Displaying 391 To 420 Of 955 Comments escribacat, try publishing it yourself, electronically (much lower costs to you). If you email me through my site (you can find it by clicking on my username), I can make a few suggestions to you. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 26, 2011 @ 2:48 am I like the discussion of concern and care requiring action. I have maintained for some time that “love”, “caring”, etc., do not mean anything without action. I have several exes who thought that the emotion was enough. They are exes because it did not carry through to their actions. Oddly enough, one of them was a big fan of a song popular in 1991 (“More Than Words”?) by a metal band that was telling the audience to “show me you love me” and to abandon the lie of just saying the words. Go figure. If I care about something, I am obligated to act on that caring. Love is not an invisible blanket to wrap around your love ones; you have to use hugs and other actions instead. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 26, 2011 @ 2:46 am Khirad, how do you see the pursuit of meaning and the pursuit of purpose being related? These days, purpose has been perverted. If all we are meant to do is go to work and spend money, then we have breached the final frontier of consumerism and there is nothing left. But is purpose and meaning linked, are they juxtaposed, are they inimical? In today’s society, I think perhaps they are juxtaposed, if only because of the purpose to which we have been forced (consumerism). There is very little meaning in consumerism, which I believe is why a lot of consumers are getting a bit defensive and frustrated. Their lives have no meaning, but finding purpose is supposed to (?) help find meaning. There are nihilistic forces in today’s society, and I am not talking about so-called anarchists wanting to wage a destructive war against the establishment. In the name of consumerism, there are people more than willing to tear down our planet’s foundations for the benefit of a few more dollars in profit. There are people more than willing to subjugate others for the same reason. Is there are any meaning in such a life? Do they feel that void? That is one thing that troubles me most about our situation today. We have people espousing certain beliefs and acting contrary to them. Is there anything that can explain this? » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 25, 2011 @ 11:54 pm Existentialism is a hard topic to tackle, and I congratulate you on doing it so well. I was once asked if I was a person that life happened to, or a person that made life happen. I replied that I was a person who participated in life; sometimes life happens and sometimes you make it happen. I have to embrace the idea that each being or entity in reality helps shape it. I have to, because that is what my life is about. When I write, I am shaping other peoples’ perspective of the world around them (to various degrees, and with varying degrees of success). And in the field of politics, any difference or shift in perspective has wide effects. One person believes in universal health care. Another believes in free market. Besides, I get tired of the immature nihilism I see around me. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 25, 2011 @ 11:42 pm Help Keep The Planet In Orbit – Donate Today My account with paypal is currently restricted, so I can not donate or subscribe. I also can not send a check. Using the “Donate Directly From Credit Card or Bank ATM” link just gives me an error with paypal. I will check out zazzle to see what I can do there. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 17, 2011 @ 2:19 am I graduated high school in a very… reactionary… town. For reference, it proudly bills itslef as “the birthplace of the KKK” for that state (which is not in the south). Over half of my graduating class did not believe that African Americans were human. We had a few black students, and one of them was in our graduating class. During the procession down the center of the auditorium to our seats at the graduation ceremony, we were supposed to walk down in two pairs, four people abreast. I was fairly near the front of the line, but when I walked down the aisle, there was only two of us. I was the only one in our class who would allow themselves to be seen by our families to be walking down the aisle next to her. This was in the early 1980’s. Today I face, constantly, people assuming that I am not a real human being. My emotions are not real. My opinions are irrelevant. That is one of the reasons I have come to this site, from HP, and why I have chosen a different user name than what was used there. Popular opinion be damned. Opinion matters very little. Facts matter first and foremost. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 17, 2011 @ 1:25 am Bill Maher’s Big Lie Contribution? This is one reason I have resisted the urge to run for public office (although it does seem like easy money). I have no inclination to disclose my favorite sexual position, what kind of underwear I prefer, my opinion on the latest crop of American Idol contestants, why I am not married (because it ain’t legal, for one reason), why I don’t have kids (gee, someone around the house 24/7 to accuse me of sex crimes?), my recipe for chicken soup (over my dead body), or a nine-hour interview picking apart my spiritual beliefs. When are we going to elect officials rationally? I don’t care if a candidate is a blood-drinking worshipper of Team Edward. I want to know that they can do the job, that they have a firm grasp on real priorities, and that they have plans that will work. (This day and age, the ability to knock skulls together at the conference table wouldn’t hurt, either) » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 17, 2011 @ 4:06 am If they are trying to tell you what path is “right” for you, then, yes, what they are telling you is wrong. Belief can not be imposed from outside. It only comes from the inside. