4,476

(11 replies, posted in Politics)

teaching kids to box was a good way to control aggression and show them on a gut level that disciplined force beats naked ape brawling.  You can't always see that discipline from a guy walking around so, you learn to rein in your mouth.

My granddad was taught to box in LA public schools, when he wound up working in the California Conservation Corps in the Depression he got called out for being Mexican by a white racist. The ex-Army sarge who was foreman called on them to shake hands and when the racist wouldn't he had them box in front of everybody.  My granddad was a skinny lightweight ("Seco Flaco") but he beat that guy dizzy. The foreman stopped the fight and told the racist to shake hands with my granddad.  "I aint shaking hands with no Mex" he said.  The foreman told my granddad, "Knock him out."

End of [swearvomiting] with Mexicans in that barracks.

If boxing is tooo violent, there's good results from learning a tackle and pin.

"I too was bullied throughout school. Tried to stand up for myself like you, but the violence escalated. 1v1 became everyone v me...It got so bad that I after someone tried to set me on fire, I was taken out of school to be home schooled. "

I hope they were sent to prison.

4,477

(7 replies, posted in General)

New Mexico Attorney General Warns Against the Molesty Charms of Pedobear
Pedobear! You know him as the internet superstar who brings joy to millions as a cuddly harbinger of child predation. But not everyone finds the concept of a pervy virtual Easter Bunny to be utterly delightful. In 2010, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department issued a warning claiming that Pedobear had been "adopted as a mascot" by pedophiles. (It was a perfectly logical assumption, seeing as how child molesters have long sought a highly recognizable cartoon symbol to align themselves with, that they might be more readily identified amidst the general population.) Now, the New Mexico Attorney General's Office has made it a top priority to alert parents to the furry, lollipop-wielding menace in our midst.

In this report from New Mexico's KRQE, spokesperson Lynn Southard offers a stern warning to the public: "The bear is cute," she concedes, pausing a moment to resist PB's button-eyed adorableness. "The bear is cute. Buuuut

4,478

(39 replies, posted in Politics)

Whatever guy, I am not at the service of liars who spit on honest conservatives.  You know who they are too.  I've had it with "you purists can't win without attracting independents so we have to be liberal and if you don't agree you elected Obama who will destroy the Republic".  Go look up how the Republican Party got founded in the first place.

Remember 2004, how the House candidates and Senate candidates and President Bush were coordinating? I know that won't happen because 2/3 of the Senate is not up for election any given year and they don't give a damn about the mandate.  But it's time that wasn't tolerated, instead of declaring it's "reality" and we have to align with the most liberal republicans.

and by "not tolerating it" i mean PURGE them.  But that's not even an issue, so I'll purge myself.

4,479

(39 replies, posted in Politics)

part of fighting it will be destroying the liberal Republican establishment so that all "pragmatists" see it is a loser.

4,480

(39 replies, posted in Politics)

Bill Clinton tried to create a national health plan that would control health care and insurance.  It failed in 1994, and he dropped the idea.

2011 Republicans say that even if they repeal Obamacare, they have to replace it because we can't avoid a national health insurance scheme.  Paul Ryan's uberRepublican plan calls for the Federal govt to pay everybody $5000 so they can buy insurance.

the mainstream 2011 GOP is to the left of Bill Clinton on health insurance.

Bill Clinton did not seek any kind of amnesty or long-term residency plan for illegal aliens.
in 2011 everybody from Rush Limbaugh on left says "we can't deport 15 million people". 

the mainstream 2011 GOP is to the left of Bill Clinton on illegal immigration.

Bill Clinton thought up "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" which said homosexuals would be expelled from the military, denied the opportunity to join, but the government wouldn't seek them out.
Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which said the federal government would always consider marriage as between a man and a woman.

in 2011 the GOP does not want to talk about either of them.

the mainstream 2011 GOP is to the left of Bill Clinton on homosexuality.

These are just 3 examples of a GOP that is to the left of that liberal vampire Bill Clinton.

4,481

(16 replies, posted in Politics)

it takes about 80 cents in manpower and paperwork to deliver 1 dollar of federal benefits

4,482

(8 replies, posted in Politics)

too bad, I liked Cain but he keeps acting like he is okay with not winning.

4,483

(16 replies, posted in Politics)

as an economics major you will be aware that everything is wrong and everything is right and both can be proved by Nobel Laureate economists

4,484

(5 replies, posted in Politics)

@ You Fool

Our constitution mandates a census every 10 years and as the census reveals shifting populations the map of congressional districts must be redrawn every 10 years by state governments.  Those are the rules both parties have to live by.

