realistically, there is nothing too HOLY about the holy land, unless centuries of strife, war, murder, division and racism count as a blessing.
but people want to believe it is something more than what IT IS

similarly with the Jewish people. Regarded somewhere on a bell curve that includes "god's chosen people" and money grubbing zealots. Truth is, they're just people, and like the rest of us, stupid primates who are susceptible to propaganda, superstitious idiocy, and arrogant leaders.

>> ^RadHazG:

biggest fail im seeing right now is that the clip ends before they confirm/deny the touchdown! cmon people, anyone know what happened?

It was definitely ruled a touchdown. One of the greatest plays in Saints history.

sadly, the embed is *dead because the NFL is a bunch of money-grubbing *#$!!#!s.

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Not evil, no. Just driven by a voracious invisible hand that cares not for me and thee.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Haha. Rural businesses are evil. They kill people for the lulz.

In reply to this comment by dag:
Thanks for the link. I think the most important part of the article is this:

Imagine an actual for profit fire company. Would they really do this? Would they really turn down a higher fee and risk the bad press of being the compnay that sat there while a familty home burned?

My answer to that is, yes - probably, they would. Because a rural area only has the population density to support a single private fire department. It's them or nothing. And letting the house burn down sends a heck of a message to other potential subscribers.

With a defacto monopoly on a service for the common good, a private business will do whatever increases subscribers and profits the most.

Where Time-Warner is the only broadband provider, they will raise prices to the sweet spot, just under where people will actually drop their subscription - and fight tooth and nail against anything that undermines their monopoly.

The same mindless devotion to profit would apply to a privatized fire department. Keep your money-grubbing corporations out of my community services please! This includes things like fastfood companies sponsoring my kids text books.

some things, BlankFist, are just not solved by a free-market. I hope someday you'll moderate your political views to the shades of gray that represent a non-black-and-white reality.

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You asked a while back, and I feel this guy did a decent job of answering it.

http://theemptiness.info/2010/10/burning-down-the-house/

Haha. Rural businesses are evil. They kill people for the lulz.

In reply to this comment by dag:
Thanks for the link. I think the most important part of the article is this:

Imagine an actual for profit fire company. Would they really do this? Would they really turn down a higher fee and risk the bad press of being the compnay that sat there while a familty home burned?

My answer to that is, yes - probably, they would. Because a rural area only has the population density to support a single private fire department. It's them or nothing. And letting the house burn down sends a heck of a message to other potential subscribers.

With a defacto monopoly on a service for the common good, a private business will do whatever increases subscribers and profits the most.

Where Time-Warner is the only broadband provider, they will raise prices to the sweet spot, just under where people will actually drop their subscription - and fight tooth and nail against anything that undermines their monopoly.

The same mindless devotion to profit would apply to a privatized fire department. Keep your money-grubbing corporations out of my community services please! This includes things like fastfood companies sponsoring my kids text books.

some things, BlankFist, are just not solved by a free-market. I hope someday you'll moderate your political views to the shades of gray that represent a non-black-and-white reality.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
You asked a while back, and I feel this guy did a decent job of answering it.

http://theemptiness.info/2010/10/burning-down-the-house/

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Thanks for the link. I think the most important part of the article is this:

Imagine an actual for profit fire company. Would they really do this? Would they really turn down a higher fee and risk the bad press of being the compnay that sat there while a familty home burned?

My answer to that is, yes - probably, they would. Because a rural area only has the population density to support a single private fire department. It's them or nothing. And letting the house burn down sends a heck of a message to other potential subscribers.

With a defacto monopoly on a service for the common good, a private business will do whatever increases subscribers and profits the most.

Where Time-Warner is the only broadband provider, they will raise prices to the sweet spot, just under where people will actually drop their subscription - and fight tooth and nail against anything that undermines their monopoly.

The same mindless devotion to profit would apply to a privatized fire department. Keep your money-grubbing corporations out of my community services please! This includes things like fastfood companies sponsoring my kids text books.

some things, BlankFist, are just not solved by a free-market. I hope someday you'll moderate your political views to the shades of gray that represent a non-black-and-white reality.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
You asked a while back, and I feel this guy did a decent job of answering it.

http://theemptiness.info/2010/10/burning-down-the-house/

On another video I posted a link to a table of blowouts. They've been happening since 1955. You would think, that this kind of thing would have been planned for by now.

http://videosift.com/video/BP-Responds-to-Comparisons-to-30-year-Old-Oil-Spill


For those of you who aren't old enough to know about Ixtoc I oil spill; myself included.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout_%28well_drilling%29

Look at this table below. Proof enough that Humans do not learn from their mistakes, and are doomed to repeat them. Un-fucking-believable and un-fucking-acceptable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout_%28well_drilling%29#Notable_offshore_well_blowouts

>> ^chilaxe:

>> ^NordlichReiter:
>> ^deathcow:
he looks absorbent, put him to good use

Lulz. He's absorbent alright, like a sponge. A green, money grubbing sponge.

