[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Wall Street Journal 9/23/08 ...The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just a guy who lives in my neighborhood, and not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis. Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created ostensibly to improve Chicago's public schools. The funding came from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg. In early 1995, Mr. Obama was appointed the first chairman of the board, which handled fiscal matters. Mr. Ayers co-chaired the foundation's other key body, the Collaborative, which shaped education policy...The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming guilt by association. Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago. read more http://tinyurl.com/3wbxtu New York Times 9/11/2001 I don't regret setting bombs, Bill Ayers said. I feel we didn't do enough. Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago... read more http://tinyurl.com/4tb7wd So let's get this straight Raunch. You're saying that Obama supports the making of bombs to overthrow the government of the US? I haven't made any such claim because in case you didn't notice, I didn't write the article. You are free to jump to any conclusion you want, but try using a little logic when you do so. Nowhere does it say Obama supports making bombs and overthrowing the government. You made that up then attributed your fantasy of Obama's incendiary intentions to me. Yikes! Next time you want to bean me with an Ayer's molotov cocktail, read the article more carefully.
[FairfieldLife] Proof of collective consciousness??
Shortly after yesterdays(9/23) school shooting here in Finland the participants of Finnish Big Brother started talking about the similar incident last November. One of the participants, Mr. Johan Grahn, said (paraphrase): What if a major accident has happened? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdwIlhX877o
[FairfieldLife] Re: Racist White Democrats may cost Obama the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Americans are recognizing that Obama is a phenomenon in American politics. If there are many racists in the Democratic Party, Obama wouldn't have gotten this far in the nominating process. IMO, there's a surging consciousness in the USA for a change from the present Republican administration, and it just happens to be Obama who is the best one among the Democrats to challenge the Republicans. Whether he succeeds or fails. It's the clash of energies that is important. In other words, it's the fluctuation of the gunas, in vedic terms. No, not at all. Energy -- and the universe composed of it -- is far more interesting and complex than the dumbed-down triumverate of energies postulated by Vedic philosophers. You're falling for the good/evil dualistic dichotomy. I'm talking about an energy signature which is neither good nor evil on either side, because 1) such simplis- tic distinctions don't exist, and because 2) all beings are a complex *mix* of energies of all sorts. It also has nothing to do with evolution and who is more evolved or any simplistic horseshit like that. It's just that Obama's energy mix is more intelli- gent than McCain's, by a long shot. That provides people with an opportunity to see which energy they identify with more -- intelligence or idiocy. The fact that the polls (even though they are being manipulated) are so close indicates that Americans are torn on this subject. In short, Obama represents the culmination of the struggle of the American people for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Anything less is slavery and servitude in more ways than one. I could not agree more. And interestingly, isn't it fascinating to see who on this forum literally hates the man, no matter how much they try to disguise it? And then you think of the number that these people run here on a regular basis, and its intent. IMO, some people here are intentionally provoking controversy for the sake of notoriety in the forum. Well, duh! :-) Seriously, John, sometimes you have a tendency to state the obvious as if it were profound. Most of us can feel that intent, no matter how much they try to disguise it. Without exception, the posters on this forum who dislike Obama intensely are unhappy people, with a track record of trying their damnedest to make other people as unhappy as they are. Let's find out who they are by the response that you get. You mean like a homosexual calling a straight guy a homo- sexual and thinking that it's an insult? :-) THAT is what I'm talking about with regard to the clash of energies. It's not a good vs. evil thang; it's an intelligence vs. stupidity thang. No one who is the least bit intelligent (or sane) is going to go around insulting other people by insinuating that they're *just like them*.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Proof of collective consciousness??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shortly after yesterdays(9/23) school shooting here in Finland the participants of Finnish Big Brother started talking about the similar incident last November. One of the participants, Mr. Johan Grahn, said (paraphrase): What if a major accident has happened? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdwIlhX877o Sorry to hear about your countrymen Carde but I think this is more likely proof that private gun ownership is a big mistake.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Proof of collective consciousness??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: Shortly after yesterdays(9/23) school shooting here in Finland the participants of Finnish Big Brother started talking about the similar incident last November. One of the participants, Mr. Johan Grahn, said (paraphrase): What if a major accident has happened? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdwIlhX877o Sorry to hear about your countrymen Carde but I think this is more likely proof that private gun ownership is a big mistake. *** While Finns have a reputation for violence, firearms almost never enter the picture. Finland does have the highest murder rate in Western Europe, but those casescommonly related to alcohol or domestic abuseoften involve knives rather than guns. http://www.slate.com/id/2200722/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Making sense of nonsense
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent article. All you need to know: Double-dipping welfare moms? Illegal immigrants? Muslim terrorists? It's anyone - except, of course, the bankers and the Federal Reserve - or so say again and again America's corrupt corporate media in whose interest it is for Americans to mistakenly blame others for the real cause of its woes. The people will pay, the rich will profit. Even greater financial disaster will result from Paulson's taxpayer bailout of his wealthy Wall Street friends. From a friend: Friends, I have been reading feverishly these past several months as our markets have entered turbulent times. The financial crisis America finds itself immersed in is summarized by the author below and echoed by more than a handful of market experts who publish respected newsletters. I chose Schoon's reflections to pass along because 1) Schoon is very readable and 2) He summarizes much of what I've learned these past months. If the point of view expressed below offends some, I apologize. The delete button is nearby... So that I can get a sense of how this article is being received, if moved to do so, let me know what you think of it.? Steve By Darryl Robert Schoon (author of How to Survive the Crisis and Prosper in the Process) There is nothing more dangerous than when those responsible for a nation's troubles are believed to be its savior. If the truth be known - and someday it will be - central banks are at the very center of today's problems. Indeed, they caused them. Today's disintegration of capital markets based on debt-based paper began in 1913 with the creation of the US Federal Reserve Bank, the central bank of the US. ...Debt-based paper money has led nations and the world down a very dangerous path. Facilitating expansion by encumbering future revenues with compounding debt inevitably indebts individuals, businesses, and governments beyond their ability to repay. In the beginning, production expands, needs are met and everyone goes home happy. In the end, everyone's home gets repossessed. This is when the amount of debt has grown so large, governments, businesses, and consumers collapse under its collective weight. That's where we are today. We lived off tomorrow and tomorrow has arrived. What a surprise. Although in the past, continuing central bank intervention has proved inadequate, the ignorant, unknowing and desperate are yet again hoping that Paulson's latest plan will save them. But the collective solutions of Bernanke, Paulson, et. al. will again prove wanting. Indeed, Paulson's and Bernanke's continuing attempts to reverse the accelerating credit contraction will only make the final rendering all the more devastating.? Some are alleging that the US government's accelerating bailout of banks, insurance companies et. al. is socialism. Although it is government intervention in extremis, such intervention in the markets does not constitute socialism. The bailout of investment banks and corporations by the US government is fascism; the control and intervention of government by corporate interests designed to further corporate and state control. The multi-trillion dollar state support of JP Morgan, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and now perhaps soon GM, Ford, and Chrysler is fascism, not socialism. The August 2007 credit contraction was like a financial earthquake that unexpectedly shook global markets. It began as a series of crises that have continually escalated demanding greater and greater taxpayer resources. Now, the house itself is on fire but the cause and the proposed solution are always the same. The cause is always investment bank greed. The proposed solution is always more taxpayer money to bailout out more investment banks. This is not a solution. This is societal blackmail. When the US handed over the issuance of its money to the Federal Reserve in 1913 it did so in violation of the US Constitution. It illegally gave the right to issue US currency to a private bank and set in motion forces that would lead to today's extraordinary crisis. Today's extraordinary banking crisis was not unexpected - as private bankers claim and we believe. Today's crisis was inevitable and was in fact prophesized long before it happened. We were warned about this very occurrence two hundred years ago by no less than a founding father of the American republic, Thomas Jefferson. I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
[FairfieldLife] Finally, somebody knows what sexism really is
And it takes a woman to point it out. Video at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/23/campbell-brown-rips-mccai_n_128782.html or http://tinyurl.com/3vpp9c Campbell Brown Rips McCain Camp's Sexist Treatment Of Palin A prominent female news anchor chastised the McCain campaign Tuesday evening for engaging in sexism and insulting behavior in its attempt to shield Gov. Sarah Palin from members of the press. In a fiery commentary, Campbell Brown laid into John McCain for casting a chauvinistic chain that ran over his running mate. Punctuated by a call to Free Sarah Palin, the CNN anchor highlighted the attempt Tuesday by the McCain campaign to ban editorial reporters from covering Palin's visit with world leaders at the UN, as yet another gender-demeaning move in a campaign highlighted by sexist behavior. Tonight I call on the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower that will wilt at any moment, said Brown. This woman is from Alaska for crying out loud. She is strong. She is tough. She is confident. And you claim she is ready to be one heart beat away form the presidency. If that is the case, then end this chauvinistic treatment of her now. Allow her to show her stuff. Allow her to face down those pesky reporters... Let her have a real news conference with real questions. By treating Sarah Palin different from the other candidates in this race, you are not showing her the respect she deserves. Free Sarah Palin. Free her from the chauvinistic chain you are binding her with. Sexism in this campaign must come to an end. Sarah Palin has just as much a right to be a real candidate in this race as the men do. So let her act like one. This is, it seems, one of the strongest backlashes to the war that McCain and his aides have waged with the press. Critical articles the campaign can handle - easily chalked up to a liberal media bias. And the lack of an organ to get out its message is really not a problem when media outlets are still covering the candidate's every move (though today, a near boycott occurred during Palin's trip to the UN). But charges that the campaign is insulting women voters by shielding its vice presidential nominee from the press are powerful and persuasive, especially when they come from a well-known female news anchor. Palin, it should be noted, will be taking questions from CBS's Katie Couric on Wednesday.
[FairfieldLife] Re: YS I 35, part 1: transliteration
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Harvard-Kyoto'ish transliteration) viSayavatii vaa pravRttirutpannaa manasaH sthitinibandhinii .. 35.. Transliteration of Vyaasa-bhaaSya, in part: naasikaagre dhaarayato 'sya yaa divyagandhasaMvitsaa gandhapravRttiH | jihvaagre rasasaMvit | taaluni ruupasaMvit | jihvaamadhye sparshasaMvit | jihvaamuule shabdasaMvidityetaa vRttaya utpannaashcittaM sthitau nibadhnanti, saMshayaM vidhamanti, samaadhiprajñaayaaM ca dvaarii bhavantiiti | Attempt at sandhi-vigraha (elimination of sandhi): naasikaa+agre dhaarayataH; asya yaa divya-gandha-saMvit saa gandha-pravRttiH | jihvaa+agre rasa-saMvit | taaluni ruupa-saMvit | jihvaa-madhye sparsha-saMvit | jihvaa-muule shabda-saMvit; iti; etaaH; vRttayaH; utpannaaH; cittam; sthitau nibadhnanti, saMshayam; vidhamanti, samaadhi-prajñaayaam; ca dvaarii bhavanti+iti | Sorry, tried to translate that but it turned out to be way too tedious for my mood at the moment. But in short, the commentator seems to claim something like that doing dhaaraNaa on the tip of the nose results to divine sense of smell(divya-gandha-saMvit), or stuff; on the tip of the tongue (jihvaagre), the same for taste; on the palate (taaluni): seeing (ruupa = form); on the middle to the tongue (jihvaa-madhye): touch; and on the root of the tongue (jihvaa-muule): hearing. That stuff in turn results to steadiness of mind (cittaM sthitau nibadhnanti), blowing away of doubt (saMshayaM vidhamanti), and (?)opening of the door(?) for samaadhi-prajñaa.
[FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I just don't like to pay $18 a month for HBO and I also don't like to play provider roulette which many people do. HBO can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. I get some shows as part of my satellite sub. We just had the final episode of the The Wire last night. How I LOVED that series!
[FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: [snip] I just don't like to pay $18 a month for HBO and I also don't like to play provider roulette which many people do. HBO can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. I get some shows as part of my satellite sub. We just had the final episode of the The Wire last night. How I LOVED that series! eyepatch mode ON I live in a backwater town in Spain and I watch any American or British TV show I want to, from any cable or broadcast channel, and I watch them all without ever having to see a single commercial. And I don't pay a penny for any of them. You guys are still talking about these pay cable and satellite services as if you need them. eyepatch mode OFF
[FairfieldLife] Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
Especially during a financial meltdown: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Especially during a financial meltdown: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece Let's do the math, shall we? Because of the mismanagement of scores of CEOs of financial companies, the Bush administration is now proposing a 700-billion-dollar bailout package to essentially *reward* these same CEOs and say, We're going to pretend you didn't fuck up and ruin the economy...here's some free money. But the money isn't free, and it isn't theirs. It's YOURS, you taxpayers in America. And 700 billion dollars translates to approximately 2,333 dollars for each man, woman, and child in the United States. (If I did the math right.) The people who *caused* this financial meltdown are not only going to get away Scot-free, they're going to get away rich. While YOU and your children pony up $2,333 each so that they can do it. Isn't about bloody time that a few people dragged these CEO sumbitches into an alley and kicked the crap out of them, before throwing them into prison where they'll be raped daily for the next 20 years, the same way they've been raping 300,000,000 Americans?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yikes! Next time you want to bean me with an Ayer's molotov cocktail, read the article more carefully. funny line
[FairfieldLife] Re: Proof of collective consciousness??
Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to hear about your countrymen Carde but I think this is more likely proof that private gun ownership is a big mistake. Why?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Especially during a financial meltdown: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece Let's do the math, shall we? Because of the mismanagement of scores of CEOs of financial companies, the Bush administration is now proposing a 700-billion-dollar bailout package to essentially *reward* these same CEOs and say, We're going to pretend you didn't fuck up and ruin the economy...here's some free money. But the money isn't free, and it isn't theirs. It's YOURS, you taxpayers in America. And 700 billion dollars translates to approximately 2,333 dollars for each man, woman, and child in the United States. (If I did the math right.) Ooops. As it turns out, my math is NOT right. It's far too low a figure. According to Reuters and CNET, the cost is more like $17,064 per household: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10049551-38.html Are you angry yet? Ready to kick a little CEO and Republican ass yet? If not, why the hell not? The people who *caused* this financial meltdown are not only going to get away Scot-free, they're going to get away rich. While YOU and your children pony up $2,333 each so that they can do it. Isn't about bloody time that a few people dragged these CEO sumbitches into an alley and kicked the crap out of them, before throwing them into prison where they'll be raped daily for the next 20 years, the same way they've been raping 300,000,000 Americans? My proposed 20-year sentences were based on the $2,333 per American figure. Given the new, higher figure, we should probably up that to 40 years in prison, without the possibility of parole or K-Y.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TurquoiseB Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:53 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans Especially during a financial meltdown: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece And the murder happened in NOIDA. Where's the coherence?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
It's not working, raunchydog. People with any judgment just ignore these smears. Ayers is in fact a well respected professor of education. The latest ABC/Washington Post poll puts Obama nine points ahead. He is going to win, so you may as well get used to it. (That nonsense about the Logan Act that you made a big deal of didn't fly,as I knew it wouldn't.) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wall Street Journal 9/23/08 ...The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just a guy who lives in my neighborhood, and not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis. Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created ostensibly to improve Chicago's public schools. The funding came from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg. In early 1995, Mr. Obama was appointed the first chairman of the board, which handled fiscal matters. Mr. Ayers co-chaired the foundation's other key body, the Collaborative, which shaped education policy...The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming guilt by association. Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago. read more http://tinyurl.com/3wbxtu New York Times 9/11/2001 I don't regret setting bombs, Bill Ayers said. I feel we didn't do enough. Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago... read more http://tinyurl.com/4tb7wd
[FairfieldLife] Re: Making sense of nonsense
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a friend: Friends, I have been reading feverishly these past several months as our markets have entered turbulent times. The financial crisis America finds itself immersed in is summarized by the author below and echoed by more than a handful of market experts who publish respected newsletters. If all these fools, commonly called The Public, had followed Maharishis advice to buy gold when it was under 200 an ounce they would not go bankrupt enmasse today.
[FairfieldLife] Trick or Treat !
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not working, raunchydog. People with any judgment just ignore these smears. Ayers is in fact a well respected professor of education. The latest ABC/Washington Post poll puts Obama nine points ahead. He is going to win, so you may as well get used to it. (That nonsense about the Logan Act that you made a big deal of didn't fly,as I knew it wouldn't.) The ethically crippled rely on ethically free crutches.
[FairfieldLife] Re: now: the absurdity of the idea of willling fewer initiations
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 22, 2008, at 8:27 PM, jyouells2000 wrote: That seems like a really honest assessment to me. Yup, me too, spot on... Besides, regular meditators are passing away faster than new ones are starting anyway That's a depressing thought. I'd like to think people are simply finding more interesting things to do than actually checking out. Hope I'm not kidding myself. Sal If they had a checking regularily, and believe me they don't, they would not check out before the age of say roundabout 80. The stable first generation TM-meditators I know of are now in their 80's or 90's, some few are older that 100 years and are very active indeed. And none of these first generation meditators, the Pioneers of the Age of Enlightenment, have any problems with alzheimer. One gentleman I know was 52 years old when he learned TM from Maharishi in 1960. Last week he attended his first computercourse for seniors, has bought a PC and is now paying his bills via the internet :-)
[FairfieldLife] Lots of Hugs !
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[FairfieldLife] Brain Surgery
Governor Palin, are you ready at this moment to perform surgery on this child's brain? Of course, Charlie. I have several boys of my own, and I'm an avid hunter. But governor, this is neurosurgery, and you have no training as a surgeon of any kind. That's just the point, Charlie. The American people want change in how we make medical decisions in this country. And when faced with a challenge, you cannot blink. ~~ Sam Harris in NEWSWEEK http://www.newsweek.com/id/160080/output/print
[FairfieldLife] Re: Proof of collective consciousness??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While Finns have a reputation for violence, firearms almost never enter the picture. Finland does have the highest murder rate in Western Europe, but those casescommonly related to alcohol or domestic abuseoften involve knives rather than guns. A swedish fellow I know was stabbed with a knife by a finnish construction-worker. When arrested he protested to the police saying But I did not hurt him, I only scratched him ! The finnish are not bad, but like many indigenous people they simply cannot handle the effects of alcohol. But cardemaister, being gay, surely is not drinking much.
[FairfieldLife] McCain campaign ghost-writes fake letters to the editor
For those who believe the letters to the editors they read, and believe that they come from real people: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/24/mccain_letters/ I ghost-wrote letters to the editor for the McCain campaign By Margriet Oostveen I spent a morning in John McCain's Virginia campaign headquarters ghost-writing letters to the editor for McCain supporters to sign. I even pretended to have a son in Iraq. Editor's note: The following article was originally published on Sept. 13 in Dutch in the newspaper NRC Handelsblad, where Margriet Oostveen writes a weekly column called Message From Washington. Oostveen has volunteered in various political campaigns and then written about the experience. She has worked for both John McCain and Barack Obama in this election cycle. Click here to see guidelines, talking points and sample letters the McCain campaign gave her. Sept. 24, 2008 | You can be whoever you want to be, says an inviting Phil Tuchman. You can be a beggar or a millionaire. A mom or a husband. Whatever. You decide! I volunteer in political campaigns now and then. After a series of outings for Obama and a first mission as a phone banker for John McCain, I returned to McCain's headquarters in Arlington, Va. The offer was too alluring to delay -- they wanted to put me into action as a ghostwriter. Next to commercials and phone banking, writing letters to the editor is the most important method of the McCain campaign to attract voters. At least that is what's written in the guidelines that McCain campaign worker Phil Tuchman presents to me. Today he is training six ghostwriters. What on earth is the appeal of McCain for the former Soviet bloc? Last time I was here, an exuberant Polish guy was phone banking next to me. Today, a Russian in yellow suspenders is shimmering at the same table, looking just like an actor who is famous in the Netherlands for star turns as a genius who suppresses his dark side with painstaking self-control. The assignment is simple: We are going to write letters to the editor and we are allowed to make up whatever we want -- as long as it adds to the campaign. After today we are supposed to use our free moments at home to create a flow of fictional fan mail for McCain. Your letters, says Phil Tuchman, will be sent to our campaign offices in battle states. Ohio. Pennsylvania. Virginia. New Hampshire. There we'll place them in local newspapers. Place them? I may be wrong, but I thought that in the USA only a newspaper's editors decided that. We will show your letters to our supporters in those states, explains Phil. If they say: 'Yeah, he/she is right!' then we ask them to sign your letter. And then we send that letter to the local newspaper. That's how we send dozens of letters at once. No newspaper can refuse a stream of articulate expressions of support, is the thought behind it. This way, we will always get into some letters column. It is the day after Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican convention. Today, she is our main subject. The others are already enthusiastically hammering their keyboards. I am struggling with a tiny writer's block. Dear Editor ... Quantcast Phil Tuchman has handed out model letters, and talking points and quotes from Sarah Palin's speech. But whom do I want to be? Let's loosen up my fingers a little first -- and my principles, too. Am I actually allowed to make up letters? At the moment, it seems to be the only way to demonstrate how this is done in a campaign. So yes. I start practicing attractive sentences about Sarah Palin: Her biggest plus to me is that, besides being amazingly smart and qualified, she managed to remain a woman like us. She is the PTA hockey moms. She is the working mothers of special needs children. She is every caring mother of a challenging teenager. Her pregnant daughter Bristol (17) is not a talking point. A talking point is her son Track (19), who will be deployed to Iraq. And most of all, she is just like any mother of a child who deploys to Iraq in the service of this country. Now we are getting somewhere. I look around. I type: My son, too, is there. Oh god, you liar. Now build up suspense. New paragraph. And my heart needs him back safe so much. Yes, yes. Well done. Another paragraph -- why not? Now let's pump some iron in that mother, for after all, we are not with the Democrats here. Look up the right, patriotic phraseology in the model letters. But when I see him again, I also want to see his face glow with pride. Just like the day he told me he enlisted. Yes, like that. And now full speed in the direction of McCain's plans to continue the war. Sell that war. With a mother's heart. That is why Senator John McCain could count on my vote from day one. But whatever happened to Sarah Palin in this story? I gaze out of the window. This takes 10 minutes. Then: With Sarah Palin, I have even more reason to trust in victory. She represents my heart. Hmm. Does that sound like total
[FairfieldLife] Re: McCain campaign ghost-writes fake letters to the editor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those who believe the letters to the editors they read, and believe that they come from real people: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/24/mccain_letters/ I ghost-wrote letters to the editor for the McCain campaign By Margriet Oostveen Doesn't it make you wonder who *really* writes the stuff that Raunchydog and Shemp and Judy sign their names to here? :-)
[FairfieldLife] Religion/Spirituality
The Grandeur of God is Far Greater then our little planet and all of it's different religions and beliefs. A Word about Religion and Spirituality Religion serves a wonderful purpose. It provides loving standards for living, offers reassurance in a world of fear, and offers a pathway toward the divine. However, regardless of a person's affiliation, each participant brings their life history and assorted beliefs and emotions to their religious understanding. Even the teachings of the saints have passed through density filters and interpretations, as those who with sincerity offered in- terpretations. Each person has their own sense of the divine. Whether reunion is thought of as a Heaven available only after death, or whether it is attained as an Enlightenment or Nirvana available through disciplined practice matters not. What matters is one's sincerity. All prayer is prayer...all worship of God offers the opportunity for connection, recognition and reunion. Thus, all paths are to be blessed and honored for their Intent. It is through the subsequent interpretation and practice that religious conflicts are born from human minds. There are many helpers on the path. These teachers hold the Light and help us find our way. However, at some point one must simply leap. That leap of surrender is a solo plunge into unity. Religion can bring you to the door, however, you must walk through that door yourself and experience the Divine. Such is the path of the mystic. Spirituality is the life force that spawned religion. It is the essential truth that offers the knowing of divine connection. Religion is the secondary expression. It was created to satisfy the density-brain, to offer an organized response to spiritual long- ing, to answer cosmic questions, to provide codes of conduct and to organize people. God has no religion. Thus, all spiritual practices, all religions, offer the potential for Divine connection. It is up to the individ-u-will to benefit from their religion by viewing it as a springboard to surrender. Humanity must learn to relax into its spiritual essence if we are to witness Peace on Earth. The process of releasing the refractory devices is the way to Oneness. The path to unity used to take years. Today it can be achieved in the blink of an eye or a collection of moments. Be assured that Enlightenment is more attainable at this time in history than ever before. Be grateful to your religion of origin. Be grateful that there are many paths. There is one God essence seeking to emerge through all of them. What a glorious diversity! People ask us if the path of Self-Ascension is a religion; it is not. We are offering practices, wisdom, and teachings designed to help you get acquainted with your own divinity. How you walk your path is unique to you. Each person, regardless of their level of discernment, offers light into the world. Each is to be cherished. Each is honored for it takes spiritual courage to be here. Thank You for your visit John http://clevelandohiousa.tripod.com/religionspirituality/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Especially during a financial meltdown: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece And the murder happened in NOIDA. Where's the coherence? Oh dear. Rick, you are seriously out of touch as usual. What makes you think there is a group in Noida nowadays ? From my information there has been no Pundits or other groups there for several years. AND, Noida is a big city theses days. Even a very large group may not be able to prevent particular inscidents due to irreversable carma. But for Rick Archer that's not enough; for him thinking a matter through is a waste of time, or so it seems. As long as it could smear the TMO in any way possible Rick Archer will be there, right up in the front ! Regardless of the substance.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Racist White Democrats may cost Obama the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's really ironic, Robert, is that the language of race, as the author puts it in his article, is virtually the exclusive domain NOT of the Republicans but of the Dixiecrats of the Old South WHO WERE ALL DEMOCRATS. And even today, that still holds true: a recent poll found that 1/3 of all WHITE DEMOCRATS harbour racist feelins towards Obama AND THIS FACT ALONE COULD COST HIM THE WHITE HOUSE...NOT REPUBICANS! See: http://tinyurl.com/456bmp Yes, this is true... When LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act, is when they turned. And the comment that Jesse Jackson shows that black people can hold race against Obama. That would be the biggest irony of all. R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Proof of collective consciousness??
