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Who is that going to be? It isn't Obama. He's afraid of losing his political capitol if he frees the people.

All hail the stoners who will bring back more freedom to the USA by fighting the war on drugs than any other political grouping.
Strip search your 13 year old children in the public schools.

So, another weasel moment by our supreme court.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-479.ZS.html

Here's what they said.

Yes, that was wrong to strip search a 13 year old, make her pull her undergarments away from her body. But, who cares. We hadn't clearly told you not to, so we won't punish you for doing it.

Statement of R. Gil Kerlikowske
Director, National Drug Control Policy
Remarks at Release of 2009 World Drug Report
June 24, 2009


http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/news/speech09/062409_Kerlikowske.pdf

“Our new fiscal year 2010 Budget proposes doubling funding for adult, juvenile and family drug court, tripling ….”

Also see:

where he explains that neither he nor Obama understand legalization as a word.

If you would be so kind, please email the White house and explain to them the meaning of term, as well, mention the fact that they are abusing the Constitution, treading on the rights of the people, and contributing greatly to the closing in on the event horizon pointing directly to a bloody revolution, chock full of angry Americans who are tired of this invasion.

Also, if you would, I would appreciate it if you would consider voting on:

http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/8560-4049 … A call for civil disobedience

http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/8327-4049 ... An affirmation of your 9th amendment right to liberty

http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/8316-4049 ... A JFK Quote on Revolution and why it must be violent

and all others that support true liberty, that defend our right to private conduct, to personal arms, and to personal and private property, defense of, and to a true meaning the Constitution.

Enough is enough.




The Free world is not free. There is no freedom in the USA for private, non-harmful conduct.

So long as they imprison people, fight back.

Store your contraband by burying it in your local politician's back yard.

In their cars.

Set them up to be arrested. Then call a tip line and follow through.
How the 9th Amendment Prohibits the War on Drugs, Understanding your Liberty.

The source of the 9th amendment is not in controversy. James Madison attempted to answer the argument that a bill of rights would leave future populations vulnerable to government laying claim to any powers not expressly protected in the bill of rights.

The familiar argument: “Where is it listed in the constitution that you have the right to …._______?” and variations on the theme are common in discourse. For example, where is it written that you have a right to privacy, a right to marriage, a right to procreation, a right to freedom of movement, a right to property? Those rights are not enumerated.

Hence we arrive at a distortion that the constitution grants rights, and every once in a while, the Supreme Court tosses you a freebie, like the right to marry and procreate, to travel, to privacy.

The difference between the understanding at the time the constitution was designed and today’s faulty application of the constitution by your power-obsessed government, was that fundamental rights then, were a given. It was inconceivable that government would have any interest in interfering with personal rights. The same is not true today.

There is no matter so personal, so small, or so unimportant to national concerns that our government feels appropriately inhibited to regulate it. Without the 9th amendment, we are free game, experimental social objects for government manipulations, and no matter what our accomplishments may be, or our age, there is no age of majority that government is bound to respect. They take it upon themselves to parent you until you die.

There are legal presumptions the court has made up that govern how they look at controversies at law. One of the most distorted and wicked, when combined with a willful abandonment of the 9th amendment is the presumption of constitutionality.

The Supreme Courts operate on the assumption that if Congress passes a law, it is automagically constitutional until you are arrested, and from that disadvantaged position, prove otherwise.

The true nature of the constitution was to preserve liberty. Liberty of the people.

The courts have read into the constitution a nature that demands they protect government.

If the courts were true to the heart of our supreme law, there would be a presumption of liberty, and government would have to justify a challenged law as necessary to the function of enumerated powers.

There is no government power listed that they should or can operate as parental units, approving or disapproving private conduct. Prohibition is an infringement of fundamental liberty.

That is what the 9th amendment protects—the liberty of the individual to operate free from government constraint. That is why they ignore it. They have, for over two centuries, interpreted the law in reverse—to protect government from inhibition rather than people from oppression. They have interpreted the constitution in such a manner as to deny a fundament right of liberty in and of itself.

Then they add to the abuse by denying you the right to challenge your vulnerability to arrest on improper grounds until you are arrested and weakened. They claim they have no time for such things. If congress wrote a law today that said you must wear beanies on Tuesdays, and go bare-headed on Wednesdays, precedent demands that unless you can prove damages, and then only after arrest for failing to wear the legislated head gear, are you given a chance to challenge the abuse of power.

They can only do this because they are under no requirement to respect a fundamental right of liberty so long as they are permitted to ignore the 9th amendment.

The prohibition of drugs is unconstitutional, and infringes on each citizen in their private conduct in their homes, the one territory the founders did everything they could to preserve as your domain.

The single, most vigorous barrier to enjoying the liberty inherent in the 9th amendment does not lie in the courts, it lies in the willingness of the population to be abused. It is time, if not for full revolution, for massive civil disobedience, to overwhelm government’s resources to continue the pattern of abuse.

It is past time. We can’t wait for some politician to see the light of day and be willing to risk votes for what’s right. We must win one all on our own, through our own refusal to recognize their abuse of authority as valid. We win one, we’ll turn the tide. There's no telling how free we can be.

Sobi

Free on SSRN: The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment Volume 2
Edited by Randy E. Barnett
George Mason University Press (1993)







John F. Kennedy. ^^^^^^

Every name on a list, every minute under a watchful eye, every email that is recorded, every phone call that is recorded, every dollar that is spent, every plea that is made, every effort that is taxed, none will be adequate to the task of holding down the American spirit when it is deprived of liberty for one minute too long.

Sobi ^^^^^

Install a "read" button to remove an idea one lacks interest in.

Cut off walls of text at 500 words, add a more link.

Either permit HTML or don't. Stop the embedding of videos, or provide a way to link to them with a reduce image button.

These are not difficult or mysterious upgrades.
This is faulty thinking. Biden is a pandering sycophant anyway.

They are not talking about preserving the Average income bracket. Just a favored income bracket.
Anonymity is a foundation for political speech. But the UK has done away with it.

Do not let this happen in the USA. Our government watches other governments to see what they can get away with, then follows suit. All over the globe, this happens, and people are ground down to dollars and dust.

If we are to have valid government, we must fight back more effectively than ever.
Google newsgroup.

Where the ranting and raging can continue.

I'll be there.

Section 1: Congress shall have power to regulate or prohibit any activity between one state and another, or with foreign nations, provided that no regulation or prohibition shall infringe any enumerated or unenumerated right, privilege or immunity recognized by this Constitution.

Section 2: Nothing in this article, or the eighth section of article I, shall be construed to authorize Congress to regulate or prohibit any activity that takes place wholly within a single state, regardless of its effects outside the state or whether it employs instrumentalities therefrom; but Congress may define and punish offenses constituting acts of war or violent insurrection against the United States.

Section 3: The power of Congress to appropriate any funds shall be limited to carrying into execution the powers enumerated by this Constitution and vested in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof; or to satisfy any current obligation of the United States to any person living at the time of the ratification of this article.

Section 4: The 16th article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed, effective five years from the date of the ratification of this article.

Section 5: The judicial power of the United States to enforce this article includes but is not limited to the power to nullify any prohibition or unreasonable regulation of a rightful exercise of liberty. The words of this article, and any other provision of this Constitution, shall be interpreted according to their public meaning at the time of their enactment.

Except for its expansion of Congressional power in Section 1, this proposed amendment is entirely consistent with the original meaning of the Constitution. It merely clarifies the boundary between federal and state powers, and reaffirms the power of courts to police this boundary and protect individual liberty.

Section 1 of the Federalism Amendment expands the power of Congress to include any interstate activity not contained in the original meaning of the Commerce Clause. Interstate pollution, for example, is not "commerce . . . among the several states," but is exactly the type of interstate problem that the Framers sought to specify in their list of delegated powers. This section also makes explicit that any restriction of an enumerated or unenumerated liberty of the people must be justified.

Section 2 then allows state policy experimentation by prohibiting Congress from regulating any activity that takes place wholly within a state. States, of course, retain their police power to regulate or prohibit such activity subject to the constraints imposed on them, for example, by Article I or the 14th Amendment. And a state is free to enter into compacts with other states to coordinate regulation and enforcement, subject to approval by Congress as required by Article I.

Section 3 adopts James Madison's reading of the taxing and borrowing powers of Article I to limit federal spending to that which is incident to an enumerated power. It explicitly allows Congress to honor its outstanding financial commitments to living persons, such its promise to make Social Security payments. Section 4 eliminates the federal income tax, after five years, in favor of a national sales or excise tax.

Finally, Section 5 authorizes judges to keep Congress within its limits by examining laws restricting the rightful exercise of liberty to ensure that they are a necessary and proper means to implement an enumerated power. This section also requires that the Constitution be interpreted according to its original meaning at the time of its enactment. But by expanding the powers of Congress to include regulating all interstate activity, the Amendment greatly relieves the political pressure on courts to adopt a strained reading of Congress's enumerated powers.

Could such a Federalism Amendment actually be adopted? Stranger things have happened -- including the adoption of each of the existing amendments. States have nothing to lose and everything to gain by making this Federalism Amendment the focus of their resistance to the shrinking of their reserved powers and infringements upon the rights retained by the people. And this Federalism Amendment would provide tea-party enthusiasts and other concerned Americans with a concrete and practical proposal by which we can restore our lost Constitution.

Mr. Barnett is a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University and the author of "Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty" (Princeton, 2005).
The 9th amendment is more than the heart of privacy in the constitution. It is the heart of individual autonomy, and adulthood.

It is the barrier to a constant creep of government into territory that belongs to the person. It is not properly ignored. It is not a legal joke.

It is real, and it means what it says.

Retained by the people.
Kindly do not tread on me. Actually, delete that Kindly, how about--Do not tread on me because it is the heart of our nation.

I repeat, because it is required.

U.S. Citizens are not children. They are adults.

Congress, the Administration, and the Judicial branch are not parents.

They are employees of the U.S. Citizens.

No sin taxes
No prohibition

Yes to the 9th Amendment which our Government ignores.

And apologize for the arrogant abuse of power.
Who gave him a credit card? Take it away. Now.

Rebellion is past due. Get with it.

See Drudge.

Obama is excited about the robust debate in Iran. Mistake.

He's breaking promises faster than he made them, and this exercise in open government will be a major insult if nothing genuine comes of it.

A few new websites with pages for comment isn't going to get it.

