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Quacks Treating "Mental Illness"
Post Date: 2012-01-11 13:26:40 by Turtle
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It's a cliche but like cliches it's true: the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. And "good intentions" are even worse when the possessor is blind and arrogant. The word for that is "hubris." Hubris applies even to doctors. After all, there does exist the saying, "What is the difference between God and a doctor?" "God doesn't think he is a doctor." I am not a fan of doctors, especially the type who is caught in AMA groupthink. I am especially not a fan of those who treat "mental illness." Even in the recent past the treatments were horrendous. They still are today, for that matter. Think lobotomies. Not so long as ...
Turtle Encounters a Fat Dyke Cop and Two Fighting Negroes
Post Date: 2012-01-06 13:07:29 by Turtle
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It was James Q. Wilson who championed what has become known as "the Broken Window theory." He, along with the police and social psychologists, noticed that a broken window in a building, unless repaired, led to the rest of the windows being broken. It's verification of the old saying, "Give them an inch and they'll take a mile." When police began to use the Broken Window theory – taking care of small crimes like begging and drunkenness – the major crimes started dropping. I first noticed this when I was a teenager in my hometown, which has about 40,000 people. The police at that time were not hampered by a lot of PC laws. They also did a lot of ...
INDOT Admits Slow Response In Recent Snow
Post Date: 2012-01-03 20:33:22 by Dakmar
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80 Crashes Reported Along Indy Interstates INDIANAPOLIS -- Monday's blinding snow caught many by surprise, including highway salt crews, but state transportation officials said the same mistake won't be made come Super Bowl time. State police worked 80 crashes across the metro area Monday afternoon, including one on Interstate 465 involving at least 12 vehicles. Indiana Department of Transportation spokesman Harry Maginity said the agency was behind the storm, RTV6's Chance Walser reported. "We didn't know where it was coming up next. Mainly, it came up on the south side, but we were dispatching trucks," he said. "We were behind it trying to catch up with ...
Dogs are Great Judges of Character
Post Date: 2011-12-21 12:30:36 by Turtle
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I had mentioned I was sitting in my van a few weeks ago smoking a cigar when some whacko walked up and asked for a light. Wilson the killer pug snarled and hurled himself over my lap and tried to attack this guy through the open window. The guy walked away without a word. A week or so later the same guy asked me for a cigarette. I told him I didn't smoke. Later night he asked me for a cigarette. Third time. I told him he'd better remember me and never ask for a cigarette again. He go mouthy and I walked him backward. He even tried to raise his hand and I slapped it down. He finally decided to walk away. He said he "didn't remember me." He will now. I find it amazing ...
The New jury system at Democratic Underground that has replaced volunteer moderators
Post Date: 2011-12-19 12:57:29 by Ferret
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I thought I would share how Democratic Underground 3.0 does moderation with a jury for questioned mostings. Here is a thread I served on a six person jury for:http://www.democraticunderground.com/100241148 The thread text: t's Time to Tax the Church "Not all churches or all ministers are rich, but some of them are very rich indeed. And that's no surprise, because society subsidizes them through a constellation of generous tax breaks that aren't available to any other institution, even non-profits. For example, religious organizations can opt out of Social Security and Medicare withholding. Religious employers are exempt from unemployment taxes, and in some states, from ...
Mia's getting big!
Post Date: 2011-12-14 19:30:01 by christine
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September 3 (Mia is 6 mos old) December 13 (Mia is 9 mos old)
Rock hall of fame snubs red-state favorites
Post Date: 2011-12-13 19:05:07 by Buzzard
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Ever get the feeling that the open-minded voters for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are welcoming to every genre, subgenre and hybrid of popular and vernacular music — except rock? Part of the fun of having a hall of fame, of course, is debating over who should get in, but the rock hall keeps making such incredibly bad choices that it has even sucked the joy out of arguing. Just look at the list of inductees for 2012, announced last week: Guns N’ Roses, the Beastie Boys, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Laura Nyro, Donovan, and the Small Faces/Faces. Only Donovan deserves it. The rest of the acts on that list merely show just how incredibly insular and irrelevant the induction process ...
A Frosty Reception for Coca-Cola's White Christmas Cans [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-12-01 23:38:27 by Eric Stratton
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The end is near for a white can that has many Coke drinkers seeing red. Coca-Cola Co. is switching back to its time-honored red just one month after rolling out its flagship cola in a snow-white can for the holidays. New seasonal cans in red will start shipping by next week, as white cans—initially expected to be in stores through February—make an exit. While the company has frequently rung in the holiday with special can designs, this was the first time it put regular Coke in a white can. Some consumers complained that it looked confusingly similar to Diet Coke's silver cans. Others felt that regular Coke tasted different in the white cans. Still others argued that messing ...
