Nurses are in a particularly precarious and vulnerable position as far as negotiating the conditions of their worksite, since they do not feel comfortable abandoning the patients they have made a personal commitment to care for., so they do not strike. Unfortunately, they have been, thus far, unsuccessful in impressing on others that the very strenuous and unsafe work conditions that they fight against are in the public interest as well as their own. A public outcry against the conditions which contribute to less than ideal patient outcomes , with poor staff to patient ratios and forced overtime leading to medication …
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I thought this might be interesting to some...and not even just nurses, thrashing about for some status marker ( sheesh!)... This is happening here, rather than some far flung nation, so it may be less poignant to those who look far afield for social injustice ( Can I make some stupid remark about "blue collar workers' here? The posters at this site treat this North American social /economic descriptor like they might "Pygmy Bushmen from the African Plains". Like 'Blue Collar' even means anything, anymore...we don't have factories in the North America these days do we? Just slaves in Asian lands, …
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And PS In case you didn't know. We CAN'T strike without risking the licence that we've earned. If we walk off the job, they take away our nursing licence. Because we have abandoned you. That's a heady responsibility for us RN's....we among ALL the workers in any given hospital, are responsible for your health, and the outcome of your surgical procedure. Even the MD's are not threatened with this should they choose to drop you from their caseload. We have no voice in the configuration of that hospital, and cannot allocate resources as we best deem, but we are held accountable, …
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Hey...I think they need bigger salaries simply because they're paying more for the gallon of gas it costs to drive across the Big Box parking lots.....
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I miss the days where Clinton got impeached for lying about his blow job under oath.... those were the innocent, and carefree years, eh?
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It's heart rending to read the several dozen posts here, but the US is getting the message anyway. Shit, or get off the pot. Either these people are prisoners of war, and entitled to the same considerations that all POWs enjoy under the Geneva Convention. Or they are designated criminals, in your judicial system, and entitled to the same rights of legal counsel and protection from abuse. How did this go on for 5 years anyway?
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Unfortunately, you are. simultaneously trying to tear the shield of hypocrisy off of our current world view, and trying to decry the lack of public support for your efforts. Hollywood VS Hard Knocks, all over again. The world is full of artists who: Dig fuel and dance Chop wood and write poetry Weave fibers and make music Plants seeds and raise children Construct homes and compose philosophies. And the archeaologists dig some of the artifacts of truth out of the bone pile and the shite house refuse 10,000 years after the fact. We're about as special as you'd expect, in the …
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I find it amusing that people think that poverty is something they are insulated from... especially in this country, which has whole heartedly adopted the 'Company Store' style of economics. You are 2 or 3 pay cheques from losing your house , average American. You buy too much on credit.....you are too caught up in the bullshit of daily existence, buying ( or , even worse, leasing ) houses and cars you can't afford. You indenture yourselves to pay cheques that are, increasingly, uncertain. Welcome to your economic slavery.... just don't think that it's anything better or more secure than it …
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I find this an interesting thread..I come from a line of coal miners...some who lived a long life, some who died in their primes. Did you happen to notice the ages of the coal miners who died? They were very close to retirement, these 50 to 65 year old guys. I've heard a few Americans waxing nostalgic about the efforts of the old doomed miners to preserve the young....so poignant. The old workers were the tenured , indentured company lackies..they fought for the right for men to work the coal underground against an increasingly automated system. Because, these union workers do …
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Actually, it's funny to see that some social service agencies offer McDonald's coupons to the hungry while their food stamp eligibility is being determined. I did find out this random fact on a google search of: 'Does McDonalds accept food stamps?' I'm sure Denver is not the only city thast does this I was curious to see McDonald's they were actually successful in overcoming the negative press that was generated when they DID try to incorporate food stamp 'dollars' into their compensation scheme some 10 -15 years ago. Anyway, I would read some of those sites just to get the insight …
