>> ^A10anis:
Pastor says; "it's indoctrination, children are in their formative years, and you start introducing sexuality into their young impressionable minds, you start changing our culture." Oh, unlike the indoctrination of their young impressionable minds into dogmatic, medieval, religion which, if not stopped, will END our culture.


Um, you do realize religion IS culture? It is a universal of all cultures--just like money and government and mental illness (1/4 of everyone...) You could say it is in our genes and we must unlearn it... Now, the different types of religions is something to debate...

But let's talk about why homosexuality has a bad rap... Homosexuality itself got a very bad rap because of one little nation that practiced it religiously... Rome... Rome was one big, gay death machine that the world hated so much that it now shuns even the good practices of the Empire. Think of the Middle East, nations that particularly had problems with Rome...yup, they really hate gay and lesbians...

Funny that Christianity became popular in Rome when those crimes were happening...ironic or just cause-and-effect...

longde, as much as I'd love to stick it to QM over this, you're oversimplifying it.

Reagan ran up the deficit with a Democratic controlled Congress. Clinton balanced the budget with a Republican controlled Congress. Bush Sr. is getting a bit of a bad rap in your analysis. He was in wartime, so you're gonna run up the debt during war, and we absolutely should have gone into Iraq the first time.

Bush Jr. on the other hand did run up the debt with a Republican controlled Congress. Granted, with 9/11, etc. it was going to be difficult to not run a deficit, but Bush Sr. + the GOP Congress unnecessarily exacerbated the problem with the Bush Tax Cuts and Senior Prescription Benefit. And by 2004 or 2005, we should have been running a surplus.

What I find absolutely appalling about QM's argument is there's no context in why the debt was run up by Obama. It's really simple - the economy was in free fall. That's exactly what the gov't must do in that situation. Everybody knew it. Bush Jr. knew it, too, which is why the stimulus and bailouts started under him, and continued by Obama. It's painfully obvious to anyone who is willing to have an honest conversation about this topic.

>> ^longde:
>> ^quantumushroom:
BR>
Out-of-control spending is wrecking this country, and calling Tea Partiers "crazy" and espousing 'tax increases' will not stop this in any way, because the left always spends more than it takes in, more so than the right.
Obama & Friends are already spending printed trillions, to no effect.

The facts belie this point. Republicans love to spend. In fact, half the debt we have created since Reagan was done in eight years; care to guess which eight years? If you guessed Bush---ding, ding, ding! How he did it: Iraq War, Stupid unfunded Medicare extension, Insanely Stupid tax cuts---these 3 items make up nearly half the increase in the debt since Reagan. These were all republican initiatives.
Bush, Reagan, and Bush Sr. ran up gobs of debt, with the full support of the repubs. Clinton actually reduced the debt. Republicans fought him tooth and nail, but he handed bush jr a surplus. Obama spent money to head off a depression.

I see the distinction now. Sounds like a good idea. What do mexicans/mexican americans call themselves in spanish?




>> ^bareboards2:
Hey, I'm just quoting a Mexican. Who isn't Chicano, right? Google tells me Chicano is Mexican-American.
Notice, please, that it is a Chicano movement. Not Mexican-American movement. So even they backed away from the word Mexican.
This is specifically about reclaiming the word Mexican, according to this smart, talented Mexican woman.
I have been stewing over @<A rel="nofollow" class=profilelink title="member since November 18th, 2007" href="http://videosift.com/member/Crosswords">Crosswords post since I read it hours ago. Something about it bugged me.
I think what it is -- why bring up the reasons why the word Mexican has a bad rap? We know all that stereotypical stuff. Why not go the other direction and start to replace this narrow response to the word with other images of dignity?
Frida Kahlo. Diego Rivera. Entertainers, sports figures. Politicians. Cesar Chavez. The Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan. The millions of Mexicans who work hard, often living under a pall of fear of deportation, taking care of our children and our homes. Dedicated to their families, sending money back home. Mexican nationals who have lived their whole lives in America, choosing to become soldiers and fight for what they consider to be their country even though a piece of paper says otherwise. Even construction workers who work hard for a days pay, hoping that they will have a job the next day and in fact do a great job.
We need to start reprogramming ourselves to hear a different image when we hear the word Mexican. That is what I heard that famous Mexican woman talking about.
Mexican. Mexican. Mexican.
>> ^longde:
Have you never heard of the Chicano Movement? Chicano or mexican pride has been around for decades. >> ^bareboards2:
One pride movement that is starting, quietly, is the idea of Mexican Pride. I have only seen this a couple of places, and I am cheering it on.
Unfortunately, in America, the very word "Mexican" carries with it the echo of the phrase "dirty Mexican" -- one of the reasons we use back away to be "nice" and say Hispanic/Latino/Latina, when someone is clearly Mexican.
"Nice" becomes really ugly, when the word Mexican should be a descriptive word and not pejorative just by itself.
There are some Mexicans out there who are sick of it, and are starting to reclaim their national identity.
I had never thought of it this way, until I heard this famous actor interviewed (do wish I could remember who it was -- Salma Hayek? Someone smart and beautiful, I remember that.)
I have been trying to use the word Mexican ever since, and have screwed up, because it turns out I can't tell Guatamalen from Brazilian, so I end up insulting folks anyway. But I'm trying.
Mexican. Mexican. Mexican.

