Mel is a Dweeb Again!!!

While I certainly think blowing up the factory seems a bit extreme, its pretty fascinating that what motivates the French worker is salvaging his/her own job and lifestyle, while what seems to motivate the American Tea Partiers is protesting against government interventions which most of them actually utilize (and will benefit from).

Well the French educational system is miles better than the American system, so that may begin to explain the mindset. The media is much better also.

So basically smarter, better informed individuals are more likely to act in ways which benefit them, not someone else.

So better informed people are more selfish and greedy? What an idiot. Only a child would start with a distorted world view and then when it does not conform to it then state it as proof of the theory to start with. This is circular reasoning at its best.

All I can say is oh brother...

Bless you My Idiot Fake Monk.

stonewall eddie, aka Ronald Rutherford, wrote: "Norway is in debt up to its eyeballs (of course thanks to the marxist in the white House and congress the USA is catching up fast)"

Damn, you really are an idiot!!!
Sorry to disappoint you but that is not me. I would not tend to be so adamant about anything, I would just question your ideology. So far you have shown to be the most ideologically driven idiot I have met on the internet aside from the one that thought China was a Democracy.

Ram Jaane lives on...

Hey Warren, intellectual dishonesty again??? Hey?

I figure Reagan was a PR pawn and as a professional actor he was good at reading and acting out a script. By inference one can trace how he was recruited, transformed from a Democrat, and groomed for the part. That he has become regarded as any sort of actual self actuated President, not to mention a "great" one, simply demonstrates the power of the PR industry that Freud's nephew, Eddie Bernays, put together in this nation during the last Century. Goebbels credited Bernays with being one of his inspirations and as being his propaganda role model. I urge anyone not familiar with Eddie Bernays to take the trouble to watch the four art BBC documentary,
http://www.thomhartmann.com/board/./viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3895&sid=9b4285bf03b8641944645f95e6a258da

Strangely you just ignore all his writing that he did including most of his speeches ever given was either by his hand {pen and ink} or was edited to fit his taste. Unlike TOTUS now, Reagan showed that he was a voracious reader as well as writer. You ever go to the Reagan Library? It is close to where I live and I would love to show you around including his hand written speeches.

Ultimately this passage only shows your disdain for his conservative views while ignoring the vast amount of PR that controlled Democrats in office including the worst president in our lifetime at least {Carter}...

Warren Huntsinger is an Asshole version 9569.

matt, science mostly just makes hypotheses and tests them. It's not that much about arriving at the certainty of knowing, especially out of the need to cover our deep and fragile uncertainties with that knowingness, though it's often misused with that in mind, as is religion. Science is mostly about how to openly question and explore. A conscious scientist is aware of that. I'm big on recognizing the validity of uncertainty and respecting another person's rights to their experience. Much of what goes on in our minds science simply can't test. Personally, I don't let anyone tell me what I think and feel about things, I don't give a shit what hokus pokus someone may come up with to try to convince me is their version of authority about me, I trust what I experience, even if my rational mind doesn't always make good sense of it, and I trust you are wise enough to do the same. That's the essence of being yourself, and of the dignity of personal responsibility.

Strange you have no problem telling others how they feel. And you certainly have given your version of "authority" to others. You simply can not live by your own standards you place on others so easily, especially to those you "disdain".

What I realized when I woke up was that I had to decide for myself to get out of bed, put on this uniform I'd been given (think of that word: "uni" and "form") and follow orders that may involve doing something that I personally find both morally and ethically against my own personal self will. Not my rational thought, but my will. My ability to freely say "yes" or "no" to an authoritarian order. Very simple place to go within: "yes" or "no." Most of us make the discovery of "yes" or "no" by the time we are two years of age. Then there's the beginning battle with authority about then. All sales jobs, all con jobs are aimed at that personal place. All hegemony is aimed at controlling that individual "yes" or "no," one way or another.

Considering you were a "con job", then it is interesting that you disparage salespeople in general. This does point out your underlying desire to control conversations and have absolute hegemonic power over any thread you were involved in. Being an intellectual bully is no way to live your life.

Since you could not "control" me, you had to continually make it personal. The ironic portion is that you accuse everyone else of your sins you manifest on a daily basis.

As we always stated, you truly lack the ability to see yourself in the mirror.