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I'm reading more google entries regarding McDonalds and food stamps, and it's interesting to see how many different emotions and opinions are ascribed to this association ... Some are ' too proud for food stamps', and would rather work at McDonald's. Some are angry that Mc Donald's accepts food stamps ...they even get upset that people can use food stamps to buy "Froot Loops" and "Twinkies" Some tell you where you can collect the toys you missed out on that week you got sick and couldn't get your 'Happy Meal'. Next I'm going to google 'Fat diabetic amputee entertainment', because I …
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Hey...I'm a modern day indentured slave, so I know that the economy is propped up by my efforts...and I produce nothing of appreciable value (unless you calculate the happiness engendered among family members who are exhausted with dealing with their own disabled siblings and children) If you haven't figured out your own slave/master equilibrium, I'm sure this article will be shocking to you. (
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Wow.... I see two young men , apparently 'lynched', in the lead photo for an article on the state of sexual freedom in the Mid East.... and then move on to the homophobia in this site( is it a phobia if you only act embarrassed, and then make weird comments about the 'fishy' taste and smell of a female ? The first time I ever went to a clam bake I thought "This place smells like a New Orleans whore house", and then I noted the guys who gobbled down the unshelled clams. I figured they were on my side of …
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Rabbit..I am intrigued by your argument..so as a supposed 'American', I have no hope of understanding the atrocity of young men in Iran being lynched for 'fancying' one another? ( I guess 'fancy' is not the correct term, eh? Men in societies which strictly control the availability of female sexuality unto the point of death frequently condone boy on boy..and prostitute... action until it disturbs the determined order of things...anyone who imagines themselves in love with someone of the same sex must be very disturbed, rabid, weird, and suicidal. But what do I know? I'm obviously a robot of the American …
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How about the "Cannabalism for the Entitled" program... I look for references to them, with relish lmao! Thank you
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"I wonder if anybody'd think I'd flipped if I went to LA via Omaha" Charlie Daniels, Uneasy Rider I loved this article....especially the "ultimate hat act" part!lol
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OK, what 'Country' are we talking about here. The article stated at the get go that "country" was the most popular music radio genre. You know, people will eat paper, garbage, and each other, if these are the only choices and survival is on the line. That must be why there's a tear in my beer, lol
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Oh my God...if you're looking to country music for the answers to the universe, I have this lyrical stew for you: Why Don't We Get Drunk.... 1973 I really do appreciate the fact you’re sittin’ here Your voice sounds so wonderful But yer face don’t look too clear So bar maid bring a pitcher, another round o’ brew Honey, why don’t we get drunk and screw Chorus: Why don’t we get drunk and screw I just bought a water bed, it’s filled up for me and you They say you are a snuff queen Honey I don’t think that’s true So, …
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You know, I heard you folk talking about censorship, homos, and mama.... but I ain't heard nothing about trains, or the rain....... lol I love America...I even pledge allegiance to it whenever I have the opportunity to chant that prayer. Sincerely, Minerva
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Hey Tina...we can't be stoned. Dont'cha know? "We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee; We don't take our trips on LSD We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street; We like livin' right, and bein' free..." Merle Haggard. God, I love Country Music...so funny and absurd.
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"You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'...." Glad to meet you, viejolex
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Yes, Viejolex.... watch what they put in that gumbo. This is purely anecdotal, but I understand that these guys http://www.dallasobserver.com/special_reports/full_frontal/full_frontal.gif sat in the stew/roux pot throughout the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's that all 'country' music emerges from. Is there no end to this modern cannibalism? I ask you.....? PS : say hello to your momma, and your daddy too,
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I hope things get better when we finally finish crawling out of this primordial stew In the mean time: "Hear that lonesome whipoorwill, he sounds too blue to cry...."
