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The Anti-Christ is programming Americans to be robots and goosestepping our population into a natural hell.
Do you recall the spewing from conservative crazies that college professors are liberal? The college professors that I had gave me the freedom to think and expand my mind and thought processes. Today, the conservative crazy college professors want to program robots in their thought processes.
I have never enjoyed grade school and high school. I have enjoyed both undergraduate and graduate work in college. College opened the mind to ideas. Courses in anthropology, philosophy, and the humanities were not part of my major disciplines; they were electives and they gave me new and valuable ideas They also expanded my thought processes. I did not have college professors who were bought out by the Koch brothers. The Koch brothers and their money are enhancing the dummying down of America. Americans will come out of college as dummies. Their minds will be contaminated with garbage and nonsense.
His book is: Attention Deficit Disorder : A Different Perception
Money talks!!! GIVE ME MONEY HONEY AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE TIME!!!
If Mr. Malzberg wants to hold to the concept that we are in a war with Islam, or terrorists, or... well I'm not clear on the form his enemy takes, then he still has to understand there are laws even to war.
Also in his argument about what if Thom's kid was in a school directly threatened by a terrorist, wouldn't Thom want a captured terrorist tortured to save his child. OK lets say Thom approves of that, then because of that torture, another terrorist takes out a different school out of anger of the torture that took place... and oh Steve's kid was at this other school... how about that Steve? Does that make your justifications for two wrongs make it right seem appropriate... I don't think so, but then again I'm not the altruistic genius you seem to be... and thanks for the implied sacrafice... glad you can live with it.
Oh and I hate to be a buzzkill for you Steve, but what if all the captured terrorist know nothing about the next upcoming attack? What if individual muslims that feel you're at war with them, just go out on their own because they feel that its better to kill the enemy in a suicide bombing then end up being tortured for being a member of a particular religion.
I think Steve's arguments reveal that indeed the research is correct, conservatives are reactionary, reptile brained actors. They are prone to fear and their actions reflect it. Its a scary world to them, and they feel justified in cruel actions.
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Does Steve Malzberg realize it took almost ten years to get bin Laden? How would that rate of payoff (from torture) help if someone's holding your kids hostage in a school?
On the torture question Thom should have asked his guest what if it was his daughter who was accused and tortured.
Caller Wendy brought up something (while talking about people having too many children) that I like to call the reverse bandwagon argument. The bandwagon argument goes, "Everybody's doing it, so you should too." The reverse bandwagon argument goes, "What if everyone did what you're doing? If that would be bad, stop it."
It relates to the Golden Rule, for which the most practical phrasing is "Live by a set of rules that makes sense for everyone to live by."
What does Steve think makes us different from Nazi Germany?
What are we fighting for?
Does he know what the word "Barbarian" means?
I am ashamed of him as a fellow American.
He is extremely unpatriotic and a disgrace.
As it's been proven time and time again, money talks and those with the most money talk the loudest.
Ciao Mark! The Edison Gene
---- my favorite AD "past" life experience: any day on the Silk Road...........
Molto Bene!
Thom, Thank you for your work on ADD
--- you are completely correct, of course.
Will you please (in your spare time!;)) start a chain of schools of the type I would have loved to go to?
Lots of hunting through libraries, lots of real world research, lots of adventure learning, lots of initiative, lots of curiosity rewarded, lots of debate welcome -- lots of non-regimented physical activity and arts integrated...............
School was hell, absolute hell -- we are driving our kids insane. I could feel it as physical pain in my body to have to sit in that concrete box and I was in a "good school". In another school I was threatened with a beating because I would not color my turkey brown at Thanksgiving time. (Purple and Blue.)
All the millions of parents with kids like me would flock to your AD schools and flee the puritanical, patriarchal, judgmental, spirit crushing, drug dealing schools........... Please?
You can do anything Thom.
And the time is right.
You would breed a New Renaissance and be the answer to the propaganda instilling, corp-cog training schools on the horizon............
Pretty Please?
