Yeah I had a big response typed up and then realized it was purely political. There's no point. Minds don't get changed on internet forums.Originally Posted by Haunted
Ever heard of the "liberal media"? MSNBC is a prime example, even they are part of mainstream media.
Good move. To discuss politics here would be a sin.
Yeah. (I think this is the first time we agree on anything.)
To further that thought, some are honest mistakes, some are downright criminal.
I'm cool with that.(I hope you don't mind that I completed your sentence there)
So true. It has a tendency to deteriorate into arguments and even name calling and that's bad, though not quite a sin.
I think both politics and religion are moot points. Religion discussions should be limited to the texts and not the validity of religion as it's a matter of faith and that's an indisputable personal choice. Then again I don't make the rules here.
"But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
"In flames and torment?""Oh, yes, I do."
"That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said."Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
"Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.
originally posted by Haunted;
What health reforms? All I'm aware of is they changed the food pyramid.
That wasn't the intention. Here in the UK we have a public school elite who run the political parties.
I can only report the perception here, although I am aware of the media's influence. The thing is, if there were political interference in our perception of what happened in New Orleans, then it would be pro US. I have to say that I'm not against any country, and I am very well aware of the drawbacks in the UK.
I'll mention Obama if I feel he illustrates a point. After all I was responding to this:
We have hundreds of welfare laws in the United States that protect people from neglect and they are evolving. And we have hundreds of laws that protect people from negligence.
from Cafolini. What he says doesn't come across to me from what I see, and this from Haunted:
What health reforms? All I'm aware of is they changed the food pyramid.
seems to support that idea in so far as it's worse than I thought. Now not looking after your own people let alone anyone else - that's a sin.
Well, if people vote for them they get what they deserve.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Yes - but all three parties - Clegg, Milliband and Cameron? Anyway - it's sinful to bring in politics.
I hope that this is generic enough to say, and is possibly agreeable enough to anyone. I don't care what party, I personally would just prefer anyone who WASN'T a career politician.
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
Stop talking politics! I am trying hard to obey the rules but this is like facing all you can eat Chinese on a strict diet.
But Darcy...I can't really see Chinese food (or at least MOST Chinese foods) that can really be off limits to a diet. I just made some stir fry last night for a group of friends. It was all quite healthy (generally speaking) except if you would consider me adding molasses to the chicken's sauce. Then we had fresh fruit with freshly whipped cream for dessert.
Besides, if it is a "sin" to talk politics, then we would be defining an aspect of sin and it would all be applicable to the original post.
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
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Sorry - are we talking sin?
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Sorry - are we talking sin?
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
So do we
Well it's difficult not to elect a career politician in the broader sense but, in UK terms, if you don't want such a person you might end up with someone like Denis Skinner who, I suspect, Paul may well be supportive of. As an American you may not know of him but just Google his name and take in some of the YouTube videos that come to light.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
I can imagine that his great great great great grandfather was a trader of furs?
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
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