BBC news: The world is going to hell in a hand basket. We all live in one country. When a medieval / stone age barbarian kills people in "another country," they are really killing people in "your county," in our country too.
When it comes to illegal immigrants, liberals believe in erasing the border.
When it comes to people being killed in Iraq, boy howdy that U.S. border goes up damn quick for them.
Speakin' as a (now former) liberal myself - well a modified liberal who wants nothing to do with Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, or etc.
Saturday, August 23, 2014
An atheist watches Duck Dynasty, and likes it!
We watched Duck Dynasty last night, for the first time. A great show.
My wife enjoyed it very much. I remember when I was excommunicated from Atheists of Utah for expressing my appreciation for the duck people's general stance of challenging the new dominant paradigm, and advocacy for good old fashioned family values.
http://jonathanshome.blogspot.com/2014/06/duck-dynasty-pride-month.html
Hitchens quits the Nation.
http://www.thenation.com/article/taking-sides
"...In the past few weeks, though, I have come to realize that the magazine itself takes a side in this argument, and is becoming the voice and the echo chamber of those who truly believe that John Ashcroft is a greater menace than Osama bin Laden..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPZFLROaouM
http://www.salon.com/2002/10/29/hitchens_6/
Juan Williams got tossed out of NPR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76KH0Ym51yQ
Where's a Hitch when you need him?
Maybe my views on the whole gay thing are softening a bit, but the de facto cult status of Stonewall is still ringing in my ears. I know of the gentle service oriented gays. But I also know of the wastrels who happily befriend convicted pedos. Can we separate the Truman Capote types from the service oriented ones? The people interested in real service to humanity, instead of vain wastrel tail chasing bullcrap?
My wife enjoyed it very much. I remember when I was excommunicated from Atheists of Utah for expressing my appreciation for the duck people's general stance of challenging the new dominant paradigm, and advocacy for good old fashioned family values.
http://jonathanshome.blogspot.com/2014/06/duck-dynasty-pride-month.html
Hitchens quits the Nation.
http://www.thenation.com/article/taking-sides
"...In the past few weeks, though, I have come to realize that the magazine itself takes a side in this argument, and is becoming the voice and the echo chamber of those who truly believe that John Ashcroft is a greater menace than Osama bin Laden..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPZFLROaouM
http://www.salon.com/2002/10/29/hitchens_6/
Juan Williams got tossed out of NPR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76KH0Ym51yQ
Where's a Hitch when you need him?
Maybe my views on the whole gay thing are softening a bit, but the de facto cult status of Stonewall is still ringing in my ears. I know of the gentle service oriented gays. But I also know of the wastrels who happily befriend convicted pedos. Can we separate the Truman Capote types from the service oriented ones? The people interested in real service to humanity, instead of vain wastrel tail chasing bullcrap?
Friday, August 8, 2014
August 8, 2014: Moving left
My experiment with touching my toe into the pool of conservative ideology is largely over. One too many worshipers of Ayn Rand showing up on "The Atheist Conservative's" page? Was that the tipping point? Maybe.
Being away from wastrels from the past, and their abusive friends, has helped. Plus being married, having two kids, and a wife with zero association with all the crap I've seen has helped also. Still taking a step back. But becoming more compassionate & open to hearing what the left has to say. The right is generally increasingly poopy smelling. The left, not so much. So, I'm a left-leaning moderate as of now.
Being away from wastrels from the past, and their abusive friends, has helped. Plus being married, having two kids, and a wife with zero association with all the crap I've seen has helped also. Still taking a step back. But becoming more compassionate & open to hearing what the left has to say. The right is generally increasingly poopy smelling. The left, not so much. So, I'm a left-leaning moderate as of now.
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