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I wasn't sure where to put this but I really wanted to share.

My friend Angel (some of you know him) told me this story last night.

He said that he was in Jackson Heights yesterday and saw these two guys meeting on the street.
This was their conversation:

"Yo nigga wass up"?
"Yo man, you can't be sayin' that word no more".
"Why not? What word do I say now"?
"Mister president".

He said he almost died laughing.
"Mister president"!!!

Brilliant.
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the House is voting on the Health Care reform bill today. This is truly historic. While not perfect, if the House version makes it into law it could save millions of lives over time, relieve the crushing anxiety so many people feel about being able to get medical care and allow our nation to join the rest of the advanced nations that guarantee health care to their citizens.
Here's my healthcare story:
Last time I was in the emergency room at a major hospital in the city, they wanted me to give them a 'stool sample'. So I did. They never came to a diagnosis about what was attacking my digestive system even though they kept me in the hospital for 8 hours doing every test including an MRI which they billed at $3,500 ! When I left they told me to call back the next day to find out the results of their test on my stool sample.
When I called I was put on hold for about ten minutes. And then the doctor told me,

"I'm sorry but we lost your shit."
Just to make it official, I am neither a Republican or a Democrat. I am a member of the somewhat moribund but still respectful New York Conservative Party.

My point here being, there are political parties and there are philosophies. The two are not analogous by any means. The Republican Party failed when they tried to win votes by becoming more like (here you put Democrats, or, Progressive Liberals), in a failed attempt to win more votes, (market share).

The reason the people voted for Republicans was because they REPRESENTED those people with CONSERVATIVE philosophies.

Well, George Bush mucked that one up big time.

So the Republicans got their walking papers.

That's all for now folks. I hope you had a LOVELY CHRISTMAS and I wish you all a HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!!

xoxo

DD

P.S. Next installment is: What is the difference between Classical and Progressive Liberalism? You can start sounding off now if you like, I'm done for the evening...
I love New York and I'm happy to pay my fair share in taxes. New York outlawed child labor years before the south. You cannot fire someone for being gay in NY, you can in the south. Sodomy was still a criminal offense in much of the south until the supreme court decision of 2003, NY legalized gay sex in the 1970's. In NY a childless adult is eligible for medicaid. In most of the south, you're shit out of luck. (thankfully the new health care law will change this, saving hundreds of thousands of lives over time) New York has abolished the death penalty and has a lower murder rate than Texas for example. NY allows women complete reproductive freedom while the south (most other states for that matter) put restrictions on that right. But that's federalism and it's good in the respect that it let's the people of each state choose the policies that reflect their values. NY is not perfect, we have an crazy gerrymandered legislature that both R's and D's can be blamed for but I'm happy to call this place home.
There is such a high degree of social tollerance in NYC anywhere else you go in this country seems like a kind of reform school.
The U.S. is now the only nation on the entire planet where a sizeable portion of the population still denies there is global warming.
The U.S. is also the only nation on the entire planet with a sizeable population that does not believe in Evolution. Those retarditaire populations thankfully are not residents of the neighborhood I live in. I wasn't born in NYC so I do easily find its exaggerations and distortions laughable but just being my 'normal' ol self most anywhere else would get me viewed as being a kind of satanic freak. Plus, where else am I gonna find fresh kola nuts a few days off the vine from Ile Ife? Or an Alufa who wants to teach me some sacred insights from the Dinlogun? Everyone should be fortunate enough to find a place to live that accommodates thier outlook on life. But what has happened to American Liberty in the past ten years has reduced tollerance and acceptance to a low not seen since before Civil Rights and McCarthy. Now there are so many Americans who want to push thier views on everyone else and are proud of their backwardness.
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Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae,
et in Iesum Christum, Filium Eius unicum, Dominum nostrum,
qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine,
passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus,
descendit ad ínferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis,
ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram Patris omnipotentis,
inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos.
Credo in Spiritum Sanctum,
sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem,
remissionem peccatorum,
carnis resurrectionem,
vitam aeternam.
Amen.
Oh, like I'm having right now, after replacing all my water filters. It's a six month cycle and it's so GREEN but I really don't care. Long as as I don't have to shlep to the bodega for a Poland Spring, if you know what I mean...

Now, as an aside, do all you queens think you'll be happy doing your makeup by those awful florescent ghastly green bulbs? That's your bitch in office taking your lighting away....
ok,  well I'm not to busy so Darla let's take just of few of your hyperbolic assertions and look at the truth.   

Obama is not a Socialist.  Socialism is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the state.  He is a liberal capitalist who is willing to use government to help soften some of the harsher effects of capitalism.   Any true Marxist would be appalled at the health care reform bill which simply gives middle class people TAX CREDITS to purchase private insurance, making coverage available to 30 million additional people and saving lives.  Yes, it does also expand medicaid which is a govt program for the poorest americans.  This was the REPUBLICAN alternative to the Clinton HCR proposal in the 1990's, but the Republicans of today have moved so far to the right, at this point Reagan looks like a flaming liberal.

