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@KMH your statement about writing a comic is just chocked full of implications.
@Dave- yes............ or as Neyteri says to Jake - how can you fill a cup that is full
Someone needs to write a comic book about the history of labor -
the quote from Avatar is "they've already killed their Mother"
and we are.
TEXAS has institutionalized the stripping of facts from education.
A short poem:
-I was just born that way
It's nature not nurture
you moronic birther
ask Adam and Steve
they'll make you believe.
-Jack
@KMH No haven't seen that posting. I sure hope the dog doesn't get to explicit with intimate details though.
thanks KMH ! I searched high and low for opinions from others with a disability, found nothing but criticism. While I do think a critical eye is necessary, I'd rather give some credit for the use of disability as way to drive the plot. It's too easy to criticize Cameron for using an able-bodied actor, for using abelist slurs (meals on wheels...), and believe it or not, for promoting the need for a cure, rather than seeing the unconventional use of disability as a plot device.
@Nels- lol , yeah- that sounds fair- have you ever heard that posting about the dog who discloses his real thoughts about this master? oh...it is hilarious :)
BTW- when I say I am 'publishing' .... what I mean is that. I had learned about something called Suite 101 from a job search engine that popped up on my screen just before Christmas. It seems to be an international aggregator of writing for which pay is based upon Google's AdSense. If anyone here wishes to be invited, I would need your email to send you an invite, or else you could find the site yourself and submit some of your writing. I am not sure how it works. I can only tell you I am learning a lot from them and this is an education I am not having to pay for. At any rate, the Thom Hartmann Tribe needs to be out there and having their voices heard and understood.
@KMH, Heck I'm all for dogs and people dating and marrying.... so long as the people in question can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the dog consents, and is mentally competent to make that consent.
Key to peace - learn to live as a society within our means!
Once a society depends on deb to 'develop' and 'progress' which leaves a un-satiable thrist for new resources and wealth, we are already well on our way to wars and strives.
Daniel Quinn ROCKS!!!!!!!!!
So Herod 'chased' Jesus and executed the 'innocent'. We 'chase' Osama and do the exact same thing and We are a Christian Nation?
When you have to keep telling me how Christian, my mistrust of you goes UP!
@River-
Most excellent article. I was wondering if anyone would write about this angle: the Wounded Warrier and "Sully ultimately decides that life on Pandora can not only offer him a cure but a better world in which to live."
Thank you for sharing this.
Plenty of kids go missing in America w/out the media spectacle. It is mostly pretty white kids that get the balloon boy treatment.
@Nels- PETA's next mission :) was it Thom that has the recording of the right winger arguing with Alan Colmes? about admitting that everyone has sex with animals? Guess maybe that's why they are so worried?
The Message is that our culture has to stop listening the cancerous stories told to our children that empire/domination is the only to live and survive. We need to remember what the Older Cultures have said and done for us. We need to see the commonalities in their societies that help them to live peacefully.
Tribes are the key!
Oh and to the reference that Empires that accepted gays led to their destruction, couldn't it also be said that any Empire that allowed it people to practice a religion led to their destruction too?
I mean really, isn't sort of a stretch to look at one narrow aspect of a society and claim that it was that aspect that led to its downfall.
I’ve written a blog entry about AVATAR from the perspective of a person with a disability, thought you might be interested:
http://www.polymer-clay-art.com
Marry animals? Is it even legal to date them?
While I agree with Randi Rhodes, and we should do away with all laws regarding marriage, if you wish to share ownership with someone, get a Civil Union, and start a business partnership. Marriage is a religious issue. Any law should only state that this can only be between two consenting ADULTS. It has nothing to do with gender. Some Mormon sects allow for grown men to marry young girls, they are actually arranged, as social commerce. and most of the Religious right, only gets upset when some 50 year old man has more than one wife, never mind that several are under 18 years old.
They don't care about Morality, the just need someone to hate. They defile their own doctrines, so that they may feel righteous, they disgust me.
rewinn,
The ethical/philosophic debates endure. During the '60s it was more complex than what came before that. It is always the most complex moment, the arrow of time moves in one direction. (At least as far as conciousness can discern.)
@MVH for Is there a movement out there of people trying to marry their dogs?
Apparently amongst the Rapturian Fascists . . . Yes. Along with their movement to create amnimal-human hybrids, these are the most heinous plans they, themselves, wreak upon us . . .
In response to that last caller on gay marriage: There is an excellent book I'd like to recommend he read, and to anyone else who may be misinformed, and/or struggling with his/her sexual orientation, as well as to those who have relatives or friends struggling with it. It's entitled: "Living With our Genes: Why they matter more than you think," by Dr.'s Dean H. Hammer and Peter Copeland. It's basically the published results of a comprehensive, scientific study on orientation and the genetics involved. Good read.