Today's links over at NC had a piece from Zero Anthropology, a site run by a professor of anthropology (no surprise) residing in Canada.

It's titled "The Dying Days of Liberalism" and delivers a massive takedown, especially of the liberal establishment.

^Now that was a post.

The comments are wonderful
https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10154491167668588

Facebook is seeing its dieing days ahead.
It thought only MySpace was a fad.
But it forgot geocities...it's all fads...

my corner of the internet.

Rosenwald's Dying Days has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Rosenwalds-Dying-Days

One from New Orleans, about an urban art project in a building that was about to be demolished.

http://videosift.com/video/Rosenwalds-Dying-Days

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

You forgot one salient point in your argument:
PEOPLE! Soylent Green is made of PEOPLE!

There, fixed it.>> ^Don_Juan:

Aging is a TERMINAL disease! If we can't cure it, YOU will die of it, YOUR LOVED ONES will die of it, we will ALL die of it! The advantage of dying is ???? If this was about some new voracious disease that was killing people everywhere by causing them to deteriorate and rot away and there is no cure so YOU will also die because of it, I would imagine comments would be a bit more serious. Billions spent on political objectives, while the masses conveniently live in denial that they are dying, day by day!
The mind enslaving power of spiritual beliefs is due to a claim that the particular spiritual path (and often that none of the other spiritual paths) can erase the result of death.

Aging is a TERMINAL disease! If we can't cure it, YOU will die of it, YOUR LOVED ONES will die of it, we will ALL die of it! The advantage of dying is ???? If this was about some new voracious disease that was killing people everywhere by causing them to deteriorate and rot away and there is no cure so YOU will also die because of it, I would imagine comments would be a bit more serious. Billions spent on political objectives, while the masses conveniently live in denial that they are dying, day by day!

The mind enslaving power of spiritual beliefs is due to a claim that the particular spiritual path (and often that none of the other spiritual paths) can erase the result of death.

If it weren't for my son I'd so leave this country. I'm just not optimistic about my country's future at all. We're in the dying days of empire, I believe.

Good thing there's always something to watch on TV.

Fun.

SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
So This Is Love

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
I Fucked Your Wife

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Calling from Hell

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Summer's Gone

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Everybody's Talkin'

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
The Shortest Straw

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Feel Good Hit of the Summer

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
No Love Lost

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Ice Queen

WHAT IS 2+2?
Away From The Numbers

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Burn

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Creature of the Wheel

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Unto Others

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Bombtrack

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Locked and Loaded

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Hate Kill Destroy

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
He Who Sought the Fire

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Reaping Stone

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Benighted

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Restless

WHATS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Anything

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Day Tripper

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Darts

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Goodbye Blue Sky

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Abandoned, Pleased, Brainwashed, Exploited

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Pushit

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
In Winter

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Call of the Zombie

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Allegro Assai

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Vengeance is Mine

Oh man, I loved this. It was utter shite, but it was Streetfighter, the best button bashing game EVER, at least when I was a kid. Raul Julia died days after shooting finished I believe.

Oh man, what an excellent movie. Back in the dying days of 2D animation no less.

Look, I've keep my mouth shut the whole time, but I think I will open it now.

^ those segments are not balanced. If you want to call this one unbalanced, fine, but if you say those are fare and balanced you must be joking, my babies.

If there was a conspiracy why bother with the planes? Think about how risky that is. What a huge chance of failure it has. Why not just blow up the buildings from the inside and say the terrorists did it, instead of fly planes into the buildings, then blowing them up from the inside "secretly" and then saying the terrorists did it. What if one of the planes missed? Being off a millimeter with a plane that size would send you an immediate mile off course. Think about all the people that would have to be involved. Every one of them would have to be psychopaths to let something like that happen. I’ll admit that Washington is a greedy bunch, but there isn't enough money in the world to keep all those people quiet.

