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I am 79 and have never been so afraid of our new government. The 'publicans want bigger government so it seems while talking out of the corner of their mouth for less government. I know a lot of worshipers of the GOP.... but oh how they are being fooled.
There are some militant vegetarians in the Communist Party who tell me that for the good of the earth I should go veg.Until they create turnips that taste like pork, I will always love meat more.I love soy cheese, and the sweet dessert tofu, but all of the soy "meat" products from sausages, hamburgers, hot dogs and "chicken" nuggets -are pretty bad.I hate factory farming-it's extremely inhumane.Farm animals deserve a quality life since it is so very brief.I could live without beef since it's often so tough and I'm too lazy to chew, but I have always eaten a pig a year.I do love soy and rice milk more than pastuerised milk, we should be able to buy whole milk-it has 10X the taste.Hutterite and Mennonite colonies wash the cows and keep spotless sparkling ceramic tiled milking barns.Only disgusting feedlots and factory farms make whole milk dangerous.
More damage has been done to human beings by people claiming to know what god wants than anything else and is the source of humanity's continuing problems ,is it not obvious that life just is and is a process why would god want anything if everything is part of the same thing(energy).
This is the main question we must ask-can we talk.....
How is it possible that 7 billion people all claim to want the same thing(peace,security,opportunity,prosperity,happiness and love)and be singularly unable to get it?
Is it possible that there is something we don,t fully understand about life and god,the understanding of which would change everything?
www.TheGlobalConversation.com
Not to ruffle your feathers, but you are making the same mistake as the people who have been moving this country in the direction we are going for the last 150 years or so. " This is an all-out assault on our democracy". Democracy being the greatest mistake in U.S. history. This country was never intended to be a democray governed by people, but a REPUBLIC governed by the law. Recite the pledge of allegiance. Its "to the republic for which it stands". True that we have a democratic way of voting, but that is where democracy stops. This is why:
Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (15 October 1741- 5 January 1813) (allegedly)
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
n From bondage to spiritual faith;
n From spiritual faith to great courage;
n From courage to liberty;
n From liberty to abundance;
n From abundance to selfishness;
n From selfishness to complacency;
n From complacency to apathy;
n From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
I've finally figured out why the republicans are acting so crazy. www.viagraholics.com Viagra addiction also causes aggressive behavior and mental illness. The republican's "War on Women" is a result of their aggression and mentally disturbed preoccupation with sex.
Russ Feingold was on the Jon Stewart show tonight and he commented something to the effect: "our country is more corrupt than it has been in 100 years". He is working to overturn the Citizen's United decision, was the only one to vote against the Patriot Act in 2001, in 2002 voted against the Iraq war, and was against Nafta, for universal health care.
"Maybe we should throw men in jail who kill their sperm."
Yeah, I know, we are all a bunch of mass murderers. Since one guy can populate the world many times over in just one shot..every other guy would just have to watch his balls turn blue and fall off. One thing I'm really relieved about is that I am not living in an insane society that lops off my sensitive parts and sews the rest to my belly button till I am old enough for marriage. If men had to undergo that treatment...or even get pregnant.then we probably wouldn't have to be worried about overpopulation. Sure was nice of God to have planned it all so well, eh ;-} ...She did a hell of a job! If God didn't want men to be so horny, she should not have invented testosterone.
First, there's Date Rape.....
Now the Christian Ayatolahs and Mullahs of Virginia want to impose "State Rape" on their women. Get ready for the scalpels and sutures little girls because these Fundies are going to cut and sew you up so you are kept pure for the arranged marriages to someone you are bound to hate. Oppose Virginia's State Sponsored Rape program!
Back in my grandma's day. They ate small amounts of fresh meat , chicken , fish NO hormones or antibiotics , home baked bread. They exercised, NO TV - NO video games History will show we are slowly killing oursleves -making oursleves sick Kids left at home alone will not be active or eat right . What good is living to an old age without having quality of life ? My 7 aunts lived to their 90's and were mobile and alert till the end. GOP wants to gut EPA so we have even more toxins in our food and water .
