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Re: Neil Gaiman Laughs Off Minnesota Politician’s ‘Weasel’ Slam

Mylo_Abacus — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:06:00 -0000

Impression

Watch the Minnesota politician give his opinion
Expect a man such as he to be as detached as possible
From what world that surely must be estranged?

Doomed to this estrangedment
Thrust so into the forge with only the hottest of coals
We turn to briefly to the window that the Minnesota politician may surely grasp
There on the Internet
And soon see an image led by cats
Who see through the pencil-necked well above
To what city has not yet been conceived
Neither by the politician?,
Asked so to impale himself with his opinion
On an issue as diversionary
And as far away from his support base
As a lone butterfly from a missile

Yes, sir
Like weasel,
He were found nestled there with our cozy idea
Well beyond the well,
Askance from the Internet

While the politician has been preened and reared
To place his neck into the fire,
Suffer the flippant wishes of statistics
Of pleas scarce and unrelated,
Or die,

From the manic-depressive support
Of a part-time majority
In a full-time Oceania
Concocted of past fictions and cumulative oversights
On behalf of those about to die.

Because he has been given the better job --
Please put the politician out of business,
But be quick about it.

The cats cannot find the weasel
And we do not purport to dwell on his escape
As the haze of the fire consumes

Like, totally.

Want some clarity?

Like, the Minnesota politician.

Re: Cerebral Sci-Fi Films That Wipe Our Minds

Mylo_Abacus — Mon, 30 May 2011 10:36:28 -0000

This would be a good type of article to see a reprise on. Brave New World c. 1996(?) rather massacred a certain novel with a vengeance but certainly held its cutting edge of its own nonetheless.

To what society do Y-o-u belong in, "?"

Others: Tetsuo the Iron Man, Akira, The Fury, Harrison Bergeron

There are plenty more, but these may deliver you to the emergency ward : )

; Doing my part before it's too late '>> œ

Re: A Creative Wordless Wednesday

Mylo_Abacus — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:10:56 -0000

Thought: "So much for the secret romantic rendezvous."

"I'm a fish looking for a crustacean. I don't know about you."

Re: Fighting the politics of illusion - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Mylo_Abacus — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:36:19 -0000

American Revolutionary figures are no fantasies. And in claiming that the Tea Party has little in common, were speculative at best. They are no more fantasies than the U.S. Constitution itself, basis for laws and infrastructure of government that sometimes has less in common with Congress than the Tea Party itself has with Deists of specific mention.

Thomas Paine really can't come away from his position that states as much that each divine religion were the true word of the divine -- something of an impossible to prove, unrealistic proposition. It were something like, "We care enough to vouch for our own work existing per the divine, but we don't trade enough with Xyz that it seems to matter," and that rather brings distinction to living at Abc. But religion does not get interesting in America, not at least until Thomas Jefferson shows up with proposal for a "Great Experiment."Each religion based on truth and love for sake of life has actually come a long way toward expressing a more universal truth. No one wants or needs to see people all about jeopardizing any hope for existence itself. What government does were best done without need of apology. To predict how government acts and therefore know what were reasonable to choose against doing -- that were what being informed were about. Freedom can be expressed only without incident, else it is no example of freedom.I walk beyond my door, there appear thousands of dangers that exist -- with each one taking care of itself.That peace, properly defined, is not forfeit of basic human rights -- should be important to recognize. Where rights may or must appear to begin -- that were, I suppose, what any imperative of having functional, effective representation were all about.

"Those with real power don't just tend to get their way, they tend to get their way as if it were their incontestable right." -- Paul Rosenberg

Re: Assad Says He Didn’t Order Crackdown on Syria Protesters - Businessweek

Mylo_Abacus — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:51:22 -0000

What Assad said is his position, and he accepted the press and told them so. That is a democratic gesture, to communicate with the press and make claims that do not look prompted. He has opened himself up to anyone's scrutiny in doing so, and the only thing that matters is not easy to know by reading this article alone.

It's not like he was complaining. He was right about --> only criminal mind would kill peaceful protestors.

