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Too cool!
His parents must be proud, and a little worried quite frankly, but truly proud nonetheless. Well said, CJ!!
Wish to God that he were in my class! and wish that my classes were filled with kids just him!
I travel quite a bit for work, my observation has been that more often than not blacks in the Southeast, South, and Mid Atlantic tend to be much like this kid. In the northeast, midwest, and the west, the 'gangsta culture' is more pervasive. The kids are perfectly intelligent I'm sure, they just gravitate toward what they see on TV as a way of getting dates or whatever, and usually leads them down the wrong path (dead or jail).
He is very perceptive to recognize President Obama and his views on the country he says he loves. Do as I say not as I do.
I am of the belief that most intelligent blacks think the way this fellow does.
johnp1 thank you very much for posting this video. i already started sending the link. i hope it gets millions of hits and causes the asses of the northeast to take notice.
this young man is very articulate and I for one praise him.
outsmarts me regularly. . we laugh about it!!! -- j
The irrational response was way more than i ever expected. but that may very well be what those in the northeast think.
with these people not wanting to even consider the damage that is taking place due to the trash living in the white house is mindboogling to me.
The Christians in this country also support war against the "islamists". Every side demonizes the other side while whitewashing its own.
Humanity is still evolving, especially conceptually. It takes time for minds to integrate better ideas. It does not work with one click of a delete button. I urge the longest-range view and largest context, not giving in to the unthinking reactions of the moment. Consider all the consequences. Even people we call our enemies are just humans who want to live. When attacked badly, they react badly, as do we. Mutual destruction is not rational. It's a dreadful waste of human potential and natural resources. Fomenting death, the facile resort, is not the answer; it is insanity.
would that be okay? -- j
Why are *you* here, if *you* don't agree with *me*? (that's a rhetorical question only)
The answer is obvious that this isn't a place for people who agree on everything, except perhaps on the Ayn Rand books, whose heroes stood out for using reason and speaking their minds without regard to politics. In AS and Fountainhead, she goes out of her way to condemn people who look to see what their group thinks before speaking their minds.
So I will not ask you even once how you can be in the metaphoric Gulch without agreeing with me on some issue. Roark is in the Gulch (in my imagination, not the book) along with some other architect who thinks any structural instability or entryways where tall people must duck (assuming Roark's buildings are like Frank Lloyd Wright's) are horrible. They don't agree at all except that they have a right to build their buildings and be left alone. If you want people who agree on everything, they're not in the Gulch. They're all with the dean or James Taggart.
It would be better to talk about individual polices. If we just say President Obama, we could be talking about any policy.
This is a fundamental disagreement, which is actually a good thing, better than talking past one another not understanding the meaning.
When dealing with public figures or anyone I don't know well, I resist the urge to work out their motives and then support or oppose them. I focus on the outcome I want. I do focus on the person, though, if I know him.
Yes, absolutely.
is one policy which we might discuss.
the unconstitutional nationalization of health insurance
is another policy.
a third might be the abrogation of the requirement
that the commander-in-chief defend the nation
against all enemies foreign and domestic.
a fourth might be the encouragement of a large
influx of dependent-class D-voters through immigration.
we could go on. . I am a vet and despise the way
that the military is being politicized and vets are
being ignored to death.
this is a long list, CG. -- j
Separately, I am surprised that you do support BHO, but perhaps I should ask, "Over what?" If you do support Objectivism, BHO's administration has clearly eroded it. However, The same can be said of the Bush administration. I am curious.
BTW, I bought "Red Mars" at your recommendation.
We've been at war with Islam for decades, to say anything otherwise is not really identifying the target, or letting our military do its job. Obviously, this is going to lead to a showdown in the Middle East at some point, whether it is Armageddon or not, eventually we'll have to say "to hell with the impact to the economy, time to finish this" and go all-out.
Not very many Christian terrorists... nor Buddhists... Sikh's... Animalists... Naturalists... Christian Scientists? No. Mormons? Hardly. Scientology? Harmless, even though they are pretty crazy. Atheists (other than the goofball in Elk Grove that sues every school and government entity for having the word God printed on something). Do they kill people though? Not really. Do they slaughter innocent victims in the name of religion? No. Do they enslave female children and marry them off to 50 year old dudes to rape them as they please? No. It's a sick, disgusting belief system. Point is, there seems to be plenty of room on this planet for every religion EXCEPT Islam.
It's time to get serious... we're at least 100 years ahead of these folks in military technology, if we really took the gloves off, it would be a very short fight, and it would be over, and we really would have thousands of years of peace.
I'm 1000% behind Salmon Rushdie on this... Islam is pretty much the incarnation of satan on earth. We need to recognize and treat it as such. All roads lead back to Syria/Iran/Iraq/Saudi Arabia.
think this way, I would think that the women would
revolt and take control. . they must strike some
sort of deal to make the women feel better. -- j
" But BHO has backed down from calling a spade a spade. "
Are you talking about ISIS? President Obama called it a vicious brutal death cult that we're called to defeat. At some point carrying on about ISIS is stating the obvious and even aggrandizing them.
"I am surprised that you do support BHO"
I do not agree with every decision, e.g. proposed spending/tax increase, ammunition ban, drone war, executive overreach. I do not believe in boycotting the entire process and/or particular people because I don't agree with certain actions.
"perhaps I should ask, "Over what?" "
That's the rub. Not over a bona fide libertarian. My first inclination, though, is that it's over a Republican, who in general I think are slighly worse when it comes to liberty. But when I think about it further, I'm not so sure. The political process is amazingly good at bringing out the histrionics in people and avoiding the tough questions.
" I bought "Red Mars" at your recommendation."
I hope you like it. I found it 12 years ago when I grabbed a random sci-fi book at the library to take on a business trip.
I'm a little more pessimistic about BHO's barely controlled totalitarian nature, but definitely agree the republicans are bad as well, with LBGT legislation, spying on US persons and airport security nonsense. To me thing that made BHO's reign so bad was the same as Bush's first term: a lemming legislature with little to balance it from the other side. So he went hog wild, until people wised up and got a counterpoint in the legislature. A republican in the same position might do social freedom some serious damage.
Bought mine for business travel as well. Now that we can have iPads on takeoff and landing, that's about all I have to bring to control my ADD on the plane.
deserves to be built. . he is intentionally making
a fire-and-ice pile out of a relatively calm garden
of eden. . he has hurt this nation more than anyone
in my memory short of Jim Crow himself. . but
here's a url saying that Jim was just a character
in minstrel shows. [http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm]
................ oh well....... -- j