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Geeky Science: The finding of genes for speech is interesting but my theory on speech development is that the difference between humans and other primates, dogs, or cats, is that when we could no longer lick our privates, we had to learn to speak up.
Jane D'Arista: Banks' wild speculation led to the crash - it's happening again
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&I...
Fee for Police/Fire services proposed in Newburgh, NY
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091109/NEWS/911...
A councilwoman in the City of Newburgh, NY has proposed that Fire and Police services be removed from the city's standard budget, and that citizens be charged a fee for these services. Newburgh (yes, it IS the birthplace of the famous Lobster dish) has the lowest per-capita income in New York State, in addition to one of the state's highest rates of violent crime. The city (like pretty much EVERY American city) is facing a budget crisis, and is looking for alternatives to essentially doubling property taxes.
Montana is way too nice. Now Texas might be perfect. When the Lord of the Flies society finally starts to crumble we can let mexico take it over.
Outformations is a software company in Oakland, CA. They were founded in 1995. They based their business model on the Mondragon cooperatives.
What I want to know is if the Mondragon cooperatives own their own banks, because that is required to really be free from capitalist control.
This is a huge step for the Mormon church. I grew up in Utah.
The argument that we are using other countries to manufacture our goods so that we don't have to pollute our own country makes fighting against corporate greed as important a moral issue as fighting against unjust wars. We are killing more people in other countries by exporting our manufacturing pollutants and our exploitative use of workers who have no labor law protection along with our greedy oil production than we ever do during wartime. The tariffs we add should have huge penalties for unjust labor practices. We should not let those products into our country period...
I know where we should start reducing employee wages - Goldman Sachs
Regarding "American are overpaid" - one aspect that they totally forgot about is USA has continuously attracted the best and most educated brains (engineers, doctors etc) from the world simply for the reason that THEY HAVE THE BEST PAID JOBS. That has been a huge part of the innovativeness and cutting edge technology of the industries here (at least till the late 1990's). If that is removed, ALL OF THESE 'MONETARY IMMIGRANTS' WILL LEAVE - leading to a brain drain that will tremendously harm the industries here. All of these will go to countries like China and India (specially India) which will boost their economies which in turn will harm USA further.
Begin from India (and being in part from a family of such 'economic migrants') I can vouch for the fact this 'brain drain' has already started since at least 2005. But what now a slow trickle, will turn into a flood if the salaries are cut or even remain frozen as the salaries in India and China are fast rising.
Hi QuarK:-)
What a great education we are getting, here. I am going to work on the DefendOregon campaign to raise our corporate taxes because I listen to his show. I'm glad I don't have to be as articulate and knowledgeable as he is in order to doorbell, because it is taking me a bit of time to internalize what we are learning.
Campaigns have developed somewhat good techniques for getting simple messages across quickly in order to fight for the rights of our community to have good schools, well funded fire departments, police departments, health clinics, theaters, museums, and on and on.
Thoms lectures and lessons are the nectar activists need to keep fighting, aren't they? WOW! It would be cool to have a CD compilation on all of his talks about the history of corporations..
we need to ask the mothers of our soldiers their opinion of what should be done in Afghanistan. mothers have a special right to have their voices heard. nothing can compare with the earnest appeals of mothers.
Re: Holy Cow, look at that dress she was wearing!
A monthly essay written and published by Robert M. Price author of
The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man and The Reason Driven Life.
Visit Web site at http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com
Rape Session
I recall doing a double-take as I walked through the meeting room block in the Montclair State College Student Center and beheld a poster for an upcoming Women’s Center event. The topic was rape and how to protect oneself. And at the bottom, in the block letters typical for these machine-produced posters was the phrase, in large letters: RAP SESSION TO FOLLOW. Oh no, I thought! How long is it going to be before some wag neatly fills in the space with an official-looking “E”? Only a day or so later I was passing that way again, and what did I see this time? You guessed it. “Rape Session to Follow.” Well, they were asking for it.
But are rape victims “asking for it”? Feminists never let such an opinion go unchallenged, for it seems a revolting instance of “blaming the victim.” It is supposed to be merely one more disgusting example of the age-old Judeo-Christian depiction of poor naïve men, innocent as the driven snow, seduced by wily women and their beguiling charms. Surely, it is argued, women have the right to dress as they please. It’s the problem of the men to keep themselves under control. And if they don’t, it is their fault pure and simple! Book him, Dano.
But this way of characterizing the problem seems to me inadequate. And it is not because I blame women as witches and bitches. No, forgive me, guys, but in most ways I should judge women superior to men. Ashley Montague was right. No, the problem is that feminists are, on this issue, overestimating men, trusting them too much! Or perhaps one ought to say women are underestimating the bestial nature of males. I mean, look at the Middle East. Why are women held captive in those Iron Maidens, the burkas and chadors? You only know there’s a female inside because men don’t wear these garments—these tents. Men make women wear them in order to protect them from the casual lust of other men, whom, and whose lusts, they know all too well. They know it does not take much to enflame their kind with dangerous, aggressive passion. Men don’t require women to hide in these shapeless garbage bags to nullify their siren-like power to provoke otherwise innocent males. Hell no! They make them wear them so as to prevent lustful creatures like themselves from seeing the fetching contours of the female. I am saying that males have a heavy dose of the sexual predator in them, stemming from the old days when their apish ancestors used to sneak up on any available female bending over at the watering hole.