PS if you wonder how that works...not very well.

4,485

(39 replies, posted in Politics)

That rising strength is being abused by the Republican Party to abandon our goals and seek compromise with the enemy.  I will not empower a liberal party, and the GOP is moving to embrace Clinton's DLC agenda from 1992-1996.

I have no problem with activism, but pretending that win or lose, we're all Republicans in the election, is saying you don't care if you never get anything done.

4,486

(39 replies, posted in Politics)

the solution doesn't lie with electing Republicans who will only prop up liberal Republicans with more seniority

what good was making Boehner Speaker?  That he didn't go as far as Pelosi would have? That's not good enough.

Republicans have right now full power to cut off funding for the liberal state.  They won't, and that's their choice, and they must be judged by taht.

The GOP gives name recognition and the media, right now, pays attention to it.  But it gives nothing else that independently organized conservatives can't take. You can raise money without it.  you can get votes without it.  You can air videos without it. 

as long as we're aiming to work within the Republican party we are strengthening our opponents.  Republicans who want the DLC agenda from 1992 are our opponents.  Republicans who want to preserve our opponents are our opponents.

4,487

(8 replies, posted in Politics)

i refuse to hop left with the GOP

for instance, why are we in the WTO?  To preserve our manufacturing sector?  Doesn't it mostly just assemble prefab materials for the American market?
Isn't yielding decisions on our tax rates and antitrust laws, a massive assault on our soveriegnity?
Why are we in NATO? the UN?  Are we just cruising wtih the flow?

What's the plan to win in Afghanistan?  If we aren't going to win, why not?
If our current military can't beat goatherders, how do we project a credible deterrent to China and Russia?  If we're going to avoid fighting China and Russia, see above NATO issue.
if we're going to be superfrance that can fight anything without an air force, do we still need 10 Nimitz class carriers?

what's the GOP plan to reform the judiciary? is there still a GOP plan to reform the judiciary, or did it get dropped when we realized the GOP Senate caucus doesn't want any part of it?

Do we oppose the modern "progressive" sensibility that life without Medicare, Medicaid, the Dept.s of Energy, Education and legalized abortion was unliveable and a failed society?  If not, what steps have been taken to coordinate with congressional candidates to do something about it?

Why does a Republican House agree to vote up a budget to spend more money, when nobody can make them do that?  What are we going to do about it?

Why are we debating a "replacement" federal insurance plan, when we never had one up to the present?

Why declare we can't deport 15 million people?  If you can't deport them, why should they give a damn what you order them to do?


I haven't changed my views on any of those issues for 30 years.  It's the GOP that's gone squishy.

"> I would hope that UK embassies in all nations have contingency plans for widespread civil unrest possibly making it necessary to evacuate UK citizens, regardless of country or potential cause of unrest. The UK embassy in Washington, Canberra, Ottawa and Ouagadougou will all have similar plans. This will have been true before any trouble with the Euro, and will still be true after the crisis has passed."

my new crisis plan

1. kill brit for passport
2. ride brit contingency transport out of ground zero

4,489

(81 replies, posted in Community)

please change me back to "The Yell"

4,490

(28 replies, posted in Politics)

If true, then being a socialist is as meaningless, politically, as being an optimist.

4,491

(11 replies, posted in General)

i know this isn't in english but there's an earnestness in this guy's performance that reminds me of Alanis Morrissette

it's acoustic folk music but give it a try

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tO37IXQzDA

"First of all, they were not slaves, slaves don't usually have wages and pensions. "


Um, do you and your military friends plan on using "deferred compensation" labor from Belgium in the near future?

4,493

(9 replies, posted in General)

paging Gwynedd, we need to know how to beat the breath test

4,494

(19 replies, posted in General)

I need this
I need love
I need you
I don't need one hearbeat
I need two

There's an emptiness I need to fill
And only one emptiness will do

Only a woman
Can brighten up my day
Only a woman
Can touch me the right way
Only a woman
Is allowed to touch me there
All I ask is that you're a woman

I like rain, I like hair
I like you
You're around, you're right here
So you'll do

I'm gonna tell you how much I love your mind
But it simply isn't true

Only a woman
Can brighten up my day
Only a woman
Can touch me the right way
Only a woman
Is allowed to do what you're doing right now
All I ask is that you're a woman

And on saturdays when I've been partying hard
And it's 4 in the morning, and I'm on my fith tab of E
that's the only time I don't even care if you are a woman

Right now
Only a woman
Can brighten up my day
Only a woman
Can do it just the right way
Only a woman
Should be doing that right now
I just want you to be a woman
Please just be a woman
Or a man...


