[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 8, 2008, at 4:48 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniG9l_7its Wow, American haters to boot! The complete hypocrisy of her attacks on Obama is now complete. A frozen Johnny Reb who wants to succeed from the US! Nice find. Why the Obama camp isn't making more of this is a mystery. Way to go, John... Sal They are afraid he's gonna be beep-ed from a helico-pter??
[FairfieldLife] Is this the solution to posting limits?
New from Google labs http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sending-mail-you- later.html Of course it's a violation of the principle of free speech since it involves testing to see if you're compris mentis (latin for your neurons are working) before you're allowed to post. Maybe they should extend it to voting booths.
[FairfieldLife] Palomino Ponderings
Obama will win and we can officially bury the Democratic Party with a R.I.P headstone, The cause of death was suicide. The Democratic Party will get what it deserves for forcing a vain empty suited sock puppet on us. Soon he will have unprecedented power over the quality of our lives in the midst of the worst economic climate in our nation's history. The more qualified candidate in the tradition of FDR, Hillary, who has presented specific remedies to get us out of this mess, as well as campaign for this ingrate, remains marginalized by her party. Since Obama's ego is too weak to allow her to look better than him, he'll just quietly co-opt her ideas and adapt them to gratify his corporate masters. Obama defames the tradition of FDR Democrats, who are the life-long party stalwarts devoting their lives to state and local politics; fund raising, door knocking, lit dropping, serving on committees, volunteering, rallying and fighting for down-ticket Dems. For the first time in my life, I have no enthusiasm for any of this. FDR Democrats stand for jobs, unions, affordable homes, a living wage and public education. FDR Democrats understand the importance of protecting the commons, our infrastructure, shared responsibility, and the need for a social safety net. FDR Democrats stand up for civil rights and the interests of working people, women and children. Obama stands for Obama. He has hijacked the Democratic Party and it is now the concubine of the corrupt Chicago political machine. When Obama refused public financing, he also cut off any money that would have gone to the DNC. All money goes through Obama's campaign, the DNC is broke. Traditionally, the DNC gives money to state central committees to pay for primaries, elections, conventions and help committees organize and fund raising for down-ticket Dems. Now that he controls all the money, Obama has cut funds from states and districts that supported Hillary, thereby squeezing the life-blood out of state and local parties and demoralizing party loyalists. Even Harry Reid can't get a dime out of him. Obama really doesn't care whether Congress has a Democratic majority or not. He hasn't campaigned for anyone but himself. He doesn't need to because Bush has left him the legacy of the Unitary Executive in which his power will be so sweeping that he doesn't need a congressional majority to get what he wants. His reigning oligarchy of corporatists will decide how much you get to eat. Love you too, Raunchydog [http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/i/A/2/obama-change-sac0623acd.j\ pg] Palomino Ponderings Anglachel's Journal 10/08/08 Palomino is mulling over things that I have been considering as well. A few paragraphs (but be sure to read the whole thing - it is challenging): The Republican brand is so thoroughly and deservedly trashed that all Johnny Mac can do is try to relaunch the culture wars by peddling oblique suspicions about Obama's associates and his character. Hey, what a maverick. But the sales pitch only makes McCain look desperate, and the voters of Chillicothe, Ohio http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_election\ s/article4887924.ece , aren't buying. They're even more desperate than John McCain, now that the local pawn shop is the town's sole viable business. And in Pennsylvania http://www.bythefault.com/2008/10/07/rasmussen-reports-pennsylvania-pol\ l-obama-by-13/ , the Bitter Clingers are dropping their guns and bibles and having a come-to-Obama moment of their very own. ... And now Obama has the election all but locked up. Hillary Clinton won't be permitted to challenge a sitting Democratic president in the 2012 primaries, no matter how abysmal his first term may be. As a result, it's entirely probable that she won't run for president again herself, or not successfully, and certainly not before 2016, when she'll be nearly as old as John McCain is now. She may even find herself marginalized in the Senate for at least the next four years; the Democratic leadership's pointed lack of interest in her current proposals seems to indicate as much. This is definitely not what I wanted. But it does appear to be what we're stuck with. And as a wise person once said, you can't win a fight with reality. That doesn't mean you can't fight to change a particular reality, but you do have to start from the way things actually stand (also known as living in the reality-based community).I'm beginning to understand how Republicans like Lincoln Chafee http://anglachelg.blogspot.com/2006/11/end-of-party-of-lincoln.html must feel looking at the takeover of their party by the Movement Conservatives. What should be a celebratory election for me, the downfall of the Reaganauts, leaves me feeling angry and betrayed. The accidents of political and economic fate have brought us an anti-leader, someone who occupies a symbolic space without embodying the substance of what those symbols represent. I read people like Digby
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Wed, 10/8/08, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 3:24 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: The Ru's only have themselves to blame for this sort of nonsense. They have treated townies like shit whenever there was a conflict and this is what happens. It was an out-of-town Ru firing up anti-townie sentiment with a single email that got the two Rus on the ballot in the first place. So, the anti-Ru backlash is to be expected. The biggest bummer is that there were two locals running in the Dem. primary who would have been well respected by both Rus and locals. With the two Rus on the ballot, there are probably a lot of local Dems who will vote for the two local GOP supervisors. So many Ru's have such a pathetic elitist attitude towards non-ru's because of the spiritually superior zeitgeist (damn, I love dat word!) the Maharishi espoused for so many years in the TMO. Ironically enough, while MMY himself often fell into the trap, the SCI theory he expounded never supported this attitude: *at best* you could assume you were better off, spiritually, than before you started TM, but because it was always possible that the person you were most hostile towards was spiritually superior to you, you could never judge yourself against anyone else in that respect... Though of course, everyone no doubt did (and does). Lawson
[FairfieldLife] Charlie thinks us are w*nkers?
Parrot Charlie: http://tinyurl.com/4k5moe
[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie thinks us are w*nkers?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Parrot Charlie: http://tinyurl.com/4k5moe Reminds me of a classic joke: A man inherited a parrot. At first he thought this was a good thing. But the parrot would do nothing but swear. It's language offended hardened sailors. On the first day the man played the parrot soothing music and put its condition down to the stress of moving. On the second day he tried witty put downs. On the third day he ignored it. Nothing worked, the parrot still let forth a torrent of blue words. On the fourth day he snapped and after a particularly creative insult involving his mother, a goat and the local vicar the man grabbed the parrot and thrust him into the freezer. For a few minutes the parrot continued unabated. Then everything went quiet. The man, worried that he had killed the parrot, took a peek into the freezer. The parrot hopped out and was strangely silent and then said: I am most terribly sorry, old chap, if I in any way offended you earlier with my choice of language...I won't do that any more. But just out of curiosity, could I ask..what did the chicken do?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of enlightened_dawn11 Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:13 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors the pathetic elitist attitude comes not from the Maharishi's message, but rather from their misunderstanding of reality, being locked into a dualistic perspective. Duality breeds conflict. It has nothing to do with the Maharishi's message. Maharishi was very much into hierarchies and establishing pecking orders, usually based on how much money one had. He also regarded the common man as incapable of making sensible decisions, hence his damning of democracy. He once said of the Labor Party in the UK, They are laborers. They shouldn't be running the government. Just give them a shovel and tell them where to dig. And He was right, as usual. Now these silly laborers are suing the icelanders for borrowing them money ! HaHa
[FairfieldLife] Why nothing that Raunchydog and Judy says accomplishes anything
It's just everyday psychology -- everyone can tell that they're going negative, and immediately tune them out and write them off. The *only* thing that all-negative rants prove in the minds of people listening is that the person ranting is so partisan that they have become all negative themselves: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/08/debate.reaction.tracker/index.html Voters' debate reaction shows resistance to negativity (CNN) -- A moving graph at the bottom of the CNN screen during Tuesday night's presidential debate measured the reactions of uncommitted voters in the swing state of Ohio, and it seemed to bear out the theory that negative campaigning draws negative voter reactions. Nearly every time one candidate threw a jab at the other, the voter reaction dipped measurably. The dips were minor for small digs but slipped further if a candidate continued criticizing his opponent. For instance, reactions of both men and women voters slid into negative territory when Republican Sen. John McCain said that trying to nail down Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's tax policies is like nailing Jell-O to the wall. Similarly, the reaction line took a dive when Obama discussed McCain's votes in the Senate against alternative fuels. Such negative reactions are typically seen in voters who are undecided, said Merle Black, professor of politics and government at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. They don't like negative campaigning, he said. It doesn't matter whether it's one side or the other. But while each candidate saw dips when criticizing his opponent, voters' reactions were more positive when each began talking about specific plans and ideas regarding the national economy, the war in Iraq, the environment and other issues. Voters are worried about real issues, Black said. They want the candidate to address that. ... That's what the voters are interested in. They know it's a big mess out there, and they want to know what the alternatives are. With less than a month to go before the general election, McCain's campaign said before Tuesday's debate that he planned to take off the gloves. In addition, both campaigns have launched negative advertising campaigns against the opponent in an effort to win over undecided voters. The stakes for McCain are high, as most polls show him trailing Obama. When you are down to crunch time and it's win or lose, you throw niceties out the window, Bruce Vanden Bergh, a professor of advertising at Michigan State University, told CNN before the debate. And on CNN's American Morning on Wednesday, Ben Jones, a former Democratic representative from Georgia, said, At this point, it appears because the McCain campaign is behind, they think that's the only shot they got left is to bring (negativity) -- but when they do those negative campaigns and negative attacks, it also brings them down. So it really doesn't do any good, and people are sick and tired of it. Both McCain and Obama took numerous opportunities in Tuesday's debate to point out the other's voting record. Obama noted that McCain voted against a program to provide government health insurance for children. For his part, McCain pointed to Obama's vote on a pork-laden energy bill. Both instances caused voters' reaction to head toward negative territory. *** Emphasis added by me - start *** The only voters who like to hear the jabs, Black said, are the strong partisans. They like to see the other candidate, the other side, criticized. *** Emphasis added by me - finish *** But those voters, he noted, have already made up their minds, and in criticizing their opponent, candidates are not persuading anybody that's persuadable. Meanwhile, pointing out opponents' shortcomings is a risky strategy, analysts have said, and one that could easily backfire on a campaign. Whenever the campaign takes a negative turn, independent voters notice, and they'll punish the candidate that takes it too far, John Avlon, author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics, told CNN prior to the debate. However, voters on some level have come to anticipate a certain level of criticism and jabs in a debate, which may be one reason that campaigns persist with negativity even though voters are known to dislike it, experts said. Both of them are probably irritated at each other and want to get the digs in, Black said. It just kind of goes with the territory.
[FairfieldLife] Thousands of troops deployed on US streets
Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq, subduing 'unruly individuals,' and the management of a national emergency. I am in Seattle and heard from the brother of one of the soldiers that they are engaged in exercises now. Amy Goodman reported that an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and tanks. George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in the 'War on Terror,' the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield. He also led change to the 1807 Insurrection Act to give him far broader powers in the event of a loosely defined 'insurrection' or many other 'conditions' he has the power to identify. The Constitution allows the suspension of habeas corpus -- habeas corpus prevents us from being seized by the state and held without trial -- in the event of an 'insurrection.' With his own army force now, his power to call a group of protesters or angry voters 'insurgents' staging an 'insurrection' is strengthened. U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said to Congress, captured on C- Span and viewable on YouTube, that individual members of the House were threatened with martial law within a week if they did not pass the bailout bill: 'The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. … Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day and a couple of thousand on the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no.' If this is true and Rep. Sherman is not delusional, I ask you to consider that if they are willing to threaten martial law now, it is foolish to assume they will never use that threat again. It is also foolish to trust in an orderly election process to resolve this threat. And why deploy the First Brigade? One thing the deployment accomplishes is to put teeth into such a threat. I interviewed Vietnam veteran, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and patriot David Antoon for clarification... Full interview at: http://www.alternet.org/rights/101958/?page=entire
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bob_brigante Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:17 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors You are not capable of understanding what MMY said. Of course you don't hand the govt to oafs -- the current U.S. govt is proof that this is unwise. But MMY did not intend that people should be locked into low levels of life, lorded over by somebody. The whole point of the revival of Vedic wisdom (the centerpiece of which is TM, for unfolding total awareness for all individuals) is that people will be able to live happily without being administered by anybody: Sounds good in principle, but then why, in practice, has there always been such heavy-handed administration in the TMO, of which you have been one of the most outspoken critics?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
So you have any evidence that Gov. Palin was once a member of AIP? Lawson wrote: Not her, but her husband, who quit the party when Sarah Palin started running for governor. Oh, so now it's the husband that's running for Vice-President of the U.S. So, was Mrs. Obama in Bernadine's living room with her husband? What did Mrs. Obama and Bernadine talk about? Other questions: How does Mrs. Obama feel about Rev. Wright's sermons? What part did Mrs. Obama play in buying the property from Rezko? Does Mrs. Obama use any contraceptives? What does Mrs. Obama think of partial-birth abortions?