He must answer. Or he stirs the pot and walks away. I don't think it will settle well so long as the heat is on.
From Air Force One press briefing, June 11.




THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

________________________________________________
For Immediate Release June 11, 2009


PRESS GAGGLE
BY
DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY BILL BURTON

Aboard Air Force One
En route Green Bay, Wisconsin


11:10 A.M. CDT

MR. BURTON: When we land the President will be greeted on arrival by Governor Doyle, Congressman Kagan, and Mayors Schmitt and Barrettt of Green Bay and Milwaukee. At the high school he'll be greeted by the school superintendent, Gregg Mass, and Principal Brian Davis and his wife, Dawn, and their four daughters. He'll have a couple of small meetings, one before and one after, with grassroots activists and local political leaders.

A couple facts about Wisconsin and Green Bay: In Green Bay unemployment is at 8.4 percent; Wisconsin as a whole, 8.6 percent; Green Bay has lost 5,400 jobs since December of '07. Wisconsin is a state, 137,500; and the rate of uninsured in Wisconsin is 8.5 percent.

Q I'm sorry, I didn't hear that.

MR. BURTON: It's 8.5 percent. I thought you had that in your story today. I guess not.

Q The activists that he's meeting with afterwards, how long will that be and who are they?

-------------------Below

MR. BURTON: It'll be pretty fast. It will be about 10 to 15 minutes and that's beforehand. They're just local grassroots activists -- he does it at most of these stops, just a normal meeting.

The meeting afterwards are leaders -- I don't have the full list with me, but it includes the Lieutenant Governor, Barbara Lawton and some others.

Q I'm sorry, activists on health care that he's meeting with before?

MR. BURTON: No, no, no, just local grassroots activists, people who are involved in the community in different ways.

-----------------Above

This is a demonstration of the actual thought processes in the Administrative Ranks.

Until they are actually committed to Open Government, there won't be one no matter what Obama says.

Continue to press for Open Government and point out these weaknesses in the support for it.
LOL.

Repeal the 16th.
Add amendment:

Federal Government shall be content with a 10% sales tax, and shall apply no other taxes.

Federal Government shall confine itself to its means and stay within its budget.

Federal Government shall be free to petition God for extra money if they make budgeting mistakes.

All, and I mean ALL excise taxes are prohibited.

Obama, give back the SCHIP taxes. That was wrong, and bad.

Bad, bad, bad.

Corporations must go to God for loans, give aways and redemption.

They have that vote up thing going on. So, here's how it works.

If it is popular speech, it will rise to the top like cream.

If it is unpopular speech, it will sink to the bottom like the disenfranchised behind it.

LOL

This is Open Government and Free Speech in the Good Ol' USA.

On a government site no less.

Memo dated today, from Robynn Sturm, invites the public:

Non-profits
Companies
Journalists
Teachers
Mothers
Interested Citizens -----***IN THAT ORDER***-----

...to weigh in again. Doesn't say where, limits it to 3 ideas, apparently on how our government can explain to us how it controls our lives, for what purposes, how much it costs, etc., so on and so forth--the whole transparency sham.

Obama,

You need to smack down your minions and make them behave.

Robynn, I want to weigh in on what I want to weigh in on.

And by-the-way, I'm not properly placed last on the list.

Your thinking shows and it is improper.

What would you say?

It is difficult to resist the seduction of sending a flaming email to the president.

Really, really, difficult.
Google groups.

Anyone can join, anyone can post.

Name: Open Government Uncensored
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, click on developers, and watch that discussion.

There is a screened data dump available for analysis.

Screening is a field listing whether your idea is on-topic. This is not a public field.

Read further, and you'll see that they do not want anyone to have a full dataset.
Describe analysis that fails to capture the meaning of brainstorming, that washes it of all true conflict, praise it, and close comments.

This is just disgusting. There is very little pretense that this is an open process.
Failure to provide a clear link to discussion from brainstorming.

This is a no-brainer. Hide the discussion, perhaps the public won't find it.

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Comments Posted

sobi 8 months ago
If nothing else, this will certainly qualify as stuff hitting the rotating blades.
sobi 8 months ago
The problem is that is they come out buried.

It is angry-making. I want those 3 minutes on page one. They matter.

sobi 8 months ago
I think it may be a combination of things. One is words, but I think the primary cause of pending is number of new ideas within a time period.

So if you have 3 ideas in a short span of time, you end in pending on the 4th no matter what it says.

sobi 8 months ago
I don't answer them either. I fill in with overt lies.

I end up waiting for moderator approval on a regular basis. I'm in there now because I posted on Obama wanting Amnesty and my rather strong objection to the idea. :)
sobi 8 months ago
Eeeewwww.

Imagine answering the personal questions to your local letter carrier. LOL

They would have to, at a minimum, scramble neighborhoods.
sobi 8 months ago
You are such a puke, honey.
sobi 8 months ago
Blacks got played and laid down for it.

You've (collectively) already not bothered to comment.
sobi 8 months ago
So, if I'm hearing you correctly, you're saying that the US is foolish for not exploiting poor immigrants to the degree that is easily done elsewhere?
sobi 8 months ago
Obama is hell bent on Amnesty too. If the Blacks do not rise up, the tea parties are going to get ugly.
sobi 8 months ago
If George had been addicted to a teleprompter, he would have improved his reputation.
sobi 8 months ago
If there be change, let it be for freeing the people.

If there be change, let it be for having a leader with the courage to deal with a Free People.

If there be change, it ain't in Obamatics.
sobi 8 months ago
Only if they are limited to teaching the words of the constitution.

No interpretation, just the words. The children, having committed those words to memory will know what they need to know when the time comes.
sobi 8 months ago
and....

11. Poster forgot to provide direction as to desired vote.

Like me. I do that all the time. I'm looking more for comments than votes.
sobi 8 months ago
Yea, we should have more voting options.

1. Yes, proceed.
2. Stop, you moron
3. Hell fire and damnation
4. Poster's an idiot.
5. Read this.
6. Waste of time
7. Business as Usual
8. Duplicate Idea -- Good, Lather, rinse, and repeat.
9. Duplicate Idea -- Can't stand in-your-face politics.
10. Obama doesn't have the courage to deal with a Free People.
sobi 8 months ago
I didn't call you honey, sweetheart, I called Jordan honey.
sobi 8 months ago
Obama is obliged to comment. What will he say?
sobi 8 months ago
True enough, Rooster.

sobi 8 months ago
Kindly let me rev up their anger first, If you would.
sobi 8 months ago
waaa, waaa, burp, waaa, waa
sobi 8 months ago
Teddy the tumor? LOL What does a drunken tumor say to the President?
sobi 8 months ago
We won't. They must be refusing to tithe properly.
sobi 8 months ago
Then I whole-heartedly, fervently, and happily recommend they go there.

Anywhere but congress.
sobi 8 months ago
Are you happy with the speed at which the moderators remove posts you've flagged, honey?
sobi 8 months ago
Didn't he already change his handle to some girl's name to hide?
sobi 8 months ago
The United Nations just released a report that recommends decriminalizing drugs.

If Obama is a one-world wonder, it would be a win-win for him.

What will our leader of the Free World chose? To obey the masters and free the people?

He doesn't have the courage to deal with a free people.
sobi 8 months ago
Protesting on the 4th is an obligation.
sobi 8 months ago
Yea, I would prefer to have made this pithy and clear but I think that the War on Drugs is an automatic filter trigger.

So I speak around it, and my post is accepted. I mention my subject matter, and my post is held and buried.
sobi 8 months ago
The only reason they should upgrade is to increase their vulnerabilities to hacking.

Upgrade Now!
sobi 8 months ago
The private health care industry is doomed.
sobi 8 months ago
Preach it? I will, thanks. What a marvelous invitation.

Here's the thing. Obama had blacks so ramped up with victory, and so full of hope for their own voices, that they repressed any outrage that the first thing he did was put the screws to them specifically.

He walked into office on their wave of support, and immediately taxed them for SCHIP.

When Obama taxed your smokes, you felt the blow, you felt the resentment, you knew the injustice inherent in it, and you failed to cry out in protest.

He stiffed you because he knew you would take it silently. He played you.





sobi 8 months ago
If I had the power to "make them" answer me, I would "make them" go away.
sobi 8 months ago
Maybe you just read better in the daytime.
sobi 8 months ago
This has always been me.

Consistently.

sobi 8 months ago
Oh sweetie, you are deluded. No one every thought you were a moderator, boob. You can flag anything you want. No one cares.

I was speaking of the mindless arrogance that automatically attaches to an individual who takes it upon themselves to walk into a room, and self-appoint.

Barf, honey.

sobi 8 months ago
Jordan,

You have walking into a room where people have been busy for a month and taken it upon yourself to decide that they need supervision and you will supervise.

What a boob you really are.
sobi 8 months ago
Oh by all means, take that person earning minimum wage, demand 25% of 20,000 / year and all that person has to pay....


to the federal government.....


is $5,000.

No problem, they do not need protein if they don't earn enough to buy it.
sobi 9 months ago
Yes, it was auto-filtered so it would never show in the new postings.
sobi 9 months ago
Acorn is changing their name. Community something, I forget. But keep that in mind, don't let them go secret.
sobi 9 months ago
Because staying home taking care of children isn't work. Everyone knows that.

How about raising wages so a single earner can care for a family?

sobi 9 months ago
For the most part, prevention was one of the biggest scams perpetrated upon the people.

It sucks money like a vacuum sucks dust, and the returns are so minimal as to be laughable.

It was a way to even out income for an industry that profits from catastrophe, which can not be predicted and controlled.
sobi 9 months ago
Or, since Obama wants to be the Champion and CEO of industry USA, government could run credit cards.

Drive those obscene parasites out of business and out of money before the revolution.

Sweetly disarming the enemy prior to the kill.
sobi 9 months ago
I like time-lock as a description better, but to discuss it, use language that is recognized.
sobi 9 months ago
More commonly called sunset provisions. It is a valid concept.
sobi 9 months ago
Let's see if we can master one single document that is over 200 years old before we examine the intervening years, shall we?
sobi 9 months ago
They are subverting the Constitution and the commerce clause is their primary avenue of corruption.

The government is limited to the powers granted in the constitution, that was the whole, freaking point.

sobi 9 months ago
http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/8327-4049

Censored. Subject matter: your constitutional 9th amendment right to liberty.