Louise? Help me out here....
We would all help...........
Recruit an army of retired boomer volunteer teachers and those willing to take apprentices, integrate the schools into the world community through the internet, and delve into the wealth of video learning that already exists, etc.. There are ways beyond the box to do this..............
Thank you.
Hello,
Today Thom mentioned a book about AD(H)D/genetic connection that he wrote. I missed the name of the book. Can anyone tell me the name? I know he's written at least 6 books on the subject, but I'm most curious about the one he mentioned today.\
Ciao,
Mark
Our greatest hope is the younger people in this county. They seem to see the problems and are willing to take a hit to save everyone. Their social media conections are closed to many of left and right wingers that try to exploit that connection, but when they flash over to protest like they have many time of late, it's an inspiring thing. The Slut Walk come to mind. If the boomers that are finally seeing that there chance of a secure retirement evaporate, will get on board with the "kids" we might be able tomake a noise loud enough to be heard through the walls at 1600 Pennsylvania.
Welcome to Walker Disney World, land of the tomato-slave, home of the Amarillo Yellow Cab Shamrock Pool. Turn east for Whitehall, south for Lincoln Road.
Florida's first Senator, David Levy Yulee, was a Republican Jew who converted to Christianity and became a high ranking official in the Confederacy. The remains of the Confederate Treasury carried by Wells Fargo with the papers of Jefferson Davis, disappeared on the banks of The Florida Railroad, on the Senator's plantation. He wasn't home at the time, but later was released from federal prison and awarded other favors in the new government, becoming known as "The Father of Florida's Railroads. "
The Barnett Bankers, DuPont, Flagler, Deering, and essentially every notable American industrialist used Florida as their investing playground during the Great Depression, acquiring the developments of others for nothing and most of the rest of the state. The timber land has always been controlled by International Paper, the Old Black St. Joe Company, big sugar and the groves by the Brewers, Bottlers and Distillers, along with BATCO, British American Tobacco Company.
In 1917 the Florida Legislature voted to Drain the Everglades, an absolute necessity to make Florida into "The Bread Basket of America." The work was paid for by taxpayers and culminated with some of the world's most notorious ecological destruction attributed to the Army Corps of Engineers.
Floridians at that time also sacrificed millions of the state's best acreages, freely awarded to "the Pennsylvania Syndicate" in the deal to dredge and fill the Kissimee River, some of which, through the loophole called "Reedy Creek Drainage District" eventually ended up platted as Lake Buena Vista.
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I just love it when people write "the cost of doing business in America has gotten too expensive". This is code for "kill the American workers". We haven't become too expensive. They've just used foreign labor costs as a model to kill the American dream, except for the executives who get unconscionable bonuses for their predation.
I think the major flaw in Randian/free market/republican/conservative unthinking/willful ignorance is that the industrialist "builds" the business himself. He cannot achieve this end or create profit without the people (Rand calls "moochers") who work for him and who "build" the product or perform the service, and it is those people, now consumers/taxpayers (also moochers), whose tax dollars or consumer dollars are what line his (and stockholder's) pockets.
In commerce/business there are THREE important elements: the person with the idea, the laborer who builds the product (or performs the service) and gets it to market, and the consumer who uses/purchases the product or service with the money he/she earned as a laborer.
Randians/free marketers/republicans/conservatives hold contempt for the laborer, the consumer, and the real taxpayer. Today that is more evident when companies record record profits while lowering wages, busting unions, whinning about the little bit of taxes they do pay, and fighting consumer and environmental protections.
People who make sweat shop wages are penniless consumers. Why can they not see that they plot and hasten their own end?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/China-The-New-Bin-Laden-by-paul-craig-roberts-110510-387.html
There will always be OBL’s among us! This article is TRULY A GREAT READ!
@Palindromedary, criminals need to be in jail. Most Americans believe that white collar crime pays and blue collar crime spends time in jail. I do not believe that we are a nation of laws. We are a nation that circumvents the laws.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/05/how-perpetual-war-became-us-ideology/238600/1/
How has perpetual war become part of the American psyche?