Some years ago there was actually debate in New York City over whether to make it legal for women to go topless on the subway! If you don’t think this move would have raised the rape rate, you are not living in the real world. A man thus aroused to violent action would still be guilty (and I mean real guilty: I want these bastards executed.). But you could not maintain that the half-naked gal had not made herself into an “attractive nuisance.” That would take oblivious naiveté on the same scale as Obama wanting to negotiate with Islamo-Fascists in Iran.
And it is nearly as naïve to think it takes anything as blatant as public nudity to get sexual predators going.
Some rape victims, I am proposing, have endangered themselves by underestimating the degree to which males have evolved past being chimps in pants. I am, I guess, “blaming” women for giving men too much of a break! Thinking too highly of them! “Gee, officer, if I’d realized it was a bull, I wouldn’t have waved that red flag!” Come on, women, take a second look at these guys, but “dress for success,” succeeding in not leaving yourselves open to the loathsome attentions of Neanderthals.
So says Zarathustra.
Thom! WYOMING??!!
We CAN'T give Yellowstone National Park to those lunkheads!
Howzabout Montana? :)
Re; Holy Cow, Look at the dress she was wearing.
A monthly essay written and published by Robert M. Price author of
The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man and The Reason Driven Life.
Visit Web site at http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com
Rape Session
I recall doing a double-take as I walked through the meeting room block in the Montclair State College Student Center and beheld a poster for an upcoming Women’s Center event. The topic was rape and how to protect oneself. And at the bottom, in the block letters typical for these machine-produced posters was the phrase, in large letters: RAP SESSION TO FOLLOW. Oh no, I thought! How long is it going to be before some wag neatly fills in the space with an official-looking “E”? Only a day or so later I was passing that way again, and what did I see this time? You guessed it. “Rape Session to Follow.” Well, they were asking for it.
But are rape victims “asking for it”? Feminists never let such an opinion go unchallenged, for it seems a revolting instance of “blaming the victim.” It is supposed to be merely one more disgusting example of the age-old Judeo-Christian depiction of poor naïve men, innocent as the driven snow, seduced by wily women and their beguiling charms. Surely, it is argued, women have the right to dress as they please. It’s the problem of the men to keep themselves under control. And if they don’t, it is their fault pure and simple! Book him, Dano.
But this way of characterizing the problem seems to me inadequate. And it is not because I blame women as witches and bitches. No, forgive me, guys, but in most ways I should judge women superior to men. Ashley Montague was right. No, the problem is that feminists are, on this issue, overestimating men, trusting them too much! Or perhaps one ought to say women are underestimating the bestial nature of males. I mean, look at the Middle East. Why are women held captive in those Iron Maidens, the burkas and chadors? You only know there’s a female inside because men don’t wear these garments—these tents. Men make women wear them in order to protect them from the casual lust of other men, whom, and whose lusts, they know all too well. They know it does not take much to enflame their kind with dangerous, aggressive passion. Men don’t require women to hide in these shapeless garbage bags to nullify their siren-like power to provoke otherwise innocent males. Hell no! They make them wear them so as to prevent lustful creatures like themselves from seeing the fetching contours of the female. I am saying that males have a heavy dose of the sexual predator in them, stemming from the old days when their apish ancestors used to sneak up on any available female bending over at the watering hole.
Some years ago there was actually debate in New York City over whether to make it legal for women to go topless on the subway! If you don’t think this move would have raised the rape rate, you are not living in the real world. A man thus aroused to violent action would still be guilty (and I mean real guilty: I want these bastards executed.). But you could not maintain that the half-naked gal had not made herself into an “attractive nuisance.” That would take oblivious naiveté on the same scale as Obama wanting to negotiate with Islamo-Fascists in Iran.
And it is nearly as naïve to think it takes anything as blatant as public nudity to get sexual predators going.
Some rape victims, I am proposing, have endangered themselves by underestimating the degree to which males have evolved past being chimps in pants. I am, I guess, “blaming” women for giving men too much of a break! Thinking too highly of them! “Gee, officer, if I’d realized it was a bull, I wouldn’t have waved that red flag!” Come on, women, take a second look at these guys, but “dress for success,” succeeding in not leaving yourselves open to the loathsome attentions of Neanderthals.
So says Zarathustra.
"You have replied to a specific question with a cliche'"
FTW!
Thom,
Taxes aren't NEARLY as big an expense as "wages". And no amount of reduction in taxes can make up for paying workers 50cents/hour.
Likewise, Ford isn't building cars in Canada because the taxes are lower.