(snip) The finnish are not bad, but like many indigenous people they simply cannot handle the effects of alcohol. (snip) Yes, the indigenous people are suseptible to this dangerous drug called alcohol. Yet, anything that might have a mind expanding effect like marijuana or peyote, which the indigenous people use, is labled by society as unacceptible. Recently though, I heard that Denver, Colorado has allowed the legalization of marijuana up to an once because they said that they haven't found the violence associated with alcohol applies to the effects of marijuana. So, this is just one more lie, being perpetuated on our 'Free Country'...because it seems that the feds will never get over the anti- hippie Reagan mentality...drug testing has become matter of fact, when so many other drugs that make money for them, numb them out or make there dicks hard, are perfectly ok. If I see one more get your dick hard commercial on the TV Well you get the picture. R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Racist White Democrats may cost Obama the White House
Did you just out yourself? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan Hirschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:50 AM, John wrote: It's the clash of energies that is important. In other words, it's the fluctuation of the gunas, in vedic terms. Sure glad that's in Vedic terms, John. For a moment there it sounded like plain old ordinary English terms. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Proof of collective consciousness??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: Sorry to hear about your countrymen Carde but I think this is more likely proof that private gun ownership is a big mistake. Why? Your kidding. But then you live in a country where 80 people are shot dead every day so maybe that really needs a reply: This guy was unlikely to storm into his old school and strangle ten people. Just as the English mass-murderers at Dunblane and Hungerford wouldn't have become so notorious if they didn't have an arsenal of weapons under the bed. Madness.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
I don't see how disclosing factual events of Obama's past is a smear. The media should vet all candidates thoroughly. IMO they did a piss poor of vetting Obama but didn't waste any time ripping into Palin. Why would you want to excuse anyone who aspires to be president from answering legitimate questions? The more his media flacks, like Ben Smith at Politico, try to protect him, the more I want to know. Why does Obama decline to speak about his time as President of the $100 million dollar Annenberg Foundation? It would have put to rest any question about his lack of executive experience. He should be bragging about it. But he does not. Why? Because a full examination of this period of his life will reveal he lied when he said Ayers is just a guy who lives in my neighborhood and in fact had a long term working relationship with Ayers. Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding? Since his past will follow him to the White, associations is asking questions aboutstill baffles me that his supports are not the least bit --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not working, raunchydog. People with any judgment just ignore these smears. Ayers is in fact a well respected professor of education. The latest ABC/Washington Post poll puts Obama nine points ahead. He is going to win, so you may as well get used to it. (That nonsense about the Logan Act that you made a big deal of didn't fly,as I knew it wouldn't.) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Wall Street Journal 9/23/08 ...The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just a guy who lives in my neighborhood, and not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis. Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created ostensibly to improve Chicago's public schools. The funding came from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg. In early 1995, Mr. Obama was appointed the first chairman of the board, which handled fiscal matters. Mr. Ayers co-chaired the foundation's other key body, the Collaborative, which shaped education policy...The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming guilt by association. Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago. read more http://tinyurl.com/3wbxtu New York Times 9/11/2001 I don't regret setting bombs, Bill Ayers said. I feel we didn't do enough. Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago... read more http://tinyurl.com/4tb7wd
[FairfieldLife] Re: Proof of collective consciousness??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) The finnish are not bad, but like many indigenous people they simply cannot handle the effects of alcohol. (snip) Yes, the indigenous people are suseptible to this dangerous drug called alcohol. Yet, anything that might have a mind expanding effect like marijuana or peyote, which the indigenous people use, is labled by society as unacceptible. Recently though, I heard that Denver, Colorado has allowed the legalization of marijuana up to an once because they said that they haven't found the violence associated with alcohol applies to the effects of marijuana. So, this is just one more lie, being perpetuated on our 'Free Country'...because it seems that the feds will never get over the anti- hippie Reagan mentality...drug testing has become matter of fact, when so many other drugs that make money for them, numb them out or make there dicks hard, are perfectly ok. If I see one more get your dick hard commercial on the TV Well you get the picture. R.G. I think you'll find that the effects of smoking maryjoanna are learned, that is the hippy types who used to smoke it taught newcomers how to get high in their gentle way. It's very psycho- somatic. There are plenty of young street muggers and gang members in the UK who get stoned before going out on the prowl. Come to think of it the Vikings used to get out of their heads on mushrooms before going on a rape and pillage so maybe all drug effects are cultural. I hope the legalizers don't regret this too much.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racist White Democrats may cost Obama the White House
On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:50 AM, John wrote: It's the clash of energies that is important. In other words, it's the fluctuation of the gunas, in vedic terms. Sure glad that's in Vedic terms, John. For a moment there it sounded like plain old ordinary English terms. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Racist White Democrats may cost Obama the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you just out yourself? No, it was that same guy who hacked Sarah Palin's email accounts on Gmail. Turns out that he's not only a misogynist pig w.r.t. Sarah but also has a long-standing grudge against somebody named Susan, so he's going around hacking her names onto every email address he can get his hands on. Yeah, that's the ticket. :-) More seriously, and presented as evidence that Sarah Palin shouldn't be allowed within twenty miles of the White House, the FBI just raided the apartment of the guy who might have done the Sarah Palin hacking, and if it's really him and the rumors are true, do you know HOW he hacked her account? He read the newspaper reports about Sarah Palin and, just from details about her life that were freely available in the press, figured out what her password was. He's 19. Now doesn't THAT make you feel all warm and fuzzy about the person who is potentially going to have a password into the most sensitive and secret information on Earth? :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan Hirschmann salsunshine@ wrote: On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:50 AM, John wrote: It's the clash of energies that is important. In other words, it's the fluctuation of the gunas, in vedic terms. Sure glad that's in Vedic terms, John. For a moment there it sounded like plain old ordinary English terms. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Proof of collective consciousness??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: (snip) The finnish are not bad, but like many indigenous people they simply cannot handle the effects of alcohol. (snip) Yes, the indigenous people are suseptible to this dangerous drug called alcohol. Yet, anything that might have a mind expanding effect like marijuana or peyote, which the indigenous people use, is labled by society as unacceptible. Recently though, I heard that Denver, Colorado has allowed the legalization of marijuana up to an once because they said that they haven't found the violence associated with alcohol applies to the effects of marijuana. So, this is just one more lie, being perpetuated on our 'Free Country'...because it seems that the feds will never get over the anti- hippie Reagan mentality...drug testing has become matter of fact, when so many other drugs that make money for them, numb them out or make there dicks hard, are perfectly ok. If I see one more get your dick hard commercial on the TV Well you get the picture. R.G. I think you'll find that the effects of smoking maryjoanna are learned, that is the hippy types who used to smoke it taught newcomers how to get high in their gentle way. It's very psycho- somatic. There are plenty of young street muggers and gang members in the UK who get stoned before going out on the prowl. Come to think of it the Vikings used to get out of their heads on mushrooms before going on a rape and pillage so maybe all drug effects are cultural. I hope the legalizers don't regret this too much. So, what about the Sadhus of India? What would you say about this? I don't think they go on raping and pillaging. Not sure what you mean by psychosoatic? What are you talking about? Don't remember any reports of raping and pillaging at Woodstock... That must have been undereported.
