A good friend of mine from back in the day sent me an e-mail about a religious organization she belonged to, and she wanted to know if I had ever heard of them. I hadn't, but knowing the type of person she is I figured that they couldn't be all bad. I checked out the link, and even though I am sure that I am not on the same page with them, I am not going to knock them for what they do or their beliefs. This is, after all, A-merry-ca.
Which leads me to my girl Ann Coulter and the latest right wing witch hunt of his O ness.
Seems Ann now believes that his O ness is an atheist, and she had no problem saying so for all the world to hear. Just like Beckkk with the O is a racist charge, Ann is now adding godlessness to the mix.
I guess she is hoping to spike up the narrative a notch. Take it to the next level. It's not enough to make him a hated Muslim anymore, to really turn A-merry-cans against him he has to be someone who doesn't belive in a supreme being at all. That will fire up the base. That is just un-A-merry-can. All the time forgetting, of course, that if he was an atheist he would probably be closer to how the Founding Fathers view this whole religion thing than they are.
I think there is a verse in the good book of Matthew that says "Ye shall know them by their fruits." I have to be honest with you Ann; his O ness, just to my untrained eye, seems a lot more godly that you do. You may never like his policies, and I might not like some of them, but he doesn't strike me as a man who lives his life in a way that we should all shy away from. In fact, it's quite the contrary; he seems to have a happy well adjusted family, and he is all things good and decent. Which is more that I can say for you and your "God" loving friends.
"The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop," Coulter wrote on the conservative website TownHall.com. "I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist."
Which leads me to my girl Ann Coulter and the latest right wing witch hunt of his O ness.
Seems Ann now believes that his O ness is an atheist, and she had no problem saying so for all the world to hear. Just like Beckkk with the O is a racist charge, Ann is now adding godlessness to the mix.
I guess she is hoping to spike up the narrative a notch. Take it to the next level. It's not enough to make him a hated Muslim anymore, to really turn A-merry-cans against him he has to be someone who doesn't belive in a supreme being at all. That will fire up the base. That is just un-A-merry-can. All the time forgetting, of course, that if he was an atheist he would probably be closer to how the Founding Fathers view this whole religion thing than they are.
I think there is a verse in the good book of Matthew that says "Ye shall know them by their fruits." I have to be honest with you Ann; his O ness, just to my untrained eye, seems a lot more godly that you do. You may never like his policies, and I might not like some of them, but he doesn't strike me as a man who lives his life in a way that we should all shy away from. In fact, it's quite the contrary; he seems to have a happy well adjusted family, and he is all things good and decent. Which is more that I can say for you and your "God" loving friends.
"The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop," Coulter wrote on the conservative website TownHall.com. "I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist."
Tongue planted in those very long cheeks, maybe? I doubt it. There is a message in there somewhere, and I think we all know what it is and who it was meant for.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 239 of 239hathor, you wrote:
The stock market crashed because people like you believe in the inane knowledge of the brokers who didn't know the difference in a quality stock.
The "stock market" did NOT crash. But the dot-com sector did.
Anything with .com in its name, they bought and with the speed of the computer something which would have taken month to happen took days. No time for reasonable reflection just a knee jerk reaction when a questionable .com failed to sell all.
People always have and always will buy some bum stocks.
Didn't mater if companies were profitable or not.
Almost NO dot-coms were profitable, as their IPO prospectuses explained in painful detail.
Amazon.com is a winner, as is Google. There are others.
If you want a stock that will go up over the next two years, the stock is BP.
uptownsteve, you wrote:
You forget that I'm a native New Yorker. I'm very familiar with the area. You're just south of Prospect Park.
No. I did not forget.
Yes, West Midwood is south of Prospect Park.
Those rowhouses are now worth in excess of a million dollars and I didn't see a black face on the streets.
There are no rowhouses in West Midwood. It is part of Victorian Flatbush. Single-family detached houses. Yes, the do go for over a million bucks. But that's not much in NY City.
There are black homeowners in the area. Not many. But there are some.
no_slappz,
Some of those baby's were Motorola, Oracle and Microsoft. I would also include Sun Microsystems but they seemed to always be bordering on being a dollar stock.
Hathor - Sun was thankful bought by Oracle. Seeing as they're one of the few companies that embraced the open source movement and are the bank end of many mainframes.
