This was directed at Bradley, but hey, 2 birds, 1 stone
Posted By: I'll take it. Feeling a bit touchy, are we? sm on 2008-10-25
In Reply to: "yeah, right" to both of y'all - Rae
Truth be told, you guys have morphed from angry hate mob to sore losers to disappearing desperados, all in one week. I almost feel sorry for you. Almost.
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They will be killing 2 birds
with one stone here. Obviously those who were too poor to get out of the city are going to be too poor to get back in, never mind rebuilding. They have been spread out over the country which does break down the democratic voting base, turning LA into a Republican state. Also the vulture developers can build condo upon condo starting at about the half million mark and the sky's the limit. It's was a perfect storm, got rid of the poor, the blacks, i.e, the strongly Democratic base and it allows the rich to come on down, build their gated communities, vote Republican and keep the riff raff out.
Birds of a feather.....
Even if Ayers was his only sketchy association, which he isn't, that would be enough to hang any other politician.
Sorry to see you still live in the stone age
MTfromLA I think I always agree with you on everything you post except this time.
Times have changed. We've made improvements since the dawning of man. Can you imagine if the airplane was never invented because if man was meant to fly he would be born with wings.
We are living in an age where we have the medical capability to extract sperm, save it, and give it to women who are less fortunate to be able to conceive a child the way "normal" people do. It's a total insult and a put down and just plain cruel because for over 30 years I tried to have a child but couldn't. Probably due to the fact that my sister poured alcohol in my bath one time and it burned up my insides. So now I'm never supposed to have a child because I can't have one the way Adam and Eve did?
If I and others thought like this we'd never have the airplane, automobile, computer, microwave. And hey why have electricity, that's not how Adam and eve created light.
I have to say this is one post we disagree on. Since you are one of those religious whacks (your words) I might suggest a kinder church where people love everyone for who they are. Good luck to you too.
I think they are already stone cold enough. Maybe a
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Birds of a feather post together! (nm)
:p
Birds of a feather and color...
flock together. Some couldn't even name the VP choice. That's what you get when ACORN gets your voters.
"Never put a stone in another man's path..."
Excerpt of an excellent article. I went to school with a Korean girl and I wished I had eyes like hers............link: http://www.truthout.org/032609D
Thanking Her for Opening My Eyes
Thursday 26 March 2009
by: Corina Knoll | Visit article original @ The Los Angeles Times
It is late October, five days before the United States elects its first black president, and Elliott is in a dither. Her Iowa absentee ballot in favor of Barack Obama was mailed in weeks ago, although she worries about what he's up against.
"Whatever a black person does, he has to do twice as good as a white person to be thought of as half as good," she says, her sharp voice rising.
Dressed in a pink cotton shirt, jeans and white tennis shoes, Elliott is the picture of a grandmotherly retiree, but her voice remains that of a stern teacher. Obama "mustn't look angry because we have demonized black men," she says. "He knows exactly how to get accepted. He's a bargainer . . . and that's OK if that's what it takes to get white people to listen."
This is how Elliott has made a living. She retired from teaching 20 years ago and lectures a few times a month, primarily at colleges or companies in need of diversity training. She won't say how much she charges, but it's said to be about $7,000 -- higher if she's asked to conduct her famous exercise. The drill gives her a migraine, and she hates that she must be the proprietor of what she sees as a necessary evil, one that hasn't changed since she first enacted it on April 5, 1968.
With King shot just the day before in Memphis, Elliott encouraged her third-graders to discuss how something so horrible could happen.
"I finally said, 'Do you kids have any idea how it feels to be something other than white in this country?' "
The children shook their heads and said they wanted to learn, so Elliott set the rules. Blue-eyed children must use a cup to drink from the fountain. Blue-eyed children must leave late to lunch and to recess. Blue-eyed children were not to speak to brown-eyed children. Blue-eyed children were troublemakers and slow learners.
Within 15 minutes, Elliott says, she observed her brown-eyed students morph into youthful supremacists and blue-eyed children become uncertain and intimidated.
Brown-eyed children "became domineering and arrogant and judgmental and cool," she says. "And smart! Smart! All of a sudden, disabled readers were reading. I thought, 'This is not possible, this is my imagination.' And I watched bright, blue-eyed kids become stupid and frightened and frustrated and angry and resentful and distrustful. It was absolutely the strangest thing I'd ever experienced."
Elliott's eyes flash at the memory.
ENOUGH, Bradley s/m
As a Christian I am compelled to call you out on your behavior.
If you are, indeed, a Christian, and I am taking your word for it, you are bringing shame upon the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Worse, yet, those who may not know Christ are likely to be completely turned off due to your rude, judgmental behavior and who could blame them?
As the "granny" around here and a "granny" Christian as well, may I remind you that you have no right to judge anyone whether it be Obama or the people on this board. Do you think Jesus would approve of your vile posts? I think not.
So...........examine your own heart.
If she won't say it, I will....Bradley
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Merv's Rolling Stone interview. sm
He loves Bush, Rumsfeld, and Condi.
Glass house...meet stone!
Let's just communicate in cliches from now on!
Beautiful birds...thank you very much. But, make it Mr. Peacock, will you?
The females aren't as gorgeous, and the males don't go around laying eggs.
