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Kunstler: "We Are The Michael Brown Among Nations"
Submitted by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,
I begin to understand why the death of Ferguson, Mo, teen Michael Brown sent such shock waves through America last year. He truly symbolized our country: an overgrown, oafish, wannabe thug making one bad choice after another until his final, suicidal lurch against authority — followed by all the exculpatory lying on his behalf: the “gentle giant,” hands up, don’t shoot! This is exactly how America acts on the world stage these days. We are the Michael Brown among nations, high on exceptionalism, stoned on entitlement, swaggering moronically from one place to another grabbing what we feel like, smashing things up as we go.
Also, as in the case of the actual Michael Brown, supposedly sentient observers do not have the guts to call bullshit on all the excuses we make for ourselves. Has any self-styled presidential candidate made a peep about America’s idiotic campaign to make Ukraine the 51st state? Has Hillary (“It’s Her Turn”) Clinton asked publically why the US is egging on NATO to stage military exercises on the Russian border? Do we still have a senate Foreign Relations Committee, and does it convene once in a while? Is The New York Times so preoccupied with its “Gay Cities” index it forgot that the world is full of serious conflicts and hazards that extend beyond the choosing of apartment décor?
Likewise, there are obvious reasons why we’re so busy demonizing Vladimir Putin. He’s the only serious adult on a stage full of special ed students. When Vlad goes on vacation what does the American media do? It launches into raptures of speculation about his “love child” — because in this country any political leader foolish enough to step out of the spotlight for a few minutes will be gleefully unmasked as a “cheater,” a lothario (because, despite our ultra-pornified 24/7 twerk-o-rama culture, we apparently think sex is bad), so then the peanut gallery can enjoy the grotesque spectacle of apology and the inevitable punishment that follows despite any apologies. Vlad walked out of a winter Olympic venue fourteen months ago and said, simply, “I’m divorcing Lyudmila….” End of story. Oh, and Vlad also doesn’t subscribe to the current American notion that being homosexual is a major life achievement. That truly offends!
This also explains America’s obsession with cartoon superheros, and especially characters who enjoy high-tech prosthetics for projecting power — all those robo-soldiers and cops, and the fabulous American Sniper with his thousand yard kill-shot. Without all this magic we’d be revealed as weaklings, our vitality sapped by decades of Froot Loops, Cheez Doodles, and Pepsi, our brains shriveled by untold hours of conditioning by way of Grand Theft Auto, Dark Souls II, and Keeping Up with the Kardashians. What do foreign leaders think when they have concluded their mystifying sessions with our Secretary of State, the haircut-in-search-of-a-brain, John Kerry. Do they look around the floor of their ministerial offices to see if any sawdust leaked out of his head?
Has anyone actually looked around and noticed what a scabrous sight American towns and cities present these days? There are places here in the old Yankee northeast that Borat would be ashamed to call home. We live amidst so much delaminating plastic it’s a wonder that virtually everybody doesn’t have cancer. The squalor is awesome, and to make matters worse, we’re even too lazy to clean up the stuff that is just lying around on the ground — and certainly too lazy to try to grow anything in that ground if it didn’t promise to grow up looking like a pepperoni stick or a corn dog.
America’s moment of getting kicked to the curb by other nations is at hand. I don’t think it will be a kinetic war, not right away, but it will be a hearty financial beat-down, and many of the members of our insane clown posse in Europe are going to feel the beat-down, too. America tried, at the very last moment, to join the new BRICs development bank. Who finally decided that? Barack Obama? John Kerry? Jack Lew: the Three Stooges? Get gold. If you can.
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It's becoming more and more obvious that the sanctions by the West against Russia are hitting the Ukrainan economy above all.The sanctions also hit the European economy very hard, maybe even harder than they hit Russia! Many Russian companies have actually increased their turnover because the Russian consumers now have to buy domestic products. The former Bloomberg News Chief Editor Matthew Winkler, says that international investors are currently increasing their investments in the Russian market.
Where can you buy corn dog seeds? I need about 30 lbs worth.
Bookmarking this for the comments when they've rolled in.
"high on exceptionalism, stoned on entitlement, swaggering moronically from one place to another grabbing what we feel like, smashing things up as we go"
That's freaking CLASSIC...
+100
WHERE'S MY EBT CARD?!?!
NOW!!!!!!!
give we muh bits or give we death!
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It's only fair!
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baboons can learn to read clocks, they remain baboons.
period.
What is cuntsler the kikelover crying about this time?
