Displaying 61 To 90 Of 508 Comments Is Donald Trump a Stalking Horse? Smit, it’s paralyzingly stupid in that anyone would possibly think that anyone could run for president in this country without verification of origin, survive the scrutiny of an international media that handles itself like a gossip tabloid through the (more than a year) campaigning to said elections and then maintain the helm of this nation for 2 1/2 years and actually not be American citizen by concealing an actual non American place of origin. » Posted By foxisms On April 27, 2011 @ 1:59 pm All I know, AdLib is it ain’t me. » Posted By foxisms On April 27, 2011 @ 1:43 pm Great piece, Marion! » Posted By foxisms On April 27, 2011 @ 1:13 pm Your ‘Charting American Exceptionalism’ charts are grounds a-plenty for a revolution. » Posted By foxisms On April 27, 2011 @ 6:54 am Cher, because it was so varied in subject. Like the Sunday paper. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 1:57 pm I’m going with this being pretty much the best DP I’ve seen this year. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 7:55 am I think it’s fairly safe to say that intolerance breeds intolerance. » Posted By foxisms On April 25, 2011 @ 7:32 pm As always KT…bumping into you here is my pleasure. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 8:01 pm Unless, PW…the student comes already self motivated to be taught. Which I know is a rare bird…but I think if all of the talk here about evolution (and I think we’d all like to have a better word for whatever the phenomena we’re trying to put our fingers on) means anything, there seems to be more “rare birds” chirping about than I can ever recall before. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 7:59 pm Some individuals may be, Adonai…but unfortunately as a herd, we are not. Or it would already be a far different world than this one we live in. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 7:40 pm It gets so overwhelming KT when the rare opportunity presents itself to have people to exchange ideas on this with. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 7:37 pm KT, I have no problems recognizing individual evolution AND the evolution of the species. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 7:16 pm You are so right, wts. And education as we know it (and in this stage of our spec-ial development is based on the misconception that gentility equals weakness, rather than recognizing it as the genuine life skill that it is and (hopefully) will be one day. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 6:57 pm KT, Agreed, but I believe evolution in itself, (or a certain degree of evolutionary transcendence?) is what inspires or opens one up and awakens a “desire” to seek that “deliberate effort, and practice, practice, practice” to unlearn the realm of fear. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 6:33 pm PW, I think it’s more basic than that. We live in an age where “affection, empathy, love, and caring” is viewed as a folly and a weakness in opposition to “keeping your nose to the grind stone”, “doing what you are told” and succeeding while others around you fail. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 2:23 pm People as a group fear anything that removes them from their comfort zone which is pretty much little more than familiarity. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 2:10 pm A great packaging of a very convoluted subject Adonai. » Posted By foxisms On April 26, 2011 @ 10:28 am The View From the Left Hemisphere of the Universe Check out the small book by Russ Kick, “100 things you’re not supposed to know.” Kick was (is?) editor of the website The Memory Hole and editor at large for disinfo.com. » Posted By foxisms On April 24, 2011 @ 7:10 pm There couldn’t be a more apropos pick for this thread, Patsy than the one you picked!. Theme from Route 66 ~ Nelson Riddle and his orchestra » Posted By foxisms On May 1, 2011 @ 4:38 am g’night everybody! » Posted By foxisms On April 30, 2011 @ 11:19 pm Paradise By The Dashboard Light – Meat Loaf » Posted By foxisms On April 30, 2011 @ 11:06 pm Little GTO ~ Beach Boys » Posted By foxisms On April 30, 2011 @ 10:57 pm Motorcycle Song ~ Arlo Guthrie » Posted By foxisms On April 30, 2011 @ 10:49 pm The long and winding road ~ Beatles » Posted By foxisms On April 30, 2011 @ 10:35 pm Cars are cars ~ Simon & Garfunkle » Posted By foxisms On April 30, 2011 @ 10:31 pm Cars ~ Gary Newman » Posted By foxisms On April 30, 2011 @ 10:27 pm Highway to Hell ~ AC/DC » Posted By foxisms On April 30, 2011 @ 10:08 pm Jet Airliner ~ Steve Miller » Posted By foxisms On April 30, 2011 @ 10:05 pm Thunder Road ~ Bruce » Posted By foxisms On April 30, 2011 @ 10:05 pm Downeaster Alexa
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A man in President Obama’s position can’t keep a shaving cut or a sinus condition from the press or his detractors, yet he (or anyone) could somehow conceal his/her nationality..which is a legal prerequisite for either running for or holding the office of President???
Ask Schwarzenegger how easy that would be. But for that caveat, he’d have run for this already and put a second cracked actor in contention for the Oval Office.
The stupidity of the people who have kept this myth alive for so long is only exceeded by the people who heard, listened, believed and supported the insanity from the sidelines.
This isn’t just about bigotry. It’s about monumental stupidity on a level I find surprising that far too many people didn’t dismiss in it’s entirety from the onset of the delusion.
I’m hardly GOP and I’ve already announced my non-candidacy.
Besides, I’m hoping for a call from The Big Guy…maybe he’d like to add an average American with poor typing skills to his staff.
I may not have a chance in hell, but I feel I have to be ready, just in case.
And I’m surprised too at people making public announcements of NOT “throwing their hats in the ring”.