Assad suggests that he would not remain elected if he tolerated abuses. He admits they are no 100% democracy. Only constructive efforts can help democracy accede but for the people of Syria. It could be years or decades. But I would suppose democracy to be coming anywhere, because otherwise a government would be obsolete. Since there must be too much suppression of information in non-democratic states -- since there are no protections, any such act were consequential.

When it is safe to speak, then you have freedom of speech. There is no getting around that precaution in any form of government.

So, either it is safe to speak -- or it is not safe to speak. You can't have both and then claim that you have free expression. So let's look at our own nation() a little closer and render some first aid that people can use.

You don't get free press protected until it were valued more than power of law. But even with free speech, you can still slap a court order on someone who refuses to leave you alone by speaking incessantly despite your pleas

If civility is about not being willing to move, then polity is about not being willing to move ----except for applied legal procedure.

You know, a gesture that says that people actually take seriously:
All democratic actions are looking for democratic consequences. And then there are those persons who are present and do not care what happens to people.

Never follow other people blindly. Wait until you can see them doing something they promised to do.

Re: Feminist Group Declares War On LEGOs

Mylo_Abacus — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:31:40 -0000

Sexualizing children versus socializing children? What do you think those plasticized mammaries could do to the impressionability of a child who has them to play with for the first time? I was always vexed because those LEGO men never looked like green toy soldiers enough to look like people. All I wanted was just a little bit of attention to realism.

But if we are going to have bulging chests for women, then it's only fair to have bulging fig leaves in the jock strap region, just so you know it's all right men. Perhaps LEGO were trying preventative breast cancer experiments, for all those women disappointed over lipstick-like LEGO men of the 1970's, or of lego history in general.

So, would that make it all right to have breasts the size of snow-cones, or would it be more hazardous if there were some sort of socially mandatory regard for observance of breast size?

Re: Muslims Violently Attack Christians In America

Mylo_Abacus — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 08:41:53 -0000

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Re: Muslims Violently Attack Christians In America

Mylo_Abacus — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 08:50:04 -0000

No, free speech does not mean the right to engage in open acts of provocation and harassment.

Either you are with us or you are against us. That means that either you do something constructive about whatever problem you have been having -- and isn't burning holy books isn't a way to make new friends -- or you, uh, "reap what you have sown."

I'm ashamed at how lazy Americans have become. I can't believe these stories. I see nothing but a man trying to establish a big gang here without being willing to work out a single problem.

Incidentally, I doubt that if Jesus of Nazareth handled the matter that he would be advocating burning of their holy book. And since when has any Muslim participated in such an escapade as burning sacred Christian holy books?

As for there being profanity or anger, consider what you have there with m any people going to church for the first time and in genuine need of structure in their lives, along comes a rival religion whose idea of salvation begins by raving about burning holy books. People attending religious services really do not need to be provoked by a rival religion. If Pastor Jones really wants to test their faith, why doesn't he burn the American flag outside the church and probe for reactions? These Muslims are no party to anything going on in the world today, just ordinary folk looking for a place of worship that actually stands by its values. Church surely is not where you to before launching a crusade to stand up against an imaginary threat.

Read about Dearborn's mayor (Huffington Post, search for it) addressing the pastor:
"You are coming to protest against an imaginary threat that doesn't exist in our community."

The pastor appears to be doing some very evil thing: stockpiling information from sources of so many radical complaintants and radical views of the "decline of America" and projecting all of these onto the Muslim community. That's simply not fair.

I do not believe that open provocation represents the intent of law, and I find hypocritical that Pastor Jones can have his first Amendment rights while refusing to respect those first Amendment rights of other people by provoking them.

Here's what we know about Pastor Jones:

* If you want to meet him, bring a bunch of folks with a bible to burn. Otherwise, he's not interested in anything you have to say. This is part of his grand plan for getting along together and sharing peace.

* If you want to go to church, bring an organized protest to Pastor Jones's church. Cite all the maniacal claims you can come up with across the world complaining about things that odd Christians have done the world over and *blame everyone found in attendance at Reverend Jones' church*. This is part of Jones' master plan for striking up a conversation.

If somehow this doesn't get you killed or martyred by persons of various sentiments expressed here, claim your first amendment rights give you the right to do these things whenever you feel like it.