The next wave will be green, healthcare and biotech. And because we're overall a nation of idiots who ideal of America is stuck in 'Leave to Beaver' land, the new economic booms will pass us by.
Gregory said...
AB asks:
"what will it take for you sheeple drones to get as upset at hobama as u do at ann c and glenn b??????"
A sudden onset of mental illness?
You're funny!
LACoincidental said...
"The next wave will be green, healthcare and biotech. And because we're overall a nation of idiots who ideal of America is stuck in 'Leave to Beaver' land, the new economic booms will pass us by."
Stereotypical condescending jab at the little people by a member of the academic class who is sure he is so much smarter than those people who actually conduct business that he knows what they really should be doing...
Here's a tip for you LAC: "Green" is a fad that is already jumping the shark. The market has, and will continue to call for more efficient and cleaner technoligies, but this progress will come from a return to the real economy.
dreg:
you and that cackling fool mr prove that you are mentally ill each time you ignore how hobama has gone crazy on poor foolish fans like you...
we who know just how ill you hobama nazi jokers are will have the last laughs as hobama slays you all
mr:
what is truly funny is how none of you slain pack dogs can bark a single defense for your rabid lead dog hobama herein...
that is fatally hilarious
LAC,
I found that out today, when I went to see if they were still in existence. I find myself disengaged from technology, since I didn't get to work where I wanted and I am now retired.
I like your reference "Leave it to Beaver Land."
dreg:
got any inane insanity ro share about this?
got jokes about that joker hobama and how he has made jokes of every poor mindless fan like you????
When it comes to making President Obama accountable for his own wars, his own corporate pandering, his own trillion-dollar bank bailouts, the Black misleadership class becomes mute. But poor people's activists in New Orleans had no problem denouncing the president's housing policies, which ensure that "fat cats like Warren Buffett and huge private banking institutions will inherit the nation's public housing properties."
In New Orleans and elsewhere across the country, the poor who are evicted from public housing are expected to disperse, get out of the way of corporate development that serves the needs of other people, and be quiet. But this weekend, the former residents of the St. Bernard project refused to scatter and be silent. They had earlier built a tent encampment nearby, called Survivors' Village. Now they denounced President Obama and his friend, Warren Buffett, the multi-billionaire hedge fund baron who is developing the site of their former homes under a new name, Columbia Parc, for a new class of residents.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/new-orleans-black-activists-denounce-obama-and-shame-misleadership-class
n-s: i am not envious of anyone, least of all anne coulter. i was simply stating facts. take your cat-fight fantasies elsewhere.
dreg:
got any jokes about hobama inc taking its chi-town slumlord antics on a national tour???
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039652/posts
Anon -
If you understand technological policy, innovations are typically driven initially by government and academia, and not necessarily market forces.
The way you're describing green technology is the way major American companies looked at the internet and the personal computer 30-40 years ago -- it was just a 'fad'. It took major government research dollars to make it 'market ready'. And it will require the same for Green Technology and Bio-tech.
dreg:
got any more toxic taunts about how your boy hobama is dumping toxic waste all over adoring bama mfs like scareyscarey and that cackling yardbird mr????:
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/05/tva-sends-spilled-coal-ash-to-impoverished-black-communities-in-georgia-and-alabama.html
Hathor said...
"LAC,
I like your reference "Leave it to Beaver Land."
I hate to break it to you Hathor, but that wasn't a proposition.
LACoincidental said...
"Anon -
If you understand technological policy, innovations are typically driven initially by government and academia, and not necessarily market forces."
No. Except in specific national projects that involve major investments that are beyond the capacity of individual companies to finance (e.g. the space program, or Hoover dam), the vast majority of technological innovations are driven by market forces.
dreg:
got jokes about all the bros who will lose their hobama t-shirt income funds this month???
