| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/4/2008 9:28:47 AM | if you bend over in front of the door blocking the flow of pedestrians at a supermarket to :
1. tie your shoe
2. look for coupons
3. pick up loose change you dropped for a gumball for your whiney brat
you should be placed in a glass display case for approximately one week outside the grocery store for fellow shoppers to spit upon. and you lose all rights of coupon usage. forever.
and you have to wear velcro shoes. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/4/2008 9:01:31 PM | pump less money into bureacratic empires and more into the purpose/intent upon which entire bureacracies are built: direct care with less paperwork and politics. example: prison reform/rehab should target the hoards of street kids, many coming from an inadequate foster care system--often abused and neglected in childhood. most of these kids are denied mental health services and wrap around services to support the many fost/adopt parents who are trying to help them and instead spend much of their time fighting the bureaucracies.
today, a massive political system of group homes staffed by many people not much more saavy than the residents are offered as role models to seriously disturbed and/or neglected children-- instead of perfecting foster adoption with "wrap around services" to support exhausted fost/adopt parents.
kids are not given adequate mental health services and upon age 18 tossed into the streets, unless fortunate enough to survive independent living (where hopefully they are not exposed to even more "problems"). there is more money pumped into the legal, juvenille justice (?) and socials services "system" and all it's employees than into direct benefits for the children.
as they get older, the girls get tossed into mental hospitals (w/o adequate info to assess appropriate meds and/or therapy and mainly to manage their "offensive" behaviors) . the boys (suffering mostly from high adolescent testosterone mixed with ad/hd and other learning disablities and w/o sufficient proper development and socialization) get put into jails instead of appropriate and effective learning programs and sports to channel their "energy" . they then sit there, pent up and ready to burst, doing nothing, learning nothing, w/o employable skill training-- antsy and w/o homes to return to, they go back onto the streeets--now worse than when they started.
rich child molesters get out of jail in a song, while these kids (their victims) rot and often in CA spend more time for petty crimes than the molestors and abusers who created the situations which (in turn) affect the brains, souls and hearts of the kids who then turn to the street.
the time and energy of those fost/adopt parents, who want to help these kids, are tied more into satisfying the bureacracy "egos" and fighting this same bureaucracy for services legally entitled the kids in the first place but never received --than spent on the much needed time with the kids themselves--trying to cram into their brains and hearts what has been denied them in the first place. then the kids, without sufficent resources, become the targets of society versus their original fine upstanding perpetrators--often pillars of society or protected more by laws than the kids they abuse.
read "people of the lie" by scott peck. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/4/2008 11:26:11 PM | -as long as humans eat meat there will be war
-all churches should pay taxes
-marijuana should be legalized
-that if we do not control the over-population on this planet, nature or a bomb will do it for us
-that Keith Llbermann has become as bad or worse than Bill O’reilly because he is no longer “fair and balanced” but just plain boring! | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/4/2008 11:29:49 PM | -I think women should be able to take care of themselves financially, including but not limited to the dating world. I don't need or want a cook, maid, homemaker, or anything of the sort.
-I believe abortion is fine. I actually don't feel comfortable sleeping with someone who doesn't because I don't want to have kids anytime soon. I also don't sleep around frivolously. I'm tempted to get a vasectomy in a few years.
-This isn't controversial, but I really wish religious people would leave me alone. I can't walk around downtown without being harassed by someone every other block, be it a bum, a mormon, or an evangelist preaching hellfire and brimstone.
-I can find humor in most offensive jokes, be they blatantly racist, anti-religious, or derogatory in any other fashion. Sometimes I feel like the people being anal about racist jokes are doing more to propagate racism than those who are telling them by taking the subject too seriously.