BP and its executives have experienced huge losses from this, so the problem doesn't seem to be so much that they pursued profits, but that they did a terrible, irrational job at it (for their bottom line and for ours).


>> ^deathcow:

This whole thing is a stupidity tax on the world. They will continue to fuck up huge sections of environment every few years. We will continue to allow our congress to be bought and sold by large corporations. We will continue to create laws which make businesses more important than humans or the Earth. We will continue to fund alternative energy less than weaponry or wars.
We broke it, we buy it.

>> ^NordlichReiter:

>> ^deathcow:
he looks absorbent, put him to good use

Lulz. He's absorbent alright, like a sponge. A green, money grubbing sponge.


BP and its executives have experienced huge losses from this, so the problem doesn't seem to be so much that they pursued profits, but that they did a terrible, irrational job at it (for their bottom line and for ours).

>> ^deathcow:

he looks absorbent, put him to good use


Lulz. He's absorbent alright, like a sponge. A green, money grubbing sponge.

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yes, bring the parodies on- this is the inevitable and just result of those bullshit, sanctimonious greenswashing ads.

Sanctimonious, money grubbing, environment wrecking pricks. I want criminal charges for BP, Halliburton and the corrupt MMS. *promote

If you want to be a stick-in-the-mud about it...

There's a great patio at the Victory

Yet another is the awesome rooftop at The Pilot

And - believe it or not - this place has a great backyard patio with good grub.

Does else get an airhead, socialite, money-grubbing, implant kinna vibe from this person?? One of the richest women in congress, innit?

>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^JackKetch:
>> ^Aniatario:
Was disney REALLY an anti-semite?

Are you fucking serious? It was the whole reason the man had himself cryogenically frozen! And now his piece of shit company's legacy is to single-handedly undermine the authority of every parent in every house. FUCK Disney and I think you need a few classes on modern corporations and the history of their money grubbing executive starts. Just sayin.

I'd like to see some solid proof that he was an anti-semite
to quote the article
"The book has been called "an effective hatchet job"[2] and the book's claims are disputed by other authors, including ones who have reviewed and published information from the same FBI files as Eliot.[3][4]"


It's on the intarweps so it MUST be true!

>> ^JackKetch:
>> ^Aniatario:
Was disney REALLY an anti-semite?

Are you fucking serious? It was the whole reason the man had himself cryogenically frozen! And now his piece of shit company's legacy is to single-handedly undermine the authority of every parent in every house. FUCK Disney and I think you need a few classes on modern corporations and the history of their money grubbing executive starts. Just sayin.


Where exactly would I sign up for classes on "Modern Corporations and Their History of Money Grubbing?" Cause I'm not sure that's a course at any accredited University.

>> ^JackKetch:
>> ^Aniatario:
Was disney REALLY an anti-semite?

Are you fucking serious? It was the whole reason the man had himself cryogenically frozen! And now his piece of shit company's legacy is to single-handedly undermine the authority of every parent in every house. FUCK Disney and I think you need a few classes on modern corporations and the history of their money grubbing executive starts. Just sayin.


I'd like to see some solid proof that he was an anti-semite

to quote the article

"The book has been called "an effective hatchet job"[2] and the book's claims are disputed by other authors, including ones who have reviewed and published information from the same FBI files as Eliot.[3][4]"

>> ^JackKetch:
>> ^Aniatario:
Was disney REALLY an anti-semite?

Are you fucking serious? It was the whole reason the man had himself cryogenically frozen! And now his piece of shit company's legacy is to single-handedly undermine the authority of every parent in every house. FUCK Disney and I think you need a few classes on modern corporations and the history of their money grubbing executive starts. Just sayin.


You ever seen the South Park episode on Disney (particularly those 4 brothers and their 'chastity rings'.. forget the name of their band.)

You'd love it.


Oh and the Robot Chicken part at the end was funny as hell. But really the jokes on them, as Robot Chicken is WAY more funny than Family Guy.

I was practically shitting myself I laughed so much last night watching it with this 'The Game of Life' skit. I am not joking on that part. We only have one toilet in the house at the moment and my GF likes to spend what seams like hours in there despite my protests of NEEDING to use the shitter. Come to think of it, I might build an outhouse.

(Heres the skit btw.. http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c3921449e2e901144be82a6400db&cid=vplayer)