Comments by "bohemianwriter1" (@bohemianwriter1) on "Thom Hartmann Program"
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J GALT I'm sure you are not the right person to determine other people's cognitive abilities or reading skills.
It seems that you are struggling with just those issues. But you'll improve... As soon as the last pimple have left your face.
See, if you want people to take you seriously, it's not very smart to start up with an insult. It's like a midget trying to pick a fight with a giant, and then demand the giant listen to your peeps.
You asked a few questions. I was kind enough to reply. And without the juvenile insults that shows every sign of a brain damaged troll who don't even understand your own attempts of making a word salad.
1. Who was responsible for Reaganomics you ask. If not Reagan and GOP, then who else?
The democrats who lost in 1980 due to the dirty tricks dept,. of GOP?
2. If the intention was to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer, than Reaganomics have been a staggering success.
3. Apparently, the owners of the GOP are deliriously happy with the outcome. Because the ones you support with your vote, don't give a flying fuck about you. To them, you're nothing but a living ATM machine with a body they can exploit as much as possible, as cheap as possible until you die.
4. What did the people behind Reaganomics promise?
Care to answer that one in a mature matter, or will you start off with making as many enemies as possible with the typical juvenile lingua that the "libertarian" punks have started using while ignoring the questions, and then turn to the switch and bait tactic?
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J GALT It's an open forum.
And the first sign that we were dealing with an escapee from the mental asylum that is GOP was your first plump in the ice water:
When the effects
of those policies impact YOU, they cease to be popular.
Wonder what kind of policies that would be. Free school? Free healthcare until you're 18? Medicare? Social Security?
Policies that are unpopular are wars, bailing out banks, money in politics, and republicans (masquerading as "libertarians")... C
But I'm sure that the piss that is Trickle Down Economics have made you smell like roses. At least if you smell in any way you communicate with people. And you never actually answered Smith's question, but rather parsed it with four new ones directed at him. I was kind enough to put my two cents in. And that must have stirred your tone brain into a tizzy.
And as far as government functions, and the constitution, I doubt that you have reading skills or the mental capacity to understand passed the first sentence to it's preamble We the people"...
So you just proved yourself to be an utter,and complete IDIOT incapable of not only lacking of basic manners, but also a complete coherent thought about what even you wrote yourself. Your incoherent rants resembles someone junkie having a bad trip. A delusional randist with not a foot in reality.
So instead of focusing on an issue YOU set up, YOU are too busy throwing insults all around like a spoiled child on a temper tantrum.
Take a chill pill and at least try to act as if you are more than 15, and that your education is above Junior high, or stop posting idiotic comments making yourself an easy target.
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Not Jill Stein's problem. Nor her voters. Blame it on Hillary and DNC who have played dirty against Bernie voters not following the sheeple to vote for more corruption.
Everything that you put on Trump, Hillary, Obama and Bush jr. already has done. And with Hillary, it will be more of it
If Journalists were doing their job...If Justice was a thing in the "land of the free", neither Hillary or Trump would have been on the ballot. Sensible people without their kind of baggage would be on the ballot. They would have been under investigation and disqualified to run for anything else but dog catcher.
With Hillary, the land theft of Native American land will continue at the behest of her donors; the oil companies and Wall Street.
She and DNC did the exact same thing against progressives as GOP has done against minorities since Florida 2000. California and Brooklyn are the most egregious examples of election fraud. Yet there are no repercussions...No legal consequences. Business as usual. Fall in line! Worship your Dear Leader! No matter how corrupt that leader is because the other one is worse!
If you voted for Hillary, you voted for corruption and Wall Street money.
And if she intensifies the war in the ME, you must take part of the blame for the civilians killed.
I hold Bush voters responsible for 9.11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and ultimately the creation if ISIS. As I will hold you responsible for the destruction of humanity on behalf of profits and corruption.
Take responsibility for your own bad choices. Don't blame others for making more informed decisions based on their principles than you.
Having to choose between Hillary & Trump as the only options is like having to choose between being anally raped by an Ebola infested corn cob, or fucked with switchblades drenched in snake venom.
