[FairfieldLife] Re: Alan Grayson (D-FL) weighs in on Supreme Court ruling
Your proclivity to use racial stereotypes tells us much of how you feel about your fellow man. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: The last thing this country needs is a Mahatma Gandhi. India has only recently gotten free of the horrible economic shackles his policies have been strangling India with. I refer to his silly made in India policies, particularly those surrounding the textile industry. By George you are right old chap. I was just discussing this with a chum at our Club, sipping 20 year old brandy and smoking fine Cubans. Our small, feeble and rather dense yellow friends were far better off when India was the jewel of the British Empire, with these local rouges and rift raft having the right and honor to be plundered, beaten, cheated, humiliated, degraded, and killed by the finest of men, the finest of Empires -- Long live the Queen! In the past 10-15 years India consciously abandoned those principles and opened themselves up to globalization and they have finally begun to thrive in a big way. Hear hear old sport. The British Empire globalized-- as if on on steriods -- those little monkeys. That Ghandi chap certain mucked the greatest wave of globalization ever seen by man-- the British Empire -- bringing civilization and Christianity to the heathen masses of the world wide. And for what? All that rights of man, self-dignity, freedom, self-determination crap. What utter nonsense! What a utter rubbish. Clearly those jungle bunnies would be far better off if India remained a brutally ruled colony of one of the largest and grandest Imperial jauggarnauts ever to rape and pillage the earth.. (And aside from all the minerals, resources, cheap labor and all that we rightful claimed as our own in India, we got cool words like jauggernaught (If only they had simplified the spelling) Well I am off for safari. To sporten things up, I hear they are going to release 50 Ghandians in the jungle for us to sharpen our hunting skills and instincts. Good bloody sport I must say. Well, Cheers! Long live the Queen and Empire. The community organiser reminds me of Gandhi.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Alan Grayson (D-FL) weighs in on Supreme Court ruling
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: [snip] Grayson has created the Web site SaveDemocracy.net http://savedemocracy.net/ to gather petitions in support of his bills. On Friday at 8:30 AM EST there were nearly 40,000 signatories. [snip] Putting aside my opinions on this particular issue for the moment, I must take offense at something else. I get really irritated whenever I see an online petition claiming to have gotten X amount of signatures. Why? Because as anyone who has ever gone to the trouble of trying to get real signatures, it is a really hard, sweaty laborious thing to do. Getting a signature online is to the order of probably 1/1,000th as difficult. Therefore, to my mind, it doesn't and shouldn't hold the same weight as a real signature does. Yes, it most certainly should hold some weight...but a different weight. Perhaps using a different term would do the trick: online signature or signatory (such as used above, although it isn't differentiating enough, to my mind). And, by the way, 40,000 online signatures is NOT a lot...even at this early stage. They'll have to get a whole lot more to make any kind of dent.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Alan Grayson (D-FL) weighs in on Supreme Court ruling
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. -Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906 . What conservatism seems to mean to them, when you get down to it, is simply offering comfort to the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted, Grayson said. http://rawstory.com/2010/01/grayson/ Grayson is on the right track; what this country needs are real statesmen what this country needs are mahatmas like: Gandhi, MLKing, Peace Pilgrim to speak truth from the heart no matter what the consequences and move people in the direction of compassion away from selfishness the way it looks right now, however, is that selfishness will destroy America will destroy the world perhaps, the human race will become extinct i still believe Obama is a good man and best America has to offer for the job but if the collective consciousness of the people is for selfishness there is little he can really do it has to be a collective effort of real sharing and caring Amma ~ the most serious problem facing the world today is the pollution of the human mind and the increase in selfishness and cruelty. This is the root of all the others problems facing the world today. Everything in the world is changingwith one exception: our negative mental state! Our personality is a reflection of our mind. The ability of human beings to rise up to a situation and act is slowly disappearing. In the name of stability and competition, mankind is allowing their lives to be led by hatred, revenge and stubbornness. Maybe Mother Kali is here to asses the situation and make a decision? Maharishi once said, probably in the 60's, (paraphrased from memory) the engineers come to asses and see if it's worthwhile to repair; or uproot and start anew. in any case, it never hurts to pray/chant May all beings everywhere be peaceful and happy ! Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu ! Om Santi Santi Santihi !