Seeing this and not wanting to get lost in the deluge of people by the millions who might be contemplating such a moment of grandstanding, I’d like to announce here, publicly and officially that (a-hem,) I will not seek the office of President of the United States, either.
I’m sure this will help many other Americans in struggling with this oh, so difficult decision as to who they may or may not vote for.
Great! Now the only other person I would genuinely like to hear this from is Donald Trump and I too can rest easier.
And if there’s a Higg’s boson somewhere in that picture of the collider, Cher, I don’t see it. 🙂
A proverbial potpourri of different interests rather than just news on the ever (and never) changing political landscape!
How in the world did you ever find the piece on those GIF images for example?
And the protest songs!!
It was a great read and I just wanted to say thx!
But I can’t help feeling you’ve still got a few surprises left for us, Cher’.
Thx!
It’s hard to see that in children of school age because they so reflect the paradigm and the world they live in until they reach an age of reason, self sufficiency and independence.
But there’s something very wrong about a world that ignores individuality in it’s search to provide a one size fits all educational environment.
Once a person’s individuality is quashed it takes well into adulthood for any child to regain it and pick up where (and as who) they were born to be.
There’s nothing that you or Adonai or wts has written on this subject that I could possibly disagree with using my own personal perspective.
So I’ll revert at this time to some lyrics from the Indigo Girls before I become all together speechless:
“I went to the doctor,
I went to the mountains
I looked to the children,
I drank from the fountain
There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line.
And the less I seek my source for some definitive…
The closer I am to fine.”
G’night, KT.
The individuals of a species are all microcosms of the macrocosm and as such through happenstance or choice seek and find or refuse to seek for a hundred different reasons. And I really think more people now than ever seek rather than refuse to.
At the same time, that tipping point that needs to be reached to have the psyche of the species (in this case, the ‘macrocosm’) evolve has yet to be met. As such as I stated somewhere above, earlier, we (as a species) have not come far from the psyche held during the dark ages. And you point that out as well.
The beauty is, I think we’ve both met more people inclined to “seek” now, than our parents, ever had the opportunity to. Some of that is due to mass means of communication, which will only increase the frequency — the other reason…and I only hope and guess at is that there are more people with the desire to seek, then there were before.
Hope and belief is pretty much all I (and we) can build anything on with “reality” being so elastic as it is.
Music painting, dance, philosophy, the physics of creativity and letting go are all anathema to industrialization, productivity and unfortunately this is the reality we live in as a species at this time. As you so well put, we are indoctrinated to apply our focus to memorization for the sake of the promise of capital gain rather than cultivation of higher qualities that would yield so much more…but unfortunately “where we are” sees these things as intangibles.
Perhaps someday where we are “then”, this small truth currently can be more likely to take root and flourish.
But it’s OK for those who see to still envision it in the mean time. And when I say “mean time” I’m being literal.
Some call it “Kaliyuga”.
To put this all in perspective…as Dennis Miller would have said before 9/11 and he was still a liberal…”Fuck it! Let’s have pie!”
“When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”
I think that is what that adage is about.
As long as the majority of the herd accepts this (whether they talk an entirely different game or not, is academic)…we will follow the same course we have been compelled to and it is our advancement as a species that pays the piper for the time we slowly, slowly, slowly dance the same tired steps to the same tired song.
Aside from technological breakthroughs we’re not as far more advanced than the dark ages when it comes to caring and feeling compassion or any of those emotions to which you’ve made mention.
Unfortunately for too many of us that involves several degrees of fear and loathing. Others have that amplifier that cranks it up to 11.
Fortunately, they run at the back of the herd.
They will eventually either catch up or become food for predators of one figure of speech or another.
Of course I’m not so foolish as to suspect that for many of us here and now, we will get to witness that evolutionary advancement.
And while fear may be the well spring that we should explore for a number of societal uglies, I can only go so far in excusing fear as the inherent and unconquerable that gives us as humans license to remain in a primordial psyche.
I theorize that just as a group of otters, chimpanzees or hyenas could never dream of building a Brooklyn Bridge, let alone grasp the mechanics of using opposible thumbs to get the job done.
In much the same way these different species cannot hope or strive to overcome defense mechanisms that we humans too harbor (if not genetically then through some genetic memory)…We have specialized tools to allow us to over come our fears. We do. We posses these tools and we should have long ago put them to good use.
Just as we (homosapein-sapien) can design a combustible engine or build an Eiffel Tower we can also over come irrational or unfounded fears that chain us inside our current paradigm…or at least we were given such tools as to be able to free ourselves.
Not a religious person, I still hold to the belief that humans and humans alone have the means and the charge to create a heaven on earth. Unfortunately unlike yourself, far too few see that destroying the hell we are born to, requires conquering no devil, no evil spirit or any childhood fear we carry into adulthood. To accomplish what we need do in order to create what we seem destined to create, is conquer those fears you mention and open the doors and receptors for that which would rush in to fill the void.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
“Item #61 ~ Aristotle Set Back Science For Around 2,000 Years.”
He footnotes his sources.
Sumpin’ to think about.
Great tune that hadn’t even crossed my mind but it’s so fitting.
I grew up with this one. Think 2 guys in a Corvette.
Who’s gonna drive you home ~ Cars
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