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I don't want to get what YOU deserve. We are not separate players with isolated connections.
ROF You should have played your cricket sound when you said you agree with Theodore!! =)
Poor Theo didn't have anything to say after that!
Apparently the Obama administration is joining the Bush and Clinton administrations in handing control of our economy back to a few billionaires on Wall Street. For the American middle class this in the real voodoo economic death panel.
Well Louise,it's what I have been saying.....so or the life of me why is it that Thom
keeps asking us to go vote for corrupt Dem politicians.......I say don't vote folks...let the GOP
get back in the seat...they are so good are screwing-up, that, that will happen.then Americans will be in the streets...it's only then....look for most of us there will be no betterment for the next 10-15 yrs
but we must let this ship go down for the benefit of those coming behind us.
Here is an example of Americans and their inhuman being status.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Growing-Poverty-in-America-by-Stephen-Lendman-100921-818.html
I have shared with you Stephen Lendman’s great article, “A Culture of Violence.” I am beginning to believe that Americans are INHUMAN BEINGS ant not human beings.
If the Dept of Justice won't look into the felony accusations against the last administration, why would they bother to look at ongoing criminal accusations against a candidate for office?
here is a nice picture of the Shanghai skyline from 1990 and from 2010
http://gizmodo.com/5558350/shanghai-skyline-before-and-after
Congressman King is wrong. He stated that his "number one" concern is that Americans will be deprived of "personal responsibility, vitality, independence, and self-reliance" if our government sets and enforces the ground rules for health care insurance. Actually, rules setting a base level of coverage will free us from the constrants and constant anxiety brought about by dependence on democratically unaccountable corporations that should not be allowed to control our access to health care, our peace of mind, and, too often, life itself.
Currently, Americans are afraid to leave or change jobs and afraid to strike out on their own as entrepreneurs, because they cannot afford to lose health care coverage. Those who are recissioned or denied coverage by insurance companies find themselves economically ham-strung, if not destroyed, by medical bills.
Someone should tell Congressman King that there's no vitality, no independence in that.
If nothing is done then they all expire. Cool. I say let them all expire. They should have never been allowed in the first place. Remember, it was the repubs that set an end date anyway. Besides, even with all those tax cuts, (more probably because of them), we ended up in a reccession. Let them expire and hire some more teachers.
It is curious, I finally understand the real resistance to health care. If I heard king correctly, his biggest complaint is that if health care is provided by the government, it will make us all lazy. I guess that means unless corporations are allowed to hold out the carrot and keep us begging for this basic need the entire population of the u.s. will drift off into a state of blissful somatic state of complacency. His faith in americans is obvious, he has none and actually considers this the people to require a task master to keep us motivated.
Who do these people think they are? A blood oath...don't they have work to do?
Work that we are paying them to do by the way.
It does!!! Wow I look GREAT!!!!
Just seeing if this still works.
Since it seems as though that most independent and republican voters can only handle simple messages. So what I don’t understand is why the campaigns are not pointing out and framing the debate more simply. The republicans are threatening to shut down government. So why are these people running for office not running around screaming that republicans want to starve grandma, and throw you’re unemployed neighbors out of their houses and make them homeless which will intern drive down home prices. Which all are true! Why can’t we get aggressive? Our future as a nation depends on it!
Liberal louise how about this!!! 1- Glenn Beck is a patriot because he exposes the LIBERAL lies you and your kind say!!!
Even More suspicious than the timing of CNN, "the most trusted name in news", reporting the hypothetical, what will happen if the Bush Tax Cut expire, as news, they are also reporting that the recession ended in June of 2009, although, I've yet to hear them quote even one fact or one statistic. They are basing this on a report from "The National Bureau of Economic Research". A little "Google" research confirmed my suspicions that this is likely a Republican partisan group headed until 2008 by one Martin Feldstein a guru for the Bush economic team according to the internet site, Source Watch. Source Watch also states that one of the principal funders between 1985-2001, was The Scaife Foundation (Sarah Mellon Scaife).
But go ahead CNN "the most trusted name in news". Report it as news. And they wonder why no one trusts the mainstream media or reads the news papers.
Re: My God is a compassionate God
Gerald
My apologies if I was not clear; I was not saying this was "your" God, but was using "your" in a general sense. Perhaps I should have said "our". It seemed clear to me that you were referring to the Catholic God, in light of their teaching.
