OK, I can hang with that. I do not (cannot) disagree with anything you have said.
No, I'm implying that the American drive by rate is higher than the education level of those groups committing drive bys.
Well..., yeah...., of course I'm implying that...., otherwise I'd be wrong and that's just not right ;)
Lol. I can't be racist because I'm a minority. I have never had a "chip on my shoulder" though.
Let me explain. Like I said, I am a minority. Yet, I was in the U.S. army and and I made sergeant in two years (which is the smallest amount of time that anyone can make sergeant).
So what?
Well, like ThePyg said, it's all about attitude.
I knew this black man while I was an enlisted man. The difference between us was that he had a different attitude than I had. He thought everyone was racist.
One day we were on the chow line waiting to be fed and we were talking to these white guys. It took quite a long time. Anyway, after we got our food I went and sat with the white guys we we had been talking to. They said, "where's Travis?" and I looked for him wondering the same thing. I finally saw him and I said, "He's over there sitting with the brothers." ;)
Anyway, Travis heard me and threw his plate of spaghetti at my head. He missed ;)
He threatened me (he was bigger than me) and I said, "Travis, don't threatened me. You are the one who segregated himself from us. We did not segregate ourselves from you."
Needless to say, Travis saw the truth in my statement and I'm still alive (like I said, he was way bigger than me).
Moral of the story: If you have a chip on your shoulder, you wont make it in America. At least..., that has been my experience.
Now, I'm a minority in an apparently racist country and my income has 6 figures. A lot more that the amount of most Americans (black or white) as quoted by you. ;)
Do you think that Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Bill Cosby or any one like them would have a hard time making it in America? Look at their attitude. They are my role models.
Now, don't think of this as an attack on you. It isn't. Think of it as a way for young black men to make it in this country and support me. No smiley here. I'm serious about this. Serious as a heart attack. I want them to make it. Like me. There's no reason they can't.
Well, you know, they've gotten really good at drive by shootings and not getting caught, which skews the statistics a bit ;)
Yeah, but minorities are more than 90% responsible for drive by shootings (less than 10% for whites). If minorities spent less time in drive bys and more time in educating themselves, then maybe the other statistic will change too. I mean, I know it's a radical idea but maybe we should give education a chance. ;)
BTW, 68% of all statistics are made up on the spot ;)
OK...., C-ya. I'll make sure to crawl around the house on my belly just in case ;)
Hey, they got their freedom. It would be hypocritical of them to deny me my freedom of speech? ;)
Are you suggesting that the people who would have a genuine reason to be offended by my comments would do a drive by shooting? OMG!!! You're more racist than me!!! At least I used my smileys to denote that I was only kidding.
Besides, the people who would have a genuine reason to be offended by my comments don't have computers and if they did they wouldn't waste any time on an intellectual site like CD ;)
I think that we may have finally gotten it out of our system. I mean, if any one played the race card on me I'd be like, "Yo homie, you got your boy up there in the white house so don't be giving me any of that crap!" ;)
Seriously though, the U.S. once voted for a Catholic president (JFK)... once!
And now we can say that the U.S. once voted for a black president... once! ;)
I'm itching to find out if the U.S. will vote for Obama again. At this rate.... who knows ;)
That depends. China, the biggest country in the world... are they one culture? They speak different dialects in different parts of the country and have a few different customs. Same with Austria and it is a small country. But if you think the differences are small, then yeah. It is possible to have only one culture. Just take out everyone who refuses to convert ;)
They show all the other crap. They are definitely biased. :)
The year is 2009. After all of this time the human race either has learned what works and what doesn't work. If not, then we might as well just hang it up. Change for change's sake is not necessarily good.
They are showing their true liberal colors. They are not concerned about the U.S. They are not concerned with journalistic integrity. They just want to get their liberal agenda passed. ;)
Yes. First, take out the socialist. Then, redistribute their wealth. Then put an end to regulated capitalism and replace it with real capitalism. But that's just me ;)
It's not morally wrong but I wonder what animals would say to each other in the vet's waiting room if they could speak? Probably something like...
Three dogs are sitting in the waiting room at the vet's when they strike up a conversation.
The black Lab turns to the chocolate Lab and says, "So why are you here?"
The Chocolate Lab replies, "I'm a pisser. I piss on everything.. ..the sofa, the curtains, the cat, the kids. But the final straw was last night when I pissed in the middle of my owner's bed."
The black Lab says, "So what is the vet going to do?"
"Gonna cut my nuts off," comes the reply from the chocolate Lab. "They reckon it'll calm me down."
The black Lab then turns to the yellow lab and asks, "Why are you here?"
The yellow Lab says, "I'm a digger I dig under fences, dig up flowers and trees. I dig just for the hell of it. When I'm inside, I dig up the carpets. But I went over the line last night when I dug a great big hole in my owners couch."
"So what are they going to do to you?" the black Lab inquires.
"Looks like I'm losing my nuts too, the dejected yellow Lab says.
The yellow Lab then turns to the black Lab and asks, "Why are you here?"
"I'm a humper," the black Lab says. "I'll hump anything. I'll hump the cat, a pillow, the table, whatever. I want to hump everything I see. Yesterday, my owner had just got out of the shower and was bending down to dry her toes. I just couldn't help myself. I hopped on her back and started hammering away."
The yellow and chocolate Labs exchange a sad glance and says, "So, nuts off for you too, huh?