Your constant invocations of Stalin as the pinnacle of the left are tiresome and ill informed.  Stalin was a horrible murderous dictator.  NO ONE LIKES HIM.   He was a Communist and espoused and ideology which has no resemblance to modern american progressive thought or european social democracy.   In face, Clement Atlee the SOCIALIST Brittish Prime Minister of post war england who instituted national health care was a strident anti communist and anti stalinist and a strong ally of the US against the USSR.  

The truth is, pure socialism and pure capitalism are unworkable.  Pure Socialism destroys individual freedom and initiative and leads to economic collapse.  Pure Capitalism allows brutal exploitation of working people and creates tremendous suffering.   What the west has embraced for over 60 years is Capitalism with some Socialist elements to ensure all people have a chance and that people are not left helpless without health care or old age pensions.   This is how the US has operated since the early 20th Century.   Europe has taken it a bit further and hence they have higher life expectancy and live lives with less of the uncertainty that Americans endure.  

As far as the ROTC comment and Islamic Fascism.   The ROTC will of course be welcomed back at Harvard, although reports have it that they do not see it as cost effective recruitment.    I find it funny that you fear "Islamic Fascism" which I also fear and oppose as I do any irrational doctrine and then in your next post you take a dig at atheists who are among the MOST VOCAL OPPONENTS of Islamic Fascism.  Just read Christopher Hitchens.
"Socialism is communism lite, and Stalin is who you eventually end up with. "

that's quite a statement and one that clearly betrays a complete lack of understanding of history.   Sweeden, the UK, France, Germany, and most of Western Europe have vibrant democratic systems and socialized medicine as well as generous public systems for over 60 years and not one of the countries has come anywhere close to Stalinism or anything resembling the Leninist type of Socialism that has been discredited for decades.    I don't know if you noticed, but Communism collapsed over 20 years ago.   China has a market economy.  The only "Communist" nations left include North Korea and Cuba.  There is just a handful.    European Social Democracy clearly won the debate between those who advocated a reformist democratic route to a more just society and the Leninists, Maoists and Stalinists who wanted a "dictatorship of the proletariat."  That ideology is pretty much dead.  

Show me the nation that has progressed from modern Social Democracy to Stalinism.  It doesn't exist.   The Communist nations all either experienced a violent revolution while under a feudal or other brutal regime or were occupied by the Soviet Union after WW2.  

Any assertion that Obama is leading us to Socialism and by implication Stalinism is insane.  It's as ridiculous as those on the left saying George Bush planned 9/11.  

The problem here is you are not engaging in honest discourse.  You throw around a quote here and there and assert it is a fact then make huge generalizations and hyperbolic statements about fact with no basis in reality or understanding of history.    It's weird.  But unfortunately it's what discourse in this country has deteriorated to.    

If you hate all things Socialist so much,  I'm assuming you never went to a pubic school, sent a letter through the post office or used mass transit.  I would hope you would also stay true to your beliefs and refuse your Social Security and Medicare when you retire.    

When Medicare was created in 1965, Ronald Reagan said it was the end of freedom and the beginning of totalitarianism.   That's what they said about Social Security in the 30's and what they say about Health Care Reform now.    It's irresponsible and ridiculous.  Before Social Security the poverty rate among the aged was staggering and before Medicare, older Americans lived in fear of medical catastrophe.   No one wants to go back to that.   In 20 years we will look back at the debate on HCR the same way.  People will marvel at the nuts who tried to stop it.  Why did they equate giving middle class people some peace of mind, saving lives and helping people afford to go to the doctor with totalitarianism?   It will seem as ridiculous as it is.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Margaret_Thatcher

The problem with socialism

A quote attributed to Margaret Thatcher goes along the lines of

<dl><dd>"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money [to spend]."</dd></dl>

or

<dl><dd>"Eventually, Socialists run out of other peoples' money [to spend]."</dd></dl>

There are a number of similar almost-quotes to be found on the Web, but I haven't found any authoritative sources. She may, in fact, have made the statement in various forms at different times. QuicksilverT @ 15:44, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

 Update: Margaret Thatcher, in a TV interview for Thames TV This Week [[1]]on Feb. 5, 1976, Prime Minister Thatcher said, "...and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them."


The popular version seems to be a reasonable contraction.

********

So Lily thinks the situation in Greece is vibrant? I suppose so, if you think  riots are vibrant because the citizens expected to retire at age 50.

I know the Thatcher quote.  I know most of the quotes you keep putting up as evidence of what I'm not sure.  

