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Reply to A Short Response to "Immigrants Assimilate" in Politics JoeUser Forums

People like to feel important. Recognition brings fulfillment. Disenfranchised people seem to group together, proclaiming the achievements of the group from which they claim to hail as their own, so as to feel important. This occurs not only with "black pride", but also occurs within sub-groups in the white community. It just doesn’t seem conducive to individual (the only skin your going to live in) self-growth to latch onto an abstract lau

Reply to A Short Response to "Immigrants Assimilate" in Politics JoeUser Forums

Am I the only one who views taking "credit" or purporting "blame" for National/Racial/Cultural attainment, or lack thereof, of which we, as individuals, only very recently born into the world have had no part is pure hubris?

Reply to A Short Response to "Immigrants Assimilate" in Politics JoeUser Forums

I have a buddy who from the time we were just kids has mouthed off about immigrants this, immigrants that. But this same buddy of mine is the first to jump in a brawl at a club when the Gestapo-like bouncers started pounding two relatively diminutive Hispanic fellas. My buddy said that, “it just felt like the right thing to do.” Jumping in the middle. Abstract beliefs colliding with real life situations. People are complex.

Reply to Uni Results - what do they say about you? in Misc JoeUser Forums

I thought a fella who likes ice cream would excel as a knobe-jockey. No?

Reply to Bored @ Work in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

I trust you'll understand that I was disappointed that you distracted the thrust & hence importance of my message about freeing the marine. I have put my energy to good use in a variety of constructive ways. But what I need to know from you is what kind of fella comes around another fella's blog, lecturing, and using insults about "credentials? Is it one who is prepared to shut down his blog when the "credentials" are produced? Or is it just some b

Reply to Bing Crosby: Wife Beater? in Misc JoeUser Forums

I also hope it's not true. I tried a search but nothing. Nonetheless, Lady Dove is sticking to her guns on this one. Today "problems" are more openly discussed (Also, the advent of support groups and treatment programs). Lady Dove notes had Betty Ford clinics existed back in the day … Judy Garland, etc… A shame. Furthermore, I imagine back then the social stigma that attaches to hitting one's spouse or children was not as sever as

Reply to New Postage stamp? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Bombs away ... i've sent it off to make the rounds. My congressman is going to hear an ear full on this one.

Bing Crosby: Wife Beater? in Misc JoeUser Forums

My wife (Lady Dove) & I were cuddled up by the fire place when Bing Crosby appeared on the television screen. I couldn't believe my ears when my wife told me that Bing used to beat his wife. Now I don't know what to think. I really enjoyed his songs & movies. As one who is by training sensitive to P.C. considerations, I make it a point to try and understand

It’s Just A Material Thing. in Misc JoeUser Forums

About six months ago when I returned home to my wife (Lady Dove), I had a windfall of about $30,000 waiting in the bank. While I have had some nice cars in my day, Lady Dove & I decided to splurge on a new SUV. Its cost was closer to $40,000 than $30,000. We took a road trip to spend Thanksgiving with Grandma; we stopped at a rest area, and when we

Reply to Free U.S. Marine! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Above Sicilian proverb translated: He who does not mind his own business looks for trouble with a lamp. Are you interested in the origin of the proverb?

Reply to Free U.S. Marine! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Are you Italian? I'm half Sicilian? Here's a Sicilian proverb: Chi non si fa l'affari suoi, con la lanterna va cercando guai. Furrgedaboudit! Boy is unacceptable. Why? Clearly, I didn't use in to invoke racist message. I don't go for that racist stuff. So again I ask why is boy unacceptable. Is that a fair question in as much as it is being demanded that I refrain from choosing my words.

Reply to Free U.S. Marine! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Little Whip: Notwithstanding your skewed analysis, I suspect I understand why you felt you had to express yourself in the manner you have. I'll only say this much: Boy is a term that is found to be unacceptable? Not by me, my wife, my father & mother, my brothers & sisters (both literally & figuratively). The P.C. police do not patrol my "red neck of the woods." My blog has been stalked by big tex from my first posting on

Reply to Free U.S. Marine! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

AdrianthePatriot (a/k/a: Shit for brains) : Threatening me with violence punk is over the top. I can be anywhere in a short period of time and suggest we do meet while your off duty, "boy." (being popular on this website is not my concern). Freedom is. As for Big Tex, and her lunatic picking over a noun, well let her handle herself. Referring to General Bush as a Warmonger is fighting for the enemy. Voicing "dissent" in a ti

