1. Homosexuals make up a mere 3% of the U.S., yet Leftists sure love to talk about them.
2. One person's freedom can easily become another person's bondage.
3. Leftists DO beat people down for what they say. Take what happens to almost any conservative who speaks at a University. I'm not saying they use violence, but who needs violence when you can shut people up in other ways?
4. Leftists cannot have it both ways. They cannot act like they are for the poor, but then call them rednecks and trailor park trash on a different day. Of course poor people act ignorant, they lack education which is why they are poor! You call yourself learned?
5. About LA and NYC. I've lived in LA, and SF and I have a sister who lives in NYC. Leftists love to live in big cities and they love to talk about the environment as if they owned the concept.
6. Talk to any person going into an IPO, you would much rather have a small share of a big pie than I large share of a small pie. People want to come to this country for a reason. It isn't socialism. America creates wealth (a bigger pie) and opportunity (a chance at a larger piece). France has 50% unemployment in some areas right now.
7. I was responding to an anti-conservative post, in case you forgot. I don't troll, just respond to bs.
I'm sure you loved to smell the car fumes and to hear the noise too.
You are quoting how Christians feel about tolerance, not how leftists feel about tolerance. If you do not agree with a leftist, then you are a hateful, intolerant, "closed minded" person. Leftists use words like "intolerance" to try to control people's psyche. They learned well from Orwell. I don't think that anyone would seriously argue that we all must tolerate ALL forms of behavior.
War itself is immoral. Killing the enemy on the battlefield is immoral. Getting information from prisoner enemy by using tactics other than niceness is immoral. However, even FDR realized that all of this was necessary during WWII. If you want to surrender so that the enemy thinks of you as moral, you go right ahead.
1. You weigh around or over 300lbs and never get out.
2. You live with an older relative.
3. You like to tear other people down to make yourself feel better.
My point about NYC was that it is a concrete jungle.
"Tolerance" and "Open mindedness" are leftist P.C. gobblygook. People use them to mean "if you don't agree with me, then you are closed minded and/or intolerant."
The world is not binary, but you cannot have grey without a black and a white. I guessed that the O.P. was against Wal-Mart, and guess what? Hmmm...
I certainly am not for inhumane treatment of any POW, nor are most conservatives. This is because they know that their sons and daughters who are fighting right now will then be treated the same way if they are caught by the enemy. Oh, I forgot, they would be beheaded! Where is your outrage about that? It is one thing to go behind closed doors and voice your concerns, it is quite another to help the enemy like you are doing.
I'm sorry that I'm not worthy of your high intelect. Maybe it is because I am one of those people who graduated from the failing socialist public school system you so admire?
I bet that I can name many more examples of people who were put to work by Wal-Mart, who previously were either on welfare or could not find work. Wal-Mart allows poor people to buy much needed things at a great price, raising their standard of living. Ma and Pa stores should (and many do) specialize in some local specialty that Wal-Mart cannot offer. Wal-Mart is about quantity, they do not deal in local specialty niches. If Ma and Pa were making their money selling dusty 2-liter bottles of coke for $4, then of course they will and should go out of business.
My point was that environmentalist leftists are often times city dwellers. They want to tell everyone else about protecting the environment, while they isolate themselves from the environment. Living in the city means that you are removed from nature and more dependent on government.
FDR did not prove that socialism works, quite the contrary. Besides, we have many more modern examples of how it doesn't. And in case you didn't realize it, our first environmentalist president was Theodore Roosevelt, who was a Republican.
Leftists have a strange attraction to homosexuality. They almost worship it like a cult. Leftists are no more tolerant than any skinhead. They act like they are for the poor, but then they call them rednecks and try to drive the place where they shop out of business (Wal-Mart). They are not really for free speech, unless it is speech they agree with (Dr. Laura TV show, Sen. McCain commencement). They act like they are for the environment, but then they live in places like L.A. or N.Y. (L.A., known for its smog, requires water be brought in from other places just to live there. In NYC, to see a tree you have to visit central park.) Want more examples? I've never known a leftists government to succeed in providing the wealth that this country has for its people, or the freedom. Thank God that the leftists have not succeeded and will not succeed in this country.
