Post #392,542
7/29/14 1:08:43 PM
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Okay. Mea Culpa.
But even with all its warts I'd still rather live in the South or, $DEITY help me, Indiana than anywhere in the Northeast.
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Post #392,544
7/29/14 1:11:42 PM
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Not me.
Fundies, humidity, and way too many hard right conservatives for my taste.
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #392,549
7/29/14 2:02:57 PM
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Vermont might be okay.
But I grew up in Southern Cal so I know what it's like to live on an ant hill. I had way too much of that. In the South you still have the opportunity for space. And the Blue Ridge Mountains are not all that humid. Of course, there are the Copperheads, Cottonmouths and rattlesnakes to contend with.
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Post #392,557
7/29/14 3:11:07 PM
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You don't think all of NY looks like NYC, right?
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #392,559
7/29/14 3:12:12 PM
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Sure. Some of it looks like Buffalo. (just kidding)
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Post #392,546
7/29/14 1:38:46 PM
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To paraphrase the late Herb Caen
It's pleasant to think that the kind of people who prefer Indiana to Massachusetts tend to live in Indiana.
(and yeah, as malreaux points out, one could as well trot out a picture of a tony neighborhood in Princeton NJ and pair it with a particularly unphotogenic trailerpark out in the White Trash Mountains of Kentucky without scoring any meaningful points for the favored region.)
cordially,
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Post #392,548
7/29/14 1:59:35 PM
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And support those living in MA, NJ, NY, etc sic nauseum.
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Post #392,551
7/29/14 2:43:12 PM
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Walked right into that one, didn't you?
Federal tax dollars received vs. federal tax dollars paid:
New Jersey: 0.61:1.00 New York: 0.79:1.00 Massachusetts: 0.82:1.00 Indiana: 1.05:1.00
Tell us again about how you stalwart midwestern yeomen subsidize the "takers" in the Northeast? Gawd, but you're a pretty big fish in a pretty small barrel.
cordially,
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Post #392,552
7/29/14 2:56:02 PM
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I ain't talkin' just about the taxes, Sparky.
How many investment banksters are in MA? You think that ain't stealin'?
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Post #392,553
7/29/14 3:02:07 PM
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At least 4 billionaires live in Indiana.
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Post #392,558
7/29/14 3:11:14 PM
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Dang, 0.5 * MA billionaires. Thanks for the non-answer answer.
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Post #392,563
7/29/14 3:20:39 PM
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Anytime.
I still get a chuckle out of the idea of arguing with a Marxist with his own private airplane. :-D
Cheers, Scott.
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Post #392,565
7/29/14 3:37:10 PM
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You mean Aeroflot West? ;0)
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Post #392,566
7/29/14 3:56:58 PM
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"From each according to his abilities . . .
. . to each according to his needs."
I'm sure he can come up with some very good reasons why he really, really needs that airplane.
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Post #392,570
7/29/14 4:48:35 PM
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I have only one good reason.
I will be directing the revolution from the air.
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Post #392,573
7/29/14 5:32:31 PM
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Not for long - the Russians . . .
. . will happily sell the capitalists SA-3/S125s.
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Post #392,554
7/29/14 3:04:48 PM
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Nice save: Not.
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Post #392,567
7/29/14 4:09:49 PM
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talk about "disingenuous."
Actually, this riposte screeches right over disingenuous and right into dishonesty.
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Post #392,569
7/29/14 4:46:04 PM
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Dishonest? How so?
State Street Corp, Nuance, OneBeacon Insurance, EMC, Akamai, Eaton Vance, Kopin Corp, are these not all bit twiddlers or paper pushers? In what way is it dishonest to say so?
