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Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:08 pm
by bigchiefbc
Every day, when I go and read the fantastic
http://www.theagitator.comand read about the shit that the police/justice dept/dea/whatever gets away with, and people never speak about it
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:37 am
by Christopher
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:39 am
by Mudfuzz
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:41 am
by devnulljp
Christopher wrote:
Ted Nugent's got a new album out then?
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 5:23 pm
by McSpunckle
I was at a local music store a while back, and there was this old hippie couple (not the good kind) there playing these awful song in the acoustic section.
They began to explore other sections of the store, and only made it across half the store before running into the pedals. And I quote "Oh, now we're getting in to foot pedals and stuff -pfft hand motion-." Wouldn't even pass them! The drums were over there!
Also, calling pedals "foot pedals" bugs me a lot.
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:45 am
by warwick.hoy
McSpunckle wrote:I was at a local music store a while back, and there was this old hippie couple (not the good kind) there playing these awful song in the acoustic section.
They began to explore other sections of the store, and only made it across half the store before running into the pedals. And I quote "Oh, now we're getting in to foot pedals and stuff -pfft hand motion-." Wouldn't even pass them! The drums were over there!
Also, calling pedals "foot pedals" bugs me a lot.
There's a good kind?
Today at 8:30 am some pharmaceutical rep called the cafe for a $650 catering order to be delivered at 11:00 am,....the same day. Two things,....THANKS FOR THE NOTICE ASSHOLE,...and now you know why your medication is so expensive. Then he stiffed me on the tip. I was only five minutes late after busting my ass on his order. I don't expect a tip,...but maybe next time I'll not work so hard on his order and be half an hour late.
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:09 am
by Eric!
Christopher wrote:
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:14 am
by culturejam
I'm at loss to explain why THE FUCK anybody outside of lower Manhattan gives two shits where a mosque is built in that general vicinity.
I'm no great champion of Islam or anything, but I really can't figure out why so many hard-core conservatives are hell bent on interfering with the operations of the free market in NYC real estate. It's a fucking private transaction in which lots of profit is made. You'd think conservatives would get a boner over the raw capitalism of the situation.
Oh, and Darfur. That shit makes me lose hope in humanity.
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:38 am
by ohsojayadeva
culturejam wrote:I'm no great champion of Islam or anything, but I really can't figure out why so many hard-core conservatives are hell bent on interfering with the operations of the free market in NYC real estate. It's a fucking private transaction in which lots of profit is made. You'd think conservatives would get a boner over the raw capitalism of the situation.
The explanation is actually pretty easy:
The American Right wrote:We believe in Freedom of Religion... as long as it's our religion!!!
Incidentally this wave of Anti-Islam in America really makes me
. Equating all Muslims with terrorists is like judging all Christians based on the actions of the KKK. It makes absolutely no rational sense.
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:47 am
by modernage
jdavyd wrote:Incidentally this wave of Anti-Islam in America really makes me
. Equating all Muslims with terrorists is like judging all Christians based on the actions of the KKK. It makes absolutely no rational sense.
Agreed! + 1000
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:02 pm
by culturejam
jdavyd wrote:Incidentally this wave of Anti-Islam in America really makes me
Here's what really chaps my ass about this whole (non) issue:
If the proposed mosque is "too close" to the WTC site, then somebody is going to have to man-up and draw out the boundaries for the area in which mosques are prohibited. So far, I've not seen anyone do this. It is clear that the people who are really bent out of shape in opposition to the mosque don't have the courage to match their convictions.
If I were the financier behind the mosque, I would make a public speech. I'd say, "Since so many people are upset, we'll move the mosque. But those who are offended by the proposed location have to tell us where we're allowed to move it."
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:06 pm
by ohsojayadeva
The NYC mosque is a (mostly) non-issue. It's not a mosque, it's a community center. It's not at Ground Zero, it's two blocks away. The controversy was invented by Fox news (and their ilk) to draw attention away from the NYC First Responders Health Care Bill getting voted down by republicans because they didn't like closing a tax loophole for large corporations and they didn't agree with the logistics of how it was passed. Period.
"Conservatives don't care about 9/11 first responders."
"OH YEAH! WELL DEMOCRATS WANT TO TRAIN TERRORISTS AT GROUND ZERO."
Cue the tea party, with their senseless signs and protests.
The only good thing about this story is that it is helping (to some degree) to draw attention to the dozens of other mosque projects that are currently being blocked, discouraged, and threatened, such as this week's events in Murfreesboro, TN.
The bad thing is, it totally worked. Everyone started arguing about that instead of the real issues. Thanks Fox!
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:31 pm
by culturejam
jdavyd wrote: It's not a mosque, it's a community center.
Sure, but its' also a mosque. But that's not really the point, is it?
jdavyd wrote:The bad thing is, it totally worked. Everyone started arguing about that instead of the real issues. Thanks Fox!
It always works. Gay marriage; abortion; Hispanic immigrants; assault weapons ban; church v state; etc.
But the conservative right doesn't have a monopoly on spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt). There are steaming piles of bullshit coming from both major parties and their respective pawn news channels.
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:34 pm
by ohsojayadeva
If anyone wants to point out a steaming pile of that magnitude that was served by the left, I am totally all ears.
Re: moments where you're convinced there is no hope for huma
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:23 pm
by culturejam
jdavyd wrote:If anyone wants to point out a steaming pile of that magnitude that was served by the left, I am totally all ears.
I'm never sure who really starts the poo flinging, but the left always gets involved and legitimizes whatever distraction is heaved from the right. I seriously suspect that the leadership of both "sides" benefit from this kind of divisive nonsense, regardless of who starts it.