It's called an ACCESS Card, and everyone in the Sam's Club line had one except me. Who's the sucker now??
This is the best rant I've read in years. And it's spot on.
LOL, Loved the "homosexuality as a major life achievement" bit.
Zing, pow!
I do love it when these analysts get fed up and really let one rip. Right on, right on, right on. This is us now. The rest of the world seems to be looking at their shoes, waiting for the bouncer to kick the shit out of the angry obnoxious drunk in the bar who won't shut up, keeps breaking things.
Yeah! Cuntsler is right, fuck black people.
Yessir, one after another successful foreign policy moves by the corrupt, incompetent, divisive arrogant narcissistic illegal alien muslim pathologic lying fudgepacker....
Corn Dog seeds are right next to the Pot plant seedlings. They go hand in hand.
Actually cultivating cannabis requires rudimentary knowledge of plant and weather science. For successful growers hard work and dedication too. They are NOT the corn dog crowd, I assure you.
The US is the bull in the china shop on the world stage, fomenting death and destruction wherever it goes.
The behavior of a savage amongst the civilized.
down arrow for total cliche. at least try to put a little effort in next time.
Down arrow for putting delivery over content.
You are trained well by your handlers.
Down arrow for down arrowing a down arrower!
Ease of production depends a lot on the cultivar, and your growing situation. In Europe the Tangerine Dream cv. was a good choice (outdoors UK south cost, indoors (hydroculture) all year round everywhere else). Acceptable "commercial" levels of the useful contents ( delta-9 THC ) as well.
(Amazing what you learn working for the UK Prison Service for a few months . . . . . :-) )
Growing pot that does the job is fairly easy and it grows like a "weed". Not that I have any experience from my youth to know this :)
"Actually cultivating cannabis requires rudimentary knowledge of plant and weather science."
So that's what the Globalwarmists ("science") are stoned on.
They are in the same aisle as the marshmallow bulbs.
I hear Michele Bachmann has her corn dog seed supplier on speed dial.
Bachmann opposed the State Dept/NeoCon/NeoLib/ZioCon dumping tens of thousands of Somalis on Minnesota so shove a corn dog or bagel up your arsehole.
Wahoo. She is still an authoritarian big govt, pro war statist. Keeping a few Somalis out of Minnesota hardly makes up for her positions on other things.
Bachmann opposed the State Dept/NeoCon/NeoLib/ZioCon dumping tens of thousands of Somalis on Minnesota so shove a corn dog or bagel up your arsehole.
Look Freddie, we all agree she's hot, in a mom-next-door kinda way. We get it.
That doesn't mean we want her Zionist brain anywhere near the levers of power.
Same aisle as the cheeseburger plants.
If there are money trees (and there are) there are corn dog trees as well.
We stold Ukraine's Gold on day-2 of the CIA Coup. Fit's right in with the article above.
Indeed! It was amazing how fast that gold got loaded on a plane and flown to a destination unkown. Now it can be rehypothecated a thousand times over by Goldman Sachs, and feed 5 trillion dollars in financial engineering.
It amazes how Ukrainians sat there in silence as Americans loaded the gold up on and had it in the air headed to America before the smoke had cleared off the Maidan!
Not so amazing when one realizes that, by analogy, it's an NFL linebacker takin' a grade schooler's lunch money.
The US explained to them that their gold was going to be stolen by terrorists.
They fell for it, and then the terrorists stole it.
Nudelman and her 'merikan proxy zio-tards may be pushed out of there eventually, but not before the place is stripped AND completly destroyed. I think that's part of their sick plan...put as many economic strains on Russia as possible.
Because freedom and democracy.
It works like this: Is the country a complete AngloQuisling vassal state?
Yes: OK, fine, leave it alone, bail out their banks as and when needed. Ensure that only people with skeletins in their closets get promoted to positions of power in politics and the judiciary.
No?: Are they (relatively speaking) culturally/politically homogenous?
Yes: Slap sanctions on them, assassinate their key technical people, buy any possible opposition leaders/movements, try to build up a Quisling 5th column.
No: Exploit any divisions and foment civil war. Mop up the remnants.
Rinse, repeat.
Amazingly fast, yet Germany can't get a few tons per year from the .fed....
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"He truly symbolized our country."
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My. Ass.
Don't EVEN THINK of lumping me, and my family in with the deeply entrenched, across-the-board dysfunction of black society, as exemplified by this violent, utterly worthless savage.
Feel the same way, except for the racist part. Fuck all these comparisons and the shitty bloggers that pen them, no matter their skin color.
