A true intellectual doesn't resort to name calling.

It's your colors that have been painted on the wall.

Yes I am a "pinko" communist terrorist lover hippie, deal with it

You a Granola-Muncher too?

...take a bath...

.... I wonder what Buddhist doctrine has to say about pride....and whether its helpful or not.

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There is a big difference between pride and boasting. Pride is an essential human emotion. Trying to suppress it would be trying to not act human. I haven't studied Buddhism, but I believe part of the philosophy is to be a good and complete human.

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I have never heard anyone claim that pride was an essential human emotion. Can you elaborate on this or tell me where I can learn more about this....I doubt that this is true but I'm open to learning...I can admit when I am wrong.

I have never heard anyone claim that pride was an essential human emotion. 

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http://achieve-your-potential.com/list-of-...n-emotions.html

I guess we could debate whether or not pride is an "essential" emotion, although my opinion would be that it is.

I think there is far too much negative thought in the world today. Some peoples' whole lives are focused almost solely on negative thought.

Pride is a positive thought, whether about a job well done, an accomplishment, the birth of a child, giving a loved one an unexpected surprise, a charitable act, and so on.

I have never heard anyone claim that pride was an essential human emotion. 

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http://achieve-your-potential.com/list-of-...n-emotions.html

I guess we could debate whether or not pride is an "essential" emotion, although my opinion would be that it is.

I think there is far too much negative thought in the world today. Some peoples' whole lives are focused almost solely on negative thought.

Pride is a positive thought, whether about a job well done, an accomplishment, the birth of a child, giving a loved one an unexpected surprise, a charitable act, and so on.

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I looked at the link and couldn't find anything about pride...seems like he wants to sell information and is kind of stingy about giving it away free...no matter...Your description of pride as a positive thought helps me to understand where you are coming form and I guess we just have different opinions about how pride works. Thanks for your response.

I looked at the link and couldn't find anything about pride...seems like he wants to sell information and is kind of stingy about giving it away free...

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Didn't mean anything with the link. It was just something that popped up in a yahoo search for list of human emotions.

Robin Williams' plan for peace...

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan."

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys,' We will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are.

They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!!!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE.....

Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.'

She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "

Robin Williams' plan for peace...

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan."

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys,' We will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are.

They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!!!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE.....

Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.'

She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "

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Robin Williams for president

When do we start the campaign?

You may think you’ve seen the ultimate absurd dead end of touchy-feely politically correct inverted thinking, but in Australia’s Herald Sun, Andrew Bolt describes a left-wing Aussie editor-in-chief’s reaction to freed hostage Douglas Wood that you are not going to believe How The Left Gets Loonier

Andrew Jaspan is editor-in-chief of The Age, Australia’s most Left-wing daily newspaper, and on ABC radio on Wednesday said how “boorish” and “coarse” Wood was at his press conference this week when he called his captors “a—-holes”.

You might wonder whether Jaspan, the Englishman whose paper on that same day published a big picture on page one of naked girls from Big Brother, has the right to call anyone else “coarse”.

But far more shocking was his apparent demand that Wood be more grateful to the men who’d snatched him, kicked him in the head, kept him blindfolded and bound for 47 days, shaved him bald, killed two of his colleagues, made him beg for his life, and — says a fellow hostage from Sweden — shot several other prisoners in front of him.

Let’s run the tape.

Said Jaspan: “I was, I have to say, shocked by Douglas Wood’s use of the a—-hole word, if I can put it like that, which I just thought was coarse and very ill-thought through and I think demeans the man and is one of the reasons why people are slightly sceptical of his motives and everything else.

”The issue really is largely, speaking as I understand it, he was treated well there. He says he was fed every day, and as such to turn around and use that kind of language I think is just insensitive."

Sounds pretty whimpy to me!

Girly men!

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SO... getting back to the OP, I can't understand why the Ed was so shocked. It was a very mild comment from the hostage considering his circumstances. One only has to watch televised Australian Parliament for a truly shocking experience!

Robin Williams' plan for peace...

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan."

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys,' We will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are.

They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!!!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE.....

Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.'

She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "

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Robin Williams for president

When do we start the campaign?

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Here, Here!

Him or Geogre Carlin. I love 'em both.

Robin Williams' plan for peace...

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan."

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys,' We will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are.

They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!!!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE.....

Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.'

She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "

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Robin Williams the "liberal" actor ? I doubt this is true. Could you provide a credible link ?

Robin Williams' plan for peace...

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan."

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys,' We will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are.

They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!!!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE.....

Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.'

She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "

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Robin Williams the "liberal" actor ? I doubt this is true. Could you provide a credible link ?

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Yeah, I kind of thought it might be a forgery but I really don't know anything about his personal beliefs....now you've got my curiosity up...can we get some corroboration for the source of this stuff? Also it doesn't really seem clever enough to be him.

Robin Williams' plan for peace...

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan."

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys,' We will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are.

They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!!!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE.....

Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.'

She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "

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Robin Williams the "liberal" actor ? I doubt this is true. Could you provide a credible link ?

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Yeah, I kind of thought it might be a forgery but I really don't know anything about his personal beliefs....now you've got my curiosity up...can we get some corroboration for the source of this stuff? Also it doesn't really seem clever enough to be him.

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just do a search quoting part if the text...you will find hundreds of web pages quoting this as Williams.Personally, I think he is way too clever for this anyway.

Robin Williams' plan for peace...

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan."

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys,' We will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are.

They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!!!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE.....

Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.'

She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "

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Robin Williams the "liberal" actor ? I doubt this is true. Could you provide a credible link ?

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Yeah, I kind of thought it might be a forgery but I really don't know anything about his personal beliefs....now you've got my curiosity up...can we get some corroboration for the source of this stuff? Also it doesn't really seem clever enough to be him.

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just do a search quoting part if the text...you will find hundreds of web pages quoting this as Williams.Personally, I think he is way too clever for this anyway.

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I did this and after looking through lots of sites quoting this as Robin Williams (most of the sites were at colleges in the USA) but finally I found this:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/williams.asp

The link is from the 'Urban Legends Reference Pages'. It says that attributing this to Robin Williams is indeed incorrect and it tells the history of this sham and how it didn't start claiming Robin Williams as the author until it had been around for awhile. The quote about the statue of liberty with the baseball bat is an actual Robin Williams quote which was tacked on to the end eventually but then people started saying that he wrote the entire thing which is false....check it out yourself. I can see, however, how someone would think that it is Robin Williams because its all over the net and attributed to Williams just about everywhere.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/williams.asp

The link is from the 'Urban Legends Reference Pages'.  It says that attributing this to Robin Williams is indeed incorrect and it tells the history of this sham and how it didn't start claiming Robin Williams as the author until it had been around for awhile.  The quote about the statue of liberty with the baseball bat is an actual Robin Williams quote which was tacked on to the end eventually but then people started saying that he wrote the entire thing which is false....check it out yourself.  I can see, however, how someone would think that it is Robin Williams because its all over the net and attributed to Williams just about everywhere.

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Good find

As usual, you can't trust Boon Me and friends when they post their BS and pathetic links. When it smells like sh1t, it probably is.

I also see that our "pseudo" friend was "sharp" enough to "catch" it immediately, probably because "he" was too happy to wave his tail around Boon Me over that little pretense

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/williams.asp

The link is from the 'Urban Legends Reference Pages'.  It says that attributing this to Robin Williams is indeed incorrect and it tells the history of this sham and how it didn't start claiming Robin Williams as the author until it had been around for awhile.  The quote about the statue of liberty with the baseball bat is an actual Robin Williams quote which was tacked on to the end eventually but then people started saying that he wrote the entire thing which is false....check it out yourself.  I can see, however, how someone would think that it is Robin Williams because its all over the net and attributed to Williams just about everywhere.

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Good find

As usual, you can't trust Boon Me and friends when they post their BS and pathetic links. When it smells like sh1t, it probably is.

I also see that our "pseudo" friend was "sharp" enough to "catch" it immediately, probably because "he" was too happy to wave his tail around Boon Me over that little pretense

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Even irony is lost on you.

You're not a disenfranchised American are you?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/williams.asp

The link is from the 'Urban Legends Reference Pages'.  It says that attributing this to Robin Williams is indeed incorrect and it tells the history of this sham and how it didn't start claiming Robin Williams as the author until it had been around for awhile.  The quote about the statue of liberty with the baseball bat is an actual Robin Williams quote which was tacked on to the end eventually but then people started saying that he wrote the entire thing which is false....check it out yourself.  I can see, however, how someone would think that it is Robin Williams because its all over the net and attributed to Williams just about everywhere.

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Good find

As usual, you can't trust Boon Me and friends when they post their BS and pathetic links. When it smells like sh1t, it probably is.

I also see that our "pseudo" friend was "sharp" enough to "catch" it immediately, probably because "he" was too happy to wave his tail around Boon Me over that little pretense

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Even irony is lost on you.

