Re: [FairfieldLife] America is a sports team??
America is overly obsessed with sports. But of course ever since the Roman emperors discovered that "bread and circuses" kept their subjects from uprising governments have been doing same. BTW, most Americans can't afford to attend a professional football game. The tickets are too expensive. So attendance is down. On 09/25/2017 08:33 AM, he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Robert Longo: America is not a tribe, America is a sports team, and that's why we are really dangerous!
[FairfieldLife] America is a sports team??
Robert Longo: America is not a tribe, America is a sports team, and that's why we are really dangerous!
Re: [FairfieldLife] America Wanted Change And Trump Delivered It
MD, I'm merely reading what the US Natal Chart is showing. Trump is taking over as POTUS during the major period of Rahu in the national chart. We have already seen the wild ride during the election process. And it is continuing, as seen on the streets of DC during the protest on his Inauguration speech. On the positive side, there is an indication that businesses, particularly in the area of high tech and Artificial Intelligence, will pick up during his term. But controversy will persist in trying to build the Wall, and destroy radical Islam throughout the world. This is a very tall order for himself and his success as POTUS will be judged against it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : I especially liked the part in which he put those sitting in back of him, both Democrat and Republican, on notice that they are part of the problem. That they have been enriching themselves at everyone else's expense. I don't think there is going to be a rough-ride . Democrats have created a boogie-man and now fear their own creation. From: "jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Wanted Change And Trump Delivered It It appears everyone will be going for wild ride from here on. Trump wants it that way, but not all Americans will accept it. Trump’s inaugural address was as subtle as a punch to the nose http://nypost.com/2017/01/20/trumps-inaugural-address-was-as-subtle-as-a-punch-to-the-nose/ http://nypost.com/2017/01/20/trumps-inaugural-address-was-as-subtle-as-a-punch-to-the-nose/ Trump’s inaugural address was as subtle as a punch to... http://nypost.com/2017/01/20/trumps-inaugural-address-was-as-subtle-as-a-punch-to-the-nose/ What, you expected poetry? Maybe a turn of the other cheek to the boycotters and hooligans and haters? If so, you haven’t been paying attention for the last 18 mo... View on nypost.com http://nypost.com/2017/01/20/trumps-inaugural-address-was-as-subtle-as-a-punch-to-the-nose/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] America Wanted Change And Trump Delivered It
I especially liked the part in which he put those sitting in back of him, both
Democrat and Republican, on notice that they are part of the problem.That they
have been enriching themselves at everyone else's expense.
I don't think there is going to be a rough-ride .Democrats have created a
boogie-man and now fear their own creation.
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To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:38 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Wanted Change And Trump Delivered It
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it that way, but not all Americans will accept it.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] America Wanted Change And Trump Delivered It
THANKS 4 THIS POST i AM IN Hyderabad India & AM UN ABLE TO CATCH THE SPEECH OR ITS TENOR HERE @ Dr RAJU ClinicAYURVEDA PK CLINIC IN Bharat! AGAIN THANKS 4 THIS your POST & THAT OR THE N.Y.POST Col Ret,Wm . D. leed IV US & an SAR member as well, SAR . "Sons of the American Revolution". -Original Message- From: jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sat, Jan 21, 2017 11:08 am Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Wanted Change And Trump Delivered It It appears everyone will be going for wild ride from here on. Trump wants it that way, but not all Americans will accept it. Trump’s inaugural address was as subtle as a punch to the nose Trump’s inaugural address was as subtle as a punch to... What, you expected poetry? Maybe a turn of the other cheek to the boycotters and hooligans and haters? If so, you haven’t been paying attention for the last 18 mo... View on nypost.com Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] America Wanted Change And Trump Delivered It
It appears everyone will be going for wild ride from here on. Trump wants it that way, but not all Americans will accept it. Trump’s inaugural address was as subtle as a punch to the nose http://nypost.com/2017/01/20/trumps-inaugural-address-was-as-subtle-as-a-punch-to-the-nose/ http://nypost.com/2017/01/20/trumps-inaugural-address-was-as-subtle-as-a-punch-to-the-nose/ Trump’s inaugural address was as subtle as a punch to... http://nypost.com/2017/01/20/trumps-inaugural-address-was-as-subtle-as-a-punch-to-the-nose/ What, you expected poetry? Maybe a turn of the other cheek to the boycotters and hooligans and haters? If so, you haven’t been paying attention for the last 18 mo... View on nypost.com http://nypost.com/2017/01/20/trumps-inaugural-address-was-as-subtle-as-a-punch-to-the-nose/ Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] AMERICA
My soul repeat its praise, Whose mercies are so great, Whose anger is so slow to rise, Whose anger is so slow to rise, So ready to abate. High as the heav'ns are raised, Above the ground we tread, So far the riches of its grace, So far the riches of its grace, Our highest tho'ts exceed. Its pow'r subdues our sins, And Its forgiving love, Far as the east is from the west, Far as the east is from the west, Doth all our guilt remove.
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is Now No. 2
On 12/4/2014 4:22 PM, jr_esq wrote: But I'm not sure if that's good or bad. With it's population of a billion or more, China can produce and sell more to increase its economic output. A country the size of China can't produce very much without oil, John. It may not be even capable of feeding it's own people in the next few years. It is an open question what will happen to Algeria, Iraq, and Libya if oil prices hover at half the budget break-even costs for a year or two, given the extreme fragility of the region and political risk of cutting subsidies. A world already unsettled by Russian-inspired insurrection in Ukraine to the onslaught of Islamic State in the Middle East is about be roiled further as crude prices plunge. Global energy markets have been upended by an unprecedented North American oil boom brought on by hydraulic fracturing, the process of blasting shale rocks to release oil and gas. According to what I've read, oil below $70 is already playing havoc with budgets across the global petro-nexus. The fiscal break-even cost is $161 for Venezuela, $160 for Yemen, $132 for Algeria, $131 for Iran, $126 for Nigeria, and $125 for Bahrain, $111 for Iraq, and $105 for Russia, and even $98 for Saudi Arabia itself, according to Citigroup. 'Saudis risk playing with fire in shale-price showdown as crude crashes' The Telegraph: http://tinyurl.com/pw5dgfs It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html image http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. View on finance.yahoo.com http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is Now No. 2
Richard, It's obvious that China is doing fairly today and in the past few years. We really can't predict with certainty what will happen in the global market in the next few years. As far as I'm concerned, it's good for me and the US to have cheaper gas prices in the gas station. More likely, Saudi Arabia and the OPEC countries would cut down their oil production in order to get better prices in the world market. But the US has its own worries and responsibilities. Specifically, how can we reduce the national debt? Who's going to pay for it? The rich or the poor? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 12/4/2014 4:22 PM, jr_esq wrote: But I'm not sure if that's good or bad. With it's population of a billion or more, China can produce and sell more to increase its economic output. A country the size of China can't produce very much without oil, John. It may not be even capable of feeding it's own people in the next few years. It is an open question what will happen to Algeria, Iraq, and Libya if oil prices hover at half the budget break-even costs for a year or two, given the extreme fragility of the region and political risk of cutting subsidies. A world already unsettled by Russian-inspired insurrection in Ukraine to the onslaught of Islamic State in the Middle East is about be roiled further as crude prices plunge. Global energy markets have been upended by an unprecedented North American oil boom brought on by hydraulic fracturing, the process of blasting shale rocks to release oil and gas. According to what I've read, oil below $70 is already playing havoc with budgets across the global petro-nexus. The fiscal break-even cost is $161 for Venezuela, $160 for Yemen, $132 for Algeria, $131 for Iran, $126 for Nigeria, and $125 for Bahrain, $111 for Iraq, and $105 for Russia, and even $98 for Saudi Arabia itself, according to Citigroup. 'Saudis risk playing with fire in shale-price showdown as crude crashes' The Telegraph: http://tinyurl.com/pw5dgfs http://tinyurl.com/pw5dgfs It’s official: America is now No. 2 It’s official: America is now No. 2 The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. View on finance.yahoo.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is Now No. 2
On 12/5/2014 4:05 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Richard, It's obvious that China is doing fairly today and in the past few years. We really can't predict with certainty what will happen in the global market in the next few years. As far as I'm concerned, it's good for me and the US to have cheaper gas prices in the gas station. More likely, Saudi Arabia and the OPEC countries would cut down their oil production in order to get better prices in the world market. But the US has its own worries and responsibilities. Specifically, how can we reduce the national debt? Who's going to pay for it? The rich or the poor? /Oil and gas provide 68 percent of Russia’s exports and 50 percent of its federal budget. Russia has already lost almost $90 billion of its currency reserves this year, equal to 4.5 percent of its economy, as it tried to prevent the ruble from tumbling after Western countries imposed sanctions to punish Russian meddling in Ukraine. The ruble is down 35 percent against the dollar since June. / Oil Shock Streaks Across Globe From Moscow to Tehran to Caracas. Ready for $40? http://tinyurl.com/kbu5szm ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 12/4/2014 4:22 PM, jr_esq wrote: But I'm not sure if that's good or bad. With it's population of a billion or more, China can produce and sell more to increase its economic output. A country the size of China can't produce very much without oil, John. It may not be even capable of feeding it's own people in the next few years. It is an open question what will happen to Algeria, Iraq, and Libya if oil prices hover at half the budget break-even costs for a year or two, given the extreme fragility of the region and political risk of cutting subsidies. A world already unsettled by Russian-inspired insurrection in Ukraine to the onslaught of Islamic State in the Middle East is about be roiled further as crude prices plunge. Global energy markets have been upended by an unprecedented North American oil boom brought on by hydraulic fracturing, the process of blasting shale rocks to release oil and gas. According to what I've read, oil below $70 is already playing havoc with budgets across the global petro-nexus. The fiscal break-even cost is $161 for Venezuela, $160 for Yemen, $132 for Algeria, $131 for Iran, $126 for Nigeria, and $125 for Bahrain, $111 for Iraq, and $105 for Russia, and even $98 for Saudi Arabia itself, according to Citigroup. 'Saudis risk playing with fire in shale-price showdown as crude crashes' The Telegraph: http://tinyurl.com/pw5dgfs It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html image http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. View on finance.yahoo.com http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] America is Now No. 2
But I'm not sure if that's good or bad. With it's population of a billion or more, China can produce and sell more to increase its economic output. A few years ago, China tried to reduce its population growth by limiting families to one child. If they reduce the population growth too much, they could end up with another problem-- which is the lack of trained people to maintain their economic advances. It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. View on finance.yahoo.com http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is Now No. 2
The one child policy should not cause problems because over time the needed GDP will shrink too. Seems conventional economists look at things halfway. http://letstalkbooksandpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/05/economic-advantages-of-declining.html On 12/04/2014 02:22 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: But I'm not sure if that's good or bad. With it's population of a billion or more, China can produce and sell more to increase its economic output. A few years ago, China tried to reduce its population growth by limiting families to one child. If they reduce the population growth too much, they could end up with another problem-- which is the lack of trained people to maintain their economic advances. It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html image http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. View on finance.yahoo.com http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is Now No. 2
Nation of 1 billion *only children*. Shesh!
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
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The one child policy should not cause problems because over time the
needed GDP will shrink too. Seems conventional economists look at things
halfway.
http://letstalkbooksandpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/05/economic-advantages-of-declining.html
On 12/04/2014 02:22 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
But I'm not sure if that's good or bad. With it's population of a billion
or more, China can produce and sell more to increase its economic output.
