not impressed. He did his job. Being a competent dispatcher doesn't make you a general. There's way too many of them. Becoming a general should require a bit more than that. A little something called "above and beyond". What we have here is a thing called "featherbedding".
Oh ye of little experience. You actually believe the cops are so squeaky clean, do you? Corruption permeates much more deeply than you apparently believe. And you don't seem to understand the resources needed to prove one's innocence, instead of pleading it down. That there will make you a statistic. For shame!
Your statement flies in the face of the call for equal protection under the law. It is not wise to try to justify the outrageous situation we are under. To deny the inherent racism and classism is much worse than intellectual dishonesty. I hope that's not what you are doing.
While your post may be better stated than mine, it is pretty much what I am saying about targeting. The law was designed this way for a reason. Alcohol prohibition cast too wide a net, got too many good ol' boys. In fact you could put the blame for marijuana prohibition squarely on William Randolph Hearst as a pretext to drive out the Mexicans. Though some will blame the Mormon Church. Now of course, it is used like many laws to give the police "probable cause". And "containment" is very profitable for the pirates who run the system. The numbers make it quite clear what this is about. Our own failure to resist does our country, and the world a great disservice. "It is convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - Godwin...er, uh, well, you know who...
"Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice."
"When some beet field peon takes a few traces of this stuff... he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico, so he starts out to execute all his political enemies."
"All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff [marijuana] is what makes them crazy."
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others."
"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
Oh yes... I keep on forgetting that the pursuit of justice is overrated. How virtuous of you to remind me of that.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! emphasis mine
Always loved that quote. It can never be overstated.
At midyear 2007 there were 4,618 black male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared to 1,747 Hispanic male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 Hispanic males and 773 white male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 white males.
Almost 6 to 1. And how many people will use these numbers to justify their racist attitudes instead of realizing who's being targeted? An economic breakdown might be even more revealing.
That there is a 1 in 113 billion chance of things like this becoming an election issue with the general public. Right now, their pocketbook is the only issue. The bankers and speculators crashing the economy every election cycle serves as a very effective distraction.
Those rights cannot exist before the object exists. Those rights come into existence simultaneously with the thing I make.
You just couldn't be more wrong. Your only rights are derived from your possession of the object. There are no other rights. It is pure fantasy to claim otherwise.
Physical possession does not give you carte blanche to do with something as you please.
Aside from physically assaulting another person with the object, it most certainly does. I can destroy it, replicate it, open it up to see what's inside, modify it, anything I want. It is mine. Completely unattached to anything or anybody else. And this is now boiling down to a "he said, she said" thing. You will never, in a million years convince me you have any providence over what I possess. It matters not that you may have created the original copy. The state grants you this privilege in error, not as a matter of recognition of fanciful "rights", but to protect certain business interests. And furthermore, you completely misunderstood my analogy about the light. It had nothing to do with the electric company, or even electricity at all. I was talking about my use of the light itself. Your logic claims ownership of the light that enters my window, and that, without your permission, I am not allowed to use it as I see fit, including generating electricity if it was possible. I do not have the right to demand that you continue to shine the light my way. You are obviously within your rights to block it, but not by covering my window. You have to cover your own, or build a wall. That is your only rightful option. Look we are having exactly the same argument as before. Come up with something new. Provide me a physical, logical basis for your claims. You're claiming "god given rights", and for the sake of this discussion, I'm telling you there is no god. You are sounding like Monty Python's King Arthur: Arthur: I am your king! Woman: Well, I didn't vote for you. Arthur: You don't vote for kings. Woman: Well, how did you become King, then? Arthur: The Lady of the Lake,... [angels sing]...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king! Dennis: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Arthur: Be quiet! Dennis: Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! Arthur: Shut up! Dennis: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
You are claiming "Divine Providence". Sorry to have to break the bad news, but there is no such thing.
What's flamebait about it? The money was stolen. They were not authorized to spend it that way. And look at his bio. What has he done to deserve the promotion? He's a bureaucrat. Does being "chief" bureaucrat qualify you for all that? Puleeze! Part of the problem with today's military, beyond the lowered standards for getting in, is the ease that you can be promoted for kissing ass.