I'd rather be stuck in Lodi
Post Date: 2011-11-19 11:52:00 by farmfriend
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I'm totally stuck in Reno of all places. I have stores up here I have to work once a month. This trip has been nothing but problems. I tried to leave yesterday but there were chain controls in Truckee. Ok I've put chains on before, no problem, right? So I'm laying down in the snow with no coat trying to put the chains on my friggin Honda. The tires are the smallest those chains will take so I got to get them on tight. But I can't get my fat...I can't get under the car enough to get them on right because the car is so low to the grown. I give up and come back to Reno. Enter the unexpected female monthly. I am totally unprepared for this and given my age things do not ...
Why Washington will collapse
Post Date: 2011-10-26 13:23:46 by Turtle
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It's mathematically guaranteed, given the total failure of the supposedly responsible party, the Republicans, to even openly discuss the fiscal realities, much less address them. The Market Ticker walks through the numbers: NOW we need to cut the federal budget not with a knife or a scalpel, but a chainsaw. Bachmann has said "43%." There were gasps when she uttered those words. Sorry, that's not enough. (Take your heart medication before continuing folks.) Here's the math. Last year (Calendar 2010) we ran a 12% of GDP deficit, $1.7 trillion. This year we are tracking to run about $1.4, but we have three months left. If history repeats as to size it'll come in ...
Al Beaverda, Terrorist Mastermind
Post Date: 2011-10-24 16:09:12 by Turtle
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Authorities today said they had arrested two young members of Al Qaeda who had been planning what they claimed was "the worst terror plot we have ever encountered." Arrested at the Mayfield (Ohio) Grammar School were two eight-year-olds, Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, and Lawrence "Larry" Mondello. Also confiscated were what government authorities said were detailed plans and blueprints to attack the United States with Little Green Army Men ordered from the backs of comic books, Aurora/Revell/Monogram tanks, airplanes, and spaceships, dirt-clod meteorites and what appeared to be an army of highly intelligent and exceptionally unpleasant alien chickens from Venus. ...
Why I Despise Politics
Post Date: 2011-10-19 16:34:08 by Turtle
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"Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason, and invective for documentation than in politics. This is a realm, peopled only by villains or heroes, in which everything is black or white and gray is a forbidden color." —John Mason Brown, "Through These Men" (1956) People, individually, can be just fine, but in groups—or as I like to call them, herds—are stupid, deluded, infantile, and murderous. And that's a fact. This is nowhere more evident than in politics, which more than anything else is a herd phenomenon. The enormity of these bad qualities is so destructive I wish politics didn't exist. I've met ...
Life, Liberty --Then Property
Post Date: 2011-10-17 14:42:45 by Turtle
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“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -- Adam Smith,"The Wealth of Nations." The Constitutional phrase, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” came from the writings of John Locke, specifically his long essay, “Concerning Civil Government,” although Locke wrote (and I paraphrase here) “life, liberty and property.” I have been unable to find out why Locke put those qualities in the order he did. I doubt it was purely coincidental, since without life, liberty and property mean nothing. What I find interesting it that Locke put ...
The Matewan Massacre
Post Date: 2011-10-17 14:34:04 by Turtle
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The Battle of Matewan (also known as the Matewan Massacre) was a shootout in the town of Matewan, West Virginia in Mingo County on May 19, 1920 between local miners and the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency. A contingent of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency arrived on the no. 29 morning train in order to evict families that had been living at the Stone Mountain Coal Camp just on the outskirts of town. The detectives carried out several evictions before they ate dinner at the Urias Hotel and, upon finishing, they walked to the train depot to catch the five o'clock train back to Bluefield, West Virginia. This is when Matewan Chief of Police Sid Hatfield decided that enough was enough, and ...
Prohibition Did Work...Sort of
Post Date: 2011-10-07 13:58:19 by Turtle
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Several pundits (among them William Bennett and Ann Coulter) have claimed Prohibition worked. They’re right. It did work…sort of. Alcohol consumption dropped by 50%, cirrhosis of the liver by 63%, admissions for alcohol psychosis by 60%, and arrests for drunk and disorderly, by 50%. That’s the good news. The bad news is that we got organized crime. There is even worse news; what we got was a lot more awful than organized crime (contrary to the myth, not all of it was Italian. A lot of it was Jewish and Irish). Since I’m neither of the former and a lot of the latter, I’ll concentrate on the Irish. Prohibition gave us the Kennedys. Joseph Kennedy made oodles of ...
American Christian Fascists
Post Date: 2011-10-01 14:54:47 by Turtle
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If fascism ever some to America it won’t be through insignificant groups such as American Nazis or the KKK, both of which together could field a couple of softball teams. It’ll come through “Christians,” specifically the blood-thirsty ones who support war. This kind of Christian supports the State, and Israel and wars, because they think by doing so they can get Jesus to come back and slaughter all the “infidels” (first those infidels were the Communists, now they’re Muslims). They won’t be around to watch any of this, because they believe they’ll be wafted to Heaven in the Rapture. They believe they’ll be watching the Four Horsemen of the ...