[FairfieldLife] Re: McCain's approach -- let the women do the fighting and don't plan ahead
Why plan a transition? McCain is so indebted to Bush for the Repub Pres Nomination support, that as payoff, McCain must retain the current Bush administration in power, instead of shaping his own. McCain = McSame. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hero John McCain's idea of how to wage a campaign: let the women do the fighting for him: Cindy McCain Unleashed: From Calm to Combative http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/cindy-mccain- unleashedbrf_n_133089.html Cindy McCain, who has largely remained soft-spoken and optimistic during public appearances on her husband's behalf, has joined the attack dogs of the McCain campaign in recent days. Just as McCain and Sarah Palin and prominent GOP supporters like Rudy Giuliani have stepped up their negative attacks on Obama this week, Cindy McCain took one of her most personal shots yet at Barack Obama today during a rally in Pennsylvania. . . . Her newfound aggressiveness is obviously sanctioned by the campaign - a McCain aide said last night that the Republican nominee wholeheartedly agrees with his wife's assessment. And, as McCain sics his two pitbulls with lipstick on Obama, he's too much of a coward to do it himself: McCain Wasn't Willing To Say Ayers Attacks To My Face http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/obama-mccain-scoring- chea_n_133132.html During an interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson Wednesday night, Barack Obama accused John McCain of scoring cheap political points with the personal attacks he had leveled at him in recent days. Speaking of the previous night's presidential debate, Obama said he was surprised McCain didn't attempt to repeat these attacks during their time on stage together: Well, I am surprised that, you know, we've been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days that he wasn't willing to say it to my face. I guess that's what Republicans consider a hero. McCain's shrewd thinking also seems to apply to planning ahead for his administration's transition to power. As the Huffington Post exposes in an exclusive report, Obama's transition team is already functional and working, while McCain has superstitiously (see emphasis supplied by me below) not done anything at all to create a transition team. I guess he thinks he's gonna maverick everything into happening: Obama, McCain Transition Efforts Are Worlds Apart http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/obama-mccain-transition- e_n_132976.html As the 2008 campaign nears its conclusion, the presidential transition efforts of the two major candidates have become a study in contrasts: Sen. Barack Obama has organized an elaborate well-staffed network to prepare for his possible ascension to the White House, while Sen. John McCain has all but put off such work until after the election. The Democratic nominee has enlisted the assistance of dozens of individuals -- divided into working groups for particular federal agencies -- to produce policy agendas and lists of recommended appointees. As evidence of their advanced preparations, officials provided a copy of the strict ethics guidelines that individuals working on the transition effort are required to sign. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/text-obama-transition- pro_n_133162.html John McCain, by contrast, has done little. Campaign spokespersons did not respond to requests for elaboration. But one official with direct knowledge, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, expressed concern with McCain's approach. The Arizona Senator has instructed his team to not spend time on the transition effort, according to the source, both out of a desire to have complete focus on winning the election *** as well as a superstitious belief that the campaign shouldn't put the cart before the horse ***. John McCain -- a coward who lets his women do the fighting for him, and refuses to plan ahead out of superstition. Just what America needs.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Overposting Ban
According to my sources, you informants will never be allowed ever again to set foot inside a Marshy Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge. gullible fool wrote: I am on here anonymously. So, you've got something to hide - you're not being honest. You and the other apostates didn't keep the teaching pure - you broke your oath to Guru Dev. You can't be trusted to keep your word. I never attended TM teacher training. So, you haven't been inside a Golden Dome. If so, what's your point? You didn't read the 'Orange Book' and you can't even remember the words to the puja. You can't recognize your own mantra from Sanskrit flash cards. The what book? So, you don't even know what we're talking about. Never learned the puja. You sucked as TM teachers - that's why the TMO is a failure - you failed to stay on the program. I hope you don't sincerely believe that is the reason why the TMO is a total failure and a sad joke in spiritual circles. So, you're saying that the TMO is a sad joke and a total failure. That's why you are posting messages here, instead of giving lectures at the TM Center. The local center was closed in July 1998. All of the millions of dollars money from the sale of the two buildings was, of course, sent to who knows where. Even the TBs don't give lectures anymore. So, why didn't you do your part to make TM a success, instead of posting here for years? After all these years, you still don't have a Ph.D. from MUM. Sounds like a lot of work for something with a limited career path, namely teaching at MUM for the $250 dollars a month or whatever it is teachers get. So, you got kicked out of MUM - I thought so.
[FairfieldLife] Why did Barry refuse to cross the road to actually discuss an issue?
He was too chicken http://tinyurl.com/6h4rfs --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing that burns my ass is that the people who are crying Sexism! Then try Astroglide. Just as I suspected: http://tinyurl.com/3m6kyl If you want to question a woman's gender identity because she puts your panties in a bunch when she argues with you, then stop being a hypocrite about your own gender identity. It doesn't matter to me whether you are gay or not. But be forewarned, when trying to advance your argument, if you choose to use personal attacks and disparaging language, dried up harpies screechy voices pseudo women pseudo-feminists licking Hillary etc., then turn about is fair play. Garcia tie. Ha! Sitges. Ha! No pootang? Ha! Recognize anyone? http://tinyurl.com/52plc8 For Your Viewing Pleasure http://tinyurl.com/3nxer6 Barry's vacation destination http://tinyurl.com/3kf3gg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Last time this came up I did a quick search and on my first hit got another interview with Gibson where he asked it in the first few minutes. I already posted it. As far as how many have asked it, I don't really care, I know it has been asked and that his vetting process has been ongoing for what? Two years now? My point remains, he has gotten challenged for months about his qualifications. This chick comes out of the woodwork two months before election, gets asked if she is qualified (she is not) and someone complains that it is sexist. Alaska=around 600,000 Baltimore MD= around 600,000. The thing that burns my ass is that the people who are crying Sexism! when reporters ask her hard questions about her qualifications are the *very* people who were berating reporters for not asking Obama harder questions about his quali- fications. However you may try to disguise it, the cries of Sexism! on this forum are sour grapes, and worse. The pseudo-feminists and pseude-women who claim they are for equality of the sexes are, bottom line, demanding in screechy voices that a woman be treated differently than they themselves treated a black man.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palomino Ponderings
Did you write this yourself, raunchy? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obama will win and we can officially bury the Democratic Party with a R.I.P headstone, The cause of death was suicide. The Democratic Party will get what it deserves for forcing a vain empty suited sock puppet on us. Soon he will have unprecedented power over the quality of our lives in the midst of the worst economic climate in our nation's history. The more qualified candidate in the tradition of FDR, Hillary, who has presented specific remedies to get us out of this mess, as well as campaign for this ingrate, remains marginalized by her party. Since Obama's ego is too weak to allow her to look better than him, he'll just quietly co-opt her ideas and adapt them to gratify his corporate masters. Obama defames the tradition of FDR Democrats, who are the life-long party stalwarts devoting their lives to state and local politics; fund raising, door knocking, lit dropping, serving on committees, volunteering, rallying and fighting for down-ticket Dems. For the first time in my life, I have no enthusiasm for any of this. FDR Democrats stand for jobs, unions, affordable homes, a living wage and public education. FDR Democrats understand the importance of protecting the commons, our infrastructure, shared responsibility, and the need for a social safety net. FDR Democrats stand up for civil rights and the interests of working people, women and children. Obama stands for Obama. He has hijacked the Democratic Party and it is now the concubine of the corrupt Chicago political machine. When Obama refused public financing, he also cut off any money that would have gone to the DNC. All money goes through Obama's campaign, the DNC is broke. Traditionally, the DNC gives money to state central committees to pay for primaries, elections, conventions and help committees organize and fund raising for down-ticket Dems. Now that he controls all the money, Obama has cut funds from states and districts that supported Hillary, thereby squeezing the life-blood out of state and local parties and demoralizing party loyalists. Even Harry Reid can't get a dime out of him. Obama really doesn't care whether Congress has a Democratic majority or not. He hasn't campaigned for anyone but himself. He doesn't need to because Bush has left him the legacy of the Unitary Executive in which his power will be so sweeping that he doesn't need a congressional majority to get what he wants. His reigning oligarchy of corporatists will decide how much you get to eat. Love you too, Raunchydog [http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/i/A/2/obama-change-sac0623acd.j\ pg] Palomino Ponderings Anglachel's Journal 10/08/08 Palomino is mulling over things that I have been considering as well. A few paragraphs (but be sure to read the whole thing - it is challenging): The Republican brand is so thoroughly and deservedly trashed that all Johnny Mac can do is try to relaunch the culture wars by peddling oblique suspicions about Obama's associates and his character. Hey, what a maverick. But the sales pitch only makes McCain look desperate, and the voters of Chillicothe, Ohio http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_election\ s/article4887924.ece , aren't buying. They're even more desperate than John McCain, now that the local pawn shop is the town's sole viable business. And in Pennsylvania http://www.bythefault.com/2008/10/07/rasmussen-reports-pennsylvania-pol\ l-obama-by-13/ , the Bitter Clingers are dropping their guns and bibles and having a come-to-Obama moment of their very own. ... And now Obama has the election all but locked up. Hillary Clinton won't be permitted to challenge a sitting Democratic president in the 2012 primaries, no matter how abysmal his first term may be. As a result, it's entirely probable that she won't run for president again herself, or not successfully, and certainly not before 2016, when she'll be nearly as old as John McCain is now. She may even find herself marginalized in the Senate for at least the next four years; the Democratic leadership's pointed lack of interest in her current proposals seems to indicate as much. This is definitely not what I wanted. But it does appear to be what we're stuck with. And as a wise person once said, you can't win a fight with reality. That doesn't mean you can't fight to change a particular reality, but you do have to start from the way things actually stand (also known as living in the reality-based community).I'm beginning to understand how Republicans like Lincoln Chafee http://anglachelg.blogspot.com/2006/11/end-of-party-of-lincoln.html must feel looking at the takeover of their party by the Movement Conservatives. What should be a celebratory election for me, the downfall of the Reaganauts, leaves me feeling angry and
Re: [FairfieldLife] R.I.P. Democrats
I always look forward to raunchydog's insightful posts. I guess Obama really is just a lazy nigger. Boy, did he fool us. He seems so different, articulate, engaging, energetic, very intelligent. But, I must be wrong. Can't take the ghetto out of the brother, I guess. --- On Thu, 10/9/08, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] R.I.P. Democrats To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 8:26 AM Obama will win and we can officially bury the Democratic Party with a R.I.P headstone, The cause of death was suicide. The Democratic Party will get what it deserves for forcing a vain empty suited sock puppet on us. Soon he will have unprecedented power over the quality of our lives in the midst of the worst economic climate in our nation's history. The more qualified candidate in the tradition of FDR, Hillary, who has presented specific remedies to get us out of this mess, as well as campaign for this ingrate, remains marginalized by her party. Since Obama's ego is too weak to allow her to look better than him, he'll just quietly co-opt her ideas and adapt them to gratify his corporate masters.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palomino Ponderings
Yes. When I write I take credit for it and when I'm not too lazy, I'll back up my arguments with links. When others write, I give them credit. The first part of the post I wrote. I forgot to make a link to Anglachel's post. Here it is: http://tinyurl.com/3j8ewp --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you write this yourself, raunchy? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Obama will win and we can officially bury the Democratic Party with a R.I.P headstone, The cause of death was suicide. The Democratic Party will get what it deserves for forcing a vain empty suited sock puppet on us. Soon he will have unprecedented power over the quality of our lives in the midst of the worst economic climate in our nation's history. The more qualified candidate in the tradition of FDR, Hillary, who has presented specific remedies to get us out of this mess, as well as campaign for this ingrate, remains marginalized by her party. Since Obama's ego is too weak to allow her to look better than him, he'll just quietly co-opt her ideas and adapt them to gratify his corporate masters. Obama defames the tradition of FDR Democrats, who are the life-long party stalwarts devoting their lives to state and local politics; fund raising, door knocking, lit dropping, serving on committees, volunteering, rallying and fighting for down-ticket Dems. For the first time in my life, I have no enthusiasm for any of this. FDR Democrats stand for jobs, unions, affordable homes, a living wage and public education. FDR Democrats understand the importance of protecting the commons, our infrastructure, shared responsibility, and the need for a social safety net. FDR Democrats stand up for civil rights and the interests of working people, women and children. Obama stands for Obama. He has hijacked the Democratic Party and it is now the concubine of the corrupt Chicago political machine. When Obama refused public financing, he also cut off any money that would have gone to the DNC. All money goes through Obama's campaign, the DNC is broke. Traditionally, the DNC gives money to state central committees to pay for primaries, elections, conventions and help committees organize and fund raising for down-ticket Dems. Now that he controls all the money, Obama has cut funds from states and districts that supported Hillary, thereby squeezing the life-blood out of state and local parties and demoralizing party loyalists. Even Harry Reid can't get a dime out of him. Obama really doesn't care whether Congress has a Democratic majority or not. He hasn't campaigned for anyone but himself. He doesn't need to because Bush has left him the legacy of the Unitary Executive in which his power will be so sweeping that he doesn't need a congressional majority to get what he wants. His reigning oligarchy of corporatists will decide how much you get to eat. Love you too, Raunchydog [http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/i/A/2/obama-change-sac0623acd.j\ pg] Palomino Ponderings Anglachel's Journal 10/08/08 Palomino is mulling over things that I have been considering as well. A few paragraphs (but be sure to read the whole thing - it is challenging): The Republican brand is so thoroughly and deservedly trashed that all Johnny Mac can do is try to relaunch the culture wars by peddling oblique suspicions about Obama's associates and his character. Hey, what a maverick. But the sales pitch only makes McCain look desperate, and the voters of Chillicothe, Ohio http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_election\ s/article4887924.ece , aren't buying. They're even more desperate than John McCain, now that the local pawn shop is the town's sole viable business. And in Pennsylvania http://www.bythefault.com/2008/10/07/rasmussen-reports-pennsylvania-pol\ l-obama-by-13/ , the Bitter Clingers are dropping their guns and bibles and having a come-to-Obama moment of their very own. ... And now Obama has the election all but locked up. Hillary Clinton won't be permitted to challenge a sitting Democratic president in the 2012 primaries, no matter how abysmal his first term may be. As a result, it's entirely probable that she won't run for president again herself, or not successfully, and certainly not before 2016, when she'll be nearly as old as John McCain is now. She may even find herself marginalized in the Senate for at least the next four years; the Democratic leadership's pointed lack of interest in her current proposals seems to indicate as much. This is definitely not what I wanted. But it does appear to be what we're stuck with. And as a wise person once said, you can't win a fight with reality. That doesn't mean you can't fight to change a particular reality, but you
[FairfieldLife] FDR Democrats