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Ōkami-san We have private clinics in Norway too. And the private clinics seem to bed doing OK. And if having to choose between paying 50 000 dollars for an appendix and get one for free just as quick, people will go for the free. I have not been to Australia, and couldn't tell you much about their health care system except for they have a public healthcare system that doesn't exclude 50 million people like in USA before "Obamacare". People do not die from lack of access to a doctor in Australia. People in USA do. Thousands of Americans die every year due to little or no access to a proper healthcare system that also covers "deadbeats" who lost their jobs to a Chinese sweatshop worker.
USA ranks 37 in the world in healthcare. Just around "commie" Cuba! And that is a country that had to endure a draconian blockade thanks to USA. When I needed a doctor in England, I didn't have to pay a dime in doctors fee. And when I needed medicine, drugs was subsidised. See, I'm a veteran. And has gone through hard times at times, even in my travels. And when living and working in England, my mandatory National Insurance covered me completely for the fraction of what insurance would cost in USA. From what I hear, Americans go to Canada to get subsidised medicine for the fraction of the cost in USA (where the industry itself dictates the prices after monopolizing the market. That's why so many drug companies are against legalization of marijuana. they donæt want you to be able to grow your own medicine, and wants you addicted to theirs.
What I find disturbing is that Americans always have money for another war, but can't afford feeding millions of poor kids whose parents lost their jobs thanks to crony capitalism and deregulation. They can afford giving Wall Street 700 billion dollars over night, but can't afford "Meals on Wheels" for the elderly.
It's beside the point. HEALTH is not a commodity to be traded with or speculated on by the "free market"...
And the biggest money hoarders are still Capitalist Americans. Just look at how your robber barons have bought your politicians to keep you in line and obedient.
P.S, Japan has a socialist healthcare system. USA is the only industrialized country that does NOT have a public healthcare system that covers more than veterans and politicians and public workers.
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SuperThumpasaurus You know who was conservative in 1776? If that was conservative, do you think that King George were radical leftists and liberals?
Or do you think that the royalists were conservative?
The monarchists! The church! East India Company! The white slave owners in the south! THEY were conservative.
In comparison to them, both George Washington and Jefferson were radical leftists who went against the conservative ideology of the divine authority of the king by birth right.
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None of the bill of rights can be attributed to conservative ideas, but LIBERAL ideas. Liberal ideas means the right to privacy, the right to free speech, freedom from poverty, freedom of religion as well as freedom FROM religion. Conservative ideas are the opposite.
USA was founded on PROGRESSIVE ideas, learned from Native Americans. Look up Benjamin Franklin and where he got his radical ideas of a confederation.
Consvervative ideas like your are the ones holding US back. Your conservatism will eventually lead to a modern day feudal society where the new nobility are your corporate owners..
Typical RW ignorance and denial. Trying to hijack PROGRESSIVE ideas for your own disgusting RW ideology that has done nothing but destroy, lie, cheat, steal and commit genocide.
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SuperThumpasaurus Despots are always conservative at heart.
Do you think that Thomas Jefferson would support GOP today? The TPP? Cutting funding for schools, hospitals, VA to give that as tax cuts for the rich, and handouts to the oil industry?
Do you think that Jefferson would support fracking? Illegal wars across the planet? The "Patriot Act"? Gitmo? Abu Ghraib? Slashing unions?
Who's side do you think he would take during the OWS protests? The cops who beat the protesters and the bankers who stood, watching drinking champagne? Or do you think he would support OWS?
Do you think he would support the republicans calling themselves "Tea Party Patriots", or do you think he would support OWS who wanted social justice, and criminal bankers be held accountable?
Regarding economics and taxes, Jefferson was pre-Industrial by almost 100 years. He would never agree to the subjugation of the American farmer, the inhumane abuses of American labour by the trusts of yesterday or by today's impersonal corporate giants. Jefferson would be especially incensed by the development of an inherited aristocracy which he and so many other of the Founders railed against. That we are allowing inherited wealth to take over the government would be a real slap in the faces of those who risked so much and often times gave so much during the Revolution.