You are most certainly in the minority on this.
Sorry, friend, but there's more of them than there are of us. (Else how do you explain, e.g., Barack Hussein Obama?)
White guilt, the US public "education" system and billions in taxpayer money.
Shame about the US rail system.
Brainwashed whites+trillions wasted on welfare raising criminals+urban voter fraud=Barack Hussein Obama, um, um, um.
In case you haven't looked there are WAY more whites on "welfare" than there are blacks.....
(or any other minorities)
Open your eyes. Lose the bigotry.
Africans in america are 13% of the population, but collect 40% of welfare. Nice try tho. Facts are racist, I guess
...and it's a spit in the ocean compared to the biggest welfare queens: General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop-Grumman, JPM-Chase, Lockheed-Martin, et al.
Like I'm white jackass. Hell, I ain't even black.
Uruguay is looking better every day.
Palau dude..
Do you really want to go to a country that looks like U R Gay?
You've listening to too much Simon Black
Easy......Diebold and Rothschild
yeah well... a lot of truth in the article, but please-call me an eric garner american in a michael brown america
There is nothing "racist" about what I said.
Not a damn thing.
Then why not go with "We Are The Jon Corizine Among Nations"...too much backlash from the top?
oh but some things are more racist than others lol!
"We Are The Jeffery Dahmer Among Nations"... would have been equally correct.
Too specialised a description. The majority who never read finance blogs such as ZH (and most of those on the left of this column) have really never heard of him.
Try asking your "Average Man / Woman in the Street", and see if the name Jon Corzine even gets a glimmer of recognition!
Try asking your "Average Man / Woman in the Street" who James Howard Kunstler is.
Lumping a group together based on the color of their skin and applying homogenous qualities to an entire category of people not racist? As Irish and Native American I bet you think I'm an alcoholic that can't hold my liquor too.
Your presumption blinded you from the content. I clicked with the same offended attitude, but the comparison works.
You quote: "He truly symbolizes our COUNTRY", then go into how your family isnt like a black kid. Do you see the miss now?
America and most of the so called 'civilized world' are basically adult children, easily led, easily bribed and easily fooled and considering who we elected, then re-elected president, the only thing that can happen is for things to get much worse with no alternative allowed or even spoken of....
$4 Trillion of US debt added since 2011. Things will get worse, guarateed.
To say the USA acts like Michael Brown is not to say that everyone in the USA is like Michael Brown.
Nope, but the thundering herd must be appeased. We the people are ignored as religous gun-nuts who think they built this country while the elites in the northeast corridor plan their final solution.....
Not every WW2 German was a fascist either. Tell that to Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt.
Heard about Jim Stuhlman?
http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2015/03/ele-james-stuhlman-...
Didnt think so....
"The foundation has been set, and watching the media circus move from town to town across America when an act of purported white supremacy occurs against the 'helpless' black individual makes it clear the reality of an E.L.E is no longer in the realm of science fiction or the delusional paranoia of the most devout conspiracy theorist."
Where's the writer been for the last 50 years? Living in an all white suburb his whole life?
Anyone else remember this high tech media lynching of an armed white man?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Goetz
It's the one that woke me up. Family members asked me, 'What took you so long?'
He is his father's(DC welfare state) son.
Do you watch TV and Hollywood's crap? Then you support it and enable it 100%.
Right on Precwat, unarmed black people are savages who deserve to be shot dead!!
America: the gentle giant.
Apparently all those drones were uploaded with autonomous kill decision software. Who, me?
It's so sad, a once great country now being destroyed by the Federal Reserve!
I will love him, pet him, feed him and call him George.
"I can't remember anything.
The police say I've been smoking angel dust.
My parents are watching television.
I came downstairs and murdered them."
-- America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79KtCywZAo4
Well said. Great article. I look forward to the day when Whites/Blacks/Hispanics/Etc. come together and turn their attention to those behind the curtains. They're the real enemies of society. We should all start with the Trilateral Commission.
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary
Coward,
In an emergency situation, one who thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
Love the DD. Not circulated nearly enough.
What rhymes with "Dunkirk"? Perhaps this time they, the Americans in particular, can be convinced to stay out of Europe.
Nice one
James Howard Kuntsler: MAN OF THE PEOPLE [who still avoids writing about, which makes him a DE FACTO believer in, the 9/11 Commission Report, because his TRIBE, & CH1, might become offended]
Zero Hedge seems to post virtually around the clock, every day. .