Obama defames the tradition of FDR Democrats, who are the life-long party stalwarts devoting their lives to state and local politics; fund raising, door knocking, lit dropping, serving on committees, volunteering, rallying and fighting for down-ticket Dems. For the first time in my life, I have no enthusiasm for any of this. FDR Democrats stand for jobs, unions, affordable homes, a living wage and public education. FDR Democrats understand the importance of protecting the commons, our infrastructure, shared responsibility, and the need for a social safety net. FDR Democrats stand up for civil rights and the interests of working people, women and children. Raunchydog FDR and the New Deal http://tinyurl.com/43tp7y http://tinyurl.com/43tp7y With the election of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt as president in 1932, national public policy was about to take a hard swing to the left. His New Deal social programs, aimed at combating the Depression, were about to give the Department of Labor and Industry some new tasks and expand its role in many of the old ones. The result, within a decade, would be a tenfold growth of the department staff. But the Depression had already made itself known at LI in many ways. One was that the department found an increase in the number of fly-by-night employers who set up shop, attracted job-seeking workers, and then disappeared before paying them. Other companies, short on capital, cut corners on safety and frequently, the first person to be laid off in a downturn was a safety engineer. Squeezed for cash, some companies illegally began to stop carrying workmen's compensation insurance, a fact that showed up when their injured employees filed claims. In 1933 and early 1934, the department found 3,470 uninsured companies. Only about 1,500 of these could prove that they did have coverage, did not need coverage under the law, or quickly arranged coverage when threatened with prosecution (Pennsylvania Labor and Industry in the Depression, Special Bulletin 39, 1934, 107-8). Another problem was a sudden influx of job applicants registering in January 1934 when the federal government launched the Civil Works Administration, an early public-works project that became one of many under Roosevelt. The number of registrations on hand at the thirteen state employment offices, which were designated to handle some registrations for the federal program, shot up from 248,064 in December 1933 to 451,526 the next month, and continued rising to a total of 899,551 in June 1934. The federal government directed the state to give preference to applicants on relief and to veterans, and required the state to place applicants in CWA positions within forty-eight hours. Fortunately, the federal government provided funds to boost the size of the employment staff temporarily, from 84 to 563. In addition to placing more workers than ever before, the employment bureau also continued its function as a clearinghouse for labor. When twenty-seven silk workers lost their jobs in Erie, the bureau's Reading office found that a demand existed for that skill in Reading and notified the employer, who hired the workers and transported them to Reading (Ibid., 30-33). Another development was that Congress on June 6, 1933, passed the Wagner-Peyser Act, which converted what had been a skeleton U.S. Employment Service (fewer than one hundred offices in forty-eight states) into a higher-profile agency in the US Department of Labor, providing funds for a joint federal-state job service system. Five years later, the system was switched to full federal funding, with the states continuing to manage staffing and administration. [Photo of FDR signing Social Security Act.] President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the original Social Security Act on August 14, 1935, setting in motion the legal framework for unemployment compensation programs. Library of Congress photo, Social Security Administration Content Last Modified on 7/27/2004 1:06:08 PM [25]
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
--- On Thu, 10/9/08, enlightened_dawn11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: enlightened_dawn11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 12:13 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Wed, 10/8/08, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 3:24 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: The Ru's only have themselves to blame for this sort of nonsense. They have treated townies like shit whenever there was a conflict and this is what happens. It was an out-of-town Ru firing up anti-townie sentiment with a single email that got the two Rus on the ballot in the first place. So, the anti-Ru backlash is to be expected. The biggest bummer is that there were two locals running in the Dem. primary who would have been well respected by both Rus and locals. With the two Rus on the ballot, there are probably a lot of local Dems who will vote for the two local GOP supervisors. So many Ru's have such a pathetic elitist attitude towards non- ru's because of the spiritually superior zeitgeist (damn, I love dat word!) the Maharishi espoused for so many years in the TMO. the pathetic elitist attitude comes not from the Maharishi's message, but rather from their misunderstanding of reality, being locked into a dualistic perspective. Duality breeds conflict. It has nothing to do with the Maharishi's message. Unitary or Dualistic perspective is irrelevant here. Maharishi treated many groups of people as intrinsically inferior to others. This is very typical for Indians of Maharishi's generation who have a strong caste system mentality. 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] Re: FDR Democrats
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obama defames the tradition of FDR Democrats, who are the life-long party stalwarts devoting their lives to state and local politics; fund raising, door knocking, lit dropping, serving on committees, volunteering, rallying and fighting for down-ticket Dems. For the first time in my life, I have no enthusiasm for any of this. Why not ? Did Hillary's defeat defeat you ? Apparently not, based on the number of, and degree of energy poured into, the FFL posts you direct against Barack Obama. Every stroke of your keyboard confirms the worst stereotypes about sore losers. FDR Democrats stand for jobs, unions, affordable homes, a living wage and public education. FDR Democrats understand the importance of protecting the commons, our infrastructure, shared responsibility, and the need for a social safety net. FDR Democrats stand up for civil rights and the interests of working people, women and children. Raunchydog FDR and the New Deal http://tinyurl.com/43tp7y http://tinyurl.com/43tp7y With the election of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt as president in 1932, national public policy was about to take a hard swing to the left. His New Deal social programs, aimed at combating the Depression, were about to give the Department of Labor and Industry some new tasks and expand its role in many of the old ones. The result, within a decade, would be a tenfold growth of the department staff. But the Depression had already made itself known at LI in many ways. One was that the department found an increase in the number of fly-by-night employers who set up shop, attracted job-seeking workers, and then disappeared before paying them. Other companies, short on capital, cut corners on safety and frequently, the first person to be laid off in a downturn was a safety engineer. Squeezed for cash, some companies illegally began to stop carrying workmen's compensation insurance, a fact that showed up when their injured employees filed claims. In 1933 and early 1934, the department found 3,470 uninsured companies. Only about 1,500 of these could prove that they did have coverage, did not need coverage under the law, or quickly arranged coverage when threatened with prosecution (Pennsylvania Labor and Industry in the Depression, Special Bulletin 39, 1934, 107-8). Another problem was a sudden influx of job applicants registering in January 1934 when the federal government launched the Civil Works Administration, an early public-works project that became one of many under Roosevelt. The number of registrations on hand at the thirteen state employment offices, which were designated to handle some registrations for the federal program, shot up from 248,064 in December 1933 to 451,526 the next month, and continued rising to a total of 899,551 in June 1934. The federal government directed the state to give preference to applicants on relief and to veterans, and required the state to place applicants in CWA positions within forty-eight hours. Fortunately, the federal government provided funds to boost the size of the employment staff temporarily, from 84 to 563. In addition to placing more workers than ever before, the employment bureau also continued its function as a clearinghouse for labor. When twenty-seven silk workers lost their jobs in Erie, the bureau's Reading office found that a demand existed for that skill in Reading and notified the employer, who hired the workers and transported them to Reading (Ibid., 30-33). Another development was that Congress on June 6, 1933, passed the Wagner-Peyser Act, which converted what had been a skeleton U.S. Employment Service (fewer than one hundred offices in forty-eight states) into a higher-profile agency in the US Department of Labor, providing funds for a joint federal-state job service system. Five years later, the system was switched to full federal funding, with the states continuing to manage staffing and administration. [Photo of FDR signing Social Security Act.] President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the original Social Security Act on August 14, 1935, setting in motion the legal framework for unemployment compensation programs. Library of Congress photo, Social Security Administration Content Last Modified on 7/27/2004 1:06:08 PM [25]
[FairfieldLife] R.I.P. Democrats
Obama will win and we can officially bury the Democratic Party with a R.I.P headstone, The cause of death was suicide. The Democratic Party will get what it deserves for forcing a vain empty suited sock puppet on us. Soon he will have unprecedented power over the quality of our lives in the midst of the worst economic climate in our nation's history. The more qualified candidate in the tradition of FDR, Hillary, who has presented specific remedies to get us out of this mess, as well as campaign for this ingrate, remains marginalized by her party. Since Obama's ego is too weak to allow her to look better than him, he'll just quietly co-opt her ideas and adapt them to gratify his corporate masters. [http://bartblog.bartcop.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/rip-van-obama.jp\ g]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palomino Ponderings
OK. I find this hatred of Obama so extreme, so irrational, that I can only wonder at its cause. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. When I write I take credit for it and when I'm not too lazy, I'll back up my arguments with links. When others write, I give them credit. The first part of the post I wrote. I forgot to make a link to Anglachel's post. Here it is: http://tinyurl.com/3j8ewp --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Did you write this yourself, raunchy? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Obama will win and we can officially bury the Democratic Party with a R.I.P headstone, The cause of death was suicide. The Democratic Party will get what it deserves for forcing a vain empty suited sock puppet on us. Soon he will have unprecedented power over the quality of our lives in the midst of the worst economic climate in our nation's history. The more qualified candidate in the tradition of FDR, Hillary, who has presented specific remedies to get us out of this mess, as well as campaign for this ingrate, remains marginalized by her party. Since Obama's ego is too weak to allow her to look better than him, he'll just quietly co-opt her ideas and adapt them to gratify his corporate masters. Obama defames the tradition of FDR Democrats, who are the life-long party stalwarts devoting their lives to state and local politics; fund raising, door knocking, lit dropping, serving on committees, volunteering, rallying and fighting for down-ticket Dems. For the first time in my life, I have no enthusiasm for any of this. FDR Democrats stand for jobs, unions, affordable homes, a living wage and public education. FDR Democrats understand the importance of protecting the commons, our infrastructure, shared responsibility, and the need for a social safety net. FDR Democrats stand up for civil rights and the interests of working people, women and children. Obama stands for Obama. He has hijacked the Democratic Party and it is now the concubine of the corrupt Chicago political machine. When Obama refused public financing, he also cut off any money that would have gone to the DNC. All money goes through Obama's campaign, the DNC is broke. Traditionally, the DNC gives money to state central committees to pay for primaries, elections, conventions and help committees organize and fund raising for down-ticket Dems. Now that he controls all the money, Obama has cut funds from states and districts that supported Hillary, thereby squeezing the life-blood out of state and local parties and demoralizing party loyalists. Even Harry Reid can't get a dime out of him. Obama really doesn't care whether Congress has a Democratic majority or not. He hasn't campaigned for anyone but himself. He doesn't need to because Bush has left him the legacy of the Unitary Executive in which his power will be so sweeping that he doesn't need a congressional majority to get what he wants. His reigning oligarchy of corporatists will decide how much you get to eat. Love you too, Raunchydog [http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/i/A/2/obama-change-sac0623acd.j\ pg] Palomino Ponderings Anglachel's Journal 10/08/08 Palomino is mulling over things that I have been considering as well. A few paragraphs (but be sure to read the whole thing - it is challenging): The Republican brand is so thoroughly and deservedly trashed that all Johnny Mac can do is try to relaunch the culture wars by peddling oblique suspicions about Obama's associates and his character. Hey, what a maverick. But the sales pitch only makes McCain look desperate, and the voters of Chillicothe, Ohio http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_election\ s/article4887924.ece , aren't buying. They're even more desperate than John McCain, now that the local pawn shop is the town's sole viable business. And in Pennsylvania http://www.bythefault.com/2008/10/07/rasmussen-reports-pennsylvania-pol\ l-obama-by-13/ , the Bitter Clingers are dropping their guns and bibles and having a come-to-Obama moment of their very own. ... And now Obama has the election all but locked up. Hillary Clinton won't be permitted to challenge a sitting Democratic president in the 2012 primaries, no matter how abysmal his first term may be. As a result, it's entirely probable that she won't run for president again herself, or not successfully, and certainly not before 2016, when she'll be nearly as old as John McCain is now. She may even find herself marginalized in the Senate for at least the next four years; the Democratic leadership's pointed lack of interest in her
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
Earl and Will are well intentioned but hapless candidates fallen victim to the whims of a TM voting block of about 2000. No one bothered to tell the TM'ers that they would need another 2000 votes for their candidates to win in the general election. Now that the Republicans have pushed back with scare tactics, there's no time for whining. If the TM'ers want to have any chance of winning at least one seat, they should plunk for just one candidate or the the other. That is vote for just one instead of two. I have no opinion on who this should be. I think they are both very good candidates. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Email going around: October 6, 2008 Dear Friends, I am writing to you not as a Republican or a Democrat but as a very concerned citizen of Jefferson County. Recently a group of men were drinking coffee at Hy-Vee and discussing the county supervisor race. A woman from the meditating community heard them and said to them, We are going to take over this county and there is nothing you can do about it. That statement is true if we don't defeat the two meditators running for county supervisors. William Richards and Earl Shepard are the candidates for Jefferson County Supervisor on the Democrat ticket. These men are associated with MUM and the meditating movement. They will not represent you and your tax dollars with regard to county business. During the past year the meditating community has attempted to give tax breaks to organic farmers, stop livestock production and use eminent domain to take farm land.They have demolished historical landmarks on the Parsons College campus because of the building design. If they controlled the county dollars would they demolish our hundred year old courthouse? The meditating community is mounting a well organized effort to put their candidates in power. It is very important for us to take action and vote. Also... spread the word to your neighbors, friends and family. Be sure to vote for Stephen Burgmeier and Lee Dimmitt, long time Jefferson County residents. Also, spread the word to your neighbors, friends and family. Thank you Dave Dickey
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
So, we are agreed that Obama was in Bernadine's living room and that Gov. Palin was never a member of AIP. And we are agreed that Obama was never a member of the Weather Underground, but he is friends with the founder. friends ? Yeah Karl, nice try. So, you're thinking that Bill Ayers isn't a friend of Obama's? I thought you would miss the point because your partisanship makes you unable to grasp the concept of fairness. No, you missed the point, Curtis - it's not fair of you to call Mrs. Palin a 'Johnny Reb' - you were wrong and you attempted to mislead. You should apologize. Both Palin and Obama worked with all sorts of people to further their careers and missions. Because they worked with these people doesn't mean they share all their values. They might even stand in someone's living room and not share the values of the person who owns or rents the house. So bringing up these associations as political scare tactic spin is idiotic, partisan bullshit. So, we are agreed - you posted bullshit about Gov. Palin. You resorted to smut to make your point. Some political pundit you are, Curtis. So now switch to pretending to care that Obama downplayed his relationship with Ayer, not the relationship itself, right Richard. Isn't that your move. So, we are agreed: Obama downplayed his association with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn. He tried to cover it up. He didn't want the MSM to know that he was friends with two notorious domestic terrorists. And, it's not accurate to call the AIP 'seccessionsit' - it's just a 'states rights' party. Probably every AIP member has different opinions on what Alaska should be. The AIP is the third largest political party in Alaska - a previous Alaska governor was a member of the AIP. According to Gail Fenumiai, the director of the Alaska Division of Elections, Gov. Sarah Palin has been a registered Republican since 1982. So you have any evidence that Gov. Palin was once a member of AIP?
