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VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Marksism posted:


But no, the insurance industry would "probably" have sponsored something, you know, eventually, after a few cities were leveled by hurricanes. As soon as it was profitable. And no, private companies would never use these things for political purposes, honest.

Yeah, and they'd totally have sponsored research into advanced computing which makes the data meaningful, too.

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VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

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Shipon posted:

they also changed the wording of my letter in ways that would be the polar opposite of its intent (monopsony being changed to monopoly).


Jesus loving christ, I learned that word in HIGH SCHOOL. It was actually taught in my loving high school.

Your local newspaper has loving subliterates running it.

God drat America.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Ruckby posted:

Hint: nine months pass between conception and birth.

Coincidence.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

redmercer posted:

I'd really like to see santorum get in the Oxford English Dictionary before I die.

Er, the word, not the substance itself.

IMO, it won't be real word until it is used more for what it is purported to mean than for discussion of what people want it to mean.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Elim Garak posted:

That's the weekly (usually) editorial cartoon from The Onion. That's the style, the crying Statue of Liberty being a particularly repeated image in the cartoons, although she doesn't seem to appear in the last few.



I seriously did not realize that. drat you, Poe!

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Mr. Funny Pants posted:

Hi everyone, I'm a loving idiot who corrected an inaccurate dipshit with another inaccuracy. Hurf durf.

At least it wasn't anachronistic.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Helsing posted:

the only reason people are defending him is because they like his work as an actor, which is absurd.

His story is also pretty believable, regardless, due to the course of his career being public knowledge.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
He's just doing research to prove how depraved and damaging homosexuality is to our culture.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

katlington posted:

loving native animals messing with my pet toy dogs. Coyote's should just lay down in the street and die!

One thing I loved in Alaska was the annual summer trickle of news stories about tourists' toy dogs getting taken by eagles.

Also coyotes are awesome.

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VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Ned posted:

This is the part of Adam Smith's writing that people seem to ignore when they talk about poor people owning x-boxes and the like.

Right wingers who invoke Adam Smith have never read anything he wrote, at all. They just remember "Adam Smith = free trade" from high school, if that much.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Pope Guilty posted:

Smith was actually a fairly impressive moral philosopher in addition to expounding economic sentiments that wouldn't put him out of place among many social democrats. Pity he's remembered and feted as a champion of amoral ruthlessness.

Anyone who could become a symbol of or champion for class conflict or for forcing upper classes to take responsibility for the society that feeds them has their identity coopted and attention toward their writings directed to ...anything other than that. Smith is the Free Market Capitalism founder, Marx is only about killing the wealthy classes, and Martin Luther King's only concern was the treatment of black people. We'll focus only on something that is part of OUR message, on something that doesn't really make a difference, or on something we can use to demonize them.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
A teacher was fired for incompetence from my high school in 1994.

There were two others fired from the same department that year, for unrelated reasons.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

quote:

If they don't trust in God, don't spend our money. If you don't like this nation under God, make a new nation for yourselves.

It must be wonderful to be so ignorant.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Orange Devil posted:

Do these people reckon Denzel Washington is a villian in Under Siege as well?

"The Siege." "Under Siege" was the Stephen Segal Die-Hard-On-A-Boat movie.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Orange Devil posted:

I thought it was Die-Hard-On-A-Train? Is that 2? Either way, I mix these titles up.

Come on. Cake scene. Pause, rewind, play. Pause, rewind, play. Excuse me a moment.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Boxman posted:


Is this a reference to something I'm not familiar with, or is "traveler" the new way for racists to say "black"?



No, "fellow traveler" an old way for right wingers to say "communist."

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

The entire Republican party and conservative movement is an extension of Karl Rove.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

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Gee, maybe if you give the poor, who spend the money they get, money, business will feel more welcome, because there will be more people spending more money?

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Bruce Leroy posted:

More importantly, if you lower the minimum wage, how will those who earn minimum wage have any left with which to invest, start businesses, etc. in order to become millionaires and billionaires?