Thatcher was despised when she left office, thrown out by her own party.  She never once won close to a majority of the popular vote in the UK.   

You made two assertions you cannot back up.   One, that Obama is recycling a 150 year old failed philosophy (Marxism I presume since the manifesto was published in 1848).   And that all socialist systems degenerate into Stalinism.  You can't answer either because Obama is not a Marxist and not even a Socialist and you certainly cannot point to any Social Democratic state becoming Stalinist.  

As for Greece,  yes it's a basket case.  Bad management can happen in any type of economy.  Ireland has a much more free market economy and they are a basket case as well.  Furthermore, no one in the US is advocating age 50 as the retirement age.  In any case, you might have noticed I do not condemn Capitalism entirely as you do Socialism. I think elements of both are necessary for a functioning society.  Its that balancing act where the debate exists.   What I object to, and think is incredibly silly is the simplification of these issues into pithy quotes and ridiculous assertions that label Liberals in this country as Marxists and Stalinists.
The British threw out Churchill as well and see where they are today. I guess you get what you deserve.
Generally, being right does not win popularity contests.
One thing Lily leaves out is the fact that no matter how necessary one believes BIG GOVERNMENT social meddling programs are, there is no money to pay for them, (regardless of the fact that most are blatantly unconstitutional). We are 14 Trillion dollars in debt, but the progressive liberals still insist on expanding a bloated government and enslaving progeny with the bill.
Did you know that one half of the people in this country pay no income tax? Perhaps if they had some skin in the game they would think about things a little differently, n'est pas?
Now Lily, let's not get all wee weed up. I was merely pointing out similarities in governance philosophies between the different groups, nothing more. I doubt you could accuse any of them of being in favor of limited government, state's rights and low taxes. Obviously some have more efficient killing machines than others, and target different segments of the populace. Jews, Kulaks, unborn children, hey, that's diverse!

As for ad hominem attack, that is defined as an attempt to link the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of the person advocating the premise. An example might be: "Thatcher was despised when she left office, thrown out by her own party.  She never once won close to a majority of the popular vote in the UK."

Bushitler anyone?
I have never called George Bush a Nazi and I think the people on the left who did were morons.  I also think that the Congressman's statements were reprehensible.  He apologized, but he shouldn't have said it.    You, however, do not condemn similar rhetoric on the right, you happily engage in it.  As for the Thatcher thing,  pointing out that a politician was unpopular at the end of her career is hardly the same as equating the President and progressive liberals with dictators and murderers.    I could have pointed out, that Margaret Thatcher was a huge supporter of Agusto Pinochet, the fascist dictator of Chile who had any critics of his regime "dissapeared" and buried alive in cement walls.  Hardly an example of small government.  

This is why it is difficult to have an intelligent conversation with you.   Instead of debating the merits of policy, you engage in hyperbolic attacks that have no basis in reality.
Lily Lily Silly Billy,

The statement that Socialism eventually runs out of money and is unsustainable, (ProgLibs LOVE that word!), whether or not that statement has any merit, has nothing to do with Thatcher's political popularity or her opinion of Pinochet. You are attempting to link the arguer's personal characteristics to how factual the subject's statement is. That is ad hominem.

I suppose if a ax murderer wrote that 1 plus 1 = 2, you would deny it based on their character.

Finally, if you take  Socialist or Communist philosophies and line them up and compare  them to Progressive Liberal philosophy, (I assume to be your camp), as well as Classical Liberal philosophy, (Me!), how do you really think they would match up? That's all I was saying, but you love to read more into things than are really there. Focus dear, focus.

Auntie Darla
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/io...11/01/dear-nazi.html

God Bless Iowahawk!!! DD

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"At the heart of the difference between capitalism and socialism is a question about the calculation of economic value. In a free-market economy, economic values are established economically; that is, a product is worth what you can sell it for on the marketplace... Socialism breaks with capitalism on precisely this issue. It seeks to infuse the fundamental, deep processes of the economy - the setting of prices - with moral meaning. Indeed, normative, moralistic methods for calculating economic values have obsessed socialists and other utopian thinkers for over a century. It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics."
-Kevin D. Williamson
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

Homophobic Barbarians: 10 Reasons Every Gay American Needs to Support the War Against Islamofascism

by Megan Fox

http://www.newsrealblog.com/20...nst-islamofascism-1/

For all the screaming about intolerance and bigotry against gays here in America — driven by many people’s objection to changing the definition of the centuries-old institution of marriage — many so-called liberals don’t seem to notice the actual intolerance and murder being meted out on gays in Muslim countries. Homosexuals living in Muslim countries suffer dire consequences for coming out including whipping, banishment, humiliation and even death by stoning, hanging or familial stabbing in accordance with Islamic law. Homosexuals in the Muslim culture are encouraged to commit suicide rather than bring shame on their families...

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