Isn't she lovely..........hmmmmmm
POSTED BY: FutureMrsFIllion
UPDATED: Saturday, September 13, 2008 14:12
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Mr. Damon has a point on the "Does she really think dinosuars were here 4000 years ago...."
I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"
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“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi
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Mr. Damon has a point on the "Does she really think dinosuars were here 4000 years ago...."
Hell, BUSH thinks that - which gives me all sorts of giggles when I think of the irony of his family fortune, which is based on....
...wait for it....
FOSSIL FUELS!!!
I reckon he figures God just put all that oil in the ground a couple hundred years ago, figuring we might have some use for it in carrying out His mission here on Earth...
Mike
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions
I can't help the sinking feeling that my country is now being run by people who read "1984" not as a cautionary tale, but rather as an instruction manual. - Michael Mock
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Geezer
Everything she said and yet said nothing points to the fact that she is not qualified. This woman has no business running for VP.
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"We don't fear the reaper"
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It's just that I'm maybe not quite as militant and tend to give the benefit of the doubt. Probably has something to do with our life experience to this point
There's that, but a big part of it's also that when someone shows me the tower of their faith in something, be it government, religion or personal philosophy, my first reaction is to get a big freakin hammer and see how good the foundations are, I like to know whether someone pushing something actually believes it themselves, yes ?
Whether they do or not is very enlightening and tends to clarify their motivations most effectively.
And yeah, there's also the personal experience thing, which shortens the decision making process a hell of a lot - how to explain...
Ok, people think in subtly different ways, but some of them are pretty simple IF/THEN and other flowchart style items, right ?
Well, think of the experience like a pre-buffer just before the actual flowchart, and IF the situation at hand matches within a certain tolerance a previous situation, THEN with an internal "sound" a lot like missle lock, it kicks into an almost wholly reflexive execution of the last known solution that worked, skipping the rest of the decision making process entire.
Ergo a larger part of my "thought" process is actually intuitive-comparitive rather than deductive-logical, which in a real world physical "situation" often results in getting the jump on someone with foul intent before they get set up to carry it out simply by recognising their initial maneuvers as a match for previous attempts.
http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/five_stages.html
http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/shadow_dancing.htm
Applied to a discussion or argument, it also means that IF the core philosophy and intent matches a known paradigm or template - especially if there are efforts to hide or obfuscate either one, AND that paradigm is hostile to personal freedom without commensurate benefit or having no benefit whatsoever beyond the control of many by the few - THEN an immediate and aggressive response is gonna happen sure as day follows dawn.
That's why dressing up National Socialism or Feudal-Fascism up in pretty fictions and trying to foist it in my general direction is like sticking your hand in a mousetrap - the mousetrap doesn't have to mull it over before reacting, is gonna react a certain way, and going to do so damned quickly, which is exactly the same result of said thought process.
Well, maybe not exactly - the final decision whether to act or not isn't reflexive, or to act in that specific fashion, but it's there, entire, in step by step execution from A-Z, usually before the person offering threat is halfway through motions thereof.
And make no mistake, someone offering to take my rights or freedoms "for my own good" is as much a threat as the figety creep trying to get into your blind spot who keeps reachin in his pocket every two seconds.... and if you ask me, just about as honest.
It's not so much about benefit of the doubt or militancy, as much as it is pure survival instinct, especially after realizing in elementary school that my personhood and core beliefs were actually more endangered by the situation than my physical health and safety, and ultimately - to me, more important to keep sacrosanct.
Being still here, I tend to trust those instincts when they start ringing warning bells, you know ?
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Doofus part: didn't have the foggiest notion what the Bush Doctrine was. Had to b.s. her way through an answer and even when Charlie handed it to her, she misunderstood the concept. Apparently you can't learn foreign policy in two weeks of cramming! Who knew?
Geez, call me naïve , but I am still actually SHOCKED that none of our resident right-of-center community members has said "no" to this walking publicity stunt. Not one. For the past couple days they've even changed their opinions about P.C.! Now they're huge defenders of censorship on the grounds that some one might take it the wrong way! lol
HKCavalier
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Now they're huge defenders of censorship on the grounds that some one might take it the wrong way! lol
Exactly - those who defended Don Imus now say that if ANYONE was offended, Obama has to apologize - for saying something he quite clearly, if you'll read the transcript, DIDN'T SAY!
Also, for "doofus-y" - reading the interview and watching excerpts, many of her sentences just don't make sense. They're not sentences; they're disjointed stream-of-consciousness ramblings. Makes me wonder if she was high during the interview. I kept waiting for her to stop and say, "Did I just say that? Whoa!"
Mike
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions
I can't help the sinking feeling that my country is now being run by people who read "1984" not as a cautionary tale, but rather as an instruction manual. - Michael Mock
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She's got the munchies real bad, has someone got a dog biscuit?
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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It's just heresay until its corroborated by somebody of integrity, say Mccain spokesmen!
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apparently Mccain's people have admited that Sarah Palin did inquire about banning books with the librarian, only their spin is that she did it "innocently," as a way to understand how the libraian might handle such a situation.
Strangely, there had never been a call to ban any books at that library for the last 10 years, and it seems like for those to be her reasons, she'd have to be a little kooky, especially since according to the GOP, Palin asked the same question of the librarian, on 3 separate occasions!
In 1997 Palin notified the librarian that she would be fired because she felt she didn't have her full support. The librarians full support? for what? They have Divergent views on See Spot books?
According to the librarian the story is only slightly different...the difference being that Palin approached her, asking her how she would react to Palin banning books.
Frankly, considering the avid interest Palin had fo the topic, considering that the librarian's response was possibly pugnacious, in that she said that she would object, and that it wouldn't just be her, it would be defenders of the constitution, etc.
it seems like a hard stretch to take the one detail of Palin not attempting to engineer a book banning out of the equation.
By the way, an outrcry by the public saved the librarian's job.
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I bet Lucille had an allien baby and named it Dave. She's a member of the tin foil hat club.
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Noone should EVER have to apologize for ANYTHING they say. This is America, people.
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