Last time I checked making money like that generally requires some kind of capital and if you diminish people's abilities to earn and accrue capital, then they'll have even less chance of becoming wealthy than before.

The last line of the article I posted is the most important, this rear end in a top hat isn't some self-made woman, she inherited a profitable company and just expanded on it. She wasn't some minimum wage slave who saved a few dollars of every paycheck to start some business out of her garage and built to a billion dollar enterprise.

I'm reading "Kokoro" by Lafcadio Hearn. In the middle of him sucking off Japanese imperialism, there's this.

Lafcadio Hearn posted:

Now, with us, the common worker is incomparably less free than the common worker in Japan. He is less free because of the more complicated mechanism of Occidental societies, whose forces tend to agglomeration and solid integration. He is less free because the social and industrial machinery on which he must depend reshapes him to its own particular requirements, and always so as to evolve some special and artificial capacity at the cost of other inherent capacity. He is less free because he must live at a standard making it impossible for him to win financial independence by mere thrift. To achieve any such independence, he must possess exceptional character and exceptional faculties greater than those of thousands of exceptional competitors equally eager to escape from the same thralldom. In brief, then, he is less independent because the special character of his civilization numbs his natural power to live without the help of machinery or large capital. To live thus artificially means to lose, sooner or later, the power of independent movement. Before a Western man can move he has many things to consider.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
Labor day is an insult anyway.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

namesake posted:

Every second you exist in modern society in its current state is thanks to the hard and often completely forgotten labours of your fellow human rather than the sinister systems and organisations which exist to syphon away the fruits of that labour for their own private enjoyment.

Wikipedia posted:

The September date originally chosen by the CLU of New York and observed by many of the nation's trade unions for the past several years was selected rather than the more widespread International Workers' Day because Cleveland was concerned that observance of the latter would be associated with the nascent Communist, Syndicalist and Anarchist movements that, though distinct from one another, had rallied to commemorate the Haymarket Affair in International Workers' Day.[6] All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories have made it a statutory holiday.

That it is in September is the insult.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Emy posted:

I find it difficult to tell on the Wall Street "Stephen Hawking would have died under the NHS" Journal.

Wall Street "Laffer Curve" Journal.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Bruce Leroy posted:

There should be some kind of law where you can only call something "communist" if you can actually define what communism is.

If we applied that to every -ism, conservatives would never be allowed to speak.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
What a coincidence, that is one one-hundred-thousanth of the cost of a miracle. Come back with 99,999 more handfuls of coins just like that and maybe your brother gets his miracle.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/09/daily-chart-13#comments

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dave.wane@gmail.com Sep 27th, 16:03

Australian beer prices, like fuel and so many other everyday commodities are way too high - mainly due to greedy BIG Australian governments taxing and charging to pay for their big, bloated and mostly unnecessary bureaucracies. Little wonder that tourism numbers are dying up. Here in the US (where I am now)almost everything is far cheaper than Australia - even when considering state taxes. Australia is rapidly taxing itself out of existence by taxing the dwindling numbers of wealth producers to pay for the ever increasing numbers of people feeding at the taxpayer-funded-trough as government employees. Socialist Labor governments have destroyed the finances of all states and territories and of course the catastrophic Rudd-Gillard Socialist Labor has trashed our nation's once healthy balance sheet. One cannot talk about the cost of any commodity without talking about the root cause: Big Greedy Bloated government.

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Fuel prices and declining disposable incomes couldn't have anything to do with a drop in tourism.

Speculation, what's that?

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

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Foreigners get their ideas about American life from TV and movies. I usually recommend they watch Breaking Bad and Squidbillies for a more accurate portrayal.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Bruce Leroy posted:

Sandra Fluke deserves the lifetime achievement award for "most misquoted person." Seriously, will conservatives ever stop this intellectually dishonest smear campaign against her and what they've imagined she said?

