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How did voting go for you?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Izzie Bean Nov. 17, 2008.
Election Night Party
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Started this discussion. Last reply by wannabechef Oct. 15, 2008.
A Letter From Russ Feingold
Started Oct. 13, 2008
I'm a pet rock, I'm a stopped clock, I'm a yellow snake in a can...
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This site hates me. Well... it hates my browser. It hates Opera. Why? Why has it foresaken me?
So I'm forced to put this up using Microsloshed Internet Exploder.
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I should be frank. I should divulge some information that may turn a few of you off to the prospect of me being on this page.
I eat meat. Often. Not so much by choice (I love a good Thai tofu/green curry dish as much as anyone with brains in their head) but out of the fact that I'm the house chef in a home full of carnivores. But, I also do like eating meat on occassion. I also understand the importance of the world food crisis and the fact that not every acre of land on this planet is arable and available to cultivate crops. There's a reason that New Zealander's raise and eat a lot of sheep.
I own guns. Why do I own guns? Once upon a time my friends and I would often go out to a cool, local gun range of which we were all members for target shooting. We enjoyed the challenge. Also: I got over my fear of guns (yes, a fear of guns from someone who grew up in a gun owning household) by doing this. Guns, under the right circumstances, can be fun and help you create a network of friends to socialize with... often those friends do not share the majority of my political views. I moved, I can't find a place to shoot that's cool and cheap.
I am a huge organized labor supporter. I have never been a member of a union. I come to this belief partially because of the biological nature of people: we are a social animal. We need others to survive. Not in that "everyone needs a friend" type way but in the way that if forced to go it alone the vast majority of us from the beginning of our species to now would die.
So I'm forced to put this up using Microsloshed Internet Exploder.
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I should be frank. I should divulge some information that may turn a few of you off to the prospect of me being on this page.
I eat meat. Often. Not so much by choice (I love a good Thai tofu/green curry dish as much as anyone with brains in their head) but out of the fact that I'm the house chef in a home full of carnivores. But, I also do like eating meat on occassion. I also understand the importance of the world food crisis and the fact that not every acre of land on this planet is arable and available to cultivate crops. There's a reason that New Zealander's raise and eat a lot of sheep.
I own guns. Why do I own guns? Once upon a time my friends and I would often go out to a cool, local gun range of which we were all members for target shooting. We enjoyed the challenge. Also: I got over my fear of guns (yes, a fear of guns from someone who grew up in a gun owning household) by doing this. Guns, under the right circumstances, can be fun and help you create a network of friends to socialize with... often those friends do not share the majority of my political views. I moved, I can't find a place to shoot that's cool and cheap.
I am a huge organized labor supporter. I have never been a member of a union. I come to this belief partially because of the biological nature of people: we are a social animal. We need others to survive. Not in that "everyone needs a friend" type way but in the way that if forced to go it alone the vast majority of us from the beginning of our species to now would die.
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Corporate Welfare and the Free Market
There used to be a time when most of the bitching and moaning from the right in this country was about welfare. I'm not keen on dating myself, but I was a teenager when it seemed all the rage for affluent dumbfucks from area to bitch about welfare recipients. It was way back yonder in the '90s.
Not once did those people bitch about the vast majority of large, multi-billion dollar corporations in this country. The recent bailouts are just another example of this rewarding corporate malfeasance,… Continue
Not once did those people bitch about the vast majority of large, multi-billion dollar corporations in this country. The recent bailouts are just another example of this rewarding corporate malfeasance,… Continue
Posted on October 11, 2008 at 5:24am — 1 Comment
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Maybe I didn’t give enough info; I do eat meat. My wife is the vegetarian. I think it’s usually the hardcore vegans who get hostile about things. Perhaps the lack of comfort foods takes its toll on their personality. Actually, I’ve thought of raising chickens in a manner that I could capture their excrement for use as fuel. This method of farming is used throughout West Virginia and is highly environmentally neutral. But it’s not exactly cheap to start up so that would be down the road.
Being a West Virginian, I’ve done a bit of hunting. I recommend you bring a pistol along with you on your muzzle-loading trip. It takes time and nerves (you'll likely be shaking a bit after your first shot) to reload your weapon to put a wounded animal out of its misery. A pistol is more suitable and humane for this purpose.
