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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:16:07 -0700

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

I wonder if this is true. It does explain people's behavior it also seems like and excuse.

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Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:06:24 -0800

I think it is time to move on.

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Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:37:09 -0800

While stumblin'

Dear Red States:

If you manage to steal this election, too, we've decided we're leaving. We
intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with
us. In case you aren't aware, that includes California , Hawaii , Oregon ,
Washington , Minnesota , Wisconsin , Michigan , Illinois and all the
Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and
especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas , Oklahoma and all the slave
states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85% of America 's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama .
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue; you get to make the red states pay
their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22% lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of
single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and
we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need
people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently
willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you
don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you
success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to
spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the
country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of
the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines, 90% of all
cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, 95% of the corn and soybeans (thanks
Iowa!), most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and
MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88% of
all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92% of all
U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99%
of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush
Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
We get Hollywood and Yosemite , thank you.

Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually
swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing
the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a
theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy bastards
believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Peace out,
--Blue States

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Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:17:12 -0700

Perhaps I should rant a bit more often, if you know what I mean. If you don't what's the difference eh?

"Don't you begin to start to lecture me on responsibility you pathetic little bitch." That's how the story started.

Mouths hung open at an angle just so creating a look of total disbelief. Finally, was written over some, those who had been at the end of her quick and violent tempter before. And there were a few present.

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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:41:33 -0700

Rare that I have something to slap in here eh. A friend sent this to me. I feel the man's pain.

.....an actual letter to the passport office

Dear sir

I am in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe

this. How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and

knows that I bought a t.v. cable from them back in 1997, and yet, the

Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date.

For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand? My birth date you have on

my social security card, and it is on all the income tax forms I have

filed for the past 30 years. It is on my health insurance card, my

driver's license, on the last eight goddamn passports I have had, on all

those stupid customs declaration forms I have had to fill out before being

allowed off the planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable

census forms that are done at election times.

Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name

is Maryanne, my father's name is Robert and I would be absolutely

astounded if that ever changed between now and when I die!!!!!!

SHIT!

I apologize, I am really pissed off this morning. Between you and me, I've

had enough of this bullshit! You send the application to my house, then

you ask me for my fucking address. What is going on? You have a gang of

Neanderthal assholes working there! Look at my damn picture. Do I look

like Bin Laden? I don't want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for shit sakes. I

just want to go and park my ass on a sandy beach. And would someone please

tell me, why would you give a shit whether I plan on visiting a farm in

the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a

chicken or a goat, believe you me, I would sure as hell not want to tell

anyone!

Well, I have to go now, because I have to go to the other end of the city

and get another fucking copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of $60.

Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to

assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day?? Nooooo, that would

be too damn easy and maybe makes sense. You would rather have us running

all over the fucking place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find

some asshole to confirm that it's really me on the goddamn picture - you

know, the one where we are not allowed to smile?! (fucking morons)

Hey, you know why we can't smile? We are totally pissed off!

Signed - An Irate fucking Citizen.

P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to

confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country since 1776

. I have served in the military for something over 30 years and have had

security clearances up the yingyang. However, I have to get someone

important to verify who I am - you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS

BORN AND RAISED IN COMMUNIST fucking CHINA!

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Mon, 05 May 2008 06:49:46 -0700

I have been lost in the philosophy forum as of late, sometimes I feel like I know nothing at all.

I had something funny from yesterday to post, forgot it now, it must not have of been as mind blowing as I originally thought.

There was this birthday party for my eldest, and two of his cousin's at Grandma's yesterday. Oh, my brother-in-law's mother-in-law is a piece of work. I wonder what level of hell she comes from, or balances against. Amazing.

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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:13:03 -0700

Buddy in the hospital, burst his .... well, you might be eating a late breakfast or early lunch so I will hold off on the details. How quickly it brings us to the the understanding that life is transient and fleeting.

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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:37:04 -0700

In a world of originals the common man stands out.

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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:54:38 -0700

Evil,

What do I think of when I think of Evil? Not good, what does that mean, something that is good, the opposite, and that is not good, it would be evil. Why is Evil not good? (Why does my word processor let me capitalize evil and not Good in that sentence, but not the other?) Are there examples of when something is evil but good? Are they true opposites?

Much of this type of discussion is ontological, meaning that, it surrounds the use of the word. I like philosophy at this level because I tend to deal more with people on a verbal basis and that is where our confusion over lexicon and diction arise. Or, our confusion over the meaning of words and how it is used. (Gilligan)

By using a pop topic reference I can filter out those who might know what the word Gilligan means to me and what the Gilligan reference is. (Basically crude saloon humor, or sophomoric perhaps.) I could then say `she's a Ginger, she's a MaryAnn' and those around me who responded humorously to the Gilligan reference would know what I was saying. We now have a common thread of understanding between us. Unfortunately here in a forum it takes weeks sometimes years to understand the parts about who already knows what a reference to pop culture in the United States vs. Paraguay.

I like interaction with people, thoughts and ideas. Things that make me think, read and understand more clearly. I think this is good. I think this is something that I should strive for, a better understanding of why I do something one way or another. I do not subscribe to the belief that I have no control over what I do. I have done things one way or another, sometimes diametrically opposed. (Opposite in every way from the other, Gilligan, but not like in a mirror, Ginger, more like a pumpkin pie verses apple, MaryAnn, I am more a MaryAnn kind a guy anyway.)

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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:08:07 -0700

How do you thumb up something you don't like? I mean like, I don't like this certain thing, but I think others should know about it. Is it really in the part that I think I know what other's should know that is perverted? Maybe perverted isn't the right angle here. Why are the words angle and angel so similar in spelling?