A few years ago, China tried to reduce its population growth by limiting
families to one child. If they reduce the population growth too much, they
could end up with another problem-- which is the lack of trained people to
maintain their economic advances.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] America is Now No. 2
There's another opinion stating that reducing the birthrate below the replacement value would eventually decimate the entire population altogether. That means a culture could very easily disappear. The replacement value is about 2 children per family. In Russia, their government is worried of the population decline. So, they are offering monetary awards to women who decide to have children. The same trend is probably applicable to the other countries in Europe. The US has about the right birthrate to maintain its present population for the next century. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : The one child policy should not cause problems because over time the needed GDP will shrink too. Seems conventional economists look at things halfway. http://letstalkbooksandpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/05/economic-advantages-of-declining.html http://letstalkbooksandpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/05/economic-advantages-of-declining.html On 12/04/2014 02:22 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: But I'm not sure if that's good or bad. With it's population of a billion or more, China can produce and sell more to increase its economic output. A few years ago, China tried to reduce its population growth by limiting families to one child. If they reduce the population growth too much, they could end up with another problem-- which is the lack of trained people to maintain their economic advances. It’s official: America is now No. 2 It’s official: America is now No. 2 The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. View on finance.yahoo.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is a Great Big Lie!
yes, Bhairitu, I did, and I just reread it. I really like his tone, just laying out the facts, etc. On Saturday, June 7, 2014 3:24 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: BTW, did you read Robert's article? Those familiar which his writings would know he would lay the blame at the banksters (a term he does use) starting with Goldman-Sachs. On 06/07/2014 11:34 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Clintons, Kochs, banksters, big pharma, big agra, On Saturday, June 7, 2014 1:30 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: You really must live in a vacuum. You weekend homework will be to research this and turn in your results to the group on Monday. ;-) On 06/07/2014 09:24 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Bhairitu, any idea what those 6 private interest groups might be? On Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:22 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: America is a Great Big Lie. There is no truth in what we are told. The entire country, along with that part of the world under Washington’s thumb, is run for about six private interest groups. The rest of us are being fleeced. As usual, Paul Craig Roberts nails it. Read more here: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/06/06/phantom-jobs-created-wrong-places/ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo Groups Links Traditional (Yahoo! ID required) fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America is a Great Big Lie!
America is a Great Big Lie. There is no truth in what we are told. The entire country, along with that part of the world under Washington’s thumb, is run for about six private interest groups. The rest of us are being fleeced. As usual, Paul Craig Roberts nails it. Read more here: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/06/06/phantom-jobs-created-wrong-places/ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo Groups is subject to: https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is a Great Big Lie!
Bhairitu, any idea what those 6 private interest groups might be? On Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:22 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: America is a Great Big Lie. There is no truth in what we are told. The entire country, along with that part of the world under Washington’s thumb, is run for about six private interest groups. The rest of us are being fleeced. As usual, Paul Craig Roberts nails it. Read more here: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/06/06/phantom-jobs-created-wrong-places/ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo Groups Links https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is a Great Big Lie!
On 6/7/2014 11:24 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Bhairitu, any idea what those 6 private interest groups might be? One is headed by Hillary Clinton.
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is a Great Big Lie!
Richard, she's already on my black list as she doesn't support the labeling of GMO's. On Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:50 AM, 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: On 6/7/2014 11:24 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Bhairitu, any idea what those 6 private interest groups might be? One is headed by Hillary Clinton.
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is a Great Big Lie!
Bill and Hillary like Obama are both neo-liberals. They have sold out progressives. On 06/07/2014 10:07 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Richard, she's already on my black list as she doesn't support the labeling of GMO's. On Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:50 AM, 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: On 6/7/2014 11:24 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Bhairitu, any idea what those 6 private interest groups might be? One is headed by Hillary Clinton.
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is a Great Big Lie!
You really must live in a vacuum. You weekend homework will be to research this and turn in your results to the group on Monday. ;-) On 06/07/2014 09:24 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Bhairitu, any idea what those 6 private interest groups might be? On Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:22 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: America is a Great Big Lie. There is no truth in what we are told. The entire country, along with that part of the world under Washington’s thumb, is run for about six private interest groups. The rest of us are being fleeced. As usual, Paul Craig Roberts nails it. Read more here: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/06/06/phantom-jobs-created-wrong-places/ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo Groups Links fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is a Great Big Lie!
Clintons, Kochs, banksters, big pharma, big agra, On Saturday, June 7, 2014 1:30 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: You really must live in a vacuum. You weekend homework will be to research this and turn in your results to the group on Monday. ;-) On 06/07/2014 09:24 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Bhairitu, any idea what those 6 private interest groups might be? On Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:22 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: America is a Great Big Lie. There is no truth in what we are told. The entire country, along with that part of the world under Washington’s thumb, is run for about six private interest groups. The rest of us are being fleeced. As usual, Paul Craig Roberts nails it. Read more here: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/06/06/phantom-jobs-created-wrong-places/ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo Groups Links
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is a Great Big Lie!
BTW, did you read Robert's article? Those familiar which his writings would know he would lay the blame at the banksters (a term he does use) starting with Goldman-Sachs. On 06/07/2014 11:34 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Clintons, Kochs, banksters, big pharma, big agra, On Saturday, June 7, 2014 1:30 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: You really must live in a vacuum. You weekend homework will be to research this and turn in your results to the group on Monday. ;-) On 06/07/2014 09:24 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com mailto:sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Bhairitu, any idea what those 6 private interest groups might be? On Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:22 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: America is a Great Big Lie. There is no truth in what we are told. The entire country, along with that part of the world under Washington’s thumb, is run for about six private interest groups. The rest of us are being fleeced. As usual, Paul Craig Roberts nails it. Read more here: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/06/06/phantom-jobs-created-wrong-places/ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo Groups Links fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com
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Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
Not sure what you're talking about here. What 100% pension are you talking about? SS was never meant to be a *pension*, it's a supplement to whatever savings and pension you were supposed to have worked for while paying into SS. Divvy up jobs? Who's in charge of that and who decides who gets a job and who goes on *leisure pay*? No longer enough full time jobs? Maybe we should ask why and what we can do to create them and what we have done to diminish them. Obamacare is a good example of why we are having fewer full time jobs. Work thirty hours or more and your employer has to provide insurance which they may or may not be able to afford. When 10-20 million people cross our boarders illegally because *all they want is a job*, can we say there aren't enough jobs to go around? Oh, I know, some jobs are just below our *dignity*. I remember a day when taking public assistance was below our dignity. If someone thinks they are too good for a certain kind of job that is available , maybe they just aught to have their ego busted so they can see just how valuable they really are. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful Nothing wrong with Social Security. But there is something wrong with foolishly promising people a pension that pays the same as when they were working. What were they smoking when they did that? it actually isn't feasible. Times were booming and the idiots you elected (regardless of the aisle they sat on) made those promises. The idea when you get older is you probably don't need and often want as much. You don't need a full pension.When there are no longer full time jobs for everyone then you have to divvy up the jobs. But that won't work for employers. So what are you going to do, Mike? Tell people to crawl away and die? You know how that will go down. They'll tell you to crawl away and die.On 09/23/2013 02:39 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: We already have that *leisure society*. Ever heard of Social Security? You pay into it for many years and at a certain age you get to join that leisure society,. Get paid for not working. Many people don't even have to pay into it. Just have something wrong that prevents you from being able to work or just be the child of a parent that died and had paid into it. Heck, you can even be a single mother and have the government pay you to raise your kids. The government will find you a place to live , feed you and your kids, give you a phone, free medical care. There's an old saying, *if something is worth having, it's worth working for*. The work in this case is learning how to make do with a little. From: Bhairitu mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful And the Fascist, I mean Repubicans, want us to work until we drop dead. Doing what? How would you like a near aspergers like former computer programmer waiting on you at Burger King? At that there are not enough jobs for everybody. I push the new leisure society where you pay people FOR NOT WORKING. Sound upside down? Bucky Fuller suggested this over 50 years ago. Also many people with retirement funds used them up after unemployment ran out while looking for a job in their field. A friend who is a very competent software engineer and college professor found himself taking Social Security at age 67 even though he wanted to wait until he could get the full amount at age 70. America ain't Beautiful anymore. In fact it sucks. On 09/23/2013 12:46 PM, turquoiseb wrote: A Christian nation:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/why-100-000-salary-may-yield-retirement-flipping-burgers.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
Ah, Richard, thank you and I LOVE LOVE LOVE that bit from Isha Upanishad expecially: one should enjoy it with renunciation. So yin/yang, so Shiva/Shakti, so light and shadow, etc. From: Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com To: Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful On 9/23/2013 7:21 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The idea when you get older is you probably don't need and often want as much... It's called 'down-shifting' - going back to the basics. All my life I've been doing the up-shifting. This is the mime speaking. That's what I'm going to do - sell almost everything, the cars, houses and the boat, and move to the country. Live the simple life. Downshifting - a move away from materialism towards a simpler, more fulfilling life! According to Suma Varughese, downshifting also known as simple living or voluntary simplicity, is a path I want to take, away from the land of the shopping mall. The only thing we can do to downshift is to reduce our own wants and cut loose from the consumerist trap. What has already been seen to be the route to individual happiness also becomes the route to that of the environment. Some adopt the devotional approach. Nothing is ours, for all is God's according to Swami Shantanand Saraswati, 'The Man Who Wanted to Meet God': The Isha Upanishad says that the universe is permeated by the Absolute. Whatever one sees in creation, whatever moves one should use it fully and enjoy this absolute everywhere, but one should enjoy it with renunciation. One should not try to hold it or covet it. One need not try to possess it. Enjoy it and give it up. http://www.lifepositive.com/writers/Suma_Varughese.asp Nothing wrong with Social Security. But there is something wrong with foolishly promising people a pension that pays the same as when they were working. What were they smoking when they did that? it actually isn't feasible. Times were booming and the idiots you elected (regardless of the aisle they sat on) made those promises. The idea when you get older is you probably don't need and often want as much. You don't need a full pension. When there are no longer full time jobs for everyone then you have to divvy up the jobs. But that won't work for employers. So what are you going to do, Mike? Tell people to crawl away and die? You know how that will go down. They'll tell you to crawl away and die. On 09/23/2013 02:39 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: We already have that *leisure society*. Ever heard of Social Security? You pay into it for many years and at a certain age you get to join that leisure society,. Get paid for not working. Many people don't even have to pay into it. Just have something wrong that prevents you from being able to work or just be the child of a parent that died and had paid into it. Heck, you can even be a single mother and have the government pay you to raise your kids. The government will find you a place to live , feed you and your kids, give you a phone, free medical care. There's an old saying, *if something is worth having, it's worth working for*. The work in this case is learning how to make do with a little. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful And the Fascist, I mean Repubicans, want us to work until we drop dead. Doing what? How would you like a near aspergers like former computer programmer waiting on you at Burger King? At that there are not enough jobs for everybody. I push the new leisure society where you pay people FOR NOT WORKING. Sound upside down? Bucky Fuller suggested this over 50 years ago. Also many people with retirement funds used them up after unemployment ran out while looking for a job in their field. A friend who is a very competent software engineer and college professor found himself taking Social Security at age 67 even though he wanted to wait until he could get the full amount at age 70. America ain't Beautiful anymore. In fact it sucks. On 09/23/2013 12:46 PM, turquoiseb wrote: A Christian nation: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/why-100-000-salary-may-yield-retirement-flipping-burgers.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
Typical Tea Partier thinking on your part Mike. Why do you buy that bullshit? First off the problems that governments especially on state and city levels are having is due to promising their employees pensions at a full pay when they retire. No pensions are NOT SS but I would have assumed you would have gotten that and had been paying attention to the pensions promised during boom times to police and fire fighters as an example. I've read posts from people who got those pensions thinking it was nice to have but really not that necessary. In reality it turns out the governments can't pay them. You know I don't like Obamacare either but for a different reason than you. It wound up being a big handout to the insurance bandits er companies. I wanted Single Payer just like other countries have. But nooo, we can't have that, it's commooonism. There is no lack of stupid people in the US. On 09/24/2013 06:05 AM, Mike Dixon wrote: Not sure what you're talking about here. What 100% pension are you talking about? SS was never meant to be a *pension*, it's a supplement to whatever savings and pension you were supposed to have worked for while paying into SS. Divvy up jobs? Who's in charge of that and who decides who gets a job and who goes on *leisure pay*? No longer enough full time jobs? Maybe we should ask why and what we can do to create them and what we have done to diminish them. Obamacare is a good example of why we are having fewer full time jobs. Work thirty hours or more and your employer has to provide insurance which they may or may not be able to afford. When 10-20 million people cross our boarders illegally because *all they want is a job*, can we say there aren't enough jobs to go around? Oh, I know, some jobs are just below our *dignity*. I remember a day when taking public assistance was below our dignity. If someone thinks they are too good for a certain kind of job that is available, maybe they just aught to have their ego busted so they can see just how valuable they really are. *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2013 5:21 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful Nothing wrong with Social Security. But there is something wrong with foolishly promising people a pension that pays the same as when they were working. What were they smoking when they did that? it actually isn't feasible. Times were booming and the idiots you elected (regardless of the aisle they sat on) made those promises. The idea when you get older is you probably don't need and often want as much. You don't need a full pension.When there are no longer full time jobs for everyone then you have to divvy up the jobs. But that won't work for employers. So what are you going to do, Mike? Tell people to crawl away and die? You know how that will go down. They'll tell you to crawl away and die.On 09/23/2013 02:39 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: We already have that *leisuresociety*. Ever heard of Social Security? You pay into it for many years and at a certain age you get to join that leisure society,. Get paid for not working. Many people don't even have to pay into it. Just have something wrong that prevents you from being able to work or just be the child of a parent that died and had paid into it. Heck, you can even be a single mother and have the government pay you to raise your kids. The government will find you a place to live , feed you and your kids, give you a phone, free medical care. There's an old saying, *if something is worth having, it's worth working for*. The work in this case is learning how to make do with a little. *From:* Bhairitu mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2013 1:19 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful And the Fascist, I mean Repubicans, want us to work until we drop dead. Doing what? How would you like a near aspergers like former computer programmer waiting on you at Burger King? At that there are not enough jobs for everybody. I push the new leisure society where you pay people FOR NOT WORKING. Sound upside down? Bucky Fuller suggested this over 50 years ago. Also many people with retirement funds used them up after unemployment ran out while looking for a job in their field. A friend who is a very competent software engineer and college professor found himself taking Social Security at age 67 even though he wanted to wait until he could get the full amount at age 70. America ain't Beautiful anymore. In fact it sucks. On 09/23/2013 12:46 PM, turquoiseb wrote: A Christian nation:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/why-100-000-salary-may-yield-retirement-flipping-burgers.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
