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Post by jdredd on May 26, 2012 14:03:06 GMT -5
You have to admit the most overused word at the present is "Awesome" (followed closely by the F-word, but that has always been overused). Everything is "awesome", even if it is not. Frankly, I think the whole century is pretty unawesome. Except for worrying too much about rare instances of "terrorism", the main conflict seems to be over tax rates. Yawn. Of course in the 90's the most overused word was "Extreme". Everything was "extreme". I even saw an advertisement for "Extreme Banking", whatever that was. I guess it was a Gen X thing. But this new young generation, the so-called "Millennial Generation", might as well be called the "Awesome Generation". Why not? We already had the so-called "Greatest Generation". Of course the Baby Boomers are stuck with that hokey name. Yeah, it's all trivial, but this whole century is about trivial IMO.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 3, 2012 23:27:15 GMT -5
The boring debate, full of blah-blah-blah about tax rates etc., reminded me of how BORING this whole century has been so far. I feel sorry for young people. No wonder so many escape reality with video games.
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Post by Turk on Oct 4, 2012 0:10:35 GMT -5
Analyst on both sides agreed the debate was too detailed for the average mind to comprehend.
I could find many reason making video games the villain but tonight's debate would not be one of them.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 4, 2012 0:35:41 GMT -5
Is it the average mind can't comprehend, or the average mind doesn't give a crap? Neither candidate had anything new to say.
But video games are not evil, they are just a symptom of a deeper problem.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 28, 2012 5:03:01 GMT -5
www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/10/2012101691833380198.html"In 2004, a senior presidential aide told a writer for the New York Times magazine, "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality... we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." In the end, the neo-conservatives' "New American Century" lasted around seven years, from the al-Qaeda attacks on Washington and New York that fired the starting gun on the "War on Terror" to the departure from the White House of a much diminished George W Bush, with the quagmires of Iraq and Afghanistan having demonstrated "the limits, rather than the extent, of US military power", in the words of British newspaper columnist Seumas Milne" I'm not saying I agree with the author or the reviewer, my point is how everyone gets to invent their own versions of history. I've always been a history fan, even after I figured out later in life that accepted history is often inaccurate if not completely made up. But what I like now about history is people's differing spins, from Ann Coulter to Rachel Maddow and everything in between.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 19, 2012 19:15:02 GMT -5
We're finishing the 12th year of the This Awesome Century, and it starting to look like some changes are happening, changes in demographics that even all the billionaire conservatives' money can't prevent, just like all their propaganda can't make global warming go away.
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Post by Tired in CV on Nov 24, 2012 1:59:22 GMT -5
We're finishing the 12th year of the This Awesome Century, and it starting to look like some changes are happening, changes in demographics that even all the billionaire conservatives' money can't prevent, just like all their propaganda can't make global warming go away. Yes, the decline of this country is definate! It is not likely to go away soon so depending on how quickly it continues, you might experience some real discomfort compared to years past. Those who live in cities will notice it first. GEE, Democrat controlled territory. You may very well hear BURN BABY BURN as stores, factories and other places of employment are targeted. Once people have no income, no place to shop, etc. they will turn on each other to take what they need/want. That's when they go into the neighborhoods. We are closer to that than you think! Makes me think of the television show, REVOLUTION. Shut down ALL power, then the government forces against everybody and everybody doesn't know who they can trust, including the government.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 24, 2012 4:23:14 GMT -5
We're finishing the 12th year of the This Awesome Century, and it starting to look like some changes are happening, changes in demographics that even all the billionaire conservatives' money can't prevent, just like all their propaganda can't make global warming go away. Yes, the decline of this country is definate! It is not likely to go away soon so depending on how quickly it continues, you might experience some real discomfort compared to years past. Those who live in cities will notice it first. GEE, Democrat controlled territory. You may very well hear BURN BABY BURN as stores, factories and other places of employment are targeted. Once people have no income, no place to shop, etc. they will turn on each other to take what they need/want. That's when they go into the neighborhoods. We are closer to that than you think! Makes me think of the television show, REVOLUTION. Shut down ALL power, then the government forces against everybody and everybody doesn't know who they can trust, including the government. You bring up an interesting point, at least to me. But it's not quite the point you are talking about. It is the right's drift into Conspiracyland. Don't people on the right realize what a turn-off conspiracy theories are to many people? I'm not sure how much it may have effected the election drubbing the GOP got, but it does make the right look a little loonier than they already look IMO. Maybe one of the right's resident geniuses like Karl Rove (ha ha ha) should look into it. By the way, don't take it personal. I'm just commenting on how the right LOOKS.