[FairfieldLife] Campbell Brown on -sexist treatment- of Palin by McCain campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLlXxMY2LHI
[FairfieldLife] Optical illusion explained.
http://tinyurl.com/4fx5wh
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:15 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Especially during a financial meltdown: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece And the murder happened in NOIDA. Where's the coherence? Oh dear. Rick, you are seriously out of touch as usual. What makes you think there is a group in Noida nowadays ? From my information there has been no Pundits or other groups there for several years. AND, Noida is a big city theses days. Even a very large group may not be able to prevent particular inscidents due to irreversable carma. But for Rick Archer that's not enough; for him thinking a matter through is a waste of time, or so it seems. As long as it could smear the TMO in any way possible Rick Archer will be there, right up in the front ! Regardless of the substance. You're right Nabby. The murder happened because the coherence creating group left Noida.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
Interesting that you decline at the end of your post into complete incoherence. Need I say more? A coke-addled brain, perhaps? And you know very well what you are trying to do -- create some bogus link between Obama and terrorism. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see how disclosing factual events of Obama's past is a smear. The media should vet all candidates thoroughly. IMO they did a piss poor of vetting Obama but didn't waste any time ripping into Palin. Why would you want to excuse anyone who aspires to be president from answering legitimate questions? The more his media flacks, like Ben Smith at Politico, try to protect him, the more I want to know. Why does Obama decline to speak about his time as President of the $100 million dollar Annenberg Foundation? It would have put to rest any question about his lack of executive experience. He should be bragging about it. But he does not. Why? Because a full examination of this period of his life will reveal he lied when he said Ayers is just a guy who lives in my neighborhood and in fact had a long term working relationship with Ayers. Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding? Since his past will follow him to the White, associations is asking questions aboutstill baffles me that his supports are not the least bit --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: It's not working, raunchydog. People with any judgment just ignore these smears. Ayers is in fact a well respected professor of education. The latest ABC/Washington Post poll puts Obama nine points ahead. He is going to win, so you may as well get used to it. (That nonsense about the Logan Act that you made a big deal of didn't fly,as I knew it wouldn't.) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Wall Street Journal 9/23/08 ...The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just a guy who lives in my neighborhood, and not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis. Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created ostensibly to improve Chicago's public schools. The funding came from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg. In early 1995, Mr. Obama was appointed the first chairman of the board, which handled fiscal matters. Mr. Ayers co-chaired the foundation's other key body, the Collaborative, which shaped education policy...The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming guilt by association. Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago. read more http://tinyurl.com/3wbxtu New York Times 9/11/2001 I don't regret setting bombs, Bill Ayers said. I feel we didn't do enough. Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago... read more http://tinyurl.com/4tb7wd
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Making sense of nonsense
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:22 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Making sense of nonsense --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a friend: Friends, I have been reading feverishly these past several months as our markets have entered turbulent times. The financial crisis America finds itself immersed in is summarized by the author below and echoed by more than a handful of market experts who publish respected newsletters. If all these fools, commonly called The Public, had followed Maharishis advice to buy gold when it was under 200 an ounce they would not go bankrupt enmasse today. When did he advise that? Did you buy any?
[FairfieldLife] Guru Dev quote
'Do good works without hesitation The Jiva has been experiencing samsara for many, many births. It is only natural, therefore, that its tendencies have become worldly. To turn its tendency toward Paramatma [God] and away from samsara [worldly life] requires effort. In reality, the aim of life is to stop the mind from involvement with this world. If one engages in the spiritual practice of Bhagavan and in thinking and speaking about Him, the mind will start dwelling on Him, and after some time, it will withdraw from samsara on its own. In our daily affairs we should adopt a strategy of quickly attending to good works and things related to the divine. Should any wrong thought arise, on the other hand, we should try to postpone it to another time by saying, I'll do it tomorrow, or the day after next. In this way, wrong action can be continuously postponed. To be born a human is more fortunate than to be born a deva. Taking birth as a deva is considered comparable to taking birth as any other life form. Birth as a god is attained by those who perform certain sacrifices and karma, etc. associated with divinity, with the intention to enjoy divine pleasures. The minds of the devatas wander incessantly because of the abundance of enjoyable things in the heavenly realms, and hence they cannot perform purushartha [actions consistent with the goals of human life and evolution]. For this reason, the human birth is considered superior, because here, by doing as much purushartha as possible, one can eventually become one with God. A human being is like a lump of pure gold, whereas gods are like pieces of fine jewellery. Having been perfected as jewellery, their progression is complete, and they cannot be further improved. On the other hand, gold which has not yet been crafted by the jeweller is completely unrestricted in its potential. Hence the birth of a human being is said to be the very best birth for action. Having attained this birth, one should not act carelessly, but should conscientiously perform the best purushartha. Fulfilling one's own dharma while keeping faith in Paramatma is the greatest purushartha. Strive to become one with God in this lifetime. Have firm faith in the Vedas and Shastras and keep the company of saints, mahatmas and wise people. Only then will the purpose of your life be fulfilled.'
[FairfieldLife] Re: Proof of collective consciousness??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: (snip) The finnish are not bad, but like many indigenous people they simply cannot handle the effects of alcohol. (snip) Yes, the indigenous people are suseptible to this dangerous drug called alcohol. Yet, anything that might have a mind expanding effect like marijuana or peyote, which the indigenous people use, is labled by society as unacceptible. Recently though, I heard that Denver, Colorado has allowed the legalization of marijuana up to an once because they said that they haven't found the violence associated with alcohol applies to the effects of marijuana. So, this is just one more lie, being perpetuated on our 'Free Country'...because it seems that the feds will never get over the anti- hippie Reagan mentality...drug testing has become matter of fact, when so many other drugs that make money for them, numb them out or make there dicks hard, are perfectly ok. If I see one more get your dick hard commercial on the TV Well you get the picture. R.G. I think you'll find that the effects of smoking maryjoanna are learned, that is the hippy types who used to smoke it taught newcomers how to get high in their gentle way. It's very psycho- somatic. There are plenty of young street muggers and gang members in the UK who get stoned before going out on the prowl. Come to think of it the Vikings used to get out of their heads on mushrooms before going on a rape and pillage so maybe all drug effects are cultural. I hope the legalizers don't regret this too much. So, what about the Sadhus of India? What would you say about this? I don't think they go on raping and pillaging. Not sure what you mean by psychosoatic? What are you talking about? Don't remember any reports of raping and pillaging at Woodstock... That must have been undereported. I'm sure you could have worked it out from that with a bit more care, but to enlarge: The effects of drugs are cultural, that is they are learned behaviour. Gentle hippy types teach newcomers to their group to have the same sort of experiences they do. As do the gangs in the UK only in their case it's all violent. It's not the drugs but the attitude of the groups that use them to different ends. The sadhus in India would belong more to the hippy tradition of visions and (hopefully) greater understanding. Vikings, being a bit more aggressive and into bloody conquest used the same things mystics did. But they had a different mindset to start with you see? If they had met me and my mates history might have been different and we all would have gone to India for a pretty interesting party! So no, there was no rape and pillage at woodstock but it's more common at festivals these days, sad to say.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:15 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Especially during a financial meltdown: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece And the murder happened in NOIDA. Where's the coherence? Oh dear. Rick, you are seriously out of touch as usual. What makes you think there is a group in Noida nowadays ? From my information there has been no Pundits or other groups there for several years. AND, Noida is a big city theses days. Even a very large group may not be able to prevent particular inscidents due to irreversable carma. But for Rick Archer that's not enough; for him thinking a matter through is a waste of time, or so it seems. As long as it could smear the TMO in any way possible Rick Archer will be there, right up in the front ! Regardless of the substance. You're right Nabby. The murder happened because the coherence creating group left Noida. I see, so Rick Archer knows the carmic details leading up to this isolated death. How did he know that, did he ask his dogs ? I don't think so, but what is abundantly clear to anyone who can read is that if there is a link anywhere, somewhere, whether true or not true; if it in ANY way could smear the TMO, Rich Archer will immediately be there to give you the news ! No coherence-creating group in Noida anymore ?? Doesn't matter because MAHARISHI once was there ! See the connection ? If not, please ask Rick Archer for clarification.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even a very large group may not be able to prevent particular inscidents due to irreversable carma. Thanks Nabby, another one for my collection of lame excuses of why none of these technologies work.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Making sense of nonsense
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:22 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Making sense of nonsense --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From a friend: Friends, I have been reading feverishly these past several months as our markets have entered turbulent times. The financial crisis America finds itself immersed in is summarized by the author below and echoed by more than a handful of market experts who publish respected newsletters. If all these fools, commonly called The Public, had followed Maharishis advice to buy gold when it was under 200 an ounce they would not go bankrupt enmasse today. When did he advise that? Did you buy any? Early 80's when you wasn't paying attention. Why, ofcorse. My investment has gone up 500%.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Even a very large group may not be able to prevent particular inscidents due to irreversable carma. Thanks Nabby, another one for my collection of lame excuses of why none of these technologies work. Get a checking. Then perhaps, but only perhaps, will you understand how this technology works.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see how disclosing factual events of Obama's past is a smear. The smear is calling the Annenburg Foundation some kind of radical anti-american group. You clearly don't know the first thing about the Annenburg Foundation. The media should vet all candidates thoroughly. IMO they did a piss poor of vetting Obama but didn't waste any time ripping into Palin. Why would you want to excuse anyone who aspires to be president from answering legitimate questions? The more his media flacks, like Ben Smith at Politico, try to protect him, the more I want to know. Why does Obama decline to speak about his time as President of the $100 million dollar Annenberg Foundation? It would have put to rest any question about his lack of executive experience. He should be bragging about it. But he does not. Why? Because a full examination of this period of his life will reveal he lied when he said Ayers is just a guy who lives in my neighborhood and in fact had a long term working relationship with Ayers. Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding? Since his past will follow him to the White, associations is asking questions aboutstill baffles me that his supports are not the least bit --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: It's not working, raunchydog. People with any judgment just ignore these smears. Ayers is in fact a well respected professor of education. The latest ABC/Washington Post poll puts Obama nine points ahead. He is going to win, so you may as well get used to it. (That nonsense about the Logan Act that you made a big deal of didn't fly,as I knew it wouldn't.) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Wall Street Journal 9/23/08 ...The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just a guy who lives in my neighborhood, and not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis. Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created ostensibly to improve Chicago's public schools. The funding came from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg. In early 1995, Mr. Obama was appointed the first chairman of the board, which handled fiscal matters. Mr. Ayers co-chaired the foundation's other key body, the Collaborative, which shaped education policy...The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming guilt by association. Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago. read more http://tinyurl.com/3wbxtu New York Times 9/11/2001 I don't regret setting bombs, Bill Ayers said. I feel we didn't do enough. Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago... read more http://tinyurl.com/4tb7wd
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
You are right about the incomplete sentence. I should have drafted my post in a word document and would have caught the error. Sorry, no coke here, you will have to see Obama for that. As far as linking Obama to a terrorist is concerned...well, if the shoe fits... Everyone is free to draw their own conclusions about the facts of Obama's life. Whether anyone votes for or against him because of it, is none of my business. Rather than focusing on my typos as an excuse to distract us from Obama's past, why don't you answer the question? Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding? If he lies about Ayers, what else is he lying about and will lie to us as our future president? My post should have read: I don't see how disclosing factual events of Obama's past is a smear. The media should vet all candidates thoroughly. IMO they did a piss poor job of vetting Obama but didn't waste any time ripping into Palin. Why would you want to excuse anyone who aspires to be president from answering legitimate questions? The more his media flacks, like Ben Smith at Politico, try to protect him, the more I want to know. Why does Obama decline to speak about his time as President of the $100 million dollar Annenberg Foundation? It would have put to rest any question about his lack of executive experience. He should be bragging about it. But he does not. Why? Because a full examination of this period of his life will reveal he lied when he said Ayers is just a guy who lives in my neighborhood and in fact had a long term working relationship with Ayers. Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