[FairfieldLife] Re: FDR Democrats
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Obama defames the tradition of FDR Democrats, who are the life-long party stalwarts devoting their lives to state and local politics; fund raising, door knocking, lit dropping, serving on committees, volunteering, rallying and fighting for down-ticket Dems. For the first time in my life, I have no enthusiasm for any of this. Why not ? Did Hillary's defeat defeat you ? Apparently not, based on the number of, and degree of energy poured into, the FFL posts you direct against Barack Obama. Every stroke of your keyboard confirms the worst stereotypes about sore losers. Not to mention poseurs who lie to themselves and others. My bet is that Raunchydog has never done ANY of the things in the top paragraph above. My bet is that she's never done ANYTHING to support the Democratic Party in the past. She's just glommed onto that image to avoid admitting to us, and to herself, that the ONLY reason she's doing all this is that she's a sore loser still pissed off because she backed a more graceful loser. Hillary -- to her credit -- could move on. Raunch and Judy can't. They like to posture as if they're doing what they do -- spending hours dredging up and posting smear articles about Obama -- out of some noble sense of fighting for the principles of the Democratic Party. But literally everyone here knows that's a lie. Neither of them gives a shit about the Democratic Party. They SAY that they do because that seems sexier and more noble than admitting the truth, that they're just angry, dried-up old women who can no longer get off on anything *but* anger. They like to prettify the anger by pretending that there is something noble about it, but there isn't. They're just trying to destroy Obama because they're bored, and so unintelligent that the only thing they can think of to alleviate their boredom is to try to destroy something. Think I'm wrong? Ok, I'm calling for a show of hands. Is there ANYONE on this forum who believes that the reason that they're doing this is for any reason other than to spite Obama for pointing out that they had backed a loser, a loser that they had devel- oped an unhealthy crush on? Step up to the plate, ANYONE who feels that these women are being honest about their motives. ANYONE. We'll wait...
[FairfieldLife] Scarborough On Colbert: It's Too Late For McCain
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=187371
[FairfieldLife] Is this Raunchy Dog with two of her pals?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wroj0FLvzs
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palomino Ponderings
You might as well keep wondering because you sure haven't been listening if you think my objection to Obama, (not hatred) has anything to do with his race rather than his record or lack of it. He is a race baiting, flip flopping, bamboozling, finger flipping, double crossing, record hiding, unqualified, lousy candidate with questionable judgment when it comes to picking his friends. That ain't hatin' them's the facts because I pay attention to the details of his behavior and haven't imbibed the Kool Aid. I wouldn't trust him to feed my dog.
[FairfieldLife] McCain's approach -- let the women do the fighting and don't plan ahead
Hero John McCain's idea of how to wage a campaign: let the women do the fighting for him: Cindy McCain Unleashed: From Calm to Combative http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/cindy-mccain-unleashedbrf_n_133089.html Cindy McCain, who has largely remained soft-spoken and optimistic during public appearances on her husband's behalf, has joined the attack dogs of the McCain campaign in recent days. Just as McCain and Sarah Palin and prominent GOP supporters like Rudy Giuliani have stepped up their negative attacks on Obama this week, Cindy McCain took one of her most personal shots yet at Barack Obama today during a rally in Pennsylvania. . . . Her newfound aggressiveness is obviously sanctioned by the campaign - a McCain aide said last night that the Republican nominee wholeheartedly agrees with his wife's assessment. And, as McCain sics his two pitbulls with lipstick on Obama, he's too much of a coward to do it himself: McCain Wasn't Willing To Say Ayers Attacks To My Face http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/obama-mccain-scoring-chea_n_133132.html During an interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson Wednesday night, Barack Obama accused John McCain of scoring cheap political points with the personal attacks he had leveled at him in recent days. Speaking of the previous night's presidential debate, Obama said he was surprised McCain didn't attempt to repeat these attacks during their time on stage together: Well, I am surprised that, you know, we've been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days that he wasn't willing to say it to my face. I guess that's what Republicans consider a hero. McCain's shrewd thinking also seems to apply to planning ahead for his administration's transition to power. As the Huffington Post exposes in an exclusive report, Obama's transition team is already functional and working, while McCain has superstitiously (see emphasis supplied by me below) not done anything at all to create a transition team. I guess he thinks he's gonna maverick everything into happening: Obama, McCain Transition Efforts Are Worlds Apart http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/obama-mccain-transition-e_n_132976.html As the 2008 campaign nears its conclusion, the presidential transition efforts of the two major candidates have become a study in contrasts: Sen. Barack Obama has organized an elaborate well-staffed network to prepare for his possible ascension to the White House, while Sen. John McCain has all but put off such work until after the election. The Democratic nominee has enlisted the assistance of dozens of individuals -- divided into working groups for particular federal agencies -- to produce policy agendas and lists of recommended appointees. As evidence of their advanced preparations, officials provided a copy of the strict ethics guidelines that individuals working on the transition effort are required to sign. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/text-obama-transition-pro_n_133162.html John McCain, by contrast, has done little. Campaign spokespersons did not respond to requests for elaboration. But one official with direct knowledge, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, expressed concern with McCain's approach. The Arizona Senator has instructed his team to not spend time on the transition effort, according to the source, both out of a desire to have complete focus on winning the election *** as well as a superstitious belief that the campaign shouldn't put the cart before the horse ***. John McCain -- a coward who lets his women do the fighting for him, and refuses to plan ahead out of superstition. Just what America needs.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Is this Raunchy Dog with two of her pals?
Touché and Parry http://tinyurl.com/3hcfj3 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wroj0FLvzs
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
On Oct 8, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Curtis wrote: A frozen Johnny Reb who wants to succeed from the US! This is nothing more than a political smear of Gov. Palin. These allegations are false - Gov. Palin has never been a member of AIP. And, it's not accurate to call the AIP 'seccessionsit' - it's just a 'states rights' party. Probably every AIP member has different opinions on what Alaska should be. The AIP is the third largest political party in Alaska - a previous Alaska governor was a member of the AIP. According to Gail Fenumiai, the director of the Alaska Division of Elections, Gov. Sarah Palin has been a registered Republican since 1982. So you have any evidence that Gov. Palin was once a member of AIP? I'm not sure, but until she issues a statement on her previous revolutionary activity, it'd probably be too dangerous to vote for a ticket with a histrionic maverick and an Alaskan Che, esp. since Gov. Palin says Putin's rearing his head over Alaskan airspace. She might just go over to the commies. And that's very un-American. Are you un-American Willy? Now I know why they're always saying remember the Alamo 'coz you artsy fartsy types up there in Austin seem to keep forgetting.
[FairfieldLife] Encore
Encore. Touché and Parry. Obama Kool Aid the Movie http://tinyurl.com/3ulhuw --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wroj0FLvzs
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palomino Ponderings
Once again, I find your views so extreme, so irrational, that I can see no point in arguing with you, other than to say that you clearly lack sound judgment. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might as well keep wondering because you sure haven't been listening if you think my objection to Obama, (not hatred) has anything to do with his race rather than his record or lack of it. He is a race baiting, flip flopping, bamboozling, finger flipping, double crossing, record hiding, unqualified, lousy candidate with questionable judgment when it comes to picking his friends. That ain't hatin' them's the facts because I pay attention to the details of his behavior and haven't imbibed the Kool Aid. I wouldn't trust him to feed my dog.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palomino Ponderings
If you want to prove me wrong, have at it. Otherwise shut your pie hole. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, I find your views so extreme, so irrational, that I can see no point in arguing with you, other than to say that you clearly lack sound judgment. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: You might as well keep wondering because you sure haven't been listening if you think my objection to Obama, (not hatred) has anything to do with his race rather than his record or lack of it. He is a race baiting, flip flopping, bamboozling, finger flipping, double crossing, record hiding, unqualified, lousy candidate with questionable judgment when it comes to picking his friends. That ain't hatin' them's the facts because I pay attention to the details of his behavior and haven't imbibed the Kool Aid. I wouldn't trust him to feed my dog.
[FairfieldLife] Ram Dass live webcast Oct. 12
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Thu, 10/9/08, enlightened_dawn11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: enlightened_dawn11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 12:13 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: --- On Wed, 10/8/08, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: From: Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 3:24 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: The Ru's only have themselves to blame for this sort of nonsense. They have treated townies like shit whenever there was a conflict and this is what happens. It was an out-of-town Ru firing up anti-townie sentiment with a single email that got the two Rus on the ballot in the first place. So, the anti-Ru backlash is to be expected. The biggest bummer is that there were two locals running in the Dem. primary who would have been well respected by both Rus and locals. With the two Rus on the ballot, there are probably a lot of local Dems who will vote for the two local GOP supervisors. So many Ru's have such a pathetic elitist attitude towards non- ru's because of the spiritually superior zeitgeist (damn, I love dat word!) the Maharishi espoused for so many years in the TMO. the pathetic elitist attitude comes not from the Maharishi's message, but rather from their misunderstanding of reality, being locked into a dualistic perspective. Duality breeds conflict. It has nothing to do with the Maharishi's message. Unitary or Dualistic perspective is irrelevant here. Maharishi treated many groups of people as intrinsically inferior to others. This is very typical for Indians of Maharishi's generation who have a strong caste system mentality. so are you saying that: 1. the Maharishi accepted the caste system. 2. the Western members of the TMO were considered mixed caste and therefore lower than untouchables. 3. the Maharishi elevated the Western members of the TMO above those who were not in the TMO. 4. therefore any Indians not in the TMO, whatever their caste, would then be considered lower than the lower than untouchable TMO members?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Is this Raunchy Dog with two of her pals?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Touché and Parry http://tinyurl.com/3hcfj3 That helps you, how? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Is this Raunchy Dog with two of her pals? Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wroj0FLvzs
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
--- On Thu, 10/9/08, enlightened_dawn11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the pathetic elitist attitude comes not from the Maharishi's message, but rather from their misunderstanding of reality, being locked into a dualistic perspective. Duality breeds conflict. It has nothing to do with the Maharishi's message. Unitary or Dualistic perspective is irrelevant here. Maharishi treated many groups of people as intrinsically inferior to others. This is very typical for Indians of Maharishi's generation who have a strong caste system mentality. so are you saying that: 1. the Maharishi accepted the caste system. 2. the Western members of the TMO were considered mixed caste and therefore lower than untouchables. 3. the Maharishi elevated the Western members of the TMO above those who were not in the TMO. 4. therefore any Indians not in the TMO, whatever their caste, would then be considered lower than the lower than untouchable TMO members? I'm only speaking about a general attitude that MMY had and was certainly present in the TMO and MIU/MUM administration towards non-ru's. I'm assuming MMY was that way because his personality/laisha vidya was very much a product of his genes and culture. So many Indians, especially of his generation, are spiritual/religious snobs. You notice less of this attitude in contemporary Indians. 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] Re: FDR Democrats
Barry, you might as well shut up about politics and stick to something you know about. Horror flicks? Anyway, you're probably a friggn' Log Cabin Republican. For the record, I have been a dedicated Democrat my entire life and over the years, I have in fact helped the party with fund raising, door knocking, lit dropping, etc. Besides carping about whoever happens to be lodging a bug up you ass, what have you ever done for anyone? serving on committees, volunteering, rallying and fighting for down-ticket Dems. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Obama defames the tradition of FDR Democrats, who are the life-long party stalwarts devoting their lives to state and local politics; fund raising, door knocking, lit dropping, serving on committees, volunteering, rallying and fighting for down-ticket Dems. For the first time in my life, I have no enthusiasm for any of this. Why not ? Did Hillary's defeat defeat you ? Apparently not, based on the number of, and degree of energy poured into, the FFL posts you direct against Barack Obama. Every stroke of your keyboard confirms the worst stereotypes about sore losers. Not to mention poseurs who lie to themselves and others. My bet is that Raunchydog has never done ANY of the things in the top paragraph above. My bet is that she's never done ANYTHING to support the Democratic Party in the past. She's just glommed onto that image to avoid admitting to us, and to herself, that the ONLY reason she's doing all this is that she's a sore loser still pissed off because she backed a more graceful loser. Hillary -- to her credit -- could move on. Raunch and Judy can't. They like to posture as if they're doing what they do -- spending hours dredging up and posting smear articles about Obama -- out of some noble sense of fighting for the principles of the Democratic Party. But literally everyone here knows that's a lie. Neither of them gives a shit about the Democratic Party. They SAY that they do because that seems sexier and more noble than admitting the truth, that they're just angry, dried-up old women who can no longer get off on anything *but* anger. They like to prettify the anger by pretending that there is something noble about it, but there isn't. They're just trying to destroy Obama because they're bored, and so unintelligent that the only thing they can think of to alleviate their boredom is to try to destroy something. Think I'm wrong? Ok, I'm calling for a show of hands. Is there ANYONE on this forum who believes that the reason that they're doing this is for any reason other than to spite Obama for pointing out that they had backed a loser, a loser that they had devel- oped an unhealthy crush on? Step up to the plate, ANYONE who feels that these women are being honest about their motives. ANYONE. We'll wait...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, we are agreed that Obama was in Bernadine's living room and that Gov. Palin was never a member of AIP. And we are agreed that Obama was never a member of the Weather Underground, but he is friends with the founder. friends ? Yeah Karl, nice try. So, you're thinking that Bill Ayers isn't a friend of Obama's? That's right. Everyone Obama works with on projects is not a friend. When he characterizes the relationship that way I will accept it. The whole guilt by association attempt is bullshit, whether it is for Obama with Ayer or Palin with the AIP. I thought you would miss the point because your partisanship makes you unable to grasp the concept of fairness. No, you missed the point, Curtis - it's not fair of you to call Mrs. Palin a 'Johnny Reb' - you were wrong and you attempted to mislead. snip Johnny Reb was the name I gave the guy in the video speaking about secession and hating the US. It was the guy Palin was Palling around with. He hates America and she palls around with him. Then she hypocritically accuses Obama of Palling around with an America hater. I don't expect you to understand the hypocrisy Richard. I know this concept is not one of your strong points. You should apologize. And who do you imagine I owe an apology to Richard? Aren't you the little busy body running around demanding apologies for other people. But while we are on apologies... I want one from Palin for hiding from the press and avoiding the American people who want to know a little more about her than her memorized sound bites before giving her access to the greatest power in the world. Instead of badmouthing the press she needs let some of them ask her questions with follow up. She is trying to wink and grin herself into office while hiding what she really knows or believes. All the other candidates have been through this process. Biden has given over 100 interviews since he was nominated. Is it too much to ask Palin for more than a couple of opportunities to know who she really is? Let her explain how she differs from the Alaskan Johnny Rebs who hate America so much that they would not be buried in the lower 48. Come to think of it... Palin risked birth complications to make sure she had her last kid in Alaska, put the whole plane in jeopardy so she could get her speech in before flying home. (A flight attendant explained to me how a medical emergency leads to emergency landings which are always more risky as well as waylaying all the passengers.) Palin chose to fly in that condition to avoid having he kid born outside Alaska. Maybe she IS a Johnny Reb. But she wont give us a chance to find out, will she? So instead of running around demanding apologies for her Richard, why don't you ask your beloved Sarah this: So tell me Sarah, what beliefs do you share with this secessionist group that you are seen palling around with? If you became vice president would you advance their agenda to break away from the rest of America?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palomino Ponderings
You are not worth my time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to prove me wrong, have at it. Otherwise shut your pie hole. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Once again, I find your views so extreme, so irrational, that I can see no point in arguing with you, other than to say that you clearly lack sound judgment. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: You might as well keep wondering because you sure haven't been listening if you think my objection to Obama, (not hatred) has anything to do with his race rather than his record or lack of it. He is a race baiting, flip flopping, bamboozling, finger flipping, double crossing, record hiding, unqualified, lousy candidate with questionable judgment when it comes to picking his friends. That ain't hatin' them's the facts because I pay attention to the details of his behavior and haven't imbibed the Kool Aid. I wouldn't trust him to feed my dog.
