January 2011
39 posts
For Unemployed, New Jobs Come With Drop In Living...
um…wow. a taxi? for a whole year? wow. amazing. doing it to themselves? look…NO ONE wants to be poor. get that? NO ONE. i grew up in a ghetto, and no one there wanted to be poor—you can tell that to yourself and anyone who’s willing to listen, but it’s a lie. I know it’s a great one—of course it’s not YOUR fault. it never is. And of course,...
For Unemployed, New Jobs Come With Drop In Living...
you just don’t get it, do you? we are now reaping the rewards of 8 bush years. the blame is squarely on his shoulders. ask any economist...oh, wait, they don’t know ANYTHING about the economy, do they?
For Unemployed, New Jobs Come With Drop In Living...
seriously? they don’t call it REAGANOMICS for nothing. And if you’re looking to lay the blame somewhere, the appropriate…individual…for lack of term the moderators will allow…would be bush II. You don’t change the direction of an economy the size of ours in two years. it took bush a full eight years, two unfunded wars, and an unfunded tax break for the...
Keith Olbermann: 'Fox News Is 100% Bullshit'
no. uh uh. that’s about as scientific and verifiable as creationism. how about this: since what i said was, what does fox’s bs do? *except misinform*, how about you tell me how ‘bs constitutes stories that are blatantly not true, and not simply misinformed? Lies, in other words?’, (your words, not mine) don’t misinform?. And yes, it’s a trick question,...
Keith Olbermann: 'Fox News Is 100% Bullshit'
ok. but you do realize, don’t you, that if you actually try to verify almost anything on fox, what you get is that they either didn’t check the info themselves, or they’re outright lying? Unless you actually believe that EVERY other news organization is just making everything up.
December 2010
91 posts
'Give It Back For Jobs' Helps Affluent Return Tax...
your comment was evenhanded, just returning the civility, but you’re welcome. And I agree much of the spending is well intentioned, and on both sides they tend to screw it up. I think a tax amnesty would be good as well, since we can’t bleed the corps dry, blame them for outsourcing, and expect them to spend here. What I’d like to see are some moderate penalties for...
'Give It Back For Jobs' Helps Affluent Return Tax...
I don’t concede the point that the gov’t. uses tax money irresponsibly—they use it. period. that works only b/c social programs, be definition, use the money HERE. letting the wealthiest corporations use money that would otherwise stay in the US to increase their bottom line by outsourcing and funding projects and production facilities on foreign soil is the same as when...
Christine O'Donnell: 'Thug' Tactics Responsible...
it’s like the professional believers (as opposed to casual churchgoers and such) you find in religious circles—no matter what you say, or how compelling the evidence, it’s like when Barbrady tells you “forget….forget….forget”. truly frightening in a way that nothing else can be. OOh, like the Stepford Wives!
Another WikiLeaks Cable From the Bush...
dear michael:
to answer your question: later cable leaks will reveal that you, in fact, were the ‘puff of smoke’ on the grassy knoll that day in Dallas. And it will also be revealed that you, in fact, are not a man named ‘Michael Francis Moore’ from Flynt, Michigan, but that you are, in point of fact, Jimmy Hoffa. and Elvis. and the little alien dude that keeps kidnapping...
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
let’s be clear: that isn’t in contention here. you will never hear me say that you aren’t right on that score. not once. every. my mother, who greghooper wants me to listen to very carefully, HATES anyone who isn’t from Puerto Rico. I do not share that prejudice. Nor can I, do I, or will I ever say it’s OK. Of course the problem goes both ways. That isn’t in...
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
moderators here love me, I always give them something to delete. but that’s ok, I put the stuff here, just in case they get itchy. NOTE TO ALL: I responded to greghooper’s comment, at:http://subverzion.blogspot.com/2010/12/hispanics-leaving-connecticut-town_873.html
Congress vs. the World
26 years in the Marines. nifty. so your expertise rests on 26 yrs of studying a now defunct political entity? OK. Do you even see the disconnect here, Marine? and no, you aren’t impressing me at all- I was a Marine. I would not have followed you into combat—respect is earned…I remember MY Drill Instructors saying something about that…
Congress vs. the World
childishness? that’s your rebuttal? BTW, there’s no such animal as ‘liberal/progressive logic’, there’s logic, and there’s a lack thereof. you demonstrate the latter. what you see above is a reductio ad absurdum—that is to say, I have taken your argument, and drawn the logical conclusions from it. that they are absurd conclusions is not a fault of...
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
I don’t think it is necessarily from the tea party. I used to think this sort of stuff was rare, but a fellow student a few years back, from the midwest, actually asserted (as part of class discussion on Dickens’ social commentary), and I’m quoting, “some poor people like to be poor”—this is, I think, not the fault of one person or even a group. It seems to...