I'm not convinced that Obama is hiding anything. He has better things to talk about. He knows very well what the intentions of people like you are. I see nothing wrong in his association with Ayers, who, as I pointed out, is a well-respected professor of education at the University of Chicago. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are right about the incomplete sentence. I should have drafted my post in a word document and would have caught the error. Sorry, no coke here, you will have to see Obama for that. As far as linking Obama to a terrorist is concerned...well, if the shoe fits... Everyone is free to draw their own conclusions about the facts of Obama's life. Whether anyone votes for or against him because of it, is none of my business. Rather than focusing on my typos as an excuse to distract us from Obama's past, why don't you answer the question? Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding? If he lies about Ayers, what else is he lying about and will lie to us as our future president? My post should have read: I don't see how disclosing factual events of Obama's past is a smear. The media should vet all candidates thoroughly. IMO they did a piss poor job of vetting Obama but didn't waste any time ripping into Palin. Why would you want to excuse anyone who aspires to be president from answering legitimate questions? The more his media flacks, like Ben Smith at Politico, try to protect him, the more I want to know. Why does Obama decline to speak about his time as President of the $100 million dollar Annenberg Foundation? It would have put to rest any question about his lack of executive experience. He should be bragging about it. But he does not. Why? Because a full examination of this period of his life will reveal he lied when he said Ayers is just a guy who lives in my neighborhood and in fact had a long term working relationship with Ayers. Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
You clearly don't know what you are talking about. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created ostensibly to improve Chicago's public schools. CAC funding came from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg. Ayers wrote a grant to get money from the foundation. He got the money and used it to promote his radical ideology for school children. No one ever said the Annenburg Foundation was a radical anti-American group. Improved reader comprehension would help. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: I don't see how disclosing factual events of Obama's past is a smear. The smear is calling the Annenburg Foundation some kind of radical anti-american group. You clearly don't know the first thing about the Annenburg Foundation. The media should vet all candidates thoroughly. IMO they did a piss poor of vetting Obama but didn't waste any time ripping into Palin. Why would you want to excuse anyone who aspires to be president from answering legitimate questions? The more his media flacks, like Ben Smith at Politico, try to protect him, the more I want to know. Why does Obama decline to speak about his time as President of the $100 million dollar Annenberg Foundation? It would have put to rest any question about his lack of executive experience. He should be bragging about it. But he does not. Why? Because a full examination of this period of his life will reveal he lied when he said Ayers is just a guy who lives in my neighborhood and in fact had a long term working relationship with Ayers. Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding? Since his past will follow him to the White, associations is asking questions aboutstill baffles me that his supports are not the least bit --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: It's not working, raunchydog. People with any judgment just ignore these smears. Ayers is in fact a well respected professor of education. The latest ABC/Washington Post poll puts Obama nine points ahead. He is going to win, so you may as well get used to it. (That nonsense about the Logan Act that you made a big deal of didn't fly,as I knew it wouldn't.) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Wall Street Journal 9/23/08 ...The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just a guy who lives in my neighborhood, and not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis. Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created ostensibly to improve Chicago's public schools. The funding came from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg. In early 1995, Mr. Obama was appointed the first chairman of the board, which handled fiscal matters. Mr. Ayers co-chaired the foundation's other key body, the Collaborative, which shaped education policy...The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming guilt by association. Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago. read more http://tinyurl.com/3wbxtu New York Times 9/11/2001 I don't regret setting bombs, Bill Ayers said. I feel we didn't do enough. Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago... read more http://tinyurl.com/4tb7wd
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
The only person who ever wrote that Ayers is a well respected professor was Obama's media flack Ben Smith at Politico. So take that with a grain of salt. Excuse Ayers if you must. HE BOMBED THE FRIGGIN' PENTAGON! http://tinyurl.com/63n47m and he is unrepentant about it. That's O.K. by you? Give me a break! I prefer to deal with facts rather than Trust me, I'm Obama. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not convinced that Obama is hiding anything. He has better things to talk about. He knows very well what the intentions of people like you are. I see nothing wrong in his association with Ayers, who, as I pointed out, is a well-respected professor of education at the University of Chicago. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: You are right about the incomplete sentence. I should have drafted my post in a word document and would have caught the error. Sorry, no coke here, you will have to see Obama for that. As far as linking Obama to a terrorist is concerned...well, if the shoe fits... Everyone is free to draw their own conclusions about the facts of Obama's life. Whether anyone votes for or against him because of it, is none of my business. Rather than focusing on my typos as an excuse to distract us from Obama's past, why don't you answer the question? Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding? If he lies about Ayers, what else is he lying about and will lie to us as our future president? My post should have read: I don't see how disclosing factual events of Obama's past is a smear. The media should vet all candidates thoroughly. IMO they did a piss poor job of vetting Obama but didn't waste any time ripping into Palin. Why would you want to excuse anyone who aspires to be president from answering legitimate questions? The more his media flacks, like Ben Smith at Politico, try to protect him, the more I want to know. Why does Obama decline to speak about his time as President of the $100 million dollar Annenberg Foundation? It would have put to rest any question about his lack of executive experience. He should be bragging about it. But he does not. Why? Because a full examination of this period of his life will reveal he lied when he said Ayers is just a guy who lives in my neighborhood and in fact had a long term working relationship with Ayers. Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Especially during a financial meltdown: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece Let's do the math, shall we? Because of the mismanagement of scores of CEOs of financial companies, the Bush administration is now proposing a 700-billion-dollar bailout package to essentially *reward* these same CEOs and say, We're going to pretend you didn't fuck up and ruin the economy...here's some free money. But the money isn't free, and it isn't theirs. It's YOURS, you taxpayers in America. And 700 billion dollars translates to approximately 2,333 dollars for each man, woman, and child in the United States. (If I did the math right.) Ooops. As it turns out, my math is NOT right. It's far too low a figure. According to Reuters and CNET, the cost is more like $17,064 per household: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10049551-38.html Are you angry yet? Ready to kick a little CEO and Republican ass yet? If not, why the hell not? But you've always argued that Americans are too wimpy take to the streets. Do you think that is going to change now? I didn't here much of any discussion yesterday while waiting in the courtroom about the bailout. In fact the discussion that got going was about Vista and how terrible it is. Of course I had to throw in my tip about how to get Vista to boot up and ready to go in one minute: format the hard drive and install Linux. :-) My guru always asks why Americans let the Bush administration get away with murder when if this were India people *would* be rioting in the streets. The people who *caused* this financial meltdown are not only going to get away Scot-free, they're going to get away rich. While YOU and your children pony up $2,333 each so that they can do it. Isn't about bloody time that a few people dragged these CEO sumbitches into an alley and kicked the crap out of them, before throwing them into prison where they'll be raped daily for the next 20 years, the same way they've been raping 300,000,000 Americans? My proposed 20-year sentences were based on the $2,333 per American figure. Given the new, higher figure, we should probably up that to 40 years in prison, without the possibility of parole or K-Y. Try the number of actual taxpayers which was around 131 million in 2003 and the number *is* much higher.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: [snip] I just don't like to pay $18 a month for HBO and I also don't like to play provider roulette which many people do. HBO can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. I get some shows as part of my satellite sub. We just had the final episode of the The Wire last night. How I LOVED that series! eyepatch mode ON I live in a backwater town in Spain and I watch any American or British TV show I want to, from any cable or broadcast channel, and I watch them all without ever having to see a single commercial. And I don't pay a penny for any of them. You guys are still talking about these pay cable and satellite services as if you need them. eyepatch mode OFF But we've got cops with nothing better to do than bust grannies who download an MP3.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
TurquoiseB wrote: My proposed 20-year sentences were based on the $2,333 per American figure. Given the new, higher figure, we should probably up that to 40 years in prison, without the possibility of parole or K-Y. Notice who's screaming and yelling in the press about the need to pass the bailout. It's not the public, it's the rich bastards. Looks like they'll go broke if it isn't passed. So folks get on the phone and tell your congressman NOT to pass it and we'll wipe the 1% who own most of the wealth. Now that truly would be a beating they'd never forget.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Ooops. As it turns out, my math is NOT right. It's far too low a figure. According to Reuters and CNET, the cost is more like $17,064 per household: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10049551-38.html Are you angry yet? Ready to kick a little CEO and Republican ass yet? If not, why the hell not? But you've always argued that Americans are too wimpy take to the streets. Of course they are. Do you think that is going to change now? Of course not. I was merely rubbing it in that they're such enormous wusses. :-) I didn't here much of any discussion yesterday while waiting in the courtroom about the bailout. Of course not. The thinking is, Whew...some- body says that they can fix things. Just do it and don't tell us how, so we can go back to watching 'American Idol.' The bailout is yet another example of Desperate Housewives thinking. They can't pay the credit card bills, so they're apply- ing for out another credit card with an additional 1.8 trillion dollar limit. They will put it all on the new card and go back to watching 'American Idol.'
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
On Sep 24, 2008, at 6:05 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: [snip] I just don't like to pay $18 a month for HBO and I also don't like to play provider roulette which many people do. HBO can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. I get some shows as part of my satellite sub. We just had the final episode of the The Wire last night. How I LOVED that series! eyepatch mode ON I live in a backwater town in Spain and I watch any American or British TV show I want to, from any cable or broadcast channel, and I watch them all without ever having to see a single commercial. And I don't pay a penny for any of them. You guys are still talking about these pay cable and satellite services as if you need them. eyepatch mode OFF Perhaps because we don't want to break the law? I do pay for what I use. It's really that simple.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
Do a Google search on Ayers well-respected professor of education and see how wrong you are. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only person who ever wrote that Ayers is a well respected professor was Obama's media flack Ben Smith at Politico. So take that with a grain of salt. Excuse Ayers if you must. HE BOMBED THE FRIGGIN' PENTAGON! http://tinyurl.com/63n47m and he is unrepentant about it. That's O.K. by you? Give me a break! I prefer to deal with facts rather than Trust me, I'm Obama. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I'm not convinced that Obama is hiding anything. He has better things to talk about. He knows very well what the intentions of people like you are. I see nothing wrong in his association with Ayers, who, as I pointed out, is a well-respected professor of education at the University of Chicago. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: You are right about the incomplete sentence. I should have drafted my post in a word document and would have caught the error. Sorry, no coke here, you will have to see Obama for that. As far as linking Obama to a terrorist is concerned...well, if the shoe fits... Everyone is free to draw their own conclusions about the facts of Obama's life. Whether anyone votes for or against him because of it, is none of my business. Rather than focusing on my typos as an excuse to distract us from Obama's past, why don't you answer the question? Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding? If he lies about Ayers, what else is he lying about and will lie to us as our future president? My post should have read: I don't see how disclosing factual events of Obama's past is a smear. The media should vet all candidates thoroughly. IMO they did a piss poor job of vetting Obama but didn't waste any time ripping into Palin. Why would you want to excuse anyone who aspires to be president from answering legitimate questions? The more his media flacks, like Ben Smith at Politico, try to protect him, the more I want to know. Why does Obama decline to speak about his time as President of the $100 million dollar Annenberg Foundation? It would have put to rest any question about his lack of executive experience. He should be bragging about it. But he does not. Why? Because a full examination of this period of his life will reveal he lied when he said Ayers is just a guy who lives in my neighborhood and in fact had a long term working relationship with Ayers. Why aren't you the least bit curious to know what the future president of our country is hiding?
[FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 24, 2008, at 6:05 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: [snip] I just don't like to pay $18 a month for HBO and I also don't like to play provider roulette which many people do. HBO can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. I get some shows as part of my satellite sub. We just had the final episode of the The Wire last night. How I LOVED that series! eyepatch mode ON I live in a backwater town in Spain and I watch any American or British TV show I want to, from any cable or broadcast channel, and I watch them all without ever having to see a single commercial. And I don't pay a penny for any of them. You guys are still talking about these pay cable and satellite services as if you need them. eyepatch mode OFF Perhaps because we don't want to break the law? I do pay for what I use. It's really that simple. A good point, if you have these shows available TO pay for. I do not. I would have to wait for 1-2 years to be able to see them either on over- priced DVDs (which I have to hack my DVD player to be able to play here) or broadcast on Spanish TV, dubbed. I also live in a country in which downloading these things for private use is NOT against the law. Technically, the only TV shows that you could be prosecuted for downloading in the US are the ones marked PREAIR, released before their broadcast date. No lawsuit has ever been filed for downloading already-broadcast TV shows. Besides, I like being a pirate. Have you seen the first few episodes of Dexter and Californi- cation? I have. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
On Sep 24, 2008, at 1:11 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: A good point, if you have these shows available TO pay for. I do not. I would have to wait for 1-2 years to be able to see them either on over- priced DVDs (which I have to hack my DVD player to be able to play here) or broadcast on Spanish TV, dubbed. I also live in a country in which downloading these things for private use is NOT against the law. Technically, the only TV shows that you could be prosecuted for downloading in the US are the ones marked PREAIR, released before their broadcast date. No lawsuit has ever been filed for downloading already-broadcast TV shows. That's interesting and it does make a certain amount of sense for programs broadcast 'over the airwaves'. It however doesn't make sense for cable or satellite. Many people have been prosecuted for stealing cable. I remember when I rented my first apartment years ago, I signed up for cable. Later the cable company came after me for cable theft. So I called them up: here all the other tenants had tapped into my cable and so the cable company came after me. And I was the ONLY one legally paying for it! Besides, I like being a pirate. Have you seen the first few episodes of Dexter and Californi- cation? I have. :-) Yes, I've seen all of them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: now: the absurdity of the idea of willling fewer initiations
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 22, 2008, at 8:27 PM, jyouells2000 wrote: That seems like a really honest assessment to me. Yup, me too, spot on... Besides, regular meditators are passing away faster than new ones are starting anyway That's a depressing thought. I'd like to think people are simply finding more interesting things to do than actually checking out. Hope I'm not kidding myself. Sal It's certainly true in my area, and probably true elsewhere. It just points up 'the absurdity of the idea of willling fewer initiations'. Is the spiritual ecosystem so fragile that it can't even stand a decreasing level of 'coherence'? JohnY
[FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 24, 2008, at 6:05 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: [snip] I just don't like to pay $18 a month for HBO and I also don't like to play provider roulette which many people do. HBO can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. I get some shows as part of my satellite sub. We just had the final episode of the The Wire last night. How I LOVED that series! eyepatch mode ON I live in a backwater town in Spain and I watch any American or British TV show I want to, from any cable or broadcast channel, and I watch them all without ever having to see a single commercial. And I don't pay a penny for any of them. You guys are still talking about these pay cable and satellite services as if you need them. eyepatch mode OFF Perhaps because we don't want to break the law? I do pay for what I use. It's really that simple. Yes I agree. It's only money after all! I have enjoyed The Wire so much - the price is of no consequence. And if everyone worked a flanker and got it gratis, would such programs ever get made? Enlightened self-interest I'd say. (Is there not a parallel here with TMO? Is it better for the Knowledge to be free and non-commercial to salve our petty, liberal consciences? And only reach a handful of disciples...Or better to be mired in and tainted by commercial realities, but thereby to reach 000,000's?)
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TurquoiseB Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:49 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans The bailout is yet another example of Desperate Housewives thinking. They can't pay the credit card bills, so they're apply- ing for out another credit card with an additional 1.8 trillion dollar limit. They will put it all on the new card and go back to watching 'American Idol.' You are like, so clueless. Everybody who's anybody knows that American Idol doesn't start until January. The really hot show now is Dancing With The Stars. And then there's the Caylee Anthony situation. Ohmygod! Have you been missing that? Get with it old dude!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
--- On Wed, 9/24/08, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 11:44 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Even a very large group may not be able to prevent particular inscidents due to irreversable carma. Thanks Nabby, another one for my collection of lame excuses of why none of these technologies work. Get a checking. Then perhaps, but only perhaps, will you understand how this technology works. Nabbby, calling you out, biatch! What does the above mean. Literally. How does meditating correctly allow one to understand the empirically unproven ME and how and why it works and how and why it doesn't work. Balls in your court. Remember, we're having a rational discussion. No metaphysical constructs. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
On Sep 24, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Richard M wrote: Yes I agree. It's only money after all! I have enjoyed The Wire so much - the price is of no consequence. And if everyone worked a flanker and got it gratis, would such programs ever get made? Enlightened self-interest I'd say. Yes. I like contributing $$$ to things I enjoy. I support the arts! :-) (Is there not a parallel here with TMO? Is it better for the Knowledge to be free and non-commercial to salve our petty, liberal consciences? And only reach a handful of disciples...Or better to be mired in and tainted by commercial realities, but thereby to reach 000,000's?) Honestly I don't seriously entertain anything about TM or the TMO at all anymore. It has been interesting to watch nature withdraw her support. Such is impermanence's inevitable rusting of the can of the canned. As soon as they canned it, it was doomed.
[FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 24, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Richard M wrote: Yes I agree. It's only money after all! I have enjoyed The Wire so much - the price is of no consequence. And if everyone worked a flanker and got it gratis, would such programs ever get made? Enlightened self-interest I'd say. Yes. I like contributing $$$ to things I enjoy. I support the arts! :-) (Is there not a parallel here with TMO? Is it better for the Knowledge to be free and non-commercial to salve our petty, liberal consciences? And only reach a handful of disciples...Or better to be mired in and tainted by commercial realities, but thereby to reach 000,000's?) Honestly I don't seriously entertain anything about TM or the TMO at all anymore. It has been interesting to watch nature withdraw her support. I think I realise that! Such is impermanence's inevitable rusting of the can of the canned. As soon as they canned it, it was doomed. That's pretty. But I don't quite share your extreme cynicism though. (The rusting seems to me to be just another nice, poetic way of describing MMY's from-day-one assertion of inevitable knowledge loss).
[FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Honestly I don't seriously entertain anything about TM or the TMO at all anymore. Joke of the week ! 98% of your posts are regarding the TMO.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
On Sep 24, 2008, at 1:55 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Honestly I don't seriously entertain anything about TM or the TMO at all anymore. Joke of the week ! 98% of your posts are regarding the TMO. Perhaps you missed the point because English is not your native tongue. I don't consider TM or the TM org seriously. But there is some value in seeing how these orgs and teachings arise, exist for a while and then go away. There's also some benefit in seeing how distortion of teachings diminishes their longevity. I guess I just never expected it to happen so quickly!
[FairfieldLife] a unique bail out proposal
This is very intriguing to think about. Gives you a new perspective for sure. I like the part about the coast to coast block party! Susan I know some of you don't like political things, but in all fairness I think this is an eye opener Make sure you vote in NOVEMBER. Dear Congress and Mr President: I'm against the $85,000,000, 000.00 bailout of AIG. (That's 85 BILLION DOLLARS). Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000, 000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.. So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend. Of course, it would NOT be tax-free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%. Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000, 000 right back to Uncle Sam. But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000 .00. What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family? Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved. Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads Put away money for college - it'll be there Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs. Buy a new car - create jobs Invest in the market - capital drives growth Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces. If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( 'vote buy' ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President. If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+! As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up. Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't. Sure it's a crazy idea that can 'never work.' But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party! How do you spell Economic Boom? I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC . And remember, The Family plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam. Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest. Kindest personal regards, A Creative Guy Citizen of the Republic.
Re: [FairfieldLife] a unique bail out proposal
Fuckin' A, man!! Tired of these financial people ripping all of us off. This is a great plan. --- On Wed, 9/24/08, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] a unique bail out proposal To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 2:24 PM This is very intriguing to think about. Gives you a new perspective for sure. I like the part about the coast to coast block party! Susan I know some of you don't like political things, but in all fairness I think this is an eye opener Make sure you vote in NOVEMBER Dear Congress and Mr President: I'm against the $85,000,000, 000.00 bailout of AIG. (That's 85 BILLION DOLLARS). Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000, 000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.. So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend. Of course, it would NOT be tax-free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%. Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000, 000 right back to Uncle Sam. But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000 .00. What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family? Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved. Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads Put away money for college - it'll be there Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs. Buy a new car - create jobs Invest in the market - capital drives growth Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces. If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( 'vote buy' ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President. If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+! As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up. Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't. Sure it's a crazy idea that can 'never work.' But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party! How do you spell Economic Boom? I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC . And remember, The Family plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam. Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest. Kindest personal regards, A Creative Guy Citizen of the Republic.
[FairfieldLife] 'Slacker Uprising' Now Belongs to You (Down/Load, Rise/Up!)
--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, It's officially September 23rd and my new film, Slacker Uprising, is now premiering live at SlackerUprising.com! It is available for free as a gift from me to all of you. And you have my permission to share it or show it in any way you see fit. Watch it all: http://slackeruprising.com/download/location.php?utm_medium=downloadutm_source=31419310 At that link, there are five ways you can watch it free and without advertising: blip.tv is providing streaming right from slackeruprising.com, free of commercials and advertising. Amazon Video on Demand will provide a higher resolution version of the above stream for people with lots of bandwidth. It will be available in a few hours. iTunes will make it easy for you to download Slacker Uprising on your iTunes, iPod, or Apple TV, and view it there or transmit it to your television. This way, the film can be portable as well as for home viewing. This will be available soon. Hypernia is providing bandwidth and servers to host MPEG4 and DivX versions of Slacker Uprising online, so you can burn a DVD or download the film to watch on your computer, XBOX, or PS3. Lycos is providing free streaming of the film and an on-demand version. Stream it, download it, burn it now. It's the first time a major feature-length film is being released for free on the internet. You can be part of this historic moment by logging on now! Enjoy!! Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] MichaelMoore.com SlackerUprising.com P.S. Remember, we're doing something that's never been done, so I have no idea how it will all go! Don't give up if it seems to go slow (like with any streaming, give the downloading a head start before you hit play), and don't forget there are two places where you can actually download it to your hard drive and three ways to stream it. You can get to all of them at the link above. P.P.S. If you're not yet registered to vote, here's a good link: https://www.voteforchange.com/. There's less than two weeks for you to get registered, especially if you have moved since the last time you voted.