You act as if these people were active voters before they were put in jail. The Democrats would like to be able to go into these jails and make sure they vote. This gives them higher turn-out from a group of people who would normally not vote. I would feel very offended if I were treated like such a puppet by the marxists.
PCs have had "end to end" for a long time, it's called LAPTOP.
Seriously though, if it were not for customizable PCs, Apple would probably not get such a great deal on the integrated hardware chips they use. Sure they would get the bulk discount, but there would also be less competition and therefore prices would be higher.
Mom and Pop businesses are often private businesses, where Mom and Pop are the owners. Public companies are different beasts, where a small group of partial owners run the company for a much larger group of owners. The protection needs to be biased towards the larger group of owners. How that should be done is up for debate.
YES. Why do you feel that people should be entitled to keep a business open that offers higher prices and possibly lower quality? Wal-Mart is in the commodities business, which deals with quantity over quality and low margins for the most part. If Mom and Pop want to survive, they should think about getting into the specialty business, which deals with quality and uniqueness over quantity.
They should probably not put all there eggs in a coffee shop though, as Starbucks might move in and take over! Geesh.
You may have a point when it comes to/., but now go to www.sciencedaily.com and read all the articles that come from universities in order to keep the funding going. I hear a lot more 'scientists at the University of.... say" junk coming from news media than "some startup is working on xyz."
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I am a Ronald Reagan Conservative. G.W. is not. However, my guess is that his approval ratings are low because of the high gas prices. I am glad that we got rid of Saddam. I would rather spend time convincing people to be for less government and for free market competition.
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My original reply was very on topic. Your reply to that reply went off topic. You stated something about how Christians have a bad track record. I replied with examples of how you are wrong.
If you read my -1 (flamebait) comment, you will see that it was not any more flamebait than the message I replied to. It didn't get a flamebait score, mine did. This is because the left-leaning modders on slashdot are really about censorship of opposing viewpoint.
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But the non-religious parts of the entertainment industry doesn't have such a horrible track record of molesting children, starting crucades, inquisitions and wars, burning witches, etc.
Apparently you've never heard of Stalin, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, the pre-Christian Roman Empire, or the Aztecs (who liked to pull the hearts out of their living victims). There is no such thing as the 'non-religious' part of the entertainment industry. Everyone has a religion, whether it be God, money, the state, humanism, or whatever. You accuse others of being anti-semetic, but you yourself seem anti-Christian. Since it is in vogue to be anti-Christian right now, I suppose that makes it okay. It was in vogue to be anti-semetic back in the 30s too.
The problem with the Christian Entertainment Industry, Fox News and the Republican Party is that they have to resort to their old dirty tricks like bashing jews, gays and women, to movitave their flocks to give them money.
Bashing Jews? Most conservative Christians in America are fairly Zionist. Would they prefer that the Jews accepted Christ? Sure, but they definitely don't wish ill will upon God's chosen people. Most of the Christians that I know do not bash gays, and they hold women to the highest esteem. The left in America feel that if you are not open to every alternative lifestyle, drug, or whatever, then somehow you are closed minded, intolerant, and not enlightened. They have learned this via our leftist educational system, which teaches that white people, particularly Christians and especially Americans, are the cause of most of the evil in the world. After all, we held slaves, mistreated the native Americans, hanged witches, did not allow women to vote, etc., right? All of the other cultures were just perfect, tolerant, non-slave owning democracies, right?
If anything, the non-religious left has caused more death and havoc during the 20th century than any one group. Fascism and Communism are left wing ideologies as far as American politics go. Hitler was a national socialist. He commissioned the "people's wagon" (you know, the car that most leftists love to drive). He was not a Ronald Reagan, free market, Christian Republican. Although he used and perverted Christianity to get what he wanted, he was not a religious person. He believed, like most leftists, that religion was the opiate of the masses.