What has happened to our country when these fundamentalist Republicans can foist their religious beliefs on a nation? We're becoming no better than the fundamentalist Muslim countries who demand women be in purdah. Next the fundamentalists will be telling us women cannot become engineers.
I remember the days when abortion was illegal and the only forms of birthcontrol were condoms (and not very good rubber), the diaphragm, or rhythm method. The wealthy went to Sweden for abortions. I lost two very good friends to backyard abortionists whose instrument was no better than a hook bent on a wire hanger. My roommate went to Mexico for her abortion but it was just as bad there as it was here except the instrument was slightly better than the wire hanger. She barely made it across the border and into a hospital in San Diego afterwards. And these insuffarble GOPers want us to return to those days and to undergo invasive procedures or worse yet, throw us in jail for using the ring or some other contraceptive device? Maybe we should throw men in jail who kill their sperm.
That kind of "fundamentalist" belief system is what leads to extreme sexploitation of women. If they lived in Northern Africa or other fundamentalist places the females would likely have to undergo being sexually mutilated and sewed up when young girls just to be cut open for the man's pleasure when they marry. I believe that all religions are not far off from extreme belief systems. Who would have thought that they would have "drank the cool-aid" in Jim Jones' church...till it happened?
Maybe we can put a few politicians in "ala Soylent Green" and solve several problems at once, nah, too greasy.
I don't eat mammals of any kind !!!
I'm not getting screwed by a Republican in Virginia or anywhere else. If Republicans were the last men on earth I'd rather put an aspirin between my knees and be horny forevermore.
My ex-friend, homeschooled via Tennessee Baptist Church, criticized me all the time. I didn't consider myself coming from Adam's rib, even dared to drop a few lines on evolution on my blog. She was like, "Why did you bring that up? You know you influence people with wrong ideas that way!" Blah-blah-blah......
One day she told me, in those days she was about to find out, men actually where superior to women and she would begin to accept this. Always having been quite a bit of a tomboy, she now began to develop in the direction she was supposed to -- as being raised in a Christian fundamentalist family.
Our last quarrel was about Sodom and Gomorrah: She claimed those towns were burned because of homosexual incidents. I took my Bible from the shelf and after a few minutes was able to report her: there wasn't even a ghost of a hunch referring to homosexuals. What she then replied made me very angry: Her father would think it did say something about homosexuals and he would "hopefully look it up." So there was that annoyingly conservative smarty, getting on my nerves over months, at times whiny (because my replies at times where fairly harsh) -- and now she admitted she wouldn't even read these Bible parts herself (although she always claimed to be an experienced Bible study). Call me too hard, but I wasn't ready to talk to her any longer. I said she was allowed to email me as soon as she would come to senses.
Got it folks? What fundamentalist female immaturity means? I can't be friends with a girl like that -- always having the enemy directly in my private life, all the time trying to convert me. These people have been driving forth what happens in Virginia and other states. No, I wasn't too harsh, nor finally too hard. Frankly, I wish to have told her off harsher.
It amuses me quite a bit that mauiman58 commented his right-wingy nonsense in sort of 'mauiman-trap' -- as GOP-loner. There he claims, the South European crisis was caused by overspending. But was it really the Keynesian healthy kind of spending? As far as I know about Greece, it was NOT. Greece did their overspending mainly on defense -- nobody in Europe spent that much on their armed forces. I should actually study the Italian example these days: This country has been ruined by the conservative Berlusconi over the last years, a selfishly self-interested guy who loves luxury and very young girls. Not at all a social politican, as a Keynesian is supposed to be. Spain has a fatal corruption problem, so no wonder they're broke.
Right-wingers are awfully phlegmatic, as we all know. They shoot from the hip very soon, but hardly hit the bullseye. As they phlegmatically put their comments in dead places -- and why? Because they don't think, they don't consider, as they don't give a darn what is reasonable or logical. That's why they don't get anything.