Really cool thing for a government open-dialogue site to censor.
sobi 9 months ago
Tomorrow's idea:

http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/8327-4049

After it has been withheld via auto-filter for whatever transparency purpose the censors have devised.
sobi 9 months ago
The fight for constitutional rights is not properly subject to an auto-filter on a site posing as open government. There is no excuse for this level of censorship, and there is no recovery of integrity afterwards.
sobi 9 months ago
Let's just tax Obama until he makes choices between fundamental needs.
sobi 9 months ago
LOL.

My minute too long was today.
sobi 9 months ago
Wrong. Every nation has the right to govern who, and how many enter by crossing the border.
sobi 9 months ago
I will if they are carrying pitchforks and loaded weapons.
sobi 9 months ago
The title is a JFK quote.

The body of the text is mine.

sobi 9 months ago
They let Bush get away with repressing images from Irag.

They were pussies.
sobi 9 months ago
Nixon hated the media. They did him in.

That's the last time the media has done their job.
sobi 9 months ago
We need to ramp up our rhetoric.

Low-level indeed.
sobi 9 months ago
Incorrect.

Our right to petition the government is protected. No one says we have to do so within someone else's view of good taste and proper discourse.

At least no one on the business end of a gun.
sobi 9 months ago
One can only hope for the revolution. At this point, I say let them ramrod whatever they want into the books.

The more they do it, the more people buy guns.

The more guns, the more likely someone will start firing. That will be a good thing.
sobi 9 months ago
Screw that. Let em shoot each other.
sobi 9 months ago
How about we stop subsidizing for-profit industries altogether?
sobi 9 months ago
Which is why there must be no amnesty, why penalties for hiring illegals must be high dollar amounts, and why we must continue to drive them back.

sobi 9 months ago
No way. I want a refund. With interest.
sobi 9 months ago
Firing is at will.
sobi 9 months ago
Lock and load.
sobi 9 months ago
If they're shooting, and we're shooting, and you're unarmed, you are in the sucky position.

Naive indeed.
sobi 9 months ago
Rooster, I replied to the comment immediately preceding mine. If you practiced what you preach you would have seen that.
sobi 9 months ago
LOL

Okay, I think whatever you think I think.

Smooth.
sobi 9 months ago
you bet wrong.
sobi 9 months ago
It remains unreadable.
sobi 9 months ago
I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't care.
Not my issue.
sobi 9 months ago
LOL

You just have to have the last word. But when I give it to you, you convert it into a delusion that I'm cutting my losses.

I'm going to give it to you again. But understand, it is because this is dull.
sobi 9 months ago
yawn.
sobi 9 months ago
accountstealerz,

I have. I failed. How bout you?
sobi 9 months ago
Rooster, you are so dumb.

And, you are still boring.

When you are not boring, then I will play.

Until then, tell yourself anything you want to believe and revel in your delusions. I don't care, honey.

sobi 9 months ago
I be happy if freedom even showed up once in a while.

We are hardly the land of the free.

sobi 9 months ago
Frankly, we already have enough immigrants.
sobi 9 months ago
Perhaps a little less time trolling you tube for confirmation of what you think, and more time with your nose in a book taking in new information would help.
sobi 9 months ago
Turning industries into pseudo charities always makes me cringe.

Donate at your local profit-oriented corporation or business.

Barf.
sobi 9 months ago
Kindly add touch typing to that suggestion.
sobi 9 months ago
We need to dump the health insurance industry. That's what single-payer health care will do, and they know it.

The massive campaign to preserve their profits is fueling the fight, but make no mistake.

They want to preserve their profits. Not fix health care.
sobi 9 months ago
The point I was making was that Republic is a word that means:

Representative Democracy.

sobi 9 months ago
Go to Google, type:

define: republic

Press enter.

Tell me what you see.
sobi 9 months ago
Rooster, you twit. I was playing.
sobi 9 months ago
http:

backslash
backslash

....

Forward slashes only work when on the same server as the request.
sobi 9 months ago
Suit yourself.

It is still a stupid cartoon.

LOL
sobi 9 months ago
I don't mean you harm. I wanted your attention for a moment.

I'm serious about your choice of company. You are being pulled downward. It shows.
sobi 9 months ago
I think maybe you should quit feeding back and forth with Rejean.

Not that is a truly stupid human being.

sobi 9 months ago
Oh yes, by all means...send this to Glenn Beck. LOL.
sobi 9 months ago
Rooster,

I can't read your mind. I haven't got a clue where you're coming from on that last post other than you continue to suffer a need to somehow condemn me because I disagree with you.

I'll still disagree. Why do you do it? It doesn't make you look smarter or better in any way.

Find a better response to the talionic impulse.

sobi 9 months ago
Amphibious toilet?

You're in no position to call upon adulthood.

LOL
sobi 9 months ago
The funny thing about loving Christians is that I don't see a lot of them on the internet.

I see a lot of the other kind.

Plain queers are fine, I prefer flaming queens. It is the entertainment factor. And I like in-your-face happiness.
sobi 9 months ago
Blackmonrikker,

In your excitement to deceive people into going to a link probably ridden with malware, you typed the URL wrong.

sobi 9 months ago
Rooster,

You are a boob. If someone disagrees with you, and you immediately resort to name-calling, you are a child, but you are also a boob.

You are incompetent in any way to levy judgment on me.
sobi 9 months ago
Personally, I'd hire a flaming queen with a good heart over a hateful christian any day of the week.
sobi 9 months ago
I watched enough to recognize exaggeration, black and white thinking, otherwise known as absolutes, and I arrived at the point where it said our side is 0% and their side is 100% and I knew it was not a reasoned political argument, it was propaganda.

It isn't hard to recognize. It wasn't even good propaganda. I've seen it done very well. This one is aimed at the unquestioning mind.

It is hardly arriving at the point where one could call it a definition of anything but the lowest common denominator.

Enjoy it. I don't care.

It is still stupid.



sobi 9 months ago
There is no rationale that says I have to respect someone's desire to interfere in my personal life. I do not respect, I do not intend to even remotely entertain the concept that someone has any business marching their opinion into my living room and expressing their opinion on what I do there.

That concept is pandering and I will not be guilty of such a thing.

The truth is that there is a whole bunch of people making a living at this running other people's lives thing, and they are not just a huge and incredibly stupid drain on tax dollars, they are bringing down the nation by teaching contempt for the law.

As soon as one learns to hold one law in contempt, it is a short walk to complete anarchy.

Short. I'm there, I'm waiting for enough to catch up, many are already with me, already armed, and it will come.

There is no way it won't.

So play like agreeing is a reasonable thing to do. It isn't. It is self-destructive. You will be armed and ready, or not.
sobi 9 months ago
Persuade me. This is still boring.
sobi 9 months ago
How old are you guys? You sound about 13.

I don't mind exchanging a few barbs, if they are witty and amusing.

Yours aren't. Ramp it up a level if you want to play. This is boring.
sobi 9 months ago
No, and neither do fantasies and cartoons.

But thanks for your concern.

sobi 9 months ago
And they keep men focussed on the dream of a bigger, better winky.
sobi 9 months ago
Sir, Sir, Sir, Ma'am, Sir is respectful.

Senator, Senator, Senator, Ma'am, Senator is a diss.

It is a common sexist diss that women are attuned to and hear, and men with problems over women in power continue to unthinkingly apply.

Boxer showed her feminist roots.

And isn't it true, in masculine rules, that if you have to provide a defense for a general, he's not entitled to the title?

sobi 9 months ago
You are confused.

That wasn't a note, it was a thesis.
sobi 9 months ago
The constitution is a constraint upon government.

Not a selective constraint. A constraint.

It is a threat to liberty to permit them to play outside of their defined arena.

The threat will not be selective. As applied, Bush's threat was not limited to non-americans.

sobi 9 months ago
I called Biden a pandering sycophant in one that never made it through.

LOL.
sobi 9 months ago
The general was dissing her by selectively using senator as a title applied to some, but not all.

She dissed back.

He is probably tough enough to take it.
sobi 9 months ago
At least if you lose the pretentious handle.
sobi 9 months ago
You do that, and people might listen to you.

To engage, you need to be authentic.
sobi 9 months ago
Sheer propaganda.
sobi 9 months ago
Besides, I still think it is the minions who are setting up the psychological road blocks.

See the innovation gallery. At every turn, public input is limited or completely forbidden.

We get to watch open government, not play.

Barf.
sobi 9 months ago
I don't think it is releasing frustration.

Catharsis is misunderstood. It is only valid one time per issue. After that, continued expression reinforces itself and exaggerates frustration.
sobi 9 months ago
Look at the voting.

One has to wonder what kind of person votes against their own constitutional rights.
sobi 9 months ago
After years of abusive taxing, then Obama's huge insult to smokers, the single last option was to buy cheap cigarettes overseas.

FDA will put an immediate halt on that.

I quit quitting. I have given up my medicine instead. My b/p is 200/100, and that's only two weeks out.

So, I decided to protest. http://sobiprotest.blogspot.com/

I'll keep smoking, and I'll post my blood pressure on a regular basis.

It won't be a long protest, but I'll smoke em till I die.

I emailed the WH to let Obama know he was killing me. Maybe I'll email him weekly with updates, yes?
sobi 9 months ago
Nobody confuses a cut-and-paste spammer with an actual freedom fighter.

sobi 9 months ago
I'm for everyone having a loaded weapon on them.

A lot of conflict would just be blown away.
sobi 9 months ago
Your faith in Congress and the Media is...


stunning.
sobi 9 months ago
Administrator,

You need to get that "we" thing looked at.

There are medications for such things.
sobi 9 months ago
Actually, I have a problem with that.

There are 4,500 felonies on the books that can turn anyone into a felon on a whim.

Who determines who is insane.

It is safer to omit qualifications than to attempt to make them reasonable.

Load up.
sobi 9 months ago
Iran is an object lesson.

Buy your guns. Buy your neighbor guns.

Big guns.
sobi 9 months ago
Maybe, it can come and go.
sobi 9 months ago
See, that's the value of anonymity. I can't vote up on this because of origin.
sobi 9 months ago
And what? Announce to the world he's senile, or has his hand in the cookie jar?

We do not have enough detail on this, and I think that is for cause.