A revolution is always a radical move. And never done in the name of conservatism. Conservatism is static, while liberalism is organic.
Ever heard the phrase "what is radical today, is tomorrows establishment, which is next weeks conservatism"?
Seems that GOP are spokesmen for the privilege of inheritance while speaking of "self determination" and "bootstraps" when seeking to gut social programs that benefit the poor. Take away the little they have, criminalize them, and you WILL get another revolution on your hands.
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+BernieSandersenEspañol Really? If you had, you would be able to give these verses:
"Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy handhold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things. (The Quran, 2:256)"
"Again and again will those who disbelieve, wish that they had bowed (to God's will) in Islam. Leave them alone, to enjoy (the good things of this life) and to please themselves: let (false) hope amuse them: soon will knowledge (undeceive them). (The Quran, 15:2-3)"
"Say, 'The truth is from your Lord': Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it):......(The Noble Quran, 18:29)"
"If it had been thy Lord's will, they would all have believed,- all who are on earth! wilt thou then COMPEL mankind, against their will, to believe! (The Quran, 10:99)"
If you compare those with the 1st Amendment in the Constitution, you will see that these verses are consistent with the letters, and intent of said amendment. But you already knew that....Or rather not?
I may not have studied Arabic, but I have been studying world religions since 1991. My favorite teacher in high school was Ahamdiyya Muslim. He taught Norwegian and Religion. I became really interested in comparative religion after 1 year in Kansas, and that high school year where my interest in history was rekindled. That year, in 1991, we went to India as a study group of 30 students.
I actually LEARNED something from him.
As an Atheistic Buddhist, and a true cosmopolitan, I can vouch that the Quran is far more inclusive, non judgmental and liberal than all the bible verse you can find. Mohammed's social justice agenda at the time was consistent with what he learned about the biblical Jesus. I can also vouch for that the hospitality I met in Morocco, an Islamic country was underrepresented. They took their five pillars seriously there. At least the people I became friends with. Americans can learn something from these Muslims.
Come back when you have had some more studies and travels on your back kid.
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+BernieSandersenEspañol That'\s what I just said, wasn't it?
The bishops in Nicaea basically canonized the 4 gospels and discarded the rest as subscribed by iraneaus in Lyon in 180 AD. The official Church was always hostile to other interpretations and sects than their own Roman situated in Rome.
One can start speculating in the notion that Christianity and Jesus was a Roman invention.
Again, you are using references completely irrelevant to the actual Surahs I gave you. It's like reading a pretend Christian squirm and avoid the core message from the Sermon on the Mount, using Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Paulus to find some moral rationality to NOT practice what Jesus preached.
Besides, it's folly to start "fighting people of the book" arbitrary. It's as if you woke up tomorrow and suddenly decided to go against everything you believed in today, and say start your own killing spree and claim divine authority to do so. Would he do it just because Allah suddenly have changed his mind about tolerating Christians and Muslims? Or was it because Saudi Arabia, like the rest of the Medieval world was pretty violent and volatile?
Saudi Arabia was unstable at the time. With many tribes, and many religions. But he never attacked Judaism or Christianity as a whole to be destroyed based on random agendas or forced conversion.
Like said, if it was Alllah's will to have all people to be Muslims, it would be an easy task to make it so. Another argument for the notion that there is no Allah. Nor any Yahweh nor Jesus Christ Yahweson who ascended into -Heaven after walking around with his disciples like a zombie before ascending into heaven. _maybe it's all made up! Maybe we make shit up to defend and rationalize stupidity, bigotry, power abuse, genocide, backward ideas and ridiculous mythologies and insane morals.
What we can state, is that compared to the Bible and the Torah, the Quran dwarfs both in religious tolerance.
The verses I quoted can be read in the same understanding as how Thomas Jefferson viewed religions. It was of no concern for any Muslim to dictate what others shall believe in.
Om his last sermon, Mohammed gives his'views on other nationalities, races and cultures. No Arab was inferior nor superior to other people. Sort of like the preamble to the Constitution: "All men are created equal"..
