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Fear wins!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Religion--Using-fear-to-c-by-Joe-the-Voter-100808-416.html
@Maxrot(#2), job loss may be the least of your worries. Blacklisting is real, my friend...
The only housing business that the government should get out of, and not allow to "private" industry is internment camps.
Iran stoning woman ‘tortured’ before TV ‘confession’
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0812/iran-claims-woman-facing-death-confessed/
US Judge OKs confession extracted by threatening suspect with rape
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0811/15yearold-gitmo-detainee-threatened/
I think the US government has lost all moral ground. We have nothing to offer the world as long as we tolerate such behavior from our courts.
Thom: just nit-picking, but Jefferson died on July 4th, 1826. John Adams died the same day.
Here is the mind-blowing article.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/reagan-insider-gop-destroyed-us-economy-2010-08-10?pagenumber=1
I will share two articles. The first one is good and the second article is a mind-blowing article.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=137973
I went to visit my old neighborhood a few years after selling our house. The only thing the next door neighbor could talk about was how many people were living in our old house. I think he said 26. What I thought was, "what causes people to be pushed into such marginal living conditions?"
The neighbor seemed to believe that the people in my old home needed to be punished - more.
@Maxrot: If outrageous enough, the act will certainly lead to your last day at work. Of course, I know people who run passive-agressive schemes at work just to see hwo much grief the bosses will accept.
My "conservative" friend believes that people will never do the "right" thing unless they are forced. Hunger, homelessness, poverty, disease, crime, punishment, opression, and such are the only way to motivate people to behave "properly." Otherwise, they'll just become "freeloaders."
Quote from "It’s a Wonderful Life" (1946)
George Bailey: Just a minute - just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was - why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter, and what's wrong with that? Why - here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You - you said - what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be.
Gene, why wait for your last day, do anything you want now, keeping in mind that one of the varied consequences may be job loss.
N
To disgruntled workers everywhere: you can do anything you want on your last day at work. Consequences vary.
I doubt that any of these revelations will hurt Newt Gingrich a bit. Because rightwing people will do as they are told, and if they are told to vote for Newt, they will. They are "Conservatives without Conscience".
Newt.....Do as I say not as I do....must be my childhood all over!
Louise, please pass along this article to Thom!
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/reagan-insider-gop-destroyed-us-economy-2010-08-10?pagenumber=1
Maybe the anger at the left expressed by those surrounding the President, such as Gibbs and Emanuel, is because they can see that Obama shows signs of listening to the left, of wanting to go back to his campaign promises. And those conservadems do not want to lose control of him, of their ability to direct him.
with google and verizon teaming up, it also seems to be a plot to raise profits by eliminating unlimited data packages on smart phones, and charging per data while Google does things like change thier image search to create an infinite scroll of images that will that will continually download data.
A Freudian Slip occurs when someone verbalizes an innermost thought or emotion. Gibbs made a big slip when he attacked the "professional liberal." In an unguarded moment he exposed his irritation with his base. He appears to be clueless about liberals. Does he really think we can be led and follow in lockstep by liberal commentators on TV and radio like the Fox Followers?
No, no, Mr. Gibbs. We are independent thinkers. According to Pew, liberals are the best educated of all political ideologies. We are more likely to read a book than be swayed by media commentators. In order to even get our attention, these "professional liberals" must be curious, thoughtful and articulate, not just regurgitating a written script. We are loyal to them only as long as they report with integrity and honesty. We knew the administration was abandoning our ideals long before liberal media was reporting these facts.
We liberals are among the most affluent Americans, and WE VOTE more than any other group. Offend us and you've lost your new ideas, your money and your elections!
David Frum, Bush's speech writer, wrote yesterday in his blog: "Republican politicians fear their base, Democratic pols hate theirs."
Maybe it's time for the Democratic base to instill some fear in the leadership and take the party back. I for one, am getting weary of hearing liberal stump speeches about hope and change that are not acted upon after the election.
I'd be happy with Kucinich too, as well as turning the Pentagon into a library as it should have been over 60 years ago. Just because its not a reality I can expect, it sure in the hell doesn't mean I can't keep pushing for it.
N
I guess they just expect the left to fall in lockstep and parrot everything they say as is done on the right! Don't they realize that the left is where all of the free thinkers are? Organizing the left is like herding cats! It's in our nature to question authority and form our own opinions rather than blindly accept everything like those on the right! If they don't understand this, then they don't understand their own constituency, and there's their problem!
When the republicans attack, Obama fires. (Fire first, ask questions later) I wonder if Obama will consider firing Gibbs.
Thank you DRichards -- just please put two "g"s in aggressive for me before you make it a mantra -- thanks, good buddy. (re #26 & #36)
"Silence is Betrayal" -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (He said that regarding the Vietman War when his allies said he ought not to take up the call to end that unjust war, as it might dilute the civil rights movement.)
re: #34: Sharper Image sells a needle with an eye 10' by 4'. If you can afford it...
Caller Anthony if you could get laid, perhaps you might actually re-think you're breeding policy. However, keep up the attitude, sooner or later it will no longer matter to you or your family.
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