Regardless, that article is the women's rights version of the complacency and ignorance people have towards labor rights. They take for granted the progress women have made and act like it just kind of naturally happened. They completely ignore how hard women have had to fight for what they currently have, which is still significantly less than parity with men on multiple levels (e.g. pay disparities, discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace, rape culture, etc.).

When you're just flat-out lying, I don't think you have to qualify "dishonest" with "intellectually."

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

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I'm going to guess they're considering two-parent homes versus single-parent homes, which are riskier for a lot of reasons not directly related to sexual orientation.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Durgoc posted:

As if voting turnout wasn't low enough already.


Voter turnout will not be low enough until only executives of extractive industries are voting.



And since when are people who pay rent not paying property taxes?

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
Obama will accelerate the general trend towards socialism that we've been seeing over the last five decades, sure.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Bruce Leroy posted:


I'm pretty sure Sweden, Norway, Finland, and pretty much every nation with hefty doses of socialism in their mixed economies would disagree with him there. And don't forget the millions of people doomed into further poverty (as well as some of the most egregious human rights abuses in history) by capitalism as a result of nations and corporations taking advantage of them for their own gain, e.g. Banana Republics throughout South and Central Americas, Pinochet i.e. Hayek's best friend, etc.



What was the GDP of the Soviet Union in 1920 versus, say, 1970?

Either systems other than capitalism create wealth, or they've got to concede the Soviet system as being capitalistic (and, ideally, forfeit its use as a bogeyman in the future.)

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VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

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Why shouldn't the state favor the rich? They're better than us.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
My mom could beat up your dad.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

quote:

That is a burden on taxpayers, of course, but it can be even worse for children whose families have a huge stake in their failing in school. Those kids may never recover: a 2009 study found that nearly two-thirds of these children make the transition at age 18 into S.S.I. for the adult disabled. They may never hold a job in their entire lives and are condemned to a life of poverty on the dole — and that’s the outcome of a program intended to fight poverty.

[citation needed]

How long does it take to get on SSI these days?

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Bruce Leroy posted:




He's insinuating an endemic, widespread problem of people fudging the numbers and committing fraud to get checks, rather than acknowledging a wider range of childhood conditions which are rather disabling and costly for families, but which don't fit our traditional stereotypes of "disabled."



Rising health care costs and declining or stagnating incomes would make this worse. You can spend 100 percent of your total income on respite care (literally what respite care for my half-sister would have cost my mother if the state hadn't paid for it) or whatever, or you can stop working and do it yourself.

If you do the latter, even if you don't have any government assistance at all, there's still a chance you might be able to make a few bucks churning out poo poo SEO articles at home or something.

Or you could do what the Republicans clearly want you to do, and expose your infirm relatives on a mountaintop.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
You can rebuild the mountains with dead cripples.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51861

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Doing away with the most dangerous places in the United States: Gun Free Zones.
We Need Better Liberal Control!


Most people, led along by the predominantly liberal media, rarely question the facts presented to them. -Southern Papist Perspective

There is no way to take my usual humorous tone when discussing the horrific events of last week’s school shooting

But, we can certainly take some time to ridicule liberals who, predictably enough, wasted not a second in jumping on the story, shamelessly coopting it to push their worn out anti Second Amendment crusade.

Representative Jerrold Nader launched the lunacy with a demand that the president “exploit” the murders. It was mere moments before other politicians and the Hollywood cement heads quickly shared their oh-so-important views on gun control while traveling with armed guards.

If you want to baffle a liberal, ask one what an “assault weapon” actually is. They haven’t a clue. To a liberal, a revolver is an assault weapon. A Glock is a machine gun, which have been illegal for decades.

Remember Dianne Feinstein’s asinine “assault weapons” ban. She was so proud of it. Nobody else understood it. She based her description of assault weapons on cosmetic features of the guns.

What this country needs is not better gun control, it’s better liberal control.

Imagine if we quit caving into their endless bleating about guns and we instead set about doing away with the most dangerous places in the United States: Gun Free Zones.

Liberals just loved the idea of designated peace and love zones. It was like a version of a DMZ, liberal style where everyone would play nicely.