[FairfieldLife] This is the man who could have his finger on the nuclear button
A first-hand account of McCain's temper, and what he's like when it gets ahold of him. I could repost the article here, but it's really better to read it on the Huffpost site, because then you can watch the video that's there and see what fellow Republicans, military leaders, journalists and others who have worked closely with him and *seen* this temper of his up close think of him. Then think...would you trust this man to have his finger on the nuclear button? Would you trust this man to dogsit for you? Report: McCain Exploded With Rage During Gambling Outing http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/report-mccain-exploded-wi_n_133242.html or http://tinyurl.com/4ho32j
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fly on the wall
The smart toss is not to go to a Starbucks in the first place: overpriced burnt yuppie coffee. Unfortunately, they have just about run over every competitor so if you want a coffee drink, that's what you have to take. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So after my morning walk I stop off at the local Starbucks and take my drink to a table on the patio. At the table next to me is a small group having a meeting. I didn't pay much attention at first since there are often people, especially from the county offices across the street, who hold small meetings there. Then I realized that in this particular group was my congressman. He was discussing bailout issues with some of the local council people (and possibly a state assemblyman). Okay that would have been an excellent chance to ask about the martial law threat but being polite I didn't want to butt in. I didn't have to as the meeting was winding down they asked him about the pressures put on congress to pass the bill. He said something (as far as I could tell) that the first three page bill nobody wanted to pass (and something to the extent it was written that that way for that purpose). He did say something to the extent when they asked about communication with Bush at the time but that the Bush administration was throwing some shock stuff at them to get the bill passed and something that Bush was under pressure from his global alliances to get it passed (I still have the video of Bush's speech to the nation selling the damn thing and noted how freaked he seemed to be). Some of the other people meeting mentioned some threats that other politicians they knew got like pass the bill or we'll make sure you don't get elected next time. Not everyday something like this happens and here I was having a toss up in my mind before I left the park I walk in as to which Starbucks I was going to and I guess I picked the right one. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fly on the wall
The smart toss is not to go to a Starbucks in the first place: overpriced burnt yuppie coffee. Unfortunately, they have just about run over every competitor so if you want a coffee drink, that's what you have to take. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So after my morning walk I stop off at the local Starbucks and take my drink to a table on the patio. At the table next to me is a small group having a meeting. I didn't pay much attention at first since there are often people, especially from the county offices across the street, who hold small meetings there. Then I realized that in this particular group was my congressman. He was discussing bailout issues with some of the local council people (and possibly a state assemblyman). Okay that would have been an excellent chance to ask about the martial law threat but being polite I didn't want to butt in. I didn't have to as the meeting was winding down they asked him about the pressures put on congress to pass the bill. He said something (as far as I could tell) that the first three page bill nobody wanted to pass (and something to the extent it was written that that way for that purpose). He did say something to the extent when they asked about communication with Bush at the time but that the Bush administration was throwing some shock stuff at them to get the bill passed and something that Bush was under pressure from his global alliances to get it passed (I still have the video of Bush's speech to the nation selling the damn thing and noted how freaked he seemed to be). Some of the other people meeting mentioned some threats that other politicians they knew got like pass the bill or we'll make sure you don't get elected next time. Not everyday something like this happens and here I was having a toss up in my mind before I left the park I walk in as to which Starbucks I was going to and I guess I picked the right one. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so are you saying that: 1. the Maharishi accepted the caste system. 2. the Western members of the TMO were considered mixed caste and therefore lower than untouchables. 3. the Maharishi elevated the Western members of the TMO above those who were not in the TMO. 4. therefore any Indians not in the TMO, whatever their caste, would then be considered lower than the lower than untouchable TMO members? I'm only speaking about a general attitude that MMY had and was certainly present in the TMO and MIU/MUM administration towards non- ru's. I'm assuming MMY was that way because his personality/laisha vidya was very much a product of his genes and culture. So many Indians, especially of his generation, are spiritual/religious snobs. You notice less of this attitude in contemporary Indians. Just for the record; what peter is saying is 180 degrees from how I experienced Maharishi. If anyone anywhere was not a snob it was certainly Maharishi. Quite the contrary; He always invited everyone anywhere to enjoy the benefits of His programmes regardless of class, age or status.
[FairfieldLife] Re: FDR Democrats
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry, you might as well shut up about politics and stick to something you know about. And in your opinion, what on earth would that be ?
Re: [FairfieldLife] This is the man who could have his finger on the nuclear button
TurquoiseB wrote: A first-hand account of McCain's temper, and what he's like when it gets ahold of him. I could repost the article here, but it's really better to read it on the Huffpost site, because then you can watch the video that's there and see what fellow Republicans, military leaders, journalists and others who have worked closely with him and *seen* this temper of his up close think of him. Then think...would you trust this man to have his finger on the nuclear button? Would you trust this man to dogsit for you? Report: McCain Exploded With Rage During Gambling Outing http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/report-mccain-exploded-wi_n_133242.html or http://tinyurl.com/4ho32j Let's hope that somewhere someone has a video of him blowing up. That would make a good Obama campaign ad especially very near the election. Also someone should figure out if there is a phrase that triggers his rage that Obama could say during the next debate. McCain is beyond his prime and should have retired from public office.
[FairfieldLife] Coffee, was: Fly on the wall
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pranamoocher Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:50 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fly on the wall The smart toss is not to go to a Starbucks in the first place: overpriced burnt yuppie coffee. Unfortunately, they have just about run over every competitor so if you want a coffee drink, that's what you have to take. Not in FF: http://www.cafeparadiso.net/
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:51 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors Just for the record; what peter is saying is 180 degrees from how I experienced Maharishi. If anyone anywhere was not a snob it was certainly Maharishi. Quite the contrary; He always invited everyone anywhere to enjoy the benefits of His programmes regardless of class, age or status. At least in developed countries, he usually practiced trickle-down economics: set the price for initiation high so the wealthy and influential will value and appreciate it. They will then make it available to the masses who can't afford it. Didn't quite work out that way.
[FairfieldLife] Porn with everything except the sex, plus Nathan Fillion
Nathan, whom I know a lot of people here like from Firefly and Serenity and the Internet TV series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, is involved in another Internet TV project. And lo and behold, this one is even PG, and one that I can recommend to the TM prudes among us. You'll be able to watch the show for free on this site, but right now you can watch the first episode, called Nailing Your Wife and some clips of the filmmakers talking about the series. Nathan has never been more hilarious, and that's saying a lot. http://www.pgporn.tv/ James Gunn's PG Porn For people who love everything about porn. Except the sex. How many times have you been watching a great porn film you're really enjoying the story, the acting, the cinematography when, all of the sudden, they ruin everything with PEOPLE HAVING SEX? A bunch of times, right? That's why I, along with my brothers Brian and Sean, have created JAMES GUNN'S PG-PORN. It's pornography everyone can enjoy, not just perverts. You and your grandmother, for instance, could sit down together and enjoy some nice clean smut. Or your kids could come home from school, and the whole family could gather around the computer and not-jerk-off to some porn deeply embedded with traditional values (like not fucking.) GOOD BOYS PRODUCTIONS and SAFRAN DIGITAL GROUP is proud to announce our new web series, JAMES GUNN'S PG-PORN, which teams mainstream Hollywood actors with performers formerly known for their work in the adult industry, but who will soon be known for being part of a worldwide revolution in sexless pornography. JAMES GUNN'S PG-PORN is the only porn where, when the delivery boy comes over to deliver some pizza, people actually get what they're expecting some delicious pizza! We hope you'll join us OCTOBER 8 on Spike.com or here at PGPorn.TV to see the very first episode of JAMES GUNN'S PG-PORN, Nailing Your Wife, with Nathan Fillion and Aria Giovanni. Watch Nathan Fillion inhabit the role of CHRIS, who doesn't have any sex whatsoever with his boss's wife, MRS. GRIMES. Until then you can watch this interview of myself and Aria Giovanni, talking about the genesis of PG-PORN, and how all of your MySpacers helped in the process. Seriously, guys creating PG-PORN has been some of the most fun of my life! We've shot five episodes, and are in the process of shooting the rest of the series with even more Hollywood and adult industry insiders. This is the secret project I've been talking about on my MySpace blog, on Twitter, and at the James Gunn Appreciation Society for a while now. All the episodes are directed by me, and written by myself and my brother Brian Gunn. They're being shot and edited by my creative partner, Pete!!! Alton, produced by Stevie Blackehart and Peter Safran, featuring costumes by Mary Matthews. I'm also excited to have Tyler Bates, the composer of 300, WATCHMEN, DEVIL'S REJECTS, and DAWN OF THE DEAD, scoring the episodes. Sean and Brian and I have been coming up with concepts for PGPORN for years, and we can't wait to share them with you. - James Gunn
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fly on the wall
There are a few locals including a bagel shop across the parking lot. Nice folks but not a great environment and mediocre roast. The Starbucks I went to has a nice patio which is great to sit and sometimes chat with the other folks there. It is often though the world's slowest Starbucks as it has always been strangely managed as far as getting the drinks out. I can go to the downtown one with the same number of people in the line and get my drink much faster. Downtown has fewer tables outside and you have to put up with vagrants. There is another small locally owned shop I sometimes stop at that gets a really good roast locally but doesn't have much to offer in atmosphere. Also there is a donut shop on the same strip that does espresso but again with a mediocre roast. Again nice folks but those donut holes are just awfully hard to resist and if you get there early enough they have great whole wheat blueberry muffins. pranamoocher wrote: The smart toss is not to go to a Starbucks in the first place: overpriced burnt yuppie coffee. Unfortunately, they have just about run over every competitor so if you want a coffee drink, that's what you have to take.
[FairfieldLife] Secret LOA Tool - Not Seen on OPRAH
It was not seen on Oprah but you can get the report here http://www.feelthevibe.com/loa
[FairfieldLife] Re: Secret LOA Tool - Not Seen on OPRAH
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, globalpeace777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was not seen on Oprah but you can get the report here http://www.feelthevibe.com/loa It's much funnier if you try to access the site using Firefox. On IE, a button appears so that you can download the supposed report. On Firefox, no button ever appears, so there is nothing you can do there but check and uncheck a checkbox forever. These people sure have that old super-secret Law Of Attraction down pat, don't they? :-)
[FairfieldLife] Palin is a Post Turtle''
FROM A FRIEND : The likeness is remarkable( there was a picture of a turtle on top of a post ). While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who's hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Palin and her bid. The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Palin is a 'Post Turtle''. Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was. The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'. The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. 'You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, and she doesn't know what to do while she's up there, and you just wonder what kind of dummy put her up there to begin with'. Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. Learn Now -- NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice, and certainly without probable cause. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse or protection. Please: call for the impeachment of the current 'President'.
[FairfieldLife] Re: FDR Democrats
I know Raunchy personally, and I want to tell you that she puts her money where her mouth is. She has knocked on doors, attended rallies, brought food to events, donated funds and fund-raising supplies, and has been an active member of the Jefferson County Dems for a number of years, including serving in various non-paying positions. Do not dis her. She is entitled to her opinion, as are you. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Obama defames the tradition of FDR Democrats, who are the life-long party stalwarts devoting their lives to state and local politics; fund raising, door knocking, lit dropping, serving on committees, volunteering, rallying and fighting for down-ticket Dems. For the first time in my life, I have no enthusiasm for any of this. Why not ? Did Hillary's defeat defeat you ? Apparently not, based on the number of, and degree of energy poured into, the FFL posts you direct against Barack Obama. Every stroke of your keyboard confirms the worst stereotypes about sore losers. Not to mention poseurs who lie to themselves and others. My bet is that Raunchydog has never done ANY of the things in the top paragraph above. My bet is that she's never done ANYTHING to support the Democratic Party in the past. She's just glommed onto that image to avoid admitting to us, and to herself, that the ONLY reason she's doing all this is that she's a sore loser still pissed off because she backed a more graceful loser. Hillary -- to her credit -- could move on. Raunch and Judy can't. They like to posture as if they're doing what they do -- spending hours dredging up and posting smear articles about Obama -- out of some noble sense of fighting for the principles of the Democratic Party. But literally everyone here knows that's a lie. Neither of them gives a shit about the Democratic Party. They SAY that they do because that seems sexier and more noble than admitting the truth, that they're just angry, dried-up old women who can no longer get off on anything *but* anger. They like to prettify the anger by pretending that there is something noble about it, but there isn't. They're just trying to destroy Obama because they're bored, and so unintelligent that the only thing they can think of to alleviate their boredom is to try to destroy something. Think I'm wrong? Ok, I'm calling for a show of hands. Is there ANYONE on this forum who believes that the reason that they're doing this is for any reason other than to spite Obama for pointing out that they had backed a loser, a loser that they had devel- oped an unhealthy crush on? Step up to the plate, ANYONE who feels that these women are being honest about their motives. ANYONE. We'll wait...