Perhaps if enough people throughout the USA were to congregate around Reverend Jones' church and offer all this provocation, only then would he be satisfied. I mean, why have a first amendment that protects only Reverend Jones' provocations when it can protect everyone's provocations?

As far as I'm concerned, the issue has already been decided. The provocation was noted and the pastor was corrected. I do not know much about him; no, I have the following plan:

Publicity means quite a lot and gets abused every day. There's a wrong way to go about meeting new people about whom too much has been said by way of publicity.

I really have to wonder sometimes, can you really see a man of his faith and conclude that he must be reasonable despite what idiotic acts you read about him committing? Can you see a man raging as a bull and appearing to be the puppet master who has been charging you with followup acts of harassment as playing "hard to get" and just adding a little American flash, actually trying to open up a dialogue and get to the nitty-gritty of the community's problems?

Not always. Reverend Jim Jones was highly respected, too, but his life ended in mass suicide. He turned away from his American freedom to live in Guyana and then things turned tragic, as life in such a place would. His bio has been used to explain that sometimes you can't rely on someone to see you through bad times just because of having a fancy title and large circles of admiration.

It's really not necessary to hold up a stranger of another religion to a flame until you can evaluate that person. You can ask, "let's talk," and come up with some thoughtful questions if and when you find someone who would.

To conclude, yes Reverend Jones has both the right to free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to burn any holy books he has acquired a legal right to own. However, doing so deliberately in front of a mosque isn't necessarily his right. He's not being challenged on grounds of what he has done right but rather what he has done wrong. Interestingly, the application of law suggests that he has been challenged with citations that look to be written by 4-year old intelligence that could be -- as charges have it -- violation of his rights. But going by the news stories, provocation and harassment appear to be factors in this matter.

Re: Limbaugh To Caller Who Told Friend Shell No Longer Be Treated Under Health Law: "Death Panel Is What Shes Gonna Get"

Mylo_Abacus — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:26:15 -0000

"Remember, politicians -- no dumb ideas. And deliver only what a majority of Americans is capable of demanding on any given day."

Re: Islam – The Mold That Is Destroying America

Mylo_Abacus — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:29:03 -0000

There's nothing particularly remarkable here other than alienation and living cut off from other people. Islam has little or nothing to do with alienation, or at least no more so than other religions. Any time that any religion of any sort becomes dominant in any region then the same sort of alienation or ostracism were at risk to occur.

What I think this means is that it's up to people like your or me to see that American values prevail that are accepting of all Americans without regard to race, color, or creed. Celebrate Martin Luther King day or Emancipation in your neighborhood like you mean it, and make the Fourth of July a re-affirmation of American values, too. We can get along with people of other religions. The idea that your neighborhood will be taken over, it's probably nothing more than reversing the same scare that alienation means for anyone who perceives himself or herself to be a minority.

America is full of minorities. I'm a minority in some cases and in the majority in other cases. For example, if I were a straight-A student, I'd be in the minority. And if I made straight C's, I'd be considered Average.

Yes, it would be a scary thing to live where there were nothing but steeples on every block and with no place to call your own socially, with people demanding that you cease to watch films because they were violent or demanding that guns must be forfeit because you live too close to a school and may no longer take steps to protect yourself. It would be scary to find that any majority were having its way not with the laws but with justice herself.

Sometimes you've got to take a look there at where you are in the community and either accept a vocal community, minority or majority, or move out.

Let's say that because your community is mostly parents and very conservative that you may not be seen with alcohol unless it's in a paper bag, or that you may not watch Apocalypse Now because there is so much violence, or that you have to remain very silent in bed lest children overhear. Or that you have to move to the back of the bus because a majority wants Asians to sit in the front.

Only American values shall save this country -- not conservative values, not liberal values, not Christian, Muslim or any other -ism values, but American values that respect our need for freedom and our cherished liberties.

You don't have to think Muslims are better than yourself, or Christians either for that matter. However, what we each have to do is to face facts that people do congregate and have that right, and that this is a most basic American freedom.

It's perfectly fine to take to the courts at the first sign of subterfuge, but you'll never do it without Americans. You can preach your conservative or liberal hate and communist redistribution of wealth fantasies all that you like, but only Americans values can keep the ship from sinking.