[FairfieldLife] Re: Alan Grayson (D-FL) weighs in on Supreme Court ruling
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: snip I get really irritated whenever I see an online petition claiming to have gotten X amount of signatures. Why? Because as anyone who has ever gone to the trouble of trying to get real signatures, it is a really hard, sweaty laborious thing to do. Getting a signature online is to the order of probably 1/1,000th as difficult. True, but which is more important, the effort put out by the folks looking for the signatures, or that put out by the folks who sign their names? It isn't *that* much more difficult for you to take a pen and sign a petition somebody hands you at a supermarket or on a street corner than to click a link to fill in your name and email address on a Web site. What annoys *me* about online petitions is that they're all too often more about the email addresses than the signatures. These days, I don't sign online petitions unless there's an opt-out box to check if you don't want to receive email from the site forever. Grayson's petition does not have such a box. He's collected a very nice mailing list to solicit donations for his campaign for reelection to Congress this November.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Alan Grayson (D-FL) weighs in on Supreme Court ruling
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anatol_zinc anatol_z...@... wrote: [snip] Grayson is on the right track; what this country needs are real statesmen what this country needs are mahatmas like: Gandhi, MLKing, Peace Pilgrim to speak truth from the heart no matter what the consequences and move people in the direction of compassion away from selfishness [snip] The last thing this country needs is a Mahatma Gandhi. India has only recently gotten free of the horrible economic shackles his policies have been strangling India with. I refer to his silly made in India policies, particularly those surrounding the textile industry. In the past 10-15 years India consciously abandoned those principles and opened themselves up to globalization and they have finally begun to thrive in a big way. The community organiser reminds me of Gandhi.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Alan Grayson (D-FL) weighs in on Supreme Court ruling
material wealth does not ensure survival of civilization sanatana dharma of vedic culture[and other world mistics] survived muslim and british domination the universal principles of sanatana dharma have survived for thousands of years and have been offered as a last chance for human race to redeem itself in MMY case, his offer of TM was good but not good enough it should have been offered for free for everyone without selfishness Everything else that MMY offered after TM was flawed with selfishness and the TM org turned over to selfish millionaires Amma's offer of compassion and unselfishness is a much better example and the only hope I repeat, material wealth does not ensure survival of civilization, the goal of each nation should not be to get as wealthy as they can get away with, but, to become as civil as possible only civility can ensure survival of civilization that's my 2cents, anatol --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anatol_zinc anatol_zinc@ wrote: [snip] Grayson is on the right track; what this country needs are real statesmen what this country needs are mahatmas like: Gandhi, MLKing, Peace Pilgrim to speak truth from the heart no matter what the consequences and move people in the direction of compassion away from selfishness [snip] The last thing this country needs is a Mahatma Gandhi. India has only recently gotten free of the horrible economic shackles his policies have been strangling India with. I refer to his silly made in India policies, particularly those surrounding the textile industry. In the past 10-15 years India consciously abandoned those principles and opened themselves up to globalization and they have finally begun to thrive in a big way. The community organiser reminds me of Gandhi.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Alan Grayson (D-FL) weighs in on Supreme Court ruling
Expressing opinions, without any substantive case building for such, without integrating the belief into the larger context of ongoing discussions and others' points of view -- and with no reasons for supporting such beliefs, all that is fine. And it appears to be a favored style of several here -- even if it seems to involve a bit of self-absorption when done in a CHAT forum. Perhaps less narcissistic if this were a self-journal blog. For example, why is this our last chance? Any substantive reasons, historical perspective, special insight, and all, other than that a thought came to my head -- without any effort? Ancients once thought that thoughts in their heads were the voices of God. I mean, clearly they were doing nothing to create the thought, but yet it kept appearing. Must be God! (Well, given this logic, God must have stuck THAT thought in their had also. God's a tricky