I have yet to see you make any statements that prove you are anything other than an ignorant fool. You’d make Rush Limbaugh proud to be your mom.

Well, Mr. Duff, there are a lot of people in this country who, like you, want women to die in childbirth, but some of us would just as soon that didn’t happen.

The first step to preparing someone for war is to overcome the deeply held conviction that most sane people have against murder. The easiest way of doing it is to suggest that those you want killed aren’t really human. That’s why you see the stereotyping and the emphasis on differences. “We are human. They aren’t like us. They aren’t human” A simplistic, but highly effective technique since the beginning of time.

Oh yes, Badtux, your coworkers would definitely not find a warm welcome on the Panhandle. The pretense of civility would stop about ten miles north of the coast where tourism isn’t important.

They aren’t considered human, Jill, so it is OK to kill them. If you look at newspaper accounts you will see more concern for animal abuse than violence against the homeless.

The excuses the police think…simply because they were homeless. I think the same sort of fear and hate is in play in these types of deaths, too.
[rq=6028,0,blog][/rq]Now this sounds like a terrific Summer treat

Indeed. I keep telling my immigrant co-workers, “quit believing that America is what you see around it, we live in a tiny enclave of sanity” (the SF Bay Area). Outside of this area, they would be treated like sh*t and risk getting shot just for having brown(er) skin. But all they see are the great things they see around them, and they don’t realize that a large percentage of the country has, quite frankly, gone batshit *nuts*.

– Badtux the Sick-of-psychos Penguin
[rq=4682,0,blog][/rq]Right wing and Obama write France out of existence

I’m supposed to be terrified of some guy in a cave a half world away, while there are heavily armed whackos running around in my county with no one watching them.

Understand that the people I hear talking about their guns being taken away, live in a state that doesn’t have a problem with gun battles in store parking lots. That bill was sponsored by our local state senator at the time, Durell Peaden, MD.

Basically, the average human is amazingly ignorant and stupid.

It takes a major tragedy with significant personal loss for people to really start to realise there is a problem. Unfortunately, the response is almost always a completely emotional, terrified (warranted or not) ill-conceived reaction that makes everything worse.

I am always amused when I hear someone say that we humans are a *rational species*. In my 50+ years, I have very little statistically significant proof of this assertion. Of course, for the most part, they actually mean that we a a *Rationalizing species* which is a completely different thing to being *rational*. 🙂

Until people are totally honest with themselves, there is no hope they will be honest about anything to anyone. As people continue to live in their fools paradises, nothing will ever improve. And THAT is a fact!