The characters who infest their comment section are some of the worst vermin in trolldom
Kunstler
I'm guessing he never watched Fight Club. Even wordsmiths can miss a point or two, or he is just jealous of ZH talent levels.
Don’t shoot – I’m a vermin!!
Sounds like he is a pussy then. And a total stooge if he buys into the false 9/11 narrative.
Fuck you Cuntzler...
By his own admission, Kunstler voted for Obama not once, but twice; even though Kunstler knew Obama was a fraud, he somehow came to the conclusion that Obama would be less fraudy than Romney.
But, is Obozo less psycho than McStain?
If nothing else, it suggests that Herr Kunstler doesn't read the comments section of his own blog.
He doesn't give a FF... He gets paid a fucking [PRINTED/COUNTERFEITTED] sheckel for every word he vomits up... By the time it's all read, he's blown it on Pepsi & hookers...
The use of the word "suggests" does not preclude that possibility.
Well it's obvious that he has a paid staff [to junk dissenting comments ~ based on the MIRACLE of presence of Las Vegas Dave, whom, apparently has the day off from his Baby Ruth cleaning DOODY's on Sheldon Adelson's pool]... Typical TRIBE operating procedure...
Gotta go now, cause they're closing in on me in my Argentinian jungle hideout... LOL
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/suspected-nazi-hideout-discovered-in...
The characters who infest their comment section are some of the best vermin in trolldom.
Fixed it.
Well, if we all comprise "The Scum", we should be doing quite well, seeing as the scum floats to the top . . . . . . ;-)
You're a professional slanderer. Correlation does NOT equal causation. You simply seem like shtf already for you and need to pin the blame on a GROUP. Why? Also, related, do you believe there is some sort of Nubian cabal involving professional sports and control over wealth? Look at how black people are literally paid to reproduce. If not, why then is the chosenite situation different?
Make sure you never leave out the righteous indignation when you criticize others!
I mean it is self-evident that only your opinion is 100% correct.
I was born a poor black child...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfAvQp-Uk5I
Steve Martin: The Jerk
Many here will not get the reference, some will.
"The new phone book is here!"
Tattooed American youth: "WTF is a phone book?"
Once the Internet goes dark, the Yellow Pages will be an item of very high value indeed (as will cheap off-the-shelf reading glasses).
Something else to add to your "Survival Essentials" stockpile - glasses - since what's cheap now, may be unobtainable in the future . . . . .
How many Billions did U.S. taxpayers just hand over to Ukraine? $10 Billion?
We are slaves not citizens, serfs and subjects not free people.
Tax Payers didn't hand over shit to Ukraine. Your illegitemate president (really his handlers) did. Hence, your dollar buys less. Good luck.
As our infratructure and inner-cities crumble, Wall Street Bonuses are skyrocketing. Fuck I hate New York City and Wall Street Ivy League Faggots!
The number of unrepaired potholes seems to only increase with time anymore, at least in the SF Bay Area.
The term "pothole" is un-PC. The correct term is "Alternatively Paved". Don't hate.
And the only way this can be fixed is with Fed-injected Quantitative Paving?
No. We have to celebrate alternative paving. It's the new thing. Somebody from the media/government will be by to explain how we've been experiencing our "smooth pavement privilege", and how that's just wrong.
Pavementally challenged.
Don't you dare call it 'black'top neither!
Asphalt is not a rectal malady.
Public spending on roads, airports, bridges, railways and power grids is only half of Europe's, and some say the nation’s very prosperity is threatened
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-us-economy-is-under-threat-becau...Ouch!
JHK at his best.
He often ticks me off but I swear he writes the truth more often than not.
He's an idiotic statist without the slightest clue as to how the world works. That the script finally pissed him off enough to form a rant in no way lessens the fact that he fully believes the script is real.
Like all the rest, he's still drunk on the Kool-Aid. It's just that the cognitive dissonance is finally catching up to him.
You see that? THAT is how you write the opening paragraph of an Op-Ed piece.
At least the empire was kinda worth it when we had double cheeseburgers for a dollar. We don't have that anymore - they're two bucks now ffs.
Just push the button already. What difference at this point does it make?
NAPA so much more than an autoparts store
Amerika "Winning"
There goes any respect I had for Kunstler.
Here, here, Mr. Kunstler..... damn good show.
Yawn.
Turn on the TV; plenty of sex and violence to keep you stimulated. "Rape, murder - it's just a click away."