The whole time that I was in Iraq, I said that when I got home I would put my uniform on and hit the streets to protest. It only took me five years to do so but I’ve done it a few times now. I guess it doesn’t change anything but it lets people know that the troops don’t all believe in what they’re doing. BTW I can’t vote for a presidential candidate who wants to pull troops out of Iraq to put them in Afghanistan. That said, If Bin Laden committed crimes against the United States that means he’s subject to U.S. law and therefore protected by the U.S. constitution. As president, you aren’t allowed to hunt him down and kill him. You must give him a trial and allow him to defend himself. And no, you can't declare war on a group of people who aren't a soverign nation, e.g. terrorists. Bin Laden isn't an enemy combatant, he's a suspect. Even that is questionable, since the FBI doesn't connect him to 9/11. (If I ramble on about the law, it's only because I was a military police officer for fourteen years) Enough said.
I remember life before NAFTA although I was a spoiled child and didn’t care much about that stuff. Maybe then NAFTA is the reason I started to wake up. It was at least twelve more years before I really knew what a free trade agreement was, what it did, and whom it affected.
Anyway, thanks for your comments. I can tell we’ll get along well. Nice to meet you.
What's a better way to kill your meat than with a gun? (Unless of course you're eating cats, and then I recommend a burlap sack and a hammer. . .only joking) I'm former military and a combat veteran (Ad Diwahneya, An Najaf, Iraq 2003, U.S. Army). I've noticed that the entire third world (at least the parts I've visited) is armed. As much as anyone may have ideological problems with gun ownership, the reality is that guns are here to stay. I'm not trying to sound like a dumb hillbilly, but as the bumper sticker says, "if you outlaw guns, only criminals will have them." It's logistically impossible to remove guns from society (and if you did, I'd just build one anyway) and since we've seen that the police are basically worthless at protecting us, we should be prepared to protect ourselves. Coincidentally, the constitution did not grant us the right to bear arms for the purposes of hunting. The intent was to have an armed society that could keep the government at bay. The intent was to have a society that possessed an equal or greater amount of firepower than the federal government. So wannabechef, you just rock-on with your bang-bangs.
I agree that we depend on society for survival but I'm in the process of trying to break free to the extent possible. I'm trying to convince the wife that THIS is the real estate market to try to pick up some land. I'm kind of like an undereducated engineer. I've already started playing around with windmill design in my cabinet shop. I'm searching for waste oil from Asian buffet restaurants to make some homebrew biodiesel. (I hear Asian buffets make the best grease . . .less water) I want to raise my own crops and maybe even some chickens. I realize that I can't be totally independent of society so I'd like to enter a farming co-op. I'd be happy if I could avoid buying anything from Wal-Mart or any other corporate America shopping center.
I get to replace the U shaped pipe that runs from the drain to the wall (yes, that how little I know about such things.. I can't even reference it by proper names) and then the 1950's style windows that are cracked and or broken, and I get to re-stain ALL the wood flooring. OH YES, how I look forward to that one. Hopefully, if time / money allows, remove that ridiculous mirror wall in the second half of the living room, although I hear that's a task I don't even want to attempt.
I need a team of me really.
Are you any good at cloning?
I hope my repair woes are mildly less time consuming, as there is only one of me, and many many of them before 'sale' is even an option...
IF sale is even an option with the current state of things.
If you're feeling like a good samaritan, perhaps I could borrow you for some pipe replacement in the bathroom sink ;)
I kid.. I kid!
(ok ok, that was a massive generalisation, but all too frequently true, imho...)
Also, thanks for the pro-tip on sink installation.
I fear I must be doing many similar things in the near future in preparation for cutting the ball and chain of owning a home that I didn't want to begin with.
I'm not Tim -the tool man- Taylor, but I fear I must invoke his spirit in the very near future, as I can't afford to hire out and Macgyver is currently out of service.
hitting send before intended causes confusion.
I was referring to the browser business, of course.
I'll keep an eye out for alternative browser goodness, as I, myself, am ever on the search for such a browser. As soon as I know, you will.