Hey! cool! Good to see you're still around. What's up? How've you been?
How do you acquire rights that do not exist?
Well, that's my question exactly. How do you acquire those rights? Got any new answers? Your previous ones are incorrect. See, because there are no "inherent" rights in any object, no matter who makes it. There certainly are no rights against replication of said objects. It's an absurd concept. I'm not disputing your right to possess and control the things you already do, only your claims to control something that I possess. There's no inherent authority beyond simple possession whatsoever.It's like trying to prohibit me from reading by the light you shine into my house from yours. Or let's get a bit more complex. If I have a solar panel that operates from artificial lighting, are you going to tell me that I can't draw power from your lights that you shine my way? Or that I should pay your electric bill for it? All you can do is redirect the light or turn it off. You're trying to order me to close my window shade. And though the government disagrees, you have no right to prohibit me from deciphering the RF you throw at me. Every signal I receive is mine, regardless of where it comes from. What's yours is yours, and what's mine is mine. A very simple fact.
Imagine taking a mobile home, having some guy who hardly deserves the rank of general, doing some interior design with highly padded funding, and sliding it into a C-141 or C-5.
With the present two big names on the ballot, neither do I. Not a lick of difference between them. The war will continue, and your rights will erode regardless.
Isn't there some kind of free to the user service that can link a domain to an IP address so that when you "dial up" that domain you can be sure it always goes to the correct IP address and no other?
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If you actually believe what you're saying to be true, then you're expressing racism. If you don't, then you're just trolling. See my other post, and tell me the system isn't rigged.
I read the bio. I'm not impressed. He did his job. Being a competent dispatcher doesn't make you a general. There's way too many of them. Becoming a general should require a bit more than that. A little something called "above and beyond". What we have here is a thing called "featherbedding".
Oh ye of little experience. You actually believe the cops are so squeaky clean, do you? Corruption permeates much more deeply than you apparently believe. And you don't seem to understand the resources needed to prove one's innocence, instead of pleading it down. That there will make you a statistic. For shame!
Well, you and one other have answered my question quite succinctly. Thankyouverymuch...
Your statement flies in the face of the call for equal protection under the law. It is not wise to try to justify the outrageous situation we are under. To deny the inherent racism and classism is much worse than intellectual dishonesty. I hope that's not what you are doing.
While your post may be better stated than mine, it is pretty much what I am saying about targeting. The law was designed this way for a reason. Alcohol prohibition cast too wide a net, got too many good ol' boys. In fact you could put the blame for marijuana prohibition squarely on William Randolph Hearst as a pretext to drive out the Mexicans. Though some will blame the Mormon Church. Now of course, it is used like many laws to give the police "probable cause". And "containment" is very profitable for the pirates who run the system. The numbers make it quite clear what this is about. Our own failure to resist does our country, and the world a great disservice. "It is convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - Godwin...er, uh, well, you know who...
"Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice."
"When some beet field peon takes a few traces of this stuff... he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico, so he starts out to execute all his political enemies."
"All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff [marijuana] is what makes them crazy."
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others."
"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
100% Overrated
Oh yes... I keep on forgetting that the pursuit of justice is overrated. How virtuous of you to remind me of that.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! emphasis mine
Always loved that quote. It can never be overstated.
Hmmmm...
At midyear 2007 there were 4,618 black male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared to 1,747 Hispanic male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 Hispanic males and 773 white male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 white males.
Almost 6 to 1. And how many people will use these numbers to justify their racist attitudes instead of realizing who's being targeted? An economic breakdown might be even more revealing.
That there is a 1 in 113 billion chance of things like this becoming an election issue with the general public. Right now, their pocketbook is the only issue. The bankers and speculators crashing the economy every election cycle serves as a very effective distraction.
Those rights cannot exist before the object exists. Those rights come into existence simultaneously with the thing I make.
You just couldn't be more wrong. Your only rights are derived from your possession of the object. There are no other rights. It is pure fantasy to claim otherwise.