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011404085.html
how much time do we need to spend berating each other, and that dealing with the subject at hand?
anon:
they berate me because theya re too inept to debate me
it is easier to lie on and insult me than defend and excuse hobama
ie:
see lac above
it is easier to wax on about imaginary coffee houses than hobama's actual vanishing govt coffers bilked for his actual bankster posses
http://www.amazon.com/13-Bankers-Takeover-Financial-Meltdown/dp/0307379051
http://www.amazon.com/Obamanomics-Bankrupting-Enriching-Corporate-Lobbyists/dp/1596986123/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283896204&sr=1-1
Ms. Banks: these are some of your quotes.
you and that cackling fool mr prove that you are mentally ill each time you ignore how hobama has gone crazy on poor foolish fans like you...
got any more toxic taunts about how your boy hobama is dumping toxic waste all over adoring bama mfs like scareyscarey and that cackling yardbird mr????:
got any jokes about hobama inc taking its chi-town slumlord antics on a national tour???
cultivating a climate of fear. it makes people do strange things.
it's going to get a whole lot uglier before it gets better. IF it ever gets better.
hathor, you wrote:
Some of those baby's were Motorola, Oracle and Microsoft.
Those babies were what?
The three are still in the game and likely to be around a long time. The fact that their stock prices were bid up too high for a while is hardly comparable to the simple fact that most dot-coms had NO business. No revenue, no nothing. And disappeared almost overnight.
Anonymous said...
LACoincidental said...
"Anon -
If you understand technological policy, innovations are typically driven initially by government and academia, and not necessarily market forces."
No. Except in specific national projects that involve major investments that are beyond the capacity of individual companies to finance (e.g. the space program, or Hoover dam), the vast majority of technological innovations are driven by market forces.
What would you call the modern telecommunications systems? Or electrical grids? You think cellphones just popped out of thin air? No, they're based on military technologies dating back to WWII. The internet? Funded and developed by the DOD and DOE. Most of your pharmaceuticals? Underwritten by the NIH, CDC and Dept of Health. (Most industry 'research' is primarily marketing). Most cars would be utterly useless with the government funded highway system. And all those high tech jobs in Phoenix? They wouldn't exist because there aren't enough natural fresh water sources in Arizona. Facial recognition software? DOD project. (I worked on one years ago).
I used to think that same way you do, until I took tech policy in college 10 years ago. That course really opened my eyes to how our high tech industries really runs.
When the government puts its weight behind something, industry typically waits to see how it can profit from the developments, not the other way around.
la concidental, you wrote:
The next wave will be green, healthcare and biotech.
Nonsense. Not when "green" costs 10 times as much as a conventional alternative.
Efficiency has always been a priority. Thus, an energy-related device or design merely has to show a rapid payback of its cost.
But if you think solar energy or wind energy are going to provide more than 1%-2% of America's energy needs in the next 40 years, you're out of your mind.
Electric cars? Forget them till much, much, much better batteries are developed.
Hybrids? They'll sell if their prices drop.
And because we're overall a nation of idiots who ideal of America is stuck in 'Leave to Beaver' land, the new economic booms will pass us by.
Yeah, that's just what I was thinking as I was checking into the market-share of book sales going to Kindle, Nook and some other e-readers, and how Barnes & Noble's bookstore business is now shrinking rather than growing.
I had that thought when I watched the test flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
And it really hit me the other day when I was reading about memristors -- advanced semiconductors.
Unfortunately, there's no Moore's Law for wind and solar power.
By the way, if Congress were not in the way, we might actually have a viable ethanol industry in this country. But Washington slapped a huge tariff on imported ethanol, which basically destroyed the US market for Brazilian ethanol.
By forcing gasoline companies to put ethanol in gasoline, Congress forced the ethanol makers into bidding up the price of corn, the feedstock.
But higher corn prices mean higher prices for livestock that are raised on corn. In short, Congress found the most expensive way to handle a challenge.
Meanwhile, the Space Program has led to the commercialization of almost nothing.
The Internet might have its roots in an internal government communication system, but the government effort had NO commericial ambitions. Then one day someone had a funny thought about the DARPA Net, a flash of insight, and said "good god, what have we got here?"
Until Netscape became a raging success, Gates and Microsoft thought there was little potential in the Internet. Then they saw the light and you know the rest.
anon:
yes
those are my quotes
unclear?
rsvp
and you missed many quotes before that by others
ie
mr bojangles' prose for morons etc
there will be no passive silent doormats here...fyi
no_slappz,
Do you argue for argument sakes?
That crash drove all prices unusually down, why do you think it was called a crash. Motorola's nor Oracle's stock price was bloated. Hadn't Microsoft's just split? I believe Intel and other silicon companies were in the same boat.
no_slappz - who said anything about ethanol (again a Bushie short bet)? Green tech isn't just alternative energy, its using energy more efficiently and changing how we live so we don't end up baking the planet.