Hey, I'm just quoting a Mexican. Who isn't Chicano, right? Google tells me Chicano is Mexican-American.

Notice, please, that it is a Chicano movement. Not Mexican-American movement. So even they backed away from the word Mexican.

This is specifically about reclaiming the word Mexican, according to this smart, talented Mexican woman.

I have been stewing over @Crosswords post since I read it hours ago. Something about it bugged me.

I think what it is -- why bring up the reasons why the word Mexican has a bad rap? We know all that stereotypical stuff. Why not go the other direction and start to replace this narrow response to the word with other images of dignity?

Frida Kahlo. Diego Rivera. Entertainers, sports figures. Politicians. Cesar Chavez. The Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan. The millions of Mexicans who work hard, often living under a pall of fear of deportation, taking care of our children and our homes. Dedicated to their families, sending money back home. Mexican nationals who have lived their whole lives in America, choosing to become soldiers and fight for what they consider to be their country even though a piece of paper says otherwise. Even construction workers who work hard for a days pay, hoping that they will have a job the next day and in fact do a great job.

We need to start reprogramming ourselves to hear a different image when we hear the word Mexican. That is what I heard that famous Mexican woman talking about.

Mexican. Mexican. Mexican.

>> ^longde:

Have you never heard of the Chicano Movement? Chicano or mexican pride has been around for decades. >> ^bareboards2:
One pride movement that is starting, quietly, is the idea of Mexican Pride. I have only seen this a couple of places, and I am cheering it on.
Unfortunately, in America, the very word "Mexican" carries with it the echo of the phrase "dirty Mexican" -- one of the reasons we use back away to be "nice" and say Hispanic/Latino/Latina, when someone is clearly Mexican.
"Nice" becomes really ugly, when the word Mexican should be a descriptive word and not pejorative just by itself.
There are some Mexicans out there who are sick of it, and are starting to reclaim their national identity.
I had never thought of it this way, until I heard this famous actor interviewed (do wish I could remember who it was -- Salma Hayek? Someone smart and beautiful, I remember that.)
I have been trying to use the word Mexican ever since, and have screwed up, because it turns out I can't tell Guatamalen from Brazilian, so I end up insulting folks anyway. But I'm trying.
Mexican. Mexican. Mexican.

Eugenics gets a bad rap because of Nazis.

Turns out, Reagan literally didn't know what was going on.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^AeroMechanical:
Ronald Reagan.

Reagan gets a bad rap when really he didn't know what was going on. He spent most of his later years simply saying what rich people told him to say...as GE spokesman and then as President. Everyone knew that if Reagan went off script you had to shut him up or he was going to say something crazy.
If you don't buy it think about this. Ronald Reagan was credited with starting a Revolution, for being the man who formed the modern republican party. Yet after he left office how many interviews did he do? How many experienced journalists went to talk to him about the future of his party and what they should be doing? Nobody of any significance because all the journalists knew he didn't know what was going on, that he wasn't in charge at all.
It was the PATRIOTS!!

And Thomas Edison gets too much credit. When somebody is the public figurehead of a group, and that group has a coherent personality, then it's meaningful to identify the actions of the group with the figurehead.

The gestalt entity known as Ronald Reagan kicked the supports out from under the California state government, and then went on to do the same to the federal government. I can't think of one aspect of the current financial/political crisis in the US that can't be clearly linked to the reagonite program. Barring everything else, he choose to be the symbol of that, and I'll continue to treat him as such.

>> ^Yogi:
Reagan gets a bad rap

>> ^AeroMechanical:

Ronald Reagan.


Reagan gets a bad rap when really he didn't know what was going on. He spent most of his later years simply saying what rich people told him to say...as GE spokesman and then as President. Everyone knew that if Reagan went off script you had to shut him up or he was going to say something crazy.

If you don't buy it think about this. Ronald Reagan was credited with starting a Revolution, for being the man who formed the modern republican party. Yet after he left office how many interviews did he do? How many experienced journalists went to talk to him about the future of his party and what they should be doing? Nobody of any significance because all the journalists knew he didn't know what was going on, that he wasn't in charge at all.

It was the PATRIOTS!!