Is Kate a complete Idiot?

My husband and I quit celebrating birthdays for each other. We like to consider contemplate and perpetuate that 30-something feel we've got going on.

I've deleted my Thom's place bookmark, but I always find my way back, when CNN tells me to think idiotic thoughts!

lol

Enjoy your time together here, those who remain, brain intact, and willing to engage with another human's thoughts.

Yes, indeed an idiot that can not learn to change the channel to broadcasts that promote "idiotic thoughts"! Let alone the the fact that if someone tells you what to think then you should run away as fast as possible.

The most brain dead stupid poster on Thom's must be Kate, so why is she talking about herself? She has yet to engage in any person that was not a Libtard like herself, I know I tried.

Poly is an idiot and a liar.

Gen wasn't on the Board at the time. And the other right wing economic cheer leaders (including a trained economist) were busily denouncing gold and projecting on-going prosperity. They read growing inventories as confidence in growing consumer demand. I read growing inventories as a lack of consumer demand...sales. They read economic data one way...I read it another. Guess I was right, wasn't I?

Just as the slowing of declining exports from China to the U.S. was read as a turn-around. Nope. Not an up-tick...just a slowing. If the exports reached zero, no further slowing of the decline would be anticipated, would it? A slowing isn't an up-tick. Just a smaller monthly decline. As the percentage of over-all exports decrease, the percentages of the decrease will be less every month. There is less of a beginning data base to decrease from.

Ditto unemployment rates.

Read the data by ideology...and interpretations will be off every time.

Financial markets will do just fine...until the underlying real economy and ideological nonsense can no longer support the ideological bubble. Then CRASH. Financial markets can't operate independently of the real economy forever.... any more than they did in the Panic of 1893 or in the Great Depression. The Bernanke Market, fed by the Fed through the banking/financial industry is just another bubble. Bubbles pop.
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How they missed that we were undergoing domestic deflation and" real economy" slow down at home while the dollar was inflating abroad is totally beyond me. It stuck out like a sore thumb.

Retired Monk
"...is a disease"

Basically lying like normal.
1. First not right wing other than what idiots think.
2. Denounced that gold was a long term investment based on the long term trend in commodities not even keeping up with inflation as even Poly stated else...what an idiot.
3. I did not state that the economy was projected for on-going prosperity. I only questioned the gloom and doomers without them providing a mechanism for these market failures and none would provide the clues. Otherwise I would have researched it more.
4. Don't remember anything about inventories and it is obvious that growing inventories for business is not a good sign. So I would have not stated it was positive.
5. Not even correct only said that at some day it was going down. The same underlying problems according to Poly is still there. Does that mean Poly thinks we are set for another depression?
6. If the idiot Poly had read godknows posts, he said exactly what Poly is stating. He is like a sophist that thinks their thoughts are more important than others. He just wants to argue with conservatives instead of discussing issues.
7. Now he comes up with his theory after the fact. He never once talked about inflation/deflation indicators.

Poly is an Idiot|around post 10,000

Giles wrote: "Who is proclaiming to be christen? Let alone a Fucking so-called Christen.

ASSumption. "
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Then you most definitely should refrain from interjecting interpretations of Christianity into your discussions. It's pretty obvious you haven't a clue what you're talking about when you do that. You come off sounding like an itinerant preacher. Like St. Paul's "clanging of cymbals". Noise signifying nothing.

Basically "shut up". A too often form of censorship by libtards in power-even if it is just mall cop status. Of course Poly never questioned Atheists when they get the scriptures wrong. Makes me wonder if Monk is even a person of faith. He clearly does not show any signs of knowing the scriptures. He also allows Kate to make stupid statements about Christianity without a comment such as this.

Actually, Poly, you have only showed your bias in applying the rules and insulting {ad homs} directed at other members. As editor, you would think you would abide by higher rules.

Poly the parrot idiot is at it again:

poly replies: Nope. It just makes you look foolish proclaiming Christian doctrine that isn't Christian doctrine. Proclaiming Christian Scripture that isn't Christian Scripture. If you want to keep looking foolish, you can do that. Personally, I'd refrain from it.

No, Poly, you are the one that shows no knowledge of Christianity. Even then you have only resorted to ad hominen attacks instead of addressing the issues. Guess that makes you one messed up Mall Cop.