Our Sexual Future
Post Date: 2011-09-28 15:27:02 by Turtle
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“All of the world's problems are products of the male ego,” said a swaggering bulldagger she-cop in "Law and Order" the other night. Average gringa. Actually, only some of the world's problems, as for example wars, are products of the male ego. Of course, a curmudgeonly male—though I don't know any of these—might respond, “Woman, everything that keeps you and your sisters from squatting in caves and crushing lice is a product of the male brain.” Which is true. It is curious: Women seem to have no idea how profoundly they depend on men, and not just to fix thingy-whiches that make cars go. The pattern is that men invent and women use. ...
The Top Ten Most Worthless Degrees
Post Date: 2011-09-28 14:10:50 by Turtle
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College is a great place to learn and have fun. But let’s not kid ourselves, some degrees are as useless as the plot in a Michael Bay film. Here’s a list of 10 degrees that may be interesting, but do jack shit for you in the real world. 10. Art History Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: With an art history degree you could maybe curate an art gallery or work at a museum or .yeah, that’s it. That’s all you can do. And seeing as how every art gallery and museum I’ve ever been to has exactly one dude sitting quietly at a desk reading a New Yorker and eating a food that requires chopsticks, I’m going to go ahead and assume there’s not a lot of positions ...
Deerhoof - Let's Dance The Jet
Post Date: 2011-09-16 17:32:47 by Dakmar
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Poster Comment:this just rocks!
Are they asking too much for this bicycle? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-09-12 21:09:02 by Dakmar
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Several years ago, I bought a bicycle, hoping to ride it for a little exercise. It was a standard, upright bicycle, with six gears and handbrakes. I can't get comfortable on the thing, my legs are too long to sit back, and the handlebars are too far away to sit upright. I basically feel like I'm taking my life into my own hands every time I get on this bike. I used to spend hours riding around my home town on a Schwinn Manta Ray (24") I borrowed from my neighbor, the bike i question looks like it would be just as comfortable, with the added bonus of having a coaster brake. I'd like to get this bike, does anyone know of a similar package, maybe even with a higher sissy bar ...
Why is Gaddafi Called "an evil dictator"?
Post Date: 2011-09-07 19:27:05 by James Deffenbach
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Most people in the West believe that Moammar Gaddafi is "the evil dictator of Libya." Unfortunately what a lot of people know just ain't so. The Secretary General of the State/Country of Libya, the man who actually does have some power, is not Gaddafi. Gaddafi has no official authority in Libya! He has an honorary title as "the father of the revolution" and is also called "the leader of the revolution." Of course he has influence in Libya as anyone with such a status and reverence would have. But by no technical or logical definiton can he be described as a dictator. This is the answer to who is the Secretary General of Libya (and no, he isn't a ...
Dow drops 6 hundred plus points for a loss of 6.66% in the 6th worst trading day ever
Post Date: 2011-08-08 17:15:36 by Esso
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Now who is it with the obsession with the number 6? It'll come to me in a minute. It's right on the tip of my tongue...
Did anyone know if Goldi-Lox banned Itzlzha? She threatened to
Post Date: 2011-08-01 20:25:12 by James Deffenbach
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#14. To: Gatlin, Goldi-lox, (#13) For the learning-disabled ... reading comprehension is always a major problem. Regardless of the other stuff you post, you flaming disgusting remarks to yukon and others is over the top. Either bozo him and shut the hell up, or I'm going to ban you. "Goldi-lox" I need you to send out some guidelines to everyone for what anyone can say or do here...because we seem to have a protected class of agitators that start trouble, and are immune from discipline. And it seems that your rules of conduct are being breached regularly by some with no consequence, while others feel the sting and threat of banning...reminiscent of the purges at Free ...
The Truth of Interracial Rape in the United States
Post Date: 2011-07-30 15:49:50 by Turtle
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Like Ahab's search for the Great White Whale, liberals' search for the Great White Defendant is relentless and never-ending. When, in 1988, Tawana Brawley's and Al Sharpton's then year-old spectacular charge that several white men including prosecutor Steven Pagones (whose name Brawley had picked out of a newspaper article) had abducted and raped the 15 year old was shown to be completely false, the Nation said it didn't matter, since the charges expressed the essential nature of white men's treatment of black women in this country. When the Duke University lacrosse players were accused of raping a black stripper last year, liberals everywhere treated the accusation ...
Margaret Sanger (Founder or Planned Parenthood) in Her Own Words
Post Date: 2011-07-30 15:29:00 by Turtle
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On blacks, immigrants and indigents: "...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people On sterilization & racial purification: Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech. On the right of married couples to bear children: Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth ...
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