Tuesday, February 5, 2013

(notes) Cherry Pick Anti-Obama Rant (notes)

(notes) Cherry Pick Anti-Obama Rant (notes)

 Someone named Michael Savage on Facebook is whipping people into a froth.

 I guess I will just cherry pick a few comments and respond. 
"Everyone says they wont let this tyrant ruin america.... yet he still eats sleeps breathes and lives..what gives?"


"Run that son a hoe back to Africa" is one response that doesn't seem totally out of sync with the group mood. Whatever happened to patriotism? And logic?

 "The highest patriotism" is what Jefferson called protesting policy. I agree, for sure. But petty name-calling and ridiculous suggestions don't really fall under the same umbrella. 

 "Usurper" is the term used by one poster. I guess the idea is that the president is taking something from them. I keep getting the same feeling from a lot of my friends who strongly disagree with President Obama. But specifics are hard to come by. Or maybe this is a dead-cat-bouncing birther howl. Either way, he is not going to just walk away. Calling for him to do so is a waste of your finger punches and my time. 

 "The time for bitchin about it on FB is past, its time to take to the streets and be heard....this might be our last

  chance!!!!!!!!!!"

 "Everyone says they wont let this tyrant ruin america.... yet he still eats sleeps breathes and lives..what gives?"


The left says we should tone down our rhetoric w/regards to Obama's Marxism and treasonous conduct? I say we need to ratchet it up a few notches! In a healthy republic, government should fear the people, not the other way around. I am so disgusted by the state of affairs, and how "nice" many conservatives are when their freedoms and very way of life is about to be destroyed. Yes DESTROYED!

You think the equivalent of the "Arab Spring" can happen in America? I doubt it. Most of us are too fat lazy and apathetic.

/end rant

~R page admin

(notes) Cherry Pick Anti-Obama Rant (notes)
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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Do the nasty

What do you want from life?
Someone to love ?
and somebody that you can trust ?
What do you want from life ?
To try and be happy ?
...while you do the nasty things you must ?
Just got done with another belt from the Sunday Morning Talking Heads on MTP, This Week, Face the Nation, et al and far worse, the Siemens, Boeing and other DoD-related ads.
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What Do You Want From Life, Tubes Lyrics
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What Do You Want From Life, Lyrics for The Tubes Song, What Do You Want From Life
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Side effects may include having all your dreams come true (notes)

Side effects may include having all your dreams come true (true)

 I am so glad to see the new Jude Law movie coming out presented as the unfortunate side effects risked from the new drug.

I just watched a commercial for a sleep drug that included the qualification, "depressed users may have increased thoughts of suicide".

We are the bright red lobsters in the pot. Doctors and pharma reps will tell you that these crazy addendums are mandated by a mega-restrictive legal environment that is parenthetically also responsible for greatly magnifying R&D costs in a rock and a hard place configuration effectively strangling these good companies from doing their good work and selling their good product. Whew.

I dunno. I am most moved by friends and close associates who (vast majority) suffer and muddle through following current medical advice, including taking whatever pills they are provided, AND THEN THE OTHER GROUP (much smaller) who have completely rejected all pills and invasive procedures and who have in large part greatly increased their quality of life if possibly forced to endure a condition of debilitating health.

The thing for me is this : who told these people they wouldn't get sick and die? What is it that scares the American public about ending this parade of confusion and pain?

As long as there is a profit available, business will figure out a way to attempt to gain it. But today during the Super Bowl there will be drugs shilled that include words that should scare the hell out of us. Let's ____________________, and do it NOW. Whadaya say?

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

(notes) We are all GATE. All Special Ed, too. (notes)

We are all GATE. All Special Ed, too. (notes)

 I was lucky to be placed in a good academic slot in my time in elementary school back with me and the dinosaurs. 

 I guess I might have been in a GATE program, and I am glad that there are students and teachers celebrating hard work, learning, diligence, and excellence. 

When I was a young student it was called "XL." I was glad to be included. My parents liked how it looked on the card, and my siblings knew that not everyone got into these classes. But I hated much of it, because a lot of my friends weren't.

 I think labeling students is a VERY dangerous and violent method of grouping that we do unconsciously. I know MANY adults who have convinced themselves that reading, writing, thinking and educational challenges are not for them based on bullshit they were taught when they were kids. Lay that next to a lot of untalented, unmotivated, inappropriate students who are in the pipeline only because they have been told that they can and should get a degree. 

 Radical Inclusion is one of the most compelling components about Burning Man and I hope to learn much more of it along my path. I think that my natural inclination to categorize, classify and label fails to serve me and the society I live in and amongst. What if we are throwing out the best parts of our world when we tell a student through implicit and expressed communication that they 'can't?' When we tell one student 'this task is for you. You are Special Ed.' Or, 'this is not your room. You are NOT gifted and talented.' 

 The governor just proposed hiking the fees for community colleges by 400%. This is only the latest in an endless parade of negative news coming from and through our California education system. 

 I can imagine a lot, but nowhere in my consciousness is there anything that says that we have any more pressing concerns than education. We talk about budgets. We stage long elections. We fight like hell to make our place in the world safe for us and our kids. Educating ourselves, both on what has happened in the past as well as what might be possible in the near future is the number one task and challenge for our society. We have come to believe that money is enough. I am reminded of the Cree saying (translated) : Only when the last tree has been cut down, only when the last fish has been caught. only when the last buffalo has died will you truly understand what I mean when I say : money can not be eaten.

With love and respect for all, I really believe that when we are in school, we are ALL GATE, and we are ALL Special Ed, too. I think these labels are tossed around carelessly with lots of bad consequence. Whadaya think?

 We are all GATE. All Special Ed, too. (notes)
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