But let's not isolate the Worthless Thumb to just MA. The biggest waste of everything is New York. There's not a single person on Wall Street, arguably on the entire Manhattan Island, who ever got a dime that he didn't steal from someone else - in most cases a Non-New Yorker. The only thing Wall Street and their Boston based cousins are good for is extracting all value from something - anything. Goldman was at one time (perhaps still is) the world's largest oil company. Do they do anything with the oil? Nope. Do they even receive oil? Nope, don't have the ability. But they can make tens of millions of dollars by insuring that all the people who use it pay *them* for nothing. They took our pensions, they took the value of our homes, they screwed the entire world's economy up by playing with oil prices and betting against their own "products" and they're well on their way to screwing us even harder should we "decide" to "consume" health care. They are now and always have been a non-value-added tax upon virtually everything that is used in this country. And, as another bonus, they own our alleged representation in DC. Plain and simple these people are not to be trusted, not the best of them.
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Post #392,571
7/29/14 5:07:41 PM
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hyperbole much?
There's not a single person on Wall Street, arguably on the entire Manhattan Island, who ever got a dime that he didn't steal from someone else
And there's not a single North American of European descent living today who didn't personally participate in the extermination of the continent's indigenous peoples. Geez, mmoffitt, listen to yourself!
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Post #392,579
7/29/14 6:27:43 PM
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I have never exaggerated in my entire life!
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #392,574
7/29/14 5:41:47 PM
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hookers and coke dealers dont contribute? disagree
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
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Post #392,594
7/30/14 4:23:36 AM
7/30/14 4:43:40 AM
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Re: Dishonest? How so? (You didn't need any hyperbole..)
That the vast %wealth of the dis-USA IS in the pockets of effete-inheritors, of System-gamers, of the mere ethics-free ordinary greed-driven--sociopaths most-all--seems obvious by inspection. Further psychoanalyzing all of these, merely adds colorless-detail to a bunch of exploitive misanthropes: now owning simply %ludicrous of All [material + services] There Is. Does one really need numbers to more than a couple decimal places to see this utter Proof-of-failure? Does one need Robert's Rules of Order for the obvious to be adjudged-sane/else the conclusion may be ignored?
Marx 'won', but mayhap.. had he addressed/parsed a question of ~ "whether Vulture-capitalism might be.. corralled into some potentially benign direction" (?) his Win might now be uncontested--he left a loophole for that argument. Besides, it wasn't Marxism which was proven-faulty: Stalin's personality alone, as solo dictator: annulled any checks and balances of that 'democratic centralism'--a self-evident root of Lenin's idea of practical governance (unless I missed 3 or 4 others. Nothing is ever this simple.)
This is all moot, here. 'Capitalism' (especially the destructive mind-sets in all other areas of Life, which it inculcates) focusses upon clever, ethics-free manipulations on all scales: is therefore Anti-Society of any sort (unless one accepts the gambling palace rubric, Winner Takes All.) (As to the prevailing gullibility and pig-ignorance: you can blame whatever -ism includes a financial model which guarantees that a large majority of the populace shall remain perpetually insecure; of food, medical care and domicile. Screw the pot, too: Muricans were as oblivious before as during its rise as an Escape-nostrum from the prevailing shitty-zeitgeist.
Ed: double [-]
Edited by Ashton
July 30, 2014, 04:43:40 AM EDT
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Post #392,568
7/29/14 4:09:55 PM
7/29/14 4:11:15 PM
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inexplicable dupe
(a handle we might apply to the target)
Edited by rcareaga
July 29, 2014, 04:11:15 PM EDT
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Post #392,547
7/29/14 1:40:49 PM
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Jesusland? No thanks.
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Post #392,556
7/29/14 3:09:18 PM
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that may be overblown
most of the reasons folks that go to church in the south is to meet other folks wives.
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
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Post #392,560
7/29/14 3:12:51 PM
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And daughters. And cousins. ;0)
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Post #392,576
7/29/14 6:01:11 PM
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They can stay home and meet daughters. And cousins.
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Post #392,600
7/30/14 8:08:08 AM
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I meant neighbor's daughter's and cousins. Oops. Forget it. You're right. ;0)
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