And not all green tech ideas are all that new. Here's a green tech idea that's as old as dirt -- trains. Yes, high speed cross continental trains would reduce a the carbon footprint we all produce lugging our cars up and down the highway. Europeans can take a bullet train from London to Paris, but my girlfriend can't get a direct train from Fresno, CA to Los Angeles. Also, there's no logical reason why you can't take a train from New York/DC Metro to Los angeles.
And using your own jaded logic, computers wouldn't exist anyway -- because CEO types didn't think it would make money. And Netscape (and subsequentiall Firefox, IE, Opera, etc.) are based on NCSA Mosiac -- a govern-funded research application. Dig deep enough almost everything building block for the web is government funded.
no_slappz,
We can tell that you are still in the 20th century. There is more to green than meets your eye.
I don't know why everyone has to mention corn as if it is the only hydrocarbon that can be grown that can be made into an alcohol.
Corn is not a hydrocarbon.
LACoincidental said...
"But most of the arguments for or against any measures have been drowned and skewed by the fact that Obama is always seen as the un-American 'other'."
Which, by the way, is how many whites in this country view most blacks.
Why Alicia Banks and a few other blacks wish to see Obama that way, too, as this "un-American 'other'," is beyond me.
Actually, it's not. Stockholm syndrome is a bitch.
***Coming to a theater near you. Henny Penny staring Alicia Banks***
Preview: Henny Penny was out picking cotton for her love interest when an acorn fell on her head.
Henny Penny Banks: "OH MY GOD, the sky is falling down. I'd better run to Field's blog to spread the news.
The old hen was off to tell the world that it's Obama's fault the sky is falling down. On the way she ran into Goosey Poosey.
Henny Penny Banks: Hey baby, with yo fine self, the sky is falling down. Would you like to join me, I am on my way to tell the king.
Goosey Poosey: Why not, should we post a few links along the way?
Henny Penny Banks: Sure baby, anything for you... my new found Goosey Poosey. But lets hurry, cus as you know, the sky is falling down.
Henny Penny and sweet thang Goosey Poosey were off to see the king. On the way they ran into Cocky Locky.
The Hen Pen: What's up Cocky Locky, the sky is falling down, and we are off to tell the king. I would invite you to come along but I don't like your name.
Cocky Locky: What do you mean baby?
Henny Penny Banks: You know what I mean negro, I like my Loose Goosey Poosey.
Cocky Locky: Bet!
So Henny Penny and Goosey Loosey waddled down the road until they ran into Ducky Daddles (CareyCarey).
The Hen: Oh sh*t, here comes that damn Daddy "CareyCarey" Daddles. I'd better call him a bunch of foul names to distract him. "What's up Bojangles,you hobama cheerleader. Where's your partner LAC? Don''t yawl know the sky is falling down?
Before Ducky Daddles could say a word, Foxy Woxy appeared on the scene.
Foxy Woxy: Hey Miss Henny Penny, I heard the sky was falling down, I have a shortcut to Field's castle, come on, get your rump-shakin' friend, and follow me.
To be cont......
no_slappz said...
la concidental, you wrote:
"The next wave will be green, healthcare and biotech."
Nonsense. Not when "green" costs 10 times as much as a conventional alternative.
It will be a great deal cheaper when you factor in the costly destruction to the planet, the result of global warming, a byproduct of fossil fuel usage.
la coincidental, you wrote:
Here's a green tech idea that's as old as dirt -- trains. Yes, high speed cross continental trains would reduce a the carbon footprint we all produce lugging our cars up and down the highway.
The US is already criss-crossed with train tracks. But in America we use long-distance trains for hauling freight, not people. Why? Because by every measure, hauling freight by train is the cheapest, cleanest way to do it.
But we will NEVER become a nation of long-distance passenger trains. That era is in the past. Did you miss that history lesson? The airlines and bus companies put them out of business.
The only remaining long-distance passenger train service is provided by AmTrak. Guess what? Long distance travel on AmTrak is far, far more expensive than flying.
Europeans can take a bullet train from London to Paris, but my girlfriend can't get a direct train from Fresno, CA to Los Angeles.
Yeah. What's the distance between London and Paris? Depending on your method of travel, it's around 250 miles, and a substantial stretch is over, on or under water.
