tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post115391685154283215..comments2024-01-31T11:37:10.331-06:00Comments on Born-Again Hippies: The Content of Their CharacterRandy Haspelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15371114789022032381noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-1154472990921145322006-08-01T17:56:00.000-05:002006-08-01T17:56:00.000-05:00That's one way of looking at the situation. I have...That's one way of looking at the situation. I have often wondered why people take politics so seriously. It is as bogus as a wheel barrow full of steaming dragon shit. It's a lot of sound and fury that signifies very little ultimately, because it is so very bogus...has all of the dignity of a middle school food fight. That's why I have said before that perhaps we need to revisit Dr. Leary's advice to turn on, tune in , and drop out. I think that more folks should become apolitical and create their own personal, local subcultures and environments with some like-minded souls. If done rightly a number of interesting apolitical subcultures could be developed to explore the possibilities of joyous living. Of course the larger culture would rock along with all of its political animosities, petty bickering, hatreds, etc. (liberals are as bad as the conservatives when it comes to this), but you only live once...why not create a smaller culture of joy...politics only scews your head up. I think that the hippies had something like this in mind a long time ago (at least the apolitical ones did).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-1154190121352841832006-07-29T11:22:00.000-05:002006-07-29T11:22:00.000-05:00The time will never come that being a politician w...The time will never come that being a politician will not be profitable. Most honest people that enter the arena are corrupted as they become assimilated by the beast. It is a dangerous, high stakes game played by the power freaks, and we the little people get stepped on in the process. We are always relegated to voting for the lesser of two evils. That being the case, the situation becomes progressively more evil. The only thing that can possibly hope for is to slow down the rate of the descent. This is why history is continuously punctuated with cataclysm. It's not a question of if, but when. The average Joes and Janes of every country thoughout the world only want to have a life and are busy procuring one when their respective governments tap them on the shoulders and say, 'We've decided that it is time for you to go and kill again...this time we have designated so and so to be the enemy'. So average Joe and Jane pick up their weapons and go off to kill whoever the government tells them to to avoid going to jail. The same is true for the poor shmoes on the other side...he's just obeying his government's power freaks...and so it goes, forever and ever. This is world history in a nutshell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-1154113134360766892006-07-28T13:58:00.000-05:002006-07-28T13:58:00.000-05:00if you look at the world from out in spaceyou cant...if you look at the world from out in space<BR/>you cant see borders or boundries or the color of a face<BR/>we've got to love one another <BR/>like sisters and brothers<BR/>like sisters and brothers love one another.<BR/><BR/>Until it is not economically profitable to be a politician there will be greed, graft, and corruption by blacks and whites, by Christians,Jews and people all faiths.<BR/>The system is not working as it was designed. How do you elect honest people? They all look alike.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-1153933019542476582006-07-26T11:56:00.000-05:002006-07-26T11:56:00.000-05:00The first think that must be remembered is that al...The first think that must be remembered is that all politics is bogus. It is all about advancing the power of the political bloc in question by hook or by crook. Blacks know that their power comes from racial unity. But, of course, only whites can be called racist in the Alica and Wonderland world of political correctness. The truth is that anyone who is a member of a race is racist to one extent or another. The basis of the nation/state is not ideological...it is racial (the extended family) with its concomitant common culture and history. I'm not saying that this is morally right, I am saying that this is reality. Your pleas for reasonableness and fairness are falling on deaf ears, because blacks know that the name of the game is hardball (a.k.a. conquest). It is about Africa in America. The same thing is growing in the Hispanic bloc...Mexico in America. Welcome to the Balkanized States of America. Europeans are projected to be in the minority in about 40 years. Do you think that the other power blocs are going to be concerned about the rights and welfare of the new minority? I can hear them laughing up their sleeves now. They'll more likely be saying, 'Thanks for the country, suckers'. Those who forget that the name of the game is hardball will be crushed when the wheel turns. Parenthetically, the only reason that Israel has survived is because they know these things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-1153923948991299022006-07-26T09:25:00.000-05:002006-07-26T09:25:00.000-05:00Welcome to the real world. Do a little research o...Welcome to the real world. Do a little research on former Justice Pickering and how the Democratic Machine misrepresented his record. This goes on by both sides and members of both parties are scared to go against the flow. If you stand up for the truth against your party, right or wrong, you become a target. Check out Senator Lieberman’s situation. A white man can’t represent Black, and a Black Man can’t be a conservative. I was a Gore supporter before 2000, but when he purposely misrepresented a move by Sen. Lott for political gain, I could no longer have faith in him. I was involved personally in the law and had worked with Gore and his office as both a Senator and VP. His campaign saw a chance for political gain by taking a note out of context and misrepresenting its effect. The effect on me was just like this affects you. You have personal knowledge of the situation, so the common tactic used by both sides sticks out to you. When will politicians of both parties be allowed to differ from the party line on issues without becoming a target of their own party? This is the Tom DeLay school of politics and is practiced by both parties.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com