dungeonbaby

you know it's a hack journalist when within the first two paragraphs he puts Fox "NEWS" inside quotation marks. this is an empty post citing a one-sided article. WONDER WHEN THE LEFT WILL STOP ATTACKING BUSH AND START ADDRESSING THE ISSUES.

point. talks of impeachment centered around this president failing to inform congress of this dangerous prisoner swap, not around talks of ransom paid on top of the outrageous release of KNOWN RUTHLESS MASS MURDERERS.

this attempt to dismiss the issue of exchanging a soldier, whom his unit has called a deserter, with 5 top Taliban guys who will most likely attack again smells like desperation. especially when there are other issues/scandals to address still:

immigration and the weak border being crossed by a thousand people every single day. and the thousands of children that were just deposited inside Texas.

the VA scandal which was first brought up with the US president in the Manila press con by Fox "NEWS." (CNN, though, broke the story. i suppose that makes it legitimate news?)

IRS targeting and the lost Lerner emails

Benghazi

oh and yeah, whatever happened to the fast & furious scandal?

let's have a round of golf.

blue with a neon yellow 'N,' and very, very light

did you ever need to wear a uniform and what was it if yes?

yoga. sometimes posting nonsense works, too.

which among mtc's deleted threads do you miss?

tagatanggal ng emoticon.

flattery gets you everywhere with this one

persistent to a fault, but a loyal friend nonetheless

The first American industrialists and capitalists were extraordinary entrepreneurs but they were no strangers to corruption. The Founding Fathers may have been idealistic but they also believed in good PR. Anyway, their tribe hasn't increased. Took almost a century before Lincoln abolished slavery. A more socialist US? Well, there's welfare and stuff, but the rich sure aren't about to roll over and play dead.

 

With all due respect, it's a heck of a generalization to say that Americans are bible-conscious. Dollar-conscious for sure. But bible-conscious? There was a bible belt, but I don't know if it can be equated with Americans being bible conscious. I also know quite a few American Jews and they sure don't believe in the bible, except for the books in the Torah. Temporal power and wealth are finite (the universe will end someday) but I'm not holding my breath.

 

Equality is a big word and all men are created equal, but equality is up until sperm and egg unite, then economics kicks in.

The pursuit of power and dollars alone doesn't explain American exceptionalism. You'd have to be a complete cynic to think that that nation's citizens aren't some of the most generous in the world, and are only motivated by wealth. Well, there's also a motivated-by-guilt aspect, which has given rise to programs like Affirmative Action, but that's beside the point. America isn't perfect, their people are not always right, they are prone to human failings. But they are exceptional in their history and in their aspirations. To say that the founding fathers were merely an idealistic lot is to see them out of context, and with jaded glasses. I don't know about anyone else, but I've always thought the soldiers who gave up their lives in WWII would've made the founding fathers proud.

Speaking of good PR and slavery, I'm reminded that no party has been more successful in claiming to be the champion of civil rights than the Democratic Party, who - during the move to abolish slavery - were made up of a whole lot of anti-Semites and Ku Klux Klan members. I tend to think that they are achieving their agenda today, by relegating more and more African-Americans to a state of constant dependency on government welfare. Statistics show that more and more black kids are born out of wedlock, with disengaged fathers. Perhaps because single moms get bigger support than if they were married and working? How's that for an incentive system?

It's true, equality doesn't mean you are equal in every single way. If by economics you mean that brains, talent, work ethic, passion, and vision also count, then you are absolutely correct.

in my opinion, wealth inequality in the Philippines is a different beast, the oligarchy having grown out of a history that never truly birthed an emancipated populace.

but to one of the points raised previously, it's not as if the wealthy do nothing with their resources. they are, after all, the job creators. now wealth gained via corruption is obviously a different matter, more so the use of this same ill-gotten wealth in ways that don't benefit the country in any way. that seems to be the troubling norm in Pinas but, corruption notwithstanding, the oligarchs don't seem to be invested in things that will make the nation stronger. wealth inequality may not be the problem here, a myopic oligarchy might be.

my fundamental discomfort with any sort of state-imposed equality is that it fosters dullards and drones. it does not reward the things we want to see in the world, such as innovation, enterprise, and the free market.

