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Reply to Why Separation? in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Thanks loads, Poi Dog, like the commercial for Direct TV: "I shoukd have you write my reviews. Thanks again and keep pitching.

Reply to Republicans freed the slaves, Democrats to save slavery in Republican JoeUser Forums

Jeblackstar, You did a great job on your laundry list of “How many days...” to alert the blogger to the obvious that the self also benefits. Lunaticus, you hit the nail on the head — ouch! — we are prone to “exaggerated connotations and generalizations” because politics requisite is half a brain.

Reply to Republicans freed the slaves, Democrats to save slavery in Republican JoeUser Forums

Wahkonta, strange, isn’t it? — that there are still so many Americans who have to take a bus to work and expending hours just to get to a low-paying job below “living wages.” However, I take issue with your view on Kerry who, as you know, was just another grunt in Nam. Granted he’s wealthy — even forgetting the Heinz fortune — but that doesn’t preclude his being for the downtrodden. I trust, that Kennedy had something to do with Kerry’s liberal thinking yet Kennedy, too, has plenty of dough. I u

Reply to Republicans freed the slaves, Democrats to save slavery in Republican JoeUser Forums

Brad, what makes the 54/46 split in favor of the Republicans is electorally based. The 80/20 split is predicated on a fuzzy definition of government dependence — do you include government workers as well — or are we talking about welfare, single mothers, patients of Abortion clinics, those in the armed service, children in Head Start, those who get free school lunches, college students on food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, teachers’ union lobbyists, corporate welfare, farm subsidies, cops on the b

Reply to The Confederates in Politics JoeUser Forums

Unquestionably a compliment--instead of Dean hoots, how about two boobs from Janet jackson? Three cheers for Oregon, too.

Why Separation? in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Separation helped inspire the American Revolution; for without it the founding fathers would not dare bend the consensus of a colonist more or less comfortable with the Anglican Church and the many sects derived thereof. So, too, the growing number of Catholics in the colonies were content with the papal bull for the direction their lives would take. Suddenly from the Declaration of Independence there grew a conscience that began to break out of the box. There is no denying th

Reply to The Right to Protest in Politics JoeUser Forums

Go to my blog on Islam&Judaism. All this pain could've been avoided. i believe our stance on Israel results in terror against us.

Reply to Reflection in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Cheez, you guys have a language of your own!!

Reply to Class Warfare: or telling it like it is? in Politics JoeUser Forums

I'm thoroughly confused! Whatever happened to the discussion on upward mobility relentlessly in decline--not to mention the systemic protection of capital prohibiting true opportunity?

Reply to The Confederates in Politics JoeUser Forums

Capt775: Thanks for the advice. In the furure I'll choose my knotholes discreetly. Keep thinking. Jeblackstar, don't forget the Dixiecrats were not only racists but ingrates--they'd still be reading Montgomery Ward catalogues by kerosene lamps were it not for FDR's New Deal.

Reply to The Confederates in Politics JoeUser Forums

Yes, J&J might very well be Republicans today if they could find them. The point is they don't exist anymore because of their slavish submission to southern mentality, which unfortunately is spreading dangerously. This is by no means an inference that they are predominantly rascists, but they certainly are clearly, if not against, indifferent to the plight of the ordinary man. Three Dean hoots for my buddy jeblackstar!

Can You Believe This? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Erin Hanafy of the AP wrote an “interesting” [?] article based on a study of fairy tales by Purdue and Western Illinois Universities sociologists of women’s studies, showing emphasis on beautiful people. The study pointed out that in Grimms’ “Cinderella” alone beauty in women was referred to 114 times and but 35 references to ugliness. Implicit in this article, of course, is that undue reference to appearance and equating the hero and heroine’s good looks to goodness and the ugly villain as

Reply to Just Call Me on My Celly... in Gadgets & Electronics JoeUser Forums

I'm with NickyG; I don't have a cellphone for fear of looking the fool in the aisle of a supermarket talking up a storm. Even the regular phone, I'd tear out of the wall if I didn't have an answering machine to frustrate the telemarketers.