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Post by Tired in CV on Nov 24, 2012 17:10:48 GMT -5
Yes, the decline of this country is definate! It is not likely to go away soon so depending on how quickly it continues, you might experience some real discomfort compared to years past. Those who live in cities will notice it first. GEE, Democrat controlled territory. You may very well hear BURN BABY BURN as stores, factories and other places of employment are targeted. Once people have no income, no place to shop, etc. they will turn on each other to take what they need/want. That's when they go into the neighborhoods. We are closer to that than you think! Makes me think of the television show, REVOLUTION. Shut down ALL power, then the government forces against everybody and everybody doesn't know who they can trust, including the government. You bring up an interesting point, at least to me. But it's not quite the point you are talking about. It is the right's drift into Conspiracyland. Don't people on the right realize what a turn-off conspiracy theories are to many people? I'm not sure how much it may have effected the election drubbing the GOP got, but it does make the right look a little loonier than they already look IMO. Maybe one of the right's resident geniuses like Karl Rove (ha ha ha) should look into it. By the way, don't take it personal. I'm just commenting on how the right LOOKS. Well, I think that many people are in the dark. So many leaders came to power by deceiving the people. Hitler is a standout as he started out doing good to gain the peoples confidence, then he swept the rug out from under them. Now, I'm not saying that Obama is a Hitler but he IS using some of the same methods including Healthcare (IN THE WAY HE IS USING IT). The people have just reelected the worst president we have ever had (worse than Carter!). Now, THAT is another record for Obama. Maybe the right looks To some, the right is full of conspiracies, but history has shown how often conspiracies were ignored and even laughed at until it was to late. The thing here is that "everyone" doesn't believe that it can happen here! It is happening and the Communist Party's in the U.S., while having their own party(s), have joined the Democrats and are a major influence in the party. Obama is definately among the farthest left of the Democrat party as well. He is playing the racial card to further the "cause". It has been written in books on socialism about using race to further such causes. He is following the line of several books (and probably writing a little of his own). To many people don't see the direction the country is taking because of the handouts they receive. They are bought! It is said that the Democrats have higher IQ's than Republicans. Well, it was those on welfare, food stamps and receiving other free benefits that delivered Obama the election. Hardly high IQ's other than learning how to game the system for free stuff and not having to work.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 24, 2012 17:44:17 GMT -5
If there is a Commie conspiracy in the WH, it's at least hidden well enough that I'm not seeing it. But long ago I decided I'd rather miss a real conspiracy than get hung up on fake ones.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 12, 2012 22:49:49 GMT -5
So I just watched PBS have a segment on the awesomeness of Twitter. Even the Pope now twits. Why is the MSM always so infatuated with technology fads? How much do you want to bet Twitter will be as dead as AOL in five years? It's all just tedious.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 16, 2012 18:04:35 GMT -5
On a day like today, I wonder: Could this century be any less awesome? I have a feeling it will be...
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Post by jdredd on Dec 17, 2012 4:35:26 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/articles/335753/after-newtown-and-it-editors"The practical consequence of living for nearly two-and-a-half centuries under the almost universally benevolent protection of the Second Amendment is a society in which there are hundreds of millions of guns, in which 47 percent of families and nearly as many Democrats as Republicans own guns, and in which the dissent over the sacrosanctity of gun rights is heard largely because of the overrepresentation in the media of the coastal, urban Left. Those upset with the order of things are welcome to try, and doomed to fail, to repeal the Second Amendment via the constitutional process. But the guns of America aren’t going anywhere any time soon, and generic calls to “do something” — even insofar as doing something is desirable — must reckon with this fact." Yes, for now. Things will get worse before they get better. But by the end of this century, I would not be surprised if gun ownership was just a memory. Attitudes change, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly with a new generation.
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Post by Turk on Dec 17, 2012 6:29:04 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Dec 27, 2012 3:02:36 GMT -5
Well, the 12th year of the 21st Century is coming to a close. Mankind continues to rape and plunder Mother Earth to satisfy it's appetite for ever increasing amounts of STUFF. Thousands more species of plants and animals will be eliminated forever in the next years. Am I too old to care? Perhaps.
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