Have to agree with you on the failed promises to all those government employees in regards to pensions, never should have been done. It's called passing the buck. Sure kept the unions happy while it was being done. Yet we see this happening on a much bigger scale nationally with all the social programs. It's not sustainable. It's all going to collapse one day and it's the Tea Partiers that are screaming it. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful Typical Tea Partier thinking on your part Mike. Why do you buy that bullshit? First off the problems that governments especially on state and city levels are having is due to promising their employees pensions at a full pay when they retire. No pensions are NOT SS but I would have assumed you would have gotten that and had been paying attention to the pensions promised during boom times to police and fire fighters as an example. I've read posts from people who got those pensions thinking it was nice to have but really not that necessary. In reality it turns out the governments can't pay them.You know I don't like Obamacare either but for a different reason than you. It wound up being a big handout to the insurance bandits er companies. I wanted Single Payer just like other countries have. But nooo, we can't have that, it's commooonism. There is no lack of stupid people in the US. On 09/24/2013 06:05 AM, Mike Dixon wrote: Not sure what you're talking about here. What 100% pension are you talking about? SS was never meant to be a *pension*, it's a supplement to whatever savings and pension you were supposed to have worked for while paying into SS. Divvy up jobs? Who's in charge of that and who decides who gets a job and who goes on *leisure pay*? No longer enough full time jobs? Maybe we should ask why and what we can do to create them and what we have done to diminish them. Obamacare is a good example of why we are having fewer full time jobs. Work thirty hours or more and your employer has to provide insurance which they may or may not be able to afford. When 10-20 million people cross our boarders illegally because *all they want is a job*, can we say there aren't enough jobs to go around? Oh, I know, some jobs are just below our *dignity*. I remember a day when taking public assistance was below our dignity. If someone thinks they are too good for a certain kind of job that is available , maybe they just aught to have their ego busted so they can see just how valuable they really are. From: Bhairitu mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful Nothing wrong with Social Security. But there is something wrong with foolishly promising people a pension that pays the same as when they were working. What were they smoking when they did that? it actually isn't feasible. Times were booming and the idiots you elected (regardless of the aisle they sat on) made those promises. The idea when you get older is you probably don't need and often want as much. You don't need a full pension. When there are no longer full time jobs for everyone then you have to divvy up the jobs. But that won't work for employers. So what are you going to do, Mike? Tell people to crawl away and die? You know how that will go down. They'll tell you to crawl away and die. On 09/23/2013 02:39 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: We already have that *leisure society*. Ever heard of Social Security? You pay into it for many years and at a certain age you get to join that leisure society,. Get paid for not working. Many people don't even have to pay into it. Just have something wrong that prevents you from being able to work or just be the child of a parent that died and had paid into it. Heck, you can even be a single mother and have the government pay you to raise your kids. The government will find you a place to live , feed you and your kids, give you a phone, free medical care. There's an old saying, *if something is worth having, it's worth working for*. The work in this case is learning how to make do with a little. From: Bhairitu mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful And the Fascist, I mean Repubicans, want us to work until we drop dead. Doing what? How would you like a near aspergers like former computer programmer waiting on you at Burger King? At that there are not enough jobs for everybody. I push the new leisure society where you pay people FOR NOT WORKING. Sound upside down? Bucky Fuller suggested this over 50 years ago. Also many people with retirement funds used them up after unemployment ran out while looking for a job in their field
[FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
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Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
And the Fascist, I mean Repubicans, want us to work until we drop dead. Doing what? How would you like a near aspergers like former computer programmer waiting on you at Burger King? At that there are not enough jobs for everybody. I push the new leisure society where you pay people FOR NOT WORKING. Sound upside down? Bucky Fuller suggested this over 50 years ago. Also many people with retirement funds used them up after unemployment ran out while looking for a job in their field. A friend who is a very competent software engineer and college professor found himself taking Social Security at age 67 even though he wanted to wait until he could get the full amount at age 70. America ain't Beautiful anymore. In fact it sucks. On 09/23/2013 12:46 PM, turquoiseb wrote: A Christian nation: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/why-100-000-salary-may-yield-retirement-flipping-burgers.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
We already have that *leisure society*. Ever heard of Social Security? You pay into it for many years and at a certain age you get to join that leisure society,. Get paid for not working. Many people don't even have to pay into it. Just have something wrong that prevents you from being able to work or just be the child of a parent that died and had paid into it. Heck, you can even be a single mother and have the government pay you to raise your kids. The government will find you a place to live , feed you and your kids, give you a phone, free medical care. There's an old saying, *if something is worth having, it's worth working for*. The work in this case is learning how to make do with a little. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful And the Fascist, I mean Repubicans, want us to work until we drop dead. Doing what? How would you like a near aspergers like former computer programmer waiting on you at Burger King? At that there are not enough jobs for everybody. I push the new leisure society where you pay people FOR NOT WORKING. Sound upside down? Bucky Fuller suggested this over 50 years ago.Also many people with retirement funds used them up after unemployment ran out while looking for a job in their field. A friend who is a very competent software engineer and college professor found himself taking Social Security at age 67 even though he wanted to wait until he could get the full amount at age 70.America ain't Beautiful anymore. In fact it sucks.On 09/23/2013 12:46 PM, turquoiseb wrote: A Christian nation: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/why-100-000-salary-may-yield-retirement-flipping-burgers.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
On 9/23/2013 3:19 PM, Bhairitu wrote: ...many people with retirement funds used them up after unemployment ran out while looking for a job in their field. One guy I know had a job as a Professor of Geology at the local community college - he had full medical and $70,000 a year salary. He owned teo houses and one was rented out to me for $350 a month to cover the mortgage. I remember one time talking to him about the Motley Fool. Somehow, he got real confused. He decided to apply for his Social Security at age 60 but he was turned down. But then, he started getting checks every month from the SSA. Go figure. Anyway, after about two years later he gets a letter from the SSA saying it was a mistake and he had to pay the money back. Then, he took a leave of absence from his job and moved to Nova Scotia with his 23 cats. After a real hard winter up there he came back down here because he ran out of money and he got his job back. Then, for some reason his wife convinced him to kick me out and remodel the rent house. So, he borrowed $10,000 and took out a second mortgage to fix the place up. Then he decided to retire from his teaching job and sell the houses and move back up there to Canada. Go figure. So, he got his retirement settlement from the community college of $30,000 and a pension of $1,240 a month. He sold both houses at a loss and drove back up there with the 23 cats in a truck and a van. Now he is preparing for a very cold winter and waiting in line in Canada to get knee replacements, and he has to pay $650 a month to the SSA every month! If he had kept his job he could be making $70,00 a year with full medical benefits, he could have both knees replaced and own two houses with one paid for by renting it. This is a cautionary tale: Try not to adopt 23 cats and keep your job until you are debt-free. A friend who is a very competent software engineer and college professor found himself taking Social Security at age 67 even though he wanted to wait until he could get the full amount at age 70. America ain't Beautiful anymore. In fact it sucks. On 09/23/2013 12:46 PM, turquoiseb wrote: A Christian nation: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/why-100-000-salary-may-yield-retirement-flipping-burgers.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
Nothing wrong with Social Security. But there is something wrong with foolishly promising people a pension that pays the same as when they were working. What were they smoking when they did that? it actually isn't feasible. Times were booming and the idiots you elected (regardless of the aisle they sat on) made those promises. The idea when you get older is you probably don't need and often want as much. You don't need a full pension. When there are no longer full time jobs for everyone then you have to divvy up the jobs. But that won't work for employers. So what are you going to do, Mike? Tell people to crawl away and die? You know how that will go down. They'll tell you to crawl away and die. On 09/23/2013 02:39 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: We already have that *leisuresociety*. Ever heard of Social Security? You pay into it for many years and at a certain age you get to join that leisure society,. Get paid for not working. Many people don't even have to pay into it. Just have something wrong that prevents you from being able to work or just be the child of a parent that died and had paid into it. Heck, you can even be a single mother and have the government pay you to raise your kids. The government will find you a place to live , feed you and your kids, give you a phone, free medical care. There's an old saying, *if something is worth having, it's worth working for*. The work in this case is learning how to make do with a little. *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2013 1:19 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful And the Fascist, I mean Repubicans, want us to work until we drop dead. Doing what? How would you like a near aspergers like former computer programmer waiting on you at Burger King? At that there are not enough jobs for everybody. I push the new leisure society where you pay people FOR NOT WORKING. Sound upside down? Bucky Fuller suggested this over 50 years ago.Also many people with retirement funds used them up after unemployment ran out while looking for a job in their field. A friend who is a very competent software engineer and college professor found himself taking Social Security at age 67 even though he wanted to wait until he could get the full amount at age 70.America ain't Beautiful anymore. In fact it sucks.On 09/23/2013 12:46 PM, turquoiseb wrote: A Christian nation: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/why-100-000-salary-may-yield-retirement-flipping-burgers.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
On 9/23/2013 7:21 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The idea when you get older is you probably don't need and often want as much... It's called 'down-shifting' - going back to the basics. All my life I've been doing the up-shifting. This is the mime speaking. That's what I'm going to do - sell almost everything, the cars, houses and the boat, and move to the country. Live the simple life. Downshifting - a move away from materialism towards a simpler, more fulfilling life! According to Suma Varughese, downshifting also known as simple living or voluntary simplicity, is a path I want to take, away from the land of the shopping mall. The only thing we can do to downshift is to reduce our own wants and cut loose from the consumerist trap. What has already been seen to be the route to individual happiness also becomes the route to that of the environment. Some adopt the devotional approach. Nothing is ours, for all is God's according to Swami Shantanand Saraswati, 'The Man Who Wanted to Meet God': The Isha Upanishad says that the universe is permeated by the Absolute. Whatever one sees in creation, whatever moves one should use it fully and enjoy this absolute everywhere, but one should enjoy it with renunciation. One should not try to hold it or covet it. One need not try to possess it. Enjoy it and give it up. http://www.lifepositive.com/writers/Suma_Varughese.asp Nothing wrong with Social Security. But there is something wrong with foolishly promising people a pension that pays the same as when they were working. What were they smoking when they did that? it actually isn't feasible. Times were booming and the idiots you elected (regardless of the aisle they sat on) made those promises. The idea when you get older is you probably don't need and often want as much. You don't need a full pension. When there are no longer full time jobs for everyone then you have to divvy up the jobs. But that won't work for employers. So what are you going to do, Mike? Tell people to crawl away and die? You know how that will go down. They'll tell you to crawl away and die. On 09/23/2013 02:39 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: We already have that *leisuresociety*. Ever heard of Social Security? You pay into it for many years and at a certain age you get to join that leisure society,. Get paid for not working. Many people don't even have to pay into it. Just have something wrong that prevents you from being able to work or just be the child of a parent that died and had paid into it. Heck, you can even be a single mother and have the government pay you to raise your kids. The government will find you a place to live , feed you and your kids, give you a phone, free medical care. There's an old saying, *if something is worth having, it's worth working for*. The work in this case is learning how to make do with a little. *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2013 1:19 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful And the Fascist, I mean Repubicans, want us to work until we drop dead. Doing what? How would you like a near aspergers like former computer programmer waiting on you at Burger King? At that there are not enough jobs for everybody. I push the new leisure society where you pay people FOR NOT WORKING. Sound upside down? Bucky Fuller suggested this over 50 years ago.Also many people with retirement funds used them up after unemployment ran out while looking for a job in their field. A friend who is a very competent software engineer and college professor found himself taking Social Security at age 67 even though he wanted to wait until he could get the full amount at age 70.America ain't Beautiful anymore. In fact it sucks.On 09/23/2013 12:46 PM, turquoiseb wrote: A Christian nation: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/why-100-000-salary-may-yield-retirement-flipping-burgers.html
[FairfieldLife] America#39;s Cup in SF Bay
[FairfieldLife] America has no functioning democracy Jimmy Carter on NSA
http://rt.com/usa/carter-comment-nsa-snowden-261/
[FairfieldLife] America Celebrates War Mongering
This morning's walk was like a scene out of Apocalypse Now. As I started out walking down the street there was suddenly the roar of a helicopter coming down the valley. This one was louder than many of the police, fire and private copters that fly around here and as I looked I realized it was one of those Huey's flew back in Vietnam. I wish I had popped by phone out of it's holder and taken a video as it passed only a block away. This was obviously for Memorial Day commemorations as was a WWII bomber flying around though I didn't see it this year. But what I've been noticing is almost a celebration of war in the media as if to program the public into thinking war is okay. This morning I also read that almost 7000 soldiers have lost their lives since the start of the war in Afghanistan. And for what? For wars of empire and mainly for profit for a bunch of old insane white guys who run this country. As General Smedley Butler wrote War is a Racket. In the 1930s Butler was enlisted by corporate leaders to overthrow FDR. Butler wisely turned tables on them and there was a hearing on the attempted coup. But none of those corporate heads went to prison as they should have. Just like we haven't seen one damn bankster prosecuted today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler And this morning we hear that Senator John McCain is in Syria trying get another war for the US to get involved in. The US should be spreading peace not blood throughout the world.
[FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful: Assault weapons are very handy
MILITARY-STYLE assault rifles have many practical applications for the perfectly sane, it has been claimed. As America mourns the victims of Sandy Hook, pro-firearm campaigners in the US have warned against tighter controls on so-called 'assault weapons', highlighting the sheer usefulness of semi-automatic artillery. Mother-of-three Emma Bradford said: We have a big yard so when it's time to call the family in for meals I fire a burst of rounds into the air, it's sort of like a 'dinner gong' but with bullets. If my gun weren't semi-auto I'd have to reload between shots more like a succession of single rounds which would be ineffective because it could be mistaken for a car backfiring. However I do think America needs to reform its mental health laws. This obviously would not affect sane people like me. Texas office worker Tom Logan said: I use my assault rifle to re-heat coffee. After firing a number of rounds into a wall the barrel gets very hot, and then I hold my mug against it. If you want to take my warm mug away you'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands. Huntsman and NRA member Budd Hobbs said: Normal guns are fine for deer but I'm actually after the Jersey Devil, a sort of bear/bat/wolf hybrid from popular American mythology. When that mythical chimera is charging at me I won't have time to reload. So if they found my bloodstained boots next to some massive three-toed footprints, it'd be those peacenik Democrats to blame. You can't argue with that logic, can you? Especially as I've got an assault weapon. - From thedailymash.co.uk
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Ray Bolger, the scarecrow from the *Wizard of Oz* would be proud of that argument! Damn, now I'm not going to get that song, *If I only had a Brain* out of my head all day long! From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 3:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful: Assault weapons are very handy MILITARY-STYLE assault rifles have many practical applications for the perfectly sane, it has been claimed. As America mourns the victims of Sandy Hook, pro-firearm campaigners in the US have warned against tighter controls on so-called 'assault weapons', highlighting the sheer usefulness of semi-automatic artillery. Mother-of-three Emma Bradford said: We have a big yard so when it's time to call the family in for meals I fire a burst of rounds into the air, it's sort of like a 'dinner gong' but with bullets. If my gun weren't semi-auto I'd have to reload between shots – more like a succession of single rounds – which would be ineffective because it could be mistaken for a car backfiring. However I do think America needs to reform its mental health laws. This obviously would not affect sane people like me. Texas office worker Tom Logan said: I use my assault rifle to re-heat coffee. After firing a number of rounds into a wall the barrel gets very hot, and then I hold my mug against it. If you want to take my warm mug away you'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands. Huntsman and NRA member Budd Hobbs said: Normal guns are fine for deer but I'm actually after the Jersey Devil, a sort of bear/bat/wolf hybrid from popular American mythology. When that mythical chimera is charging at me I won't have time to reload. So if they found my bloodstained boots next to some massive three-toed footprints, it'd be those peacenik Democrats to blame. You can't argue with that logic, can you? Especially as I've got an assault weapon. - From thedailymash.co.uk
[FairfieldLife] America needs a new war or capitalism dies
I say let the evil monster die. Commentary: Low defense spending is killing jobs http://www.marketwatch.com/story/america-needs-a-new-war-or-capitalism-dies-2013-04-17 America is the Nazi Germany of the 21st century.
[FairfieldLife] America The Beautiful
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[FairfieldLife] America Should Declare Bankruptcy
That's what an expert opined. However, he fails to mention that most of the national debt are owned by Americans themselves, such as the Social Security Fund and States' Funds invested in government bonds. In effect, this idea is suicidal for the US financial institutions and the Americans themselves. http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/america-declare-bankruptcy-doug-casey-124119100.html
RE: [FairfieldLife] America is an energy rich nation...
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of wgm4u Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 8:26 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] America is an energy rich nation... ...but is acting like an energy poor nation. Mitt Romney Yes, we have plenty on sunshine and wind, and the creativity to take full advantage of it, thus eliminating our need to soil our own nest with antiquated sources of energy like oil and coal. Oh, but wait. Those industries spend millions to buy politicians who will keep them in business, regardless of how many people it ends up killing. OK, never mind. Ecocide full steam ahead.
[FairfieldLife] America is an energy rich nation...
...but is acting like an energy poor nation. Mitt Romney
[FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home
Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is line on water. So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect more of this and worse.
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Hey, what do you expect? We live in a touchy-feely society. If our talking heads don't express an abundance of regret/remorse-fullness, they are thought to be crude and insensitive. They all have to out-perform their counter parts.Drama sells. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is line on water. So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect more of this and worse.
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How do you define line on water and line on air and is there a line on dirt? From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Hey, what do you expect? We live in a touchy-feely society. If our talking heads don't express an abundance of regret/remorse-fullness, they are thought to be crude and insensitive. They all have to out-perform their counter parts.Drama sells. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is line on water. So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect more of this and worse.
Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home
Well, you're right there. I recorded Haven last night and when I went to watch it was a Eureka episode. I went to the Syfy.com site and checked the Haven forum and Syfy said they had replaced the episode which they will show at a later date because it had fictitious scenes of high school violence. On 12/15/2012 01:30 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: Hey, what do you expect? We live in a touchy-feely society. If our talking heads don't express an abundance of regret/remorse-fullness, they are thought to be crude and insensitive. They all have to out-perform their counter parts.Drama sells. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is line on water. So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect more of this and worse.
Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home
If you had learned TM you would know what that means. It was an expression that Maharishi used how one experiences stress as they progress towards enlightenment. For the unenlightened it is a line in cement not dirt. IOW, you will be more effected by stress. Once meditating and progressing towards enlightenment stress becomes more a line on water. In moksha it becomes a line in air. For some of us many events even before TM were line on water. For me: Cuban Missile Crisis JFK Assassination On 12/15/2012 01:45 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: How do you define line on water and line on air and is there a line on dirt? From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Hey, what do you expect? We live in a touchy-feely society. If our talking heads don't express an abundance of regret/remorse-fullness, they are thought to be crude and insensitive. They all have to out-perform their counter parts.Drama sells. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is line on water. So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect more of this and worse.
Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home
I was wondering if you'd let loose with and describe a TM concept for me, the non-TM'er of the group. This is not a very descriptive explanation. Yes, I feel deeply for those families that lost children...it's literally painful for me. Is feeling deeply considered stress? From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home If you had learned TM you would know what that means. It was an expression that Maharishi used how one experiences stress as they progress towards enlightenment. For the unenlightened it is a line in cement not dirt. IOW, you will be more effected by stress. Once meditating and progressing towards enlightenment stress becomes more a line on water. In moksha it becomes a line in air. For some of us many events even before TM were line on water. For me: Cuban Missile Crisis JFK Assassination On 12/15/2012 01:45 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: How do you define line on water and line on air and is there a line on dirt? From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Hey, what do you expect? We live in a touchy-feely society. If our talking heads don't express an abundance of regret/remorse-fullness, they are thought to be crude and insensitive. They all have to out-perform their counter parts.Drama sells. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is line on water. So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect more of this and worse.
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Ops, I forgot Ravi isn't a TM'er either. But, he's a yogi, so I figure he kinda knows the answer. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home I was wondering if you'd let loose with and describe a TM concept for me, the non-TM'er of the group. This is not a very descriptive explanation. Yes, I feel deeply for those families that lost children...it's literally painful for me. Is feeling deeply considered stress? From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home If you had learned TM you would know what that means. It was an expression that Maharishi used how one experiences stress as they progress towards enlightenment. For the unenlightened it is a line in cement not dirt. IOW, you will be more effected by stress. Once meditating and progressing towards enlightenment stress becomes more a line on water. In moksha it becomes a line in air. For some of us many events even before TM were line on water. For me: Cuban Missile Crisis JFK Assassination On 12/15/2012 01:45 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: How do you define line on water and line on air and is there a line on dirt? From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Hey, what do you expect? We live in a touchy-feely society. If our talking heads don't express an abundance of regret/remorse-fullness, they are thought to be crude and insensitive. They all have to out-perform their counter parts.Drama sells. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is line on water. So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect more of this and worse.
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Ravi is so special, he is so lovable, he has no answers - he just totally languishes in pain and revels in bliss - what a guy !!! On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Ops, I forgot Ravi isn't a TM'er either. But, he's a yogi, so I figure he kinda knows the answer. -- *From:* Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:16 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home I was wondering if you'd let loose with and describe a TM concept for me, the non-TM'er of the group. This is not a very descriptive explanation. Yes, I feel deeply for those families that lost children...it's literally painful for me. Is feeling deeply considered stress? -- *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:01 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home If you had learned TM you would know what that means. It was an expression that Maharishi used how one experiences stress as they progress towards enlightenment. For the unenlightened it is a line in cement not dirt. IOW, you will be more effected by stress. Once meditating and progressing towards enlightenment stress becomes more a line on water. In moksha it becomes a line in air. For some of us many events even before TM were line on water. For me: Cuban Missile Crisis JFK Assassination On 12/15/2012 01:45 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: How do you define line on water and line on air and is there a line on dirt? From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Hey, what do you expect? We live in a touchy-feely society. If our talking heads don't express an abundance of regret/remorse-fullness, they are thought to be crude and insensitive. They all have to out-perform their counter parts.Drama sells. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is line on water. So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect more of this and worse.
Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home
If you dwell on it then the feeling may stress you. People who have been practicing sadhana for a while (doesn't have to be TM) will witness the event with no emotional attachment. Certainly we can feel for the families and parents but we won't be obsessed with it nor will we be stressed by it. On 12/15/2012 02:16 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: I was wondering if you'd let loose with and describe a TM concept for me, the non-TM'er of the group. This is not a very descriptive explanation. Yes, I feel deeply for those families that lost children...it's literally painful for me. Is feeling deeply considered stress? From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home If you had learned TM you would know what that means. It was an expression that Maharishi used how one experiences stress as they progress towards enlightenment. For the unenlightened it is a line in cement not dirt. IOW, you will be more effected by stress. Once meditating and progressing towards enlightenment stress becomes more a line on water. In moksha it becomes a line in air. For some of us many events even before TM were line on water. For me: Cuban Missile Crisis JFK Assassination On 12/15/2012 01:45 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: How do you define line on water and line on air and is there a line on dirt? From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Hey, what do you expect? We live in a touchy-feely society. If our talking heads don't express an abundance of regret/remorse-fullness, they are thought to be crude and insensitive. They all have to out-perform their counter parts.Drama sells. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is line on water. So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect more of this and worse.
Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home
Oh, I guess a *line on water* in this case, would be *being aware of the tragedy and moving on*. A *line on dirt* would be wrapping oneself in the tragedy and being resentful of others not sharing in it. Making sure others notice, not letting go. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home How do you define line on water and line on air and is there a line on dirt? From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Hey, what do you expect? We live in a touchy-feely society. If our talking heads don't express an abundance of regret/remorse-fullness, they are thought to be crude and insensitive. They all have to out-perform their counter parts.Drama sells. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is line on water. So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect more of this and worse.
Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home
Where would the line on cement be? From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Oh, I guess a *line on water* in this case, would be *being aware of the tragedy and moving on*. A *line on dirt* would be wrapping oneself in the tragedy and being resentful of others not sharing in it. Making sure others notice, not letting go. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home How do you define line on water and line on air and is there a line on dirt? From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Hey, what do you expect? We live in a touchy-feely society. If our talking heads don't express an abundance of regret/remorse-fullness, they are thought to be crude and insensitive. They all have to out-perform their counter parts.Drama sells. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is line on water. So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect more of this and worse.
[FairfieldLife] America becomes the new Europe
November 9, 2012 12:00 A.M. Becoming European http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333038/becoming-european-jonah-g\ oldberg The Founders' vision of the people as sovereign lost on Tuesday. By Jonah Goldberg http://www.nationalreview.com/author/56454/bio The Progressives won on Tuesday. I don't mean the people who voted Democrat who call themselves progressive. Though they won, too. I mean the Progressives who've been waging a century-long effort to transform our American-style government into a European-style state. The words government and state are often used interchangeably, but they are really different things. According to the Founders' vision, the people are sovereign and the government belongs to us. Under the European notion of the state, the people are creatures of the state, significant only as parts of the whole. This European version of the state can be nice. One can live comfortably under it. Many decent and smart people sincerely believe this is the intellectually and morally superior way to organize society. And, to be fair, it's not a binary thing. The line between the European and American models is blurry. France is not a Huxleyan dystopia, and America is not and has never been an anarchist's utopia, nor do conservatives want it to be one. The distinction between the two worldviews is mostly a disagreement over first assumptions about which institutions should take the lead in our lives. It is an argument about what the habits of the American heart should be. Should we live in a country where the first recourse is to appeal to the government, or should government interventions be reserved as a last resort? These assumptions are formed and informed by political rhetoric. President Obama ran a campaign insisting that Democrats believe we're all in it together and that Republicans think you should be on your own no matter what hardships you face. We are our brothers' and sisters' keepers, according to Obama, and the state is how we keep each other. The introductory video at the Democratic National Convention proclaimed, Government is the one thing we all belong to. Exactly 100 years before Barack Obama's reelection victory, Woodrow Wilson was elected president for the first time. It was Wilson's belief that the old American understanding of government needed to be Europeanized. The key to this transformation was convincing Americans that we all must marry our interests to the state. The chief obstacle for this mission is the family. The family, rightly understood, is an autonomous source of meaning in our lives and the chief place where we sacrifice for, and cooperate with, others. It is also the foundation for local communities and social engagement. As social scientist Charles Murray likes to say, unmarried men rarely volunteer to coach kids' soccer teams. Progressivism always looked at the family with skepticism and occasionally hostility. Reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman hoped state-backed liberation of children would destroy the unchecked tyranny . . . of the private home. Wilson believed the point of education was to make children as unlike their parents as possible. Hillary Clinton, who calls herself a modern progressive and not a liberal, once said we must move beyond the notion there is any such thing as someone else's child. One of the stark lessons of Obama's victory is the degree to which the Republican party has become a party for the married and the religious. If only married people voted, Romney would have won in a landslide. If only married religious people voted, you'd need a word that means something much bigger than landslide. Obviously, Obama got some votes from the married and the religious (such people can marry their interests to the state, too), but as a generalization, the Obama coalition heavily depends on people who do not see family or religion as rival or superior sources of material aid or moral authority. Marriage, particularly among the working class, has gone out of style. In 1960, 72 percent of adults were married. Today, barely half are. The numbers for blacks are far more stark. The well-off still get married, though, which is a big reason why they're well-off. It is the privileged Americans who are marrying, and marrying helps them stay privileged, Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, told the New York Times. Religion, too, is waning dramatically in America. Gallup finds regular church attendance down to 43 percent of Americans. Other researchers think it might be less than half that. In the aftermath of massive American urbanization and industrialization, and in the teeth of a brutal economic downturn, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised to fight for the forgotten man the American who felt lost amidst the social chaos of the age. Obama campaigned for Julia the affluent single mom who had no family and no ostensible faith to fall back on. In short, the American people are starting to look like Europeans, and
[FairfieldLife] America, as defined by the founders-is lost!
Mexicans, Asians and Blacks will determine the future of America! If you like mediocrity, the democrat party is the one for you. But, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAl8MtdocR4
Re: [FairfieldLife] America, as defined by the founders-is lost!
Well given the fact that white folks have taken us to where we are today, maybe the Mexicans, Asians and Black folk will actually take us to a better place From: masterjose4u no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:28 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] America, as defined by the founders-is lost! Mexicans, Asians and Blacks will determine the future of America! If you like mediocrity, the democrat party is the one for you. But, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAl8MtdocR4
[FairfieldLife] America Could be Taken Over, Says Perot
Althought he doesn't mention who will take over, it's fairly obvious that the country with the most investment here will be the likely candidate. That's China which has about one trillion dollars invested here in the USA.
[FairfieldLife] America is #1
Damn. That didn't paste in right, either as a graphic or a link. Trying again, because it's an interesting graphic. https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/563165_309033799164152_152196238181243_828560_1119993089_n.jpg
[FairfieldLife] America, the Halluci-Nation
Remember the old Saturday Night Live character Emily Letella? She seems to have commandeered our political discourse. Half the country has mired itself in dubious battle with hallucinations. Here is a quick, top-of-my-head list of examples: 1. Many conservatives still believe that Susan Fluke wanted the gummint to pay for her orgasms. In fact, she was talking about private insurance, and about the non-contraceptive medical issues which may lead a doctor to prescribe birth control pills. 2. Many believe that Obamacare is socialized medicine. In fact, liberals such as myself opposed Obamacare precisely because it is not socialized health insurance. 3. Many believe that Obama raised taxes. In fact, he lowered them. 4. Many believe that Obama instituted TARP. In fact, W did. 5. Many believe that the financial stimulus package was a failed jobs creation program. In fact, the lion's share of that package went to tax cuts -- which did not work. 6. Many were convinced -- and remain convinced -- that the big economic problem facing us is and was inflation. What inflation? We have oodles of serious problems, but...inflation? Why did so many intelligent people fixate on that, against all evidence and common sense? 7. Many still believe that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. 8. Many have accepted the new propaganda line that Osama Bin Laden worked with Iran. 9. Many accept Glenn Beck's absurd argument that Hitler was a left-winger, a suggestion that would have outraged Hitler himself. Back in the 1930s, all the American supporters of fascism -- McCormick, Hearst, the Klan, the Bund, etc. -- were on the right. 10. Many believe that the financial crisis of 2008 was created by too much regulation, not by Wall Street's immunity from the rule of law. 11. Many believe that Obama has declared war on religion. 12. Many agree with Rick Santorum's surreal claim that JFK had, in his famous speech, called for religious people to be banned from the political sector. 13. Many accepted Rick Perry's surreal assertion that our kids...can't pray in school. Of course they can. Anyone can pray anywhere they like. 14. Many believe that there is a war on Christmas. Still. 15. Many believe that tax rates were lower under Reagan. In fact, they were much, much higher. 16. Many believe that Reagan balanced the budget. In fact, the national debt skyrocketed under Reagan; there was more red ink during his administrations than under all previous presidents combined. 17. Many believe that there is some sort of conspiratorial alliance between atheists and Islamic jihadists. How can one discuss anything with someone who accepts such an absurdity? 18. Many still believe that Obama is a Muslim. 19. Many still believe that Obama is not a natural born citizen. 20. Many believe that sharia law is a real threat in the United States. 21. Many believe that voter registration fraud is a genuine problem. This superb Rolling Stone piece gives the facts. 22. Many still believe that everyone incarcerated at Gitmo was guilty of terrorism. In fact, the real terrorists were taken elsewhere. 23. Many still believe that massive layoffs resulted from Obama's regulatory uncertainty. What the hell...? Lack of demand, and nothing else, caused the soft rebound. 24. Many believe that Canada, the U.K., France, Germany and the Scandinavian countries suffer from hellishly inefficient health care systems. Which just happen to give people healthier lives for less money. 25. Many believe that financial predators like Mitt Romney are job creators. I could go on, but that will do for now. Half this country has turned into Willy Wonka, living in a world of pure imagination. Better movie metaphor: They've turned into Jimmy Stewart character in Harvey. It isn't easy to have a civilized discussion with someone who insists that you treat his imaginary friend as real. http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2012/03/america-halluci-nation.html
[FairfieldLife] America has become Obama's Big Rock Candy Mountain!
Unemployment and food stamps, every bums dream..in the Big Rock Candy Mountain. Kinda catchy, don't you think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z1OO4b2irkfeature=related (Classic vinyl). In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, The jails are made of tin. And you can walk right out again, As soon as you are in. There ain't no short-handled shovels, No axes, saws nor picks, I'm bound to stay Where you sleep all day, Where they hung the jerk That invented work In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
[FairfieldLife] America Grows Up
About time! NEW YORK — A federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out a government policy that can lead to broadcasters being fined for allowing even a single curse word on live television, concluding that the rule was unconstitutionally vague and had a chilling effect on broadcasters. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan struck down the 2004 Federal Communications Commission policy, which said that profanity referring to sex or excrement is always indecent. More here: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38227020/ns/today-entertainment/ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America, the Poisoned: Hold These Truths to Be Self-Inflicted
America, the Poisoned: Hold These Truths to Be Self-Inflicted by Charles P. Pierce http://www.esquire.com/archives/blogs/politics/by_author/68/15;1 James Madison thought corporations as inimical to self-government as organized religion, and Tom Paine hated them as much as he hated George III. Instead, we channel what outrage we have into sub-comic spectacles idiots in tricornered hats, spouting off about the founders, the crackpot Glenn Beck's pretending to be Paine, who would've eaten his liver and asked for sauce. The truths are supposed to be self-evident, even though they weren't at the time, and seem even less so today, as we arrive upon the 234th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document more criminally misappropriated down through time by intellectual grifters and political mountebanks even than the Book of Revelations. Thomas Jefferson said he wrote it to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, which it certainly did not, at least not immediately. And in rousing the spirit that would produce the document, Thomas Paine titled his pamphlet Common Sense, which was more aspirational than it was anything else. This weekend we celebrate, among other things, the ultimate triumph of hope over experience. It is a triumph that currently shows all the signs of being both fragile, which it always was, and temporary, which it always was not. There's a poison in the public bloodstream these days, and it's affecting the mind, as poisons will. One entire political party has lost its mind, and well may succeed for having done so. A congressional candidate in Alabama is running commercials equating progressive taxation with slavery and the Holocaust. A candidate for the Senate in Nevada seems to deny any role for a central government short of raising an army, and perhaps not even that, since she seems to suggest that, if the election doesn't go her way, her several followers may go to guns in response. The members of that party in the national legislature have utterly abandoned their duties to the public good for unalloyed obstructionism. On Wednesday, the Senate again failed to pass an extension of unemployment benefits for the first time since the 1950's, and this in a time of 9.5-percent unemployment. The government is unwilling to bring the criminals of the previous administration to justice, and seemingly unable to bring the corporate criminals of the previous decade to justice, either. Some 20,000 barrels of oil are spilling daily into the Gulf of Mexico, where now huge columns of smoke are beginning to rise from the surface of the sea. And maybe it is time to read Revelations with a fresh eye, after all, except for the fact that the horsemen are not unleashed upon us. We invite them in to ride. The poison dulls the mind and enervates the body. It leaches away the critical faculties and leaves in their place a kind of dull-eyed acceptance that borders on chronic lassitude. We accept what we cannot change and then decide we can't really change anything, and thereupon, we accept anything. A political party that embraces public lunacy in its candidates, and public dereliction in its elected officials, should pay a political price for that. It will not, because the only people motivated at the moment are the people who are motivated in support of the lunacy and, in fact, who would like to see more of it. And they may well do so. Instead, we study the lunacy as if it were a phenomenon detached from our daily lives, the way that we have detached ourselves from the discipline and responsibilities of self-government, congratulating ourselves on how fair-minded we are for giving the lunatics a hearing and then becoming mystified when we realize that, if they are empowered in the government, they mean to do what they say. An unemployment rate that nudges 10 percent should occasion societal upheaval. Instead, we give a polite hearing to responsible moderates who argue that it's pretty much the way it's going to be for a while, and to conservative voices telling us that the unemployed are simply entitled parasites, drowning in indulgence and flat-screen TV's. And we congratulate ourselves for being broad-minded enough not to call an obscenity what it is out loud. In a properly functioning, self-governing republic, the corporate criminality that nearly brought down the economies of the world, and the corporate criminality that has turned the Gulf of Mexico into flaming toxic stew, would demand a vigorous political response. But, generally, we accept the notion that the latter would be impractical, that it essentially would be requiring one conjoined twin to beat the other one over the head. That this is a mortal sin against what we are supposed to be, a primary heresy against the American faith, is lost on us. (James Madison thought corporations as inimical to self-government as organized
[FairfieldLife] America is a Rich Country, Barack Obama (debates).