You're not a disenfranchised American are you?

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That's my guess.

If you are talking about a Jaw dropper....read this from the lefty, treehugging, cowspanking, green fcukers from NZ (Thanks moog....)

And you thought that Thailand was bad......

Green Party Seeks Foreign Ownership Ban

By RAY LILLEY

The Associated Press

Friday, August 19, 2005; 3:45 AM

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand's minority Green Party wants to ban land sales to overseas investors, saying the country should be reserved for residents, not foreigners who rarely visit the picturesque South Pacific nation.

"If you want to buy a slice of heaven, you need to make New Zealand your home," Greens co-leader Rod Donald said.

Among foreigners who have bought up chunks of New Zealand is Canadian singer Shania Twain who last year paid more than 21 million New Zealand dollars ($15 million) for a 33-year lease with automatic renewal rights on a landmark piece of alpine ranching country on South Island.

The singer Cher also is rumored to be considering buying property in New Zealand.

"Shania Twain and Cher and other stars may be nice people _ but they need to make a commitment to New Zealand instead of treating us like a plaything," Donald told The Associated Press.

Overseas interest in New Zealand property has soared in recent years, in part because the "Lord of the Rings" movies showcased the country's spectacular landscape and party because the South Pacific nation is considered a safe haven from terrorists.

Donald, whose party may end up in a ruling coalition with New Zealand's Labour Party following elections next month, said the policy was aimed at tightening the rules on foreign investment and halting land sales to "foreign investors who hardly ever set foot on our soil."

In a statement releasing the party's foreign investment policy, he said while foreigners would be excluded from buying land and houses, those choosing to live in New Zealand would be able to buy property.

He said the Greens also want to tighten the rules on foreign investment in buildings, businesses and aquaculture operations.

There is growing public concern in New Zealand that foreign landowners are buying up some of the nation's most prized real estate and at the same time reducing access to beaches and mountain regions.

"The Green Party welcomes ... foreign investments that create jobs and bring new technology to New Zealand," Donald said. "What we don't want is asset strippers who buy up iconic businesses and bleed them dry."

Last year the Labour-led government tightened controls on sensitive land sales to overseas buyers.

Under the new rules, foreign buyers must get approval of their plans to manage any historic, heritage, conservation, or public access factors affecting any land, as well as proposals for its economic development.

Even irony is lost on you.

You're not a disenfranchised American are you?

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I think the real irony is you posting on a message board, period

Even irony is lost on you.

You're not a disenfranchised American are you?

I think the real irony is you posting on a message board, period

...again, no substance...

Even irony is lost on you.

You're not a disenfranchised American are you?

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I think the real irony is you posting on a message board, period

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What - no criticism of my spelling and punctuation? No more fancy French phrases on the back of your matchbox?

You've now attacked my integrity, my education, my experience and some of my work.

Don't forget about my age, as I've just turned 58 - there could be some points gained in your world by calling me an old git etc..

I'm also bald and wear glasses.

There - that should help.

Surely you can find a way of stringing all this together in a manner that might impress - well, maybe only your mother - but even that would be an improvement, wouldn't it?

I have never heard anyone claim that pride was an essential human emotion. 

http://achieve-your-potential.com/list-of-...n-emotions.html

I guess we could debate whether or not pride is an "essential" emotion, although my opinion would be that it is.

I think there is far too much negative thought in the world today. Some peoples' whole lives are focused almost solely on negative thought.

Pride is a positive thought, whether about a job well done, an accomplishment, the birth of a child, giving a loved one an unexpected surprise, a charitable act, and so on.

I looked at the link and couldn't find anything about pride...seems like he wants to sell information and is kind of stingy about giving it away free...no matter...Your description of pride as a positive thought helps me to understand where you are coming form and I guess we just have different opinions about how pride works. Thanks for your response.

Let's look at pride from another perspective:

It is pride that holds the father back from apologizing to his daughter for leaving the family behind when they needed him, and the daughter from calling him up to admit she misses him.

It is pride (nationalistic pride, perhaps the most foolish one of them all, because it thinks that hurting a symbol such as a nation state is more important than hurting actual people) that makes people in many parts of the world hold on to ideals that should belong on the dustheap of history - Balkans, Al-Quaeda, Neo-Nazis, China vs. Taiwan, Israel-Palestine, Arabs-Israel, The Thai view of Burmese people, India vs. Pakistan...

The refusal of some people to admit to the crimes against humanity that have been performed in their name.. etc.) despite it meaning they mess up the daily lives of millions of others who have to suffer the consequences of the decisions these fighting cocks take the right to make for the rest.

