Yeah, this has fascinated and appalled me about humans for many years.

I mean, here you have a Brain Surgeon. A rightwing brain surgeon. Who’s had all kinds of “formal education” — and he believes fervently and sincerely in the devil and jeezus and angels and demons and walking on water and the garden of eden and all the rest.

And millions and millions and millions of other Americans believe all that, too.

I keep raising this issue myself every so often, because i think its one of
the most salient aspects of modern-humans. I dont know quite what to ‘do’
with this point.

Talking monkeys. Technological-wizard monkeys.

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waterfield wrote:

My questions are rhetorical.

1) Burning the flag: “I have a severe dislike of what the flag stands for”.

2) Goals: ” I need for people to know how I feel”.

No need for me to do an exhaustive research on the subject.

Simplicity is not evil/

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Nah, that seems Over-simplified to me. Because the way you phrase it
he is just “against” things. But i am sure he is also ‘for’ things.
What things?

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Well, there’s the substantive-content of a person’s views,
and then there’s the ‘strategy’ they decide to use to further their goals.

I’d probly agree with a lot of that guy’s substantive-content,
but his strategy (flag burning) is probably counter-productive
at this time and place. I would think. I dunno.

Maybe Trump paid him to do it 🙂

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Snowden again.

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

Lucky for Marc he had such a great OLine
those last two years

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I keep being surprised at how that issue gets overlooked.

The Rams had a string of OL injuries from 2007-9 that was like nothing any of us have seen. (The injury epidemic stopped in 2010 and then got going again in 2011, with a vengeance.)

And it’s obvious that the ineffective OLs took Bulger down with him. Not just in terms of injuries, but also in terms of his overall play.

And…no complaints from him.

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I’ve decided this will be on your tombstone:

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The Rams had a string of OL injuries from 2007-9 that was like nothing any of us have seen. (The injury epidemic stopped in 2010 and then got going again in 2011, with a vengeance.)
And it’s obvious that the ineffective OLs took Bulger down with him. Not just in terms of injuries, but also in terms of his overall play.
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bnw wrote:

No it isn’t economical now. I’ve been to wind farms on three continents and none are economical . It is always a government boondoggle to dupe the easily duped. The maintenance costs are high over time. Nothing compares to coal.

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Why were you visiting wind farms?

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He talks about playing with a broken leg and broken ribs.

When did he play with a broken leg?

Its a must listen, btw.

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Billy_T wrote:

Sounds incredibly reasonable.

Demilitarization, heavy training in deescalation — they’re suppose to be “peace officers” — and independent review. I think these top the list. But all ten are vital.

And by independent review . . . they don’t mean adding another branch to the police force, like Internal Affairs. It shouldn’t be anything remotely connected. And that would mean it must be outside the local or state prosecutorial realm as well. Not under the various DAs, etc. etc. who, right now, tend to go pretty easy on police.

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Seems like the “drug war” has lead to a lot of the militarization ideas. The drug dealers had better weapons and equipment so the cops felt outgunned.

Weapons Corporations just love the drug war. Almost as much as they
love militant-religious-humans. Its like that star trek episode where the blob of light
got off on creating violent emotions….

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I think she’s going to win, and i think she will reward
the Banks and Corporations that funded her,
and i think she will toss some “identity politix” crumbs
to “progressives.”

She is owned and operated by big money. Thats who she is.

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https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00000019&cycle=Career

This: “…Translation: Brady didn’t want a ‘no’ from the Supreme Court to lead to him serving the suspension in December, January or … gulp … February.”

I have accepted Brady’s suspension
as well, btw.

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Yeah. Meanwhile the politicians keep talking about “job creation”
and how many jobs were created this year or that.
They dont talk about what KIND of jobs are being created.
Blah blah blah, corporate-capitalism is destroying the
biosphere.

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Yer basic religious-right winger.
http://www.ontheissues.org/IN/Mike_Pence.htm

Thing is, from a purely politix-as-horse-race
perspective — how does this get Trump more votes?
He already had the rightwing evangelicals didnt he?
Or maybe he had to make this deal to keep them.
Similar to maybe how HIllary will have to appoint
a left-leaning VP to keep the Bernie voters.

Its all about the Undecideds now. But honestly,
who they hell are THEY? Trump vs Hillary vs Indy Candidates — who
could still be undecided?

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6 Ways The RNC Platform Is Already Shaping Up To Be Crazy

More Rep Platform goofiness
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Well, there are over 30,000,000 registered Reps, apparently. What does it say that 30 million americans want a bible-centered platform and education system?

I mean what would you say about a group of humans, like that?

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https://www.quora.com/Are-there-more-Republicans-or-Democrats-in-the-United-States
There are approximately 30,700,138 registered Republicans in the U.S, and approximately 43,140,758 registered Democrats. However there is also a large segment of independent or undecided voters who are crucial in most national elections, be it for Congress or the President. Based on pure registered members though, the Democrats have more people.

Sources: US Political Parties

In U.S., New Record 43% Are Political Independents

Billy_T wrote:

I Getting “the church” to go along with this work-shaming was a major stroke of genius, of course, and much more effective than the original attempts at work-shaming.

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Yeah, the Major-Superstition, and the Education-indoctrination systems
work hand in hand. As well as the other corporotacracy-sub-systems.

…there’s a reason the anarchists and commies burned the churches
during the Spanish civil war. Turned out to be bad strategy though.
I think Cornell West knows that. He brings the anti-capitalist message
along with a liberation-theology… Thats probly necessary given the
religious-facts-on-the-ground…

I heard Obama on my car radio saying “there are no black Americans or white Americans..there’s only Americunz…”
I thot to myself, well he’s sellin that to white people. Cuz, thats
a hard sell to non-whites, given the history of racism…

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