Physical possession does not give you carte blanche to do with something as you please.
Aside from physically assaulting another person with the object, it most certainly does. I can destroy it, replicate it, open it up to see what's inside, modify it, anything I want. It is mine. Completely unattached to anything or anybody else. And this is now boiling down to a "he said, she said" thing. You will never, in a million years convince me you have any providence over what I possess. It matters not that you may have created the original copy. The state grants you this privilege in error, not as a matter of recognition of fanciful "rights", but to protect certain business interests. And furthermore, you completely misunderstood my analogy about the light. It had nothing to do with the electric company, or even electricity at all. I was talking about my use of the light itself. Your logic claims ownership of the light that enters my window, and that, without your permission, I am not allowed to use it as I see fit, including generating electricity if it was possible. I do not have the right to demand that you continue to shine the light my way. You are obviously within your rights to block it, but not by covering my window. You have to cover your own, or build a wall. That is your only rightful option. Look we are having exactly the same argument as before. Come up with something new. Provide me a physical, logical basis for your claims. You're claiming "god given rights", and for the sake of this discussion, I'm telling you there is no god. You are sounding like Monty Python's King Arthur: ...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
Arthur: I am your king!
Woman: Well, I didn't vote for you.
Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Woman: Well, how did you become King, then?
Arthur: The Lady of the Lake,... [angels sing]
Dennis: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: Shut up!
Dennis: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
You are claiming "Divine Providence". Sorry to have to break the bad news, but there is no such thing.
And STILL nothing to turn off the damn blinkers. UGH!
Let's send them to the Eastern front(Afghanistan).
What's flamebait about it? The money was stolen. They were not authorized to spend it that way. And look at his bio. What has he done to deserve the promotion? He's a bureaucrat. Does being "chief" bureaucrat qualify you for all that? Puleeze! Part of the problem with today's military, beyond the lowered standards for getting in, is the ease that you can be promoted for kissing ass.
Hey! cool! Good to see you're still around. What's up? How've you been?
How do you acquire rights that do not exist?
Well, that's my question exactly. How do you acquire those rights? Got any new answers? Your previous ones are incorrect. See, because there are no "inherent" rights in any object, no matter who makes it. There certainly are no rights against replication of said objects. It's an absurd concept. I'm not disputing your right to possess and control the things you already do, only your claims to control something that I possess. There's no inherent authority beyond simple possession whatsoever.It's like trying to prohibit me from reading by the light you shine into my house from yours. Or let's get a bit more complex. If I have a solar panel that operates from artificial lighting, are you going to tell me that I can't draw power from your lights that you shine my way? Or that I should pay your electric bill for it? All you can do is redirect the light or turn it off. You're trying to order me to close my window shade. And though the government disagrees, you have no right to prohibit me from deciphering the RF you throw at me. Every signal I receive is mine, regardless of where it comes from. What's yours is yours, and what's mine is mine. A very simple fact.
What am I supposed to do with my other hand, if I may be so bold to ask?
What in the world is GodDamniun? Is that what the thing is made of?
Imagine taking a mobile home, having some guy who hardly deserves the rank of general, doing some interior design with highly padded funding, and sliding it into a C-141 or C-5.
Oh yeah, I forgot. No government contracts to convicted felons. What these people need are comfort suppositories. Don't ask, don't tell... See JE
They just wouldn't care.
With the present two big names on the ballot, neither do I. Not a lick of difference between them. The war will continue, and your rights will erode regardless.
You're funny... TeeHee:-)
Though some of the fungi in military showers can be pretty tough.
So can a ground fault
in case first link fails
My point is, Obama should feel pretty safe in Iraq.
Not from the Blackwater goons. And he might want to stay away from the showers.
It is nothing more than an act of appeasement, and any semi intelligent human can tell you what that will get you.
Isn't there some kind of free to the user service that can link a domain to an IP address so that when you "dial up" that domain you can be sure it always goes to the correct IP address and no other?
Hey! 15 dollars buys an awful lot of beans and tortillas, pal