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The pancaking of the Twin Towers was not inexpicable....airplanes filled with fuel for a transcontinental flight were smashed into the brittle outter shell of the towers, and ignited every flammable thing on 2 or 3 floors of the tower. The explosion, and cascading of fuel and consequent fire that occured in the center of the building overwhelmed the internal suspension steel girder system, weakening its strength ...the weight of the upper floors falling resulted in the absolute demolition of the building. The tower hit second fell first, simply because it was compromised at a lower level, and could not support the …
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Wiley..the World Trade Center WAS a trade center. That's why they didn't go for the outlet centers in Freeport, Maine, or any other bogus sale venue for people with "almost enough money to not be poor" Many Western countries had holdings there, and I was happy when the province of Nova Scotia recovered their cache of silver ( my family had to emigrate from Nova Scotia to the rest of North America to make a living...but we'd rather be there) As for the flight plan of the scrambling, intercepter type jets? As a kid who grew up on air force bases, …
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I seem to remember a 35 million dollar silver recovery for Nova Scotia...in one of the lower safe holds of the World Trade Center. And that's just the security holding of one small province in one relatively minor country... instead of attacking our families, do you think ,maybe, the terrorists were going for the lucky pot of gold that lies at the end of all our rainbows? Were they rainbow rapists? Arggghhh! Jihad on the dream destructing cash castrating sons a bitches! lol
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AD.... can you dig it? I knew that you could, lol. From the bastard child of soul, Minerva Jones
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Hey Wiley..if you were actually an air traffic controller, keeping the world safer for Democracy and Capitalism through Norad in the past 25 years, perhaps my father either taught you your trade, or ran the school that educated you. That's who HE is. And I trust him. You are less reliable in my books, lol. But we know each other so little. So when all hell broke lose one morning in September, I did have an excdellent source for my information.... aside from my unimpaired senses,my childhood history, and my basic knowledge of math, lol
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Hi... I won't be having my father uttering testimonials at this site, because he's been retired for 25 years, and only gets on the internet to check the news from his hometown and to check stock quotations ( let's hope this form of gambling works out for his generation, and ours too...) So I'm guessing my father probably DID train you, since his apitude was recognized pretty early, and he was one of the first non commissioned officers in the RCAF/CAD...Canada WAS the former buffer zone and flight path for suspected attacks, eh? Guess that zone has changed now that the …
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You're right Wiley...what I remember of my of own young Canadian experience on airforce bases near Bomark missles, where the Yanks used to test fly their jet fighters, is irrelevent. What do I know about their habits? Or the relevence of same to reaction times? So are the impressions of my father who taught air weapons controllers ( the North East. area, ironically,.He retired from service from Syracuse/Rome, during the downsizing of those bases. I guess he was a shit instructor...lokk what happened!) What does he know about flight crews, air weapon controlling, or anything really. I guess I could credit …
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It's not victim crap....I'm playing your game , but refusing to go to the most idiotic extreme, where I start citing internet websites as representative of some sort of fact. It's all part of my stratagem to lessen the bullshit and expand the creative expression of hope and subjective experience on the internet. Maybe because I find this a very absurd thread, full of paranoia,and pomposity. And you are tenaciously, clinging to it like it's some sort of life line. Maybe because I think my delusions are more sensible than yours. PS. Like So many Americans, you may be" trying to …
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Hey Stinky Pete... how stinky are you? Because I want to fix you up with my sister! Yes, you heard it, my sister needs a man! Because aside from the fact that she is an engineer, develops flight simulation programs for major airports, and has a black belt in kick boxing, she is now 35 years old and 'unattached'. She don't even have no baby! The family can barely raise it's collective head, really. So here's your chance, fellas, to get next to a woman who has the inside scoop on air traffic controlling, answers to the math problems you can't …
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No...but you carry your 28 year old Norad experience like some sort of Mount Olympus torch throughout this side show. And then use your ability to link to other spurious and paranoid pontificators as 'proof'. Just noticing.
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Good questions wiley....I must be a freak too, because I'm compulsively reacting to email nitoifications about updates at this site, simply for my own amusement. But I'm having a fun time, talking nonsense with you. Cheers ...and no hard feelings on my part ( although I'm continuing to ignore the reality that you are becoming more reactive and angrier with me) I guess I'm done, unless Stinky and others want to take the geek spinster sister off our hands...I may have to respond to those posts, because, realistically, my sister isn't getting any younger.