Coincidentally, the two largest gun free zones in the nation are where the mass shootings keep happening: schools and post offices, although post offices have fallen from favor as lacking the emotional impact of schools, malls and movie theaters.

Imagine hanging a sign in front of your house saying Occupant Keeps No Weapons.

We also should be getting troubled kids into appropriate psychiatric care, in patient when necessary to keep them on their meds until they are stable.

But, liberals will have none of that. It’s close to impossible to keep someone hospitalized past a 72 hour hold, thanks to the ACLU. The Newtown shooter’s mother was scared to death of her son. He needed to be confined to a mental institution and kept on the proper meds until he was stable enough to reliably take his meds and rejoin society. Liberals have made sure that couldn’t happen.

All we’re left with now is hardening the targets. We know where they are, we are going to have to put trained shooters in those idyllic Gun Free Zones. It’s the best liberal control we’ve got.

Joy Tiz, Joytiz.com, has been quoted by Ann Coulter, as heard on Lou Dobbs radio, The Rusty Humphries Show, Bill Cunningham, KSFO in San Francisco, WOR in New York, Premiere Radio Networks, Air America and other major shows.

Joy was born in Chicago, long enough ago to remember when many democrats were actually normal people who were just wrong about everything. Joy holds a M.Sc. in psychology and a JD in law. In Joy’s newest book, It’s Not Easy Being God: The Real George Soros, the author of Obamanutz: A Cult Leader Takes the White House, provides an unnerving analysis of the character of the man who thinks he’s God–radical billionaire, George Soros.

Email: joy@joytiz.com or Twitter at: Joytiz

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
Yeah, the difference is whether that fact puts anything in perspective for you or not.



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Why Is The Left In America So Filled With HATE?
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Their bitterness and hatred is stunning in its depth and intensity. Their hate knows no bounds. It is America’s political left of which I write.

Anything or anyone not toeing the progressive/Marxist/socialist line of America’s political left is the lowest of the low beneath even their respect for a gnat.

Their gall overfloweth. They foul and sour the very air with their violent language, their profane speech, their threats (implied and otherwise), their cock-sure overconfidence scrawls FEAR across their foreheads.

They have no respect for anyone other than themselves. Common decency in addressing another human being who may hold a differing opinion is avoided like the plague.

Their use of the vilest of profane language in the pubic square is their trademark. Having a conversation with them is akin to walking barefoot through a livestock pen—in the dark.

They are the bully in every conversation or discussion. Their use of vocal force to dominate a debate, especially when they are losing to common sense, only demonstrates the shallowness of their own knowledge stream and their feeling of inadequacy amidst a gathering where the mean age is over ten years.

They lash out in all directions when they perceive a threat to their well guarded empty vault of morals. They guard well that which they do not have and transfer the evil which they do.

They are like frightened, terrified, children. Unsure of themselves, they flounder in a sea of grey on a black and white planet.

Narcissistic and hypocritical they claim love and respect for all while they harbor hate, and revulsion for anyone not like them, or anyone not deferring to them, or anyone disagreeing with them.

They are takers and users unable, or unwilling, to make or give. There is no true charity in them.

They outwardly sing praises to freedom while they, themselves, are slaves to an authoritarian political philosophy. They would enslave the world in an instant given the chance.

Their favorite weapon is bureaucratic despotism wielded through government agencies shielded from pubic accountability.

They love the cowardice of dictatorship.

They are all apparatchiks of a strong centralized authority—the state. It is to the state they bow and pay homage and their allegiance.

They have created, and they sustain, a permanent underclass of underachievers in America from whom only a vote is required to receive largesse from the country’s treasury.

They have given America the Square Deal, the Fair Deal, and the Great Society—all referred to as “progressive” when, in fact, all are socialist introductory programs, which ultimately enslave their participants.

They cry “fairness” without ever telling us their definition of fairness.

They cry “equality” while never explaining that, to them, some are more equal than others.