The black Lab says ...."No, I'm here to get my nails clipped." ;)
I've always said, politicians are not the brightest bulb in the box ;)
This is the reason why government fear drugs and try to control them. The drug may make you not want to be productive. Have you ever seen a pot head working his little butt off ;)
If I have to answer to anyone, then I'm not free. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Owning nothing sets you free. You've seen homeless people, I'm sure. The cost of freedom is high but the alternative is to live out in the wild. If cows and chicken could chose, which life would they chose ;)
Yeah, I'd like a shot at getting me some of that ill gotten booty ;)
...we can do is set an example to the rest of the world.
Have you been successful in changing anyone's mind on this site by example? If so, who. If not, what makes you think we can change anyone's mind by example?
If you think education is expensive, you should try stupidity (now that can get to be really expensive ;)
While the article above mentions businesses stating that they will move overseas to avoid taxes, it doesn't mention the obvious job losses that will occur here in the USA.
Not if the world ends by 2012 as scheduled ;)
But if we survive 2012, yes.
Internal issues will be the downfall of this country. As we lose more and more of our liberties, as we become more and more socialist, we will lose our ability to navigate this country through tough times. In short, the greatest threat to America today is liberalism.
Human nature dictates that those in power will do what they can to stay in power and the civilian population will not continue once casualties get too high.
I'm a problem solver. I don't assign goodness or badness, that's a waste of time. Here's my solution:
1. Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border (don't bother building a fence).
2. Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levees.
3. As the ocean levels raise, due to global warming, the moat will fill up.
4. Befriend Southeast Asia and Northern Australia by taking all of their salt water crocodiles and putting them in the moat along the Mexican border. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Any other problems you would like for me to solve today? ;)
The bad thing about acorn was all those squirrels trying to get a nut ;)
Since he's that young, he's bound to be in rush hour traffic at some point in time. I'd let him die ;)
Put Darwinism back into society. Stupid people die off as expected and the population becomes smarter as a result. We don't keep people alive artificially. We don't have nationalized health care. We thus reduce the population and reduce the deficit. It's a win-win situation ;)
Most teens would vote for anyone that promises them that they can stay up late at night, sleep in on mornings, reduce the driving and drinking age, cut back on homework, facilitate teen sex. :)
Let me put it this way, if David the ass hole Letterman was a Conservative, you would never hear the end of it. It would be all over the news and they would grill him like there's no tomorrow. But, since he's an ass hole liberal, he gets a pass. Wow, I almost felt angry there for a second ;)
Yeah lets do it. Maybe we'll learn a valuable lesson like humility as we play God and .... screw up we will.
Well, the fact that, not only is she not a virgin but, she had a baby means she can take a good pounding ;)
It was tried in the sixties and failed miserably. Here's why:
http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/
OK, so long can you hold your breath? There are these pearl divers that can hold their breath for 5 minutes. Can you come close to that?
So, you have a nice set of lungs. I mean.... shit! I walked right into that one, didn't I ;)
That was too easy and you still went for it. You go for the low hanging fruits ;)
I think I would like my penis to live on. Are there people on a list somewhere waiting for one? ;)
Better online. I can take a lot of the negativity out of my argument and also because I can avoid getting slapped ;)
Well, in the words of Emily_Litella, "never mind." ;)
People end up in poverty mostly because they are born into poverty and have no real way of getting out. If they are poverty and were not born in poverty it is usually because they have a mental of physical disability and many are veterans.
What a bunch of crap. First of all, when I came to this country I did not speak English. They could have kept me back a grade but they said, "sink or swim. We ain't got no bilingual program." Within a year I was speaking English.
The four of us, my mom, dad, sister and me lived in a one bed room apartment. Someone's attic to be exact. We weren't on welfare and didn't accept handouts.
My aunt, on the other hand, is on welfare. Not because she can't work but because, why? She's getting paid to do nothing. This liberal notion of "Oh we must cuddle the poor" is detrimental.
Second of all, I'm an American Veteran. I served in the U.S. Army and I'm proud of it and I love this country and I'd fight for it.
So, to say the least, I'm just as passionate, if not more so, about my postion on this topic. More so because I have lived it and I feel I know what I'm talking about. I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth but I'm doing OK, thank you very much. Now, I wonder if you had a better head start than me and I wonder were you are now compared to me.
I stand by Jake and The Pyg on this.
Handouts rob the poor of any incentive to better themselves. Don't give them handouts, give them jobs.
I agree. And the government does a lot of what he says not to do.
In a perfect world what you propose should work but unfortunately it is not a perfect a world and so we have two options.
1. Continue fighting over whether or not they can or cannot use the word. This can last indefinitely like the abortion issue.
2. Pick another word, grab the benefits/rights, stop the fighting and move on with all of our lives.
I'm 100% for option 2. I want to move on with my life ;)
That's right. The courts made a mistake calling "marriage" a right. They should have separated the rights offered by marriage from the word "marriage." Porp 8 pointed out the errors of their ways, and they recanted ;)
Actually I have two eyes ;)
I think that you are trying to tell me that a right has been taken away from some group (specifically, same sex couples) and that if rights can be taken away by a simply majority rule, then we are in trouble.
What I'm trying to tell you is that I don't think any rights have been taken away from anyone.
1. I don't believe marriage is a "right" (just like driving is not a right)
2. They said same sex couples have the same rights afforded my "marriage"
3. Those rights were not taken away
The problem here is that people don't know what a right is and thus feel they are entitled to a myriad of things that they really have no rights to. For example, handicap people do not have a right to parking spaces close to the store. We make provisions to help them out a little but those provisions can be taken away. However, if you try to take those parking space away you will hear about how their rights are being violated.
So what is the difference between civil unions and marriage? As far as I'm concerned they are the same thing. So, the decision made by the Supreme Court of California is moot.
