Random Politics & Religion #32

The problem is people are writing these long responses to address the first sentence they read and not the entire post being quoted.

In Nik’s case the first word...

Am I Fone’ing right?

No I knew right from wrong. I watched all the violent movies growing up in 80's, I watched looney tunes. I also knew that doing something like that was very wrong. Never even had the thought about doing something like that.

So hitting someone is the only way to teach someone this? There’s plenty of people out there that haven’t been smacked by their parents and know there are behaviors that aren’t acceptable...

I find it hard to believe as a kid anyone did nt repeat the same mistakes twice just because he got a belt to the ***... I know stories from my dad refute that and he got way worse than I could imagine getting...

Needs moar Simpsons.

I don't know but Nik is trapped in a Russian prison.

Get ready for the bop gun on that *** boy !


Get it *** !

Tiddy preacher not safe for work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e7WC8xKNrc

Yes.

My wife and I have yet to spank or physically discipline either of our children. One will be 4 and the other 2, this Spring. It has been difficult. But we are of the opinion that hitting our children would be the easy way out--doing so doesn't benefit the child. It just makes a momentarily weak adult feel like they are still in control. So we choke back the urge even when the whole day has gotten onto our last nerve and our bloody children just... won't... stop... for... one... second.

Even at 3, my son is aware of guns. We won't buy toy guns for him, so he builds "shooters" out of Legos to go after bad guys. I don't own any guns and would never allow one into my house. He doesn't go to a public daycare or preschool yet. Anything he knows about armed violence/righting of wrongs he has learned from "age-appropriate" programming on YouTube/Netflix/etc. I'm not saying, "Oh no! I want to shield my children but our media babysitters are so appealing!" I'm just saying, like hinted at above, our culture is saturated by shooting bad guys that shoot at the good guys.
This isn't brand new, but it is relatively new and we are reaping what has been sown. Leave it to Beaver, The Brady Bunch and Lassie are not what American children are growing up watching anymore. We grew up with G.I. Joe and Transformers. Let's not kid ourselves about this.

That said, the belief that liberal policies somehow make it better to be as poor as possible than to even try to work isn't the full story. Current policy makes it better to be as rich as possible, because the more wealthy you are, the more corporate/1% welfare you will receive.
I'm not saying one justifies the other. They both are examples of situations that need to be scaled back. But, look at the new Tax Cut, it would take 100-1000s of poorer folks gaming the system (Trump would say, if he had any empathy behind his narcissism, they were smart to take advantage and if no one liked it to change the laws!) to equal the dollars lost to corporate/1% welfare.
We need more investments, in infrastructure, places and people. And, I think we all agree on this. Where I think most debate occurs is where to insert said dollars for maximum return on investment. Some want the money poured at the bottom of the economic ladder, thinking problems can be fixed best at the community leave, from the ground up. Like giving water to the roots of a tree. Others want to put the majority of the money at the top, and let it trickle down like rain. We see problems with both of these strategies.
I'd rather see dollars pointed to solve a specific problem. Whatever that problem is, it hardly matters. Let's say it is the roads. We want new roads. Great, invest in a training program to prepare those that need jobs most, to take care of their expenses at home while they are traveled about the country fixing what needs fixing. But all aspects would need to be covered, you can't train someone for a job elsewhere if that person is saddled by a mortgage too large to pay on a property worth too little to sell. Or only able to sustain themselves in affordable housing that isn't offered everywhere. So, whatever program was designed, it would need to help stabilize an individual's community at home while also giving some spending money/housing while they traveled to complete their work. I think this is better than giving more money to rich, as though doing so will help them to sh*t out more jobs somehow, or to the poor just for checking in once per month and confirming, yes, their situation still stinks and, yes, they still have kids.

Cool story bro. Did you publish it on Amazon ?

AYYY put that 2PAC tape in:

C WALK

Ok we'll get right on that.

Welcome Back.

That's not a problem... It's a minor annoyance at worst.

Problem-
A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
A puzzling circumstance.

But I'm going to resolve it for you anyways. So here you go...

Buck up Buttercup.

Not everyone thinks and feels and argues the same way that you do. And there aren't any rules or laws that will protect you from the stupidity of others.

The only entity in this godforsaken ***hole of a universe you could ever even dream of having the remotest possibility to gain control over is yourself.

You and that, my friend, is no easy task...

You can ignore it just as easily as you can get all bent all out of shape about it. You can cry, laugh, sigh, quiver like a jellyfish in you freshly soiled undies...you can get so angry that you smash your computer.

But you can't now, nor will you ever be able to, control the actions of any one of the other seven and a half billion *** running around spewing nonsense.

It's pointless. And complaining about it... like it's some big problem that we all need to rally together to try to solve, was dumb. And you should feel bad for posting it.

Providing clean drinking water to those that don't have it in the third world is a problem.

Reading idiotic posts on a third party hack website for a dying fifteen year old japanese on line video game that nobody ever heard of...is completely and easily avoidable.

Nobody is forcing you to be here. It's not required reading for any class or lesson. You can just click the X over there in the upper right hand corner and be done with it.

Good Day Sir!

thanks...but I'm thinking about taking my own advice and splitting again already... it's not you Foney, it's me....

I feel dumber just being in here.. And I had so few brain cells to start out with that... /picks nose

I love to laugh... and you guys make me laugh... but how long is it really before I make absolutely no sense whatsoever?...six? seven?

eight... years ago?

Stormy Daniels' lawyer seeks to depose Donald Trump and Michael Cohen

Remind me to stock up on popcorn.

I don't expect you relics to be able to relate to the modern world and its challenges. Things are a little more complicated than a Buck Rogers and Dukes of Hazard episode now.

lol... yeah...that's what EVERY generation thinks cupcake.

things are tough all over.

Sounds like something my mom would say.

/lets that one go

I didn't make sense before here so I guess I have nothing to lose.

you're absolutely right...who am I trying to kid...


leave the money on the nightstand...
hurry it up my husband will be home in an hour...
that costs extra...
I'm working my way through nursing school...
my son is the least well endowed out of all of his friends...

Ecuador stops Assange communicating from its London embassy
Yahoo news (I had no idea they still existed.)

TLDR: They cut off his interwebs.

...that’s what she said.