On the other hand, a violation of protocol demands explanation.
sobi 9 months ago
At least the people guiding the vote would be smart.
sobi 9 months ago
If christianity is behind political groupings, then no--there is no difference.

sobi 9 months ago
LOL, crayons certainly represent the quality of our congress.
sobi 9 months ago
Something is wrong, but if the journalists have failed to point out the big sin, it probably isn't there.
sobi 9 months ago
He should have said, "Senator Boxer"
sobi 9 months ago
Wait, even better.

The speaker of the house must hand-write all legislation. That'll busy Nancy for a while.
sobi 9 months ago
Make them hand-write legislation.
sobi 9 months ago
More harm to personal liberty comes from the red menace concept than real dangers.

Political parties are to be protected and preserved, even when they are communist or christian.
sobi 9 months ago
I think the fearmongering has been a daily event for over a century. It is far more powerful than the crap Cheney and Bush pulled.

When you are reared to revere science, and trust in science, and the daily reports from those who claim authority and scientific knowledge is so full of alarmist--we'll take care of this for you--crap, you do not realize how vulnerable you are.

I'm ready for the revolution.
sobi 9 months ago
The government is out of control. Arm yourselves.
sobi 9 months ago
This is a bigger issue than presented.

Is our government empowered to violate the constitution is the question presented.

Regardless of whom they target with their massive powers, they are bound by the constitution.

It is the only inhibition upon them. Never unleash a monster the size of our government to act outside the constraints in the constitution.
sobi 9 months ago
Absolutely no one believes your pretext as a moderator.

You are a boob, and your mother is the mother of a boob.
sobi 9 months ago
I found it unrelated.
sobi 9 months ago
Well, give it a go. Fine by me. Good luck.
sobi 9 months ago
If I were to do my mating and reproductive years over, from the first time I threw up, I would be home with my children until they were of age and begging me to get off their back. I would home school, and since I would be there anyway, I may as well have a bunch of them.

Needless to say, I would have to marry very carefully first.
sobi 9 months ago
No, not really.

It is my firm personal belief that once a child is born, it is vitally important that mother and child stay together.

Mothers that are compelled to leave their infant in an institutional day care, so they can work, because as soon as women entered the work force in numbers, capitalistic greed lowered wages to make it necessary, oh drat. I ran on.

Anyway, I do not believe that dumping children in daycare is a good idea. It wrong for the baby, it is wrong for the mother. I believe it affects biological bonding, long-term parenting, all sorts of things.

Before society can even consider limiting the right to abortion, it must take care of the mother-infant bond.

Until then, I won't even entertain the idea.




sobi 9 months ago
I'm saying that if a woman has the right to ditch and walk away during the pregnancy, WHY CAN'T A MAN?!?

I would never deny a man the right to abort his pregnancy.

sobi 9 months ago
You want the right to do what? To impregnate and walk?

There are any number of men who take pride in doing exactly that, and have for centuries. The problem only surfaces now because now DNA testing takes away the plausibility of denial.

One the infant is born, if the female gives it up for adoption, then you get a walk. If she doesn't, then you don't. If she carries it to term, and decides to keep it, she's taken on her responsibility. What you want is a walk then.

Convince the courts that a squalling little bundle of flesh that you had a hand in producing should not be your responsibility.

Right now the law is deaf to your claim of inequality because men have been walking for centuries, and society is tired of paying for it. So for a few dozen years, women have finally caught up in terms of legal power to claim the right to terminate or the right to child support, and you are stunned that an immediate correction is not taken to pave men's way to walk again?

Deal with it.
sobi 9 months ago
Because reproduction biology is unequal.

sobi 9 months ago
Where does the law say that a pregnant woman is two people?

sobi 9 months ago
The law does not look at a pregnant woman as two people. Where did you come up with that?

Because only the woman is pregnant.

sobi 9 months ago
And what price might that be?
sobi 9 months ago
I know of no prohibition against pregnant men terminating their pregnancy.
sobi 9 months ago
Doubtful.

sobi 9 months ago
Do you need a law to say that? It works that way. That's good enough for me.

Child birth is not lucrative sans having 6 or 8 at a time. Try it, and prove me wrong.
sobi 9 months ago
Sweetie,

You don't even snark well enough to play with me, let alone engage in debate.
sobi 9 months ago
The other other thing that doesn't come into play once a woman is pregnant is a man's capacity to engage as an equal partner. He forfeited when he left all responsibility for birth control in her hands.

Since he lacks a womb, he is not consulted during gestation.

The whole argument of entrapment is dead. Entrapment can be avoided. It is more difficult if you don't take responsibility for your own biological product, but none-the-less, it can be avoided. The level of difficulty is all yours to own and enjoy.

Since the vast majority of men fail to cover the cost of their offspring, I think it is safe to say that your implied argument that women benefit by trapping poor helpless men through pregnancy is weak if not imaginary.

sobi 9 months ago
How many advertisements for chemically-driven male birth control products do you regularly see?

Underlying that lack of marketability is an attitude that men waving their winkys want to play, but haven't taken the initial responsibility for birth control at conception.

I'll consider men's right to abandon children when they own the responsibility for conception at time of conception.

sobi 9 months ago
This is why we need an emergency stop. To stop a runaway politic.
sobi 9 months ago
It is a highly seductive, but patently false conclusion that people who disagree do so because they lack knowledge or wisdom.

It is essentially a narcissistic delusion.

Don't buy your own story, and you'll go further.
sobi 9 months ago
Yes, I posted pretty much the same over at the brown-nosing site, OSTP.

Properly cloaked in butt-kissing language telling everyone how smart and wonderful their squeaky clean, government-praising prose was.

sobi 9 months ago
No, what we need are helmets that warn if the wanker wearing it is in violated of the constitution or principles therein.

Then, all elected officials must wear said helmet 24-7.

If they think bad thoughts, helmet should beep loudly and have many flashing colored lights.
sobi 9 months ago
Sorry to dash your hopes, but consider them dashed.



sobi 9 months ago
Nanny government.

Barf.
sobi 9 months ago
Yep, pretty soon, we'll have to argue for the 3rd amendment.

Anyone remember what that is?
sobi 9 months ago
I'm hoping the health-care mandatory insurance thing passes so we can challenge the hell out of government mandated contribution to the profits of obscenely rich and exploitive third parties.

Once that's done, we can go after the states and mandated vehicle insurance.

The roads belong to us.
sobi 9 months ago
No, I'm just in want of coffee. I'm always in want of coffee.

Tis my nature.
sobi 9 months ago
Also, a stuck caps-lock key is undeniably a hallmark of a low-level terrorist.
sobi 9 months ago
Like that last one a lot.
sobi 9 months ago
LOL. Took me a minute to let the whole sentence gel.
sobi 9 months ago
I much prefer the phrasing: Four Foot Communist.

It has such a gentile ring to it whilst still being demeaning.

LOL
sobi 9 months ago
Ah, they forgot a description of low-level terrorist.

Caps lock key stuck in on position.

sobi 9 months ago
****Warning****

Low-Level Terrorist Alert

Snark...LOL
sobi 9 months ago
If the firings were wrongful, you will see the media circus.

Most likely, they got caught with a hand in the cookie jar and are taking the option to walk away unexposed.

Not to spoil the conversation though. Carry on.
sobi 9 months ago
This site closes on the 19th.
sobi 9 months ago
And while distasteful demagogue is descriptive, puffy blow hard is also descriptive and funny. But I didn't say it.
sobi 9 months ago
?how did I feel about it?

It would be unrelated. Why?

Sedition is a repression tool. I do not advocate its use, which is actually merely a legal application that allows punishment for expression.

I do not believe expression should be punished.

I thing Rush is an extremely distasteful demagogue, but that has nothing to do with sedition.

Stirring up discontent is expression.

Crying out for revolution, begging people to pick up pitchforks, like I do, that's closer to sedition.

But sedition is contrary to our fundamental laws.

Not that it is relevant, but I abhor the Iraq War, in particular when my son went for a year, and I always felt it was a lead in for Bush to take on Iran. Cheney wanted to so bad he smelled of it, but they didn't make it. It was a pretense, and putting my son in danger for the shallow purposes Bush had did not make me feel warm and fuzzy.

I always thought the proper response was to go find Osama, kick ass, get out. Should have been done inside of six months.

The Patriot Act is Criminal repression.

Why?


sobi 9 months ago
Now no one has to go look it up and be further exposed to the whole concept of individual liberty.

sobi 9 months ago
Sedition is a tool of repression.

It has no place in a free nation.

It has no place in the USA who pretends to be a free nation.
sobi 9 months ago
Ducked, because knowing sobi, I figured it was a pretty good idea.
sobi 9 months ago
border.
sobi 9 months ago
I know about fully informed jury--I would convict.

sobi 9 months ago
I'm going to risk redundancy here by repeating myself.

That thing about all your writing in the public domain,.....

Use a pseudonym. Especially if young.

Youthful words have a way of biting one in the rear later on when one wants to sound dignified.
sobi 9 months ago
nevermind. Unringing the Bell...

Gnid, Gnid.
sobi 9 months ago
Why does it say 11 comments, but only 4 show?

sobi 9 months ago
Jason,

If you are serious about writing, I want to tell you a couple of things.

One, if you find any success, all the words you have written in the public domain will be examined. Keep that in mind.

Criticism is exactly what you seek in your beginning. It is vital.

Good writers are good writers because they know how the audience is responding to their words.

They know that because they listened to the audience tell them how they responded.

It is your best teacher.



sobi 9 months ago
I don't know about the number thing, but just on the chance that we might be committing global suicide, let's continue to consider the idea.
sobi 9 months ago
Rabble, unfettered violent gun-toting people make good neighbors.

People treat one's neighborhood with respect when to do otherwise threatens their departure.
sobi 9 months ago
I didn't criticize his writing. And no writer who crumbles at criticism will survive as a writer.

It comes with the territory.
sobi 9 months ago
There is a point where the subject matter ceases to be rants against the government, and starts to be rants against people.

Obama is fair game for a new posting.

I'm not at all opposed to taking another poster to task. Go for it.

IN COMMENTS. Not as a post.

I didn't take him to task because the subject matter was Obama's legitimacy.

I played very minimal in those posts because I do not care. He's there. It is a done deed. The time for challenge was prior to seating him, it was tried and failed.

Whether that failure is right or wrong, I'm not going to say. I didn't look at it closely enough.

I've said here and there, in the beginning of the spam campaign, that it is as valid an issue as any other.

I've also said, and wished rather strongly for a getta outta my facea button.

