As H. Rap Brown once succinctly put it... "Burn, Baby, Burn!"

Obama's friends

 woozurbuddy wrote: 
Ain't it, though!

 nuggler wrote: 
So are you refering to the Old World aristocracy, the Rothschilds, Krupps and the Hapsburgs and the like other wise known as The Illuminati and all it entails ?

 zipper wrote: 
Oh, so this is taking the gloves off. Overblown, over-stated muckraking.

Sort of disappointing, but I guess it makes you feel better. There are at least two ways to interpret all of this crap. And there is a lot more to the Keating Five than is presented there.

But, what the hell, it's a crap shoot whoever you decide to vote for. You're taking a big risk either way and the voter has to decide which risk has the higher chance for disaster. In that respect I would pick the Palin/McCain ticket as being the most risky. To do anything in his administration McCain will have to rely on Republicans who know openly question his ability to lead and even hate his guts. In the event, God forbid, that he passes on in office the country would be delivered into the hands of the Alaskan Governor who I am confident would be either a puppet or a disaster.

Poor yourself a glass of Merlot and enjoy the ride.

 romeotuma wrote: 

     

 nuggler wrote: 

You sure are one good looking schizophrenic.

 manbirdexperiment wrote: 
Oh, you're just sore because I've never swooned over any of yours.

 dionysius wrote: 
It depends on the sauce...  (can I get it on a stick?)

 phineas wrote: 
Prints?? 

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On the more serious side, I'm wondering whether this is similar to the report filed by the American War College about the Israeli Army which stated that the men had to be trained to overcome their innate reflex to protect the women in their squads and that until they were properly trained they would actually endanger the mission they were on in order to protect the female members of their teams.  It's an instinct...

Fortunately for me, my mother beat it out of me...

 manbirdexperiment wrote: 
The exact name of our cutest kitten!



Now who doesn't like cuddly kittens? Aside from Exo, I mean.

 romeotuma wrote: 
You're so cute when you're trying to be valiant!

 Lazy8 wrote: 
It was a serious question & your answer was a sidestep. So what's new? Well, you can't put your nuts on the line & give an honest answer to an honest question. Bear in mind that there are more than just a few posts & journals stating my thoughts & beliefs in true liberalism & calling an idiot an idiot when he acts like one is hardly an act of disrespect in my eyes. But I waste my time.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up heroin.



Seriously... Thank you for this posting.  I recognize myself here and I'm somewhat chagrined to note that I haven't been as tolerant as I try to be.

But I will continue to find myself wondering just how much of a joke this actually started out to be.  I usually get the joke, but when it's on a computer, there's not much in the way of winks and nods to go on so emoticons might be necessary to convey the "tongue in cheek" nature of a posting.

I've stated before that both sides of this current debate seem to have lost their ability to compromise and America is worse for this.

It is our unique ability to compromise which has allowed us to become the strongest country in the world.  We need to learn again what our fathers knew.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
"I... regret having read... nuggler's posts... ... Rosebud..."

 nuggler wrote:
I generally ignore what you post like I tune past static on the radio dial. I engage when I think it's going to be worth my time and the time of people reading—I have other things to do, and a real life to live. I don't want to look back on it from the end and regret how I spent it.

As for your question: go re-read your first paragraph. I think you've answered that yourself, and I rest my case.

 Lazy8 wrote:  
  There is no doubt in my mind that McCain is at heart a good person but there's a reality we have to concider. Just because the NeoCon have prudently gone underground does not mean they're no longer active. NeoCon & the 666x3=PNAC is power politics on a global scale never before witnessed in history & McCain is in the thick of it now. He has no choice & I fear his own humanity is consequently on the line. This NeoCon grab for power at any cost is what I resist & what I try to spotlight at every opportunity. With all due respect, people supporting this old-world power surge are not consciously evil but the consequences of their support have certainly had evil consequences of robbing the soul of its vast unconscious treasures by opening the psyche up to accepting the brutalization of another human being as being sound practice in this power play. As I said, those days should have been long gone even as I hear people here at RP speaking in support of torture & the War State. Yes. I believe from the depths of my being that any conscious, courageous & conscientious human being should resist this downward turn with every fiber of their being & those that support it are at the very least misguided. I see very few here standing against this 21^st century brutalization of humanity & I highly commend HippieChick who openly makes her stand even as a fool like Bokey calls her evil for doing so. Idiot ! It is an interesting phenomenon that I've observed here that astute posters such as yourself & OV choose to single her out when others here are very obviously & calculatingly vicious.

 I'd like to ask you if by & large you consider my posts & journals voicing my opinons to be disrespectful in the way you outline above but my experience in the past with you is that you very conspicuously refuse to answer my honest replies, which I see as deliberate disrespect on your part. Therefore I expect no reply.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
Wow. Yesterday I had decided I'd avoid this thread, but it's like a train wreck, you just want a little peek. And what do I find? A really good message. Thank you.
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Now, putting the shoe in the other mouth, your exact words apply to something far more important than our little tempest. That is, the willingness, eagerness in fact, for some people in our government to sell out our fundamental American freedoms for 'victory', whatever that means. 'By any means necessary' sets the tone for some extremely un-American actions perpetrated by our 'leaders'. I can overlook 'pre-emptive war' for the moment. I can overlook 'enhanced interrogation' for the moment. But the warrantless wiretapping and searches, the indefinite imprisonment of people without the barest legal safeguards, these things are not what America stands for. The concept of habeus corpus goes back to, what, the Magna Carta? AD 1215, for pete's sake! Yes, it CAN be suspended, and was, by Abraham Lincoln during the single most disastrous time in American History. THIS is not the Civil War, no matter what the fear-mongers say.

Our enemies are still HUMANS. This country was founded on the concept that HUMANS are entitled to certain rights and freedoms. Rights and freedoms found virtually no where else in the world. Or I should say, USED TO BE found no where else. We have sacrificed our principles and our dignity, out of fear, hatred, whatever excuse you want to use, it's still just an excuse.

Until we realize our enemies' basic humanity, there can be no peace.

c.

 bokey wrote: 
Own it, buddy. I've had to even when I felt I wasn't deserving. Many times.