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If you take the world’s wealth and divide it evenly among the world’s inhabitants you get about $3,100 per person.
Everyone reading this must be making at least 10X that amount.
I say let the powers-that-be be-fucking-be and thank the ones in power for letting even the lowliest man in America live above poverty and have a working toilet!
bobbo,
“Violate gods wishes and he will send you to hell for eternity – – – but he loves you. Yes, good sound critical thinking for our schools.”
Is not taught in schools, it is taught by the ‘Church’ And I can tell you do not have any children, or have not mastered tough love.
You give children the tools to live a good life, but you can not live it for them. If they do not follow the path you give them, then they might fail.
It is the lack of critical thinking that allows you to miss the real thought so badly mangled in Georges ‘teachings’. God loves you and so gives you free will. (instead of making you a slave) God has laid a path for you to follow. It is narrow, but has some room for divergence. If you deviate from the path you will fall. But because of the free will he gave you he will not stop you from following your own path.
Of course, maybe there is no God. Maybe we are just monkeys swinging from our man made trees.
Then we really need those critical thinking skills to navigate the forest of people we meet and need to deal with.
(BTW, Science fiction was created as a form of social/political commentary. DS9 was a very well written SciFi work that used various races to describe the social behavior of us. It is easier to have a different race exhibit social characteristics. Read the original SciFi work, Gulliver’s Travels. And remember, the British people still do not have free speech)
#35–emhodew==just as right wing nut in religion as you are in politics huh? I wonder which causes which or if they both spring from some other failure?
Well, your rant is too general to deserve a specific response. When you get specific to the degree that facts can be checked, I’ll give it a go. What the schools are doing in general is simply much too vague. We can agree they are failing, but then completely disagree as to why. Too much religion, not enough science or vice versa?
Welcome to DU. You have many soul mates here.
Alfie==who made the lake and took away my gills?
can I get $0.01 per transaction in this country?
how about $0.001…
In my community and state they are trying to develop critical thinking skills in the public schools. Subjects that used to wait for high school are now way down in junior high. They want to give their kids and communities a future and they are pushing bleeping hard to get it.
The expected job market for people with the skills Carlin suggested is no more than one if four jobs if that.
Go take an aptitude test for job placement now and see how you do. Unless you are smarter than some of the people posting seem to be the job market bleeps.
Bobbo is a yeller dog Democrat. He’d vote for a yeller dog if that was what ran on the Democratic ticket and justify it somehow.
He may admit that Democrats can do wrong but hand him a list of broken promises and he starts shoving out horse apples. It’s also obvious that as for as he is concerned every real bleep up that has ever occurred had to be because of a Republican.
Republicans have made their fair share of bad choices but they hardly hold a monopoly on making bad choices. If Bobbo could actually see people as individuals and judge them based on their actions rather than party labels he might actually compute.
Will Rogers said that we have the best Congress that money can buy.
This is hardly news. Taking money from people willing to give money is how Congress critters raise money to get elected and part of how they and their families get rich/richer while they are in office. Pork barrel legislation is a major part of how they keep getting re-elected so Obama is going to have no impact on that bombast aside and yes if he doesn’t do something serious to try and reduce the problem I’ll hold that lie against him just as I strongly resent his failure to follow through on his open government promises.
#40–deowll==better than most, “but” explain how VOTE ALL INCUMBENTS OUT OF OFFICE is a partisan statement?
Must really suck to be so partisan you think everyone else is.
George Carlin is one of the few people who I believe speaks any kind of truth.
I believe George espouses all that wonderful truth but caps it with hopelessness (saying essentially there’s nothing you can do about the current situation) because when he passed on he was an older man, at the end of his life and defeated from having spent so much time (apparently) futiley fighting the system. A younger person holding the same values would be quite hopeful and effective. That’s you and me, baby.
Did Carlin die because of America’s refusal to accept socialized heath care?
#19 bobbo
Glad to see you invested ZERO time in watching the documentary. Talk about FAIL!!!
“The Obama Deception”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
Don’t believe what you watch? It is all documented at the link below.
http://obamadeception.net/articles.html
The documentary is not about Obama! It could just as easily be titled “The Bush Deception”
It’s a documentary about YOUR OWNERS!
Rest In Peace, but never quit, George.
And thanks for all of it.
But there’s a reason, there’s a reason, there’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS and it’s the same reason that it will never ever, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talkin’ about the real owners now. The big, the wealthy, the REAL owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicans, they’re irrelevant. The politicans are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations, they’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media companies so they control all the news and information you hear. THEY GOT YOU BY THE BALLS! They spend billions of dollars ever year lobbying every year to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everyone else. But I can tell you what they don’t want — they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that, that doesn’t help them, that’s against their interests. That’s right. You know something? They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overthrew 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want OBEDIENT WORKERS. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passably accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the moment you go to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it, they’ll get it all from you sooner or later. Cause they own this fucking place. It’s a big club and you ain’t it! You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe, all day long telling you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy. The table is tilted folks, the game is rigged. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people, white-collar, blue-collar, doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on, continue, these are people of modest beings continue to elect these rich cock-suckers who don’t give a fuck about you! They don’t care! At all, at all, at all!