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I agree Wiley...when I learned about the exercise from my sister shortly after the attacks, I understood why there was a delay. When I asked my father that day, when we were all watching the news, and hearing the jets scream out, my father only said "there's a problem", because he knew the expectations of the job, and knew that first plane would not have hit New York had the air weapons people been more reality focussed.... my sisters insights about the simulations that were being implemented in that period to accomodate the need for increased air traffic, and the links …
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OK Stinky Pete... Sorry about dropping that ball on the sideshow test... I'll practice my juggling. Sorry to hear you're all hooked up... you sound like the sort of sexy geek my sister would enjoy meeting..... if you find yourself suddenly free, watch my sister, Lara, on Jeopardy next month. She is the cutest engineering, Robert Jordan afficionadoing, air traffic programming, kick boxing black belt you ever met. For a 35 year old, no baby spinster that is.. I hope she wins some cash so she can pay her home off. Hail Lara!
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I'm sorry Stinky...I've already alerted the FBI to you, suggesting that you may be intimate with 12 year olds... oops! The message you posted was so ambiguous, I could only interpret it in the worst possible way... who would decypher the idea that you were the parent of a young girl? I ask you?
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Rabbit. For the love of God or whatever...... get help. PS...for those of you too concrete minded to appreciate irony.... my sister is a very clever woman, intelligent and funny...just try to gang rape her, she'll do some damage on you with that black belt in kick boxing. She is the unfortunate source of my blitherings on this thread....you're right Rabbit...I should just take my own life for even mentioning her name in the presence of one such as you. Which brings me to the question of how you think I should best effect my suicide ,since you have the best …
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Does this good cop/bad cop routine ever work for you two? Seriously.
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Stop me if you've heard this one.... 1. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn't much, but the reception was excellent. 2. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, "I'll serve you, but don't start anything." 3. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a salted. 4. A dyslexic man walks into a bra. 5. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says: "A beer please, and one for the road." 6. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says …
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Yes...all the culpable parties are running around the planet, drinking koolaid and beer, assembling Big Mac's, and worshipping unseen others...... that's why 50,00 or more were able to escape our wrath on that fatal morning. We are just too lazy and oblivious to bring about a true halocaust on a beautiful day in Septrmber. I understand that 100,000 of us entered the subway levels of both buildings, and ignited our GED's ....this resulted in a 'controlled demolition'. I'm glad you believe in the brilliance of the 'evildoers'... I'm in danger of thinking we're too stupid and selfish to even contemplate this …
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My grandfather used to attribute his card playing wins to 'skivinity'....I used to think that this was a reminant of his native tongue, Gaelic. I've since realized that he was joking about his luck....skill and divinity are only incidental to this happy occurence, but there are so many complimentary and opposing forces at work these days that we get confused. It becomes strange and dangerous when people we consider 'authoritative' abandon all hope , kindness and integrity and use their position to misled us, rather than sharing with us the benefit of their accumulated learning and working to find agreeable solutions …
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Gregore Salmon , I think the 'no thinking signs' are way over due "What else can I say, or anybody say, but, `I love you, too'?",, lol
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"They are waiting for all of you at Bellevue." And I'll be waiting with my sweet smile, my humanistic bent, and my well earned creditibility.... "Hi. I'm Minerva...Minerva Jones. I'm the charge nurse. just don't let your delusion system overwhelm your skivinity, ok?" lol The world is awry and so am I.....
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"my god, i am the least understood person I have ever observed" Marge, RIP So sad this abrupt demise, this untold story, this frustrated satisfaction... why bother trying, anymore? Lol *come on back, Marge, and earn your novice badge in the slalom course of our nonsense....* Schuss, minerva
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I remember the Rhinocheros party....people tend to mistake satire for a lack of seriousness, or sanity even. And they would be right...deadly right..in that perspective lol
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Jesus was a Socialist......... ( Bingo on Thursday, Blasphemers and Fornicators welcome) Yee Haw!
