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» Posted By Miles Long On July 5, 2014 @ 1:46 pm

Who could forget:

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The American Dream?

» Posted By Miles Long On July 5, 2014 @ 8:20 am

Kind of like living on any American city’s Martin Luther King Drive:

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But if you try real hard:

» Posted By Miles Long On July 5, 2014 @ 8:12 am

It ain’t the same for everybody:

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» Posted By Miles Long On July 5, 2014 @ 8:08 am

Let’s kick this off ironically:

» Posted By Miles Long On July 5, 2014 @ 8:07 am

The Story Of A Flagpole

How can anyone find fault with such musically imbued folks, Nirek. {chuckle}

However, I reserve the right to remind people that a completely different perspective may often exist. 😉

Miles “The Big Picture” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 4, 2014 @ 4:23 pm

I believe you misunderstood my post.

It is not your article that aroused bitterness at all, just a reminder.

This country has failed to live up to its ideals so often, for so may people, that they are worthless.

We point to World War II as a time when the USA rose to the occasion, to fight the good fight against tyranny, racism, fascism, etc.

All along the Tuskegee Airmen were constantly under fire, marginalized, demonized, etc, and all the while producing the best record of ANY air group fielded by the US.

As for Japanese Americans, I’m not going to rehash this country’s persecution of them during the war. But again, America fell so short of its famed ideals.

I’m bi-racial, half-Black/half-Japanese, and what whites in this country, and even on this site, have to understand is that America looks very different to whites and non-whites.

Every time we try to ignore or minimize that fact, and the different experience both groups experience, I strongly believe that we do a disservice to the notion of equality for all and just how short this country falls.

Only Native Americans have experienced the full-on bigotry, racism and attempted genocide of their race longer than American Blacks.

And those who want to argue about the genocidal behavior this country has toward Blacks, even today, probably doesn’t understand that the Stand Your Ground laws were designed to do just that, murder Blacks with impunity.

So no, your post didn’t spawn any bitterness at all, it’s always been there. My post was a simple reminder of just how different this country looks, sounds and feels to someone who isn’t white.

Miles “No Harm, No Foul” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 4, 2014 @ 3:19 pm

An abiding bitterness in me forces me to respond: At least they didn’t put Mr. Kline in a concentration camp in Utah like they did my father’s entire Japanese American family during that same war.

Miles “With Liberty And Justice For Whites” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 4, 2014 @ 8:45 am

Is The United States Of America A Christian Nation?

I would remind everyone that it was I who was accused of being the pot calling the kettle black…first. {chuckle}

Miles “Who’s On First” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 7, 2014 @ 6:50 am

I can’t help my tone bothering you.

Two things, I speak in absolutes where necessary, and I do not subscribe to the completely discredited notion that there are always two equal sides to any issue.

My arguments are often harsh and unyielding because I have no time or patience with those who do not argue facts, but instead have a need to inject “feelings” in their discourse.

FYI: I’m an ordained, ecumenical minister, coupled with the fact that I am also an empiricist; I require proof. As such I fully question the existence of God.

I also recognize that ANY argument painting the United States of America being conceived as a Christian nation is based on ignorance or delusion, perhaps both. That was my original point.

To characterize my post as the pot calling the kettle black when the facts are completely on my side is disingenuous.

Facts are not a matter of feelings…

Miles “Next?” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 7, 2014 @ 2:02 am

The voters on the Right elect their candidates BECAUSE they will violate the Establishment Clause, KT. If you need proof, look at the non-secular pandering of those candidates on the Right to get elected.

And, really, from a civics point of view, if you elect a candidate you know WILL NOT faithfully defend the Constitution, are you not fulfilling the requirements of good citizenship?

Miles “No Accident” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 7, 2014 @ 12:38 am

In the larger picture, KT, they are indistinguishable on the Right.

Those who vote them in do so because their candidates hold with their mistaken perspectives.

The Right’s denial of science and math is clear evidence of my initial assertion and is indistinguishable in voters on the Right from those they elect.

Miles “Tarred By The Same Brush” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 7, 2014 @ 12:10 am

Diane, Diane, Diane! {laughing}

You just made my argument for me. The framers of our Constitution eschewed any notion of religion as a mitigating factor in the ruling of this nation; the separation of church and state was one of the abiding principles in the creation of this nation.