U.S. National Debt Clock FAQ by Ed Hall The budget should be balanced; the treasury should be refilled; public debt should be reduced; and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. -Cicero. 106-43 B.C. The purpose of this FAQ is to answer some of the questions which are asked by people visiting the U.S. National Debt Clock http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ . If you have a question about the Debt Clock which isn't addressed here, please send me an e-mail and I'll do my best to answer it on this page. Of course, your suggestions are always welcome too! Ed Hall http://www.brillig.com/ edh...@brillig.com mailto:edh...@brillig.com Q: To whom do we owe all this money? Who owns the Debt? A: Here is a pie chart showing the makeup, or ownership, of the National Debt as of December 1998. [Ownership of the National Debt] As you can see, the largest slice of the pie, over 40%, is owed to the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, and to other government accounts. BTW, The Fed is actually quasi-public (part private, part government) so calling it part of the government is not strictly true. You can find out more about The Fed by reading Wikipedia's excellent article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve . The remaining 60% of the Debt is privately held by individuals, corporations, states, and foreign governments. As of November 2007, Japan ($580 billion), China ($390 billon) and the United Kingdom ($320 bilion) are the biggest foreign holders of our Debt http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt . The above chart information is from the June 1999 issue of the Treasury Bulletin http://www.fms.treas.gov/bulletin/ , a quarterly publication of the U.S. Treasury department's Financial Management Service http://www.fms.treas.gov/ . The Treasury Bulletin is the best place to find the latest information on this subject. Q: What is the difference between the Debt and the Deficit? A: The National Debt is the total amount of money owed by the government; the federal budget deficit is the yearly amount by which spending exceeds revenue. Add up all the deficits (and subtract those few budget surpluses we've had) for the past 200+ years and you'll get the current National Debt. Politicians love to crow The deficit is down! The deficit is down! like it's a great accomplishment. Don't be fooled. Reducing the deficit just means we're adding less to the Debt this year than we did last year. Big deal -- we're still adding to the Debt. When are we going to start seeing the Debt actually go down? Q: How has the National Debt grown over time? A: The National Debt on January 1st 1791 was just $75 million dollars. Today, it rises by that amount every hour or so. The following graph shows how the National Debt has grown year by year since 1940 in actual dollar amounts, uncorrected for inflation: [US National Debt from 1940 to Present] This data was gathered from the U.S. Treasury department's web site http://www.ustreas.gov/ . From time to time, I've gotten e-mail saying that the above graph is flawed -- it's just showing normal inflation. Well, I took the Debt numbers from the above graph and converted them all to 2000 dollars. Picking a different year would not have changed the shape of the graph below, just its height: [US National Debt, corrected for inflation (2000 dollars)] As you can see, except for a rise at the end of World War II, the Debt remained remarkably constant for nearly forty years when inflationary forces are taken into account. After 1983 however, with the notable exception of the Fiscal Years ending in September of 2000 and 2001, the trend has been upward even when inflation is taken into account. Q: I looked at the Debt Clock yesterday and I think it showed a higher value than it does today. Is the Debt going down? A: Unfortunately, no. On average, the Debt is always rising but there are some day to day fluctuations which can cause the debt to actually go down for a day or two. The long term averages however, show that the Debt just keeps getting higher and higher.Q: When did the Debt pass the $8 trillion mark? A: On October 18th 2005, the Outstanding Public Debt rose to $8,003,897,406,911.24 -- the first time it had risen above $8 trillion. Q: When did the Debt pass the $7 trillion mark? A: On January 15th 2004, the Outstanding Public Debt jumped $13 billion to $7,001,852,607,623.35. This was the first time in history the U.S. National Debt surpassed the $7 trillion mark and came less than two years after the Debt first passed $6 trillion. As a comparison, the National Debt took over six years to rise from $5 trillion to $6 trillion. Q: How accurate is your Debt Clock? A: As accurate as I can make it! Every business day, the U.S. Treasury department releases new Debt figures for the previous day. I periodically get these figures and use them to adjust the Debt Clock's value so it remains accurate. I, or rather the CGI code I wrote
[FairfieldLife] America, stop sucking up to Israel
America, stop sucking up to Israel By Gideon Levy mailto:l...@haaretz.co.il Obama meeting with Netanyahu and Abbas in New York. Reuters Haaretz Newspaper in Israel - Barack Obama has been busy - offering the Jewish People blessings for Rosh Hashanah, and recording a flattering video for the President's Conference in Jerusalem and another for Yitzhak Rabin's memorial rally. Only Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah surpasses him in terms of sheer output of recorded remarks. In all the videos, Obama heaps sticky-sweet praise on Israel, even though he has spent nearly a year fruitlessly lobbying for Israel to be so kind as to do something, anything - even just a temporary freeze on settlement building - to advance the peace process. The president's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, has also been busy, shuttling between a funeral (for IDF soldier Asaf Ramon, the son of Israel's first astronaut Ilan Ramon) and a memorial (for Rabin, though it was postponed until next week due to rain), in order to find favor with Israelis. Polls have shown that Obama is increasingly unpopular here, with an approval rating of only 6 to 10 percent. He decided to address Israelis by video, but a persuasive speech won't persuade anyone to end the occupation. He simply should have told the Israeli people the truth. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who arrived here last night, will certainly express similar sentiments: commitment to Israel's security, strategic alliance, the need for peace, and so on . Before no other country on the planet does the United States kneel and plead like this. In other trouble spots, America takes a different tone. It bombs in Afghanistan, invades Iraq and threatens sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Did anyone in Washington consider begging Saddam Hussein to withdraw from occupied territory in Kuwait? But Israel the occupier, the stubborn contrarian that continues to mock America and the world by building settlements and abusing the Palestinians, receives different treatment. Another massage to the national ego in one video, more embarrassing praise in another. Now is the time to say to the United States: Enough flattery. If you don't change the tone, nothing will change. As long as Israel feels the United States is in its pocket, and that America's automatic veto will save it from condemnations and sanctions, that it will receive massive aid unconditionally, and that it can continue waging punitive, lethal campaigns without a word from Washington, killing, destroying and imprisoning without the world's policeman making a sound, it will continue in its ways. Illegal acts like the occupation and settlement expansion, and offensives that may have involved war crimes, as in Gaza, deserve a different approach. If America and the world had issued condemnations after Operation Summer Rains in 2006 - which left 400 Palestinians dead and severe infrastructure damage in the first major operation in Gaza since the disengagement - then Operation Cast Lead never would have been launched. It is true that unlike all the world's other troublemakers, Israel is viewed as a Western democracy, but Israel of 2009 is a country whose language is force. Anwar Sadat may have been the last leader to win our hearts with optimistic, hope-igniting speeches. If he were to visit Israel today, he would be jeered off the stage. The Syrian president pleads for peace and Israel callously dismisses him, the United States begs for a settlement free ze and Israel turns up its nose. This is what happens when there are no consequences for Israel's inaction. When Clinton returns to Washington, she should advocate a sharp policy change toward Israel. Israeli hearts can no longer be won with hope, promises of a better future or sweet talk, for this is no longer Israel's language. For something to change, Israel must understand that perpetuating the status quo will exact a painful price. Israel of 2009 is a spoiled country, arrogant and condescending, convinced that it deserves everything and that it has the power to make a fool of America and the world. The United States has engendered this situation, which endangers the entire Mideast and Israel itself. That is why there needs to be a turning point in the coming year - Washington needs to finally say no to Israel and the occupation. An unambiguous, presidential no. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1124928.html?
Re: [FairfieldLife] America, stop sucking up to Israel
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:47 AM, do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com wrote: America, stop sucking up to Israel By Gideon Levy We can't stop sucking up to Israel. Israel is closer to the 51st state of the US than Canada. Too many Americans consider Israel their real, historic home. Too much money raising. Too many jews in power in the US who exert their power to keep us kissing Israel's ass. Hell, you've heard it all before. We even supplied a prime minister of Israel some years ago. Add to that the Reservations thing with the Christians wanting to bring on the Second Coming to Israel, and we'll never stop sucking up to Israel. The Israel situation could have been solved many times over the past 60 years if the US had just turned its back on Israel. But we can't. That plot of land has biblical title on it saying it belongs to Israel and the US has to help enforce the biblical title on the land. Yes, I've been to Israel many times. Yes, I think it's populated by a bunch of religious fanatics who rival the homicide bomb people, but best never say that in Israel. -- Life is not what you see, but what you've projected. It's not what you've felt, but what you've decided. It's not what you've experienced, but how you've remembered it. It's not what you've forged, but what you've allowed. And it's not who's appeared, but who you've summoned.
[FairfieldLife] America heads for the stars!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/20/nasa-ares-space-rocket About time too. Shame about the carbon footprint though, maybe you guys could cycle everywhere for a few months to make up for it?
[FairfieldLife] America can learn a lot from Texas
America can learn a lot from Texas [BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392564964576782034] http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CT4y-UiwdC0/StY9Q6XQ5tI/Bq0/n6bSkVKCk\ Rg/s1600-h/texas_sucks.jpgTexas has some of the best mouth watering barbeque in the country. We have some of the best college football and education and our high school football program is second to none. But we have something that all of America can learn from: bad legislation. Congress is currently debating health care reform and could learn from the mistakes of the Texas Legislature over the last few years including insurance reform, tort reform, and deregulation. Tort Reform. In 2003 the Republican controlled Texas house ushered in sweeping tort reform, limiting medical malpractice suits to $250,000. These limits were supported by the insurance industry, some of the medical community, and their front groups calling themselves Texans and Citizens against lawsuit abuse. As they are doing today with national health care reform, they promised lower health care costs, lower insurance rates, and expanded health care availability. Instead, Texas has the highest rate of uninsured in the nation and our cost of health care and insurance has skyrocketed out of control. Tort reform didn't work in Texas. It won't work on the national level either. Insurance Reform. Along with tort reform, the Republican controlled House passed massive homeowner insurance reform. Texas at the time had the highest rates in the country and insurance reform was the hottest issue of the 2002 campaign. In the end the Legislature limited oversight of the industry, allowed the use of optional insurance policies and gave the industry almost everything they requested. In return homeowners would receive lower rates due to increased competition. Unfortunately, like tort reform, the promises never materialized. Rates in Texas tripled. Coverage was cut and deductibles soared. Texas now has rates twice as high as the national average with less coverage and higher deductibles. Again, insurance reform didn't work in Texas. Electricity and College Tuition Deregulation. The Republican controlled House also passed electricity and college tuition deregulation again with promises of lower rates with more competition. With Enron and Ken Lay leading the lobbying effort, electricity was deregulation in most of the State, resulting in higher rates, sometimes as high as 3 times pre-deregulation. Tuition costs for State Universities has since doubled and our once shining example of fiscal responsibility, the Texas Tomorrow Fund providing a method for families to save for college, was cancelled due to the skyrocketing cost of college. Electricity and college tuition deregulation failed. Learn from our mistakes. Please. Congress has an incredible resource staring them in the face: the great State of Texas with its examples of failed legislation. It is clear, tort reform will not lower health care or insurance rates, the insurance industry cannot be trusted, and deregulation will not lower rates or create competition as promised. Texas has mosquitoes large enough for an afternoon snack, pumpkins the size of a small car, and we also have enough bad legislative experiences to last a lifetime, or a debate on national health care reform. For the sake of all Americans learn from our mistakes. http://bayareahouston.blogspot.com/2009/10/america-can-learn-lot-from-te\ xas.html See also: Texas ranks 46th in Health Care http://snipurl.com/senca [www_dallasnews_com]
[FairfieldLife] America speaks on Polanski case
American Voices /content/most_recent/onion_amvo Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Polanski Arrested On 31-Year-Old Sex Charge As he tried to enter Switzerland to receive a lifetime achievement award, filmmaker Roman Polanski was arrested in connection with the 1977 rape of an American 13-year-old. What do you think? [Old Man] Jerry Raudive, Gravel Inspector Yeah, like every 13-year-old girl in the country at the time wasn't absolutely crazy about Chinatown director Roman Polanski. [Young Woman] Molli Kass, Firefighter I'm sure now that he's been captured, justice can finally be evaded with money. [Asian Man] Rolf Jürgenson, Feed Elevator Worker Oh, I'm sure she's over it by now. The average woman only needs like two years max to get over a rape if it's by someone famous.