[FairfieldLife] Other TV series of interest
Speaking of TV series, there's a trailer on YouTube for Joss Whedon's new series, Dollhouse. From what I've read about it, I think it'll not only be a good series, but one that is seriously discussible among those of a spiritual persuasion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDcEKo4V7fA There's also a trailer for Nathan Fillion's new series on ABC, called Castle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voLQY3KyWRk
[FairfieldLife] Re: FDR Democrats
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bitingbirdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know Raunchy personally, and I want to tell you that she puts her money where her mouth is. She has knocked on doors, attended rallies, brought food to events, donated funds and fund-raising supplies, and has been an active member of the Jefferson County Dems for a number of years, including serving in various non-paying positions. Who would pay to be around her? Do not dis her. She is entitled to her opinion, as are you. Careful, you are encroaching on my freedom of religion. I am a follower of Dis-ism. Our credo is to dis idiots wherever we find them. She qualifies. So far, so do you. Like we're supposed to believe someone who calls themselves bitingbirdie. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FDR Democrats
On Oct 9, 2008, at 1:16 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bitingbirdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know Raunchy personally, and I want to tell you that she puts her money where her mouth is. She has knocked on doors, attended rallies, brought food to events, donated funds and fund-raising supplies, and has been an active member of the Jefferson County Dems for a number of years, including serving in various non-paying positions. Who would pay to be around her? Do not dis her. She is entitled to her opinion, as are you. Careful, you are encroaching on my freedom of religion. I am a follower of Dis-ism. Our credo is to dis idiots wherever we find them. She qualifies. So far, so do you. Like we're supposed to believe someone who calls themselves bitingbirdie. :-) It never ceases to amaze me how these so-called true-blue Democrats, when pushed at all, immediately react by wanting to curtail the freedom of speech of those they disagree with. It's almost like they're...Republicans. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: FDR Democrats
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 9, 2008, at 1:16 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bitingbirdie bitingbirdie@ wrote: I know Raunchy personally, and I want to tell you that she puts her money where her mouth is. She has knocked on doors, attended rallies, brought food to events, donated funds and fund-raising supplies, and has been an active member of the Jefferson County Dems for a number of years, including serving in various non-paying positions. Who would pay to be around her? Do not dis her. She is entitled to her opinion, as are you. Careful, you are encroaching on my freedom of religion. I am a follower of Diss-ism. Our credo is to diss idiots wherever we find them. She qualifies. So far, so do you. Like we're supposed to believe someone who calls themselves bitingbirdie. :-) It never ceases to amaze me how these so-called true-blue Democrats, when pushed at all, immediately react by wanting to curtail the freedom of speech of those they disagree with. It's almost like they're...Republicans. Or just idiots. :-) Interestingly, this newb is demanding the same thing that Raunchydog demanded for Hillary and Sarah Palin -- that no one diss them, and just accept everything they say as if it were true. Well, experience has shown -- both with Hillary and with Palin -- that everything they say ISN'T true. They lie through their teeth. Without bothering to read her diatribes, I from time to time diss Raunchydog because I suspect that she's lying through her teeth about her motives -- to us and to herself -- as is her partner-in-idiocy Judy Stien. The thing is, Raunchydog ENJOYS being dissed, as does Judy. It's probably the only attention either of them ever gets, and they're so old and unattractive they've learned to settle for that.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Overposting Ban
So, you've got something to hide - you're not being honest. I guess I just learned how to lie and bullshit from the masters. So, you haven't been inside a Golden Dome. If so, what's your point? I'm sure I've spent way more time inside than you have. So you are under the impression the golden domes are for TM teachers only? So, you don't even know what we're talking about. I asked a question and did not get an useful answer. So, you're saying that the TMO is a sad joke and a total failure. Now, you've got it. So, why didn't you do your part to make TM a success, instead of posting here for years? I guess I did not have the recipe for making TM a success. Only one individual did and he decided not to. What is your recipe, not that it would ever be followed? So, you got kicked out of MUM - I thought so. You thought wrong. The only time I was a student at MUM was when the administration got as many CCP and TSR participants as possible to sign up as pretend students in order to commit a fraud on the government/board of higher education/accrediting committees/whatever. See my first answer for more on this. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Thu, 10/9/08, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Overposting Ban To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 7:54 AM According to my sources, you informants will never be allowed ever again to set foot inside a Marshy Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge. gullible fool wrote: I am on here anonymously. So, you've got something to hide - you're not being honest. You and the other apostates didn't keep the teaching pure - you broke your oath to Guru Dev. You can't be trusted to keep your word. I never attended TM teacher training. So, you haven't been inside a Golden Dome. If so, what's your point? You didn't read the 'Orange Book' and you can't even remember the words to the puja. You can't recognize your own mantra from Sanskrit flash cards. The what book? So, you don't even know what we're talking about. Never learned the puja. You sucked as TM teachers - that's why the TMO is a failure - you failed to stay on the program. I hope you don't sincerely believe that is the reason why the TMO is a total failure and a sad joke in spiritual circles. So, you're saying that the TMO is a sad joke and a total failure. That's why you are posting messages here, instead of giving lectures at the TM Center. The local center was closed in July 1998. All of the millions of dollars money from the sale of the two buildings was, of course, sent to who knows where. Even the TBs don't give lectures anymore. So, why didn't you do your part to make TM a success, instead of posting here for years? After all these years, you still don't have a Ph.D. from MUM. Sounds like a lot of work for something with a limited career path, namely teaching at MUM for the $250 dollars a month or whatever it is teachers get. So, you got kicked out of MUM - I thought so. 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] Re: Coffee, was: Fly on the wall
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not in FF: http://www.cafeparadiso.net/ That's fine if you like espresso. Personally, I prefer drip coffee, and the last time I was in Paradiso (some years ago), they only served espresso. I only drink coffee once a week, on Saturday mornings, and lately I've been getting it at University Amoco. I used to get it at 2nd Street, but they open too late, and they seem to have gotten lax about cleaning the equipment. Nothing worse than coffee brewed in equipment full of rancid oils.
[FairfieldLife] YouTube - John McCain Fit As A Fiddle?
My brother-in-law's nephew produced this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aOBHze8TAE
[FairfieldLife] Masters of Siddhis
http://tv.yahoo.com/falltv/photos/sci-fi/312
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Coffee, was: Fly on the wall
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Stanley Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:08 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Coffee, was: Fly on the wall --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not in FF: http://www.cafeparadiso.net/ That's fine if you like espresso. Personally, I prefer drip coffee, and the last time I was in Paradiso (some years ago), they only served espresso. I only drink coffee once a week, on Saturday mornings, and lately I've been getting it at University Amoco. I used to get it at 2nd Street, but they open too late, and they seem to have gotten lax about cleaning the equipment. Nothing worse than coffee brewed in equipment full of rancid oils. 2nd Street: The owner, while running a previous restaurant, was once arrested while dumpster-diving for vegetables.
[FairfieldLife] Dow Jones, How Low Can You Go?
To All: The major indicator of stock market activity is dancing the limbo rock. As of 12:20 PM PST, DJI has gone down another 350 points or so. Clearly, the national consciousness is confused of how to interpret the current situation. Perhaps, panic is a better way to explain it. ** Stocks mostly lower as GM declines; Techs rise By TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer 1 hour, 9 minutes ago NEW YORK - Stocks mostly declined Thursday, though with far less severity than in recent sessions, as weakness in the financial, energy and health care sectors overshadowed gains by technology issues. Trading remained volatile, with the major indexes like the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard Poor's 500 index bobbing up and down. The Nasdaq composite index, with a bevy of tech stocks, showed more lasting gains because of advances by companies like Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. But worries about General Motors Corp. capped the periodic advances by the Dow and the SP as investors grew concerned that weakness in U.S. vehicle sales may emerge elsewhere in the world. GM, one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow industrials, fell $1.14, or 17 percent, to $5.77. The stock fell earlier by as much as 21.7 percent to $5.41, its lowest level since December 1950. While the number of declining stocks outpaced advancers by about 2 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, the selling appeared far more orderly than earlier in the week and last week when panic about tight lending conditions and the economy gripped trading. The sluggishness in the credit markets that triggered much of the heavy selling in markets around the world since mid-September appeared little changed Thursday following days of efforts by the Federal Reserve and other central banks to resuscitate lending. A key benchmark for bank-to-bank loans, The London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor, for three-month dollar loans rose to 4.75 percent from 4.52 percent on Wednesday. That signals that banks remain hesitant to make loans for fear they won't be paid back. The Fed and other leading central banks this week have lowered key interest rates to help unclog the credit markets and stimulate the global economy. While a rate cut can take up to a year to work its way through the economy, the move was aimed as a boost to investor sentiment. Until we kind of stabilize I think you're going to see these gyrations for quite some time, said Stephen Carl, principal and head of equity trading at The Williams Capital Group. We're stuck in a morass and I think it's going to take quite some time to come out of it. In early afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 93.58, or 1.01 percent, to 9,164.52. Broader stock indicators were mixed. The Standard Poor's 500 index fell 12.08, or 1.23 percent, to 972.86, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 0.94, or 0.05 percent, to 1,741.27. Traders are looking for some slowdown in the selling and perhaps even a rally after the losses logged in the past six sessions. The Dow is down 1,593 points, or 15 percent, in that time, its worst losing streak since August 2007 when it shed 812 points, or 6 percent. Thursday marks one year since the Dow and the SP 500 closed at their highs. At the start of Thursday's trading, the Dow was down 4,940 points, or 34.8 percent, since closing at 14,198. The SP 500, meanwhile, is off 580 points, or 37 percent, since recording its high of 1,565.15. While credit markets appeared tight, demand for short-term Treasurys appeared to wane Thursday. The yield on the three-month Treasury bill, which moves opposite its price, rose to 0.69 percent from 0.63 percent late Wednesday. Longer-term debt prices also fell, with the yield on the 10-year note rising to 3.78 percent from 3.65 percent late Wednesday. Investors across markets were mulling a plan being considered by the Bush administration to invest in hobbled U.S. banks as a way to stabilize the financial sector. An administration official, who asked not to be identified because no decision has been made, said the $700 billion rescue package passed by Congress last week allows the Treasury Department to inject fresh capital into financial institutions and obtain ownership shares in return. Britain rolled out a similar plan, though no U.K. bank has received any investments. In Iceland, the government now has control of the country's three major banks as it struggles to contain the troubles there. Investors also digested a government report that applications for unemployment benefits dropped last week from a seven-year high. The Labor Department's report matched projections, though claims still remain at elevated levels. Wall Street is also looking for any effects of short selling now that a three-week ban imposed by regulators has expired. Short selling is a technique in which investors borrow shares in a company from a broker and sell them, hoping to
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Secret LOA Tool - Not Seen on OPRAH
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, globalpeace777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was not seen on Oprah but you can get the report here http://www.feelthevibe.com/loa It's much funnier if you try to access the site using Firefox. On IE, a button appears so that you can download the supposed report. On Firefox, no button ever appears, so there is nothing you can do there but check and uncheck a checkbox forever. These people sure have that old super-secret Law Of Attraction down pat, don't they? :-) On Firefox 3.03 on Ubuntu 8.04 there is a checkbox but there is also a form to fill in with name and email address and a button which clicked on after filling out the info displays a message that a link will be emailed to download report. I've been watching the Firefox blowups which indeed are also occurring under Windows and some seem to be related to over zealous web designers (who usually think the only thing in the world is IE and Windows) over using or abusing Flash in their designs. Firefox, for speed, starting with version 3 to cache a lot of the content before displaying the page and if there is too much of this stuff to download or its on a very busy server Firefox appears to lock up and then unlocks after it has much of the content. I think they shouldn't have done this caching bit. Then there appear to be some memory leaks with Flash which wouldn't surprise me as I gave up on Adobe Premier since years ago because it was so sloppily programmed. But then a lot of stuff is nowadays as the suits running the companies hire cheap programmers from third world countries who are clueless. One of the most annoying signs of a stupid interface programmer is when you save something and then want to exit and the program asks you if you want to save your project when you've done nothing to since you saved it. That is VERY LAME when it is possible with the various frameworks (specifically MFC) to track whether the document has been updated or even with a simple routine and flag if you are not using a framework.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
Maharishi was very much into hierarchies and establishing pecking orders, usually based on how much money one had. He also regarded the common man as incapable of making sensible decisions, hence his “damning” of democracy. He once said of the Labor Party in the UK, “They are laborers. They shouldn’t be running the government. Just give them a shovel and tell them where to dig.” There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those who have a loaded gun and those who dig. You, dig. Cline Eastwood to Eli Wallach - from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Love will swallow you, eat you up completely until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Thu, 10/9/08, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 12:59 AM From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of enlightened_dawn11 Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:13 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors the pathetic elitist attitude comes not from the Maharishi's message, but rather from their misunderstanding of reality, being locked into a dualistic perspective. Duality breeds conflict. It has nothing to do with the Maharishi's message. Maharishi was very much into hierarchies and establishing pecking orders, usually based on how much money one had. He also regarded the common man as incapable of making sensible decisions, hence his “damning” of democracy. He once said of the Labor Party in the UK, “They are laborers. They shouldn’t be running the government. Just give them a shovel and tell them where to dig.”
[FairfieldLife] Re: FDR Democrats
I suspect that raunchydog and bitingbirdie are one and the same person. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bitingbirdie bitingbirdie@ wrote: I know Raunchy personally, and I want to tell you that she puts her money where her mouth is. She has knocked on doors, attended rallies, brought food to events, donated funds and fund-raising supplies, and has been an active member of the Jefferson County Dems for a number of years, including serving in various non-paying positions. Who would pay to be around her? Do not dis her. She is entitled to her opinion, as are you. Careful, you are encroaching on my freedom of religion. I am a follower of Dis-ism. Our credo is to dis idiots wherever we find them. She qualifies. So far, so do you. Like we're supposed to believe someone who calls themselves bitingbirdie. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dow Jones, How Low Can You Go?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To All: The major indicator of stock market activity is dancing the limbo rock. As of 12:20 PM PST, DJI has gone down another 350 points or so. Clearly, the national consciousness is confused of how to interpret the current situation. Perhaps, panic is a better way to explain it. Anyone know what the IA numbers or the Vedic City Pandit population is now at? Surely the TMO has some tortured explanation for why that which overinflates eventually deflates.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dow Jones, How Low Can You Go?
