Eesh. That picture of him makes him look like a Matrix wannabe geek.

Yeah. "Guardian Deity of the Planet" was a good one. Somehow it makes me think of Al Gore.

I am so utterly sick and tired of listening to you liberal shills! You are completely out of touch with reality.

I look to Fox news, Daryk and Lukas for balance. :+

Egad. I am much too sheltered.

This gives new perspective. I watched a similar program on PBS a couple months ago that gave a different view; that being that everyone has the same place in North Korean society, everyone gets the same allottment of food, and if the few go hungry, the masses go hungry (well, everyone's rations are cut. Whatever). From watching the program, I realized why Communism will never work in any Western society. We have no sense that what we are doing in our tedious daily tasks are good for "the State," but we look to ourselves and make certain we can cover our Hummer payments. There is far too much greed (both here and everywhere) for a selfless idealistic system to last for more than a week. The Far Eastern nations have a higher sense of community and nationalism, at least from my observations. [I started life in a soap box, so every now and then I stand on one.]

And I have no idea what h+p's comment meant. I consider myself a conservative; though McAdams and others may disagree. I think it'll be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and the Air Force has to hold a bakesale to buy a jet...

That'll be a great day. 'Cuz if our enemies are having bakesales to fund their fighter jets, I don't see why we shouldn't have bakesales for our jets too. Only our bakesales should be about 20 times bigger and better than their bakesales. Ours should be the finest bakesales in the world, bar none. I'm liberal that way.

But until military technology veers into the battle of the bakesales, I want our finest bakesale experts to handle the bakesales. That's right, I want our soccer moms to be in charge. And I want our military to take a back seat, and just stick with kicking ass and taking names. Military people are stupid and incompetent compared to soccer moms, so I want the military types to just continue to use overwhelming force, including big-assed, expensive jets that nobody can see. At this point I just don't trust the military with bakesales.

I agree with you on Communism. I was going to re-comment, but then I decided to post about it. Thanks!

(H+P's comment was light, light commentary on yous twos social/ political commentary- as well as light, light sarcasm about Chez J's own political bent. I got no gun in this fight- I mean... what do I mean? Hold a bake sale- make my point. Kisses. There are topics I hold dearer.)

Anyone know where I can buy some brownies?

World--I found you some.And I think we can cut our "bakesale" in half (fine, not even in half--20%) and still rule the planet. The latest figures have the US not only topping the world in military spending (around $400 billion/year), but spending more than the next 22 countries combined. Our nearest competitor in military spending is Russia, who spends less than one-sixth the amount of money on their military that we do on ours. I'm with you, Joel; I don't want to feel unprotected either. But one would assume that we could simply cut our spending by about one-fifth (thereby still outspending the top 16 or so nations) without suddenly leaving ourselves somehow weakened. If we took that 80 billion bucks every year and rolled it into our schools, we wouldn't need the school levies that seem to be on ballots everywhere nearly every election (and fail miserably). *shrugs*

Of course, another issue is the fact that in places where money has been increased to schools, the schools have not improved. Wish the schools did 1/5th as well with what they are getting as the military does with what it gets.

I propose a division of labor. Let's put the military in charge of the schools, put the NEA in charge of bakesales and put the soccer moms in country in Afganistan, hunting down Osama bin Laden. They could provide close mini-van support to our special forces in the region, including rapid-response grass stain removal as well as keeping the coolers stocked with Sunny-D. It would be an education for all concerned.

//Wish the schools did 1/5th as well with what they are getting as the military does with what it gets.// Heh. Couldn't help chuckling at that one. Yes, if there's one thing the US military is known for, it's their frugal spending practices.

World's got a point. People running government programs on both the federal and state level experience a diffusion of responsibility that results in the buck being passed all the way to the lowest common denominator (i.e. kids, the poor, and the less educated.) Well, too much of the time anyway. I wish it weren't so, but it 'tis so. We are a miserable race in many regards. And to complicate matters, thinking of children, the poor and the less educated as somehow specially ennobled in spite of/ or even because of their suffering is a naivety of very limited usefulness. We're a mess coming and going. Gotta all get better before we all get worse. (Or maybe it's 'gotta all get worse before we all get better.' I like the first one best.)

so perhaps if being a good teacher was held in the same light as being a good doctor, and paid the same salary, the school system wouldn't be so screwed. and perhaps if the government legalized hallucinagins, they could make money off of dealing permits and tax...and put it all back into treating drug addiction as a medical problem instead of as a crime. maybe if it weren't only millionaires who could run for office, things could actually change. maybe if 95% of all incumbents didn't get reelected everytime they tried, things could change. perhaps abolishing a party system, and changing the FCC so that it wasn't so easy for people like rupert murdoch to own over half the media in this country and england, people could get a broader prospective of news, not just what has been told to be released by the white house or pentagon. knowing wether or not over 3/4's of the attackers who hit the WTC were Saudis should be a big deal. i'm no liberal, i'm no conservative. i consider myself a person. i shall not be confined to one ideal. i'm babbling but i think i might have made some points worth note. maybe not. just consider this, if it was no longer possible to check a box for only democrat or republican votes, and the parties were not allowed to be on the ballot, or be advertised for....how much do you believe things would change? remember that when your vote gets stolen by an electronic voting machine with no hardcopy of the vote. no way to track it. and companies that will not let state officials inspect their machines.

http://www.progressive.org/oct04/cusac1004.html

i saw the same program as daryk, by the way...and the representation we saw of N. Korea was completely different...

(rantrantrantrant)

oh yeah....for any nation in strife, i forgot to quote System of a Down.

"Revolution,
the only solution,
the armed response of an entire nation."
"Modern globalization
Coupled with condemnations
Unnecessary death
Matador corporations
Puppeting your frustrations with a blinded flag
Manufacturing consent is the name of the game
The bottom line is money, nobody gives a
fuck

4000 hungry children
Leave us per hour from starvation
While billions are spent on bombs
Creating death showers"

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