The refusal to accept valid criticism, the refusal to be humble and admit to ones own mistakes or hard-headedness, this is also pride. Not very positive when you look at it in this light, is it?

I have never heard anyone claim that pride was an essential human emotion. 

http://achieve-your-potential.com/list-of-...n-emotions.html

I guess we could debate whether or not pride is an "essential" emotion, although my opinion would be that it is.

I think there is far too much negative thought in the world today. Some peoples' whole lives are focused almost solely on negative thought.

Pride is a positive thought, whether about a job well done, an accomplishment, the birth of a child, giving a loved one an unexpected surprise, a charitable act, and so on.

I looked at the link and couldn't find anything about pride...seems like he wants to sell information and is kind of stingy about giving it away free...no matter...Your description of pride as a positive thought helps me to understand where you are coming form and I guess we just have different opinions about how pride works. Thanks for your response.

The refusal to accept valid criticism, the refusal to be humble and admit to ones own mistakes or hard-headedness, this is also pride. Not very positive when you look at it in this light, is it?

On the subject of not being able to accept valid criticism, here's the Most Outrageous Item of the Day:

Honesty is always the best policy .... unless you’re a doctor and one of your patients is a fat broad who won’t stop stuffing her face or get any exercise. Then you better not tell the stupid cow the truth or you’re in deep trouble. According to modern rules where people take offense and get their feelings hurt at the drop of a hat, you may get a letter of reprimand from the state, be forced to publicly apologize, have to attend sensitivity training and maybe even get sued ....

ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP)—“As doctors warn more patients that they should lose weight, the advice has backfired on one doctor with a woman filing a complaint with the state saying he was hurtful, not helpful. Dr. Terry Bennett says he tells obese patients their weight is bad for their health and their love lives, but the lecture drove one patient to complain to the state.

“I told a fat woman she was obese,” Bennett says. “I tried to get her attention. I told her, ‘You need to get on a program, join a group of like-minded people and peel off the weight that is going to kill you.’ “ He says he wrote a letter of apology to the woman when he found out she was offended.

Her complaint, filed about a year ago, was initially investigated by a panel of the New Hampshire Board of Medicine, which recommended that Bennett be sent a confidential letter of concern. The board rejected the suggestion in December and asked the attorney general’s office to investigate. Bennett rejected that office’s proposal that he attend a medical education course and acknowledge that he made a mistake.

Other overweight patients have come to Bennett’s defense. “What really makes me angry is he told the truth,” Mindy Haney told WMUR-TV on Tuesday. “How can you punish somebody for that?” Haney said Bennett has helped her lose more than 150 pounds, but acknowledged that the initially didn’t want to listen. “I have been in this lady’s shoes. I’ve been angry and left his practice. I mean, in-my-car-taking-off angry,” Haney said. “But once you think about it, you’re angry at yourself, not Doctor Bennett. He’s the messenger. He’s telling you what you already know."

The human race is doomed. All this sensitivity crap is starting to wear real thin. People have to start acting like grown-ups and stop whinging and whining at the least inkling of something that might be offensive...

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Thais have the right attitude here - the first or second thing they will say after greeting you, will be a comment on if you have gained or lost weight.

I am starting to like it, actually. It should not be any more important than that, just a passing comment to let you know what the state is and what you could do about it...

Then again, it can go slightly overboard, as when I rented a house studying Thai in Chiang Mai with a few friends, and our neighbour, a very kind-hearted old fellow who would bring us mangoes from his garden and give advice on the dangers of Chiang Mai, Uncle Dick, one day said in passing to one of my fellow farang students:

'Pernilla. You fat like Pig. Fat like Pig.'

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/williams.asp

The link is from the 'Urban Legends Reference Pages'.  It says that attributing this to Robin Williams is indeed incorrect and it tells the history of this sham and how it didn't start claiming Robin Williams as the author until it had been around for awhile.  The quote about the statue of liberty with the baseball bat is an actual Robin Williams quote which was tacked on to the end eventually but then people started saying that he wrote the entire thing which is false....check it out yourself.  I can see, however, how someone would think that it is Robin Williams because its all over the net and attributed to Williams just about everywhere.

As usual, you can't trust Boon Me and friends when they post their BS and pathetic links. When it smells like sh1t, it probably is.

This kind of diatribe is not worth responding to... you are quite the wind-up merchant Butterfly... or are attempting to be.