Steve Jones may be a physicist but that doesn't mean he knows crap about structural design. But you know who does: I do. His postulations are beautiful garbage and his blathering exemplify his ignorance on buildings. I guess he was relived of duty after he said this and that, but, really, in the real world, you only get fired if you're an asshole. You can do a horrible job, say things that disagree with everything your institution stands for, but you'll only get the boot if you're a jerk. Ask anyone who's held a real job. He didn't get fired because of what he said about 911, he got put on relief because they already wanted to get ride of him and his bantering was the excuse.

Where were the engines? Inside the building. Why weren’t the wings there? Because a plane's wings are full of jet fuel and a 600 mile per hour impact would makes them EXPLODE. Why did the windows blow out: look up I.M Pei and get a lesson on air pressure. Passports planted: I'll buy it. What better way to direct attention. No video of the pentagon crash has come to light: that's fishy too, but, on the other hand, what would be the point? If you're going to crash a plane into the towers to incite public upheaval, why bother sending one to the pentagon, or why bother sending a missile instead of a real plane. I mean think of it: send planes, but then stop one of them, kill everyone on it, destroy the plane, then send a missile in its place? They hid the video because it was a knee jerk reaction and they didn't know what to do. They were scared. And they won’t release it now because it would prove nothing; let those people die in peace. Why would make it all so convoluted? Why leave so many loose threads? If they were going to fake something, it wouldn't be this easy to accumulate even this faux evidence.

The only public official who has said 9/11 was purposeful was the former president of Italy who has a serious history of mental illness and has his own conspiracy theory about being schizophrenic.

I think they did want to go back to the middle east. And 9/11 was the perfect excuse. Can't the manipulation of our wounded hearts, after a great national tragedy, be conspiracy enough? Of course it's about the oil, it about the whole region. It's about Israel and our former beef with all those "axis of evil" nations. It’s about Bush’s xenophobia. I think we would have ended up back there with or without 9/11, but, please, let those people who died on that die day with the dignity they deserve. It was a tragic day.

A few months after 9/11, I looked at an al Qaeda website and they claimed that 9/11 was revenge for every child who's stomach was born outside of it's body due to the use of depleted uranium in the gulf war. I don't think slaughtering thousands of innocents was just by no means, but what I'm saying is that they had their reasons and when you're living in the sand and you've got nothing else, a suicide mission seems pretty damn good. A 9/11 conspiracy theory even lessens what those mindless thugs died for.

i don't know if it was mentioned in the 'big QM talk' but if I were you I would probably have just downvoted all of QM's videos and gone to bed. my laziness is pretty out of control. anyhow, hats off to you for not doing that (stooping to the level of an 8 year-old), and instead letting it play out more appropriately.


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ps., smibbo.
this part?

To my dying day I'll never understand why tolerant people think its their job to put up with assholes. Being tolerant doesn't mean being a sucker or a punching bag. There's a difference between "tolerant" and "doormat".

is what this whole fucking mess was about, for me.

that shit could've happened to any one of you, and probably did. this time he picked me, because i was just another 'l00ny liberal' to him.
fuck that.
come to me with honest arguments? about something important? i'll fuckin' listen all night. srsly. i usually do exactly that.

think i'm your punching bag, or that we're on the playground? there's the door.

ps., smibbo.
this part?

To my dying day I'll never understand why tolerant people think its their job to put up with assholes. Being tolerant doesn't mean being a sucker or a punching bag. There's a difference between "tolerant" and "doormat".

is what this whole fucking mess was about, for me.

that shit could've happened to any one of you, and probably did. this time he picked me, because i was just another 'l00ny liberal' to him.
fuck that.
come to me with honest arguments? about something important? i'll fuckin' listen all night. srsly. i usually do exactly that.

think i'm your punching bag, or that we're on the playground? there's the door.

The real question we should be asking is why a senate rules committee sat down one day and voted yea to a rule that allowed a Senator to anonymously hold legislation. They actually decided that it was in the best interests of Democracy that a single senator could effectively kill a law without any accountability.

Democracy is in it's dying days.