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My Rant concerning the present 'American Way' from an old-school hard-worker
Monday, October 4, 2010 1:17 PM
CHRISISALL
Monday, October 4, 2010 3:27 PM
Monday, October 4, 2010 3:35 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote: chrisisall wrote: Monday, October 04, 2010 15:27 See, ultra-conservative dorks that love the direction our country is going in never have been able to fully address this- the deification of the corporation.
Monday, October 4, 2010 3:55 PM
Monday, October 4, 2010 4:12 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Please, I beg of you.... s'plain THAT one to me.
Monday, October 4, 2010 4:44 PM
Monday, October 4, 2010 5:20 PM
PIRATENEWS
John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!
Monday, October 4, 2010 5:23 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them, from us, the customers, and pass them on to the Gov't.
Monday, October 4, 2010 6:16 PM
THEHAPPYTRADER
Monday, October 4, 2010 7:32 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 2:56 AM
GEEZER
Keep the Shiny side up
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: I saw this girl stealing. Three separate occasions. Not a poor girl. Last time I confronted her and told her taking things was wrong. She acted like she didn't know that.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 4:09 AM
BYTEMITE
Quote:Originally posted by piratenews: Rich people steal. That's how they get rich. Especially jews. Ask Bernie Madoff, who founded the NASDAQ stock market and stole more than all other criminals combined.* *Not counting the $30-trillion stolen by the kosher "Federal" Reserve Banksters in the past 2 years. The kosher "Federal" Reserve Banksters stole 100% of all federal income tax revenue from the past 40 years.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 4:31 AM
KANEMAN
Quote:Originally posted by TheHappyTrader: The American way... I wonder exactly what that means. I vaguely remember parents (afore divorce) equating that to making it on your own... or maybe it was owning a house? I dunno, didn't understand much back then so I stayed absorbed in my legos. From what I remember growing up, the American way seems to be redistributing prosperity. One of the few things the 'rents could agree on was the fact that we were "very fortunate" which I still didn't quite understand, so I stuck with the legos. Then one day I had an epiphany. Maybe people are actually like legos. They aren't the same and don't all fit in the same places, so maybe we shouldn't try to make them. Then my little sister stole some. I got angry at her, but I also got mom to get her some of her own for Christmas. I guess that's the American way. Can't stop those "less fortunate" from stealing, so just give stuff to them later and hope they get better. Did I get it right?
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 4:38 AM
AGENTROUKA
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 5:44 AM
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 9:11 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Geezer: There's your problem right there. Figure out why that girl doesn't understand how stealing is wrong, and why your bosses are so nervious about calling her on it, and you'll know what happened to The American Way.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 1:00 PM
WHOZIT
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: I saw this girl stealing. Three separate occasions. Not a poor girl. Last time I confronted her and told her taking things was wrong. She acted like she didn't know that. I consulted loss prevention & the assistant manager- the former said, "I dunno, these things are... complicated..." as he watched video of her stealing. The assistant manager said, "I wouldn't say anything to her; I could get in trouble." She was taking maybe $5 worth a day. Same shit from my last job. Don't work too hard, don't care so much; don't rock the boat. Why is this country so fucked up right now? Gee, tell me, please. "Planes from a major airport aimed at major targets in the U.S.??? You must be kidding me! If I pass shit like THAT up the line & it's wrong, it'll be my ASS!!! Fuck you [name missing], keep shit like that to yourself, or you're done here, asshole." The laughing Chrisisall
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 1:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by whozit: This would have gotten you fired at CNN.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 1:25 PM
PHOENIXROSE
You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 1:30 PM
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 3:50 PM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: To ME, The American Way means truth & justice. Somewhere it became lies & injustice. Under & over-reaction. We can start a war on a whim, but we can't stop shoplifters who don't steal "too much."
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 9:21 AM
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 10:49 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Interesting points you raise on this Geezer. I blame society in general for losing sight of "Truth & Justice." She's just behaving in response to some sense of disconnection from the good side, if you will. IMO.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 11:19 AM
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 3:17 PM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Oh, SHE understands all right. Else why would she wait 'till she *thinks* no one's looking?
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 3:24 PM
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 3:52 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Geezer: Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: To ME, The American Way means truth & justice. Somewhere it became lies & injustice. Under & over-reaction. We can start a war on a whim, but we can't stop shoplifters who don't steal "too much." Once again, it goes back to why your shoplifter girl doesn't think she's doing wrong. Why she's been taught that what she's doing isn't wrong. Why she thinks she's entitled to do what she wants, with no consequences. Why she'll demand her rights and give no thought to her responsibilities to others. Next time you see her boosting stuff, ask her. "Keep the Shiny side up"
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 3:57 PM
Thursday, October 7, 2010 2:09 PM
MAGONSDAUGHTER
Thursday, October 7, 2010 2:19 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Magonsdaughter: Maybe it's just that you're getting older...history is full of middle aged people bemoaning how everything was better in their youth,
Thursday, October 7, 2010 2:27 PM
Thursday, October 7, 2010 2:53 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Magonsdaughter: Maybe it's just that you're getting older...history is full of middle aged people bemoaning how everything was better in their youth, and how the world has gone to the dogs and the rest Youth is full of promise and hope and ambition, everything seems possible, and then reality sets in that life is not as easy or fulfilling as you thought it might be. Maybe that's happening to the US as a nation, you've hit the middle aged doldrums.
Thursday, October 7, 2010 2:54 PM
Quote:Originally posted by TheHappyTrader: Kwicko it now occurs to me that my theory on the American Way came from German toys (legos are German right?) and that is unamerican. I like baseball but have never eaten an apple pie. I fear I am unable at this point and to truely grasp what is American. Unless Jazz counts. Using the Jazz analogy, does America become an inconsistant force based around a fundamental theme developed and tweaked by each individual player that takes the lead for a point in time. We do kind of long for the older days of Miles Davis or Louie Armstrong when we get tired of the 'cut sessions' (basically a 'look what I can do' solo that looses all musicality and artistry but impressess those musically unsophisticated with the shear number of high notes or fast passages).
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by Magonsdaughter: Maybe it's just that you're getting older...history is full of middle aged people bemoaning how everything was better in their youth, Listen young lady, things were NOT better in my youth! We were killing peeps in Vietnam- theirs AND ours. Kent State & the justification... MKUltra, Watergate... the problem is that it never gets any BETTER!!! In my youth I thought it would get BETTER. To find it stays THE SAME is what hurts.
Thursday, October 7, 2010 3:13 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Magonsdaughter: Listen, you old fart, we are the SAME age, so don't come the YOUNG LADY with me. (Actually I quite liked it)
Thursday, October 7, 2010 4:21 PM
Thursday, October 7, 2010 4:42 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: It all comes down to breaking the cycle of abuse, because if you break it in the people, the family, you will break it in government soon after, and nationally, then worldwide. Because what is our treatment of other nations, truly, but the action of a violent father who wins out simply because he is larger and stronger, not because he is right ?
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