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First you say things like "clueless straight white boys" and "all hat Texans," then you go on to say things like "pandered to the built in prejudices and problems of society". RUDE AWAKENING: YOU ARE THE PREJUDICE OF SOCIETY! ANOTHER RUDE AWAKENING: THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS IS ABOUT NOTHING BUT STEREOTYPES. Actors don't play people, they play stereotypes.
Companies go after the easy money. They sell to a ready-made market. It has to do with risk. Until you can convince the companies that there are other markets that can make them money easily, they will continue to go after the same market. "Passion of the Christ" is a prime example. Nobody in Hollywood would dare make a movie like this until they found out how much money it made. Now they are all scrambling to make movies that target the religious crowd.
It probably all comes down to stress. But the study is probably flawed, just like almost every study that has come out to date. We spend a lot of time and money on these studies until we finally come to a conclusion that was obvious to most people to begin with.
Americans do not like to throw out a President in the middle of a war, particularly when his opponents in an election have no backbone. Americans for the most part knew that the time had come to remove Saddam from power, no matter what the press/opposition might tell you 'after the fact'. Almost everybody knew deep down that the time had come to get rid of Saddam. It was a mistake for Bush to even play up the WMD card. All he really had to say was that the time had come to get rid of Saddam and that the UN cannot enforce its own resolutions.
Like his father, Bush Jr. is not a true conservative. In fact, many of the Republicans in the Senate are not true conservatives either. We've had to take what we could get.
Let me guess, you're reading Hayek and Mises?
No, but thanks for introducing me! Many in America have been told that the extreme right wing is Fascist (even in our own politics). In reality, the most extreme right wing here is more of a democratic semi-theocracy. Our public school system is a real mess!
In the past 20 years, the extreme left has taken over the Democratic party. This is because our great free market economy and ownership society has led to less of a divide between labor and management. Labor Unions have lost power, and the left finds themselves defending illegal aliens who have actually pushed wages down for working Americans. Are they stupid?
Or is it that you're living in the 80s? Friend, Bush II is emphatically NOT RR, neither even Bush I (talk about lowering the bar).
I totally agree with you about Bush and so do many conservatives. Just because we voted for G.W. instead of the alternatives does not mean that we are any less Ronald Reagan types. My point was that America's right wing is totally different than Europe's version of right wing. They have communist socialists on the left and nationalist socialists on the right. Either way you get socialism.
He has an overbearing personality which makes him seem more extreme than he is. He isn't as moderate as John McCain, but he is fairly moderate. If he were extreme right he would not be on Television. You free speech people would have thrown him off of TV a long time ago. Remember Dr. Laura?
I've worked for an entertainment company in Los Angeles. The writers were very left leaning. There are more conservatives in the closet in hollywood than gays! The studios are generally either in New York City (heavily blue) or Los Angeles (heavily blue). Although CNN is in Atlanta, it was founded by Ted Turner and Jane Fonda.
Adolf was a National Socialist. In American politics, that is LEFT wing with a lot of nationalism thrown in for good measure. If you read Mein Kampf, you will understand that he was a socialist who despised Communists (a Jewish conspiracy created by Karl Marx, who was a Jew). His special brand of socialist dictatorship is called "fascism."
The right wing in America are Ronald Reagan, free market, less government, freedom and democracy loving, family value types. Where have you been? Living in the 60s?
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1. Homosexuals make up a mere 3% of the U.S., yet Leftists sure love to talk about them.
2. One person's freedom can easily become another person's bondage.
3. Leftists DO beat people down for what they say. Take what happens to almost any conservative who speaks at a University. I'm not saying they use violence, but who needs violence when you can shut people up in other ways?