It was a spam campaign. I'm not even saying a spam campaign, or keeping it in the public forum is wrong. It is a valid strategy. I just wanted that damn button to control my experience.

Do I care if he is there illegitimately? Not nearly as much as I care about trillions of dollars going to corporations.

And I've said before as well that if the objective of the campaign is to unseat Obama, then it is faulty reasoning to continue doing what doesn't work. Try another approach.

Because it really isn't the horror of the possibility that he was born in Kenya. It is the horror of having him in that seat. In that sense, I think the argument is inauthentic.

Besides, If I travel outside the US, and have a baby, I think the baby is entitled to citizenship.

And since I'm indulging here with a lengthy diatribe on what I think, the original clause, I believe, was aimed at a loyalty issue.

It is more important that a President is deeply embedded in the American experience than be born here.

Obama fails that one. And it shows.





sobi 9 months ago
LOL.

Have to agree with that.
sobi 9 months ago
Someone usurps a public form for a private dressing down of another poster and has the audacity to accuse them of narcissism?

I wish it were stunning.
sobi 9 months ago
Pay your insurance company, let's say All State.

Get in wreck.

Notify All State.

They say, you have enough money, we've elected not to pay people in your income bracket their benefits to reduce cost.

Suck it up? I don't think so.

It is not supposed to be investment in the US. Those are bonds.

It is supposed to be insurance.

It is not supposed to bail on those compelled to purchase bad insurance.

It isn't right, what you propose.

It isn't welfare.
sobi 9 months ago
1. I wouldn't know, I don't like prose, and didn't read it.
2. Repeat
3. Correct
4. Correct
sobi 9 months ago
Of course you know what I mean.

sobi 9 months ago
Argh. I really have to give up this wireless keyboard.
sobi 9 months ago
Jason,

I think it is safe to say that the majority think the wall of prose, and your use of this outlet as a medium for framing your writing aspirations is obnoxious.

It is a lot like the toddler dancing at the wedding because she wants all that attention that belongs to the betrothed to be focused on her.

Now I could be wrong, so immediately write another massive piece of prose and see if your artistic aspirations can elicit votes.
sobi 9 months ago
Drudge is one of the most powerful media voices. It is in the top 10 per the media. That's not my rating.

Besides, you are failing read, and playing superior without knowledge of me.

So, bite me.
sobi 9 months ago
The only thing worse than a wall of text is a wall of prose in the wrong place.

sobi 9 months ago
ps: you're fired.
sobi 9 months ago
said the pot to the kettle.
sobi 9 months ago
Precisely.
sobi 9 months ago
It is crazy not to.

They do not think.
sobi 9 months ago
So if God would look past the executioner's deed and into his heart, you think God would give him go. That close?

Yes, government law is a temporary thing. It can turn in a day. It relates though in that I say there is nothing in government law that can properly be called moral. Whether it coincides with moral law or not, it is doomed by its origin. It is always properly called upon for justification.

I'm pretty well aware of the abuse in police powers as permitted by law. It is why I get so disgusted. LOL

So for government, man is law unto himself, and for God, he's obliged to obey?

I tried cooking lentils once. It didn't work out very well. Something about the color.
sobi 9 months ago
Nick,

You have been misinformed.

You do not have a really great idea.

Sobi
sobi 9 months ago
Snark.

I'm so injured.

sobi 9 months ago
Rooster,

Take another look. Men wear white t-shirts. Women do not.

Imagine.
sobi 9 months ago
On the uprising. Yes. I think it must come. Sooner is better in my honest opinion. We are in the final time of a dying nation. That is not a good and happy place.

I doubt this summer. I was hoping. But the voices that I hear, and I listen, have actually quieted into a determined rage. For a while, I think the silence will confuse many that it isn't coming.

While they quietly get ready, many will think it was a silly scream in the night. They will be wrong, but there's nothing to be done about it.

sobi 9 months ago
And sincerely, Sobi, it's almost always the same (can you tell me why?), that the Green Peace whale watchers, seal saviors, duckie delighters and goose tuche whiners will complain about an almost non existent problem but which any ordinary farmer can explain, and still, knowingly allow their neighbor killer Tiller to live a respectable and unmolested life.

Very creative. LOL. Personally, it was veal that troubled me. I don't eat it. But I'm moving away from meat generally speaking anyway. I'd like to see us develop better sources of protein that become cultural habits. Just on an efficiency basis if nothing else.

There are lots of people to feed, and if you get your way, there will be more. LOL.

I agree, there are more pressing problems, but it does cause the cringe anyway.
sobi 9 months ago
Scrolling through the poetry first every time I come to this thread makes me want for another thread.

The castle law is good law. Should be nationwide. If it were, a lot of genuine crime would be seriously reduced.

Forget what the people would say. I can pretty well anticipate the arguments on both sides. What would God say?

I have no doubt there is a bible in my home somewhere amongst the books. I have too many books. They are stacked everywhere. LOL

But I'm not going in search of it.

Yes, I am fully aligned on jury powers. Maybe he would walk, I'm not sure. Nullification is a good and necessary thing, but in this conversation, it is a predictive hope. Not ready for discussion.

Popular thought, much like popular speech, is not the highest form. I am not inclined to give it credit for being popular.

More coffee. I drink LOTS of coffee in the morning.


sobi 9 months ago
A truly expansive black market is a wonderful meeting ground for open government (we make our own again) and a productive collaborative exercise for which we might congratulate ourselves.

What better civil response could there be than that? In spirit and in fact.
sobi 9 months ago
Morning, Kinda--my hours get messed up in the light.

Tiller was killed. Yes.
The individual killing him, ....even with a private group consensus...is only executioner to those in agreement.

They took it upon themselves to accuse, hold an improper trial, convict outside of authority, sentence to death, and apply sentence.

In the law, it is murder. They claimed the law failed them, and they took it upon themselves to correct. I'm not entirely opposed to such a thing, and I cannot conceive of a proper reason for late-term abortion, I'll admit that. It doesn't mean there isn't one, it means I haven't come face-to-face with it yet.

So, should he be executed himself? I am opposed to the death penalty on many grounds, none of them are moral. So not by the state to my mind.

I am more interested in what you perceive God will say.

There, I capitalized it. Need more coffee. On paragraph read and responded to.



sobi 9 months ago
Rooster,

Sorry, not yet. Call upon him again. Maybe you got caught in a filter.

LOL

sobi 9 months ago
The good ideas will not rise to the top. The data taken from this site is already complete.

If you have the know-how, you can get a d/l of it. You will find that there was a non-public field rating topical that screened all NAPA considered off-topic.

I have the dump, pretty thinned I must say. Certainly all the passion and angst and authentic pleas for government correction have been filtered.

I can post it, not here, but I can if enough want it.
sobi 9 months ago
Sometimes, Elizabeth, it is like arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

The argument sounds silly, but it isn't at core. And people argued this one passionately. It is a form of metaspeech. Underneath are very strong spiritual issues seeing the light of day.

Don's not speaking to me. Sad.

He reminds me of someone from a dozen years back that meant the world to me.
sobi 9 months ago
Dr. Tiller is dead. Was that murder? Was that killing right or wrong? What will god say to the killer? Should government put him to death?


sobi 9 months ago
Yes, one is always more persuasive when armed. LOL
sobi 9 months ago
I know. I like black humor but the connotation has been all messed up.

I don't keep money in the banks. I won't. Minimal for account purposes.
sobi 9 months ago
I've said elsewhere I believe whole-heartedly in the black market.

It is an affirmation of independence, and a correct civil disobedience.
sobi 9 months ago
Don,

I watched the video. The link in your comment addressed to me didn't work, btw.

The video is a population demographic argument saying essentially, if Christians don't have more babies, Islam will take over strictly through a numbers thing.

What would that have to do with me? I'm not a Christian.

It also weakens your moral argument when you use that as a reason against abortion. That is a religious war.

Having heathens like myself giving birth does not improve your odds on the religious war. Besides, my personal day is done anyway.

It is generally true that repressed and poverty stricken populations reproduce at much higher rates. It seems a confusing argument against abortion.

There, I have commented on your video.

I can see how important this is to you. I don't mean to diminish that. I don't. You could mellow a touch if you want arguments persuasive, but there's no moral argument that says stifle your passion, just your condemnation.
sobi 9 months ago
I doubt they can achieve cashless in our generation. There is too much money changing hands in situations where even congress doesn't want watched for that to succeed.

I agree on the currency thing. We need to trash this whole power to manipulate our own personal money.
sobi 9 months ago
Well, one can't buy american now. You have to buy government issue.

sobi 9 months ago
Imagine if you will, congress explaining to 7-years-olds why they can't trade toys.

This is the problem with discretionary enforcement. If they actually were compelled to enforce the laws equitably, the whole population would rise up against their arrogance.
sobi 9 months ago
Good point, poorly posted, but good point.

Congress should have to recuse themselves when their personal investments are impacted by legislation.

sobi 9 months ago
Yawn.

Prisoners are bad and disgusting. Don't you think they are bad and disgusting?

Yes, prisoners are bad and disgusting. You must be very smart.

You are also very smart for agreeing with me that prisoners are bad and disgusting.

------

If nothing else, this conversation is redundant.

sobi 9 months ago
An additional side benefit would be not having to watch candle lit intimate scenes implying private chemical induced virility.

Excellent.
sobi 9 months ago
Affirmed. We need symbols leading to the black market outlets.

Like the tramps who used to ride the trains did.

sobi 9 months ago
This is over the top.

Don is sincere, authentic, and fighting for what he believes.

Those are respectable things even if he could mellow just a touch.


sobi 9 months ago
Marijuana users have the same rights, and those rights, not granted by any government, are being infringed.

Government should stop violating marijuana users rights.

sobi 9 months ago
At this point I am only advocating that congress address this issue; once they do, then we can voice our personal opinions.


......LOL. And on this site, no less.

Wrong order of events.
sobi 9 months ago
I...must...resist....the.....desire...to...comment....on.....Michelle's.....wardrobe.

sobi 9 months ago
Dispense with all the posturing, and I be glad to elaborate.

I installed many values. Some in concert, some in direct conflict with the local mores. So the answer is, I did both.

How does that relate to the pledge?

It is not necessary to install loyalty to one's country. It comes. It is unavoidable. It is the nature of humanity to be loyal to one's own.

I can think of no better example than in the display of flags after 9/11.

In that example, there were many flags, and in Los Angeles and surrounding geography, there was a definite flavor of competing loyalties, if you recall.