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"I worked in SAC/NORAD, and in a tactical radar unit in Germany with NATO forces, and for me, the most preposterous thing about 9/11 is that figuring out how in God’s name our overlapping air defense system and satellites (that can read a furnace in a concrete warehouse) failed so completely. No heads rolled? That is preposterous! " I attribute this to a general 'downsizing' of our Air Weapon Control system in Upstate New York.... believe me, I heard the jets screaming out of Rome and Syracuse that morning, and I headed up the road to ask my father,a former Norad …
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Wiley..when you're flying at 500 miles per hour...it takes an hour to travel five hundred miles. Think about it
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Sorry AD...I only have your own strange, linkified, and obscure words to offer as a defense for my own stupid, simplified, and kindly intended posts Do you want to see them again? Here goes: AD20051231Sat20h11m20ICT So i’m end my AD.2005 harvest of saved Web “refs” (references) and “raps” (reports, analyses, presentations) with “The Hand of Time—For Kurt Vonnegut, the Past Is Ever Present and the Future, Well...", By Bob Thompson, Washington Post Staff Writer, Wednesday, October 12, 2005; C01, NEW YORK, the best bio and update i’ve seen so far for Baba Kurt Vonnegut, Junior. And a Slap-Happy New Year of …
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Cheers... come on by for some chronic ice tea, or even a beer, sometime. minerva
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You've inspired me AD... This year, Minerva Jones has medicated over 200 schizophrenic and bipolar patients, tried to be cheerful during working hours at a great personal cost, and generally performed all sorts of nursing duties, from wiping asses, to injecting asses, to just dealing with an administrative body composed of asses. You know, I thought bragging would be more fun than that
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Happy New Year to you, too
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Wiley, I'm sorry if I came off as disrespectful...I was only trying to emphasize that "time and chance happen to all" ( I only wish I could claim that quote...Ecclesiastes has the patent on those words, and Kurt Vonnegut brought that idea to the 20th century through the body of his work) In the mean time..."beam me up, Scottie" lol
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If you keep the light on, the cockroaches will skitter away. Thanks for the perspective piece.
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Poor Wiley.... thinking that this thread is dead, I mean. Evidently it is not illegal for members of the American military to smother POW's in their captivity, contrary to Geneva Convention style legal and idealistic manipulations. In fact, they can escape any legal consequences whatsoever if their commanding officer is in full support of their actions, even those that lead to the death of an incarcerated enemy combatant. I refer you to the super subterranean, highly classified story at Yahoo.com. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060124/ap_on_re_us/iraq_suffocation Don't let the rest of the world know this is really happening, ok? I don't think they could take it. …
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I mean, not to beat a dead horse or whatever... but the US is violating every value they ever consolidated, and the ideals of their protected and entitled power base, if word of this ongoing illegal incarceration and torture got out! Imagine the reprecussions! Americans might start losing faith in, and questioning, their own government......
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Do you ever wonder about the social and economic conditions that contribute to this sort of crime? Interestingly , the initial ending of the movie 'Fatal Attraction' involved the female 'villian' killing herself...that was the 'Madame Butterfly' ending, where the masculinized female/ feminized testosterone junky killed herself through a crisis of thwarted want and self identity. This went flat on the first viewings, so the director and producers conceived of an alternate ending....the woman on the side stalks and tries to kill her competitor for the man... psycho bitch. This was such a radical departure from our expectations for woman that …
