nathanm

You mean regular people want to actively work to help solve a problem in their community!? Impossible! Folks need to be forced to pay for such things, otherwise there'd be NOTHING!

As a voice that warns about government tyranny, I find it insulting to infer that I've said tyranny is 'just around the corner'. No, it's very much right here, right now. There's no, 'turning into a police state' it's TURNED. Everybody thinks they know what tyranny looks like, but the joke's on us. They aren't going to do the whole Nazi\North Korean\Pink Floyd The Wall style fascism any more with the marching and the uniforms and propaganda posters. (except for the whole SWAT thing, but that's not as marchy) We're too keen on that.

When will this 'brave experiment' be over Mr. President? The two centuries of data we've collected so far doesn't look good. If only this experiment was aborted as quickly as the Stanford Prison Experiment was, there might not be such a vast swath of destruction in its wake. If we actually had "self-government" it wouldn't be that hard and frustrating. It would simply be the matter of getting out of bed every morning and going about your day with an unnoticed and unacknowledged absence of violence, war, theft, bribery, and intimdation. The government that nonsense-spewing goofball is at the top of bears no resemblance to such a situation. I don't have to struggle to not kick in my neighbor's door and demand money. Things go much smoother if you're a nice person. You should try it sometime, Mr. President.

Definitely not the sort of personal update I was expecting to hear. Very saddening, but here's to hoping you can kick some lymphoma ass to the dirt. Also, scar-covering or no, the beard looks good. Surely whiskers add a little philosophical power in a historical sense.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/01/attacks_on_science_government_antiscience_on_the_rise.html Aww man, that's bad news bears. Have we learned anything, Phil? You like, said the answer already, kinda. I thought you would have got a clue. No? Still not seeing it yet, eh? OK then, carry on…

Just disgusting. I don't know how anyone can think that we do not have a system of chaos in America. The feds do whatever the hell they want. Like shooting the building full of toxic, flammable tear gas and announcing "We're not attacking you!" Complete insanity. Here's an interesting map I found in a related Cato article. It shows botched SWAT raids. You can see what happened in places near you! Pretty scary. http://www.cato.org/raidmap

I'm assuming the audience members all had handkerchiefs over their faces, the event parking lot was full of upside down cars, and the inside of the hall was lit entirely by molotov coktails and burning tires?

I've had good luck with used Macs from mainstream vendors. It gives you a little more piece of mind than buying from someone on eBay. Try powermax.com macofalltrades.com Under $500 for an Intel mac is going to be tricky, though. Our department had three 6+ year old G5s fail up on us and the motherboard replacement would've cost more than a new model. It's time to move on. It sucks, because the case on those things is a work of art. The first time I saw one I'm like, "This thing must never be put in a landfill!"

I know people are capable of faking it, but it also becomes detectable. If you can read people's eyes and faces and things that are unsaid you get an idea of what really might be happening. My point is just that if you are confident that you are seeing a truthful happy family, it would be crazy to think that they got that way by spanking and threats. I don't know what goes on inside every household of my friends and relatives, but I think I have a good idea of who screwed up and who didn't with their parenting styles. The evidence is all around in the media as well. Any story about some serial killer, all the TV shows of horribly dysfunctional people…you know darn well those people had horrible home environments. It's just as implausible to imagine all the positive, productive, successful, enviable people in the public eye got where they are because their parents acted like drill sargeants.

I have to assume that the hateful brand of sarcasm coming from "sircomespect" is based on experience. He sees negative behavior, feels anger, reads about you advocating for preventative, positive behavior, but ignores that and pastes in his fantasy about you advocating being nice towards negative behavior. It's the same tactic all the time. They must never have seen anything different in their life. That's how I learned perspective in my own early life, my friends' families had very different environments so I knew other alternatives existed. Apparently this never happened for him. Surrounded by shittiness at all times and the only thing that makes sense is more shittiness. It is the easiest possible emotion to feel, I feel it every time I watch a cop video. But the rage has to morph into sadness if you ever want to fix the problems. Nobody ever looks at an upbeat, happy, positive family and thinks "Aww they're so sweet, they must have beat the crap out them at any early age!" The spanking apologists only work from the model of reacting to total assholes with more assholery. Maybe there needs to be a conspiracy. Maybe hired actor parents need to infiltrate the grocery stores of the world, have their 'kids' throw a tantrum and have the parents react rationally and smooth out the problem just so these hate-filled cynics can SEE the alternative for once in their lives.

[View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFHL76lIo7k] I want to be master of my own Emotions with a fire that fills meBut I don't understand myself and I don't knowI don't know what my heart is anymoreI don't want to be standing in this war through pity and responsibilitySo come into my life with your violence and pain'Cause I feel the depths of a love I've never knownTake a hold of my lifeMake it into one that I want it to beMake a whole of my lifeMake my faces one that I want you to seeI can't stand to see confusion in your eyesWhen I drift away sometimesCould I ever be more faithless in my life?For all the hope I've found in these daysIt's always frightened me how some things lose their meaningHow some things changed direction with a breezeDon't ask me where I amI am trying to come homeBut I can't keep myself from driftingTake a hold of my lifeMake it into one that I want it to beMake a whole of my lifeMake my faces one that I want you to seeSometimes it makes me feel feelings which I never hoped to findSometimes it makes me feel like I'm living out of time.Sometimes it makes me feel feelings which I never hoped to findSometimes it makes me feel like I'm living out of time

That guy's an overachieving jerk! I don't buy the full employment thing at all. How is that possible when one guy singlehandedly rebuilt a million homes and then went on to rebuild the entire country!? Geez, save some jobs for the other contractors, Superman! Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the noble politicians who keep the marauding bandits at bay and make our way of life possible, but it can be too much when their heroism is putting their constituents out of work.