-- "What do foreign leaders think when they have concluded their mystifying sessions with our Secretary of State, the haircut-in-search-of-a-brain, John Kerry. Do they look around the floor of their ministerial offices to see if any sawdust leaked out of his head?"
Good one.
HR Housekeeping: The Conspiracy of Stupidity
So, the conspiracy of genetic stupidity has reached out and grabbed many, again, just when they thought they were going to reach escape velocity, and were surprised when the gravity was family, friends, and co-workers. Don’t look back; prepare for the gate at the end of the next cycle. Your empire identity isn’t working for you.
The development and empire curves are convex and concave relative to each other. Those who made the gap did so with resonance, the help of a stranger. Hard work and intelligence is necessary, but without the ability to see beyond the empire, you remain blind. Some who made the gap fell back, because they didn’t recognize anyone on the other side.
The empire is what it is for very good reason. Most compete to get their way, and so fall prey to empire. Don’t expect the blind to lead you anywhere but backwards. Life is a marathon; build surplus, beyond the reach of others, so when the empire reaches out to grab you, you always have another gear.
We all do stupid, expedient, best-is-the-enemy-of-better sh-, but because the political majority prints money for the purpose is no reason to make a habit of it. If you want to be popular, do nothing, talk like you know things others do not, and be born rich. Feudalism hasn’t changed in thousands of years. If you want something done, do it, and expect gravity to align against you.
The one thing you know is that empire is not reality; money in the form of real estate inflation is not wealth. Rocket science is not required to build a blind alley and attack others as they pass. The shortest distance is never a straight line, because time is an illusion maintained by gravity. Don’t live in the time of others and expect to get anywhere.
Just because the State decrees that 2 and 2 is 5 for one group, and 2 and 2 is 3 for another, in an education system built for the purpose, doesn’t make it so. Samsung or Apple, Bank of America or Bank of China, makes no difference to labor. Labor doesn’t have a political party, and it doesn’t make decisions based upon a FILO bankruptcy queue, one way or the other.
Most tend to run things into the ground, and then assume that living from the resulting emergency to emergency is normal. That others will print money to feed the ignorance should be of no surprise. Nothing changed with Lehman or TARP. A lot of people temporarily woke up to the fact that they were on a slow train to death, and the Fed administered more of the same.
Monetary and fiscal policy is irrelevant to your life, unless you assume that empire is reality, which is why the critters spend all their time digging their own grave, expecting a different outcome, and steal what life they can, from others headed in the other direction. Genetic expression depends upon environment. Don’t plant your seed in dirt.
Adaptation is not about what you want. The point of marriage is to build something new together, not to fight over who’s parent you are going to live with. Printing money and giving it to one group, to create jobs for another, to pretend to work, while machines crank out product for dumber and dumber people, disconnected from nature, is not an economy, no matter how many time the Fed moves the baseline, to prove that stupidity is productivity.
Don’t measure yourself by other people’s yardsticks and expect to escape gravity. MS didn’t scale up because its products were effective, nor will its successor, in a chain of bait and swaps, relying on the unreliable to create economic activity, in an increasingly closed system, of shrinking potential under increasing pressure.
Building an electrical operating system, even for Maglev with no physical switching gear, is a walk in the park relative to raising children within the empire, because the bridge requires a foundation of faith, which is nowhere to be found in the empire, including its church. Married people don’t have friends or enemies; they have union, and promote trade accordingly, equal rights and affirmative action or no.
I have more horror stories about government unions corrupting private unions than anyone, but this too shall pass. It’s HR’s job to exclude you. Herds exist to avoid change, which is why predators exist. The cleanest dirty shirt is not the path to the future. Even rust has a purpose. Neither a lender nor a borrower be.
and things will only get worse, now that the US wants to be the energy (policeman) to the world. Europe is in a constant tug of war between Russia and the American colonies (Canada and Mexico, as well as the states) now we can give them all the LNG they want, cheap, or pretty cheap anyway. time to turn off Gazprom, time to disenthrone some OPEC princes. time to expose the Chinese entry into the global economy as a hot money fraud. the US will soon be rich and lazy, would you rather read about Saudi princes drag racing their Maseratis, or American rednecks? we are going to get a lot fatter, a lot stupider, and a lot more powerful. once things start down the road they usually keep going. Obama will someday be viewed as an enlightened presidency, that's how bad it will be. as Gibbons said, at the peak of Rome's power there was no where to escape. Rome's reach went into every place. America is dead, long live America
darn it every time i quote gibbon i get downaired. hey go to my website and look at my webcam i am eating doritos and playing with myself. is that better? now if only i could connect the message with the thing all the haters want to hear, that the bad america is going to fail, when it fact it is doing quite well. sorry about that
"darn it every time i quote gibbon i get downaired. hey go to my website and look at my webcam i am eating doritos and playing with myself. is that better? now if only i could connect the message with the thing all the haters want to hear, that the bad america is going to fail, when it fact it is doing quite well. sorry about that"
I don't speak for EVERYONE here at ZH but a common feeling here, if I may be so bold as to project a bit, is that we LOVE out country, but fucking management currently (and for the past few decades) sux ballsac.
