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The noose is tightening around average Americans' necks.
Link please?
C'mon, it's not too hard to provide a link in your main story in the OP, so we can all read where the story is coming from, follow up, get more details, fact check, or whatever. Rather than sending hundreds of users all over the web chasing the story -- you've obviously read it, so just link it up please.
If Dr. Judith Reisman is correct . . . The children of farmers would all be super-freaks.
I know my piggy self will be shown through the expression of the following statements . . . But dollars to donuts, it is absolutely correct:
"Dr. Judith Reisman needs to get over her fear of porn. Having an actual orgasm might help with that . . ."
Fifty-five years ago (She was born in 1935 CE) someone shoulda done something about that . . .
Regarding the study that concluded that it's healthy for men to stare at womens' breasts, AMEN!
Of course, I don't think you get the same benefit staring at some fat guy's man-boobs :-)
Personally, I'm hoping to get some benefit looking at the entire package and actually conversing with an attractive woman - that gets my heart pumping every time
Sex is icky, we shouldn't talk about it. Education just encourages you to want to do what you're learning about. Heck I study a lot of turn of the last century war, and I can't tell you how badly I'd love to be able to live in a bombarded muddy trench and periodically jump out and run towards a line of machine gun nests and rifle fire, hoping that I don't get killed. I dream of the massive physical and mental trauma I'm missing out on and just wish I could participate. Yep education has only increased my stupidity and only serves to get me involved in the subject in ignorant ways. I probably should have joined the army years ago, in a couple of years I won't even be eligible.
Yeah stop education, that will solve all the problems. If you don't know about sex all you have to drive you to do it is instincts, and who on earth will bother with instincts. Heck, I can't tell you how often I have to force myself to eat, sleep and breath. I wonder how on earth I would have ever survived if I wasn't educated to do such things.
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Reisman & Hartmann are both WRONG.
Earlier onset of sexual activity is due to the lack sex ed AND
THE WALT DISNEY CORPORATION
The farging RAT is selling vapid sex related behavior to children as entertainment. Spend 30 seconds watching the farging Disney Channel and then consider the simple attempt to make any reasonable argument to the contrary.
So Dr. Judith Reisman thinks that by not having comprehensive sex education in schools, teens are going to become abstinent? What would she want to see--teens learning about sex from their friends? Or just waiting till their wedding night? I didn't hear her say what she thought would be ok to teach. I'm guessing nothing at all.
Thom might really be right since you can see anything you want on You Tube. And kids can actually carry their own Internet around with them (a child's Nintendo DSi has Internet capability). Plus there's Facebook, etc., where kids can communicate with anyone and talk about anything. And get misinformation on any subject.
There's a reason my husband & I do not have television. Haven't for the last 8 years, don't miss it. Between Netflix and the Internet, it's easy to get the one or two documentaries that are worth watching, and it's easier to get real news (mostly from foreign news sites which actually have REAL news, not infotainment).
Even the Mad Hatter had a tea party. That is classic. I will need to remember that.
From the Globe and Mail:
The only person charged under the controversial G20 five-metre rule appeared in court Wednesday, only to find the charges did not exist.
David Vasey, an environmental justice organizer, was arrested near the security fence in downtown Toronto on June 24 and brought to the Eastern Avenue detention centre. Hours later, he was released and told he had been charged under the Public Works Protection Act, a law quietly updated to include the summit site for the duration of the G20.
Mr. Vasey signed a promise to appear in court. But after showing up Wednesday, he and his lawyer discovered that the case was not on the docket and there was no information pertaining to the charges. His lawyer, Howard Morton, says it's unclear if Mr. Vasey was ever charged at all, despite what he was told at the detention centre.
G20: INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND ARBITRARY STATE ACTION
In a murder trial, if the police obtain evidence illegally and can't make their case otherwise, most of us accept the principle that a person we believe to be guilty should go free. We do this because we don’t want to live in a police state.
Our right to privacy, to avoid arbitrary search and seizure, to presumption of innocence . . . in other words our right to due process trumps any single crime or conviction. It's why we have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Sometimes it’s excruciating to see vicious criminals walk, but we tolerate it to defend our collective and individual rights.