Please don't alienate Muslims nor Christians nor anyone. We've got to be American about this. You know it could take 20 years to learn what you need about community if you've lived in seclusion all of your life and kept only a handful of insular friends.

There are people all over the Internet who can help your education and who have written numerous articles if you feel that cloistered, trying to help build a better America.

I don't have a single problem with the article that I am commenting on. It's a personal testimony and a genuine concern. What concerns people often tends to be important per usual case. The proof is in the pudding as to our current predicament. The mold we shall have to handle in addition to the radar guns.

Re: Islam – The Mold That Is Destroying America

Mylo_Abacus — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:31:59 -0000

The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing was not necessarily committed by any Muslims, and there was a corresponding bombing event at the World's Fair in Florida of the same year.

Finding scapegoats can be easy when you have every media channel shouting minutes after finding the story, "Muslim fundamentalists, Muslim fundamentalists." That was the dream that they strove so hard to see realized, because they want for their power to encompass all things and to be absolute. The media got us the terrorists in the first place, and the irresponsible reporting ignores laws against defamation, libel or Elvis's blue shoes that Muslims never had any power to enforce.

The media that started the hate in the first place pretty much specified our vulnerabilities as a nation, and then the terrorists finally saw the opportunity by exploiting the media.

How many slaps to the face does the media have to deliver, saying, "psst, over here, over here. Hatred and spiteful intentions are Aye-OK and the media demands them as the only standard fit to print!!"

So, if they were all terrorists from Saudi Arabia, why was it Afghanistan and Iraq that were savaged? Makes plenty of sense there, too.

So to follow up to both bombings, Ted Kacynski was arrested shortly thereafter, no doubt a hero to some posters in this forum, because what he and Timothy McVeigh accomplished was to expose the other side of American vulnerability. And American vulnerability has got to be the thing that American militants thrive upon: The more vulnerable Americans, the more that the press can be licensed to convict Muslims prior to the beginning of any investigation. And as "Muslims," rather than as "people from the Middle Eastern country of Sumeria." This was done in the violent and not the representational method.

So, since Timothy McVeigh had the exact modus operandi of the 1993 WTC bomber, why, then, was there no suspicion of him? Or of Kaczynski?

America should not only be ashamed of itself but spanked mercilessly with its own law books for the awful rebellions that people have been directed to find more appealing than living the dreams of a free market economy.

A few key sights of note should you ever find yourself in America would be how the power of the media you can like it or not, but things would be quite different if a little regard for our American law mattered.

This terrorism would not had been possible without turning Muslims -- an entire, world-wide, religious people -- into terrorists, against the very principles and statements of our laws.

When most people get arrested in newspaper reports, we never see their church nor religion mentioned. This ill course has set the precedent to do so regularly, and oh how much more informed we would be as a people with that going on.

Looks like racial separatism all over again. The most vicious America that has ever existed in the world began at the starting gate one minute after the Russian Revolution. "Free at last to defame, libel, and spew hate as the only imperative worth living, where does Elvis keep his shoes! Free at last!"

-- I dislike this job. --

Re: Islam – The Mold That Is Destroying America

Mylo_Abacus — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:34:02 -0000

That's like saying that all Christians want to do is to convert you to their religion. It's not fair, and it's not civil. They're not the ones who put this stuff in our skies, at least.

Re: Ex-cop and murder suspect references journalists in manifesto

Mylo_Abacus — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:45:47 -0000

(first impressions)
Story isn't credible. Total calumny. Website probably hacked by forensic pro. Body may never show up but I bet we never see this fellow again as of some time the instant he disappeared. That guy has a $10 smile. Killer probably tasered him to death so as not to leave evidence and deposited him in a glacier where he keeps the other bodies.

Re: Private Plan to Send Humans to Mars in 2018 Might Not Be So Crazy

Mylo_Abacus — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:28:04 -0000

No one should go to Mars at least until we invent dual-propulsion.

Re: Darpa Wants You to Transcribe, And Instantly Recall, Every Conversation You’ve Ever Had

Mylo_Abacus — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:58:50 -0000

Christian: You are hereby fined 1 credit for violation of Verbal Morality Statute. http://plip.com/url/f/6f0bb...