[FairfieldLife] Re: a unique bail out proposal
As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts. The fact that there are no buyers IS the problem. Sell off the real estate. The fact that there are no buyers IS the problem. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very intriguing to think about. Gives you a new perspective for sure. I like the part about the coast to coast block party! Susan I know some of you don't like political things, but in all fairness I think this is an eye opener Make sure you vote in NOVEMBER. Dear Congress and Mr President: I'm against the $85,000,000, 000.00 bailout of AIG. (That's 85 BILLION DOLLARS). Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000, 000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.. So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend. Of course, it would NOT be tax-free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%. Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000, 000 right back to Uncle Sam. But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000 .00. What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family? Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved. Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads Put away money for college - it'll be there Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs. Buy a new car - create jobs Invest in the market - capital drives growth Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces. If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( 'vote buy' ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President. If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+! As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up. Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't. Sure it's a crazy idea that can 'never work.' But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party! How do you spell Economic Boom? I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC . And remember, The Family plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam. Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest. Kindest personal regards, A Creative Guy Citizen of the Republic.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 24, 2008, at 6:05 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: [snip] I just don't like to pay $18 a month for HBO and I also don't like to play provider roulette which many people do. HBO can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. I get some shows as part of my satellite sub. We just had the final episode of the The Wire last night. How I LOVED that series! eyepatch mode ON I live in a backwater town in Spain and I watch any American or British TV show I want to, from any cable or broadcast channel, and I watch them all without ever having to see a single commercial. And I don't pay a penny for any of them. You guys are still talking about these pay cable and satellite services as if you need them. eyepatch mode OFF Perhaps because we don't want to break the law? I do pay for what I use. It's really that simple. A good point, if you have these shows available TO pay for. I do not. I would have to wait for 1-2 years to be able to see them either on over- priced DVDs (which I have to hack my DVD player to be able to play here) or broadcast on Spanish TV, dubbed. I also live in a country in which downloading these things for private use is NOT against the law. Technically, the only TV shows that you could be prosecuted for downloading in the US are the ones marked PREAIR, released before their broadcast date. No lawsuit has ever been filed for downloading already-broadcast TV shows. Besides, I like being a pirate. Have you seen the first few episodes of Dexter and Californi- cation? I have. :-) Perhaps we're not that obsessed with seeing these things so soon. Even though they don't have commercials I usually always watch these shows off the DVR than realtime even if I start it 20 minutes after the show has actually started. That's the whole value of having a DVR is watching when you want and being able to just skip over commercials. And more importantly in HD. Do you have a way to watch the shows you download on your big screen? Technically with the current US laws someone would have to file a complaint against a downloader. So if a big studio sees their blockbuster that just opened in theaters being downloaded they may just try to catch someone to make a case of it. However if in the process they see Joe Smo's Funky Features film up their they'll don't care. Joe Smo would have to go after them and Joe Smo probably doesn't care either as he's made his run and a few pirates aren't going to hurt him and actually might result in some extra sales. There are a few instances where even if something is copyrighted you can get away with much like the one instance I mentioned above. There are some small companies that get rights to Z-movies or even foreign films the big boys pass on. These companies don't even waste money on copy protected DVDs which cost a little more to replicate and author. They can even author the DVD (after spending a couple hundred bucks on the transfer if they had to) on a desktop PC with a cheap program. They do their run maybe only 2000 copies and sell the majority of those to places like Netflix, BlockBuster and Hollywood Video as well as some of the big store chains like Fry's that carry about everything. Odds are if several months or a year or two later you can't find that DVD and call that company and they tell you they don't have any copies left they'll probably say if find it on the internet feel free to download it. They're not going to do a limited run for a small market of customers. There are companies like Video Source of Miami that scour the net and markets for films that have not been copyrighted in the US and will send you a one-off DVD copy for a reasonable price. I got The Holy Mountain that way which was all cut up wrong because it was the director who posted the torrent files in a strategy to get Allen Klein who held the rights to release it commercially. A year later I was able to purchase the film on DVD restored beautifully with a commentary by the director (where he admitted to the torrents). The Fall BTW seems like a homage to The Holy Mountain. And now we have Michael Moore and Weinstein's trying a strategy of making the film available for download free while offering the DVD for only $10. Since the direct download failed I wound up doing a torrent on the MPEG-4 version which was muxed wrong for BluRay so am just finishing up the DivX torrent which will play with my Linkplayer upscaled to the HD set. I remember when the Internet was emerging the software company I worked at declared it as a new method of distribution something which was lost on the backwoods mafia types (really,
Re: [FairfieldLife] a unique bail out proposal
Now this is an economic stimulus package I can appreciate! As long as you're not from Nigeria, just send me the check! On Sep 24, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Susan wrote: This is very intriguing to think about. Gives you a new perspective for sure. I like the part about the coast to coast block party! Susan I know some of you don't like political things, but in all fairness I think this is an eye opener Make sure you vote in NOVEMBER.. .. Dear Congress and Mr President: I'm against the $85,000,000, 000.00 bailout of AIG. (That's 85 BILLION DOLLARS). Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000, 000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.. So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend. Of course, it would NOT be tax-free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%. Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000, 000 right back to Uncle Sam. But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000 .00. What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family? Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved. Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads Put away money for college - it'll be there Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs. Buy a new car - create jobs Invest in the market - capital drives growth Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces. If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( 'vote buy' ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President. If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+! As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up. Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't. Sure it's a crazy idea that can 'never work.' But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party! How do you spell Economic Boom? I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC . And remember, The Family plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam. Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest. Kindest personal regards, A Creative Guy Citizen of the Republic.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
Vaj wrote: On Sep 24, 2008, at 1:11 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: A good point, if you have these shows available TO pay for. I do not. I would have to wait for 1-2 years to be able to see them either on over- priced DVDs (which I have to hack my DVD player to be able to play here) or broadcast on Spanish TV, dubbed. I also live in a country in which downloading these things for private use is NOT against the law. Technically, the only TV shows that you could be prosecuted for downloading in the US are the ones marked PREAIR, released before their broadcast date. No lawsuit has ever been filed for downloading already-broadcast TV shows. That's interesting and it does make a certain amount of sense for programs broadcast 'over the airwaves'. It however doesn't make sense for cable or satellite. Many people have been prosecuted for stealing cable. I remember when I rented my first apartment years ago, I signed up for cable. Later the cable company came after me for cable theft. So I called them up: here all the other tenants had tapped into my cable and so the cable company came after me. And I was the ONLY one legally paying for it! The networks want the FCC to allow them to copy protect the programs that go out over the air on HD. Guess why they pop up those annoying banners during the shows? To make the copies unpalatable but it makes the show unpalatable. The dummies are shooting themselves in the foot. The FCC is saying NO so far to CP and it would make a lot of recently if not all current sets with both ATSC and QAM tuners obsolete. Their shows are often so bland anyway I turned off The Mentalist after 15 minutes and for some reason the DVR didn't record The Fringe which was about to fall off my list anyway. So far it's been alleged that NBC has thrown in some things in the stream that makes Windows Media Center think the show is copy protected. The EFF is going after them on that. I'm noticing that DVDs are now coming with a symbol that says the disk is copy protected. I makes it easy for me to spot a non copy protected disk and play it with my BluRay player which is a better player than my upscaling network player. My set is 8 years old and thus does not have HDMI inputs. BluRay will upscale a DVD that is not copy protected over component. My networked DVD player upscales over component but is a funky implementation of DVD (the developers were more into network stuff which works good but couldn't even implement a DVD player up to the standards of a cheap one). Besides, I like being a pirate. Have you seen the first few episodes of Dexter and Californi- cation? I have. :-) Yes, I've seen all of them. I think he means this upcoming season.
[FairfieldLife] Der Fuhrer Speaks to the Nation Tonight
Don't miss the comedy show at 9 PM Eastern and 6 PM Pacific. Herr Bush will probably be in his best Halloween style fear mode with every word engineered to stir emotions of the mindless. Maybe I'll record it and post a Mystery Theater 3000 version on YouTube. :) We know he's going to plead with us to bail out his rich (and soon not to be) buddies. Tough shit Terrance, we get to sink your yacht. As Thom Hartmann has been saying all morning he believe they didn't think this would actually get this critical until after the election possibly next spring. Hehe, the joke's on them!!!
[FairfieldLife] Evolution and Politics, was (Racist may cost Obama the White House)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Americans are recognizing that Obama is a phenomenon in American politics. If there are many racists in the Democratic Party, Obama wouldn't have gotten this far in the nominating process. IMO, there's a surging consciousness in the USA for a change from the present Republican administration, and it just happens to be Obama who is the best one among the Democrats to challenge the Republicans. Whether he succeeds or fails. It's the clash of energies that is important. In other words, it's the fluctuation of the gunas, in vedic terms. No, not at all. Energy -- and the universe composed of it -- is far more interesting and complex than the dumbed-down triumverate of energies postulated by Vedic philosophers. You're falling for the good/evil dualistic dichotomy. I'm talking about an energy signature which is neither good nor evil on either side, because 1) such simplis- tic distinctions don't exist, and because 2) all beings are a complex *mix* of energies of all sorts. Well, we would have to wait until the spring of 2009 to find out about the truth of the energies you're talking about. That's the time frame that the giant collider in Switzerland will be fixed to continue its research on subatomic particles. But I'm not sure if the energies you are referring to can be verified by science. IMO, they should be. It also has nothing to do with evolution and who is more evolved or any simplistic horseshit like that. Barry et al, The Shrimad Bhagavatam mentions in many occasions that living entities are hung up on experiencing the senses that they are willing to take rebirth as different life forms on this earth or on other planets throughout the universe, or possibly in other universes. In this context, evolution is infinitely relevant. It's just that Obama's energy mix is more intelli- gent than McCain's, by a long shot. That provides people with an opportunity to see which energy they identify with more -- intelligence or idiocy. The fact that the polls (even though they are being manipulated) are so close indicates that Americans are torn on this subject. Since most Americans are fairly well educated compared to world standard, one would think that this would be an easy choice. Most people here in the USA would only understand the arguments when their loved ones are killed in some faroff countries, and when their pockets are burned by layoffs and loss of savings/investments due to an economic downturn, such as the current financial crisis in Wall Street. Let's find out who they are by the response that you get. You mean like a homosexual calling a straight guy a homo- sexual and thinking that it's an insult? :-) THAT is what I'm talking about with regard to the clash of energies. It's not a good vs. evil thang; it's an intelligence vs. stupidity thang. No one who is the least bit intelligent (or sane) is going to go around insulting other people by insinuating that they're *just like them*. Humans are an odd lot. Anything can happen. There are priests who enter the service of the church/ashram and preach about the accepted doctrines. Yet at the same time, some of these priests molest children and have sex with their parishioners.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
Rick Archer wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TurquoiseB Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:49 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans The bailout is yet another example of Desperate Housewives thinking. They can't pay the credit card bills, so they're apply- ing for out another credit card with an additional 1.8 trillion dollar limit. They will put it all on the new card and go back to watching 'American Idol.' You are like, so clueless. Everybody who's anybody knows that American Idol doesn't start until January. The really hot show now is Dancing With The Stars. And then there's the Caylee Anthony situation. Ohmygod! Have you been missing that? Get with it old dude! Huh? I though the must seewas supposed to be NFL football. Don't you know it is your patriotic duty to be sitting before your TV when those games run preferably drinking the beers and eating the carbs advertised? Don't you know if you don't Blackwater will drop by your house and send you on a no return trip to Bulgaria?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
On Sep 24, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The networks want the FCC to allow them to copy protect the programs that go out over the air on HD. Guess why they pop up those annoying banners during the shows? To make the copies unpalatable but it makes the show unpalatable. The dummies are shooting themselves in the foot. The FCC is saying NO so far to CP and it would make a lot of recently if not all current sets with both ATSC and QAM tuners obsolete. Their shows are often so bland anyway I turned off The Mentalist after 15 minutes and for some reason the DVR didn't record The Fringe which was about to fall off my list anyway. So far it's been alleged that NBC has thrown in some things in the stream that makes Windows Media Center think the show is copy protected. The EFF is going after them on that. I'm noticing that DVDs are now coming with a symbol that says the disk is copy protected. I makes it easy for me to spot a non copy protected disk and play it with my BluRay player which is a better player than my upscaling network player. My set is 8 years old and thus does not have HDMI inputs. BluRay will upscale a DVD that is not copy protected over component. My networked DVD player upscales over component but is a funky implementation of DVD (the developers were more into network stuff which works good but couldn't even implement a DVD player up to the standards of a cheap one). It used to be when you rented a movie on TiVo via Directv, you could keep the movie for as long as you wanted. Now I see they automatically delete themselves after 30 days! However I see there's still no problem running them through my DVD recorder and just making a copy. Similarly movies rented on the iTunes store are good for a 30 day period, but once you start playing them they self-delete after 24 hours passes. This seems to be the new trend.
[FairfieldLife] Re: a unique bail out proposal
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very intriguing to think about. Gives you a new perspective for sure. I like the part about the coast to coast block party! Susan Yeah, great idea! But how do we know you're not a scam? If you ask for our bank accounts then we'd know you're just like those Wall Street con-artists. I know some of you don't like political things, but in all fairness I think this is an eye opener Make sure you vote in NOVEMBER.. ... Dear Congress and Mr President: I'm against the $85,000,000, 000.00 bailout of AIG. (That's 85 BILLION DOLLARS). Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000, 000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.. So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend. Of course, it would NOT be tax-free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%. Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000, 000 right back to Uncle Sam. But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000 .00. What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family? Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved. Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads Put away money for college - it'll be there Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs. Buy a new car - create jobs Invest in the market - capital drives growth Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces. If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( 'vote buy' ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President. If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+! As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up. Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't. Sure it's a crazy idea that can 'never work.' But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party! How do you spell Economic Boom? I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC . And remember, The Family plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam. Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest. Kindest personal regards, A Creative Guy Citizen of the Republic.
