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Dammit! And stop drinking the kool-aid.
Yahoo! just took it upon itself to delete everything in my inbox. So if you've sent me and Email and are wondering why I haven't responded, that's why. How damn annoying. I had a bunch of Emails in there too.
I had another LOST comment I thought of: if Richard Alpert does turn out to be an ancient Egyptian, wouldn't that totally explain the eyeliner? Ha! It would!
Still quite congested and coughsome. Slowly getting better though.
Went to IHOP for lunch (spinach omelette) with a former co-worker. She's a nice lady, the kind that has a zillion stories to tell. I'm off today since I have to work tomorrow. Plan is to take a short nap and get up and get some writing done. I may even be able to get some writing done at work tomorrow too. Depends on whether or not we're busy.
Wanted to get my hands on Season Five of The Practice. That is, of course, the season that features William Hinks. Michael Emerson won his first Emmy for playing that role; and he was superb. Anyway, no luck yet. Maybe I'll check out Hulu.
My plan to read less news and political crap is not going to well. Ignorant people will insist on drawing me into arguments I can't believe I'm having in contemporary America. For the point of clearness, here are a few facts:
1. Other than the fact that he is charismatic and leading a country through dark times, Obama is not like Hitler. If you think he is, you are a fucking idiot.
2. Gay marriage is not hurting The Family, our values, or our children. The assertion that gays should instead marry people of the opposite gender is ludicrous and nonsensical and in fact WOULD be an affront to marriage.
3. Islam is no more violent or repressive than Christianity, historically. To imply that Islam is wicked and evil and that Christianity is great and good is a product of being either grossly uninformed or a hypocrite of the highest order.
4. It is not weakness to show manners and respect toward foreign leaders.
5. It is not Un-American to imply that America has shown arrogance. If you honestly don't see how we have been arrogant as a nation, you are part of the problem.
I had another LOST comment I thought of: if Richard Alpert does turn out to be an ancient Egyptian, wouldn't that totally explain the eyeliner? Ha! It would!
Still quite congested and coughsome. Slowly getting better though.
Went to IHOP for lunch (spinach omelette) with a former co-worker. She's a nice lady, the kind that has a zillion stories to tell. I'm off today since I have to work tomorrow. Plan is to take a short nap and get up and get some writing done. I may even be able to get some writing done at work tomorrow too. Depends on whether or not we're busy.
Wanted to get my hands on Season Five of The Practice. That is, of course, the season that features William Hinks. Michael Emerson won his first Emmy for playing that role; and he was superb. Anyway, no luck yet. Maybe I'll check out Hulu.
My plan to read less news and political crap is not going to well. Ignorant people will insist on drawing me into arguments I can't believe I'm having in contemporary America. For the point of clearness, here are a few facts:
1. Other than the fact that he is charismatic and leading a country through dark times, Obama is not like Hitler. If you think he is, you are a fucking idiot.
2. Gay marriage is not hurting The Family, our values, or our children. The assertion that gays should instead marry people of the opposite gender is ludicrous and nonsensical and in fact WOULD be an affront to marriage.
3. Islam is no more violent or repressive than Christianity, historically. To imply that Islam is wicked and evil and that Christianity is great and good is a product of being either grossly uninformed or a hypocrite of the highest order.
4. It is not weakness to show manners and respect toward foreign leaders.
5. It is not Un-American to imply that America has shown arrogance. If you honestly don't see how we have been arrogant as a nation, you are part of the problem.
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His opinions on women are...not so good.
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Thayrone is way opposed to gay marriage. Chris doesn't believe in evolution, and all of them are against embyonic stem cells.
I can't figure out why anyone cares about saving stem cells that otherwise would never be implanted to make a kid. I'd rather have them do some good, and I go round and round with my far right pals about that. I can't convince them that man created God to answer the unanswerable questions, "Why am I here?" and "What happens to me after I die?"
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If bowing to a leader is tacitly agreeing with his policies as you claim, how is voting Republican not openly supporting their policies? When you vote for those people, you vot for everything they stand for.
And before you make another comment about fiscal conservatism, keep in mind that the last great fiscal conservative was Bill Clinton.
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Nice of you to think of me.
I actually have a gmail account, and will likely be using it more.
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um that's scary.
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Pretty much, yes. I don't understand where people draw the parallel. Now, the previous president and THAT cult of personality which passed for leadership for THOSE eight years, it's a closer comparison on many levels to 1930s Germany....
"2. Gay marriage is not hurting The Family, our values, or our children. The assertion that gays should instead marry people of the opposite gender is ludicrous and nonsensical and in fact WOULD be an affront to marriage."