God may not change, but man made religion does. Fortunately, in this case (suicide) for the better (in view of a more compassionate God).
For the record...
Even in the era of the twit, spelling matters...with names at least:
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
We should pray for Newt.
Newt, and other western "intellectuals" like him are victims of the grand narrative...the lie that all positive "evolutionary" inovation in human civilization originated in Europe.
In Writers in Politics, Ngugi continues to explain that the concept that Europe is the center of the universe is really,
"cultural imperialism, a very powerful insturment of oppression since it distorts a people's vision of their place in history and of the reality of the world around them. These distorted literary reflections, often reinforced by religious images of a White God the Father, a White God, the Son and Saviour, and a White God, the Holy Spirit, with a band of white angels singing in heaven while black devils writhe in hell literally paying for their black sins, were meant to lead us, and especially the educated and the christianized along paths of self-doubt and self-hatred to indecisive postures before our enemies" (30-31).
Newt is similarly a victim of the history of western cultural imperialism, and is in a way much like Ngugi as a child, living under a colonial empire set on undermining his entire existance. In his Decolonizing the Mind, Ngugi explains,
"African children who encountered literature in colonial schools and universities were thus experienceing the world as defined and reflected in the European experience of history. Their entire way of looking at the world, even the world of the immediate environment, was Eurocentric. Europe was the centre of the universe. The earth moved around the European intellectual scholarly axis. The images children encountered in literature were reinforced by their study of geography and history, science and technology where Europe was, once again, the centre" (93).
So, you see, Newt is a victim with a child's mind, intellectaully incapable of recognizing the fasle notions to which he bears witness in the public arena.
@DRichards, my God is a compassionate God. I brought out the issue on suicide for discussion. On Thom's blog for September 17, 2010 I brought out issues on masturbtion for discussion. I also mentioned obesity. Judgment in the end will depend on God. I pray for a merciful God to judge me. Let me also say that I have seen major changes in Catholic teaching since my K-12 Catholic education. A Mass is now permitted for persons who have committed suicide. Christine O'Donnell is hoping to win political office on the wedge issue of masturbation. My hope was to challenge her nonsense on the issue of masturbation as a clear and concise wedge issue.
Thom, Regarding the repeal of national healthcare, Steve King said a person should be in control of what is inside his/her skin. Why are abortion and doctor-assisted suicide excluded?
We should all be Anti-Colonial Kenyans!
Think about it you Newt...If you don't identify with an anti-colonial Kenyan world view, you must support the converse. So apparently Newt is an advocate for the precepts of the British colonial adventure in Kenya. Which, by the by, systematically disempowered Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and arguably parts of Somalia and Ethiopia, by undermining their agricultural productivity, deforesting the landscape to relocate resources to enrich England, promoted the subversion of cultural and religious beliefs that pre-date Christanity, and led an entire race of people to question their self worth.
What Newt and others like him fail to understand is summed up by Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thinong'o in his text, Writers in Politics:
"It is time we realized that the European bourgeois experience of history as reflected in their art and literature is not the universal experience of history. Moreover, their history has largely been one of exploitation, oppression and elimination of other peoples" (31).
Newt's "knowledge" of the system is also at play in the process of exploiting the working class, Ngugi writes,
"Racism and racist theories have been effectively used by the ruling Euro-American minority to divide the working majority - Afro-American, Euro-American, Asio-American - by bribing the Euro-American working class with comfortable tidbits of the loot cruelly robbed from the Afto-American workers, and also feeding the Euro-American worker with spurious fascist notions of racial superiority, and the Afro-American worker with equally spurious notions of racial inferiority" (39).
Newt is playing the same old game of divide and conquer.
Re: Suicide
A Minister friend of mine to me the story of when a member of the congregation approached him, and told him that another lady told her that her son was burning in hell because he committed suicide. He asked her if, given the choice, would she condemn her Son to hell for committing suicide? She replied, Oh No! My son was depressed and despondent! My minister friend then told her, then why do you think that God would be less compassionate?
Do we humans have more compassion than God? If so, then what does that have to say about your God? Perhaps the Catholic God is less compassionate. On the other hand, My God is very compassionate!
Democracy is dead in America.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Corporations-Rule-America-by-willy-scanlon-100918-823.html
Incidentally, since CNN reports hypotheticals as news; wouldn't it have been nice if CNN had reported the hypothetical of what would happen if we started a war with Iraq?
But I guess that hypothetical didn't work with increasing their stock values.