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Re: Bernie Sanders is the third-party candidate you've been waiting for

Dakinikat — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:53:38 -0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...

See sore loser laws and dates to register as candidate. Suggest author retake High School American Government class.

Re: Sexism not why Hillary Clinton struggles with Millennials

Dakinikat — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:51:05 -0000

Madeline Albright was quoting herself. Swift used Albright's quote in her lyrics. Do you realize this mistake is so basic that you might as well hang your career up now?

Re: Stop Blaming Me for Hurricane Katrina

Dakinikat — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:34:18 -0000

You keep telling yourself that. Those of us that lived it know differently.

Re: The Last Late Late Night FDL: When The Music’s Over

Dakinikat — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 23:50:46 -0000

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: Library Chronicles: The rent and the too damn high being of the rent

Dakinikat — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:11:14 -0000

Look over there! A statue!!!

Re: Mixing Christianity and politics is killing the church

Dakinikat — Sun, 31 May 2015 14:59:54 -0000

You are conveniently forgetting how many Planned Parenthood and women's health clinics have been bombed by chistian extremists. Doctors have been assassinated by same and nurses and health care workers severely injured Also, there have been attempted bombings of parades and successful firebombings and brutal murders and beatings of Gays and Gay establishments. That doesn't even account for all the wonderful christianist KKK members and lynchings of black Americans. There was also a mass murder recently at a Sikh temple. Numerous examples exist of bombings of mosques and Jewish Temples too. All very recent and all done by christianist extremists.

Re: It’s Now Illegal to Use Cash to Buy Used Goods in This State

Dakinikat — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:51:15 -0000

Here's the actually law btw ... you can see it refers to only scrap metal dealers. https://legiscan.com/LA/tex...

Re: It’s Now Illegal to Use Cash to Buy Used Goods in This State

Dakinikat — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:46:41 -0000

FYI. You're misrepresenting the bill. It only dealt with dealers of scrap metal. They have to pay for scrap metal sales with checks which are still cash, btw. It's so the police have a record of thiefs of copper, etc. http://www.nola.com/crime/i... You can find info on the same law here passed in Arkansas here. http://www.isri.org/docs/de... It would really be a good idea if you would actually research things instead of creating hysteria over complete untruths.

Re: Sears pulls Swastika ring after Twitter outrage

Dakinikat — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:46:50 -0000

The confederate flag is a unique symbol and wasn't co-opted from other cultures. There are far more Buddhists, Jains, and Hindus than there ever were NAZIs and to give their symbol completely over to a purely Western Corruption is chauvinistic at the very least.

Re: Sears pulls Swastika ring after Twitter outrage

Dakinikat — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:37:19 -0000

This really pisses me off too.

Re: Sears pulls Swastika ring after Twitter outrage

Dakinikat — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:31:55 -0000

The swastika is an ancient religious symbol dating back to 5 BCE. To Hindus, Buddhists and Jains and others, its meaning is not that of the 20th century co-option by the NAZIs. The KKK co-opted the cross for its violent and horrid philosophy too yet, we continue to recognize its meaning to xtians as not being connected to the KKK. The seller described "the ring "as a "gothic jewelry item" made of ".925 Thai silver." Of the swastika emblazoned on it, the description noted that it was "not for Neo Nazi or any Nazi implication. " Thailand is a Buddhist country and the seller appears said it's not to promote e the negative connection to the 20th Century NAZI movement. The swastika decorates all kinds of temples and ritual items in India and other places. To keep giving it power as a NAZI symbol is to deny its history and its meaning to millions of people and their religious culture. Again, it's like saying we should get rid of crosses every where because of what it means in the American South as a symbol of the KKK. It doesn't have the same meaning here as it does in the East. I don't think slamming Sears or the seller is as important as is educating people to the fact the NAZIs wrongly interpreted it and co-opted the symbol and turned it into something it's not. I think the discussion of its roots and how it was stolen by the vile NAZIs should be part of the entire conversation here.

