Damn right he's better off! He's dead, we're all dying slowly under the iron boot of socialisation, for our "good" My kids will NEVER know the America I knew, the freedoms, a decent public education, my resume is packed with jobs, 30 years of jobs. I pounded nails to frame room additions and homes, I cleaned carpets, I was salesman and a manger for Radio Shack. I put myself through school, the teachers and staff didn't have the government jacking up their demands for this that and the other, the teachers taught! I worked my ass off in aerospace, taking any chance to make myself a better employee. I worked overtime for free, I traveled many hours just to make my companies stock go up, I wasn't doing because I was in some stock sharing program because I wasn't! I did it for me! I wanted to create, I wanted to achieve, I wanted to do it myself.
Now these aholes running the country want you to do everything their way! They pass every stinking law at every single level to force you to act a certain way! We''ll never be a county again because one half of the population is dependant on the government! They eat what they are told too, they watch TV every night and the damn reality shows dominate the airwaves! Scripted shows are a thing of the past just as our freedom to speak is, One can't use slang in public, slang I grew up with, fing rappers can say anything they want because it's "ethnic" but if I say the same words in public I'll get arrested!
This country sucks now, all the mamby-pamby bull shit shoved down our throats to be politically correct is hogwash! On MW if I got close to a post like this some coward would "report abuse"! I'll tell what abuse is, giving away my taxes so illegals can have health benefits, giving away my taxes so GM union pukes can vote democratic year in and year out, all the while having money taken out of their checks to support the political causes of the left!
The left is owned by the cowards, The Attorney General that stonewalls the Congress because Fast and Furious was stupid. The Barny Franks of the world! The Dodds! The gutless Democrats that want to take us down the path of socialism, "for our own good"
I don't want even one person on this fing planet to tell me want is right for me! I am so sick and tired of all the bull that goes on night and day that little panty waste Dems get their panties in bind over! They want to "fix" everything! If it ain't broke don't fix it! They want Catholics to pay for birth control, what is that all about, who do they think they are? I don't need my hand held in the grocery store to buy healthy food instead of food that kills you after you eat for 40 years. But, I sure as hell don't want The First Lady telling my kids and my family what to eat! I don't want the government to meddle in energy markets so they can create jobs for their donors that are the only ones that benefit from it. Stay out of the energy that we need to build stuff with, don't make it cleaner, don't restrict because of fear, don't get in the way! If the spotted owl or some little salamander gets in the way, move it out of the way. The forests, a shining example of government intervention! They won't let logging go on because of deforestation, so it's left up to mother nature and 500 homes or more go up in smoke. Wind farms, ever seen one? Anyone ever made a profit of one? Mother nature is not someone to be using, she was intended to provide, not to be divvied up amongst shareholders!
I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!
Gee, I hate to start a weekend pondering the profit margin of a windfarm. You and your significant other should get your twins babysat and go find those barstools. :-)
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Jean
It's "girls night out" I get the twins and 6 other 5 year olds to "entertain"
ReplyDeleteA small price to pay for Mrs. Significant's eternal company.
ReplyDeleteWe're sitting at home watching a movie.
Sorry.
Well to answer the OP, not really. Went from dodidng ok to independently destitute. :))
ReplyDeleteJust as a mind tweaker, food is up at least 50% in the overall, especially meats. Thanks Cass Sunstein, ya' did a fine job on that one, ya' lil vegetarian you!.
Transportation fuels 200%, thanks Czar or wtf he is Salazar, and you too Mr. Chu.
Winter heating fuel at least 35%, '10-'11, no idea what's ahead for this year.
Really big hit on the IRA thanks to the stimulus to all the greenies I was in - rascals bankrupting their own companies after quid pro quos of political donations.
The only saving grace, computer parts, except for Thai made hard drives) are down. Just built (actually an upgrade of mobo and chip) a smokin hot new machine for less than $500. Little comfort there as I can't eat the old parts except financially.
AB0's got to go, head first or feet first, don't much care which end is first.
ReplyDeleteReally?
What makes us 'special'?
Is it our selfishness, our self-absorbed, mentally lazy non-critical sleepwalking zombie approach to life? Is it our capacity for sculpted selective empathy-on-demand - as long as the subject we empathize with falls within specific parameters and is...one of US?
What makes US so 'special'?
We watch as our tax dollars pay for illegal wars, assassinations, drug running, money laundering, illegal invasion and occupation, theft of land and resources in other nations, the Israeli government's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, we watch as our tax dollars are used to further racial segregation, torture, arrest and detainment, brutality, home demolitions, apartheid, and genocide.
We watch as our tax dollars are used to wipe out innocent men, women, and children in foreign lands that have raised no hand against us.
What is so 'special' about us?
The majority of Americans remain silent, which is construed as consent to these crimes against humanity, which in turn borders on complicity with the oppressors and executioners. We sit and watch ridiculous TV fiction and rah rah rah! like the good little drooling Pavlovian dogs we are, every time the mainstream media whores push our buttons. We've got celebrities posing on posters, rebuking us with the numbers of starving American children we should DO something about, yet where are these same people with regard to the starving children we have created throughout the world via our collective silence, our tax dollars, and our apathy? Aren't those children special enough to concern us? Is it really okay if they die?