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 17, 2011 @ 3:58 am From what I have seen (I used to watch him on Politically Incorrect a long time ago), Bill seems to be moving from atheist to anti-theist. An atheist has no purpose or interest in deriding and denigrating another person’s faith. An Anti-theist, on the other hand, will treat people who are of faith as if they are perpetuating a heinous crime. This is because the nature of an anti-theist states that faith is a crime, or, in some slightly more tolerant cases, the purview of the intellectually damaged. The fact is however, both an atheist and an anti-theist are products of faith as well. It is not possible to disprove the existence of a deity, any more than one can prove the existence of one. Atheism, and it’s more militant cousin, is faith that there is no God. I freely admit that I am a spiritual person of faith. My spiritual tradition is not the same as others. My spiritual tradition is one that makes sense to me, but that does not mean I am “right”. I freely admit that I may be wrong. And if I am wrong, I will gladly pay the consequences for it, whatever those consequences are. As a person of faith, I freely admit that this makes me somewhat unique. However, part of my faith says that I am not a god, and only a god can be infallible. That’s called humility. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 17, 2011 @ 3:52 am The problem that I see is not a lack of motivation or estrangement. Those are the side effects of the problem. The problem is that we have one party defining the narrative with a few specific tactics: Obfuscate, Lie, Accuse, and Lie Louder 1. Put the Dems on the defensive. Accuse them of everything, even if (or is it “especially if”) they are not guilty of what they are being accused of. And then they automated the process, and subcontracted out the process, while getting paid for the process. And the actual problem doesn’t address the root cause of this, either. The root causes are: A. Deregulation of the Financial Sector – allowed campaign finance to become even murkier than before, among other problems. As far as fixing any of this, it’s not going to happen peacefully. The pseudo-cons use any peaceful approach to create more hostility toward Dems. We need more people on the Dem side with more cojones than political savvy. And even then, I don’t see it happening with Washington’s current processes. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 18, 2011 @ 6:06 pm I got into quite a bit of trouble leading up to January 1, 2000 (because so many people got the date wrong, for one thing) because I pointed out that I was not a follower of the Judeo-Christo-Islamic religion. I also told quite a few people that, once all the Judeo-Christo-Islamics had their party and left, the rest of us could finally clean up the mess and live in peace. I think the Doom Cultists just use it as a way to illustrate they are so much better than anyone else. If the get snatched up in the Rapture (or whatever their particular term for their glorification in the eyes of their person God is), and I don’t, that helps them prove that they are so much better than I am and that they have been right about my immorality all this time. I call the phenomenon “selfish reality”. In order for them to be happy, their way of life has to be the only right way. If someone else has a different way of life, and is happy, that invalidates the selfish ones’ way of life. And they get upset and unleash the hounds of vitriol. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 18, 2011 @ 2:41 am While in a spiritual sense you could be right, I do not think Gaia would want us to perish along with her. Even if we have done our best to destroy her. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 18, 2011 @ 2:33 am What is the assumed time rate for that video? If I am not mistaken (and I may well be) I thought an asteroid would need to be traveling faster than the rotation of the earth in order to hit like that. It’s a nice representation, but some of the details seemed a little off. I didn’t see any tectonic or volcanic side-effects. Incidentally, I once saw something that mentioned how an asteroid that passed near the Earth could “rip” the atmosphere off the planet. The process could take a bit longer, but would be no less total. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 18, 2011 @ 2:31 am I still have not gotten a reply to my request (three weeks ago?) that HP stop sending me notices of new articles. Apparently, you have to manually unsubscribe from the notices before you delete your account (or before you get banned). However, Gmail now classifies these notices as Spam, so it’s all good. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On March 14, 2011 @ 10:07 am Hey, funksands! Didn’t know you were over here! Hope your wife and your son are doing well (and the rest of any family I didn’t know about). I chose a different username over here, hope that doesn’t confuse you (Mik McAllister ring a bell?). » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 17, 2011 @ 1:44 am Everything from “Over There” belongs “Here!” The worse part is when you realize that you have been selling pigs to synogogues, Geritol to kindergartners, etc. Then there are those that sell cyanide to kindergartners, convince people that puppies are agents of the Apocalypse, and package torture implements as playground equipment. The biggest marketing “fail” of the last century is credit/debit cards. But *everybody* has to have one, despite the fact that schools can not teach basic personal finance anymore. I would go through YouTube and find some of the worst offenders in television/internet advertising, but then I would have to watch them first. I’m not sure I want to test my fiath in humanity that much right now. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 17, 2011 @ 5:42 pm Well, bots don’t work very well anymore, with more IP tracing and capcha safeguards (among others). So they have to find a new way to do it. This is why I have a problem with most “business-oriented” college programs. Marketing and advertising seem to teach students to assume that every person on the planet is a complete imbecile and totally gullible. Personnel Management seems to assume that every employee (but never managers or executives) is a dishonest thief whose only goal is to rob the company blind. Risk Management is the same. The Accounting-oriented classes seem to teach obfuscation more than competency. Not only that, but I hear a lot from friends in various industries, from doctors’ offices to IT. Many people without the “benefit” of a business major are getting upset by how the managers and execs seem to believe that dishonesty, cheating, and other ethical violations are perfectly okay – it’s “the price of doing business”. I suppose that is why Social Entrepreneurship, Social Justice, and other similar movements in the business world are coming under attack by the right and the pseudo-cons. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 17, 2011 @ 5:16 pm Here too, but it would be difficult for Congress to find itself in contempt. Their contempt for American citizens, as well as anyone else in the world, is taller than Babel. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On March 26, 2011 @ 4:41 am I’d be interested in knowing who that factory belonged to. Change.org has been doing a lot of agitating about human trafficking and foreign factories owned by US companies. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On March 23, 2011 @ 4:15 am bito, I just had an argument with my roommate, Mr. Headline-of-the-moment-one-day-too-late. If he can’t keep one fact in his head for longer than 15 seconds, how do you expect people like him to keep multiple facts in their heads for a day? » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On March 19, 2011 @ 5:55 pm Hang in for us, Kalima. We are all here for you. If you need something, tell us, we will figure out a way to help. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On March 16, 2011 @ 5:00 am According to what Russell said, she hid the fact that she did not wear it during the filming of “The Outlaw”. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On March 1, 2011 @ 5:04 am More like “hands off, boys”! Unless you wanted them to get arrested? » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On March 1, 2011 @ 3:40 am She claimed she never wore it. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On March 1, 2011 @ 3:38 am Wasn’t Jane Russell considered a “plus size” woman? (or as some people say, “voluptuous”) A far cry from the anorexics we have today. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On March 1, 2011 @ 2:04 am I once lived *somewhat* off the grid. Our power was provided by solar panels and a generator for “emergencies”. I would love to live completely off-the-grid. Grow our own food, provide our own power, etc. (But that would mean no internet, and humans were never meant to live that way 😉 ) Until we can all learn to live “light-footed”, our planet has no hope. And our society has not done so well with our current lifestyle, either. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On March 1, 2011 @ 1:16 am Kalima, I hope you have been able to read HotChocolate’s article on Christchurch. It is sad that Jane Russell is gone. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On March 1, 2011 @ 1:13 am Loved this from Charlie Booker: “It’s like trying to work out the consequences of time travel, but less fun, and with absolutely no chance of being adapted into a successful screenplay.” Time travel has to be the laziest plot device ever invented. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 28, 2011 @ 2:05 am Re: the British paying “increased fees” at the Tripoli airport. I don’t care if they are bribes or fees, I applaud the British officials for working hard to get their citizens out of a situation where they could be targets for violence, kidnapping, reprisals, etc. As far as “Britain believes that paying bribes can encourage unlawful action against its citizens”, do you really think that *not* paying will cure Gaddaffi’s insanity? Re: The Searchlight poll Wasn’t it during the Depression that thye Bund and other racist organizations had huge surges in popularity? Hard times drive even rational people to consider whether extremists might be right. And yes, it disgusts me. Re: the Breakfast bill I wonder if I can get the UK government to pay for a breakfast I cooked for someone, back in 1997. The gentleman concerned was a British citizen. I don’t recall his name (but I could describe several birthmarks). The interest on that breakfast could be quite high, though. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 27, 2011 @ 1:36 am Gods, I wish I could be there to help. » Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit On February 25, 2011 @ 11:14 pmComments Posted By 2ndClassCitizenPundit
2. Take credit for what worked over the past couple years, especially if the person taking credit was vehemently against it in the first place.
3. Misrepresent any measure the Dems tried to pass.
4. Use the most abusive rhetoric possible, with the most sensationalist language possible, at the highest volume possible, as often as possible.
B. Lack of Campaign Finance Reform – too many “amicus curiae” can stick there noses into the process – and often wind up peeing n the pool.
C. Voter Arrogance – That’s right. Not “voter apathy”. Voter arrogance is when voters assume they know everything about the issues based on almost no actual evidence or education on the issues.
«« Back To Stats Page
Home Stats