The old adage "It's only fun until someone loses an eye" is simply not true...
In fact, the fun quotient is exactly the same- it's just that your viewpoint is skewed.
So says a recent study from the Heritage Foundation.
Not to be outdone, I point out that if you give a man a fish he eats for a day, but teach a man to fish and he'll soon figure out that the river is polluted.
So much for republican support of school prayer. On Feb. 7 readers of the collegiate Stony Brook Press got to read an editorial by editor Glen Given titled "Dear Jesus Christ, King of Kings, all I ask is that you smite George W. Bush." In the form of an open letter to Jesus, it asked Him to smite Bush, Cheney, their cabinet members, and Carson Daly, host of MTV's Total Request Live. No innocent soul on the list.
In response, the Secret Service shook him down, searched his house, and asked a lot of questions about his parent's divorce, "family values" being a matter of grave government scrutiny.
Then, on Feb. 15, contributing editor John Derbyshire of the republican standard the National Review (a large national magazine as opposed to a tiny local student press) ran a column titled "Be Very Afraid." In it, he said "I hate Chelsea Clinton," and attempted to justify a moral reasoning for her to be executed both because she was "genetically a Clinton," and the fact that she showed up late to church last Christmas, saying, "Chelsea was the first Clinton to show up... seven minutes into it! Mom and Dad were even later, of course. But why did Chelsea have to be late at all? To Holy Communion!"
The week before he defended racial profiling , writing "Practically all law-enforcement professionals believe in the need for racial profiling" says it's common sense.
The Secret Service did not show up to the National Review office, nor did they question Derbyshire, search his home, or peruse his medical records.
Talk about hypocrisy.
Nor did they go after Hillary Clinton, who on election night was heard seconding a call to murder a candidate. Lloyd Grove of the Washington Post reported that, at a public gathering, publishing figure Harry Evans shouted, "I want to kill Nader!" Hillary Clinton seconded with, "That's not a bad idea!"
Now that should equal a conspiracy, a plot from the upper echelons of the bureaucracy. For years they looked for one- but given one failed to act.
I guess I feel less left out now. In the final issue of 2000, didn't the pull quote on page 18 say "Buy Popcorn and Kill the President?" We've been getting the same treatment as the political establishment. Thank God we're not a college paper; and also for His smiting of Cheney.
I buy all my shirts at half- off, due to the fact that they're irregular. Not irregular due to production glitches, but because they have deviant thoughts. Because of this they are ostracized by the merchandizing system.
When I bring them home and place them in the closet, the other clothes relegate them to a special corner, a ghetto of sorts, which the shirts call "the hip section of the closet." This is where all the culturally relevant events in the closet take place.
The shirts always have the last laugh. They sway and influence the children of the other attire: the jeans, the sweaters, the shoes (who try so hard to raise the youth to be straightlaced).
Eventually, the shirts will triumph.
It's inevitable.
Depression is an epidemic. Western medicine defines "the depressed" as those suffering from a "lack of desire."
Buddhism teaches that life is suffering, that suffering is caused by desire, therefore in order to stop suffering you must quell your desire.
If you have a "lack of desire" in a Buddhist culture you are "enlightened." Meanwhile, in the west, you're just sick. Sorry.
Even mother nature hates starbucks.
Starbucks in downtown Seattle suffered major structural damage in last weeks earthquake. Here at Vision? Nary! the only thing that happened was a bottle of soap fell off a shelf; and we're practically sitting on top of the epicenter, a good hour drive from Seattle. It all has something to do with Karma.
Reportedly, the earthquake caused two billion in damages. In the end, all disasters end up being reduced to a cash equation, as all things must be commodified in our culture. Think about that next time you hear a report like, "A heavy crane fell on a busy street filled with pedestrians this afternoon, killing 15, injuring 12, and causing $80,000 damage to the crane. A company spokesman called the event a tragedy."
In Oregon, a bill was introduced to make vandalism of businesses like starbucks a "hate crime." Supporters call such actions "crimes against capitalism." The bill calls for an additional five years in prison for an offender whose crime is motivated by "a hatred of people who subscribe to a set of political beliefs that support capitalism."
This is just the kind of thing you get when you start monkeying around by expanding prosecutorial power.
Of course, liberals are generally people who will do the wrong thing for the right reason, or, when they manage to do the right thing it will often be for the wrong reason; so they can get public recognition.
There is actually a site on the internet (hungersite.com) where you can go press a button and they will give food to the hungry in exchange for you looking at ads. Note that they won't give the food to the hungry just to alleviate hunger, but in exchange for you looking at ads.
Since its inception, they've branched out to fight other causes through advertising, the most obvious result being that while a click once gave 2.5 cups of food to the needy, now a click will often bring less than a cup.
Find a need and fill it.
America encourages the weirdest businesses ever. If you look in the yellow pages you'll find companies that do nothing but go to other companies and shred their "sensitive" paperwork because, well, they're doing something so evil they just can't trust their own people with that sort of thing...
They'll even give you a certificate of destruction. That will come in handy in court later if the paperwork surfaces. "This evidence is inadmissable, look, we have a legal certificate of destruction; it doesn't exist." Then the judge will let them go.
Once you agree to pay a company to look at your employees urine, you signal that you're willing to pay for anything.
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Have you noticed that nobody gets fired anymore? People get "let go." It saves on unemployment compensation. It's a psychological thing. "Let go" makes it sound like it was your idea. "Hey, he wanted to go, so we let him. That's the kind of company we are." Focus groups come up with this shit. They're a subsidiary of the shredders.
If they really want to cause alarm, you may get "terminated." "Johnson, your output this last week has been unacceptable. You're terminated." And then everything will go dark.
If you're lucky, you'll just be "laid off." "Say, boss, what exactly happens during this period of unemployment?"
"I don't know. Here's a coupon redeemable for a half-off coffee at starbucks.