I lived in Southern California at the time.

The presence and numbers of Mexican flags waving shows in the innate loyalty to one's birth land.

....with liberty and justice for all.

Liberty is the core of the argument.

Compelling children in an act of patriotism is contrary to liberty because it is compelled.

It is not necessary.

sobi 9 months ago
Don,

Such angst. The pain you feel is extreme. I can see that.

It is also error. Not because of abortion or husbandry, but because in your passion to defend against sin, you sin yourself.

You are guilty of pride of opinion, of condemning god's children, of not leaving to god what is his.

Examine that beam in your eye.

You must learn to be content to live among gods creations or you will be called to answer.
sobi 9 months ago
Why are those who are convinced that people asserting a right to an abortion not comfortable with the idea that these same said people will be called to answer.

If you believe your god will do his thing on judgment day, be grateful and content with that faith.

I think twas he who claimed ownership of vengeance, and called upon his followers to leave that job to him.

If there is a need to proxy for the lord, should you not wait at least for the tap on the shoulder before you do so?

sobi 9 months ago
Rooster,

Not their liberty, ours.
sobi 9 months ago
To he who will no longer use my name, (LOL)

There is no such thing as a right to an opinion. People are in possession of opinions because it is human nature. There is no denial of opinion, only a denial of an opinion in itself or a denial of a platform from which one might offer their opinion.

That is called free speech. Selective free speech is an oxymoron. It is free or it isn't. One is pregnant or not.

sobi 9 months ago
If you believe _______ then you are ________ or maybe __________ but not __________.

Fill in the blanks anyway you want, it is an invalid assertion and usually indicates a want for valid argument.
sobi 9 months ago
Toly, excellent.
sobi 9 months ago
What is happening in our prisons is not pertinent to the argument of whether they should be financially self-sustaining.

That is a political issue, and it threatens the hell out of liberty.
sobi 9 months ago
The President of the United States takes an oath to execute the duties of his office to the best of his ability. Military members take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies. Witnesses in trials take an oath to tell the truth.

---The president is not 5, is not compelled, he actually applied for the position, and he's not doing it by instruction under authority on a daily basis. Whole different ball game.

Where you are snarking without accountability on what I believe, and projecting meaning against what you want to argue against, I'll just say this. Your reading of my words has resulted in a faulty conclusion. I'll correct it when you own your words.

Parents indoctrinate away. I did. Everyone leave everyone else's child alone. Your unwillingness to separate the two distinct messages does not lend credibility to your argument. You are not arguing what I'm asserting. You are arguing a deliberate misinterpretation.

It is a nasty rhetorical tool when played upon someone who can't point it out. Here, it is just annoying.

Nope, you are in error on the rules of discourse.
sobi 9 months ago
Just making sure you're awake, like I know you are. LOL
sobi 9 months ago
Abortions per year, USA 1.5 million -- India 11 million

India legalized abortion to reduce population. Didn't work.

LOL
sobi 9 months ago
Oooga boooga, you think bad things, my god burn you for sure, good to see.

You two lack the moral foundation to make judgments.
sobi 9 months ago
Good morning, Don.

Always a joy to hear from you.

sobi 9 months ago
Men are welcome to consider it a social moral issue provided they leave wombs alone.

We were not the source of the fall of morality. That is the same argument that held a young girl morally responsible for a young couple's uninhibited expression of morality. Women are not properly assigned the entire moral burden.

Women's liberation ****IS**** not limited to the workplace. The legal and public face of women's liberation began with the vote.

That horrible, horrible business world out there is a product of rampant greed and capitalism because they are held in high esteem. Of course it sucks.

I am not compelled to pretend much of anything. That's more of a personal choice than something one can assign to women's liberation per say. I never smiled and said I'm happy being wonder woman, doing half the man's job, all the woman's job, getting paid less, and jumping in bed to reward his failure in spite of my lack of interest (translate: exhaustion).

I already have the power I want, thanks. I'm just adamant that no one will be taking it away.

I disagree intensely that my womb is a social issue. It isn't. It is mine. That is the core of my message.

sobi 9 months ago
I want to point out that what comes out of your car's tailpipe makes Obama's smoking contribution pale in comparison.

sobi 9 months ago
I am opposed to censorship, but poetry tempts me.

Especially poetry singing the praises of an imaginary sky buddy.
sobi 9 months ago
I would suggest that you become more familiar with the cost of medical care.

sobi 9 months ago
The ones posting and reading are called citizens.

Citizen to citizen exchange is as valid and vital as the rest of it.

sobi 9 months ago
Exactly how many doctors are forced to perform abortions?
sobi 9 months ago
It is a woman's issue. It has always been a woman's issue. It will always be a woman's issue.

The only thing men have contributed to this issue is to cause the death of women on the abortion black market. How utterly human of you.

Women didn't used to even consider consulting men on this issue. It was a common understanding that it belonged, and still does belong, to us.

You are either a moron or a gopher. ???? WTF? You haven't got a clue who or what I am. But, just so you can rest that weary imagination of yours, I'm 54, a widow, mother of 2 sons.

sobi 9 months ago
"Because you don't agree with the circumstances of a pregnancy?"

!!!!!!!

OMG, LOL

This is in regard to the right of a rape victim to remove the crime from her womb.

Yikes!
sobi 9 months ago
Again, my womb, my call.

But, just to stir the pot a little more, and to give the pontificating sanctimonious more food for ranting, I'm going to take my turn at the podium.

There isn't a man that has a valid opinion on what I should do with my womb. The logic behind this is simple. It is my womb. You may do what you wish with your own.

In response to reproduction, men claim equal rights, but they do not take equal responsibility. I'm not talking about the proud inseminaters of multiple women, they are irrelevant to my point.

My point is that before men are granted equal say, they must take equal responsibility, and they don't.

How many men fight for male birth control? That is where you take initial responsibility. There is nothing sacred in the male reproductive system that is so above the public concern that it must not be tampered with.

When men genuinely want reproductive equality, they will take reproductive responsibility and there will be evidence on the market of this with a wide variety of male birth control products because the careful male population will demand it, just as women had to do.

Until then, moralize all you want. I don't think your input merits consideration.

And frankly, we won. Women with wombs won.

Got it?

My womb, my choice.
sobi 9 months ago
Oh by all means, hold that rape victim in prison until she delivers the issue of the rapist. That will teach her to get raped.


sobi 9 months ago
Stop it with the auto-filter already. It is annoying.
sobi 9 months ago
yawn.
sobi 9 months ago
This is police.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5076656n

Cop tasers a grandmother on a traffic stop.

They are thugs.
sobi 9 months ago
Nope, they don't Don.

My womb, my choice.

sobi 9 months ago
Not as much as you imagine it might.

The primary expenses for the poor are housing and food. Rent is not taxed because it is not considered retail. Food is traditionally not taxed because it is required.

For most of the poor, that leaves about 30% of their income subject to a 10% tax.

sobi 9 months ago
Oh come on! LOL
sobi 9 months ago
Besides, I don't care if you argue with me. I just wanted to outlast a conservative.

Conservatives are certainly a determined and repetitive bunch.
sobi 9 months ago
Rooster,

You, Bob, and William do not comprise people in the sense that the people have spoken. There are 3 of you. Not impressive.

The argument that unpopular speech is invalidated by being unpopular is just plain anti-american, dadgummit.

sobi 9 months ago
And rooster runs out of arguments, pauses at the door, yells through tears,

"You just don't understand!"

And slams the door.

Now, can he back this up by staying in his room?

We'll see.
sobi 9 months ago
Michael,

Yes, it is a broad generalization that points an accusatory finger at every member of a group. I am aware of that. In fact, it is by intent.

I do not seek to persuade law officials to behave reasonably. I seek to provide example for others who would like to see correction.

We do not need law enforcement on our side, we need them to feel shame.

And they should.
sobi 9 months ago
I don't get it? What is it?

Pronouns such as it should not stray so far from the object of a sentence that they require explanation.

What things?

Who's asleep?
sobi 9 months ago
Ivan, dear Ivan.

The local public school is government. Play with that for a minute.

I understand 4th amendment rights are being currently stepped on in the schools. It is improper and under challenge.

The privacy right at the job location has already traveled through the courts who ruled that an expectation of privacy bars searches.

That why you always hear the disclaimer: This call may be recorded. It is eliminate an expectation of privacy.

Finally, I'm 54, college-educated, and you are not competent to teach until you master the skill of not buying your own story.
sobi 9 months ago
I would just as promptly battle an uber islamic coercion plan.

James,

People are passionate about politics. The way to learn about your government is to start and keep going.

I resorted to name calling in this instance because I wanted to. That does not, all due respects to ladyhawk, make me an idiot.

First, I was likened to a conspiracy theorist by Bob. That's a degrading description in public speak.

Then Rooster attempted to portray me as somewhat bitter and in need of pity, again, a rhetoric device meant to weaken someone's argument by pointing to a person and saying nothing good could come from that person. That's called argumentum ad hominem.

Then Bob tells me my rationale borders on the absurd. That sound like proper argument to you?

Then Rooster tells me my problems run deep. Tee hee. That's again ad hominem in nature. It implies that my arguments fail because I'm some kind of a nut job.

Come to think about it, I think this argument is excellent for you to watch. The attacks are not aimed at you, and you can comfortably watch how they operate and become inoculated.

Then Bob decides I'm "hung up" on the phrase "under god". Amateur analysis is a common device but it falls under ad hominem.

Somewhere in there, he called my argument specious. Meaningless, out there, properly ignored in public speak. He demands I put forth evidence if I challenge his position.

This is an assumption of a position to be answered to, as if some inherent authority lies in his position and the burden of proof falls upon me.

It is incorrect. giggle.

Then he asserts that I do indeed have to put forth evidence and accuses me of ad hominem.

Okay, enough. Wanks like that need to be called wanks.

Anyway, this is not an improper forum for you. It is a nice safe place for you to watch.

Enjoy.
sobi 9 months ago
They are prohibited if they choose to be. Otherwise, they are infringed upon, and if they weren't poor enough to qualify for Section 8, the challenge would have already taken place.

That's what makes regulations like that so ugly in spirit.
sobi 9 months ago
Ivan,

You gave up your constitutional rights. That is distinct in kind from imposing a loss of constitutional rights.

You shouldn't have to submit, to my way of thinking. It is crude and rude.

