Please post something intelligent - My IQ suffered yesterday at the farce

[LynneSin]

After waiting 2 hours in line (surrounded by more dead animal coats) we unfortunately couldn't get across to the street where the protesters were located. But there was 5 of us dedicated progressive thinkers there amongst the Day of the Brain Dead. Listening to some of that conversation I swore lowered my IQ by what I gather to be about 20 points. One woman complained when we turned our backs on the clown idiot. The woman complained that she was there before us and should be standing in front of where we were standing and not behind us and that somehow I was blocking out her view. Of course this dimwitted woman never thought that she was standing on the curb, adding 4-5 inches to her view, and if she swapped with me she would see even less. So if she swapped me she would actually lose those extra inches off of her height. Idiot. Course when she heard us discussing politics and the illegal war her witty repertoire: "These protesters just don't want to listen to the truth" Seriously.

So seriously, if you are my friend (and I know you are), please post something intelligent. I need to help raise my IQ to the more acceptable progressive thinking level.

Your help in this somewhat tragic moment is much appreciated!

[demnan]

1. A fur coat joke for you

Tell them, "Hey it's alright if you want to wear that fur coat, just make sure you wear it in July also, just like the animal wiould."

[Frozen Hamster]

2. Phylum Porifera (sponges)

There are 5000 - 10000 known sponge species (I just got out of a lecture)

[LynneSin]

3. You must be one of those homosexual lover type evil people

Thanks to James Dobson we now know that SpongeBob Square Pant and Patrick Star are gay. I'm so glad religious groups are there to protect my well being!!

[Frozen Hamster]

5. LOL

Seriously, why does everything coming from the USA sound like either a Monty Python sketch or a Dilbert cartoon

[Frozen Hamster]

8. More useless inferomation on sponges

Sponges are the most primitive of the Metazoa (multi-celled animals), having no organs, no anatomical symetry and absolutley no nervous system

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. The Golden Rule

can be found in the writings of the world's spiritual traditions.

So you'd think maybe some folks, especially rw repuke 'religious' types would decide that maybe its important.

[Az]

10. Not just spiritual traditions

The concept is one adapted and evolved within social groups. Particularly groups that have a high learning curve in development.

This concept has echoed from the halls of ancient Greece and put forward by Socrates. Its part and parcle of our species. It is effective.

Where it is not effective is in the arena of Corporate Culture. The business model holds to something closer to what many thought Social Darwinism was. Survival of the fittest individual. Thus this influence is seeping into our society from our Corporate Lords. They teach us their ways on TV by using reality shows that are anything but reality. They pump up our competition with each other and demonize any concept of us working together for the common good.

[Xipe Totec]

15. A Little Bit of Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing

When the Corporate Lords advocate Social Darwinism, they are cherry picking evolutionary theory. Survival of the fittest is not necessarily an individual sport. Survival of the fittest can be a team sport, and very often it is. Our very survival as individual human beings depends on individual cooperation and group competition. The Corporate Lords are swaddled in the social fabric that we maintain.

Anyone who insists on applying principles of evolutionary theory to Social engineering should at least read The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod.

"Axelrod's research was and is important for several reasons, one of which has to do with evolutionary theory: it shows that, under the right conditions, natural selection can tend to generate cooperation rather than competition, even among actors who act solely out of self-interest."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0465021212/102-3452087-2157704

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. Again, thanks for your insight

I think that the fact the Golden Rule is found both within and without religion tells us that it is a basic tenet for humanity.

[Beer Snob-50]

14. The Golden Rule DOESNOT fit into the RW mentality

I was talking to a friend who is a very religious man (and I did feel him to be) who told me he has a hard time with city/state governments funding shelters for the homeless because it should be done all throgh the private sector. Governmetn should tell it's big local businesses to help run these shelters. Sounds like communism to me.

Democrats believe in the golden rule and have practiced it over the years with social security, equal rights, the new deal, and lbj's great society (i think that was his name of it.).

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

17. The Great Society

was indeed his name for it. It brought us Medicare (which the Repukes back then detested) and Head Start. I had the privledge of teaching Head Start the first year of its existance (as a teenage volunteer-hey I'm not THAT old:))

[NGU]

6. Here is a tidbit of info

Old barns were almost always painted red because it was the cheapest color.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

18. and the farmers made it themselves

using milk, lindseed oil, and RUST (that's why it was a reddish color)

[harper]

7. Good for you LynneSin

Congrats on being in the belly of the beast. I watched what little of it I could stand on the TV while drinking a big glass of wine. More and more I'm feeling that the American people are evolving into two separate species. I'm not sure what the future holds in store for our country, but it can't be good.

[Voltaire]

9. Don't know anything intelligent but I got a question

How you feeling about Sunday??

[LynneSin]

11. Don't make me think about Sunday

Been there done that don't want to be wearing no fricking bunny suit serving Will Pitt and his ilk tequila

[Voltaire]

13. I forgot about that Bunny Suit deal

Better get Donovan to run the damned ball then...LOL

[Kurovski]

12. She said ""THESE protesters" when you were

standing right there?

The woman is as removed from reality as her fur coat is from its original inhabitants.

Thanks for going, I'm jealous.