TOP (03-18-2018)
Don’t take it personally. Billy is a site mod and says that to everyone. It’s probably The friendliest thing he will say to you. Billy is the least biased and fairest person on JPP. He hates everyone equally.
Billy is also an Iraq war veteran who served as a Marine and has earned mucho respect from me...even if he is from Michigan.
I’m Mott. I’m a former Eisenhower Republican, pretty much an extinct breed. I left the GOP primarily due to their tacit tolerance of racist and bigots, and due to the utter incompetence of the Bush administration and its immoral invasion of Iraq and their embracing of the only economic system that’s as spectacular a failure as communism, Supply Side Economics.
I’m civil to all who are civil to me except for those who are openly racist for whom I do not have any respect for.
I to am a bibliophile though my background is in science. I also have a warped sense of humor. I look forward to spirited yet civil debate with you.
You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic!
TOP (03-18-2018)
LOL Thanks for that anything that makes the world funny is worth a thanks.
"To listen to someone is to put oneself in his place while he is speaking. To put oneself in the place of someone whose soul is corroded by affliction, or in near danger of it, is to annihilate oneself It is more difficult than suicide would be for a happy child. Therefore the afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard ... And the afflicted are nearly always equally deaf to one another; and each of them, constrained by the general indifference, strives by means of self-delusion or forgetfulness to become deaf to his own self." Simone Weil
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
We can always use another female conservative voice here. You say you are a teacher. Be prepared to be accused of being a sock. Anyway Welcome.
Truth Detector (03-26-2018)
Thanks Threedee, it is nice to know one is read and remembered. And while many will only deny and whine, there is that individual, that person still open to thinking that may think just a bit differently with eyes open. Some post for them.
I keep lots of old posts and odd writings as the same nonsense repeats itself like some old tired thought.
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/sho...ht=libertarian
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/sho...light=nutshell
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
Originally posted on fullpolitics.com
Libertarianism in a nutshell II
Rand's mother receives excellent care during her pregnancy
rand is born in a public education university hospital
he is well cared for in corporate day care
his parents have health insurance through work
he lives in a neighborhood in which the tax code provides good schools
he attends public school and his parents can afford tutors if needed
his grandparents provide funds for college
he attends a state college and graduates with a business degree
in college he joins a libertarian group
a friend of his father recommends him to a colleague for a job interview
he lands a job
he marries a woman of similar background
they have two children
he repeats much of the life of his parents but enters politics
he runs as a republican libertarian
his campaign stresses libertarian principles of freedom
hard work and the free market are the forces that matter
the election is close
rand wins
he enters during a time of excessive budget deficits
an enormous budget package includes reduced taxes and a reduction in entitlements
rand true to his libertarian creed votes yes
his is the deciding vote
protesters hold signs of disagreement in the streets
breakfast and lunch services are stopped for many children
loans are limited for education funds
early child care is reduced
health care also receives a large cutback
rand has been true to his libertarian creed
after all he made it on his own didn't he?
Addendum
https://www.ted.com/talks/alexander_...st_in_business
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.T...bertarian.html
http://www.spectacle.org/897/trust.html
"The most fundamental problem with libertarianism is very simple: freedom, though a good thing, is simply not the only good thing in life. Simple physical security, which even a prisoner can possess, is not freedom, but one cannot live without it. Prosperity is connected to freedom, in that it makes us free to consume, but it is not the same thing, in that one can be rich but as unfree as a Victorian tycoon's wife. A family is in fact one of the least free things imaginable, as the emotional satisfactions of it derive from relations that we are either born into without choice or, once they are chosen, entail obligations that we cannot walk away from with ease or justice. But security, prosperity, and family are in fact the bulk of happiness for most real people and the principal issues that concern governments." Robert Locke
http://www.theamericanconservative.c...-of-the-right/
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
The Truth Does Not Need To Be Supported With Censorship.
Truth Detector (03-26-2018)
Truth Detector (03-26-2018)
I believe this as well. Nobody really needs to accuse me of having Islamophobia, because I openly confess. I hereby declare that I fear Islam and dhimmitude. I served in the sand during the Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and faced Muslims in their natural habitat, which has left me with a fear of seeing USA succumb to Islam.
The Truth Does Not Need To Be Supported With Censorship.
Hey Midcan,
I try always to modify my comments on conservatism with the word "American." I suspect conservatives around the world look on American conservatism as something scraped from the bottom of a long neglected cesspool.
I also, as much as possible, try to use "American conservatism" rather than speak of "American conservatives." I know people who identify as conservatives...whom I love as family and friends.
American conservatism used to be of great value to this country. They were the loyal opposition...keeping American liberalism in check (something that has to be done often.)
Now, American conservatism is of value only for the mentally defective among us.
Libertarianism is on a rung far below American conservatism. FAR BELOW!
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Rune (03-26-2018)
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