There was a comment by Bevan posted maybe a week ago. Try searching on his name. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Thu, 10/9/08, The Secret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: The Secret [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dow Jones, How Low Can You Go? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 4:05 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To All: The major indicator of stock market activity is dancing the limbo rock. As of 12:20 PM PST, DJI has gone down another 350 points or so. Clearly, the national consciousness is confused of how to interpret the current situation. Perhaps, panic is a better way to explain it. Anyone know what the IA numbers or the Vedic City Pandit population is now at? Surely the TMO has some tortured explanation for why that which overinflates eventually deflates. 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] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:51 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors Just for the record; what peter is saying is 180 degrees from how I experienced Maharishi. If anyone anywhere was not a snob it was certainly Maharishi. Quite the contrary; He always invited everyone anywhere to enjoy the benefits of His programmes regardless of class, age or status. At least in developed countries, he usually practiced trickle-down economics: set the price for initiation high so the wealthy and influential will value and appreciate it. They will then make it available to the masses who can't afford it. Didn't quite work out that way. H Lawson
Re: [FairfieldLife] Thousands of troops deployed on US streets
Vaj wrote: Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq, subduing 'unruly individuals,' and the management of a national emergency. I am in Seattle and heard from the brother of one of the soldiers that they are engaged in exercises now. Amy Goodman reported that an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and tanks. George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in the 'War on Terror,' the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield. He also led change to the 1807 Insurrection Act to give him far broader powers in the event of a loosely defined 'insurrection' or many other 'conditions' he has the power to identify. The Constitution allows the suspension of habeas corpus -- habeas corpus prevents us from being seized by the state and held without trial -- in the event of an 'insurrection.' With his own army force now, his power to call a group of protesters or angry voters 'insurgents' staging an 'insurrection' is strengthened. U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said to Congress, captured on C-Span and viewable on YouTube, that individual members of the House were threatened with martial law within a week if they did not pass the bailout bill: 'The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. … Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day and a couple of thousand on the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no.' If this is true and Rep. Sherman is not delusional, I ask you to consider that if they are willing to threaten martial law now, it is foolish to assume they will never use that threat again. It is also foolish to trust in an orderly election process to resolve this threat. And why deploy the First Brigade? One thing the deployment accomplishes is to put teeth into such a threat. I interviewed Vietnam veteran, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and patriot David Antoon for clarification... Full interview at: http://www.alternet.org/rights/101958/?page=entire Thom Hartmann's take on this: The Economics of Fear By Thom Hartmann Congressman Brad Sherman of California's 27th congressional district has now said some Congressional representatives were threatened with 'Martial Law' if they vote against the $700 billion bailout and the measure failed. Congressman Sherman said Many of us were told in private conversations, that if we didn't pass this bill on Monday, the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points, another couple thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be Martial Law in America if we voted no. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnbNm6hoBXc According to Wikipedia: Martial law is the system of rules that takes effect when the military takes control of the normal administration of justice. Martial law is sometimes imposed during wars or occupations in the absence of any other civil government. Examples of this form of military rule include Germany and Japan after World War II or the American South during the early stages of Reconstruction. In addition it is used by governments to enforce their rule, for example after a coup d'état (Thailand 2006), when threatened by popular protests (Tiananmen Square protests of 1989), or to crack down on the opposition (Poland 1981 ). Martial law can also be declared in cases of major natural disasters; however most countries use a different legal construct, such as a state of emergency. In many countries martial law imposes particular rules, one of which is curfew. Often, under this system, the administration of justice, called a court-martial . The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is likely to occur. Bailouts don’t work, and never have. This one won’t work either. It will have the side effects of damaging our nation’s credit, sucking up our taxpayer’s resources, and (when done with debt) weakening our currency. So let’s go back to what we know works. After Hoover’s 1931 bailout of the banks failed, FDR did a cold reboot of the entire system, putting into place strong rules to prevent speculative abuse. And he doubled the STET tax, both producing revenue that more than funded the Securities and Exchange Commission and further prevented a repeat of the speculative bubble of the 1920s that led directly to the Republican Great Depression. The
[FairfieldLife] Re: Overposting Ban
gullible wrote: So, you got kicked out of MUM - I thought so. You thought wrong. The only time I was a student at MUM was when the administration got as many CCP and TSR participants as possible to sign up as pretend students in order to commit a fraud on the government/board of higher education/accrediting committees/whatever. So, you're a fraud who never graduated from MUM.
[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - John McCain Fit As A Fiddle?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My brother-in-law's nephew produced this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aOBHze8TAE Along those lines: As always on TV, the moments were enhanced by the cruel physicality of the screen. The received wisdom so far has been that Town Halls are better for McCain because he can loosen up and relax and make direct contact with what are nowadays called real people. But a Town Hall also meant the public saw a tall lithe young senator primed for the terrors of the future, against a stiff, hunched old guy hobbling around the stage in a body held together by an act of will. During the campaign McCain has aged dramatically. Like Dorian Gray, the bargains he has made with his conscience are reflected in the mirror. He has developed a strange Jimmy Cagney rasp and new verbal eccentricities that seem to have fused the speaking styles of Bob Dole and Ross Perot. Critics have already pounced on the explosive contempt of his jab, You know who voted for [the energy bill]? ... THAT ONE. The younger man watched him from his Frank Sinatra stool with the look of a family visitor marveling at the antics of the household's resident crazy uncle. ~~ Tina Brown http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-08/mccains-poignant-valedictory/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Coffee, was: Fly on the wall
No schmear intended to anyone in FF-I haven't been to FF in 20 years, but don't most of the 'Ru's stay away from coffee since it has a stimulant, or have they joined the rest of the world in drinking coffee on a regular basis? If they don't drink it, is there enough retail biz for Paradise to stay in biz? They must have low rent! Having to visit an Amoco gas station for coffee seems as dated as brewing with a Mr. Coffee. Must be hard finding with the mainstream amenities in FF! PS- have any frozen yogurt stores hit the area, or is everyone still eating just the high butterfat ice cream that became popular 15 years ago? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Stanley Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:08 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Coffee, was: Fly on the wall --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Not in FF: http://www.cafeparadiso.net/ That's fine if you like espresso. Personally, I prefer drip coffee, and the last time I was in Paradiso (some years ago), they only served espresso. I only drink coffee once a week, on Saturday mornings, and lately I've been getting it at University Amoco. I used to get it at 2nd Street, but they open too late, and they seem to have gotten lax about cleaning the equipment. Nothing worse than coffee brewed in equipment full of rancid oils. 2nd Street: The owner, while running a previous restaurant, was once arrested while dumpster-diving for vegetables.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bob_brigante Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:17 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors You are not capable of understanding what MMY said. Of course you don't hand the govt to oafs -- the current U.S. govt is proof that this is unwise. But MMY did not intend that people should be locked into low levels of life, lorded over by somebody. The whole point of the revival of Vedic wisdom (the centerpiece of which is TM, for unfolding total awareness for all individuals) is that people will be able to live happily without being administered by anybody: Sounds good in principle, but then why, in practice, has there always been such heavy-handed administration in the TMO, of which you have been one of the most outspoken critics? * There is a constantly repeating cycle of Yugas, 4,320,000 years long, of which 10% is a era in which life is lived at a very low level: our epoch, the Kali Yuga. The transition to the Sat Yuga starts in the Kali Yuga -- it can't start anywhere else -- so naturally the level of behavior is poor on the way to the Sat. But once Guru Dev decided to terminate the Kali Yuga early, it is just a matter of time before onset of Sat Yuga, no matter how many difficulties seem to be blocking this from within and from without the TM movement. It's like a bottle of ketchup: Shake and shake the ketchup bottle. None'll come, and then a lot'll. --Richard Armour http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/07jun_elastic_fluids.htm
Re: [FairfieldLife] R.I.P. Democrats
well well imagine that hate and racism began with Rev. Wright. OHHH BOY! --- On Thu, 10/9/08, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] R.I.P. Democrats To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 10:47 AM I always look forward to raunchydog's insightful posts. I guess Obama really is just a lazy nigger. Boy, did he fool us. He seems so different, articulate, engaging, energetic, very intelligent. But, I must be wrong. Can't take the ghetto out of the brother, I guess. --- On Thu, 10/9/08, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] R.I.P. Democrats To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 8:26 AM Obama will win and we can officially bury the Democratic Party with a R.I.P headstone, The cause of death was suicide. The Democratic Party will get what it deserves for forcing a vain empty suited sock puppet on us. Soon he will have unprecedented power over the quality of our lives in the midst of the worst economic climate in our nation's history. The more qualified candidate in the tradition of FDR, Hillary, who has presented specific remedies to get us out of this mess, as well as campaign for this ingrate, remains marginalized by her party. Since Obama's ego is too weak to allow her to look better than him, he'll just quietly co-opt her ideas and adapt them to gratify his corporate masters.
[FairfieldLife] Brits acknowledge Yankee superiority
http://tinyurl.com/4bkgrn
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for the record; what peter is saying is 180 degrees from how I experienced Maharishi. If anyone anywhere was not a snob it was certainly Maharishi. Quite the contrary; He always invited everyone anywhere to enjoy the benefits of His programmes regardless of class, age or status. At least in developed countries, he usually practiced trickle-down economics: set the price for initiation high so the wealthy and influential will value and appreciate it. They will then make it available to the masses who can't afford it. Didn't quite work out that way. Yes it did. And you are on another planet, as usual. The rich west payed for countless projects in developing contries. Bob Brigante will probably have the full list, it could easily include most of the un-developed world that benefitted from His attention in some way or another. Now David Lynch is doing the same thing regarding poor americans. Two blessed souls indeed. These days the USA and India particularily is reaping the benefits of His historic and altruistic activities.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dow Jones, How Low Can You Go?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, The Secret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: The major indicator of stock market activity is dancing the limbo rock. As of 12:20 PM PST, DJI has gone down another 350 points or so. Clearly, the national consciousness is confused of how to interpret the current situation. Perhaps, panic is a better way to explain it. The more Pundits in Fairfield the faster your unbalanced system of selfish economics will disappear. Now that communism is gone the next to go is capitalism - Maharishi, 1989 Your capitalism is being destroyed by Nature. Get used to the idea.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
Curtis wrote: So tell me Sarah, what beliefs do you share with this secessionist group that you are seen palling around with? If you became vice president would you advance their agenda to break away from the rest of America? Just over a month ago, it was falsely claimed that Sarah Palin had been a member of the Independence Party during the 1990s. Media outlets jumped on that false claim and reported it as fact. The New York Times, to take just one example, printed the report and subsequently had to run a correction. There is now strong evidence that during the 1990s, Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party, an arm of the Democratic Socialist Party of America.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a constantly repeating cycle of Yugas, 4,320,000 years long, of which 10% is a era in which life is lived at a very low level: our epoch, the Kali Yuga. The transition to the Sat Yuga starts in the Kali Yuga -- it can't start anywhere else -- so naturally the level of behavior is poor on the way to the Sat. But once Guru Dev decided to terminate the Kali Yuga early, it is just a matter of time before onset of Sat Yuga, no matter how many difficulties seem to be blocking this from within and from without the TM movement. The TM movement was instituted by Guru Dev. And Guru Dev Himself was not alone in the descision to termiate Kali Yuga. He is one of the most illustrious in a long line of Masters, many of whom are incarnating today to help us into Sat Yuga through the total demolishing of old systems, including capitalism. Now that communism is gone the next to go is capitalism - Maharishi To understand more of the Hierarchy of the Masters Wisdom, please see: http://shareintl.org/magazine/SI_current.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
There is now strong evidence that during the 1990s, Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party, an arm of the Democratic Socialist Party of America. OK, what is your strong evidence? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curtis wrote: So tell me Sarah, what beliefs do you share with this secessionist group that you are seen palling around with? If you became vice president would you advance their agenda to break away from the rest of America? Just over a month ago, it was falsely claimed that Sarah Palin had been a member of the Independence Party during the 1990s. Media outlets jumped on that false claim and reported it as fact. The New York Times, to take just one example, printed the report and subsequently had to run a correction. There is now strong evidence that during the 1990s, Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party, an arm of the Democratic Socialist Party of America.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
There is now strong evidence that during the 1990s, Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party, an arm of the Democratic Socialist Party of America. Curtis wrote: OK, what is your strong evidence? And now we learn of yet another strange obfuscation or omission. In 1996, Obama was apparently a member of the Chicago New Party, a now defunct socialist political party of some stripe or other. There's nothing wrong with being a socialist. I called myself one for the better part of twenty years. Millions of people have and many still do. But there is something very wrong with hiding who you are or who you were from the electorateespecially if you want to be President of the United States. Yet that seems to be a habit of Mr. Obama's, with the collusion of the press. To my knowledge, no one in the mainstream media has begun to inquire into the details of Obama's curiously unreported years at Columbia and Harvard, although much could be relatively easily ascertained. Obama himself has not been remotely forthcoming about them. Read more: 'Why the press hides Obama's lies' By Roger Simon Pajamas Media, October 8th, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/3v6py3
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is now strong evidence that during the 1990s, Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party, an arm of the Democratic Socialist Party of America. Curtis wrote: OK, what is your strong evidence? Do you understand the difference between an accusation from a partisan writer and strong evidence? I can't believe I even asked you that question. And now we learn of yet another strange obfuscation or omission. In 1996, Obama was apparently a member of the Chicago New Party, a now defunct socialist political party of some stripe or other. There's nothing wrong with being a socialist. I called myself one for the better part of twenty years. Millions of people have and many still do. But there is something very wrong with hiding who you are or who you were from the electorateespecially if you want to be President of the United States. Yet that seems to be a habit of Mr. Obama's, with the collusion of the press. To my knowledge, no one in the mainstream media has begun to inquire into the details of Obama's curiously unreported years at Columbia and Harvard, although much could be relatively easily ascertained. Obama himself has not been remotely forthcoming about them. Read more: 'Why the press hides Obama's lies' By Roger Simon Pajamas Media, October 8th, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/3v6py3
[FairfieldLife] General Election Poll
