soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

We need a viable third party. A leader that has nads that won't fear for his life and do the right thing.

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

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Rbode Loc: Ft lauderdale, Fla

I'm with you, arm in arm, except, speaking Engish baseball hot dogs apple pie and Ford. No disrespect meant or implied.

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

Lmao well u know. I'm partial to Ford trucks and but prefer Chevy cars

user47602 Loc: ip 304.0.0.33.32

yeah... a revolutionary martyr type... with a charismatic understudy that can lead the 3rd party after the 1st guy get assassinated.

eye2eye Loc: Chicago, Illinois

Let's take your four examples:
Baseball - The amount of money and greed in this industry is appalling. When players live like they are above the rest of society because of the size of their paychecks, means they don't care about anyone but themselves. Plus, how many players have been drafted from foreign countries for the sake of winning? How many scandals in the baseball industry? Too many to mention.
Hot Dogs - What's in them? What kind of fillers does the FDA allow in order to mass produce for profit no matter what is going into the bodies of our children and citizens?
Apple Pie - Cross hybrids and pesticides. Apples are not as healthy as they used to be. Allowing the food industry to mess with the basic foods we eat for making more money.
Ford (actually it's Chevrolet, but I'll give you Ford) - Hated the Jews the orthodox religion and it's people. Great examples of America.

cascadia13 Loc: Puget Sound, Willamette Valley

Comparing the reactions of prey/predator species to prejudice within a single species is a stretch, to say the least. I agree with the gist of your comments though: prejudice toward those who appear different from ourselves is inherent. However, in my opinion, racism enters the picture when that natural prejudice is combined with institutional power: governments, churches, schools etc. This does not happen as a natural occurrence, but as a direct and intended result of empowered groups seeking to maintain their dominance and control of the disempowered.

A good case in point would be the first racial segregation laws passed in the American colonies, designed by the landowning classes in response to Bacon's Rebellion, an uprising that united African slaves and indentured servants in 17th century Virginia. Previously there had been no codified segregation in the colonies; slaves and indentured servants had equal status (on the bottom rung of the wealth/power ladder.) By granting a bit more power to whites, a pecking order was established and it was a rather effective and long-lasting one.

Jim McDonald Loc: Ellsinore, Mo.

As I look at it, same Father, just different mothers. If we could agree with that premise, the world would be a much better place.

Rbode Loc: Ft lauderdale, Fla

Baseball, worse than baseball is basketball.

Hot dogs fillers, the same as in tofu.

Apple pie, you must be a low informed whiner, you failed to mention alar. Maybe you have a low GMO count?


Ford, your is point over century old. More recently, Ford didn’t take any government money from the Obama/democrap stimulus scam.

If you had been attentive to this thread, you would noticed that the OP, not me, first used these subjects to symbolically illuminate the spirit that makes this country great.

Hoot72 Loc: Lexington, KY

We are all either brothers of another mother, or sisters of another mister. Given that in the minds of those who just care for people, color does not matter.

Jim McDonald Loc: Ellsinore, Mo.

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Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

Yes sir! Just ask any coroner. :thumbup:

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

If we had political parties that really, really, really had the best interest of the country at heart, I think their ideology would be close enough to each other that one wouldn't go to guns if the other won. As it is, they're ALL fighting for who gets to gut the goose, and it becomes an artificial matter of life or death.

I'd like to see that movie just to find out why it's not called "Dear People". How is it they choose to address part of the population and not the other part as well.

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

I appreciate your post, eye2eye, because it's so easy to see where your talent lies. In theory, you should just as easily be able to turn a list of negatives into positives, given the inclination.

farnsworth52 Loc: W. Pa.

Personally I find it rather retarded that this subject even gets the attention it does. I've lived with every nationality except Eskimos. I find that all groups have an ax to grind. I also find that anyone willing to get off his duff can find a spot in the economy that will provide him or her with resonable living standards. People that spend allot of their time working to get ahead are to busy to stand around and bitch at the world because the've been treated unfairly. Grow up; the world is not fair and never will be. People who live near deserts won't have the same living standard as people living near icebergs. Fairness is earned not given. Respect is earned not given. Help should be temporary and not forever. I carry my black neighbors trash can to the alley along with mine;he usually brings them back at the end of the day. I keep forgetting, and he walks right by when he comes home from work. It's a good system,we both benifit and we both do our share of the work. If all this Black/White/ Christian /Jew thing would be boiled down to I'll help you if you help me there would be no problems. This all falls apart when one of the partys wants his share of the benifits for doing nothing or very little. I've also determined that the more bitching about how the world is unfair one does,the less likely they are to want to work to change their position in life. The perfect example of this happened to me just last week. A man dressed rather shabilly tried to bum a smoke off me just after he saw me by a pack of smokes. I said,"I'll go you one better,I'm parked by the air pump if you fill my right front tire up to 44 lbs I'll by you a pack of smokes." After he finished giving me several reasons why he could not do that,I simply said Thats why your where your at in life Your willing to spend your time trying to figure out how to get things for free. You should be trying to figure out how you could earn those things. You just lost the job.( He wasn't Black by the way) I had a Jewish friend when I was allot younger and every Christmas my parents gave him a present the first time he came to the house during the holidays. The card would just say happy holidays and Thank You for who you are. It never said Merry Christmas. His parents would laugh at this but he quite enjoyed it. I've eaten dinner at a Japenese friend's house and was quite surprised that they had a regular table. We all know Japanese eat on the floor right??? My Irish grandmother always said,"Work for what you want,Want only what you need, share your abundance and you'll never be poor,and always have friends." She was probably the smartest person I've ever known.She couldn't do long division (which surprised me) but she knew about life and the important things about it.