fellow) Farts also come, pretty much without effort. I wonder if that is God also speaking, and thus its essential that I report all such raw experiences with all. Is your, and others who bath in the delights of just my opinion, no facts please, no logic, no reasoning, no personal experience. Just a raw thought I had, without any personal involvement in creating it, so it must be TRUE. truly content to just reveal the effortless raw thoughts that arise within your heads? Reporting on your inner struggle with an intellectual or emotional discordance or dilemma that challenged you to structure a reasoned, facts and experience based opinion -- and to integrate that into the larger discussion, isn't that far more interesting, valuable and compelling than simply revealing a raw thought? Is this a forum just for simply reporting random thoughts? (not that there is anything wrong with that.) Or a forum to mutually examine assumptions, views, facts, reasoning, logic, experience, to help one's self, and possibly others, gain greater insight and understanding on issues that challenge us all? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anatol_zinc anatol_z...@... wrote: material wealth does not ensure survival of civilization sanatana dharma of vedic culture[and other world mistics] survived muslim and british domination the universal principles of sanatana dharma have survived for thousands of years and have been offered as a last chance for human race to redeem itself in MMY case, his offer of TM was good but not good enough it should have been offered for free for everyone without selfishness Everything else that MMY offered after TM was flawed with selfishness and the TM org turned over to selfish millionaires Amma's offer of compassion and unselfishness is a much better example and the only hope I repeat, material wealth does not ensure survival of civilization, the goal of each nation should not be to get as wealthy as they can get away with, but, to become as civil as possible only civility can ensure survival of civilization that's my 2cents, anatol --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anatol_zinc anatol_zinc@ wrote: [snip] Grayson is on the right track; what this country needs are real statesmen what this country needs are mahatmas like: Gandhi, MLKing, Peace Pilgrim to speak truth from the heart no matter what the consequences and move people in the direction of compassion away from selfishness [snip] The last thing this country needs is a Mahatma Gandhi. India has only recently gotten free of the horrible economic shackles his policies have been strangling India with. I refer to his silly made in India policies, particularly those surrounding the textile industry. In the past 10-15 years India consciously abandoned those principles and opened themselves up to globalization and they have finally begun to thrive in a big way. The community organiser reminds me of Gandhi.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Alan Grayson (D-FL) weighs in on Supreme Court ruling
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: The last thing this country needs is a Mahatma Gandhi. India has only recently gotten free of the horrible economic shackles his policies have been strangling India with. I refer to his silly made in India policies, particularly those surrounding the textile industry. By George you are right old chap. I was just discussing this with a chum at our Club, sipping 20 year old brandy and smoking fine Cubans. Our small, feeble and rather dense yellow friends were far better off when India was the jewel of the British Empire, with these local rouges and rift raft having the right and honor to be plundered, beaten, cheated, humiliated, degraded, and killed by the finest of men, the finest of Empires -- Long live the Queen! In the past 10-15 years India consciously abandoned those principles and opened themselves up to globalization and they have finally begun to thrive in a big way. Hear hear old sport. The British Empire globalized-- as if on on steriods -- those little monkeys. That Ghandi chap certain mucked the greatest wave of globalization ever seen by man-- the British Empire -- bringing civilization and Christianity to the heathen masses of the world wide. And for what? All that rights of man, self-dignity, freedom, self-determination crap. What utter nonsense! What a utter rubbish. Clearly those jungle bunnies would be far better off if India remained a brutally ruled colony of one of the largest and grandest Imperial jauggarnauts ever to rape and pillage the earth.. (And aside from all the minerals, resources, cheap labor and all that we rightful claimed as our own in India, we got cool words like jauggernaught (If only they had simplified the spelling) Well I am off for safari. To sporten things up, I hear they are going to release 50 Ghandians in the jungle for us to sharpen our hunting skills and instincts. Good bloody sport I must say. Well, Cheers! Long live the Queen and Empire. The community organiser reminds me of Gandhi.