>> ^nock:

Inflation gets a bad rap, the Fed's job is to maintain yearly inflation of about 1-2%. Deflation is really bad because it means that my money is more valuable sitting in my pocket/under mattress/etc today than it will be tomorrow. So why would I buy a large item (car, house, etc) if my ability to purchase increases the more I hold onto my money? In essence, the economy stops because consumers earn more by spending less and companies must lower prices, which leads to layoffs which leads to decreased earnings which leads to less spending which leads to lower prices which leads to layoffs which...


The same logic could be applied for the purchase of technology; why buy today, when something awesome will come out in 6 months. In reality, people do not operate like that. Most people buy object A for X dollars in whenever X dollars is achieved.

Like I said in my comment before, when you start to swing money supply extreme in either direction, that is where the danger starts. Mild deflation or inflation is nothing to troubling. The real problem is there is no objective mathematical principle in which the fed operates the money supply. Minor inflation is smart when considering a continual rise in the population, but there is no standard metric that they follow for this because they ALSO try and heat and cool markets, something they shouldn't be in the business of doing.

Saying inflation is bad or good isn't really viable. Inflation is good for some, bad for others. Deflation is the same bed, good for some, bad for others. Most notably, it is bad for big business. It is in big business's best interest to have cheap money they can spend before it inflates to fill their coffers. Deflation places its power to individuals financing slower endeavors. What is "better" is a matter of taste of lifestyle, one that I don't think the government has any business regulating per say. And I say that in spite of the fact that, most likely, the decisions people would make would tend us towards a lifestyle that I don't enjoy as much (living in perpetual debt...house, car, cards, chrismas!!)...but so be it.

In short, debt as a source of wealth favors those that save money for others. Savings as a source of wealth favors those that save their own wealth for themselves and those they chose to share it with. Both work, but for whom and to what degree sways largely, and in our case, largely on the decisions unelected quzi-public servants make...unacceptable.

Inflation gets a bad rap, the Fed's job is to maintain yearly inflation of about 1-2%. Deflation is really bad because it means that my money is more valuable sitting in my pocket/under mattress/etc today than it will be tomorrow. So why would I buy a large item (car, house, etc) if my ability to purchase increases the more I hold onto my money? In essence, the economy stops because consumers earn more by spending less and companies must lower prices, which leads to layoffs which leads to decreased earnings which leads to less spending which leads to lower prices which leads to layoffs which...

Fuck! I didnt think it was possible , but I hate cops even more now. Besides the bad rap, that guy scoping his friends and neighbors is unfuknbelievable.

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not sure how I feel about this.

Certainly men get a bad rap. And definitely the majority of people in prisons are men. Is this because of misandry? Or because men commit more crimes than women? I don't know.

The part that really irked me however was his assumption that all the jobs he listed were men specific when they most certainly aren't.

I would've loved for you to have put some more time in linking evolution, population, and corporate greed. It's an interesting link that I could imagine would take a bit more explanation.>> ^NordlichReiter:
Porksandwich, below is a bit of pessimism and sarcasm.
It's a sick world were companies profit off of survival of the fittest.
I would like to think that the Human Race can surpass that, but probably not. Given the nature of today's world. Money is the root of all evil. The US uses fake paper as it's currency not real monies.
From a science standpoint, I would think that the race would benefit from good health care, but you know how science is seen.
More bad news; according to the US Census Bureau 152,505 people die every day, globally. There are only a couple sure things in life; death, taxes, and becoming a statistic.

(Figures may not add to totals due to rounding)
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Natural
Time unit Births Deaths increase
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Year 131,940,516 56,545,138 75,395,378
Month 10,995,043 4,712,095 6,282,948
Day 361,481 154,918 206,563
Hour 15,062 6,455 8,607
Minute 251 108 143
Second 4.2 1.8 2.4
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http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwe
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popwnote.html

Porksandwich, below is a bit of pessimism and sarcasm.

It's a sick world were companies profit off of survival of the fittest.

I would like to think that the Human Race can surpass that, but probably not. Given the nature of today's world. Money is the root of all evil. The US uses fake paper as it's currency not real monies.

From a science standpoint, I would think that the race would benefit from good health care, but you know how science is seen.

More bad news; according to the US Census Bureau 152,505 people die every day, globally. There are only a couple sure things in life; death, taxes, and becoming a statistic.

(Figures may not add to totals due to rounding)
-------------------------------------------------
Natural
Time unit Births Deaths increase
-------------------------------------------------
Year 131,940,516 56,545,138 75,395,378
Month 10,995,043 4,712,095 6,282,948
Day 361,481 154,918 206,563
Hour 15,062 6,455 8,607
Minute 251 108 143
Second 4.2 1.8 2.4
-------------------------------------------------
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwe
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popwnote.html

I don't like survival of the fittest.

To bad you were born to play the game, we all were.