Whatever other links or verses you might come up with is futile since they can't rewrite, erase or misinterpret or avoid the verses the way that many will do perhaps due to pure bias and a slight case of prejudice and creative ways of making them mean something else than they actually mean. It's Orwellian. It's giving extremists of all creeds credibility, and elevates them to a label they do not deserve. Like republicans who fight the war in Christmas and defend Christians the rest of the year,m and then try to lecture the pope in religion and starts to hate him because his agenda is a bit closer to what Jesus preached than they appreciate.
ISIS behaves more like newly converted Norsemen going on a crusade then the scientifically oriented Muslims of Alhambra and Cordoba. They have more in common with pope Urban who called for a crusade in 1095. Where the slogan was "killing an infidel is a path to Heaven". As a result, thousands of crusaders went on a killing spree against Jews and others on their way to Constantinople, And wasn't very welcome thanks to their behavior. What you must realize that those times were more complex than merely religious divide. When the first crusader king Sigurd the Crusader killed his way to Jerusalem, alliances would shift more than once during his years as a killer for Christ.
Like said, ISIS behave more like crusaders than the Muslims I met in Marrakesh two months ago or the Muslims I met in India almost 25 years ago.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/may/10/islam-freedom-expression
"God does not forbid you from showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you about religion and have not driven you out of your homes. God loves just dealers. ( Quran, 60:8)"
"And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for God. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrongdoers. Quran 2:193)"
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Douglas Smith Your slippery slope argument. Starting tow whine about being called a racist when you are clearly making talking points as if they were spoon fed to you by some radio host. Besides, I was not the one bringing up racism here. That was you.
And as far as socialism vs, capitalism goes, no society is pure socialist, or pure capitalist.
And the most socialist countries in Europe, Scandinavia is still doing GREAT despite the fact that Norway has gotten a RW government who wants to emulate many GOP policies.
That government will not last past 2017.
How do I know? I live in Europe. The last 10 years, I have worked in 5 different European countries. And I am Norwegian by birth, with 1 year as an exchange student to Kansas.
So, I think I know a little bit more than you how the economies in the different countries are in comparison than you, and the cultural differences between the countries I have lived and worked in.
And to be blunt: your country is fucked. And the republicans carry most of the responsibility, and many democrats who were either too spineless or too corrupted to play the partisan card when it was needed. How did that happen? I can take an educated guess that your educational system, as well as blind faith in the "invisible hand of the free market", cheap entertainment, and food that makes your brains shrink, and bodies grow. I can add religion into the equation as well.
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Douglas Smith Are USA doing great in comparison to Norway? Sweden? Denmark? Iceland? Finland? Germany? France? Britain? Since when?
Put it like this, Greece is fucked. I lived there. Why? Norton Antivirus had setup up shop there due to excellent tax policies, and extremely low wages, even for IT people.
USA is screwed, and it was all Neocon, trickle down reaganomics who led you down the drain. All countries directly or indirectly are suffering, are those countries that has emulated the "free market" religion the closest. Another example is Ireland. I have lived there too. Three years in Belfast, which has UK based policies, and two years in Ireland, where you pay little or no taxes, and have a disastrous welfare state. Those two countries are the ones struggling the most.
It's the RW policies that led to this trend. And social unrest is the result. Old prejudices come up to the surface, and the people are blaming each other rather than look at what really caused this mess.
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Douglas Smith And how is the living standard in general? Currency is currency. And what makes you think that the ones who controls the system are also gambling on currency? Currency have little to do with the overall quality of system your living under in this case
How about coughing up some real numbers and facts that USA is better than UK in ever sense. Both economically and socially as well as educational, and health wise.
I'm dying to see you prove that your beloved Bush made USA a better place to live for not only the rich, but also the poor. I would love to see some numbers on how your "freemarket" system are superior to that of UK, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark and Finland.
I beg you. Show us your superiority.
P.S. I have lived in both USA, England, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Malta, Spain, and Greece for references in what the actual reality is.
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***** Which encyclopedia is defining the lack of belief in a god as a religion?
Does Atheism have a set of rules, and promises for salvation if one worship Atheism?