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
one of my professors (back in the day) also is Italian—the way she tells it, I would have to agree with you. Having experienced it, I’d love to know how the two countries differ in these respects. In many spanish countries the racism is really radically different than what I’ve experienced here. but it is hard to explain.
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
yes, how horrible it is to be a white man in this country. no opportunities at all. although there is a distinction between tribalism and racism, your generalizations, like ‘Mexicans causing no end…”, merely underscores the obvious—you aren’t making a distinction. you’re lumping all of us into the illegal category, and think that’s it. problem is,...
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
denying white privilege (as you did above, by claiming hispanics are ‘gaming the system’) is just THIS far from racism. and by ‘this’, i mean not very far at all.
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
yes, of course. makes perfect sense that a minority group with little political power, and less of almost everything our country has to offer, is conspiring with all sorts of traitorous americans, communists, anarchists, and criminals to leave their homes after having invested what money they had…b/c leaving what wealth you have behind is the logical course of action for a group powerful...
Sarah Palin Attempts To Explain 'Refudiate' Gaffe
I’ll never do it again, baby, it’s not what it looks like, it was the one armed man, everybody’s doing it, it only seems kinky the FIRST time…sarah’s better than apple pie, she’s a great mom, she’s an able politician, and she’s nothing like snookie.
Sarah Palin Attempts To Explain 'Refudiate' Gaffe
she did that, and call me crazy if you like, b/c she’s not too terribly bright, which means better this than discussing the ‘nukular’ treaty with Russia, China’s manipulation of currency, or any of about a billion other things which would underline, highlight, and boldface all that she doesn’t know about the world around her.
Sarah Palin Attempts To Explain 'Refudiate' Gaffe
palin says:
any good american hates racism. OK. Try this one on for size sarah:
good americans hate racism
many tea partiers are demonstrably racist
Therefore: many tea partiers are not good americans
QED (quod erat demonstratum, sarah, or ‘that which was to be demonstrated’, oh, wait—whut i wanted to shew yoo.
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
agreed, on all counts. and you’re right—I keep positing the impossibility of being a ‘good cop’ (whatever that means), since your survival might hang on whether or not you turned a blind eye to something you knew was illegal or wrong—and I don’t know of a cop that hasn’t had to do that. If not, you can’t expect them to have your back when real bad...
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
um…it’s ‘you’re’, not ‘your’, they’re different. and what was I thinking? Everyone is lying if they say that racism still exists, and that cops are often at the center of those types of false accusations. it’s a conspiracy—against the most powerful ethnic group in this country. right.
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
stop it! your post almost makes it sound like you know something about the issue—do you think that’s really fair to the conservatives in our midst?
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
I take it as a compliment to be called an idiot by someone who singles out ‘hispanics who break the law’, as opposed to ‘people’ who break the law. Clearly there’s a communications problem here. I was being sarcastic, you are….well, I’ve truly no idea how calling me an idiot advances your position, but rest assured, I’ll begin researching the...
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
I know, but I try never to mention Aztlan, Tainos, Caribs and the like. I am vaguely familiar with the historical timeline (and ashamed about that, mind you), but since I was unsure of the specifics, I truncated myself to what I was sure about. I used to try and explain how puerto ricans are also native americans, but that is usu. like spitting in the wind. not too much fun. I have friends whose...
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
maybe we should put them internment camps until it can be determined if they’re actually human beings deserving of rights and stuff?
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
there’s a difference between an explanation, which ‘tribalism’ is in general terms, and a justification, which it is not. I hope you (and everyone else here) consider it the former rather than the latter.
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
I would. less chance of being singled out by a police officer with…race identity issues (apparently the actual word for that isn’t allowed by the moderators—nice, guys. that’s not problematic for this issue at all)
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
they say we atheists don’t believe in anything, but that’s not entirely true: i choose to believe that although this issue might consume us, it doesn’t actually have to. and I choose to believe that through some agent or agency, we can overcome such petty divisions.
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
I’ve been targeted, but I have family that were on the Job—so I’ve seen both sides of the argument play out in front of me. The takeaway? ‘Honor’ is really just another part of the mythology we are asked to believe in service to the Polis. That hasn’t changed since Socrates refused to escape Athens in deference to the Senate’s ‘will’.
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
well yes. I do. However, there’s a difference, and a substantive distinction, between recognizing tribalism as a cultural phenomena, and its use as a rationalization for racist behavior.
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
so….? It’s perfectly fine to beat people, intern them, violate their rights, and treat them like crap if they’re different than you, so long as someone you’ve never met, but has your skin tone is killed in a foreign country? Then I hope you don’t mind white Americans being killed in Afghanistan and other war zones, since hey, there has to be at least one Afghan or...
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
really? don’t be naive. I’m ‘white’ by the standards of other Puerto Ricans. That hasn’t stopped the NYPD from physically accosting me—despite the fact that I don’t even have an outstanding parking ticket. This is most certainly NOT “more of a cultural/ethnic thing than anything else. That’s a myth many tell themselves so as not to have to...
