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Ke$ha's "Take it Off" is the trashiest song I've ever heard.
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It seems that all she sings about is how cool it is to be a trashy, ****ing drunkard with no self respect. Girls look up to this woman. Has music really fallen so low as this?
FDR's Second Bill of Rights
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It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.
This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.
As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. "Necessitous men are not free men."[2] People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.
Among these are:
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
The right to a good education.
All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.
For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.
Awkwardness! I choose you!
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So I went to a group at school the other day and we saw the movie Serenity (which was cool). We talked about the movie a bit over snacks and then we retired to a local pizza place. While we were eating pizza, the three guys sitting next to me (two across the table, one in the chair to my left) talked about ways to get money, and eventually one of them suggested (jockingly) that they could set up a little video or something documenting how hard life is for gay people.
Now, none of these guys knew me, and I don't have the gay look" at all, so while the many queer jokes flew they had no idea one was sitting right next to them, to whom they introduced themselves not ten minutes before, holding back a belly-laugh and snorting into his drink.
Eventually, one of them said (I don't even know what the context was, I was having too much fun): "Being gay's tiring."
I interrupted and said, "Yeah, it wears me out!"
They didn't even look at me again, but it ended their conversation REAL quick! :lol:
The problem with the Tea Party
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I saw this on another website and had to share.
Let's say that I want to start a new political movement centralized around an anti-war theme. Now, there are plenty of good arguments against our current military policy -- it is costly, it doesn't make us safer, it breeds terrorism, and it is inconsistent with our founding principles. Instead of selecting any of these, I go with the idea that "war is bad and we have never won one".
We call ourselves the Anti-War party, or AW party for short. Noticing the flexibility of the abbreviation, we start jokingly referring to ourselves as Attention Whores. When our political opponents start using "Attention Whores" as a pejorative, we stop calling ourselves that, accuse them of ad hominem attacks, and start referring to ourselves as AW Partiers. We call anyone that does not agree with our extreme pacifism "Huns" and "Mongols", neither of which are accurate, and the latter of which is something in existence and not really a slur.
We have two plans for ending all war. The first is to arm everyone to the teeth. The second is to eliminate all weapons. Neither of these strategies has ever worked at any time anywhere, and they are ideologically inconsistent, but we consider ourselves visionaries. We target tanks as the root of all war, and adopt the slogan, "SPANK THE TANK". Many of our members are arms manufacturers and snipers.
We don't appear to know anything about WWI or WWII, even though they are examples of "good" or at least necessary wars that the US won. If you bring them up, we will point to the tragedy of loss of life and dogmatically repeat that no wars are truly necessary. There was always a diplomatic solution available, we just didn't use it, and what gives you the right to kill another man? We might even make an argument that WWII was proof that we actually lost WWI. Or we change the subject, and say that the movement is not really about war but about guns, but we can't tell you what guns we want to remove from society.
We all slavishly read Mother Jones. We quote the same Ghandi one-liners.
Now it gets weird. PETA takes an interest in our movement, and wants to join because they want to pretend that they care about humans. We let them in and their crazy-eyed leader becomes one of our spokespeople. Now our mission is expanded -- not just anti-war, but anti-meat, anti-fur, and anti-animal research. Someone throws red paint on a senator but we dismiss that as fringe and get offended when someone accuses us of paint-throwing. The hippies also join and start dressing up as giant trees that "hug people back" at our rallies.
People start asking questions, and we don't have good answers. Why are these Obama's wars? Don't b-b-b-Bush me! Explain how arming people to the teeth will eliminate war? Go watch "Dirty Harry". We don't know whether it would have been right or wrong to kill Hitler The PETA people demand that we vote for them because otherwise we are "splitting the vote". A Mother Jones reporter is caught exaggerating our numbers. The Army accuses us of throwing paint on one of their generals and one of our spokesmen says, "he just got in the way of the paint".
People get frustrated with us, and rightfully so -- we're all complaints with no realistic solutions, get our information through the same biased filters, and we're mixed up with paint-throwers, PETA, and giant trees.
Had to help out my grandma yesterday
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My grandmother's really depressed due to financial troubles in our family. My mom can't work, nobody will hire me, my uncle is on the brink of losing his crappy job, and both my grandparents are retired (their retirement fund is gone) and on a fixed income. So last night she called me asking about her TV (they have TV issues all the time and I'm their fixer-upper), and she sounded real depressed (I've seen her cry three times in my life: when my uncle was gored by a bull when I was little, when my great-uncle died, and during a legal proceeding). When I got there she was flat-out crying.
So I stayed the night that night. They have no air conditioning and it's extremely hot, plus their only couch is made of (fake) leather, so it was a hot and sticky ordeal. My grandfather also likes to talk. A lot. He's not senile or anything; the cogs all work, they just need a little oil is all. But he's very sociable. The problem is he talked to me until midnight last night about his time in the Navy, what he ate, what the floors were made of, what the daily routine was, what kind of guns they used (this was accompanied by two demonstrations), what life was like during WWII, what the Jews went through, what the British went through, what the Russians went through, what the Americans went through, what the Polish went through, what the Czechs went through, what the Germans went through, what the Japanese went through, his brother being shot in the butt, boot camp, how illegal immigrants are ruining the economy, the state of affairs in the local Winn-Dixie management, his parents, how he met my grandmother, the weather up North, and the weather forecast for the next week.
When this was (finally) finished, I spent the night and actually slept pretty well. My grandmother was doing better today but I had to run a million errands in the rain; I was out in the Publix parking lot (I also applied for a job there) when lightning hit a lamp nearby, triggering every car alarm in the place.
Now I'm tired and irritable and glad my grandmother's better.
Got my hair cut today
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Yep. I was in desperate need of it too. I walked in and the owner said "You make me feel wanted." :lol:
Now I have a migraine. :cry:
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