OT: Atheist joke

That didn't stop you from claiming to be reporting me to the current equivalent of the committee for un-American activities, which didn't say much for your sense of proportion, either.

So you aren't completely brain-washed, but being against socialism in any form sounds pretty extremist to me, as does your conviction that your media is "so left-wing-sympathetic as to be retch-inducing". What would they have to do to find favour with you? Advocate the revival of the Pinkertons along the lines of your South American death squads, to take out trade union organisors, sympatherisers and suspected sympathisers before they can threaten the blood pressure of the most corpulent corporate capitalist?

shade of right-wing opinion that falls short of that ...

Nope. Since you have exhibited extreme anti-American behavior here in this newsgroup I simply pointed out said behavior to ICE and a few of my friends within the FBI.

You simply can't be allowed to shoot your mouth off, then expect some US company to employ you.

By your own mouth you are a terrorist.

I'm simply against any form of "wealth redistribution", particularly when it's out of my pocket ;-)

You're not here to see... their reporting is so tilted that it looks like campaigning.

MY South American Death Squads??

Seems to me that most American unions are dying from their own excesses.

You don't SEE very well.

...Jim Thompson

I haven't got around to reading Ann Coulter's book "Treason", but she claims that the McCarthy hearings never accused anyone of being a commie spy who wasn't one, and that the US State Department of that time was indeed riddled with Soviet spies.

John

How about Howard Hughes? Was he a commie? He told the committee to shove it and walked away.

We need a renaissance in this country where men again have balls instead of political correctness.

...Jim Thompson

Speaking of co-ops, the best one I was ever involved with was at UNM back in the late '80s.

The EE department had just built a new building, and they gave the IEEE chapter a couple of nice sized rooms right off the lobby for a lounge/study area/offices. Someone brought in an old refrigerator, and someone got the bright idea to buy a bunch of sodas, fill the fridge, and have everyone chip in when they took out a soda. Before ya knew it, they had two fridges, and a honor system cash box, and added frozen burritos, ice cream bars, and other snacks. Also, they went to Price Club (Costco now) and bought boxes of candy bars, all sold on the same basis through the honor system cash box.

Why did it work? Because all other concessions on campus were controlled through the University's facilities department, and they marked every thing up double. So, you could go to the co-op and get a soda for a quarter, or spend a buck at the Uni's stores!

By the end of the year, Costco was doing daily deliveries to the IEEE offices, and it was extremely crowded during every class break. I think that by the middle of the second year, it was stopped by the administration. Too much competition for the 'official' concessions!

Charlie

I'm kind of surprised that no one seems to have hit on the "buy wiser ^^^ council" part - are the wiser ones more expensive? ;-P

Cheers! Rich

Humans do seem to have a penchant for snapping to one extreme or the other - the middle ground is apparently quite terrifying.

Thanks! Rich

Your idea of "extreme anti-American behaviour" is strange. You'd want your security servces to spend as much time and effort monitor my activites as those of a Koran-thumping fundamentalist? Your friends at the FBI must have laughed themselves sick.

Why not? If they want to hire sycophants, they can hire sycophants. If they want to hire engineers they'd better hire people who can think for themselves.

Produce the quote that supports that libellous claim. For the record, I'm not a terrorist, nor have I ever supported any kind of terrorism. The fact that you are silly enough to even make the charge sustains my point about your sense of proportion.

Oddly enough, the cheese-paring habits of the wealthy in the U.S. cost them money. If they had spent more of their tax dollars on welfare and education, the U.S, prison service would be hosting fewer prosoners and would thus be a smaller drain on the tax-payer. Some of thus un-educated and unemployable jail-birds might have even become employable tax-payers under a more far-sighted government.

When I have been there, the reporting has certainly looked tilted - but well to the right. Perhaps not quite as far to the right as people like Strom Thurmond, but from a European point of view it's hard to pick the distinctions inside the U.S. right wing.

Read Chomsky ... you obviously won't believe him, but he makes an intellectually respectable case.

Which is to say, U.S. employers prefer to deal with corrupt unions whom they can bribe, then complain that the unions are controlled by crooks

I am finding it difficult to appreciate your point of view.

Hey! Another Minnesot'n! I'm in California now, but I still remember the farm co-ops. (I also hyphenate it, to distinguish it from a chicken coop ;-) ) There were little municipalities, collections of buildings around the local grain elevator (a church, a couple gas stations, a bar, stuff like that), and instead of being incorporated as a city or town, they'd have a "Now entering such-and-such co-op" sign.

I believe cooperation can work, as soon as people heal from their addiction to power-tripping.

Cheers! Rich

Well, actually, there is: Free Will.

Apply for a US job and let's see.

You're a brain-washed socialist.

As I am with yours.

I made a mistake... PLONK.

...Jim Thompson

Well, at least he included the quote marks; It _was_ a joke, after all. :-)

And I don't really feel like stuffing myself at the moment; I've just had a very satisfying lunch, thank you very much. :-)

Cheers! Rich

Well, just to keep the facts clear here, I don't actually have any college/university degrees at all, just ~50 years' B.S. in the school of hard knocks. ;-)

And my ultra-clever response to the "stuff yourself" article is somewhere up-thread. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Sorry, the joke just didn't strike me as funny, considering the people who have been horribly mutilated by bears, and God never steps in. Tsunamis, fires, mudslides, earthquakes, terrorists, but God never steps in. God can go stuff Himself.

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If thinking with your balls is the same as renaissance, I'd suggest some thinking again, using something else than just your balls, although your balls might be larger than your brain, come to think of it.

Criticism of what is widely recognized as major governmental mismanagement does not constitute a crime, or even un-American behavior, as if un-American behavior actually means anything. The FBI already have their plate full with investigating crimes as defined by Federal law and do not have the authority to investigate people on the basis of mere political expression. Anyone who would advocate such a use for the Bureau is a far greater danger to this country than any terrorist organization.

Quite a few US companies are founded, owned, and operated by foreign nationals; and quite a few key scientists and engineers within US industry are of foreign origin and/or nationality. Furthermore, the US has developed a dependence upon foreign technological development in many critical areas, and many US corporations are moving their research centers overseas. The US is getting to the point where it produces nothing.

A totally nonsensical statement, by your reasoning we would have some ex-Presidents behind bars.