Periodically, Facebook releases an update. These updates usually involve trying to fix its leaking, labyrinthine privacy settings while still providing all the data marketers demand. Other updates are designed to serve advertisers more directly. Any change invariably produces howls of protest from somebody – there’s just no pleasing 500 million people. I want to say BFD to the latest change: Yawn. (Before and After below.)
Notice that the new profile photo is smaller. And one’s current status does not appear at the top of the page. Yawn.
This is a twist. This letter goes beyond denial. The writer is certain that Rich Liberals want him to live like a caveman while they live in modern luxury. Paranoid delusions. Look closely at who profits from continuing as we have been. Follow the money from Big Oil. It flows everywhere, but a lot has ended up in the pockets of Republican Deniers.
Man Didn’t Dry Up River or Heat the Earth RE: "NEW RIVER OF BLUE" article The picture of this event caught my eye. Then after reading the article all I could think of was Phineas T. Barnum saying, "There’s a sucker born every minute." The man-made global warming group has successfully brainwashed our youth and a lot adults in believing in an outright lie and deception! Even when the evidence is not what they claim, they continue to terrorize people in thinking that some catastrophic event is going to happen, caused by humans, terminating the world! Does this event match the early 1900s global cooling theory of the East Coast covered with a glacier, because of the industrial revolution? Nothing outside of the normal earth’s cycles occurred. Now, we are being told of the impending warming because of car, power plant emissions, carbon dioxide is bad for us as examples. But we are required to disregard the bogus numbers, the faulty data, the lack of intelligent debate and restructure our lives to fit the caveman style. [mjh: Where is the intelligent debate *from* the Deniers?] While those believers get in their big gas-guzzling Land Rovers, old beat-up pickups or SUVs, fly in their private or public aircraft and have more electronic gadgets than Mr. Gadget, we are the ones required to change our lifestyle for them. Man-made climate change or global warming has been proven to be a fraud, hoax, lie and a tool of the self-righteous to put restrictions on everyone but themselves. The riverbed will flow when Mother Nature wants it to, and until then we will just have to wait. RON THOMPSON Albuquerque
I’ve always considered David Brooks the Liberal’s Conservative. He seems reasonable; he’s not angry. I assume the Mad Hatters consider him a socialist.
Brooks: “we’ve substituted governance for brokerism, for rigidity that Ronald Regan didn’t have.
And to me, this rigidity comes from this polarizing world view that they’re a bunch of socialists over there. You know, again, I’ve spent a lot of time with the president. I’ve spent a lot of time with the people around him. They’re liberals! … But they’re not idiots. And they’re not Europeans, and they don’t want to be a European welfare state. … It’s American liberalism, and it’s not inflexible.”
I think whatever flexibility the Left possess is regarded as despicable weakness by the Radical Wrong. And many on the Left are tired of being bullied. But we don’t waive our guns in their faces; we just say, Fuck You All.
The goal of terrorism, you see, is not to make a nation bleed but to make it fear. Oklahoma’s nonsensical law suggests our enemies have been successful in that.
One recalls how Bush stood beneath a banner that crowed of a victory against terrorism. But to the degree Oklahoma accurately reflects our national mindset, it is the terrorists who deserve to hoist that banner. America is scared stupid.
There’s original intent for you: only rich white guys can vote. I’m a property owner and I vote to throw this loon off the island.
Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips: “The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. [mjh: Meaning no voting rights for human property such as women and slaves?]But one of those was you had to be a property owner.And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.”