Atheism is as much a religion as not collecting stamps is a hobby.
On the history note, and the theological note:
Did you know that the Romans considered the early Christians of being Atheists since they didn't regard or respect the polytheistic pagan gods, but only one, their own from some desert in the Middle East?
But this is the kicker. Christians claim to believe in one god, and one god only, but worship a human being of being the spawn of this monotheistic god. In other words, your Christian god is as monotheistic as Zeus. They have both one thing in common: They both had a son! Sounds a bit like Bonanza, doesn't it?
Oh, and then you have the 3rd wheel on the wagon: the all shadowy "Holy Ghost". This makes 3 gods. Yet still Christians in their "advanced" math logic, 3=1. Is your god a monotheistic god, or a Kinder Surprise?
P.S. Studied philosophy and comparative religion after I got out of the army (shooting at Serbs)....
What's your credentials?
A few bible study groups in your church because you got the hots for the frigid choir singer?
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Ōkami-san Norway has become a multicultural society the last 40 years.
And no. We do NOT have "no go-zones" nor do we have polar beers roaming the streets.
No. We do not invade other countries without reason...without being told to first by "Big Brother" USA. We partook in Yugoslavia (I was there), we participated in Afghanistan after crusader Bush gave us his "weighty reasons". We sent a non-combat force to Iraq, "helping" building up a country that US bombs have destroyed.
So we just buy into OTHER countries phony reasons to go to war.
I think most of us can read and write. But I am concerned about the cognitive abilities of those who think they are for freedom when they get their poker, their segway's and criminalized beggars from Romania and junkies without an income.
"You want to know what the American dream is? Getting on disability and playing video games while watching pop culture on your smart phone."
Apparently the ambitions have dropped a bit since the jobs started disappearing to China where they produce their digital gadgets that their government can spy on them with.
You are right. And I indicated that. Private interests have taken over your government on all levels, and you have an insane religious right to have a government to legislate morality based on bronze age myths and young earth creationism.
I went to high school in Kansas 25 years ago. As much as I found several things disturbing in the one whore village I went to school in, I don't think they have reached the level of insanity I see and hear about today.
If you are concerned about the illiterate freeloaders, you should take a look at the republican states. They give the least to DC, and takes the most. We can assert that conservative states live on the backs on liberal states.
The "golddiggers from Mexico" thing sounds like a jingo to dehumanize poor people who are seeking a better future for themselves like your own ancestors did. But the "golddiggers" today don't get free land like your own ancestors did when the process of auto-genocide was in full swing in the 1800s.
My own countrymen are not the hardest working people I know. Effective, perhaps yes, in comparison to the Irish and the Greeks at least (I have lived and worked both places).
And whatever service job there is, Swedes are taking more and more over that market. To me, it seems like many of my countrymen have an aversion of serving others.
We have an oil fund that is growing by the minute. Our government have done some seedy investments (red gambling on stocks and bonds with Wall Street).. But that blood money is going to the citizens unless our RW government sells out all assets on the name of the "free market"..
Our RW government has given tax cuts to millionaires, billionaires and their heirs, and want the partially disabled to start working and get taxed to cover those tax cuts. We have gotten ourselves a government that wants to imitate Reaganomics.
We have some nationalists who think that all problems are caused by poor people from countries USA has been to war with, and think that refugees from those wars are all freeloaders coming to dig into the Norwegian (White privilege) of getting a govt. check and free healthcare on our dime. They don't see causations. Sometimes I wonder if the know what even correlations mean.
Well... It certainly seems that the "free market" is dictating your health care policies. A gift that GWB gave them in 2001. Corporations have bought your government to keep you in line and have cheap, obedient and expendable workers. And they give you cheap gadgets, cheap entertainment and junk food to go.
When I read American commentators here, or some RW blog, I immediately come to think of both Idocracy, 1984 and Hunger Games at the same time.
Should I show you my empathy, or should I let myself be entertained when you vote yourself and your democracy out of existence?
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Ōkami-san Oslo is very multicultural.