'Obama has slim 2-point lead on McCain' By John Whitesides Reuters, Oct 8, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/3w7f2a General Election Poll: http://tinyurl.com/2yke8u
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Coffee, was: Fly on the wall
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pranamoocher Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 4:11 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Coffee, was: Fly on the wall No schmear intended to anyone in FF-I haven't been to FF in 20 years, but don't most of the 'Ru's stay away from coffee since it has a stimulant, or have they joined the rest of the world in drinking coffee on a regular basis? If they don't drink it, is there enough retail biz for Paradise to stay in biz? They must have low rent! It's mostly Ru's in Paradiso. Having to visit an Amoco gas station for coffee seems as dated as brewing with a Mr. Coffee. Must be hard finding with the mainstream amenities in FF! The Amoco station has Raja's Cup, among other things. PS- have any frozen yogurt stores hit the area, or is everyone still eating just the high butterfat ice cream that became popular 15 years ago? There used to be a good one called Wooly's, but it went out of business.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Overposting Ban
So, you're a fraud who never graduated from MUM. I never claimed to have graduated from MUM or to have even attended there. Or maybe you mean not graduating from MUM makes one a fraud, in which case I have quite a lot of company. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Thu, 10/9/08, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Overposting Ban To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 4:29 PM gullible wrote: So, you got kicked out of MUM - I thought so. You thought wrong. The only time I was a student at MUM was when the administration got as many CCP and TSR participants as possible to sign up as pretend students in order to commit a fraud on the government/board of higher education/accrediting committees/whatever. So, you're a fraud who never graduated from MUM. 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] Thousands of troops deployed on US streets
And ... FEMA sources confirm coming martial law, says Wayne Madsen FEMA sources have told Madsen that the Bush administration is putting final touches on a plan that would initiate martial law in the event of continuing economic collapse causing massive social unrest, bank closures resulting in violence against financial institutions and another fraudulent presidential election that would result in rioting in major cities and campuses around the country. More here http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=15241 Vaj wrote: Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq, subduing 'unruly individuals,' and the management of a national emergency. I am in Seattle and heard from the brother of one of the soldiers that they are engaged in exercises now. Amy Goodman reported that an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and tanks. George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in the 'War on Terror,' the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield. He also led change to the 1807 Insurrection Act to give him far broader powers in the event of a loosely defined 'insurrection' or many other 'conditions' he has the power to identify. The Constitution allows the suspension of habeas corpus -- habeas corpus prevents us from being seized by the state and held without trial -- in the event of an 'insurrection.' With his own army force now, his power to call a group of protesters or angry voters 'insurgents' staging an 'insurrection' is strengthened. U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said to Congress, captured on C-Span and viewable on YouTube, that individual members of the House were threatened with martial law within a week if they did not pass the bailout bill: 'The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. … Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day and a couple of thousand on the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no.' If this is true and Rep. Sherman is not delusional, I ask you to consider that if they are willing to threaten martial law now, it is foolish to assume they will never use that threat again. It is also foolish to trust in an orderly election process to resolve this threat. And why deploy the First Brigade? One thing the deployment accomplishes is to put teeth into such a threat. I interviewed Vietnam veteran, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and patriot David Antoon for clarification... Full interview at: http://www.alternet.org/rights/101958/?page=entire 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Religulous
I just got back from seeing it at the film festival. And I think that everyone here should see it, but I'll be the first to use the Judy-word and describe it as snarky. Snarky is just what Bill Maher DOES, and that is one of his great strengths, but it does kinda limit the audience you can appeal to to those who agree with your particular brand of snark. The film was very funny in parts, and got quite a few laughs, each of them well-deserved. But at one point in the film, Bill trots out the statistic that in America 16% of the population lists themselves as non-religious. THAT is the audience that Maher is speaking to. And there is nothing wrong with that, because a lot of those people in that 16% still are intimidated by the centuries of persecution in which it not only wasn't proper to criticize or poke fun at religion, doing so could cost you your life. His clear message is at the end of the film, and I agree with it wholeheartedly, snark or no snark. We live in an age in which many, if not most, of the predominant religions teach Apocalypse, and to fol- lowers who actually HOPE that it will happen, and that it will happen in their lifetimes. This is insanity. When you have millions and millions of people on the planet ALL believing and hoping that the end is near, well, I'm sorry, but the end really IS near. Consciously and subconsciously, they are help- ing to bring that fiery end to planet Earth by dwelling on it each and every day. Maher is absolutely correct IMO that we who are in that non-religious 16% should speak up every time we see some nutcase preaching hatred and bigotry and violence and Armageddon. I just wish that Maher had been able to find a way to speak to the other 84% of Americans, the ones who have faith. Many of us many find their faith ridicu- lous, whether it is in a talking snake and a guy living for three days in the belly of a whale and a virgin birth or whether it is a blue-skinned flute player fucking 1000 cowherds in one night and a guy with the head of an elephant and another guy who is really a monkey. And most of us know -- if from nothing else our experience on this forum -- that there is NOTHING one can do to talk a person out of even the most ridiculous religious beliefs. If they believe it now, they will believe it until they stop believing it on their own, and no amount of rational argument can change that simple fact. But we might be able to get even the most mindlessly faithful person to *think through* the ramifications of believing that the world is in its last days. That's not faith; that's ego, and really, really *dangerous* ego. That's an insecure ego shouting to the world, I'm so important that the world is going to die when I die...or at least I hope so. All in all, Religulous is a flawed but interesting and at times very funny look at some of the silly sides of religion, and at some of the downright frightening sides of religion. In my opinion, as human beings we should not only be free to criticize and make fun of other people's religions, we should almost be required to criticize and make fun of our own. The most destruc- tive dogma in ANY religion is that anything we could possibly say or do with regard to that religion or spiritual path could ever be considered Off The Program.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
There is now strong evidence that during the 1990s, Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party, an arm of the Democratic Socialist Party of America. Curtis wrote: OK, what is your strong evidence? Curtis wrote: Do you understand the difference between an accusation from a partisan writer and strong evidence? So, you don't have any evidence that Gov. Palin was a member of the AIP - I thought so. I can't believe I even asked you that question. Let's ask Obama if he was a member of the 'New Party'. Now let's ask Curtis why he's withholding information to cover up for Obama. You stank up the news group with your smutty comments about Gov. Palin. The mountain of rubbish poured out about her over the past month would rival Mt. Everest. Everytime Obama's lips move, lies are coming out. Again, our resident horseshit artists, John Manning, doesn't know anything but mindless moonbat talking points. Can you guys spell 'ACORN'? Why are you withholding evidence? Your leader, Obama, happily believes in ACORN voter fraud and caused the present financial panic. When the voters find out about this, they are going to perp walk Obama all the way to prison for voter fraud! 'According to Stanley Kurtz of National Review Online, ACORN succeeded in drawing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the very policies that led to the current disaster. ACORN put pressure on banks by threatening them with accusations of racism if they didn't give loans to minorities, even if they were completely unqualified.' Read more: 'Obama, ACORN, and the Financial Crisis' by Marcia Segelstein http://tinyurl.com/4emo5w
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[FairfieldLife] Obama Acorn Fact Sheet
We will never know exactly how many fraudulent votes ACORN will be responsible for in the upcoming presidential election, but If the whole truth about ACORN and its long and intimate relationship with rookie United States Senator and 2008 Democrat presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. becomes fully and generally known, on Election Night 2008 Obama and his ACORNites will moan. Read more: 'ACORN should be Obama's undoing' By Michael Gaynor Canada Free Press, Thursday, October 9, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/4pzwwm Obama Formerly Represented ACORN, Taught Classes For Future Leaders Of ACORN, And They Endorsed His 2008 Presidential Campaign Read more: 'Obama Acorn Fact Sheet' WSJ Marketwatch, October 4, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/3mgq2w
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is now strong evidence that during the 1990s, Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party, an arm of the Democratic Socialist Party of America. Curtis wrote: OK, what is your strong evidence? Curtis wrote: Do you understand the difference between an accusation from a partisan writer and strong evidence? So, you don't have any evidence that Gov. Palin was a member of the AIP - I thought so. Troll tactic. I never claimed that. We have video of her palling around with them, speaking to their group. And you missed my point about guilt by association. I can't believe I even asked you that question. Let's ask Obama if he was a member of the 'New Party'. Now let's ask Curtis why he's withholding information to cover up for Obama. So you lied about having good evidence for your claim and now you are trying to put the burden of proof on me. More trollish behavior Richard. You stank up the news group with your smutty comments about Gov. Palin. The mountain of rubbish poured out about her over the past month would rival Mt. Everest. You have claimed this before and failed to show a single example. Your accusation is trollish. I think you have confused your own smutty thoughts about the aging governor with something I said. I'm sure at your age she is quite the Spring chicken. For me, there is nothing smutty to say about her. There is plenty to say about how unqualified she is to lead this country. Everytime Obama's lips move, lies are coming out. So now you have lost all reason in your partisan madness. Good luck with that. Again, our resident horseshit artists, John Manning, doesn't know anything but mindless moonbat talking points. Can you guys spell 'ACORN'? Why are you withholding evidence? Your leader, Obama, happily believes in ACORN voter fraud and caused the present financial panic. When the voters find out about this, they are going to perp walk Obama all the way to prison for voter fraud! 'According to Stanley Kurtz of National Review Online, ACORN succeeded in drawing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the very policies that led to the current disaster. ACORN put pressure on banks by threatening them with accusations of racism if they didn't give loans to minorities, even if they were completely unqualified.' Read more: 'Obama, ACORN, and the Financial Crisis' by Marcia Segelstein http://tinyurl.com/4emo5w
[FairfieldLife] Re: Thousands of troops deployed on US streets
Vaj wrote: Thousands of troops deployed on US streets There's just no pleasing you chronic complaining, ankle biting political pundits! Now you're crying about the National Guard and the Army helping the poor hurricane and natural disaster victims. You probably support Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. Go figure. On September 26, 2006, President Bush urged Congress to consider revising federal laws so that the U.S. military could seize control immediately in the aftermath of a natural disaster, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
[FairfieldLife] Re: Religulous
-thx for the critique. I'll check it out. http://wasillabible.org/ -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got back from seeing it at the film festival. And I think that everyone here should see it, but I'll be the first to use the Judy-word and describe it as snarky. Snarky is just what Bill Maher DOES, and that is one of his great strengths, but it does kinda limit the audience you can appeal to to those who agree with your particular brand of snark. The film was very funny in parts, and got quite a few laughs, each of them well-deserved. But at one point in the film, Bill trots out the statistic that in America 16% of the population lists themselves as non-religious. THAT is the audience that Maher is speaking to. And there is nothing wrong with that, because a lot of those people in that 16% still are intimidated by the centuries of persecution in which it not only wasn't proper to criticize or poke fun at religion, doing so could cost you your life. His clear message is at the end of the film, and I agree with it wholeheartedly, snark or no snark. We live in an age in which many, if not most, of the predominant religions teach Apocalypse, and to fol- lowers who actually HOPE that it will happen, and that it will happen in their lifetimes. This is insanity. When you have millions and millions of people on the planet ALL believing and hoping that the end is near, well, I'm sorry, but the end really IS near. Consciously and subconsciously, they are help- ing to bring that fiery end to planet Earth by dwelling on it each and every day. Maher is absolutely correct IMO that we who are in that non-religious 16% should speak up every time we see some nutcase preaching hatred and bigotry and violence and Armageddon. I just wish that Maher had been able to find a way to speak to the other 84% of Americans, the ones who have faith. Many of us many find their faith ridicu- lous, whether it is in a talking snake and a guy living for three days in the belly of a whale and a virgin birth or whether it is a blue-skinned flute player fucking 1000 cowherds in one night and a guy with the head of an elephant and another guy who is really a monkey. And most of us know -- if from nothing else our experience on this forum -- that there is NOTHING one can do to talk a person out of even the most ridiculous religious beliefs. If they believe it now, they will believe it until they stop believing it on their own, and no amount of rational argument can change that simple fact. But we might be able to get even the most mindlessly faithful person to *think through* the ramifications of believing that the world is in its last days. That's not faith; that's ego, and really, really *dangerous* ego. That's an insecure ego shouting to the world, I'm so important that the world is going to die when I die...or at least I hope so. All in all, Religulous is a flawed but interesting and at times very funny look at some of the silly sides of religion, and at some of the downright frightening sides of religion. In my opinion, as human beings we should not only be free to criticize and make fun of other people's religions, we should almost be required to criticize and make fun of our own. The most destruc- tive dogma in ANY religion is that anything we could possibly say or do with regard to that religion or spiritual path could ever be considered Off The Program.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists
So, you don't have any evidence that Gov. Palin was a member of the AIP - I thought so. Curtis wrote: We have video of her palling around with them, speaking to their group. Gov. Palin sent the video to the AIP convention, which was held in Wasilla when she was Mayor - that's what Mayors do when the third largest political party in the state has a convention in your town. What an uninformed idiot you are, Curtis. You need to get your facts straight and do some research. You stank up the news group with your smutty comments about Gov. Palin. The mountain of rubbish poured out about her over the past month would rival Mt. Everest. You have claimed this before and failed to show a single example. In my own defense Sal, I was very toasted, she was very aggressive, and I didn't see what lies under all that foundation make-up till the morning. (I gnawed off my own arm rather than pull it from under he neck and wake her. This has given me my new blues name Lefty.) Read more: Subject: palin and TMO Author: Curtis Newsgroup: Yahoo! FairfieldLife Date: Fri Sep 19, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/3vdvzh Judy already asked you to please show a little self respect: Subject: Re: Help With Confusion Author: Judy Stein Newsgroup: Yahoo! FairfieldLife Date: Sun Sep 14, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/4gmm23
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[FairfieldLife] America's Most Wanted List
Bernardine Dohrn, domestic terrorist. Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in their bellies. Wild! - Bernardine Dohrn Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palomino Ponderings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might as well keep wondering because you sure haven't been listening if you think my objection to Obama, (not hatred) has anything to do with his race rather than his record or lack of it. He is a race baiting, flip flopping, bamboozling, finger flipping, double crossing, record hiding, unqualified, lousy candidate with questionable judgment when it comes to picking his friends. That ain't hatin' them's the facts because I pay attention to the details of his behavior and haven't imbibed the Kool Aid. I wouldn't trust him to feed my dog. I looked at your Yahoo profile. I'm thinking that it just might be about race. Or you are just messing with us. Which is almost as bad. Is everyone here a narcissist? Each of us stars in our own movie where the rest of us are just mere characters.