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My last post was deleted, probably due to my own error, so this lastest epiphany is going to come as a shock to all of you..... but Roche, and any other pharamaceutic company, is not the beast that stands between you and your inevitable death, ok? You will not achieve immortality when all life saving measures are easily and freely available to all, ok? And really, what would be the point? What would many of us do with all that extra free time? You can only mow the lawn and barbeque for the neighbors so many times before even THAT becomes …
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I only wish the government and health care industry were so well organized that they could conceive of a plan to take over the world by strategically leaking bacterium and viruses.... We're talking about a labour and brain pool that typically insists on the right to be late for work everyday through it's union efforts, lol. I don't think that some grand conspiracy is at work, selectively introducing us to treatment resistant diseases, lol We are so entitled and oblivious to the fact that even 50 years ago, we were prey to a host of illnesses that we have a hard …
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I guess I am not too young but not too old either...neither of these states confer extraordinary wisdom, in any case, lol. I am influenced by the fact that when I was a child I did know people who had contracted poilio before vaccines were readily available to the general public, and I still encounter people who are subject to the impairments caused by their earlier exposure ( I'm 44, by the way). People died of TB in my youth , and there are some still afflicted with this disease in this country, in spite of our ATM's and 24 hour …
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Well bless you, and good health. Above all, happiness, in all it's forms, eh? minerva
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And maybe some of the cares of the world could be remedied through the realization that : Companies benefit from the good health of their employees Thoughtful attention to the health of people benefits everyone, even the greedy pigs who rape the world while disguising it as some sort of 'largess', eh? (I'm thinking of the Walmart sociopathology here....but good health and 'well fed families' is the goal of everyone... every where. That's my fantasy, and I'm clinging to it, lol.) And that 'health' is not the random dispensation of some random controlling entity... true, some people have a basic, insurmountable …
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Hey, my local news headline today was : "A Day of Drinking Led Woman to Kill Boyfriend" Pretty insightful, and eye grabbing, eh? Pretty concise, I don't even have to wonder about the precedents.... Budweiser is clearly to blame in this scenario, lol
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Yes, ignorance is not bliss, despite former reports. The same government that determines the minimum wage and the interest rates has elected to be parsimonious with 'public funds', chosing to spend them on a war of aggression in the Middle East. Interestingly, the same policy makers that budget to enhance their own fortunes are in control of the limits set on the low income earners and welfare recipients...if only the poor and their offspring were more sociopathic, they too, could be determining the laws of the land! Sheesh...workers of the world, unite, eh?
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Hi Cannon Fodder... OK, so this is my own personal worry of the day.. but does anyone else wonder if Darwinsim dictates that the most pedatory among us are the best suited for survival? You know, the folk that are willing to finance murder to consolidate their own wealth and survival? You know...the US government, that law enforcement arm of various corporations? Like the Mafia, but different in that they have an idealistic army of propagandized poor folk to stand behind them and chant 'Hoo rah' when they give their speeches...those salaried poor folk that kill people in foreign lands to …
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Hence my bitching, lol. I was innoculated with the virus of human dignity and freedom through the propaganda of my youth, and I watch our news media skate around the kidnapping of foreign nationals, their subsequent torture at local and international jails, all in the name of 'Democracy'. Is it really ok for the CIA to act like criminals in the name of the law? Meanwhile, I buy sweaters for $19.99 at the local stores...even though there are no spinners, mills or garment makers in my area, not to mention breeders of 'polyesters', lol. Darwin had no clue about the sort …
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Awaiting the behavioural example..... oh wise ones, lol.