I'm not using your money, honey. Relax. If I were, I would do what I please with it. Freak out. LOL

sobi 9 months ago
Sigh. What about it?
sobi 9 months ago
I don't like uber christians trying to cram their belief systems into other people's children. That, in itself, is a hostile move. You should expect retaliation if you attempt to instigate such practices again.

It is hostile to demand my children remain respectfully silent while your children pay homage to an imaginary sky buddy.

It is ad hominem to say that people who disagree with you haven't studied the issue or fail to understand it. It is also revolting.


The second one is alliteration. It is a rhetorical tool. You either get it, or you don't.
sobi 9 months ago
It can and is both.

Cognitive dissonance is not something properly compelled on little children.

Of course children can think. And before you indoctrinate them, give them a chance to do so. They are not fully armed against indoctrination at that age. Compel them when they are 18 if you can. Leave the little ones alone.

The coercion is the pledge. The indoctrination is the result.

Scientology is crap. Just like your God and your argument.
sobi 9 months ago
Bob,

You started the ad hominem. Suck it up.

No, I am not obliged to provide evidence. Look it up.

Your argument also wants for evidence. Give it up.

sobi 9 months ago
William, I'm 54. So what?

The reason women entered the workforce was they were needed during WWII. The reason they stayed after the war ended was because they liked the independence.

Granted, capitalists took immediate advantage and lowered salaries, but that is capitalism.

Neither the Pledge nor the daily prayer belong in public schools. That might have something to do with why they were prohibited.

My kids also turned out okay. So what?
sobi 9 months ago
Frankly, if you didn't think it was an indoctrination, you wouldn't care either. Your entire argument is dishonest on that basis.

You want them to say your daily pledge so they experience cognitive dissonance when they begin to question the existence of your deity.

Also, the implicit concept of sacrifice for the greater good is the opposite of the foundation for the U.S.A. It was founded on property rights and individual rights.

sobi 9 months ago
I think it is a numbers thing. You hit 25, you go into moderation automagically.

sobi 9 months ago
Calling an argument specious does not make it so. The evidence is out there. I need not provide it to you. Go get it if you want it.

I do not think young children are free-thinking. That is why I do not want wanks like you putting words into their mouths and compelling them to stand like little robots paying homage to your god.

They are impressionable, open, undefended little innocents. Leave them alone.

sobi 9 months ago
On this idea, I do want to add.

Symbolism is extremely important, and it is very powerful. That is why children should not be compelled to pledge allegiance to it prior to the ability to understand what they are giving their innocent little loyalties to.

Rituals, like common utterances from the parent, sink so deep into the child's psyche, that they parrot their parents for many of their adult years without ever having considered the meaning of what they say.

That is the definition of indoctrination. Indoctrinate your own children at will. But leave the others alone.
sobi 9 months ago
Dear Bob,

I did explain why it is indoctrination. Feel free to continue to disagree.


sobi 9 months ago
Rooster,

I do not know what prompts your pity, but prior to offering it, please explain it. Otherwise it is a rhetorical pigeon-holing device and you know what you can do with that, I'm comfortable assuming.
sobi 9 months ago
Ivan,

The demand that they waive their 2nd amendment rights would not survive challenge.

Drug testing is considered search. Search falls under the 4th amendment. In fact, it was kicked out on that basis. The same as the 2nd amendment fantasy of the attorney general.

It is not uncommon for unconstitutional provisions to be written. That happens all the time. It proves nothing.

The drug testing routine has been tried, and died.

It is similar to another legal challenge that became popular for a while.

When stores attempt to make you stand in line for inspection after completion of your business, and people rightly objected, the courts explained, slowly one presumes, that the stores have no authority to suspend constitutional rights at their threshold.

So walk on by and wave.





sobi 9 months ago
My use of hate was an example. I'm fairly confident it is equal on both sides.

I don't want to run your life, and I want no one running mine. That makes me a conservative.

I do not agree that the poor are poor because the poor deserve it. That makes me liberal.

I do not care. What I am saying is that the number of 18 year olds voting is not a huge problem even though, at 18, shallow is dominant.

Showing up to vote is as deep as it goes. It is still a good start to my way of thinking.
sobi 9 months ago
As far as labeling me and hoping I give a _______, give it up. You are insufficient to the task. I tire of people like you.

The separate of church and state is there. It is irrelevant what the founders intended. They are all dead. There is actually a lot of legal reasoning behind this concept, but it still simplifies down to the fact that they were not empowered to obligate future generations, nor was the future empowered to telepathy by their pronouncements. All you have is the words of the text. Not what you pretend was their meaning. That's an exercise in self-justification and it is a bunch of crap.

I pledge to no flag, and I expect children to be free of coercion to pay allegiance to a symbol over principle.

Second, there is no God. When I use the term, it is a rhetorical device.

If you think you have an imaginary sky buddy capable of striking me down, call upon him to do so. You probably won't be the first.

No one may properly compel children to silently or openly acknowledge an imaginary sky buddy.

While it is improper, the concept of silence is consent is common vernacular.

Remaining silent in the midst of 29 other children affirming an imaginary sky buddy is indoctrination.





sobi 9 months ago
Income tax, progressive or regressive is inherently unfair. Examine it closer.

Doing away with the I.R.S. is a wonderful thought. Let's do. Also, let's get government out of the money market. They have sufficient voice through purchasing power alone.

There would be no drug cartels had government not carved out a black market for them. Black markets exist because government confuses its role.

Black markets are people refusing to be intimidated.

I support black markets whole-heartedly.

sobi 9 months ago
Rooster, I suspect that much of what you say is true about the motivations behind youthful voting.

I suspect hatred is behind much conservative voting.

I suspect poverty is behind much liberal voting.

Voting is the core of democracy. In fact, voting is the only democracy we have. While I am aware of the tyranny of the 51%, we need some democracy or we have a kingdom.

sobi 9 months ago
I would like to say that this is a non-issue because the voice of the nation has backed down every politician who has tried it.

Obama has some serious courage behind him. It may need a more careful watch than usual.
sobi 9 months ago
bob,

No, no, no, and no.

The pledge of allegiance is an indoctrination tool, less offensive prior to the Knights of Columbus adding a religious flavor to it, none-the-less, improper as a compelled ritual.

It does indeed violate the 1st amendment as is. The court opinions fully explain why it violates the 1st, hence I need not.

sobi 9 months ago
You are incorrect. My generation is appalled at what is taking place. Perhaps the schools are currently failing, but it is a temporary backlash that will self-correct before we permit an indoctrinate youth agency to exist.
sobi 9 months ago
More succinctly,

It ain't personal, its just business.
sobi 9 months ago
Michael. No.

In my core, I understand that human beings are human beings. This has nothing to do with individual worth, personal character, or values. This is a political stance.

Those who object to the drug war are label, ostracized, disenfranchised, forbidden employment, arrested, imprisoned, lose their rights as citizens, and held in contempt by public officials who use the fear mongering to grandstand for votes.

My intention is to return the favor, to suggest to all who oppose the war on people to contribute to the stigma of those who provide the muscle behind the war on people.

It is only fair, equitable, and possible somewhat effective.

They are thugs because they chose to seek and take a job whose primary function is to arm the war on people.

They are ethically and righteously called upon that platform.

I am being entirely reasonable.
sobi 9 months ago
I don't care if prisoners are smoking each other's big toes.

There HAS to be a cost to society to throw people in prison. If there isn't, then throwing people in prison will be the first response. It's easy, quick, and now you want to make it free because you have some idea that living behind bars is a better life than it should be.

You are speaking of the value of the prisoners.

I speak of the value of liberty.



sobi 9 months ago
The concept of potential profit or a break-even goal for prisons is toxic to liberty.

There would be no reason not to imprison people.
sobi 9 months ago
Such a thing would have to be watched like a hawk does prey.
sobi 9 months ago
I don't know what he is being paid, and your point about after all the money is paid back will the position still exist is a valid one. I don't know.

My personal experience though is that once a position is created, only private industry removes them when no longer needed.
sobi 9 months ago
How much vacation time are we speaking of here?

After four months, a weekend off is unreasonable?

sobi 9 months ago
This is for corporations who are taking taxpayer money.

Bailouts shouldn't happen, but they did. It is obvious that the upper ranks shouldn't take taxpayer dollars and build personal swimming pools with them.
sobi 9 months ago
I think this is more important than petty irritation and petty blame-the-irritated for being irritated exchange.

In fact, if these websites are not rolled out in a more user friendly fashion, the open government participation concept will die of bad taste.
sobi 9 months ago
Something equivalent to this has been tried and kicked.

You cannot group citizens by virtue of a public benefit and then hold them to a different 4th amendment standard.
sobi 9 months ago
Walking. Excellent.
sobi 9 months ago
That was called feudalism.
sobi 9 months ago
That which is already in the public domain is not subject to copyright. The same reasoning should be applied to patents.

Also, I agree. Living things should be exempt from patents. In fact, genetic tampering, especially, needs to be open to the public for testing, and public warning purposes.
sobi 9 months ago
I think it is an excellent suggestion. It is at the core. Change the thinking of how things are usually done. Spot on!
sobi 9 months ago
There's a gem of an idea in here, though. Dave's right about the no federal crime on record. There are 4,500 of them on the books. Anyone can be turned into a felon on a whim.

How about this though, For each state, supply federal funding for a citizen to sit in on the senate, including meetings, for the purpose of reporting to the people the contents thereof.

I would be inclined to seek fewer qualifications rather than more, and have an annual turnover so they do not become embedded or need to seek approval for continued employment.

To match how the people would perceive it, one must avoid the personality-stamping filter. I would want perspectives from all types, including factory floor workers, store clerks, unemployed, etc.

sobi 9 months ago
It's in process none-the-less.

Obama's green initiative will take over local codes.
sobi 9 months ago
Not your kind.
sobi 9 months ago
If they pay more that $4.95 cents for this hosting, they've overpaid.

They could have had a single clerk use free Wikipedia software, and manage it much better.

Obama, I need a job. I'll do it.
sobi 9 months ago
Did that take 2 days?
sobi 9 months ago
It helps if you're armed.
sobi 9 months ago
I'm not real sure what you're referring to in that statement.

I would guess that because I don't support the suck it up crowd, I'm guilty of calling upon government to answer all.

Is that about right?
sobi 9 months ago
And WND wins. LOL

That explains it.
sobi 9 months ago
Translated: I will work you to death if you are willing. Stop fighting for your own interests. They do not matter. Only profit matters. All profit is mine.

