is, of course, a completely different matter. That can happen to anybody. Hell, I've been married for twenty years, and many's the night I have fluttered like a wounded bird in my wife's boudoir, her kohl rimmed eyes hypnotising me like twin left hooks, and her two left hooks looking deep into my chin. "I'm-I'm saving myself, for the man I marry!" was all I had time to say before a merciful syncope rendered me insensible to my moral downfall.

But my wife is ten years younger than me, so that kind of stuff is bound to happen. Maybe it'll get better as we age. If I live that long, if you call this living.

Thanks, that was a much more succinct and I assume, correct description of affirmative action than any I could muster.

I get all upset and confused around whiny white people. Is there anything more disgusting? White guys,please, try to have just the slightest amount of self-respect, huh? I get a queasy feeling from guys like "Unlovely".

Good lord, I don't think I know a word in Yiddish or English for a white guy who can go around positing himself as the victim of racial discrimination!! Come to think of it, maybe it shouldn't shock me, I mean, there are white guys who posit themselves as victims of sexual discrimination!

Truly, there is no whine to fine for the white man.

Sorry, but that one always gets me. But I can top it, you know. Guess what Joe Biden said at the AIPAC conference today?

Give up? Here you go:

...basic responsibility of the United States to be a partner in ensuring that there will always, always be a place for Jews of the world to go -- (applause) -- and that place always must be Israel. (Applause.) It's real. It's serious. It's compelling. It's the only certainty, the only certainty. (Applause.)

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/

Thanks, Joe! I was sorta hoping it would bve alright if we stayed in the US a while longer, but heck, Joe, you're the Vice President, and Jewish. Only makes sense that you would know if Jews were in danger of being kicked out before I would.

What a fucking world.

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You have absolutely no idea how affirmative action works, do you?

Why don't you tell us how it works, and how it gives an unfair advantage to under-qualified minorities? Please, go ahead.

You know no more about affirmative action than you have heard from all the right-wing idiots.

Again, you have absolutely no idea how the program works, who it applies to, and how it is applied.

Go ahead, prove me wrong! Except I think you have only the sketchiest idea of what "prove" means. Whatever comes out of your ass is not proof. Shocking, I know.

Please, give us an idea of how the affirmative action programs work. You have no idea.

Affirmative Action is designed to make sure that qualified monority candidates are given equal treatment in the application process for federal and state jobs.

Affirmative action can be a simple as making sure the application process is color-blind.

Considering what we've seen in the past eight years with Bush Administration hiring, I would think people would drop all that "affirmative action is unfair" crap.

We've had completely open hiring by ideological and religionist subversions of the hirinf process, right down to phony degrees and qualifications.

"Nobody trumps up self-pitying, self-centered persecutions as well as the tough-guy warriors of the neoconservative Right"

Aw, c'mon, don't be so rough on people. Even if that is true, you gotta admit that American Zionist-supporters come in a close second. Of course, I would be very willing to entertain the thought (as long as somebody else pays for the booze and condoms) that there is really no delineation between those groups, and, in that case, the honors should be shared. I'm Ho-Kay with that.

"If not, how is taking away a job or promotion or place from someone who earned it not discrimination?"

Besides being generally a twit, you have no fucking idea how Affirmative Action actually works, do you?

I once knew a girl who got a hand up from Affimative Action! Yeah, all her skirts were cut on the bias! Or maybe she got a leg up, I forgot.

Did you know there are literally hundreds of Benny Hill clips on Youtube?