4. Leftists cannot have it both ways. They cannot act like they are for the poor, but then call them rednecks and trailor park trash on a different day. Of course poor people act ignorant, they lack education which is why they are poor! You call yourself learned?
5. About LA and NYC. I've lived in LA, and SF and I have a sister who lives in NYC. Leftists love to live in big cities and they love to talk about the environment as if they owned the concept.
6. Talk to any person going into an IPO, you would much rather have a small share of a big pie than I large share of a small pie. People want to come to this country for a reason. It isn't socialism. America creates wealth (a bigger pie) and opportunity (a chance at a larger piece). France has 50% unemployment in some areas right now.
7. I was responding to an anti-conservative post, in case you forgot. I don't troll, just respond to bs.
I'm sure you loved to smell the car fumes and to hear the noise too.
You are quoting how Christians feel about tolerance, not how leftists feel about tolerance. If you do not agree with a leftist, then you are a hateful, intolerant, "closed minded" person. Leftists use words like "intolerance" to try to control people's psyche. They learned well from Orwell. I don't think that anyone would seriously argue that we all must tolerate ALL forms of behavior.
War itself is immoral. Killing the enemy on the battlefield is immoral. Getting information from prisoner enemy by using tactics other than niceness is immoral. However, even FDR realized that all of this was necessary during WWII. If you want to surrender so that the enemy thinks of you as moral, you go right ahead.
Let me guess:
1. You weigh around or over 300lbs and never get out.
2. You live with an older relative.
3. You like to tear other people down to make yourself feel better.
Am I right on at least two of the three?
My point about NYC was that it is a concrete jungle.
"Tolerance" and "Open mindedness" are leftist P.C. gobblygook. People use them to mean "if you don't agree with me, then you are closed minded and/or intolerant."
The world is not binary, but you cannot have grey without a black and a white. I guessed that the O.P. was against Wal-Mart, and guess what? Hmmm...
I certainly am not for inhumane treatment of any POW, nor are most conservatives. This is because they know that their sons and daughters who are fighting right now will then be treated the same way if they are caught by the enemy. Oh, I forgot, they would be beheaded! Where is your outrage about that? It is one thing to go behind closed doors and voice your concerns, it is quite another to help the enemy like you are doing.
I'm sorry that I'm not worthy of your high intelect. Maybe it is because I am one of those people who graduated from the failing socialist public school system you so admire?
I bet that I can name many more examples of people who were put to work by Wal-Mart, who previously were either on welfare or could not find work. Wal-Mart allows poor people to buy much needed things at a great price, raising their standard of living. Ma and Pa stores should (and many do) specialize in some local specialty that Wal-Mart cannot offer. Wal-Mart is about quantity, they do not deal in local specialty niches. If Ma and Pa were making their money selling dusty 2-liter bottles of coke for $4, then of course they will and should go out of business.
My point was that environmentalist leftists are often times city dwellers. They want to tell everyone else about protecting the environment, while they isolate themselves from the environment. Living in the city means that you are removed from nature and more dependent on government.
FDR did not prove that socialism works, quite the contrary. Besides, we have many more modern examples of how it doesn't. And in case you didn't realize it, our first environmentalist president was Theodore Roosevelt, who was a Republican.
Leftists have a strange attraction to homosexuality. They almost worship it like a cult. Leftists are no more tolerant than any skinhead. They act like they are for the poor, but then they call them rednecks and try to drive the place where they shop out of business (Wal-Mart). They are not really for free speech, unless it is speech they agree with (Dr. Laura TV show, Sen. McCain commencement). They act like they are for the environment, but then they live in places like L.A. or N.Y. (L.A., known for its smog, requires water be brought in from other places just to live there. In NYC, to see a tree you have to visit central park.) Want more examples? I've never known a leftists government to succeed in providing the wealth that this country has for its people, or the freedom. Thank God that the leftists have not succeeded and will not succeed in this country.