Well spoken Ed! Our righties here on the blog do that all the time. And then they dump their resulting garbage here.____________________________
P.S.: A few weeks ago mauiman58 tried to tell me, I was too young, because obviously under 50, and ergo supposed to be wrong. I recommend the bridge/ middle-part of Gershwin's I GOT RHYTHM. It is and was the perfect answer to mauiman58 -- already in the early 1930s.
Oh yea, I do income tax returns as a volunteer through AARP and the IRS and anyone who thinks unemployment is strictly welfare should know that it is taxed as ordinary income. Ss year and seen a lot of them this year and it's early yet, and most had to pay income tax on it. And don't get me started on taxing any amount of SS.
Also, health insurance premiums are deductible as medical expense on Schedule A, subject to 7.5% of AGI as a medical expense. Of course does you no good if you don't itemize. Health Insurance includes long term care contracts, general health care, dental and vision premiums.
Thom, you recently had a caller who had a question regarding debt collecters. I also recall another similar call within the past month. I have some information regarding states statute of limitations on debt collection. They vary by state and type of debt. I was previously in the cash flow business as a certified private mortgage note investor and attended a convention where they spoke of buying this type of debt, or brokering the sale. I recalled that I had a sheet that showed the statutue of limitations by state, but no longer have it, but did find it easily on the web. Here's the link. I did recall that once a collection agency could talk you into making any payment, that the statute of limitations started over, so best not to make a pmt and let the time run out. You caller yesterday did not say what state she was from, but maybe you can check this link, print it out for reference or put it out on the air. Lot's of good info. Judy Zitko, Hot Springs Village, AR (and a Dem Central Democratic Committeeman)
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/sol-by-state.html#6
Perhaps they will do away with us with Chemtrails they spray every single day in Southern California.
I do not eat cows.
I have been dreaming of this for years. Hoping that we can put and end to the slaughter. I could never understand why no one was trying this. We can create so many replacement parts for humans now, why can't we replicate a muscle from a cow, sheep, pig, chicken, etc. As a former vegetarian, I welcome this new development. Mabe it will make us a kinder and gentler society. Maybe we won't damage so much of our water and land. And maybe we can grow these things in high rise buidings, which take up less space on this planet. Use solar power to power the building, recylcle the water. You know, get really conservation minded.
We all know that austerity will never work and has the opposite effect of what would work which is wonderfully articulated in many of Thom,s books like Screwed the undeclared war against the middle class.So why we must ask do we have it and who,s interest does it serve ,certainly not we the people.
To find the answers check out the film THRIVE its on dvd and helps us uncover the wizard of oz world of the fed and European central bank and the private money cartel.I fear until we take the money out of the private banksters hands and into local decentralized governments and public accountable authorities i,e we the people you will get more of the same and the gap will widen between the insanely rich and the rest of us.
What the established system fears the most is to move power from the select few into the hands of the many-of all the peoples of the earth.and a new democratic system based on two thirds majority will be put in place because it serves the greatest interest and the highest number of people so major decisions like austerity would never be able to get passed ,all of this is explained in the book tomorrows god by Neale Donald Walcsh its a truly visionary work based on the new spirituality and as we can see our politics is our spirituality demonstrated ,that's where the solution lies every problem comes down to spirituality and what we believe about ourselves.
We are all ONE.
Private prisons is nothing new in America. Just look at the "lease convict" system in the south between 1860's to the mid 1930's. Here again we see the ruthless behavior of unbridled greed of socialpathic capitalists.
Divine intervention
What will it take to end austerity cuts here in America and maybe elsewhere? End endless war spending, regulate to end bubble bank fraud, and RETURN TO PRE-REAGAN TAX RATES. The latter would force economic extortionists like Romney to recycle some of their ill-gotten wealth back to it's original creators, hard working citizens.
With an acknowledgement of republican desire to combine church and state.....a few words of wisdom for 1%ers like Mitt......Proverbs 1:19.... "Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it."
Like our global brothers and sisters we have to continue to take to the streets and Occupy, I think it's our only hope besides voting progressive.