Re: Iran to sue Hollywood over ‘Argo’ and other Oscar films

Mylo_Abacus — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:40:02 -0000

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Re: Iran to sue Hollywood over ‘Argo’ and other Oscar films

Mylo_Abacus — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:50:17 -0000

Sorry, it's not my photo. Mylo does not have a photo. It must be a glitch at this site.

Re: Iran to sue Hollywood over ‘Argo’ and other Oscar films

Mylo_Abacus — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:52:59 -0000

Critiquing film whether by Iran or by you, it would be something of an impossibility for Iran to position a full-time movie critic in the USA or so it would seem.
But if each nation of the world were to send a movie critic to the USA to reveal to the public whatever distortions were applicable, then this could be a more constructive and hopeful response.
As Americans, we're supposed to know that most of any film were BS and fabrication --unless otherwise claimed and accredited.
Of course, a lot of people may wonder, even if most Iranians may well be "nice people," whether there could be something of a "KGB" behind the scenes that has absolute control over any given nation's population.

Re: Iran to sue Hollywood over ‘Argo’ and other Oscar films

Mylo_Abacus — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:53:29 -0000

Sorry, this is not my photo. Mylo has no associated photo yet.

Re: Iran to sue Hollywood over ‘Argo’ and other Oscar films

Mylo_Abacus — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:07:57 -0000

I don't know Iran's problem and I probably don't know it any better than you do.

However, as an American, I think that freedom of speech happens to be a positive outlet for the purpose of freedom.

I'm at least glad for you, that you at least took the trouble to explain that Iran were some sort of "totalitarian barbaraism" state. I do not think that Iran could be considered a despotism by any means. Its democracy may leave much to be desired, but then if Iran were a clone of America I guess I'd be talking to myself now :-)

However, that does not mean that the fact were desired to Iran. Perhaps a little appreciation of what going from a total state of warfare to a struggling attempt to have any sort of rule at all were like?

What we do know about Iran: Iran was once Persia. And Persia was eaten up by the former Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was defeated by the British and then reverted to Iran, Iraq, and a bunch of other territories.

Iran embraced democracy, if I'm not wrong, so many years ago and has been hounded and ear-bit ever since.

You would expect a more unified attitude toward democracy when it was Americans promoting democracy with great 2eal in the 1980's. But it seems to be that you can scarcely find any constructive attitudes anywhere on the Internet. I think that most comments at any site to be all computer-generated and that they are not real unless they have an actual accrediting site behind them.

I use Disqus. Consider the third party option.

I don't know how the photo got tagged to Mylo, but Mylo does not have a photo at the present time and never has. Imagine me to be the guy Flowers for Algernon due to my experience with Internet all these years :-)

Re: Iran to sue Hollywood over ‘Argo’ and other Oscar films

Mylo_Abacus — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:57:38 -0000

Disqus lets you choose your own photo. I just haven't uploaded one yet. I'm not disturbed by the photo, although it does not represent myself with any great precision.
I did find it shocking that it wasn't me, so thanks for explaining the situation.

Re: He Is Comfortable with Bush’s Inferno

Mylo_Abacus — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:23:00 -0000

President Bush defended the Constitution. His terrorism was justified by the state of the Union if nothing else. Mea culpa??? Just saying ... only if you recognize this reference ... attribution ... "Expect Us." See those drone planes up there? (This comment IS NO endorsement!!!!!!)

Re: He Is Comfortable with Bush’s Inferno

Mylo_Abacus — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:25:45 -0000

Don't worry about the word "terrorism" applied to our President's decision as Commander in Chief.

Trust this: Should you find planes begin raining down bombs in your city above, all around you and possibly where you are standing, it were an act of terrorism.

Re: He Is Comfortable with Bush’s Inferno

Mylo_Abacus — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:29:50 -0000

Only Montgomery Burns obviously had that sort of hand. Just saying ... those were no ordinary ... [cartoon reference] ... students ... [startle the snakes a little]

Re: He Is Comfortable with Bush’s Inferno

Mylo_Abacus — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:33:04 -0000

Trust : not ... and be sure to walk both ways before looking across the street.