So yea, the next question is "elections" don't even GO there, ok?
you can make the same analogy with the police force....ferguson is what you get when bad judgement collides, any halfway decent officer could have handled that situation better.
"you can make the same analogy with the police force....ferguson is what you get when bad judgement collides, any halfway decent officer could have handled that situation better."
Well, now that Police forces can not get enough recruits that are "home grown" they're pushing for naturalized citizens to become cops.
Hat's off to the first graduating class of Muslims from Somalia. We can just ship them from Lewistom Maine down south to you guys.
That should fix things in a hurry.
The only thing he could have done is let the kid run away and wait for a backup. I'm sure he regrets not doing that now. Most cops don't stand down to violence though.
How in the world Wilson put himself in a position where Brown was able to reach through the window of his cruiser and go for his gun; it can only be explained by sheer tactical stupidity.
Pull up right next to a crazed 300 lb. black man, who is walking in the middle of the street disrupting traffic, then roll down your window and talk shit. After all, you got a gun and a badge.
Riiiight.
To: JSTANLEY: that is the key to the whole event. When Wilson backed up he did not control the situation. LEOs are trained to be in control of situations. Wilson did not see this as a situation where he was officially investigating something. He was just getting in Brown's face. I am surprised so many experts in this field missed these facts. Wilson should have pulled forward, turned the vehicle aroung and returned "in control.".
LOL and fuck you if you find this analogy inappropriate or racist.
Peace be with you Darren Wilson.
Nice language there "christian" hypocrite.
But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. - Colossians 3:8
Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. - Ephesians 5:4
Meh. I understood his point just fine. I also understand what you're trying to convey, but are you sure he's a Christian? It's not always a safe assumption.
"are you sure he's a Christian? "
Certainly not- but he does lay claim to being a nominal "christian."
"For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit. "For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush." - Luke 6:43,44
"We are the Michael Brown among nations, high on exceptionalism, stoned on entitlement, swaggering moronically from one place to another grabbing what we feel like, smashing things up as we go."
I don't agree with Mr K half of the time, but he sure nailed it this time.
I think this time K really did nail it! Putting together M. Brown and the present state of many Americans was masterful!
I agree. A brilliant analogy.
Red-meat dog whistles.....and obviously you hear it clearly.
just sad
"Vlad also doesn’t subscribe to the current American notion that being homosexual is a major life achievement."
I'm not going to go off on gays here, but I do agree with the above statement. While I don't care what gays do, I feel they have very right to their life. BUT, I wonder at America's popular culture and it's absolute full obsession with gay sex, homosexual 20 somethings, the gay life style, and all that. Liberals in particular act as if gays were the only real thing going now days. And when it comes to Russia, the hate of liberals seems totally focused on the one law in Russia that forbids anyone for using the public trust to encourage the gay lifestyle among children under 18.
I would think that a good law. Why should children be pressured by gays to be gays when they are under 18? And Liberals, they are calling for nuclear wr on Russia, just to force the overturning of a simple little law pertaining to underage children and sex.
I tried to counsel Ernst that his peccadilloes would harm the Party. I had no choice but to cut him loose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm
It has been agendized in the US as a chisel to the foundation of society. It is placed in entertainment as a part of conditioning. 1-2% of the population claims some form of that lifestyle, so there is not a target audience large enough for a program to include that as a main topic. The push in childrens programming is the perverse influence that is sickening.
Frankfurt School nation-wrecking manual.
Don't ever expect a Liberal to use logic of any sort. Liberals only deal in emotions. Emotions are the only things that Liberals "understand", and the phrase by which all things Liberal are at the core is "IT'S NOT FAIR!!!"
Am I to infer that conservatives don't deal in emotions much?
It depends on what flavor of Conservative you're dealing with I reckon. At least most types of Conservatives will at least pay lip service to statictics or data points.
And when they come out their 'bravery' is extolled even though the reaction is always one of drooling admiration.