Loretta,
Thank you for your kindness.
oh and short memories ...... the taliban had osama and offered him to the bush administration. on the condition he would be tried in a neutral country, Bush refused and they turned him loose. all major net works reported.
if they would like to leave the past behind, as Obama has said we need to move on. This would not be problematic to me ....if they would clean house @ the CIA and Eliminate the FEDs power to print money with nothing backing it. that my friends would truly be moving on.
well this type of thinking.....osama attacked us is wrong in the first place.....when ya put your troops in a sovereign nation it is an act of war against the people. remember Osama is on the CIA pay roll no one can say he if off it, it is an agency you never quit. remember Sadam was on the Payroll, remember Kadafi was on the pay roll. Chaves had strong ties to the CIA, thats why they are hard to deal with, they know the inner workings of the CIA. Until the philosophy of the CIA is changed. .Effectively the CIA and the Federal Reserve have have to be reigned in or abolished , before anything will change , the rest is all smoke and mirrors.
For many years I have been saying precisely what we read above. Unfortunately the American people seem to have the attention span of infants. No one seems to remember what a buffoon GW was perceived to be prior to 9/11. One hundred thirty days vacation in his first year in office. Fumbling ignorance with the English language and a general lack of knowledge of world affairs. "The Weapons of Mass Destruction" were destroyed in the air attacks of 1998 brought on by Iraqi violations of the "No Fly Zone". Bin Laden was bottled up and discredited. Not only did the Bush administration turn away from the potential danger Bin Laden posed, but even after 9/11 when we had entered Afganistan and had Bin Laden nearly captured in Tora Bora, the Special forces were ordered to stand down and allow the Afgan troops to advance on Bin Laden's forces thus allowing him to scurry away into Pakistan. Perhaps someday Bush, Cheney, Rove et al will be brought to justice, but I doubt it. President Obama's refusal to pursue any action toward this goal hints at the seamless connection of all power in Washington. Whether Democrat or Republican the reluctance to change the status quo is obvious. For this and many more reasons the current administration is a deep disappointment to me, but that is the topic for another time.
That's the "I made you a cookie but I eated it" cat!
Oh, and as Michael Moore shows us in another movie, the Bush and Bin Laden families were connected for decades. Just a coincidence, nothing to see here...
I'm not sure if this is the best place for this comment, but I was listening to a bit of Thom's segment about absurdly punitive American policies (Thom said, if children can go to prison for life, why can't they drink, etc. or words to this effect...)
I was reminded of a chunk Michael Moore left out of Sicko because "nobody would believe it." He visited a prison island in Norway, Bastoy Prison, which seemed more humane than an American housing project.
Because being poor in the United States is a worse crime than committing murder in Norway.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/11/22/norway-a-deleted-scene-from-michael-...
At the end of the clip it says Norway has a maximum sentence of 21 years, the lowest murder rate in the world, and when the US wanted an American prisoner extradited in 1999, the Norwegian supreme court declared that most US prisons do not meet minimum humanitarian standards.
But I do not think Norwegian prisons are very profitable, and really, isn't that what matters most?
I will be happy to support this Insurance Reform (notice I did not say heath care reform which is another issue all together), but the proposed legislation that just passed the house is fine as long as I can be the insurance provider. As I see it, I can offer every American (300,000,000 people) heath care for a one time $500 fee and $10 a month. This will give my insurance company $150 billion to start with and a monthly income of $3 billion.
It will pay any and ALL claims no mater what. It will not try to negotiate with doctors, hospitals, or pharmas, and everyone will have the same premiums. You can see any doctor you want. ALL claims will be paid! No exceptions. I keep 15% of all monies that come in. After all, I am in this for a profit. This is VERY nice for me! I'm a multi-billionaire over night, and I am making $450 a month in income, and everyone is happy!
The insurance companies do not want health care reform, so I am offering to do it for them, the medical industry can charge what they want, patients will get what they want, and I will get rich! ONLY in America! The only catch will be that if the claims exceed the money everyone sends in I will have to increase rates accordingly, but that is good for me because if I double rates, my 15% will be double what it was too! So that is good for me, but not the greatest for everyone else. However, we all know that what is good for Insurance companies is what is good for us all, right? Right! Perfect!
Let's get started right away with Art's Universal Heath Coverage for all US Citizens! Send your $500 right away to: Art's Health Care, 123 EASY STREET, Takencareofbusiness, DC OU812
NOTICE: you are MANDATED BY OUR GOVERNMENT TO PAY ME. I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND, BUT IF YOU DO WE WON'T ARREST YOU WE'LL JUST MAKE YOU PAY MORE TAX AND ARREST YOU IF YOU DON'T PAY THAT!
This is what the house has just passed! Anyone supporting this travesty is foolish at best, and the fact that the insurance companies are complaining about it reminds me of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby. This rabbit got caught up in a trap set by the fox and continually begged this fox NOT to throw him in that there brier patch. Well, the fox wanting to do the worst thing he could to the rabbit threw him in the brier patch only to find the rabbit was born there and was able to use the thorns to pick off all the tar and escape. The insurance companies NOT wanting THIS "health care" is JUST as stupid, and they want us NOT to do it JUST as bad as that rabbit!