RE: [FairfieldLife] a unique bail out proposal
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vaj Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:44 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] a unique bail out proposal I think the math is wrong. If you divide 200 million into 85 billion, don't you get 425? Not 425,000. Do it the other way around: 425 x 200,000,000 = 85,000,000,000 I'm against the $85,000,000, 000.00 bailout of AIG. (That's 85 BILLION DOLLARS). Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000, 000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.. So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Archer wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TurquoiseB Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:49 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans The bailout is yet another example of Desperate Housewives thinking. They can't pay the credit card bills, so they're apply- ing for out another credit card with an additional 1.8 trillion dollar limit. They will put it all on the new card and go back to watching 'American Idol.' You are like, so clueless. Everybody who's anybody knows that American Idol doesn't start until January. The really hot show now is Dancing With The Stars. And then there's the Caylee Anthony situation. Ohmygod! Have you been missing that? Get with it old dude! Huh? I though the must seewas supposed to be NFL football. Don't you know it is your patriotic duty to be sitting before your TV when those games run preferably drinking the beers and eating the carbs advertised? Don't you know if you don't Blackwater will drop by your house and send you on a no return trip to Bulgaria? I'm enjoying the games again since the 49ers have won two games in a row. Also, I'm curious about the drama with the Raiders coach and Al Davis, the owner. If Kiffen, the coach, is not fired any time soon, then we'll know that Davis is a demoniac who loves to torture people. From the pictures I've seen on the papers, Kiffen is suffering from acute stress. If he stays on the job, we'll see his hair turn grey before our own eyes.
[FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides, I like being a pirate. Have you seen the first few episodes of Dexter and Californi- cation? I have. :-) According to the Showtime site, the season 3 premiere of Dexter is Sept. 28, yet the BitTorrent trackers already have it available. How is that possible if the episode hasn't even aired yet?
[FairfieldLife] Wuus McCain wants Debate Delayed
Because the old codger will get his ass whooped by Obama. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26872907/ What next? Will he want the election postponed? John McCain is truly insane. People, the time for revolution is NOW!!!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: HBO's True Blood
Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides, I like being a pirate. Have you seen the first few episodes of Dexter and Californi- cation? I have. :-) According to the Showtime site, the season 3 premiere of Dexter is Sept. 28, yet the BitTorrent trackers already have it available. How is that possible if the episode hasn't even aired yet? Screeners sent to reviewers (whoever they are - wink). A friend that owned a video rental place used to give loan me screeners of films to be released on DVD for my opinion. These are sent out to get the owners to order the title. Screeners often have messages displayed every so once in a while or have the time codes displayed which makes for a bad looking copy. To some extent the networks aren't too concerned about the downrezzed (Flash, WMV) versions and in fact many are making some of those available to view for free plus even putting them on the DVDs they ship as digital versions. They don't like the DVD quality and HD versions.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Wuus McCain wants Debate Delayed
On Sep 24, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Because the old codger will get his ass whooped by Obama. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26872907/ What next? Will he want the election postponed? John McCain is truly insane. Yeah, well, who needs elections anyhow? What are you, a communist? People, the time for revolution is NOW!!! Where do we meet? Sal
[FairfieldLife] Video: If I were a terrorist
I think someone here posted a YouTube link to this video before but I had to crack up when I played it on this site as it was preceded by an ad from ... Walmart! :-D http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=11649
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: a unique bail out proposal
Reverse auction: Keep on lowering the price until its bought. Somebody will buy it, but not at anywhere close to its original value. --- On Wed, 9/24/08, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: a unique bail out proposal To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 2:34 PM As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts. The fact that there are no buyers IS the problem. Sell off the real estate. The fact that there are no buyers IS the problem. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very intriguing to think about. Gives you a new perspective for sure. I like the part about the coast to coast block party! Susan I know some of you don't like political things, but in all fairness I think this is an eye opener Make sure you vote in NOVEMBER. Dear Congress and Mr President: I'm against the $85,000,000, 000.00 bailout of AIG. (That's 85 BILLION DOLLARS). Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000, 000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.. So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend. Of course, it would NOT be tax-free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%. Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000, 000 right back to Uncle Sam. But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000 .00. What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family? Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved. Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads Put away money for college - it'll be there Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs. Buy a new car - create jobs Invest in the market - capital drives growth Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces. If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( 'vote buy' ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President. If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+! As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up. Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't. Sure it's a crazy idea that can 'never work.' But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party! How do you spell Economic Boom? I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC . And remember, The Family plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam. Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest. Kindest personal regards, A Creative Guy Citizen of the Republic. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Tardigrades survive in outer space!
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/08/water-bears-survive.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] a unique bail out proposal
$425 is correct. Otherwise how would those estimates based on the US population say that the $700 billion is $2300 per person. Also the actual number of tax returns in 2003 was around 131 million. Use that number as it probably varies only a little. The US government's fiscal year ends September 30th. They will go bankrupt at that point. The elite are running scared because if congress delays the bailout beyond that point the elite is screwed. I believe congress knows this and it is time for the blowback. The elite didn't believe this would take place until after the election. Just karma, I say. Rick Archer wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vaj Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:44 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] a unique bail out proposal I think the math is wrong. If you divide 200 million into 85 billion, don't you get 425? Not 425,000. Do it the other way around: 425 x 200,000,000 = 85,000,000,000 I'm against the $85,000,000, 000.00 bailout of AIG. (That's 85 BILLION DOLLARS). Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000, 000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.. So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.
[FairfieldLife] Re: a unique bail out proposal
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reverse auction: Keep on lowering the price until its bought. Somebody will buy it, but not at anywhere close to its original value. AIG is solvent and a good portion of its business has value. For example, the insurance part of its business is doing fine. That is why the bailout of AIG will probably work. It will be able to sell off the good stuff over the next two years. Lehman, in contrast, was insolvent. A bailout made no sense whatsoever.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Wuus McCain wants Debate Delayed
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because the old codger will get his ass whooped by Obama. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26872907/ What next? Will he want the election postponed? John McCain is truly insane. People, the time for revolution is NOW!!! 86% of Americans say debate should take place as scheduled Immediately after John McCain's announcement 3 pm ET today, Wednesday 09/24/08, that he was suspending his campaign and seeking to postpone Friday's schedule presidential debate, SurveyUSA interviewed 1,000 adults nationwide. Key findings: A majority of Americans say the debate should be held. Just 10% say the debate should be postponed. A sizable percentage of Americans, 36%, think the focus of the debate should be modified to focus more on the economy. 3 of 4 Americans say the presidential campaign should continue. Just 14% say the presidential campaign should be suspended. If Friday's debate does not take place 46%, of Americans say that would be bad for America. Survey USA: http://tinyurl.com/3uq7sb
[FairfieldLife] LETTERMAN MOCKS MCCAIN CANCELLATION
Wed Sep 24 2008 17:41:58 ET David Letterman tells audience that McCain called him today to tell him he had to rush back to DC to deal with the economy. Then in the middle of the taping Dave got word that McCain was, in fact just down the street being interviewed by Katie Couric. Dave even cut over to the live video of the interview, and said, Hey Senator, can I give you a ride home? Earlier in the show, Dave kept saying, You don't suspend your campaign. This doesn't smell right. This isn't the way a tested hero behaves. And he joked: I think someone's putting something in his metamucil. He can't run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put in your second string quarterback, Sara Palin. Where is she? What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We've got a guy like that now!
Re: [FairfieldLife] a unique bail out proposal
Vaj wrote: Now this is an economic stimulus package I can appreciate! As long as you're not from Nigeria, just send me the check! Dear Excellent Friend: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion USD. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you. I am working with Mr. Phil Gramm, lobbyist for UBS, who (God willing) will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a former U.S. congressional leader and the architect of the Palin/McCain Financial Doctrine, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. As such, you can be assured that this transaction is 100% safe. This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred. Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds. Yours Faithfully, Henry Paulson Minister of Treasury Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20220
[FairfieldLife] Re: Proof of collective consciousness??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: Sorry to hear about your countrymen Carde but I think this is more likely proof that private gun ownership is a big mistake. Why? Your kidding. But then you live in a country where 80 people are shot dead every day so maybe that really needs a reply: This guy was unlikely to storm into his old school and strangle ten people. Just as the English mass-murderers at Dunblane and Hungerford wouldn't have become so notorious if they didn't have an arsenal of weapons under the bed. Madness. * Half of U.S. gun deaths are suicides, who would have picked another means if a gun was unavailable, so gun deaths are about 40 a day compared to about 110/day from traffic accidents: http://daily.iflove.com/world/2008-07/01/content_6809520.htm Mass murderers can readily do their thing with knives in places where guns are not available, like the guy in Tokyo who killed 7: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/09/world/fg-stab9
[FairfieldLife] Re: LETTERMAN MOCKS MCCAIN CANCELLATION
McCain's just trying to pull a stunt, but I think he's made a big blunder. After all, this is a guy who admitted that he doesn't know much about the economy. What use is he going to be? Like Bush, he'll just get in the way. Nice gift for Obama though. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wed Sep 24 2008 17:41:58 ET David Letterman tells audience that McCain called him today to tell him he had to rush back to DC to deal with the economy. Then in the middle of the taping Dave got word that McCain was, in fact just down the street being interviewed by Katie Couric. Dave even cut over to the live video of the interview, and said, Hey Senator, can I give you a ride home? Earlier in the show, Dave kept saying, You don't suspend your campaign. This doesn't smell right. This isn't the way a tested hero behaves. And he joked: I think someone's putting something in his metamucil. He can't run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put in your second string quarterback, Sara Palin. Where is she? What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We've got a guy like that now!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Wuus McCain wants Debate Delayed
On Sep 24, 2008, at 4:42 PM, do.rflex wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because the old codger will get his ass whooped by Obama. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26872907/ What next? Will he want the election postponed? John McCain is truly insane. People, the time for revolution is NOW!!! 86% of Americans say debate should take place as scheduled Immediately after John McCain's announcement 3 pm ET today, Wednesday 09/24/08, that he was suspending his campaign and seeking to postpone Friday's schedule presidential debate, SurveyUSA interviewed 1,000 adults nationwide. Key findings: A majority of Americans say the debate should be held. Just 10% say the debate should be postponed. A sizable percentage of Americans, 36%, think the focus of the debate should be modified to focus more on the economy. 3 of 4 Americans say the presidential campaign should continue. Just 14% say the presidential campaign should be suspended. If Friday's debate does not take place 46%, of Americans say that would be bad for America. Survey USA: http://tinyurl.com/3uq7sb Now they want to essentially cancel the VP debate as well: McCain camp to propose postponing VP debate http://tinyurl.com/3qeps9 Why don't we just cancel the Republican Party? Would anyone even notice? Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Wuus McCain wants Debate Delayed
Perhaps they've finally realized the unfathomable depths of their candidate's ignorance, that no amount of last-minute cramming can paper over. I was amused today to read of how Sarah is dodging reporters, refusing to give a press conference, yet their campaign did issue a full accounting of what ice cream flavors she and her kids favored at a campaign stop in Florida. If you made a movie about this, no one would believe it. I've stopped searching for bikini pics of Sarah; the sad truth is that she is naked wherever she goes, and no amount of campaign spin can cover her up. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now they want to essentially cancel the VP debate as well: McCain camp to propose postponing VP debate http://tinyurl.com/3qeps9 Why don't we just cancel the Republican Party? Would anyone even notice? Sal