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I'm Canadian who has spent about half of my life in the States...so I guess my perspectives are influenced by that circumstance. I am not Anti American...I very much appreciate American ideals, and regret that the present government is besmirching those ideals. I have hope for the furure. In the mean time, I worry about the imbalances in development and standard of living throughout the world, and wonder how industrializing and consumerizing the planet will affect our childrens future. I have no special claims to wisdom either, but I have few opportunities for public fretting and speculating and I come here …
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I've been reading these comments and I can only conclude that the impulse for war, and the things implied by that impulse, is our enemy. Wolf is right...it doesn't matter how we kill the families of Iraq... there is no nobility in submachine gun fire or incendiery bombs or tank mortar. When we discuss 'how evil' we can be without actually appearing evil, we are lost. It's all bad. We live in a world where everyone wonders what there is to eat for lunch....the way that meal becomes possible determines how we interact with one another. We send some of our …
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"People who are frightenlingly sporting..." I loved that line! And I guess the 'what to have for lunch' is so removed from modern reality as to be nonsensical. But I figure the land grab aspect of your argument says it all....when rights to land get dedicated to a select few, and we start to back 'elected officials' to enforce that standard through military action ( you know how much we love a Democracy....."we", the wage lottery winners who have enough cash to buy computers, and the ongoing means for internet access, lol) the rules of survival get skewed. Land lords gobble …
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Hi, thanks for the Henry George search , wiley.... I particularly appreciated the phrase "He later narrowly missed being elected mayor of New York. " I found at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/George.html It was interesting to learn about the value of taxing the trees for the forest, or the forest for the trees, all in terms of their abilty to be Christmas decorations... if you own that tree lot, and aren't trying to make a gazillion dollars off it by hacking down the forest and selling it to idiots who enjoy having a dead tree in their homes for a week in late December …
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I guess I'm involved in a 'can't see the forest for the cute little christmas trees' discussion again..... I'll wait...maybe some Henry George hopeful will resurrect as the next NYC mayor wannabe, and people will start thinking about their land, money and goods in an entirely different way. Especially if they really start thinking about themselves, their families, and the future. They might even start thinking about what might be 'good'. It could happen. Really, it could
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Ps: Regarding the ongoing treatment of detainees...in their various international holding areas.... Do you think that partial drowning of prisoners is 1) physical mistreatment 2) psychological torture 3) a fun way to break the monotony and horror of a never shift or 4) all of the above?
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"...so be careful about what you pretend to be." Kurt Vonnegut ( the guy's extremely quotable, what can I say)
Posted to White Phosphorous Lies
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Thanks for the link to the Henry George information, wileywitch.
Posted to White Phosphorous Lies
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Hey, I want to start a new group, and plan on calling it " The Children Raised By The Council on Spiritual Practices". We'll start the meeting by acknowledging that there's worse things than sobriety, and then we'll all recount horrific histories of parents falling against the furntiure in 'cognitively aware' states, or wandering into ditches, or mindlessly humping anything that moved in their drugged inspired 'religious' experience. Get off the pot ( in more ways than one, eh?) If you can't see the trees for the forest(or the forest for the trees) without escaping reality through a substance induced state, …
Posted to Give Me Cognitive Liberty
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And how easily we are led astray from the idea of dope as a key to the kingdom of heaven..... are peyote visions a portal to God? Only if you think of 'God' as a weird, surreal possibility, I guess, unobtainable except through strange experiments. I think of "God' as the wild, energetic loving spirit that runs through every person, that is only dulled and made mundane by market conditions, fashion, and our own navel gazing... we are blunted and made smaller in stature and ability by so many forces ..... I guess I would not chose to fight over the …
Posted to Give Me Cognitive Liberty
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Blah blah blah...boycott Wal Mart Blah blah. I've been boycotting them for about a year, since they closed the store in Quebec that tried to organize. I don't think they miss my money much. I've noticed how we've turned underdeveloped countries into our sweat shops, and turned our own country into a management and service industry, headed by a group of people who inherited wealth, and were crass enough to exploit that advanatge even further....sociopathy is so much more than convenience store bandits and serial killers, don't you think? I wonder about the system that props up this 'bull in the …
Posted to Symbol of the System
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I'm sorry I missed this article when it first came out... it is a very thoughtful examination of the structures, ideas, and behaviours that surround events and interactions in our world. I agree that as the global market becomes more 'free', the need to control the migration of people becomes a larger part of the equation, and more rules are generated to control this activity..... and that, as in any economy that pits the haves against the have nots, you'll see an increase in the objectification of people, and a corresponding zenophobia, at either end of the spectrum. More boundaries, more …
Posted to The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
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My Lai was part of a continuum, a human contagion, that pre-existed the Vietnam conflict, and is virulent to this day. 'When we were psychos'? We've always been psychos! There is no 'sanity'. Even our best efforts to repair this defect are kooky, weird, and half assed. If our history tells us nothing, it rightly describes as mad animals, greedy, with no center or even a common goal. I can see why people blindly grab onto the concept of a mysterious 'God'...this idea of religion tells us that everything is foolish and evil, but encourages us to keep our immediate circle …
Posted to When We Were Psychos
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