"Constant attack of Obama" Well if Obama never got the message that there are lots of his base that isn't very happy with the little he has done for it and how much he has given away to the ruling elite then he would think that he is doing everything right and nothing would change. Obama did say something to the effect, right after being elected, that we, the people, his base, needs to "force him to effect the change that they expect"...or something to that effect. I don't have any personal animosity against Obama..heck I voted for him..but I believe that he may have had high hopes for the change he preached and realized that he really isn't in control. He probably came to realize just how corrupt the system is and that to really cross these people is a very dangerous business. That's how dangerously corrupt these people are. Russia had secret police running around pulling people out of their houses and I suspect that this will happen here as well. We are very close to that happening. In fact, they already do on a small scale...special renditioning people and targeting them in many ways..if they are part of groups that work for changing the system. They infiltrate these groups with spies...we are not much behind what some other countries do to their people and in fact take the lead in many terrible things.
Perhaps the only reason why I might vote for Obama again is just to really p!ss off those small-minded, idiot, racist bigots on the right.
I'm not necessarily against big government and neither are the right wingers....but the big government I am for is the one that keeps greedy capitalist wolves from stealing our well-being, keeps banksters in check and honest, and keeps corrupt gangsters from recklessly gambling with our retirements and bank accounts. I am for a big government that keeps corporations from shipping our jobs overseas and keeps the rich paying their fair share of taxes. I am for a big government that keeps our infrastructure running and roads and bridges from collapsing. I am not for a big government that the right wingers are for...and that is a big government that allows the rich to get away with all of the aforementioned things. You can't just say "the government is bad" "the government needs to be drowned in a bathtub" as the right wingers do...they love big government....as long as it lets them get away with whatever they want.
That is part of their deception....to blame everything on "big government" when they only mean ...that part of big government that doesn't let them get away with maximum exploitation and tax avoidance.
I agree, the right will never desist..and never compromise. That's why we need to butt heads against them and not give in...bring the whole country to a complete standstill. It would help to have a President that was on our side and presented a strong condemnation of the kind of exploitation and non-compromise positions of the Republicans. Obama is hoping for yet another bubble to keep our economy afloat but it is a disaster in the making. It will only result in yet another huge bailout of those who continued to play the Wall Street ponzi schemes and derivative roulette wheels. With big bailouts and no effective enforcements of the things that made it fail before...it will happen again and again....they will continue to print money making it more worthless than it already is.....hyperinflation...wheelbarrows full of dollars to buy a loaf of bread as in Germany. Obama needs to break free of those Chicago Boy shackles and stop thinking in terms that will enslave us all. Who does he think he is Ghandi, Jesus, Rodney King (can't we all just....get along?)? Duh!!!
I am not an Obama hater. I think he is, for the most part, a good guy and I admire him for his accomplishments except for any "accomplishments" that helped turn middle class America into a slop trough for the capitalist pigs.
Like I said before, I hope I am totally wrong and full of it...because it's my life too..and I am not rich...I am struggling along like everyone else. I hope Obama and the Democrats make me eat crow and make great changes to our very crooked system.
I'd like nothing better than to be completely wrong about Obama and the Democrat Party. I had a lot of hope in him, and the Democrat Party when I voted for him/them. It is really not just Obama, though, it is the whole corrupt two party system that is owned lock-stock-and-barrel by the ruling elite. They sell the Democrat party as the refuge from the Republican dogs but the ruling elite use both parties to control us and get what they want. The Democrat party appears to be a bait-and-switch, smoke-and-mirrors, good cop of the good cop, bad cop organization that sells hope we can believe in. But many people are finally beginning to realize that they are not going to save us...because they are corrupt or too cowardly to stick up for their ideals (or what they say are their ideals).