Gag.
sobi 9 months ago
I think it might have something to do with the number of ideas submitted. It hit a wall at 26.

sobi 9 months ago
We count crime today. We didn't used to.

I'm sorry you feel that the world is worse. I'm 54. I'm not a young idealist by any means.

Our culture has changed, but I don't think the same as you.

It isn't that I have such an abiding belief in the goodness of humanity, it is because from my reading, I have decided that we are no worse. LOL

sobi 9 months ago
Can't be done.

Besides, you're the one whose cap key is stuck.
sobi 9 months ago
There a joke running through the media today that someone hired a speed reader in case the read-the-bill strategy was used in committee.

Your representatives are laughing at this expectation as well as laughing at the idea they should read bills before signing.
sobi 9 months ago
The google newsgroup on opengovernmentdirective is simply another heavily-moderated, join us or leave us forum.

That is why Open Government Uncensored exists.
sobi 9 months ago
I can't post new ideas right now, caught in some kind of filter and won't play, change my identity to trick the filters.

Pay-as-you-go is current, topical, and needs discussed. It would be good to start with a public that knows that pay-as-you-go means nothing if it provides a new tax base or increases an old one.

I'm just saying....
sobi 9 months ago
After the bailouts, Obama proposes we return to pay-as-you-go. See today's press briefing.

SCHIP, he touted as paid for because they had already decided who they were going to tax.

Pay-as-you-go, without a prohibition on new taxes, is meaningless.
sobi 9 months ago
Critical thinking and dialog training are both important concepts. I wish people had a firmer grasp on both.


I do not think that dialog training should be combined with political action meetings. That is a strategy used in the libertarian party, and they all parrot each other.

In a partisan atmosphere, dialog training would quickly morph into persuasion and recruitment training and operate as a source of politically-designed answers. That does not foster conversation. It closes ears and minds.

sobi 9 months ago
Yea, I have chime in on the side that says representation isn't working well for me at this time.
sobi 9 months ago
I understand.

That is why I often attempt to remove emotion from what I write. It is hope that someone will look at the idea instead.

My meaning was that if they came to the US for healthcare it is because they had money. Money buys good healthcare in the US.

sobi 9 months ago
You attribute meaning to things, then proceed to discuss them as if they are common knowledge.

That is faulty logic.
sobi 9 months ago
English need not be shoved down anyone's throat.

But as the dominant language, expressing something in English should be enough.

Those that want to use other primary languages need to cover the cost of translation.
sobi 9 months ago
Yes, they're rich.
sobi 9 months ago
Grandmothers are way too wise to always tell the truth.

Yes they do.
sobi 9 months ago
Yes, excellent. Related to that is stay out of the doctor's office, and leave the woman's reproductive organs alone.

I'm glad to see you support abortion, Don.
sobi 9 months ago
Must also ban veal.
sobi 9 months ago
Disheartening to see the lack of support for this fundamental concept of liberty.

sobi 9 months ago
I have nerve damage. Prohibition irritates them. I will smoke anything I wanna smoke.
sobi 9 months ago
Prohibition violates the 9th amendment.

The 9th amendment is an individual right, and thus prohibits states as well as federal.
sobi 9 months ago
RocknRoll, Oooooouuch.

I love the label uber christian though.

Just plain scary.
sobi 9 months ago
That argument is not the final argument by any means.

Prohibition is doomed.

sobi 9 months ago
Well, they were wrong. Tax him.
sobi 9 months ago
Probably wise advice, if unnecessary.

I didn't say I could do fusion. LOL


sobi 9 months ago
We need a break the bad rule day.

Let us designate July 1 as break the bad rule day. Thus we can get together, smoke something funny, and plan our tea parties.

I can't post anymore ideas, so feel free to swipe the idea for posting.
sobi 9 months ago
The idea that one can assess morality from what category one tosses the person in is, in my opinion, morally repugnant.

It is no different than assigning a character assessment based on race.

If I decide to identify someone as liberal, then assign moral failure stemming from that identity, and finally condemn them, I have committed what is called a non-sequitor.

It is a failure of logic that means, it does not follow.

All cats are green
My dog is green
My dog is a cat

sobi 9 months ago
I disagree. I think it is a fallacy that morality was more present in the past than currently. It is similar to the common belief that crime is more dominant now than in the past. That one is dangerous.

The reason it feels like it is comes from media exposure to what past generations never knew took place. We are pounded in the face with it on a daily basis. It feels more intense.

I personally do not think that human kind has changed that dramatically over the course of a hundred years, and I take exception to the idea that I am somehow in want of moral education.

I am adequately ethical, thank you.
sobi 9 months ago
Oh, lighten up. I'm not exactly likable either.

Go along to get along isn't my way.

I just have had my fill of moral lectures.

So tough back at you.

LOL
sobi 9 months ago
Posted successfully, hit a moderator filter of some kind. Bummer.

God must be a forbidden word.

LOL

Idea Posted Successfully
If God is content with 10%, why should the Federal Government need more?
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LOL.

Repeal the 16th.
Add amendment:

Federal Government shall be content with a 10% sales tax, and shall apply no other taxes.

Federal Government shall confine itself to its means and stay within its budget.

Federal Government shall be free to petition God for extra money if they make budgeting mistakes.

All, and I mean ALL excise taxes are prohibited.

Obama, give back the SCHIP taxes. That was wrong, and bad.

Bad, bad, bad.

Corporations must go to God for loans, give aways and redemption.

Why Is This Idea Important?
Because people are upset with taxes.
Idea # 3649Do-It-Yourself Government, open government, collaboration, participation, tax, fail
Comments
sobi 9 months ago
Your opinion is indeed as good as anyone else's.

So's mine. Personally, I don't like moral lectures.
sobi 9 months ago
We should repeal the 16th. We should then add an amendment that says sales tax must be capped at, say, 10%.

So simple, even the educated can understand it. LOL

sobi 9 months ago
Let's just go with the federal sales tax. I don't think they should tax income. It is unpopular, it creates record keeping nightmares, and the I.R.S., as well as provides an avenue for cheaters.

LOL
sobi 9 months ago
Jumping on the opportunity of a public forum for purposes of giving the public a personal moral lecture is not a likable behavior.
sobi 9 months ago
Its coming.
sobi 9 months ago
You're not looking. It is a fairly open process. Short of a recording device in her bathroom, not much more can be exposed to sunlight.
sobi 9 months ago
Our leaders are covering up the biggest theft in history with bailouts.

No. I will not collude.
sobi 9 months ago
I'm all for fusion. The oil and coal era is over, move on.

On trees, I don't understand why people move into a new home, and don't plant a tree. It should be step one. Okay, step two. Step one is to install toilet paper.

It wouldn't hurt our world if it was a custom to plant a food production tree in every yard.

I wish that was an idea that would sell.
sobi 9 months ago
There are other similar challenges traveling up, one is on Balken's site today.

The doctrine of minimalist ruling at the Supreme Court level is understandable until one takes issues such as these into account.

How many years and bills passed before the reasonable application of an individual's right is enforced in favor of the individual.

At 100 cases a year, it could be another 20-30 years before this is done. Given the temporal distance between miller and heller, it could be longer but I don't want to lend the appearance of alarmist static.

Anyway, carry on.
sobi 9 months ago
The war on drugs has turned into a war on people. Both are improper.

Illegal and immoral are distinct. The regulations on drugs are both illegal and immoral. If anyone considers it their duty to apply these regulations to me, it is my duty to resist, not be complicit in an act against my own self-interest.

Police lose perspective. It is an affect of their job. I do not consider them professionals capable of making judgments, I consider them armed thugs and an enemy for collaborating in the war on people.

Probably cause can be contrived on a whim and usually is.

Tell your sister to get a job that people can respect her for if she wants respect, others, deal with it. She's made her call.
sobi 9 months ago
huge wall of text. Yawn.
sobi 9 months ago
All efforts to curb self-interest by forbidding it drive it underground and essentially hide it.

Nothing will actually stop it.

While I understand the goal, it is out of reach. Continued efforts merely complicate hiding which in turn complicates finding.
sobi 9 months ago
Just on the outside chance that this is a currently ongoing situation that is real for some person:

If you work at a small company, and you are misnamed a salaried employee for the purposes of avoiding overtime wages, contact the department of labor, give them your job description and it is their responsibility to enforce labor laws. In doing this, you should receive back wages.

If you work for a large company, you must do the same as a collective or you don't stand a chance.

sobi 9 months ago
Typed my comment, then neatly clicked closed. Bummer.

I already fired them for the bailouts. I already wrote the President.

In this structure, my entire democratic currency is comprised of:

One vote per election per person;
And all the support and agreement I can muster when recruiting like-minded individuals.

That's why the public is screaming at the government.

We are participation and collaboration poor.
sobi 9 months ago
At first it was just on the Whitehouse site, but now it has traveled over to OSTP.

sobi 9 months ago
You can't just be called salaried. There's a definition for salaried. Look it up, if you do not fit that profile, sue your employer for back wages.

sobi 9 months ago
At least some zealots are honest in the condemnation of Obama for being black rather than a non-citizen.

sobi 9 months ago
No, I don't remember Jimmy's pronunciation. I certain am old enough.

What I remember most from Jimmy was some reporter accused him of spending $600 campaign dollars on toothpaste and Jimmy saying, "It worked, didn't it?"

LOL

Who buys into communism?
sobi 9 months ago
I doubt Bush's intelligence not because he spoke more slowly, I speak more slowly and actually prefer it.

I doubt Bush's intelligence not because he couldn't master the discipline of pronouncing nuclear (sorry--had to, could not resist).

I doubt him because he seriously believe himself when he said to the American people for the umpteenth time, "You just don't understand."

The man was delusional.
sobi 9 months ago
I honestly do think he cares. I also think he probably knows more about what's on this site than any agency depending upon a washed dump of data.

He's president. No matter what you think of his politics, thinking he's stupid is, well, stupid. Stupid people don't make it that far. (Bush did shake my faith in that though.)

Perhaps he should have retained more personnel from his campaign staff. They had a pretty good handle on the pulse of the nation.

He needs to dump the professional politicians, I think. They're irredeemably warped. Sad, but not tragic.

Anyway, I do think he knows. He must! I need him to know. LOL
sobi 9 months ago
I retract that. Apparently, the End Imperial Presidency also has a closed icon on it.