You act as if these people were active voters before they were put in jail. The Democrats would like to be able to go into these jails and make sure they vote. This gives them higher turn-out from a group of people who would normally not vote. I would feel very offended if I were treated like such a puppet by the marxists.
PCs have had "end to end" for a long time, it's called LAPTOP.
Seriously though, if it were not for customizable PCs, Apple would probably not get such a great deal on the integrated hardware chips they use. Sure they would get the bulk discount, but there would also be less competition and therefore prices would be higher.
I must have misunderstood your comment.
Mom and Pop businesses are often private businesses, where Mom and Pop are the owners. Public companies are different beasts, where a small group of partial owners run the company for a much larger group of owners. The protection needs to be biased towards the larger group of owners. How that should be done is up for debate.
YES. Why do you feel that people should be entitled to keep a business open that offers higher prices and possibly lower quality? Wal-Mart is in the commodities business, which deals with quantity over quality and low margins for the most part. If Mom and Pop want to survive, they should think about getting into the specialty business, which deals with quality and uniqueness over quantity.
They should probably not put all there eggs in a coffee shop though, as Starbucks might move in and take over! Geesh.
You may have a point when it comes to /., but now go to www.sciencedaily.com and read all the articles that come from universities in order to keep the funding going. I hear a lot more 'scientists at the University of .... say" junk coming from news media than "some startup is working on xyz."
I am a Ronald Reagan Conservative. G.W. is not. However, my guess is that his approval ratings are low because of the high gas prices. I am glad that we got rid of Saddam. I would rather spend time convincing people to be for less government and for free market competition.
My original reply was very on topic. Your reply to that reply went off topic. You stated something about how Christians have a bad track record. I replied with examples of how you are wrong.
If you read my -1 (flamebait) comment, you will see that it was not any more flamebait than the message I replied to. It didn't get a flamebait score, mine did. This is because the left-leaning modders on slashdot are really about censorship of opposing viewpoint.
The rest of my zero scores must have been somewhat interesting, otherwise they would not have gotten replies. But again, the slashdot modders are really about censorship of opposing viewpoint.
But the non-religious parts of the entertainment industry doesn't have such a horrible track record of molesting children, starting crucades, inquisitions and wars, burning witches, etc.
Apparently you've never heard of Stalin, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, the pre-Christian Roman Empire, or the Aztecs (who liked to pull the hearts out of their living victims). There is no such thing as the 'non-religious' part of the entertainment industry. Everyone has a religion, whether it be God, money, the state, humanism, or whatever. You accuse others of being anti-semetic, but you yourself seem anti-Christian. Since it is in vogue to be anti-Christian right now, I suppose that makes it okay. It was in vogue to be anti-semetic back in the 30s too.
The problem with the Christian Entertainment Industry, Fox News and the Republican Party is that they have to resort to their old dirty tricks like bashing jews, gays and women, to movitave their flocks to give them money.
Bashing Jews? Most conservative Christians in America are fairly Zionist. Would they prefer that the Jews accepted Christ? Sure, but they definitely don't wish ill will upon God's chosen people. Most of the Christians that I know do not bash gays, and they hold women to the highest esteem. The left in America feel that if you are not open to every alternative lifestyle, drug, or whatever, then somehow you are closed minded, intolerant, and not enlightened. They have learned this via our leftist educational system, which teaches that white people, particularly Christians and especially Americans, are the cause of most of the evil in the world. After all, we held slaves, mistreated the native Americans, hanged witches, did not allow women to vote, etc., right? All of the other cultures were just perfect, tolerant, non-slave owning democracies, right?
If anything, the non-religious left has caused more death and havoc during the 20th century than any one group. Fascism and Communism are left wing ideologies as far as American politics go. Hitler was a national socialist. He commissioned the "people's wagon" (you know, the car that most leftists love to drive). He was not a Ronald Reagan, free market, Christian Republican. Although he used and perverted Christianity to get what he wanted, he was not a religious person. He believed, like most leftists, that religion was the opiate of the masses.