Reply to ATHEISTS OF THE WORLD DIS-BAND in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Even a mute atheist at his time of death is going to hear himself utter, "Oh, God, no!" I have no use for atheists either, not because I'm religious or necessarily believe in God, but rather because they emotionally "believe" they're right as fervently as a believer in God. Belief and passion should not be in an atheists' vocabulary.

Reply to The inevitable fall of democracies in History JoeUser Forums

I think the Scottish prof is more in tune with mobocracy, rather than a republic with constraints to deal with falls and rises--in this nation at least. Moreover, Britain seems to have lasted much longer as a democracyof sorts.

The Confederates in Politics JoeUser Forums

The Republican party was swallowed up by Nixon’s “southern strategy” that took all states by storm. It should have been renamed the Confederate Party by the conservatives; for its primacy of perception runs counter to the foundations of a federal government that has forged a substantial middle class by making it a priority to redistribute wealth in order to include the working class dream of forging a future for itself and its posterity and in the end creating an inclusive dynamic soci

Reply to The Point System Explained in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I think the trick to points from the forum is in the Q icon; but I wish Brad would explain how it's done. By the way, Brad, how did I lose a couple of days ago 100 plus points overnight--is it owing to "trolling"?

Reply to Islam & Judaism: the fallacy of coexistence in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

I'm simply and perhaps crudely stating that the Zionist strategy which was first implemented as a haven for a "race" based on religion, when in fact, Jews are members of the human race, period; and should have been thinking in terms of where they could best be protected--surely not circled by Islamic fanatics.

Reply to Bring It On in Politics JoeUser Forums

I guess I've lost an ally. It's true that there is far too much emphasis on terrorism; nevertheless, it has horrendous moments when it rears its ugly head; though isolated--except in Iraq--vigilance is essential. Alas, indeed, most are ahead of its time.

Asking for the Silvery Moon? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Is it too much to ask of Congress to support its Head Start B.A. bill with some funds for state implementation of higher salaries above the current average of $21,000 and issuing tuition incentives to obtain the BA? Does not this low salary make a mockery of the efforts to leave no child behind? Is it too much to ask for the end of vouchers based on the age-old premise that exclusive private schools are superior to public schools when in fact the premise is based on segregatio

Reply to The American Political Magician in Politics JoeUser Forums

It would be great if the candidates were on Charlie Rose. Maybe then we'd have some depth.

Sixty-five Years Continued in Blogging JoeUser Forums

However, bad news took a back seat to "I like Ike" and the sensation created by Levitt's '50 model that came equipped with a giant 12½" TV. Stalin graciously obliged this good feeling by croaking. This bustling decade of the 50s—the "police action" in Korea; McCarthyism at home and Puerto Rican extremists firing on Congress notwithstanding—was led by consumerism. Music before Elvis was the sweetest and softest ever. Such names as Hugo Winterhalter, Mantovani, June Hutton, and Andy

Sixty-five Years: Winding Down The Decades from '39 in Blogging JoeUser Forums

In 1939 a rookie Yankee outfielder known as "King Kong" Keller sported # 9—yes, Maris' retired digit—and tore up the league. He was my boyhood idol, even though the "Yankee Clipper" hogged the headlines. Ah, '39, glorious, magical—never mind the open terrorism against Jews by the German people in '38, ignore France, England and the United States' cowering indifference to Hitler's power grab of Austria, Czechoslovakia and the march on Poland—for, yes, the Trylon and Perisphere were the symb

Reply to Why I really dislike George W. Bush... in Politics JoeUser Forums

It's sad to see so many comments that rip apart your intellignetly written article. So what if most think you shouldn't use the new L word [Lies]? The fact is Bush did in fact use fuzzy math on the education scores as much as he used misinformation on Iraq. And why do you call him a nice guy?--he's a self-righteous nut.

Reply to And Today I Met Governor Dean in Politics JoeUser Forums

Some very good analogies here. Yes, Dean talks the fight but will he walk it? Besides, he's finished.