If we can accept this in a trial of a professional assassin or worse, why would anyone be willing to give up those rights for some broken windows and a few trashed police cars?
While some of Toronto’s citizens have put it all behind them, there a many who are demanding to know why fundamental Charter rights were violated during the policing of the G20 weekend . . . and more importantly, they want accountability so it doesn’t happen again. They believe as I do, that we must defend individual freedom against arbitrary state action...
http://communities.canada.com/shareit/blogs/reality/archive/2010/07/26/g...
I've come to the conclusion that it's by design that free (i.e., over-the-air) TV insults its audience. By definition, we are either poor or cheap.
Jeanie I'm sure there were lots and lots of people that didn't think the treatment of Native Tribal people was right... the Cherokees, Apachees, Souix, etc...
But in all seriousness, if there were people back then fighting for womens rights, anti-slavery legislation, labor rights, etc... I doubt they were oblivious to the plight and injustice of the treatment of the Natives. However, for most it was far removed, and unless your local paper wrote about it, it probably didn't even hit their radar all that often. Ignorance is bliss afterall.
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And now Obama's appointed FCC is going after the internet. His FCC is proposing to essentialy turn control of the publically developed and finaced internet over to the mega corporations. That's not socialism, it's fascism! And, more closed door meetings to boot! So much for transparent government again!
Dear FCC: It's Your Mission to Protect the Public
The FCC has been holding closed-door meetings with big phone and cable companies like Comcast and AT&T, as well as big Internet giants like Google around Net Neutrality. The "deal" that they're coming up with may be a big sellout.
Jason Rosenbaum, FireDogLake
They mock us.
Outsourced, NBC Fall Comedy? The company that brought you outsourcing for real, Jack Welch and General Electric now brings it to the small screen this fall. http://www.nbc.com/outsourced/ Maybe they think if we laugh at the poor suckers who lost their jobs to outsourcing we will empathize with the poor multinational corporations that caused this tragedy.
Thom, regarding Tea Party complaining of "tyranny"...
Couldn't you define "tyranny" as: when a vocal minority threatens the majority with violence if they don't get their way?
"An IQ slightly lower than body temperature" ... Thom that's the funniest most poignant insult I've heard regarding someones IQ. It subliminally conjures up being brain dead, without really putting a person that far below average.
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I think you are forgetting about Manifest Destiny--it was our right to take what God wanted us to take, or something like that. I wonder if even one person back then thought that it might not be fair to slaughter and steal from the Native Americans. Well, again, they did put the survivors in reservations, so they shouldn't really complain.
@Jeanie. You are correct on both cases - and we've left out the genocide against the First Nation's Peoples. And this is a major psychological blind spot in this country too.
I just got an update from Politico:
Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue blogger Andrew Breitbart, the Associated Press reported.
I bet most Americans also liked the Japanese Internment in the 40s. Look at how many Americans don't want gay people to be married. That's why we have courts--to step back and see if laws are discriminatory to groups of people who are in the minority. The majority isn't always right or fair.
Each time I hear/read about just how popular Arizona's SB 1070 is supposed to be with Arizonians and the American people, I find myself wanting to shout: So what? At one time, slavery was supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans. Appealing to the hatred and/or bigotry of the American people, it's so very easy.
Newt sets the Muslims against the Christians, but it is odd to me the lack of discussion about the root causes of the initial WTC attacks. which were the beginning of this chasm. It seems very simple to me if I put myself in the mindset mid-east muslims might have. Israel has been brutalizing the Palestinian people and placing settlements on their land since 1967. America is the supplier of the superior weapons killing systems, from tanks to cluster bombs, and Israel has been atrocious in it's actions, routinely. Therefore, I would see America as the totally evil empire, backer of Israel with it's aggression, greed, and brutality. Thus, attack them in whatever way you can. Try and fight back. To me Israel has been immoral in many of it's actions, and America remains it's strongest supporter. The world sees this. What if America were to appologize to the world for it's support of the policies of this brutal, democratic regime? What if we were to apologize to the world about what Bush did? Perhaps they wouldn't hate us so much, and there could be movement toward mutual acceptance.
I may be right or wrong, but that is the way it seems to me.