ReplyDeleteWe sit and watch as our own people are beat up and imprisoned for telling the truth, for protesting, for having a conscience, for objecting, for blowing the whistle and showing us the truth.
We just sit there, and never ask ourselves, 'where did my original thoughts go?' 'Where is my humanity?' 'What can I do for one person?' 'What can I do for the world?' No, what you're more apt to hear is, 'what can I do for ME?'
We sit here with so much blood on our hands and feed a pathological system that is built upon nothing but illusion, deception and bullshit, and we tell ourselves it's real, when it is not. We wouldn't even recognize reality if it was stamped in sesame seeds on the bun of a Big Mac.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the majority of Americans doing for the world, as opposed to doing for themselves?
What has happened to the collective conscience?
What has happened to empathy and human rights for all people?
When we say 'human rights for all people', do we really mean that? Or, do we really mean human rights apply ONLY to people like US?
What is so 'special' about US? We sit here as our soldiers commit suicide in increasing numbers, as private mercenaries slaughter people in Syria, as drones decimate lives and communities in Pakistan, as terrorists and war criminals are awarded Medals of Freedom by the current political puppet hood ornament chief psychopath who calls himself 'President' in the White House, and most miss the irony in seeing a warmonger present 'Medals of Freedom' to Israeli Zionist terrorists and war protesters like Bob Dylan.
Most Americans must be color blind too, failing to see the river of red as it fills our heads and we slowly become nothing but mindless, walking, talking blood balloons, incapable of a critical thought, or even a simple thought. We watch TV and never seem to pause in our collective cud-chewing, channel-surfing, psychiatric-drug-induced malaise, to ever notice the dried creases of blood staining our own hands, or the role we've played - and continue to play - in all this psychopath-driven global bloodshed.
We sit here, pat ourselves on the back, 'tsk tsk tsk' at the 'Nightly News' and remind ourselves of how lucky and 'special' we are that it is not OUR country bombarded with missile strikes, and how this is the best place in the world to live, the land of the 'special', just as long as our government doesn't decide to turn that military hardware on us.
ReplyDeleteWho cares, right? Those aren't OUR communities being destroyed by OUR government, they aren't OUR children being terrorized en masse, passing through checkpoints on their walk to school, those aren't OUR homes being bulldozed or taken by settlers, OUR movement or ability to earn a living isn't being restricted by occupation with checkpoints and road barriers and apartheid walls.
We pretend we don't see, and we look away, satisfied that none of this is happening in our own backyards, smug in the lie that none of it has anything to do with 'US', arrogant and self-satisfied in our collective ignorance - satisfied because Americans seem to pride themselves on their ignorance. We are the ultimate chest-thumpers. We need to get over ourselves already.
The mass majority of people are not only disconnected from the rest of humanity, they're disconnected from their own selves, only shocked into momentary sparks of awareness whenever the media so desires, or with the right pill, if need be. Our collective attention spans have been so reduced, that if we see an entire paragraph, we bitch about having to 'read all that'. We're too lazy to hold a verbal conversation anymore, and even get pissed off if someone texts us too slow. We can't seem to go anywhere or do anything without a cellphone pasted to our heads. We don't read and learn, we just remember what to parrot, and that is what drips from our mouths, when we're not stuffing our faces with toxic processed foods and washing them down with 32 ounces of diet soda in one poisonous 'big gulp'.
Americans, by and large, do not want to be informed. If they did, they would make real efforts in this direction. They would seek out independent sources of information and show a desire to expand both the individual and collective knowledge base. Instead, most settle for the myth and mediocrity of mainstream media, and sit back while the white noise lulls them gently to sleep, and wait for their arteries to harden.
ReplyDeleteWe're 'special' because we are NOT 'THEM'. We're special' because more and more, we are exhibiting those 'special' characteristics found in the pathologicals that have influenced our society: we are becoming more and more apathetic, coldblooded, merciless and unfeeling.
THAT is what is so 'special' about us.
Is absolute zero cold enough??
"Is absolute zero cold enough?" (Roger Waters)
There are some very interesting thoughts in this thread and I appreciate the obvious effort put out here. My take on this is that the world is slowly modernizing. There is some resistance to the change which is understandable because we are, after all, human. There is a limitless access to any information you may want. This makes it difficult to feel like you have any real grasp of the goings on in the world and yet you can be so much better informed that any previous generations. The collective IQ of our people continues to increase even though we might feel otherwise. Old motivators, like religion, continue to decline in importance. There is a big resistance to this as there were large industries built to support them. There is also a great sense of power the leaders of these organizations can wield over large groups of people simply by the threat of the ultimate punishment or the reward of the ultimate nirvana for the unproven entity of your eternal soul. This power, I'm certain, is well worthy of protection.
ReplyDeleteNew moral leadership is filling in the void that is being vacated by the decline in religious participation. This leadership is provided by the government. The government's morality actually can be questioned and changed. It is up to us to do that. That is where the problem lies because we can be lazy and complacent. We may be mad, but we are comfortable.
Comfortably Mad..:-0..interesting concept..
Delete" Here I sit .Mad as a Hatter..steady gettting Madder and Madder "