"No go zones" in England? Seriously? Never heard of them. And I lived in England myself. Don't buy into the cheap lies from propagandists on FOX.
You talk about immigration. IF you're an American, your entire country is built on immigrants. And the minorities you are so busy demonizing, well...at least African Americans built entire fortunes in the South on their whipped backs.
In the meantime, Christian Europeans could have time to commit auto-genocide. So don't talk about "welfare ghettos" as if your minorites are freeloaders and rich Europeans have built their entire fortunes by their two empty hands. Remember that European Americans whom are against immigration of the brown people they have bombed, have little mora ground to whine about said immigration. Specially when you have more than 150 military basis around the world, have been involved with at least 10 major wars since 1776, and have dropped enough bombs to measure up to the rest of the world combined the last 50 years. If you prioritized the Commons instead of Pentagon, and subsidised oil magnats, and started repeating the success of FDR, I think yoü'll be alright.
Violence and crime is not linked to ethnicity, but to poverty. And when you have a country where 1% owns more than half the country, and 90% of the bottom owns less than 1% and you have 50 million under the poverty line, something has got to give. It seems that your "American Revolution" is an ongoing process unless you want to drown yourself in a dystopian society described by contemporary writers with good fantasy.
In UAE they live fat off their oil have cheap slave labour from Pakistan and Bangladesh, and have no human or democratic rights.¨
As long as we keep our oil fortune away from politicians who wants to sell it cheap to foreign interests, and spend it on tax breaks to the rich, we'll be fine We have more than half a trillion dollars in an oil fund established by our social democratic government. It comes from prioritizing the Commons ahead of Capitalism and the profits of a few. We still have our millionaires and billionaires. And they whine just as much as yours.
Now, if you'll excuse me. I'm watching Office Space.
http://www.swefilmer.com/office-space-1999/office-space-1999-video_80f587d2c.html
Gives me "happy memories" from working ten years abroad for multinational IT companies in Ireland. Northern Ireland, England, Malta and Greece.
Now, I'm out of it. I'm not in the rat race anymore for peanuts and bananas....
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Ōkami-san You know when you live in a monocultural world when you can find Starbucks and McDonald's in Tibet, Kenya and Brazil...
You say you want "less government" and not "more government"...
Another deal. Your corporations owns your government. The Koch brothers owns the entire republican party of lunatics. The only reason why you have had opportunity are progressive policies based on common welfare, not a couple of bootstraps and the generosity of some corporate sugar daddies.
What you have in USA today, is maximum freedom for the Kochs and Wall Street, while your own civil rights are shrinking.
And on top of that, you have religious zealots who insists that George Washington and the rest were Jesus freaks who sought a government where narrow Christian dogmas shall legislate morality.
You do not have a real democracy anymore run by the people for the people. If you did, GOP would have been in prison since Bush/Cheney for selling out the American people for war, and profit...And they would have been handed over to Hague.
IF you had a real democracy, BP would have gotten the corporate death penalty and the CEOs also in prison.
You don't get freedom by giving corporations a blank check to screw things up and not take responsibility for it. You don't get freedom when poverty and disenfranchisement and criminalisation to realize your full potential.
Public healthcare. Public education. Full stomach. Safe kids in their own homes. People having a living wage. People having a safe job, and rights on the workplace. You don't have freedom when you are being fired for talking about unions in a workplace. (I have worked for American corporations who have fired people for mentioning a union in both Ireland and Greece).
A justice dept. not steeped in old fashion Fascism where the rich go free, and a poor sucker from a poor neighbourhood is being used for years as cheap labour in a private prison for a bag of weed.
You don't have freedom when kids go to jail for pot, while banks like HSBC hardly get a slap on the wrist for white washing billions of drug money AND "terror money"....
Besides. If you can choose your own government, you can also throw it. Your government is owned by corporations. Why? Because "freedom"....
I suggest you look up ALEC, where your corporations are making their own laws, and install a mindless puppet in office to sign it.
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***** Government is government.
And it seems that you want Big Government on a local level, and a federal government you can drown in the bath tub.