Apologies to all for posting the Robin Williams article... I'm ever so glad you got a laugh out of it...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/williams.asp

The link is from the 'Urban Legends Reference Pages'.  It says that attributing this to Robin Williams is indeed incorrect and it tells the history of this sham and how it didn't start claiming Robin Williams as the author until it had been around for awhile.  The quote about the statue of liberty with the baseball bat is an actual Robin Williams quote which was tacked on to the end eventually but then people started saying that he wrote the entire thing which is false....check it out yourself.  I can see, however, how someone would think that it is Robin Williams because its all over the net and attributed to Williams just about everywhere.

As usual, you can't trust Boon Me and friends when they post their BS and pathetic links. When it smells like sh1t, it probably is.

This kind of diatribe is not worth responding to... you are quite the wind-up merchant Butterfly... or are attempting to be.

Butterfly has quite a checkerd past here on TV. The present period between suspensions is a bit longer this time but I'm sure he'll rectify that soon!

I have never heard anyone claim that pride was an essential human emotion. 

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http://achieve-your-potential.com/list-of-...n-emotions.html

I guess we could debate whether or not pride is an "essential" emotion, although my opinion would be that it is.

I think there is far too much negative thought in the world today. Some peoples' whole lives are focused almost solely on negative thought.

Pride is a positive thought, whether about a job well done, an accomplishment, the birth of a child, giving a loved one an unexpected surprise, a charitable act, and so on.

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I looked at the link and couldn't find anything about pride...seems like he wants to sell information and is kind of stingy about giving it away free...no matter...Your description of pride as a positive thought helps me to understand where you are coming form and I guess we just have different opinions about how pride works. Thanks for your response.

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Let's look at pride from another perspective:

It is pride that holds the father back from apologizing to his daughter for leaving the family behind when they needed him, and the daughter from calling him up to admit she misses him.

It is pride (nationalistic pride, perhaps the most foolish one of them all, because it thinks that hurting a symbol such as a nation state is more important than hurting actual people) that makes people in many parts of the world hold on to ideals that should belong on the dustheap of history - Balkans, Al-Quaeda, Neo-Nazis, China vs. Taiwan, Israel-Palestine, Arabs-Israel, The Thai view of Burmese people, India vs. Pakistan...

The refusal of some people to admit to the crimes against humanity that have been performed in their name.. etc.) despite it meaning they mess up the daily lives of millions of others who have to suffer the consequences of the decisions these fighting cocks take the right to make for the rest.

The refusal to accept valid criticism, the refusal to be humble and admit to ones own mistakes or hard-headedness, this is also pride. Not very positive when you look at it in this light, is it?

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Pride is only bad when misplaced, misused, and misunderstood. Nothing is truely evil or good, circumstances determine that.

If you find yourself in Malmo, Sweden, and happen to see a homosexual, an imam and a gypsy walk into a bar, it's not a joke. These are just some of the people who can be borrowed -- yes, borrowed -- from the local library for a 45-minute chat in a nearby pub as part of an effort to fight discrimination.

"Given the daily reports of widespread anti-Americanism in Europe, we are surprised that neither Mr. Krol nor Ms. Brohed has a Yank in stock. Should Americans ever become available in libraries in, say, Paris or Berlin, even Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder could check them out." - WSJ.com - Not a Swedish Joke

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If you find yourself in Malmo, Sweden, and happen to see a homosexual, an imam and a gypsy walk into a bar, it's not a joke. These are just some of the people who can be borrowed -- yes, borrowed -- from the local library for a 45-minute chat in a nearby pub as part of an effort to fight discrimination.

"Given the daily reports of widespread anti-Americanism in Europe, we are surprised that neither Mr. Krol nor Ms. Brohed has a Yank in stock. Should Americans ever become available in libraries in, say, Paris or Berlin, even Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder could check them out." - WSJ.com - Not a Swedish Joke 

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In all seriousness, though; I have often thought that much anti-American (and also anti-English) feeling has its causes in the "ambassadors" from these lands, foreigners meet on a daily basis.

The arrogant, loud mouthed, inter-railer with his thousands of dollars credit on his American Express card, or the drunken, violent English hooligan, have created images of these two countries that is very hard to shake from those not privileged by other forms of contact.

For some people, these stereotypes, are unfortunately the only types they meet. Or, perhaps more correctly, having met one of these types, because they dominate so much the landscape, it is so easy to paint all with the same brush.

Argument and reasoning can only go so far; what we experience is always the crucial factor.

So maybe broadening folks level of contact is not such a bad idea after all.

What's wrong that it should be systematised via a library?