There was to be no establishment of a state-sponsored religion.

Now if you feel otherwise with all evidence supporting my assertion and absolutely no evidence supporting yours, you fit the description of the people I described in my original post.

Miles “Better Luck Next Time” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 6, 2014 @ 11:58 pm

Feel free.

I truly believe what I said, if the direction of this country doesn’t serve to wake people up, then they deserve what they get…or don’t get, whichever the case may be.

Miles “Just Desserts” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 4, 2014 @ 8:00 am

Interesting that a man would admit something like that! {laughing}

Fact: Organized religion was invented by men to take power away from women.

Prior to the advent of organized religion women ruled all the various small societies across the globe. They were at the pinnacle of all these societies based on their inborn mysticism of being the sex that gave birth, and because they could bleed without dying. This was the status quo for tens of thousands of years.

Organized religion was the advent of men who wanted to wrestle societal power away from women as evidenced by the fact that all organized religions have women in subservient positions under the dominion of the male sex.

(And really, don’t anyone f-ing bring up some obscure offshoot to try to show how f-ing smart you think you are and that my thesis is wrong. Smarter people than you have vetted this fact. Okay, except maybe on Themyscira.)

Anyway, look at the major religions, especially dating back over the last 5,000 years, and their writings and teachings have women in a subservient role in society.

It is a medical fact that testosterone makes you stupid. Again, we have 10,000 years of history proving that.

As an adjunct to my original post, I blame women for the position we’re in today as a society.

(Everyone’s hackles rising now? {chuckle})

Here’s the deal: 52% or so of the nation’s voters are women, a very clear majority and a margin wider than many elections are decided today.

If women had been exercising their franchise strategically for the last 50 years even, and we had 52% of the House and Senate at the federal and state level, 52% of the judges sitting on federal and state benches, and 52% of the governors in this country women, the United States of America would be a paradise.

But we don’t, and all because men were able to convince women that they were better stewards of this planet than women were…and sadly still have entirely too many women believing it.

Miles “Partially Tongue In Cheek Perspective” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 3, 2014 @ 3:08 pm

I have my doubts that it can be done.

If the lost opportunities for college graduates to find gainful employment doesn’t do it for the nation’s young, then nothing will.

If all the work the Republican party has done to keep Blacks and Latinos from voting doesn’t do it for non-whites, nothing will.

If losing control of their personal health choices doesn’t do it for women, nothing will.

If living as a wage slave because the minimum wage is unsustainable for a family to live on doesn’t do it, nothing will.

If the fact that your favorite reality show or sports team is on television Election Day keeps your ass from exercising your Constitutional right to vote, nothing will.

If the fact that the Judicial Branch of the government is populated by a majority of heinous ideologues doesn’t do it, nothing will.

If the fact that your belief that your one vote matters not, nothing will…

Miles “Quit Making Excuses” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 3, 2014 @ 2:29 pm

So let’s get to where the rubber meets the road: none of the cogent arguments against the notion that the United States of America is a Christian nation can get any traction with an ideological, dumbed-down religious Right.

They are truth and logic-challenged and no amount of reality is going to dent their mistaken beliefs, therefore they must be expunged from any possible influence on our system of governance.

This requires unaccustomed (at least in recent history) effort on the part of the Left. We have to turn out voters in unprecedented numbers for the next generation and purge religious conservatives from all levels of government and the courts.

Anything else is just howling at the moon…

Miles “Final Solution” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 3, 2014 @ 10:35 am

Hobby Lobby, Contraception and Bearing False Witness

Bottom line, the hallmark of the religious Right is congenital, compulsive dishonesty…

Miles “All Else Is Bullshit” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On June 30, 2014 @ 6:58 pm

What Can Be Done to Stop Children From Crossing Our Borders?

The symptom, as I stated, are the children who are already here as well as those currently in transit. And, taking care of them once here is a SIMPLE matter of logistics.

In this country we’re good at taking care of symptoms, but useless at taking care of the root causes of ANY problem.

Unless this country gets serious about determining what’s at the bottom of this exodus of refugees, it will not stop.

Miles “The Doctor Is In” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 1, 2014 @ 8:38 pm

Exactly…

Miles “From The Beginning” Long

» Posted By Miles Long On July 1, 2014 @ 4:58 pm