It seems that your "local government" doesn't mean shit anyway. "Libertarians" have bought up your government, making it impossible for you to deny oil companies to frack in your neighbourhood if they want to. And you don't have any say. Why?
Because you've been keeping voting the wrong party for the last 30 years.
And as far as federal government goes, there are a few universal things that the federal government should be involved in. That is the common wealfare.
Giving private corporations free hands to dictate policies while cutting essential services like healthcare, education. communication, infrastructure, justice dept. should be strengthened. And to ensure FAIRNESS as well as securing the common welfare.
Republicans and "libertarians" don't seem to give a shit about those things.
Just a few questions. What is the "libertarian" plan for people who can't access healthcare due to republican governors refusal to sign ACA and get sick?
Die quickly?
When a giant oil company causes giant oil spills, killing wildlife, destroying the livelihood for local people, as well as costing human lives, who shall clean up that mess?
And more importantly, who should PAY for the cleanup, and who should go to prison? And who should enforce the laws making it illegal for oil companies to destroy nature and lives for profit if not a federal government?
Keep talking "libertarian" talking points. You're only doing the Koch brothers a wasted service.
Whatever "libertarianism" you are advocating, it has never worked, and will never work with the existing infrastructure we have today. The only way for your system to work if we had a disaster, leaving mankind decimated, without any central government, and all are fending for themselves.
Ayn Rand's books are fiction.
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KING JACOB Are you trying to achieve anything here?
If so, why are you wasting your time with useless bible quotes and fire and brimstone foolishness?
If that be, your arrogance will be your downfall. If you're such a "Christian" as you are so desperately are trying to perceive yourself as, why don't you start acting like one instead of quoting meaningless bible bullshit from the Jewish Torah? What does a Hebrew text have anything to do if you claim to be Christian? Aren't you supposed to PRACTICE what your baby Jesus both practiced and preached instead of bullshitting people thinking you'll gain anything by mincing completely irrelevant details to your alleged salvation? I mean, does your salvation depend upon whether you can convince people with more knowledge than you about ALL the major world religions, and not only selected parts of your own?
If you are not able to grasp these words, and take them deeply into your consideration as a bible freak using the Jewish bible to prove a point (point is, you have no independent ideas and thoughts of your own), I think we have witness here tonight not only how dangerous religion is, but also how incredibly stupefying religion is
Insisting that ones polytheism is monotheism when worshiping 3 entities shows us how far religious brainwashing can go, while also refusing that you are worshiping three gods since you split one entity into 3 autonomy and conciseness. Hence, you are a polytheist.
Why are your thinking (if one can call it that) that so many of your fellow blind faith fellows insisting also that Jesus was not only "the son of God" (another episode of Hercules), but also Yahweh himself. This means that for many, your Jesus was not only the son of Yahweh, but his own father. And he is also the "Holy Spirit" (how did Yahweh dispatch this "Holy Spirit"?). This means that your god departed from himself into a shadow figure to go and have his way with a 12 year old virgin (statutory rape anyone?), to give birth to himself. And still he managed to call to himself at the cross "father, why have you forsaken me"? In other words, another Christian fallacy from the ones insisting that believing in the Trinity is essential for Christianity to have any worth.
400 years ago, there was heretical to question the poor rationale behind the Trinity. People ended up on the stakes for questioning the poor math skills of the orthodoxy you have had your mind infested with.
I hope I do not have to repeat myself. But you give clear indications that you do not comprehend the words you are reading. You are also giving a clear indication that you lack the basic understanding behind reasoning, and feel naked and unprotected if you do not have the cloak of religious delusions to pack you in with and some meaningless quotes that only makes you even more pathetic defending your lack of reason and logic....
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So you think that all "private money" has been earned through hard core labor? In way, you are right. Large fortunes are created by some, and someone else is reaping the benefits: The CEOs, stock holders, and the billionair heirs like the Waltons, and the Kochs. And if you are against having a proper infrastucture because you think it's more important that more wealth is being redistributed from the worker to the owner, and o infrastructure, you have no concept of economy, nor are you in favor of USA as a country of commons, but in favor of an old fashion style feudal society with your employer as your feudal lord and you will live in poverty, and over worked. Good luck in implementing the Chines style Capitalist sweat shop system in USA...