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
do you realize that the position you’re outlining is so r @ C ! 5 t, it defies rational comprehension? “there’s racial profiling everywhere, so just learn to live with it”? That’s your solution? Acquiesce? Would you tell a battered woman to just take it, ‘cuz anyone might bloody her lip and give her a black eye? That’s disgusting. Really.
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
really? assimilation should be a gradual process? how long has it taken for Taco Bells and other bits and pieces of Hispanic culture to be ‘assimilated’? No, the problem is not that there is immigration, or that it has not been ‘gradual’--it’s the unwillingness of already established cultural groups to share power, space, or resources--which ultimately is not...
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
um…there have been Hispanics in the US at least since 1898, when the US took possession of Puerto Rico. Is a hundred and ten years too short a period?
Hispanics Leaving Connecticut Town, Citing Racial...
oh, well, then by all means, let’s let police, trained to use weapons and empowered to detain and arrest people, right off the hook—I mean, they don’t have to act professionally at all. they’ve got guns. I hope you’re just making an observation (with which I agree), and not an apologia for illegal behavior.
Sarah Palin Faces Emerging Chorus Of Criticism...
seriously? you want a list of palin’s bigoted and hate filled remarks? I don’t really have that much time. It’s the holidays. And I can’t take a vacation from now through june…and why would I spend six or seven months thinking about sarah? she’s not hot enough, and she’s got too much in the way of baggage.
Sarah Palin Faces Emerging Chorus Of Criticism...
wouldn’t you be? beauty pageant runner up, weather girl, mayor of wasilla (see, no capital letter), half governor, daughter pregnant out of marriage, son born impaired. let’s face it: everyone, except maybe christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle, even on her own side, think she’s not competent to be president. Serves her right for killing the meeses. and the jackelope.
Sarah Palin Faces Emerging Chorus Of Criticism...
“well, I have heard that some scientists consider ‘the stupid’, to use the medical nomenclature, to be a self replicating, highly contagious virus. that being the case, it is, in theory, possible that through repeated exposure, individuals can develop an immunity, such that brain cells previously afflicted by the virus might indeed, return to normal function. which is to say, of...
Assange Book Deal: WikiLeaks Founder Lands $1.5...
OK, now I get what you’re saying. And yes, though I am in favor of what assange is doing, I too feel that it is a bit more about the money than I’m comfortable with. but such is the nature of world economies. and yeah, if everything were just dumped, then yeah, I would feel more comfortable claiming that assange is just in it for the TRUTH (whatever that is), but that is not to say...
Sarah Palin Faces Emerging Chorus Of Criticism...
well, I have heard that some scientists consider ‘the stupid’, to use the medical nomenclature, to be a self replicating, highly contagious virus. that being the case, it is, in theory, possible that through repeated exposure, individuals can develop an immunity, such that brain cells previously afflicted by the virus might indeed, return to normal function. which is to say, of...
Sarah Palin Faces Emerging Chorus Of Criticism...
No sir! I don’t get the point at all! In fact sir, I so don’t get the point, that I’m starting to think I’m a conservative!! How does all this reality based information affect any preconceived notion I might have about how unreal it is to be in a reality TV show? Or how my definition of ‘real American’ is nothing like what I actually am like? How dare you...
Assange Book Deal: WikiLeaks Founder Lands $1.5...
well, that settles that! nothing to see here then, right? If there’s ‘zero new information’, then there’s no espionage, is there?
Assange Book Deal: WikiLeaks Founder Lands $1.5...
um…you’re right. acquittal doesn’t change reality. but it means there was no crime under the law. the obvious truth is that we’re talking about the law. any 1L is gonna tell you that the law isn’t about ‘truth’ or ‘justice’. it’s about the law. nothing else. wishing the outcome in OJ had been different is just that: wishing.
Assange Book Deal: WikiLeaks Founder Lands $1.5...
no, they just make it up as they go along. i don’t think it’s credible at all to say sarah and glenn have ‘more integrity’…in fact, it’s…it’s….WOW. Yeah. OK.
Assange Book Deal: WikiLeaks Founder Lands $1.5...
are you trying to make sense? stop it. You know some Amerukans find it hard to follow these things while reciting the pledge of allegiance with a h @ r D 0 n.
Assange Book Deal: WikiLeaks Founder Lands $1.5...
it’s like the US has become Alice’s Wonderland—everything is hyper exaggerated, everything is extreme, and you can only see it if you’re not on the continental US. Have you read some of these comments? Somebody suggested the death penalty. Somebody suggested to support assange is to hate civilization, and someone else suggested that allowing this to happen (as if there...
Assange Book Deal: WikiLeaks Founder Lands $1.5...
does anyone at all realize how out there it sounds to equate these two things? The end of the world? The death penalty? running over a pedestrian? You really want to equate all these things with what assange does? are you guys serious? are you just trolling for points?