I sincerely hope that the Republicans do not get into office again...but I don't have any hope that the Democrats will be much better. In fact, maybe even worse, because that would show that their system of deceit is working and that people can still be fooled which will buy the ruling elite yet more time to exploit us. I agree with most every thing that most of you all say about how demented and criminal the right-wingers are and that we are headed down an abyss that we may never be able to get out of. I think that it is inevitable that Americans will eventually wake up en masse and take to the streets...and riot...against our oppressors. Until the masses rise up and make it very, very uncomfortable for the ruling elite to continue their sacking of America there will be no change. The corrupt two party system will continue to ooze in one useful idiot fool after another.
The useful idiots in the Tea Party are just as misdirected and fooled as the useful idiots in the Democrat Party. It's not fun to find out that you have been taken to be some rich man's fool...thinking you are putting time and energy into helping your cause just to find out that you have been used and then dumped on and left homeless, starving, and dying of a treatable disease that you can no longer afford to buy medical help. It is going to get much, much worse....definitely if a Republican takes over and very likely the same if Democrats retakes the government.
Had Obama come out swinging as he indicated he would when President and had some numbers in Congress that would have backed him...then he would have been seen, by the people who voted for him, to practice what he preached and a tough President that could not be pushed around. Even if he had failed....he would still have earned the kudos from his constituency and with the overwhelming numbers impressed by his actions it would not have mattered how large the ruling elite coffers were in supporting opposition....the people would have voted their pride in a President who did what he said he would do. He would have been a President of the people...and not a useful idiot and push-over for the ruling elite.
Palindromedary
You need to get off this Obama hatred thing. At times you do write some insightful comments - but then comes the Obama hate mail and it all goes to pot.
You are 180 degrees off on Obama - in everything you say. You'd save yourself a lot energy to comment on and discuss what really is killing and destroying this country - Right-wing propaganda, fundamentalist hatred and Corporate and Bankster Greed!
At the end of the day it will be OBAMA who will save this country, at least in the short term. Hopefully the American people will eventually wake up to what the Right is really trying to do - Hopefully. But this constant Attack on Obama is certainly NOT the way to go!
And here is what to fear most – The Right will NEVER desist! At least as long as Citizen’s United and Big $$$ is around! Americans have to change that or we are goners as a Democracy and a Free Country. Just think – In Florida, right now, they want to pass a Bill to REQUIRE MANDATORY drug tests to receive Food Stamps! Small government you say the Right wants – I say this is a precursor to Awfully Big Government that starts with an F – FASCISIM!
So Obama is the least your problems. Concentrate on the big ones!
mmetti
You have been brainwashed by the Right to believe this nonsense! Small businesses NEED Middle Class workers with decent jobs and wages to KEEP Small Businesses operational! No Job, no money, no business!
This is a FUNDAMENTAL economic fact! Heck, you don't even need to be educated to grasp this. Try running a business, any business, where there are no jobs in the community and so no money coming in! What happens when a family has paid all the bills and there is no money for food or necessities! Small businesses suffer.
The billionaires have sold this fantasy about Unions and Taxes ad infinitum. THE UNIONS Created the Middle Class in this country! Without them we'd all still be on the farm milking cows and shoveling manure for .25c an hour, if at all!
At times I think that the majority of American people, especially those fed a steady diet of Fox Lies, are simply insane, or just too lazy to simply think for themselves.
This is NOT a hard fact to grasp: as middle class wages go up, so does the standard of living. Business expands, jobs are created, and everyone in the community benefits. The problem arises when those at the top want more of what they have and so they try to find ways to give less to the middle class worker. So they go to China and other places for cheap labor so they can sell to the middle class who are now, or will shortly, be without jobs. Jobs and industry in America are lost and the vicious cycle continues.
Who will get hurt the most here – SMALL BUSINESSES! People who have no jobs have no money to spend! How hard is this to grasp? It seems VERY VERY difficult for a great majority of supposedly intelligent and educated Americans to grasp this most fundamental of economic truisms!
delster, Good point, this country allows economic treason/terrorism, due to the purposeful dismantling of our democracy by a few, in order that they might gain all. The German govt. obviously respects and is representative of their working class majority.