Absolutely. To insist that two people of opposite gender should marry simply because of the social perception that it is normal means you obviously have no f-ing clue what marriage is about anyway.
"3. Islam is no more violent or repressive than Christianity, historically. To imply that Islam is wicked and evil and that Christianity is great and good is a product of being either grossly uninformed or a hypocrite of the highest order."
Christianity is easily the one which has inspired the most violence of the three major monotheistic faiths. Easily. More people have died in the name of the Christian "God", therfore in futility, than anything else in religion.
"4. It is not weakness to show manners and respect toward foreign leaders. "
Funny how some believe it is? We cannot show people who are not American human courtesy and the respect which goes with their titles apparently.
"5. It is not Un-American to imply that America has shown arrogance. If you honestly don't see how we have been arrogant as a nation, you are part of the problem."
I would be one of the first people to say that this country has been, for a long time, the worst sort of arrogant. We just left behind an administration whose smugness suffocated just about every relationship we had spent years building.
Great points! I just wanted to add my twenty dollars (I never stop at two cents. Hehe)
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#1, the parallels are clear.
#3, Islam is pretty fucked up, but so are all organized religions.
#4, Manners are one thing, but to respect those that aare evil is to condone their actions.
#5 I never got the the Bush administration was arrogant. Stupid, yes, arrogant, I didn't see it.
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#3 What, exactly, do you find "fucked up" about Islam that is not equally present in Christianity? I don't mean Islam the way the Taliban practices it, but Islam the way it is actually written in their holy books.
#4 So what should he have done, punched him in the face?
5# Among other things, constantly proclaiming that America is the "greatest country in the world" while we pillage other lands, start wars for dishonest reasons, watch our poor remain hungry, sick and uneducated, and run our economy into the ground seems a tad arrogant to me.
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#3 Just the need to eradicate infidels, and the treatment of women.
The Koran talks of slaying unbelievers, and is very oppressive to women.
I believe that no one should have to believe in a god. I also think that women are way too cool to treat like
shit. Hijabs and Niqabs are no way for a woman to have to dress. They should be able to show their face, and
maybe get a cute houndstooth skirt if they want. Lots of libs overlook the subjucation of chicks in the muslim
world. It's mean.
#4 He should not have bowed to the guy. Our president should never bow to some middle eastern leader. We're above
that. We need to show them our strength, not give tehm the impression we're gonna just let them spread their
hatred.
#5. FDR and his new deal crap...the democrats and thier continued pandering to the welfare class keep them down.
When a candidate promises to increase spending on the needy, and then says
"Don't forget to vote," it's like buying votes.
There has to be a way to figure out how to inspire these stubborn kids so they want to learn. There is actually
peer pressure in some demographic groups that criticize the other kids if they start dressing like a normal
person or speaking decent English.
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#2 The Bible also talks about slaying unbeleivers, and is also extremely oppressive to women. I'm shocked that you don't know that already. I don't know what "libs" ignore the subjugation of muslim women. The rest of your comments have nothing to do with Islam.
#3 That is nothing but a racist rant.
#4 None of that has anything to do with America being the most arrogant nation in the world. I also don't see how helping the poor is "pandering" or how it "keeps" anyone "down." Do you know anything about how the welfare system works?
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That's an asinine statement.
Judge a man by what he DOES, not by what he might do in some insane reality you and FOX news made up.
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And these would be....what? I don't see the Schutzstaffel or any other group wandering the streets.....I don't see Rahm Emanuel as the next Hermann Goering, especially as he doesn't wear tutus and consume entire bakeries. What are you basing this on?
"#3, Islam is pretty fucked up, but so are all organized religions."
Compared to the deity of the Bible, Allah is pretty tame if you read the Quran.
"#4, Manners are one thing, but to respect those that aare evil is to condone their actions."
And what is proper diplomatic protocol? It doesn't matter, in those situations, whether or not you personally would govern as the other person does. Smile and eat the dinner.
"#5 I never got the the Bush administration was arrogant. Stupid, yes, arrogant, I didn't see it. "
How was it NOT arrogant?
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Wow, I never got the "I'm better than you attitude." I'll have to look at some old news footage. I don't doubt you saw it, but with me thinking I'm better than him, I never noticed it. Any doof who can't say "nuclear" seems like a rube.
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And why might that be?
Let alone the basic human rights issue, we don't torture because when American soldiers are captured, we don't want them to get tortured.
A "nice place to be incarcerated"? I'm going to assume that's a poor attempt at a joke. I don't know on what planet sleep deprivation, starvation and torture are considered the "right treatment" or are you in complete denial about what went on there?
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