In if you are against SOCIAL JUSTICE, then you must hate baby Jesus...Who preached ONLY about social justice, and not much else...
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Ōkami-san They changed the Pledge of Allegiance in the 50's, didn't they?
"We are a nation under God"... if I remember correctly?
I'd like to see you list these best schools and their rankings, and what religious delusions they subscribe to. I was not very impressed by the American school system as a senior in Kansas 25 years ago.
My god is the state you say? Hmm. I didn't know that I celebrated the birth of State every Christmas. But you apparently do that every 4th of July, unless you don't give a flying fuck about nationalism either. You choose your government, don¨t you? Isn't the Founding Fathers of your State almost recognized as saints?
My pope was Bush and Cheney you say? I didn't realize I had such blind faith in every decision the decision maker did.
P.S. Your American flag IS made in China. Your flag factory owners thought you Americans were too greedy, and preferred cheap sweatshop labor to do it in commie China instead.
Talk about theft. That's something that bankers do, and OWS protested against. But did they get any positive coverage from the corporate media who were all over themselves in love with the Freedom-loving teabaggers who wants more bibles, guns and capitalism in society?
Oh, no.
Because the #1 religion in USA is capitalism.
That's right! Capitalism!
Banks are churches. Bankers are priests. Wealth is heaven. Poverty is hell. Rich people are saints. Poor people are sinners. Commodities are blessings. MONEY IS GOD
And if you don't subscribe to the American version of Calvinism, and are different, you're doomed and should not be considered a citizen, or even legal.
P.S. Obama is a corporatist. Bought and paid for by Wall Street.
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PolakFury Friends of yours?
https://libcom.org/library/rebirth-radical-nationalism-welcome-back-30%E2%80%99s
Poland was the most split country where your "nobles" chose your monarchs from personal interest, and sold out to the French, Austrians, Russians and the Prussians. Any dick could halt any decision by the majority just by standing up and claim "I object". And then they were all back to the starting point. Reminds me a bit about the tactics used by GOP the last 6 years in USA.
Even though slavery was banned in the 14th century, it was replaced by serfdom that lasted until the 18th century.
As much as Poland claims great pride with both Jan Kazimir and other kings, today's droves of nationalists whose whole ideology is based in tribalism and hatred of "the other" I am not impressed. Taking credit for what monarchs did hundreds of years ago is not something we are entitled to do. Unless we are willing to take the heat for the crimes committed by our ancestors.
Your nationalism is like the teabagger nationalism in USA, or EDL in England, or Sverigedemokraterna" in Sweden, or Russian nationalists for that matter the same stench of what I thought we rid ourselves from after 1945....
And I couldn't give a rats arse about the Polish gold diggers who went to America. They STILL migrated to the scene of a crime , a set table after genocide was fulfilled. Come to think of it, I have kin myself who did the same 100 years ago. Damn!
And as for you personally, I have no respect for you, nor your politics, nor the fringe sources you deliver as objective. You're coloured by your own flag. Your own symbols of self proclaimed greatness. And when refugees show up at the door of the Catholic country of Poland, you say, "sorry, we're full". You don't mind Polacks migrating to a country founded on slavery and genocide, but cry like bitches when people fleeing wars, famine, persecution, and poverty, you condemn them automatically as freeloading parasites.
Just what Jesus would have done, eh? I can clearly envision that the same "Christian" nation would say the same thing to the dark skinned Palestinian Jew to take a hike too if his mother showed up, heavily pregnant.
So..Again! I am NOT impressed!
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Thing is, when DNC won't even allow a proper primary, and the voters are merely a small sample of the entire voter base, it looks bleak for both.
Thing is, Thom Hartman refuses to acknowledge that, as well as all his other weakneses.
Like when he abaonded his original promise to only go for one term, and then changes his mind as 81, the same age my father passed, pluss all the other broken promises, and his foolish loyalty to the Zionist/Fascist project, we can safely say that he is to be as much trusted as any other American deal breaker in history.
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