[FairfieldLife] America slow for world web speed.
America slow for world web speed. http://tinyurl.com/ksr52p http://tinyurl.com/ksr52p OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] 'America Addicted to China Like Crack Cocaine'
We have a major addiction problem with China, folks... They are playing us for fools... Our good friend: Wal-Mart is an 'Agent of China'... Our holy search engine, Google comprises it's companies soul, For business with China... Then today, low and behold... China buys the War-Mongering Hummer, agency of G.M. China steals and 'Pirates' most all of our software and everything else, They can get there hands on. There good friend, North Korea, acts like China' little brother. China even supports the brutality in Africa.(Not their problem) China's God is American Dollars, and the power contained therein. At least for now. Beware of the Cynical Communist Chinese Government... The China man/woman does like his/her casinos. (They have their own suites in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. But here is the proof of my rant: One time last year, when sitting down at 'Pike St. Market, in Seattle... I saw, with my own eyes... An older Chinese man, with a large bag of crack cocaine... I saw him deliver it to the pathetic group of 'Crack Addicts' who congregate there... I am sure, that the Chinese man does not indulge himself, but is helping to contribute to the soul's death of these poor helpless street people. Why in the world, would we trust a 'God-less government, whose little brother is North Korea, is just insane, and naive. R.Gimbel Madison, WI
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[FairfieldLife] America the Banana Republic
Article by Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/10/hitchens200810
[FairfieldLife] America Is About To be Reintroduced To Rev. Wright
The GOP is desperate. Expect the worst of the worst to start hitting here soon. Jeremiah Wright is overdue for his second act, as well as Ayers, the Muslim crap, and anything else desperate Republicans can fabricate. At this point, they literally have nothing to lose. ~~ Markos Moulitsas http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/1/165238/584/399/616938 Flop sweat smells like fear: Sen. John McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obama's character, believing that to win in November they must shift the conversation back to questions about the Democrat's judgment, honesty and personal associations, several top Republicans said. With just a month to go until Election Day, McCain's team has decided that its emphasis on the senator's biography as a war hero, experienced lawmaker and straight-talking maverick is insufficient to close a growing gap with Obama. The Arizonan's campaign is also eager to move the conversation away from the economy, an issue that strongly favors Obama and has helped him to a lead in many recent polls. We're going to get a little tougher, a senior Republican operative said, indicating that a fresh batch of television ads is coming. We've got to question this guy's associations. Very soon. There's no question that we have to change the subject here, said the operative, who was not authorized to discuss strategy and spoke on the condition of anonymity. In other words, they are going to behave like Republicans in October. No one could have ever predicted this would happen. That could explain this pointless piece in the NY Times today about William Ayers (long story short- there really is no relationship there), and could explain why the wingnuttosphere was whipping themselves into a froth about the FBI's raiding the office of Larry Walsh, when it turns out they did nothing of the sort. The thing about this is that while it will no doubt infuriate folks like me, the good news is that we know some stuff about negative advertising- yes, it works, but it also drags down the negatives of the people launching it. Additionally, we know that there are ways to combat negative campaigning, and that the Obama campaign is aware of this and knows what they are doing- on many of the things that will be brought up, the country has already dealt with them and moved on. Another factor is the enthusiasm factor- most of the Obama supporters I know would crawl over glass to vote for him in November. And finally, for those of you who are Michael Pfau fans, we know that elections usually end badly for folks who never get out of the negative campaigning phase of the election cycle. In other words, bring it on. McCain will continue to trash his brand as a straight-talking bi-partisan maverick, the media will be repulsed, and it really is too little too late. I really am surprised that they thought they could run a substance free biography based campaign during a two-front war and an economic crisis, but by now I should never be surprised by Republican stupidity. ~~ by John Cole, former Republican Key links here: http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=11715
[FairfieldLife] America ' had a beer ' with George
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Re: [FairfieldLife] America ' had a beer ' with George
And is still throwing up. Sal
[FairfieldLife] America Is Going the Way of Argentina
I've been saying that for years and here's an article that underscores my point: http://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/debtor-nation.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] America adrift by the Master--, through Benjamin Creme, dec. 2004
It doesn't take a disincarnate Master to tell us what is rather self-evident to many, many people in the US. --- nablus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: America adrift by the Master , through Benjamin Creme It is only a matter of time before the people of the United States realize that they have made a grievous mistake. They have reinstated, albeit with the aid of many stolen votes, a man and administration dedicated to the creation of division and hatred, both nationally and internationally. They will ruefully watch an attack on their proudly held freedoms; they will see a steep decline in their standard of living as the government, of necessity, strives to tackle their enormous debts; they will witness a loss of confidence in their currency and a sharp reversal of trade with their traditional trading partners. The calamitous invasion of Iraq will continue to fester, both in Iraq and elsewhere in the world. Reacting to the fear and hatred which this administration has engendered almost universally, the tendency will be for the people to look inwards, and to turn their backs even more squarely on the world. Illusion A major problem in dealing with this administration is the powerful illusion under which it works: that it is God-inspired and so in divine Grace, helping to restore the Christian world and message to its former power and glory. Thus has the USA taken a huge step backwards, isolating itself from the true concerns of much of the world: environmental pollution and the demands of a planet suffering under the strain of impending disaster. The United States will find that the world will not stand still. With or without American co-operation the nations will proceed as best they can to deal with the many ecological and social problems which beset us, and which so urgently must be addressed. America will find itself left behind and ignored, and only then will it be prepared to `lead' the way. Rhetoric This administration is, even now, relishing its victory, and weighing the pros and cons of subsequent action. Thwarted and taken unawares by events in Iraq, it must pause awhile before considering further violence. But the bravado and rhetoric will doubtless continue, hoping to bully and conquer by threats alone. Meanwhile, great changes in many countries are under way, leading to a profound shift in the balance of power in the world. China and India, South America and Russia, are finding their feet and economic potential. Africa is beginning to receive, at last, the concern and goodwill of powerful governments and agencies, and can look forward to better times. Thus the world is turning away from the dominance of American power and wealth, and charting another path to fulfil its destiny. If the United States insists on its right of unilateral action, it will find itself neglected and ignored in international plans and projects, its economy will further decay, and its people will lose confidence and trust in government action. Without friends, and with ebbing strength, it will be forced to change, and to renew dialogue with its former friends. The emergence of Maitreya will speed the process of this transformation and assure its welcome completion. http://shareintl.org To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America adrift by the Master--, through Benjamin Creme, dec. 2004
America adrift by the Master , through Benjamin Creme It is only a matter of time before the people of the United States realize that they have made a grievous mistake. They have reinstated, albeit with the aid of many stolen votes, a man and administration dedicated to the creation of division and hatred, both nationally and internationally. They will ruefully watch an attack on their proudly held freedoms; they will see a steep decline in their standard of living as the government, of necessity, strives to tackle their enormous debts; they will witness a loss of confidence in their currency and a sharp reversal of trade with their traditional trading partners. The calamitous invasion of Iraq will continue to fester, both in Iraq and elsewhere in the world. Reacting to the fear and hatred which this administration has engendered almost universally, the tendency will be for the people to look inwards, and to turn their backs even more squarely on the world. Illusion A major problem in dealing with this administration is the powerful illusion under which it works: that it is God-inspired and so in divine Grace, helping to restore the Christian world and message to its former power and glory. Thus has the USA taken a huge step backwards, isolating itself from the true concerns of much of the world: environmental pollution and the demands of a planet suffering under the strain of impending disaster. The United States will find that the world will not stand still. With or without American co-operation the nations will proceed as best they can to deal with the many ecological and social problems which beset us, and which so urgently must be addressed. America will find itself left behind and ignored, and only then will it be prepared to `lead' the way. Rhetoric This administration is, even now, relishing its victory, and weighing the pros and cons of subsequent action. Thwarted and taken unawares by events in Iraq, it must pause awhile before considering further violence. But the bravado and rhetoric will doubtless continue, hoping to bully and conquer by threats alone. Meanwhile, great changes in many countries are under way, leading to a profound shift in the balance of power in the world. China and India, South America and Russia, are finding their feet and economic potential. Africa is beginning to receive, at last, the concern and goodwill of powerful governments and agencies, and can look forward to better times. Thus the world is turning away from the dominance of American power and wealth, and charting another path to fulfil its destiny. If the United States insists on its right of unilateral action, it will find itself neglected and ignored in international plans and projects, its economy will further decay, and its people will lose confidence and trust in government action. Without friends, and with ebbing strength, it will be forced to change, and to renew dialogue with its former friends. The emergence of Maitreya will speed the process of this transformation and assure its welcome completion. http://shareintl.org To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America to learn from Britain
The British Empire's Lessons for Our Own By Jeremy Hildreth 14 June 2005 The Wall Street Journal BRITISH EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH MUSEUM Bristol, England www.empiremuseum.co.uk Bristol, England -- `I like America," sputtered the drunken Welshman a\little too close to my face. "But your foreign policy stinks. You justwant to police the whole world!" He was pressed next to me in the vestibule of an overcrowded London-bound train, and his timing was extraordinary. "Funny you should say that," I replied, "because I've just come from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Seems you guys had a pretty good turn at that `world's policeman' beat once upon a time.Think we Yanks can do any better?" That quieted him right down. The irony, though, on full display at this comprehensive museum, is that long before the British were policemen they were adventurers and pirates. One of the poorest nations in Europe at the time, the British launched their global ambitions in the 1500s with what the museumterms "exploration and plunder." This evolved into textile, spice and slave trading (and some North American settlements like Jamestown, Va.), and resolved into a full-blown territorial empire following victory in the Napoleonic wars in 1815. Although Victoria's reign from 1837 to 1901 marked the Empire's glory days, its maximum geographicspan came in the 1920s, when fully one-quarter of the world's population fell under its rule. Roughly twice the size of Spain's empire, thrice that of France's and five times larger than the Roman Empire, the British Empire remains the greatest such agglomeration the world has ever known. The Brits had their shortcomings and foibles -- slavery, brutality, a tendency to call adult servants "boy," etc -- but in the Anglophone hegemony department, they're a tough act to follow. The museum, which has many photographs and artifacts (few of which are memorable in themselves), covers its subject in the manner of a well-written textbook with poster-sized pages. You'll do a lot of reading here, but what a story. Displays and panels show how usingadministrators and settlers backed by small armies and a fearsome navy, the British built whole nations one after the next. Wherever they went, they created governments, judicial systems, schools, hospitals, charities, telegraphs and railways (37,000 miles of track in India alone). Their collective efforts brought the English language, relative prosperity, a Western cultural orientation toward rights and liberty, and at least a modicum of law and order to largeswaths of the globe. Yet in recent times it's been more fashionable to harp on the consequences of empire than to extol them. The museum itself had to fight through a miasma of anti-Empire sentiment in the decade-long run-up to its opening in 2002. Explains Katherine Hann, head of education and interpretation at the museum, "It was simply deemedpolitically incorrect to support an exhibition on the empire," and funding was hard to come by. In the end, having failed to secure the pound sterling18 million they needed from public sources, the museum's trustees turned to individuals and foundations for financing, and the museum continues to operate without subsidy from eithernational or local government. For all the anxiety modern-day Brits may have about imperialism, their predecessors were less troubled. Not unlike Americans today, no matter how out of line British foreign actions were at times, the Brits' confidence in the essential goodness of their mission was rarely rattled. The museum portrays this as a culturally rooted belief inculcated from an early age. "British children were taught that serving the empire was a noble duty," says one placard. "Picture books and comic books were full of imperial heroes, and they collected sets of cigarette cards and stamps that showed the empire as a big, happyfamily." The naivete of this view was unsustainable, and to use a British _expression_, eventually things went "pear-shaped." Although World War I saw the enlargement of the empire to include Iraq, Jordan, Palestine and Tanganyika (Tanzania), the immense cost of the war pushed Britain's focus onto matters domestic. Proof of Britain's inability to attend to its vast realm came in World War II, when the empire lost all of its Far Eastern holdings except India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to the Japanese, badly damaging its prestige (and prestige, wrote George Orwell in "Burmese Days," was "the breath of [colonial] life"). Thereafter, the museum tells us, "[the white colonies like] Australia and New Zealand turned to theU.S. as a more reliable ally. In Asia, people accepted Britain's return only grudgingly. Their political confidence had increased and they demanded immediate steps toward independence." There was another dynamic in play, too. Strikingly, writes British scholar Niall Ferguson in "Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World," even when "the British were behaving
[FairfieldLife] America Sat Back (was Re: Maharishi on Saddam Hussein...)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 8/8/05 5:36:28 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In brief, the *reason* for killing greatly agravates or mitagates the karmayes? What would have been America's karma had it sat back and knowingly let Hitler exterminate Jews. Um, I thought history is pretty clear that America, including and particularly Roosevelt, the catholic church, the congress, the press, etc, did sit back and knowingly let Hitler exterminate the Jews. Roosevelt even said something to the effect I have a war to win, I can't worry about smaller problems like this. The allies liberated the camps when the germans had been defeated. There was no rush to liberate or destroy the camps before hand, which could have been done. The camps could have been easily bombed and destroyed by early 43. But Roosevelt did not want to divert precious bombing runs to save some Jews. (You gasp, but wouldn't bombing the camps have killed the 'occupants'? Well, some yes, many no, if the bombing was on the crematoriums not the residences. But given that al occupants were sent to their deaths, better that many in the camps would have been saved and ALL the future transports to the camps would have been saved (well at least from these camps). And since the mass exterminations greatly accelerated in 44 and 45, taking the crematoriums out in 43 would have saved millions. I suppose you are going to argue next that Lincoln went to war to free the slaves. Oh no, you are too knowledgable about that issue to fall for that myth. So what is America's karma for sitting back and letting Hitler exterminate the Jews? What's its karam for sitting back in Rawanda? Whats its karma for sitting back in Sudan? Who elses karma is it besides America's? Does America have the mandate and obligation to solve very problem, resolve every crises? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] America Sat Back (was Re: Maharishi on Saddam Hussein...)
--- anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 8/8/05 5:36:28 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In brief, the *reason* for killing greatly agravates or mitagates the karmayes? What would have been America's karma had it sat back and knowingly let Hitler exterminate Jews. Um, I thought history is pretty clear that America, including and particularly Roosevelt, the catholic church, the congress, the press, etc, did sit back and knowingly let Hitler exterminate the Jews. Roosevelt even said something to the effect I have a war to win, I can't worry about smaller problems like this. The allies liberated the camps when the germans had been defeated. There was no rush to liberate or destroy the camps before hand, which could have been done. The camps could have been easily bombed and destroyed by early 43. But Roosevelt did not want to divert precious bombing runs to save some Jews. (You gasp, but wouldn't bombing the camps have killed the 'occupants'? Well, some yes, many no, if the bombing was on the crematoriums not the residences. But given that al occupants were sent to their deaths, better that many in the camps would have been saved and ALL the future transports to the camps would have been saved (well at least from these camps). And since the mass exterminations greatly accelerated in 44 and 45, taking the crematoriums out in 43 would have saved millions. I suppose you are going to argue next that Lincoln went to war to free the slaves. Oh no, you are too knowledgable about that issue to fall for that myth. So what is America's karma for sitting back and letting Hitler exterminate the Jews? What's its karam for sitting back in Rawanda? Whats its karma for sitting back in Sudan? Who elses karma is it besides America's? Does America have the mandate and obligation to solve very problem, resolve every crises? Our karma? George Bush! A To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America Sat Back (was Re: Maharishi on Saddam Hussein...)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is America's karma for sitting back and letting Hitler exterminate the Jews? What's its karam for sitting back in Rawanda? Whats its karma for sitting back in Sudan? Who elses karma is it besides America's? Does America have the mandate and obligation to solve very problem, resolve every crises? Our karma? George Bush! A Well certainly George Bush is the karma of America. What else is it? Is it karma from not ending the death camps in 43? is he the karma for putting a man on the moon? Hard to say. Hard to make such a 1:1 correspondence I would think. Is GWB bad karma? Well, only for those that don't think and know that the universe is Perfect. Is the above AHHH something like AHHH G NI from the openingof Rig Veda and you are simple acknowledging the perfection of creation as cognized by the vedic seers? Cool. I hope its not a cry of imperfect pluralistic angst. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America Sat Back (was Re: Maharishi on Saddam Hussein...)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is America's karma for sitting back and letting Hitler exterminate the Jews? What's its karam for sitting back in Rawanda? Whats its karma for sitting back in Sudan? Who elses karma is it besides America's? Does America have the mandate and obligation to solve very problem, resolve every crises? Our karma? George Bush! A Well certainly George Bush is the karma of America. What else is it? Is it karma from not ending the death camps in 43? is he the karma for putting a man on the moon? Hard to say. Hard to make such a 1:1 correspondence I would think. Is GWB bad karma? Well, only for those that don't think and know that the universe is Perfect. Is the above AHHH something like AHHH G NI from the openingof Rig Veda and you are simple acknowledging the perfection of creation as cognized by the vedic seers? Cool. I hope its not a cry of imperfect pluralistic angst. and again, the small self trumpets forth! Awesome! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America Sat Back (was Re: Maharishi on Saddam Hussein...)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is America's karma for sitting back and letting Hitler exterminate the Jews? What's its karam for sitting back in Rawanda? Whats its karma for sitting back in Sudan? Who elses karma is it besides America's? Does America have the mandate and obligation to solve very problem, resolve every crises? Our karma? George Bush! A Well certainly George Bush is the karma of America. What else is it? Is it karma from not ending the death camps in 43? is he the karma for putting a man on the moon? Hard to say. Hard to make such a 1:1 correspondence I would think. Is GWB bad karma? Well, only for those that don't think and know that the universe is Perfect. Is the above AHHH something like AHHH G NI from the openingof Rig Veda and you are simple acknowledging the perfection of creation as cognized by the vedic seers? Cool. I hope its not a cry of imperfect pluralistic angst. and again, the small self trumpets forth! Awesome! Yes, its so Perfect. The world is as you are. Prayers and hopes for the elimination angst is wonderful, isn't it. Though angst is perfect too for it seeds the blossoming of wholenss. Its Perfect. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America Sat Back (was Re: Maharishi on Saddam Hussein...)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is America's karma for sitting back and letting Hitler exterminate the Jews? What's its karam for sitting back in Rawanda? Whats its karma for sitting back in Sudan? Who elses karma is it besides America's? Does America have the mandate and obligation to solve very problem, resolve every crises? Our karma? George Bush! A Well certainly George Bush is the karma of America. What else is it? Is it karma from not ending the death camps in 43? is he the karma for putting a man on the moon? Hard to say. Hard to make such a 1:1 correspondence I would think. Is GWB bad karma? Well, only for those that don't think and know that the universe is Perfect. Is the above AHHH something like AHHH G NI from the openingof Rig Veda and you are simple acknowledging the perfection of creation as cognized by the vedic seers? Cool. I hope its not a cry of imperfect pluralistic angst. and again, the small self trumpets forth! Awesome! Yes, its so Perfect. The world is as you are. Prayers and hopes for the elimination angst is wonderful, isn't it. Though angst is perfect too for it seeds the blossoming of wholenss. Its Perfect. I am losing track of your non-sequiturs. Sorry. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America Sat Back (was Re: Maharishi on Saddam Hussein...)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is America's karma for sitting back and letting Hitler exterminate the Jews? What's its karam for sitting back in Rawanda? Whats its karma for sitting back in Sudan? Who elses karma is it besides America's? Does America have the mandate and obligation to solve very problem, resolve every crises? Our karma? George Bush! A Well certainly George Bush is the karma of America. What else is it? Is it karma from not ending the death camps in 43? is he the karma for putting a man on the moon? Hard to say. Hard to make such a 1:1 correspondence I would think. Is GWB bad karma? Well, only for those that don't think and know that the universe is Perfect. Is the above AHHH something like AHHH G NI from the openingof Rig Veda and you are simple acknowledging the perfection of creation as cognized by the vedic seers? Cool. I hope its not a cry of imperfect pluralistic angst. and again, the small self trumpets forth! Awesome! Yes, its so Perfect. The world is as you are. Prayers and hopes for the elimination angst is wonderful, isn't it. Though angst is perfect too for it seeds the blossoming of wholenss. Its Perfect. I am losing track of your non-sequiturs. Sorry. Exactly. Wholeness is a non-squitur. Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing comes from anything. No A. No B. No A from B. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America Sat Back (was Re: Maharishi on Saddam Hussein...)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is America's karma for sitting back and letting Hitler exterminate the Jews? What's its karam for sitting back in Rawanda? Whats its karma for sitting back in Sudan? Who elses karma is it besides America's? Does America have the mandate and obligation to solve very problem, resolve every crises? Our karma? George Bush! A Well certainly George Bush is the karma of America. What else is it? Is it karma from not ending the death camps in 43? is he the karma for putting a man on the moon? Hard to say. Hard to make such a 1:1 correspondence I would think. Is GWB bad karma? Well, only for those that don't think and know that the universe is Perfect. Is the above AHHH something like AHHH G NI from the openingof Rig Veda and you are simple acknowledging the perfection of creation as cognized by the vedic seers? Cool. I hope its not a cry of imperfect pluralistic angst. and again, the small self trumpets forth! Awesome! Yes, its so Perfect. The world is as you are. Prayers and hopes for the elimination angst is wonderful, isn't it. Though angst is perfect too for it seeds the blossoming of wholenss. Its Perfect. I am losing track of your non-sequiturs. Sorry. Exactly. Wholeness is a non-squitur. Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing comes from anything. No A. No B. No A from B. Agreed. Wholeness is quite the paradox. First, Wholeness, then looking closer, discrimination, then looking closer still, Wholeness again... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America Sat Back (was Re: Maharishi on Saddam Hussein...)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is America's karma for sitting back and letting Hitler exterminate the Jews? What's its karam for sitting back in Rawanda? Whats its karma for sitting back in Sudan? Who elses karma is it besides America's? Does America have the mandate and obligation to solve very problem, resolve every crises? Our karma? George Bush! A Well certainly George Bush is the karma of America. What else is it? Is it karma from not ending the death camps in 43? is he the karma for putting a man on the moon? Hard to say. Hard to make such a 1:1 correspondence I would think. Is GWB bad karma? Well, only for those that don't think and know that the universe is Perfect. Is the above AHHH something like AHHH G NI from the openingof Rig Veda and you are simple acknowledging the perfection of creation as cognized by the vedic seers? Cool. I hope its not a cry of imperfect pluralistic angst. and again, the small self trumpets forth! Awesome! Yes, its so Perfect. The world is as you are. Prayers and hopes for the elimination angst is wonderful, isn't it. Though angst is perfect too for it seeds the blossoming of wholenss. Its Perfect. Blossoming wholeness ala Karl Rove (google: turd blossom). Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12ho5f0pt/M=364397.6958316.7892810.4764722/D=groups/S=1705171145:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123656585/A=2915264/R=0/SIG=11t7isiiv/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=34443/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs;Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page/a/font ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] America = Liberal
Liberal = American. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] America = Liberal
off_world_beings wrote: Liberal = American. Well about 20%-30% might be Liberal and 20-30% Conservative, everyone else is in-between or apolitical, confused which could be called the rope in the tug-a-war. :) And no one I know is 100% one way or the other. I know people who embrace liberal ideals but live very conservatively and are conservative in their personality. Conversely I know people who embrace conservative ideals but live very liberally and are liberal in their personalities. Then we have the libertarians who are supposed to be socially liberal and economically conservative unless they are the Aynn Rand variety. Libertarianism was embraced by a lot of technies who were apolitical until they started making money. I remeber seeing a book reviewed in Whole Earth magazine (they called it something else) about 10 years ago which definited and graphed all the different political persuasions and I believe written by a poli sci prof from Stanford. Maybe someone here knows the book. BTW, I have friends who think themselves conservative but are easily tripped up. For instance they will go on about needing to privatize something and ten minutes later be complaining about the phone company, gasoline prices, or the cable company. They can't connect the dots. - Bhairitu To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