First you say things like "clueless straight white boys" and "all hat Texans," then you go on to say things like "pandered to the built in prejudices and problems of society". RUDE AWAKENING: YOU ARE THE PREJUDICE OF SOCIETY! ANOTHER RUDE AWAKENING: THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS IS ABOUT NOTHING BUT STEREOTYPES. Actors don't play people, they play stereotypes.
Companies go after the easy money. They sell to a ready-made market. It has to do with risk. Until you can convince the companies that there are other markets that can make them money easily, they will continue to go after the same market. "Passion of the Christ" is a prime example. Nobody in Hollywood would dare make a movie like this until they found out how much money it made. Now they are all scrambling to make movies that target the religious crowd.
First you tell me that sound does not travel in the vacuum of space, now you tell me there was a big bang! I'm so confused!
It probably all comes down to stress. But the study is probably flawed, just like almost every study that has come out to date. We spend a lot of time and money on these studies until we finally come to a conclusion that was obvious to most people to begin with.
Americans do not like to throw out a President in the middle of a war, particularly when his opponents in an election have no backbone. Americans for the most part knew that the time had come to remove Saddam from power, no matter what the press/opposition might tell you 'after the fact'. Almost everybody knew deep down that the time had come to get rid of Saddam. It was a mistake for Bush to even play up the WMD card. All he really had to say was that the time had come to get rid of Saddam and that the UN cannot enforce its own resolutions.
Like his father, Bush Jr. is not a true conservative. In fact, many of the Republicans in the Senate are not true conservatives either. We've had to take what we could get.
Let me guess, you're reading Hayek and Mises?
No, but thanks for introducing me! Many in America have been told that the extreme right wing is Fascist (even in our own politics). In reality, the most extreme right wing here is more of a democratic semi-theocracy. Our public school system is a real mess!
In the past 20 years, the extreme left has taken over the Democratic party. This is because our great free market economy and ownership society has led to less of a divide between labor and management. Labor Unions have lost power, and the left finds themselves defending illegal aliens who have actually pushed wages down for working Americans. Are they stupid?
Or is it that you're living in the 80s? Friend, Bush II is emphatically NOT RR, neither even Bush I (talk about lowering the bar).
I totally agree with you about Bush and so do many conservatives. Just because we voted for G.W. instead of the alternatives does not mean that we are any less Ronald Reagan types. My point was that America's right wing is totally different than Europe's version of right wing. They have communist socialists on the left and nationalist socialists on the right. Either way you get socialism.
He has an overbearing personality which makes him seem more extreme than he is. He isn't as moderate as John McCain, but he is fairly moderate. If he were extreme right he would not be on Television. You free speech people would have thrown him off of TV a long time ago. Remember Dr. Laura? I've worked for an entertainment company in Los Angeles. The writers were very left leaning. There are more conservatives in the closet in hollywood than gays! The studios are generally either in New York City (heavily blue) or Los Angeles (heavily blue). Although CNN is in Atlanta, it was founded by Ted Turner and Jane Fonda.
Adolf was a National Socialist. In American politics, that is LEFT wing with a lot of nationalism thrown in for good measure. If you read Mein Kampf, you will understand that he was a socialist who despised Communists (a Jewish conspiracy created by Karl Marx, who was a Jew). His special brand of socialist dictatorship is called "fascism."
The right wing in America are Ronald Reagan, free market, less government, freedom and democracy loving, family value types. Where have you been? Living in the 60s?
I use Firefox and like it very much, but I started using Firefox mainly because I was sick of the viruses and spyware that IE was downloading behind my back (ActiveX plugins would install themselves without asking). I didn't start using Firefox because it was innovative or free. Part of Firefox's success is because of people like me who tell other people to use Firefox instead of IE if they want to cut down on the number of viruses/spyware they get. Other than that, most newbies never think to use a different browser.