Oh dear. I cracked myself up. See, you can't insult me, dearie. I've been insulted by experts - and you're an amateur.
To the Bradley effect
You seem to have a negative effect on people. My, my. I just read a few of your posts. Such great anger in such a small person. I saw that you had mentioned God and his Word. You must have skipped a few things in your reading because there are quite a few references in God's word as to loving your neighbor and doing unto others.....we are all created in God's image..... ya know, that kind of stuff. Have you started your own religion yet? Maybe you should. Ya know the kind where you pick and choose what works for you and then just kind of chalk the rest up to mumbo jumbo. I would be careful what you take away or add to the Bible, as God also mentions something in there, actually in Revelations, about changing his word. But if you didnt read THAT part, I guess You don't have to worry.
Please remember the Bradley effect...
which I think will be the case here.
The Bradley effect is a fact,,,
perhaps you should read up on it. Don't be so touchy and defensive! 
What about the vile posts against Bradley?
I was curious so went to the bottom and read up. So what about the vile posts against Bradley? Guess they don't matter. I don't know whose side Bradley is on (dem or rep), but all I'm reading is Bradley defending herself/himself.
Little harsh, Bradley, but I agree with the tax issue,
nm
Is that directed towards me or JRR?
I just commented on the post, and I don't think what I posted deserved the outright insult that JRR threw at me. However, I'm an adult and can take it, however, obviously JRR is not a mature adult and can only hurl childish insults.
Who is this directed at (sm)
The OP or "me" who posted the rant about McCain??
vs, I don't think this response was directed at you...nm
That wasn't directed at you
I just view Obama that way. Sorry
Not directed at you, Kiki, just the guy who wrote....
this article...verrryyy slanted.
But all it says to me is that she is doing the job as governor of her state to take care of her people and it looks like she was doing a mighty fine job. Hence the 83% approval rating.
What I would be interested in is the same author looking at the lower 48, and seeing how much of their profits are off the top before a product leaves their state? I would imagine it is very close to that. It is a governor's job to look out for the people of the state, and she obviously put her people first. More power to her! If she pushes for the same principle on a federal level, we will do nothing but benefit.
Good grief, this person castigates the woman for doing her job and doing it well. At least she didn't siphon off a chunk for herself like many other corrupt politicians..it went right back to the people of her state.
And the interviewer could not resist the class warfare jibe: "Well I guess that means the Alaskan people are more important than we are..blah, blah, blah."
If this guy lived in Alaska he would be singing a different tune...sour grapes, class warfare. Typical.
Yep, I would be interested to know how much revenue from oil from Texas, oil from Oklahoma, coal from West Virginia...how much of that revenue is kept at the state level? My guess is as much as Palin kept in Alaska from Alaska's oil.
This article just reinforced for me why her influence is needed in Washington. She looks after the people who put her in office. Exactly what she SHOULD be doing IMHO.
The commend from Russia was directed at the new...
administration, not the current one. So it is not Bush's problem. Bush admin reacted the way they should have to the aggression in Georgia...and yes, I think Georgia was aimed at the election. Do you not remember Joe Biden going over there because he "friends" with the Georgian President? Came back denouncing the invasion. How long after that was he pegged for VP? Yeah, I would say the Russians were doing a little water testing.
I wish I shared your optimism about Obama. In sincerely wish I did. I sincerely wish he would take a look at Russia and realize that Marxist socialism does not work. But every torchbearer of Marxism that has come down the pike really believes that he will be the one to make it work. Sigh. Those who do not learn from mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
All that being said...again. I wish I shared your optimism. But history should tell you, Russians are not interested in diplomacy. They are interested in world domination and they want to see if Obama will allow them to swallow it up, one little piece at a time. We shall see.
Historically, Ivy league colleges are directed
towards whites so her saying that is not a shock. How would you feel if the roles were reversed, and you were the minority. I still do not feel that it was racist and I certainly do not get out of it that she is bitter or arrogant.
My comment was directed at "me" and she understood me...sm
I was hoping everyone would come together, no matter who wins, echoing her thoughts. She understood what I meant.
No offense intended.
The word hate is directed at you, gt. Get a clue as to your hatred. nm
time ojut, SS, My post was directed to Get Smart/sm
I agree with your comment about JM's goose egg and everything else you have posted today.
Intolerance goes both ways, and your post should be directed to all on this board....sm
not just the conservatives.
In fact, you yourself, have posted to the extreme pro-Obama, if I'm not mistaken. (unless I'm thinking of someone with a similar name, if so, a thousand pardons).
Depending on which day you come, either side of the political agenda has their say and sway, way to the extreme.
Some of us tend to be in the middle, sometimes more to the right, sometimes more to the left.
Myself, these days, I'm sick and tired of McCain, and still can't stand Obama.
But you and anybody else are free to have your say.
Just don't attempt to say it's all one-sided, because it's not. And if you were fair, it's usually one-sided in favor of Obama, not McCain.
I, personally, am sick of politics in general, all ways around, with no good candidate, really, on either side of the spectrum.
You're right, I cannot change your beliefs, not directed solely at you (sm)
But at anyone who supports partial birth abortion really. It is just an overwhelmingly horrible thought to me.
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