(Trey Parker, Team America)

4,495

(2 replies, posted in General)

sounds like a john hughes movie

they come home from the airport and you're waiting on the doorstep with your luggage

4,496

(29 replies, posted in Politics)

>>The rest of your post ranged from strawman to red herring.  Not going to play that game.  Stay on topic, stop punching strawmen, and maybe we can have a fruitful discussion.<<

Who are you talking to?  Are you twelve years old?  "No, I dismiss your points as off my topic. Stick to my assumptions, my concerns, accept without question my priorities.  Maybe you'll measure up to my standard of a good conversation."

As we do not allow graduated pricing like medieval societies that had one price for the poor and one for the wealthy, there is absolutely no point complaining about "relative portion of income".  $1.89 coffee is hard on the poor, sniff sniff.

4,497

(29 replies, posted in Politics)

>>1. But they often don't pay proportionally more.  Property taxes tend to be in the vein of "1% of assessed value" or something like that, causing poor people and rich people to pay similar rates.  Still, my parent's $200,000 house is more than double their yearly income.  Bill Gates's $5,000,000 mansion is a small fraction of what he makes every year... in all respect, he probably pays a lower property tax rate than they do.<<

POOR people don't own houses at all.  And no, the county sets the assessment at a fixed percentage of value so the RATE is identical.

Any person, even Bill Gates, even Michael Jackson, can CHOOSE to spend themselves into a point where their voluntary lifestyle is "dangerously" out of line with their income.  The answer to that is to choose to live more cheaply, or choose to earn more.  Complaining the "system" puts you in a place where a middle-class lifestyle is proportionately expensive to you is destructive. 

Once upon a time people built a system that set out to deny anybody wealth from selling food and housing and medicine and education, that took the ownership class out and shot them...the result was still a society where some people were waiting in line to be given food and housing and medicine and education, and were denied any shot of earning it by work.

4,498

(29 replies, posted in Politics)

if a pack a week smoker saved and invested what he blows on smokes he wouldn't be poor in a few years.

4,499

(29 replies, posted in Politics)

" But the income tax isn't that big of a deal in the first place.  It doesn't supply half of federal government revenues and gathers about as much for the federal coffers as payroll taxes do.  And poor people pay a lot in payroll taxes.  15.3% of that low-earner's income is getting collected by the taxman right there.  That's quite a bit.  Bigger share of their income than most wealthy people pay (payroll taxes phase out for six-digit incomes)."

Are we pretending that 7% to Social Security is govt revenue?  Cause, I'm guaranteed every penny back, FDR said so!

"  And we really haven't gotten started on federal excise taxes (gasoline?  alcohol?  cigarettes?) that low-income folks tend to spend a large portion of their incomes on.  Nor have we gotten into state and local taxes (sales tax?  property tax?) that not only do low-income workers have to pay, but that they generally pay at much higher rates (in proportion to their income) than do their wealthy neighbors."

1. I'm sure the rich pay more property tax than the poor.
2. Sober poor people who don't smoke probably pay less than Rush Limbaugh in alcohol and tobacco taxes.
3. No shit $1/$18000 is a bigger fraction than $1/$50000.  Shall we subsidize 99CentsOnly to help out?

4,500

(29 replies, posted in Politics)

It's not an empty slogan at all.  It is a comment by a barrister arguing against British usurpation of the common rights of Irishmen.

"Nor is it strange that, in those times, a board, consisting of so small a number as twenty-four members, with advantages of a more united interest, and a longer continuance in office, should have prevailed, even contrary to so evident principles of natural justice and constitutional right, against the unsteady resistance of competitors so much less vigilant, so much more numerous, and therefore, so much less united.  It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.  The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition, if he breaks, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt."  John Philpot Curran, Speech upon the Right of Election of the Lord Mayor For Dublin, 1790.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Nb8sAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA91&dq=speech++upon+the+right+election+of+lord+mayor&hl=en&ei=6zPMToa5Ku3SiALLtdjnCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=speech%20%20upon%20the%20right%20election%20of%20lord%20mayor&f=false

I hear the same thing from people about the lack of honor in IC