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Oh Alice, so soon after I discovered this place; so soon after we've come to the necessity of open rebellion and revolution in the streets; so soon after finding folks who really understand, and aren't afraid to offend others they agree with.. . . .
Take a walk, as they say in the Oz Outback; re-locate the cosmos we share; and when the time is right or another circuit complete, wander home. it's time for breakfast. Later Dudes.
If more progressive women were on the ballots, women like Elizabeth Warren, who are not afraid of the banksters and the billionaires, then yes. A female Teddy Roosevelt or several of them is what we need. As things are now, Obama's idea of stripping away the last of FDR's New Deal, which is putting us right back to where we were before the New Deal, is going to not only leave him with no positive legacy, but will be held up by racists for years to come as a reason to not elect an African-American. He's not doing the country any real favors right now, by showing he can be bought off.
DAnneMarc, Palin, Nachos- all my friends- I think the time has come for me to say: S'long for now. It's been fun, it really has; even inspiring at times. But there are certain intrapersonal dynamics going on here that I'm finding more than a little crazy-making, and increasingly difficult to tolerate. It's just too frustrating and painful to have to witness DAnneMarc take reams of verbal abuse from that venom-spewing douchebag, only to respond with apologies and lame-ass shit like: "I just hope you're not mad at me anymore..." and "You're my hero..." Pl-EEEEZE! Meanwhile PD wastes considerable time and energy trying to explain himself to Mr. Ware as if that man was interested in carrying on anything like a rational discussion. PD keeps demanding some sort of intelligible, coherent explanation for Mr. Ware's hostile attitude as if it actually warranted the effort.
DAnneMarc, you're a wonderful, intelligent, spiritual man with a big generous heart, who sees what's good in everyone and wants to be everyone's friend. As your friend, I strongly urge that you get over it; not the whole enchilada, just the part about being friends with every tom, dick an' harry who comes your way. Because not everyone is interested in being your pal or engaging in meaningful dialogue with you. Toxic people are everywhere. They thrive on one-upmanship, on tearing others down like it's some kind of sport. It's fine to keep a positive attitude toward people in general, and a love for humanity and all that, and even to forgive those who have trespassed against you... BUT you needn't be a doormat for bullies like Ken Ware, nor should you tolerate verbal abuse from anyone, and I don't care if it's Jesus Christ rising up from the tomb. Nobody deserves that crap and nobody has to take it either. Gotta love yourself too.
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Ken Ware's on the rampage again. To DAnneMarc: "You have a habit of thinking you know what is best and are blessed with a higher level of knowledge or intelligence than the rest of us..." So Ken, what makes you such an authority on what's inside another person's mind?
"Sorry, but I almost up-chucked dinner after reading your babble!" Gee how nice.
"I take offense to this when reading your remarks." First of all Mister Ware, you get offended way too easily. And second: NOBODY has a God-given right to not be offended. However the rest of us have a right to express ourselves freely without walking on eggshells. Anger of this sort is a just a device used as a means to control others; it's a common bully tactic and reflects poorly on those who use it.
"The reason I stopped using my large collection of war aircraft is that we are conversing about non-combat or non-military subjects. I plan on using the aircraft in future blogs or comments." Well WHUP-ti-do! Gee, maybe we oughta rave about how exciting and intriguing they are... then with luck, you'll stop defiling Thom's blog with those ugly-ass instruments of death.
"My philosophy in life is that those of us who are warriors should retain our attitude and abilities as if we were at war with a political enemy or a physical enemy." Yeah right... angry bullies like you, who get some kinda sick pleasure out of dumping on other people.
"I have no desire to ever mellow out..." GOOD. Then maybe you'll have a heart attack and croak, so we won't be subjected to these hateful diatribes anymore. "I am not angry, this is my normal state of mind." Really? "You would not like me when I am really angry and willing to show it." Oooh... look out folks! Be VERY afraid.
"I could never understand people like Hartmann and their way of addressing the evils of our society." It figures. I hate to break it to you Tough Guy, but Thom's so far beyond reach of your angrt little mind it isn't funny. you don't possess one tenth that man's character, or so much as a hundredth the intellect he possesses.
And now, for the crown jewel: "I find the avatar Alice uses to be very disturbing since it looks like an older female that has given up hope." Go hump a turd you hateful, disgusting pig. - Alice I.W.
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Yes we could to with this balance in society ,women would hammer out justice as opposed to men who only use hammers to hit each other with.Men mostly play the hammer game and it,s noted that those with the biggest hammers tend to win.but an evolving society must ask itself and observe that nobody win,s in the long run and to continue using the same energy to solve our problems does not work.
PD sez: "Our government wouldn't even need to create a 9/11 false flag operation to make people very afraid and start wearing little American flags again..." Hah-HAH! Beautiful.
"Smarter" just made a really dumb comment: "Ridiculous questions like the one above should be raised in countries such as China and Iran, not in the USA where women are already in the process of immitating every single skill that men have previously achieved and developed."
Imitating men? I don't think so, pal. We do what we have to do, to survive in a patriarchal world.
In light of Republi-piggies' current assault on virtually every right we women have fought for - and won - over the past century or more (birth control, abortion rights, property rights, the vote, legal recourse for rape victims, etc. etc.) as well as basic rights still being denied us (equal pay in the workforce, for example)... I'd say there's plenty of reason why women should want equal representation. Decisions made in the House & Senate have a profound impact on our daily lives, regardless of gender. Women have as much skin in the game as everyone else.
What can be more ridiculous than a Congressional dialogue about birth control, from which women were deliberately & willfully excluded?!! Misogyny is still alive and well in the good ole U.S.A.
To answer Thom's question, I think I'd answer in the affirmative. BUT (and this is a very big "but"...) it also depends on what women we're talking about. I'd pick Dennis Kucinich over Sarah Loony-Tunes Palin any day. Were I to choose between Michele-the-loudmouth Bachmann and Bernie Sanders, well... you get my point. I always thought of Margaret Thatcher as just another Reagan with lipstick. And I could write a long list of male politicians I'd rather vote for than Hillary Clinton. Point being, I don't give a rat's behind what gender a candidate is; it's their values, beliefs and priorities that matter most. - Aliceinwonderland
Paul Ryan and the Republican Party poker game of surety financing, or what many may call subrogation, legal theft. Yes, from my view to suggest a very sophistic terminology using that notion of vouching. This is so funny when many of us witness a continuous nonstop law legislation projected by the Republican Wahhabi party is another form of bating and hating.
The Republicans vouch every day about something, or about some person displaying and critiquing snotty, snicker, snidely and smearing like a psychotic Picasso on crack, similarly like the filibuster by Ron Paul. Here America is getting a shiv in the back leadership while blind siding American elderly. The new voucher should be printed about the size of a dollar bill with Paul Ryan on one side, turn it over to Ron Paul picture signature on the other side, for the perfect Paul/Paul Paradox of Pandora’s Pithos in money mongering Canary Island tax dodge ball.
Fine tuning the unjust enrichment where the insurance plan is formed to flood wealth unjustly to the enriched percenters at the expense of a breach due then terminating health obligations by age statistics philanthropy, then really stick the obligation to terminate and weasel out of restitution arising by age, regardless of liability for wrongdoing, totally flipping off the right to life by age discrimination in this sense shows the sewer of reasoning in the Republican Party.
Would electing more women make our nation better?
Ridiculous questions like the one above should be raised in countries such as China and Iran, not in the USA where women are already in the process of trying to immitate every single skill that men have previously achieved and developed.
CAN make profits over us . . . Exxon has now joined the fracking industry. We can see it now: http://www.economicsofculture.eu