any critique of America must take into account the outstanding nature of its founding principles, exemplified by qualities posters like LC have seen firsthand. today, the US is most certainly on a path to becoming a more socialist state, with even the most basic freedoms losing to political correctness and a misguided sense of what equality truly means.

we often forget that their constitution protects its citizens' access to equal opportunities; it does not guarantee the equality of results. big difference.

i don't really dream of cars. i do dream of a swan 80, though.

if you owned an island and could build any kind of resort on it, what sort of place would it be and why?

a trip involving a fun adventure, followed by a pest-free picnic you prepare yourself, capped off with a massage.

how do you feel about the NPA?

setting foot on land, finally.

what makes you want to leave home?

http://www.upworthy....our-jaw-drops-2

 

Know Anyone Who Thinks Racial Profiling Is Exaggerated? Watch This, And Tell Me When Your Jaw Drops

 

Rafael Casal

 

I know everyone gets uncomfortable talking about race, but it would be great if people were more aware so they could challenge their own preconceived notions. You sharing and tweeting this could go a long way toward doing that. Totally your call though.

an example of belief and/or confirmation bias, where one makes biased conclusions because of the believability of that conclusion, or when one remembers certain information when they lead to previously held beliefs. a belief like white people are racist, for example.

without supporting data, such as how this "experiment" was conducted, crime statistics in the area, or recent reporting of crime in the media, you can very easily come to a misguided conclusion.

and i love it in the cello arrangement. there is something less sad, less final about it than when played on the piano. am not talented enough to hum it, though.

speaking of humming, i've always found Bobby Mcferrin some kind of brilliant, and him humming

Finished Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I thought I would lull myself to sleep with this one, fading into dreams filled with naked bodies, knowing glances, and illicit rooms but this book made me immune to slumber. Still, I would say it's the perfect bedtime read ("perfect" being open to interpretation); the prose is by turns tender with unconsummated desire, and droll with the bare tragedies of old age.

bear tragedies?

Ninoy believed martial law was the only way to solve the economic and political problems of the country which was in the grip of oligarchs, threatened by insurgents, riven by political discord, and bedeviled by nagging poverty.

i wonder if he meant the same problematic insurgents that he himself helped organize in December 1969.

my head hurts.

EVERY single Friday night? wow. i don't know.

even if i'm addicted to your body and require a daily serving?

if it's true that Ninoy would align himself with murderers for selfish political gain (that is, if rappler did its own research to corroborate the Ateneo professor's findings), then that deals a devastating blow to Ninoy's image as a "selfless servant leader."

Erik Satie – Gymnopedie No.1

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MxLrqab5NU

this always made me want to cry, it's so beautiful.

5. i will always want a painkiller.

what's the worst physical AND emotional pain you've ever had to endure

From my work, one thing that I love about Islam is that they protect their people. Case in point, Islamic Banking. In Lehman, whatever the depositor saves in the Bank the depositor gets. Basically, it prevents the bank from investing the depositors money in other bank activities. Or if ever the bank used that money and that investment goes bad, the bank or whoever will rescue the bank in a meltdown will still owe the depositors the money they saved in the first place.

they do protect their people. that is, if you don't think of women as people.

case in point, the new law being pushed in iraq allowing men to marry girls when they're 9 and require women to submit to sex whenever their husbands demanded it. so yes, marital rape of child brides would be legal.

and you thought freddie aguilar was gross.

no one more obsessive-compulsive than me.

even if i get weepy over sappy commercials outlining the friendship between a puppy and a horse?

many times over. i've spent 300 bucks for a trip to nowhere...12k for a color job...i could go on but i'd just depress myself.

oh wait. duh. i had to reread the question....yeah i got an 8' narra bench for 3k.

what kind of weirdness in a chum is too weird for you?

they either dislike you and have far too much time on their hands or they build their online lives around you in a weird form of worship. best to silently accept that you matter to some golem out there.

what is your big (sobra naman ata yung greatest haha) accomplishment for the day?

West Side Story. Maria, say it loud and there's music playing...say it soft and it's almost like praying...

What clubs did you join as a kid?

this one?

Do you think Valentine's Day is overrated? Why and why not?

overrated in the sense that it's hyper-commercialized and the day has become a parody of what love should mean to folks.

What did the doctors discover about Maya's pregnancy?

i don't know.

Are we supposed to know who Maya is?