Jun 222011
Take nine minutes and give this video a watch:
[vimeo 25438650]
As bad as things are here in the US, it’s shocking to see how much worse they are in places like Britain, Canada and Australia.
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I once spent a day learning all the ways women could be offended by something I might say. At the end of the eight hours of sensitivity training to avoid sexual harassment, I realized that only women can be sexually harassed and that the entire concept is based on mindless acceptance of anything a woman thinks she hears and in any way that she interprets it. I was working with a bunch of electrical engineers (who, as we know, have no social skills), but we all agreed that maybe working with women wasn’t worth the problem of worrying about what happens when one of them has a bad day. Maybe excluding the easily-offended is the way to do it. By law now they’d have to choose to exclude themselves, however, and I cannot imagine one of those fringe groups avoiding an opportunity to be offended and therefore to have a way to control those not in their club.
I’ll tell you one thing, saying “You’ve slept with everyone else, why not me?” isn’t going to work as a seduction line, and is probably going to get you slapped really hard, like it did me.
Even as I was saying that, I was thinking: “You know something? I don’t think this is going to work.”
But I was pretty drunk, and she was pretty loose, so it seemed at least worth a try 😀
> I was pretty drunk
This would seem to be the normal state of affairs.
“Work is the curse of the drinking class.” – Oscar Wilde
Besides, my ancestors are Irish, so it’s probably a inborn genetic condition, and not really my fault.
Next, have you ever considered the real financial advantages of actually _owning_ the Brooklyn Bridge? 😀
7:25 just cracked me up.
“The ultimate minority is the individual”
Yes! Good for him for making that clear.
Yeah, that’s true.
We are all unique individuals, not some sort of animals that can be sorted into group, like cattle.
What pisses me off is the concept that the more outrageous the thing you say is, the more it will be noticed, and the more people will tune in to you on radio, TV, or YouTube.
Then, you can sell the advertising on the show for more.
Rush Limbaugh compared Obama to Hitler again, saying that he didn’t listen to his military general’s advice, just like Hitler: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/rush-limbaugh-obama-hitler_n_883703.html
Think for a second what might of happened if Hitler _had_ listened to their advice.
There would be several tens of million people less in the world, especially east of Germany.
You wouldn’t have to worry about any of that “Infringement On The Bill Of Rights” shit in the US, as you are going to be _told_ what you can do, and what you can’t do, with no legal recourse or open discussion possible.
Is there a difference between your bill of rights guarantees of free speech, press, and expression to argue your position in a political, religious, or philosophical sense…or simply be left alone to live your life as you please…and doing it to make buck off of it?
I’m still up-in-the-air over that.
I can’t picture Thomas Paine hawking copies of “Common Sense” on the streets of Boston for a hundred times what it cost to print them, and of course if that one worked out well for him in a financial sense – “Common Sense II – Let’s Stick A Red-Hot Poker Up Old George’s Ass As A Surprise” being the obvious sequel. 😀
The thing I would have given anything to see is Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson trying to understand where the other individual is coming from.
Hamilton is all about how we make this new nation viable from a economic point of view, Jefferson is all over the place about the inherent rights of man…except Negros of course… who aren’t complexly “Men” until eight dilutions of their semi-ape blood elevates them to that high state.
Of course, Thomas Paine is such a perfect ideological Utopian revolutionary that he skips out of the country like Leon Trotsky …after another revolution over a hundred years, and thousands of miles, away.*
God, it’s a riot to think about, isn”t it?
* Then the French told him to get lost also, and in the spirit of liberty and democracy…replaced their king with an emperor.
Henry Ford was right -.history is indeed “One damn thing after another.” 😀
“…I would have given anything to see is Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson trying to understand where the other individual is coming from.”
Ask and you shall receive:
http://www.amazon.com/Dinner-Mr-Jeffersons-Evening-Changed/dp/0470450444/