Reply to Hanoi Jane in Politics JoeUser Forums

Kingbee, man, you're good. How's this for a lame try: July 8 - 22, 1972 -- Jane Fonda visits Hanoi, where she makes numerous radio broadcasts to American military personnel, encouraging mutiny and desertion while repeatedly claiming that the United States is committing war crimes in Vietnam. Fonda also visits American prisoners, reporting on the air that they are being "well cared for" and that they wished to convey their "sense of d

Reply to Hanoi Jane in Politics JoeUser Forums

This was forwarded to me by a friend of mine in the Marine Corp. I can't > verify if this actually happened. > > > Subject: STARBUCKS > > > This is all the excuse I need to never drink another drop of their > very poor tasting brew Starbucks. > Recently Marines over in Iraq supporting this country in OIF wrote > to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they l

Reply to Hanoi Jane in Politics JoeUser Forums

Reminding the public of Hanoi Jane's treasonous activities is wrong? Do you deny Hanoi Jane was a traitor? The harm done by so-called Americans (Hanoi Jane types in a time of war), exercising free speech, to our troops is well documented. There's good reason this "myth" is once again being circulated. It's the sentiment ... Mr. King. Moreover, debunked ... by CBS? It's true that she pysically went to Vietnam; for which she apologized in

Reply to Free U.S. Marine! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Adult content: THE MOST FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH WORD Well, it's shit... that's right, shit! Shit ! may just be the most functional word in the English language. Consider: You can get shit-faced, Be shit-out-of-luck, Or have shit for brains. With a little effort, you can get your shit together, find a place for your shit, or be asked to shit or get off the pot. You can smoke shit, buy shit, se

Hanoi Jane in Politics JoeUser Forums

A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA This is for all the kids born in the 70's who do not remember, and didn't have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear. Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century."

Reply to Free U.S. Marine! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Big TEX (nothing to do with your weight): You've been stalking me from day one with your nonsense. Nonetheless, you've exposed my "bluff". Agree to close your account when I produce my credentials and I'll gladly show the hand that I'm holding. Otherwise, save it for the bank, hypocrite. There's no interest here. Now you pretend to be Mrs. Patriot: Too late to change those stripes, Sister. Fact is American Liberals Equal Solider Fratricid

Reply to Free U.S. Marine! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

You make me sick! You're husband is overseas fighting and you constantly employ inflammatory name-calling against our Nation that strengthens the enemy’s resolve, such as calling General Bush a Warmonger, which , in turn, endangers American lives. Shameful. Disgraceful. As for my credentials, lil' lady ... don't ask ... Let's just say, like the Hawk who seeks opportunity & then strikes his target, Hitparade ... here

Reply to Free U.S. Marine! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Tex: Indeed, you were right in the first instance, you're picking .... As to your suggestion, this "boy" will take his chances in as much as you presume far too much. Accordingly, I "suggest" that you take some stock of your passive/aggressive attack and speak only for yourself. Would a liberal such as yourself be offended were my post to have invoked "Bringing the 'Boys' Back Home"? The topic is the marine, so again I say: Sav

Reply to Free U.S. Marine! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

SSG: Where is the investigation?

Reply to Left Wing Kook alert: Linda Rondstadt in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Dabe: Your post is a diatribe: A litany of inarticulate complaints which does not substitute for meaningful solutions: Fusillades of endless griping is just one of the many reasons that caused kerry to lose. The insult of begrudging a "selfish" businessmen, who provides you a forum at no charge for you to express yourself, highlights how the left chooses to engage the pressing political & social discourse of out time: by name ca

Reply to Free U.S. Marine! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Tex: I'm a grown man, who is still referred to as "boy." It's a matter of connotation. Those who use the expression to disparage are generally transparent and reacted to accordingly. Free the Marine! He's a brave young man, whose family needs our Nation's support. Peace out!

Reply to Free U.S. Marine! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Excerpt: By Michael Georgy, Reuters "FALLUJAH, Iraq (Nov. 16) - U.S. Marines rallied round a comrade under investigation for killing a wounded Iraqi during the offensive in Fallujah, saying he was probably under combat stress in unpredictable, hair-trigger circumstances. Marines interviewed on Tuesday said they didn't see the shooting as a scandal, rather the act of a comrade who faced intense pressure during the effort to quell t