Re: Franklin Graham chides Christians for not fighting beside Phil Robertson in ‘religious war’

Dakinikat — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:40:05 -0000

This is a Hitler campaign speech:

“My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a
fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded
by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and
summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest
not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian
and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord
at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the
Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight
against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with
deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact
that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As
a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have
the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice… And if there is
anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is
the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty
to my own people. And when I look on my people I see them work and
work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only
for their wages wretchedness and misery. When I go out in the morning
and see these men standing in their queues and look into their
pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very
devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two
thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people
are plundered and exposed.”

[Adolf Hitler, speech in Munich on April 12, 1922, countering a
political opponent, Count Lerchenfeld, who opposed antisemitism on
his personal Christian feelings. Published in "My New Order", quoted
in Freethought Today April 1990]

Gee, there are similarities there, aren't there?

Re: Jindal forms group to win 'war of ideas'

Dakinikat — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:51:50 -0000

Did you accidentally publish an item from The Onion?

Re: A woman's appearance, cont.

Dakinikat — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:04:08 -0000

Look, DUDE! It's simple. Ask yourself ... would I write this or say this about a MAN? Do you go on and on about how attractive Mark Rubio or Eric Holder is when you're writing about their careers? Sheesh, exactly how thick are you?

Re: Morning Joe's accuracy deficit

Dakinikat — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:35:45 -0000

BAZINGA!!!!

Re: Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com

Dakinikat — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:58:55 -0000

Look his argument was that no economist agrees with Krugman. I wasn't appealing to authority, I was simply stating that I'm an economist and I agree with Krugman.

Re: Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com

Dakinikat — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:29:19 -0000

http://www.concordmonitor.c...

Try this. Maybe this explanation is clearer.

Re: Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com

Dakinikat — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:26:55 -0000

You're not proving me wrong. You're making assumptions. It's not related to the federal budget or deficit. It could possibly be in the future but a long series of things have to happen for that to happen. Here,try this explanation: http://www.concordmonitor.c...

Re: Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com

Dakinikat — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:15:22 -0000

Social Security is a stand alone old age annuity. It's not part of the Federal Budget.

Re: Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com

Dakinikat — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:11:37 -0000

There's still assets in the trust fund ... so, there's no shortfall yet in its ability for to pay out the current outlays. Did you take first grade math, you know, addition and subtraction? You still know if the positive number is larger than the negative it's still a positive?

Re: Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com

Dakinikat — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:09:22 -0000

and you're assumption is that they will need to and will so who is zooming who?

Re: Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com

Dakinikat — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:07:28 -0000

It WAS exponential, it's no longer exponential. Do some quick checks on the second and third derivatives of the change for the last few years.

Re: Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com

Dakinikat — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:05:16 -0000

It's the mainstream no-know-nothing about economics view. The people that know something don't believe this at all. It's the inside the beltway, bought-off politician view. It's the view of the modern day version of the flat earth society or the Papal Inquisitions on Science which pretty much includes a bunch of today's pols.

Re: Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com

Dakinikat — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:09:43 -0000

It's not part of the Federal Budget so it can't be part of the Federal Debt or Deficit. It's a stand-alone program. It also has more funds than it pays out and that's what matters at the moment. It won't need as many funds 50 years from now as it will 20 years from now and it doesn't matter if it draws down the trust fund unless it can't meet future obligations and present obligations. But even that doesn't matter to the Federal Budget or the budget deficit because it's not a line item in that. Changes can be made to the social security payouts, to the retirement ages, to the payroll taxes, etc so that its pension obligations can be met if necessary. None of this still has anything to do with the Federal Budget.

Re: Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com

Dakinikat — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:03:49 -0000

It's not part of the FEDERAL BUDGET so it can't be part of the debt or deficit. Social Security is a stand alone, PAY-GO program. Check out the trust documents and you'll see that.