The ONLY segment of AmTrak operations that are profitable are in the Northeast -- the Boston, NY, Philadelphia, DC corridor. Why? Because in that region AmTrak is price-competitive with planes, buses and driving one's own car.
Also, there's no logical reason why you can't take a train from New York/DC Metro to Los angeles.
Logical reason? Yes there is. To run high-speed rail service across the country would require separate tracks for the fast trains. that means getting "rights-of-way" across the entire country.
It's not as though it's possible to put down new tracks beside the existing freight-line railways.
Meanwhile, there's no chance of getting homeowners in suburban and urban areas to allow trains to roar through their back yars. Never happen -- unless the government goes wild seizing land through Eminent Domain.
But using Eminent Domain powers means paying homeowners a fair price for their property. Inasmuch as long-distance passenger train companies lose money, there is no rationale for buying expensive land. NIMBY is certain death for these trains.
Anyway, as usual, you appear blind to the realities of massive projects.
How can they take a TRAIN from London to Paris? London is on an island and Paris is not on that same island idgit!
No_slappz, we seize land for baseball fields and strip malls. The government could use eminent domain for something useful. Also, the reason why trains went out of business (and the reason why public transportation is general is so hamper on the US) has to do with collusion between the oil industry, government & the auto industry. Read up on the history of the LA street car system sometime.
Anon, I'd hate to break this to you, but yes I think the French and British are well aware that Paris and London are separated by water. Which explains why the parts of the Eurotrain system is underwater. I hope that you were joking because that was rather silly.
la coincidental, you wrote:
No_slappz, we seize land for baseball fields and strip malls.
Check again. Using Eminent Domain to acquire (owners of the land are paid) land for baseball fields and strip malls is a false claim. At best, half true. As a result of the Kelo Supreme Court decision, it is possible for the government to force an owner to sell IF the property is to be used for a more productive purpose than its current use.
Ballparks do NOT make money. Thus, using Eminent Domain for that purpose leads to massive court fights. One has been underway here in Brooklyn for most of the last 10 years. And the actual start of the fight was in the 1950s, when the Dodgers were looking for a site for a new stadium.
The government could use eminent domain for something useful.
Useful? Well, that's the word all naive believers in Eminent Domain spout.
You can be sure if the federal government wanted to acquire a wide a strip of land stretching all the way across the US, through backyards, through cities, across farmland, across mountain ranges, over rivers, and over or under existing highways, it would face lawsuits filed by every owner of every piece of land in question, lawsuits from environmental groups, lawsuits from corporate interests and opposition from the state governments.
(Can you imagine the tunneling job through the Rockies for a high-speed train?)
In short, a legal nightmare. Hence, no matter how much you want transcontinental high-speed trains, the legal fight would last a hundred years.
Meanwhile, as an obvious matter of business, these trains would lose big bucks. Other than short runs -- a few hours travel time, at most -- business travelers would never use them.
Neither would non-business travelers. No family would travel on a train from NY to LA to take the kids to Disneyland. Even a fast train would burn up too many hours of vacation time.
Also, the reason why trains went out of business (and the reason why public transportation is general is so hamper on the US) has to do with collusion between the oil industry, government & the auto industry.
Ah. So you are a conspiracy theorist after all. Did you learn that at Yale? Here's some news. Planes, trains and cars all run on oil. Thus, the oil industry likes all three.
How about this. I can fly from NY to LA in six hours, or drive my car, which can take six days. Or, I can take Amtrak -- faster than driving, slower than flying -- but the most expensive of the three options. What should I do?
Read up on the history of the LA street car system sometime.
It's a tired old story.
Bottom line -- your love for public transportation is your way of giving the government more control of your life while enabling it to tax you out the wazoo to pay for these hugely expensive projects.
I love the NY City subway. But the current tunneling and expansion program is costing BILLIONS now, years and years before the new lines will open. After they open, it will take permanent taxpayer subsidies to keep them running.
my bad lac eye didnt no that about the train from london to paris a nigga learn something new every day
[quote:noslapzz]"After they open, it will take permanent taxpayer subsidies to keep them running."[/quote]
Exactly, that's what's so great about it.
The tax payers are subsidizing something that is in the greater common good. That is one of the great failings of Capitalism. It can not, (or rather will not,) pursue something that is in the long term good of mankind and its environment, if that greater good comes at the expense of short-term profits.
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