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Of course ..... what could be more meaningful in life ???
We are where we are because people refuse to evolve ..... they refuse to even consider let alone, seek a higher consciousness ...... that would lead to evolution.
"Stress" in a biological or social system leads to either breakdown or the evolving of a new order ...... since people have rejected evolution, there remains only revolution.
Removing the criminal predators who rule the country presents no threat to the real order of things ...... like cockroaches, there are plenty more where they came from ....... always ready to step into the void and that is why, as Jefferson said, the populace must remain ever vigilent.
The only alternative is to accept serving at the king's grace.
Hmmm, maybe we could have persuaded King George and his ruffians to have left the colonies without the need for that bit of unpleasantness called the Revolutionary War.
The difference between a spiritual warrior and a soulless political hack is that a spiritual warrior does what is right ..... no matter the consequences.
"I don't know nothing 'bout birthing no babies."
You have to watch the Moyers interview of Simon Johnson to understand my comment.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02132009/watch.html
The bankers were handled with kid gloves and yet what were the headlines screaming for days before the event ...... that the bankers were going to be sorely treated and forced to come clean about where the money went.
That was written to fool the unwashed masses that something was going to be done.
It was nothing but a show ......
The MSM (large corporations themselves) knew the bankers would be coddled but printed accusations of the opposite sort.
You are dealing with lying, conspiring, thieving scum who should be eliminated.
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"Meanwhile, the same drug dealing Marxist terrorists hold some 700 other people hostage in the jungle."
Hmmmm ..... lovers of mammon (thinking themselves to be entrepreneurs no doubt) hiding behind the pretense of representing some particular political ideology .....
Sounds like the US Congress to me .....
"Leaders" (hey, that's a joke these days, huh?)are above the law ....
Which means we are not really a nation of laws (except for the peasants who must be kept in control).
So, why should any of us obey the laws ?????
Hypocrisy pissed off Jesus more than anything else (and me too) ...
Awaken peasants ...... deliver the enemies of the people into their hands.
New House Law that would authorize another database on americans under the pretense of "gun-control" ..... and the information would be available to all "govt" agencies including local govts.
Where does it end ???
http://www.nolanchart.com/article5821.html
Like the Churchill quote : "There is no such thing as public opinion, only published opinion."
$800, 000 dollars a day not to fight ....... that's a surge alright ...... a surge of american taxpayers money.
Why fight anybody ...... just pay them not to fight ...
Insane .... and what do you think is going to happen when we stop paying the sunnis not to kill shiites ????
Our own people are losing their jobs and we're going to be paying one group of religious loonies not to kill another group of religious loonies ...... for how long ??? Till the end of time ??
And men don't buy playboy or watch porn because they interested in any human qualities the pictures have ...... so what ???
You don't want to be considered as anything but T & A ???
Then don't present yourself as such .....
You want to have your cake and eat it too do you not ???
People who bought houses they couldn't afford on the premise they were going to make lots of money doing so because the prices of houses would continue to escalate, were just as greedy and irresponsible as the Wall Street Investment Banks ....... only on a smaller scale.
No one should have been bailed out ........ now you have a situation of "moral hazard" created by the govt ....... if you now don't bail everybody out, you can be accused of being biased and/or unfair.
Ultimately, it is the responsible people who will have to pay for the burdens of the bankers and the mortgage risk takers.
And that is patently unfair.
The people who bought houses they couldn't afford with "creative" mortgages were making a gamble ..... taking a risk ...... just like buying stock or rolling dice at a crap table.
Had they won, they wouldn't be bitching.
You play the game ...... you accept the risks ..... if you lose, then you "eat it" and learn.
And there are many instances where they have saved innocent lives and many more where they could have if they had been present in the hands of victims.
I carried a pistol when I lived in Boston and almost had to use it on several occasions.
Face it, there are evil murdering predators of the jungle level just as there are evil murdering predators of the higher level (politicians, bankers, corporate greedsters, investment bankers, etc.).
And if the lady who friend was mauled by the chimp had her own gun, she wouldn't have called 911 and screamed for the police to come and do what was necessary and her friend would not be in the fowl shape she is in .....
Violent force usually can only be opposed with violent force ...... that is just a fact.
And our warped culture seems to produce more than its share of predators.
I can name a thousand things are that are a threat to the citizens of this country ..... real threats ..... and guns carried by law-abiding citizens is not one of them.
That the banks and the real estate moguls won't be the biggest benefactors from this bill ?
Seems like another indirect handout to the bankers ....