They cry “Social Justice” while never explaining that social justice is only another name for socialism, an introductory form of communism/Marxism.

They will not hesitate to use a nation’s pain to further their agenda even when that pain involves the deaths of thousands at work or a score of children at school. Their motto, their creed, is: “never let a crisis go to waste.”

They will pour into the streets to save the live of a condemned murderer—or—take the life of an unborn baby.

They have shown a great tendency to worship nature rather than nature’s God—to worship creation, rather than the Creator.

The left lives and breathes in a world of their own making, a world where they writhe in self-hate, amid pustules of resentment, their reason clouded by anger, guilt, doubt, and their own self-loathing. They have yet to understand the oppression they complain of is self-inflicted by the weight of the guilt they feel for living in a country like America and taking advantage of the freedom and the liberty—freely given them—while they snipe at, and openly attack, the very foundations of the country that has been so very kind to them.

The rancid attitude of the left has poisoned the American political process and has infected the American citizenry so deeply that a total breakup of the country would not be unexpected.

The only joy they seem to be able to attain is by creating a mob in the streets where they make complete and utter fools of themselves (to the amusement of of millions) by protesting the very thing(s) that makes America great, unique, and exceptional.

If the description above seems to fit the symptoms of a mental disorder to you, the reader, I must confess that I had the same reaction when reading over them a second time. It is cause for wonder, is it not?

I feel sadness and sorrow for the political left. Paraphrasing the scriptures: “They, among all men, are the most to be pitied.”

Longstreet is a conservative Southern American (A native sandlapper and an adopted Tar Heel) with a deep passion for the history, heritage, and culture of the southern states of America. At the same time he is a deeply loyal American believing strongly in “America First”.

He is a thirty-year veteran of the broadcasting business, as an “in the field” and “on-air” news reporter (contributing to radio, TV, and newspapers) and a conservative broadcast commentator.

Longstreet is a veteran of the US Army and US Army Reserve. He is a member of the American Legion and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. A lifelong Christian, Longstreet subscribes to “old Lutheranism” to express and exercise his faith.

Other articles by Longstreet are posted at “Omega Dispatch”

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VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

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Van Kraken posted:

Today I learned that an article from my school newspaper made the The Atlantic Wire's 50 Worst Columns of 2012:




At first I thought it was satire, but all his earlier columns are from the same perspective. If it's a joke, he's been playing it straight for a really long time.

Anyone can buy OCP stock, and own a piece of our city. What could be more democratic than that?

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VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

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This here is a thread.

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/arabs-offended-by-coca-cola-commercial-grow-up-or-understandable/question-3496823/

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A few Arab American Groups claim Coke's new Superbowl Ad to be "Racist" due to them showing an Arab walking through the desert with a camel!

Time to grow up or is it understandable?

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Islamist extreamists protest & threaten against America and Europe = Free Speech.



Coca Cola mentions one harmless Arab in the desert = RACIST!!



Double standard political correctness?

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Jackie G - Poker Playing Patriot
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Suggest they round up all their camels and not let anyone ride them to escape photos of them. Time to tell these folks: 1. You are not a race so there is no racism 2. the music was Shaharazad (Arabian Nights) which romanticizes riding a smelly mean (and they are) camel in the sand - they should be thrilled it is romanticized 3. Stop riding camels if you think it is so negative.

I will send a bottle of champagne and huge box of chocolates to the the first marketing guy who says -- "who cares, we are running it. " This manufactured outrage to get press is beyond boring at this point.

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Racist Schmacist....I AM SO SICK OF THIS!!!!!!!

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Hmm... Actually Arabs are the racists, also they use genocides against other races & ethnicities, have slave trade, etc.

1. Racism in the Arab world

2. Genocide against non-Arabs

3. Arab Slave Trade


If you want to overload on "but THEY are the real racists" and "I don't see what's wrong with >stereotype<" and "you can't be racist against a race that lovely," with an extra helping of "they're not a race, so it isn't racist" come join the fun.

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