The video crapped out on me part way in for whatever reason, but reading the blog and listening to the interview on the School Sucks podcast was great. Extremely positive, envy-inducing family life they've got there. If the way to a better world means living by example I'd say the Martins are doing a helluva job. Sure, maybe it's hard to fathom such a lack of structure, but if more people took a few pages from their playbook the world would undoubtedly be a better place.

I stopped using Facebook because of the character limit. I have no idea if it's different now, but I have no intention of returning. Google+ is much nicer. I will occasionally plant some anarchist seeds in the 'popular' public threads if they are of a politcal nature. But it causes me a lot of anxiety when I choose to do so because I know I am going to be flamed. So far I've been called ignorant, stupid, competely clueless, living in a fantasy world etc. but no real argument to anything I've said. I try to remain calm and keep it upbeat and positive and let the statist apologist get bent out of shape. I'm sure it's all 99% useless, but all you can do is plant seeds and hope something grows in someone's mind. Every topic I've seen devolves into a binary Democrat\Republican echo chamber, so you need to install the acoustic panels of anarchy to try and tame the noise.

Wow, that is really bizarre. That is an extremely uncomfortable position to be put in. He broke the clinical, formal, and professional nature that you want in such an interaction by talking about his personal beliefs. And in your own home too! Very unprofessional if you ask me. Sure, it's nice to have a little bit of casual banter but it should be all business, really. So what did you say to him? This is a situation where religious people really have the upper hand over us. I can think of hundreds of times where a religious person has been given all the slack in the world simply because they are nice. They go in hard with the niceness and pleasantries and you know damn well you can't counter their bullshit without coming across as the bully. So what happens? We clam up, don't say anything and hope it slides by. It seems like the right reaction. But maybe there needs to be more pushback. I'm speaking generally, I don't think there's enough detail in the story so far to make a concise judgement. Sarcastic replies I thought of but would never be clever enough to think of it in the moment: "So are all my humors in balance?" "I think my blood should be pretty clean, I've been doing leeches twice a day and most of the demons escaped when I had the trepanning done."

Careful Peter, this might not end well for you! Take THAT, IP!

1. Burnt out headlight. Fixed, no fine. 2. Speeding 80 in a 65. (standard passing lane pace) Bad place bad time, cop JUST pulled out from another unlucky sod and went after me. Paid $200 fine 3. Expired plate sticker. I forgot to send in my $75. Paid fee + late penalty. Received sticker. Had to attend a pre-trial hearing at courthouse because I plead not guilty. Took cell phone picture of car with new sticker. Case dismissed. I absolutely hate being around police. They get my nervous system ramped up like mad. I absolutely hate their tone, their body language and attitude. And I'm talking about when they're being 'nice', not shouting and angry. Just that horrible passive aggressive, extremely formal manner. Because nobody in real life talks that way. It's completely inhuman sounding. In #2 the woman even apologized for pulling me over. But it's all so insincere and staged. People mindlessly following orders, I just can't deal with that notion. I also hate the uniform. More intimidation, formality and dehumanizing. I don't speed anymore for the most part. Is this a victory for a coercive state enforcing 'safe driving'? I dunno. I look at it more as "avoiding any Imperial entanglements"

Are you an adorable 5 year old named Julia who writes in vague generalities? If not, be gone, the Great Leader has no time for your foolish requests!

All right, which one of you liberty types are responsible for destroying the economy? Come forward and admit your guilt. We're not mad, we just want you to put it back like it was. I'll admit I've been raising the prices on boxed cereals for many years now, honing my libertarian magic in the process. But I know it's wrong to do, I should be making them cheaper. But you get these damn fool libertarian ideas in your head and next thing you know you've impoverished a whole city block by the force of sheer will.

Just get the Chinese Government to co-sign your loan and you'll be fine.

But, but but…How will training films be provided in a statist society!? [:^)] Now we know! http://hotair.com/archives/2013/03/23/your-tax-dollars-at-work-irs-star-trek-parody-film-with-video/ I know, it's not like this is the first movie produced directly by a government, but it is a good, current-ish bizarro example of the usual scenario wherein the freedom advocate is supposed to provide evidence (which is never accepted anyway) of how a currently government-run service is supposed to be improved by privitizing it. There it is, that's what fully government-sponsored acting looks like!

Getting invested in trivial matters gives you an emotional reward without the risk. It's like an illusion of being effective, a bit of a game. And anyone can be guilty of this. The libertarian cares about, but has little control over important issues which really matter. The socialist cares about, and has control over trivial issues which don't really matter. So I look like a useless dope if I declare that taxation is force and that the IRS should be abolished, whereas the dirty hippie looks like a dope for thinking that his choice of organic groceries is saving the planet. Neither one of us is necessarily getting much done.

Why anyone would want to make shipped packages anything other than completely plain and anonymous is a mystery to me.

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Hmmm, that plan will never work cause you can't play the guitar on the MTV anymore.