Those are just a few. Have fun. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/5/2008 1:38:08 PM | | Ohhhh....this is trouble for a blonde b%^$^ with a brain! 1) Abortion is the woman's choice. Until men can carry and give birth....mind your own business. If you want one that bad....adopt. TOO many of us single mothers with DEADBEAT fathers around. 2) Convicted criminal? Channel 4 ,at 8pm on Friday ....PUBLIC EXCECUTION. If you can't pull the trigger...I can. TIRED of my tax dollars supporting those useless lowlifes. 3) College should be paid for by the state if the grades are good enough. PERIOD. 4) Get the F^%$#&^% Texas oil man OUT of the white house! $3.50 for a gallon of gas? Come on! $7 for a gallon of milk? I'll go buy a cow.....MUCH cheaper. 5) If you are cruel to any animal in any shape or form.....you are required to go to a dog sport club and catch the baddest mother$#%^&%$ with NO equipment.....I'll show you a "true" sport! 6) Deadbeat dads? JAIL! The court gets you a job...any job. You clock out of jail, are taken to your job, then brought back to jail. ALL monies earned repay what you owe.7)Child Molesters.....CASTRATED. NO, NO No pain killers or sedation for it either.....and we cut off your dominate hand. 8)Drug users and sellers.....public execution. That is an incentive to quit ...now is'nt it? Oh, I can go on, but you see where I stand on most bull#$@%. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/5/2008 4:12:33 PM | | I agree with rainsands. And while we stop lining the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies, how about getting rid of the FDA for allowing them to let these companies put drugs on the market that are causing heart attacks, strokes, and seizures! Did you all know that in you supermarket beef fresh from the feedlot, the FDA lets the feedlots give the sick cows an antibiotic that has been proven to cause brain tumors in humans? Got to love those scientists - what a way to die! | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/5/2008 4:16:43 PM | | Msg 126: I'll add to that glass display -- Anyone with a Wal-Mart mentality that just walks out in front of a car - I'm tired of hitting my brakes for every idiot who does not stop and look for oncoming traffic! | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/5/2008 5:23:24 PM | | I'm starting to think there should be a minimum IQ requirement to be allowed on the Internet. (this is not necessarily a comment about any post in this thread, before anyone gets their knickers in a knot) | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 10:40:17 AM | I agree with rainsands. And while we stop lining the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies, how about getting rid of the FDA for allowing them to let these companies put drugs on the market that are causing heart attacks, strokes, and seizures! Did you all know that in you supermarket beef fresh from the feedlot, the FDA lets the feedlots give the sick cows an antibiotic that has been proven to cause brain tumors in humans? Got to love those scientists - what a way to die!
tomboy -- I agree with both of you re: the FDA!
I see TV commercial after commercial of drugs advertised with a LOOOOOONG list of horrible side effects -- but just let 1 person get so much as a drippy nose from an effective nutritional supplement (that lowers the sales of competing pharmecticals) -- and off the market it goes!
Don't forget that our "good friends" at the FDA are the ones that approve:
15% juice (85% sugar water) juices for our children
"food" with all the nutirients processed out
Baby formulas loaded with dextrose and sodium
Water supply standards with more lead in them than ANYTHING from China (for us to drink and bathe our babies in!
In addition to the pharmecuticals!
And don't get me started on the AMA!
Now they won't even bother to tell patients to start eating right, lose weight and exercise --they just push more pills down their throats!
No intelligence coming from the mouths of doc's re: nutrition:
I actually heard one "Medical Expert" on TV yesterday, saying that it wasn't all that important to drink water!
And then when I hear the expresssion "senior care" I just absolutely cringe! What horrible cruelty in the name of a few $$$$$ | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 2:49:40 PM |
I'm tired of hitting my brakes for every idiot who does not stop and look for oncoming traffic!
This reminds me of another opinion that's raised a lot of ire when I mention it. It's actually a two-parter.
1. If a car hits a pedestrian in any crosswalk (marked or unmarked) under any circumstances, it's homicide - or attempted homicide if the pedestrian survives. If a pedestrian is in or approaching a crosswalk, no driver has any excuse to keep moving, so it's murder, plain and simple, and no plea-bargain will be permitted.
2. If a pedestrian walks out in front of a vehicle in any place other than a crosswalk or other area marked for pedestrians, it's automatically ruled a suicide (or attempted suicide), with no questions asked, and the pedestrian (or his estate) must pay for any damage to the vehicle. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 7:22:52 PM |
If a pedestrian walks out in front of a vehicle in any place other than a crosswalk or other area marked for pedestrians, it's automatically ruled a suicide (or attempted suicide), with no questions asked, and the pedestrian (or his estate) must pay for any damage to the vehicle.
heh, look out Wal-Mart, here I come! 
Actually, I cannot stand that place, but I usually run into town about the time the college kids decide it's time for them to hit the books, and is usually the only place opened. Every time I top the hill, I shake my head, take a deep breath, and nose dive down into the traffic.
And speaking of traffic - How about greening the environment? Mandatory bicycle usage for anyone living in town to cut down on the flow of traffic and pollution. (I'm still looking for my condensed village.  ) | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 8:16:14 PM | Reminds me of playing Frogger
I think pedestrians should still do what their parents were supposed to have taught them: look both ways before you walk! I always wait till the street is clear of cars before crossing it. It drives me nuts to watch pedestrians blindly walking out onto a road without looking for oncoming traffic.
I had a really good "show" today when I was driving on the highway. These dumb young kids were tying up the passing lane by driving really slowly. I was basically forced to pass on the right. Later, they passed me, flipped the bird at me, and I watched as various cars tailgated them for blocking the passing lane. It cracked me up so much to watch these cars get on these brats' tail, and watch them go back into the right lane, only to have another car tailgate him. Great entertainment
People who tie up the passing lane by driving very slowly should have their licenses taken away. We don't need that!! As the above poster says about mandatory bicycle useage: Should definitely apply to these twits who tie up the passing lane, drive drunk, don't use signals, talk on the cellphone while driving, litter and flick live cigarette butts out the car window. If mandatory bicycle useage was applied to these kinds of drivers, people would think twice about doing these dumb things. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 8:36:44 PM | Bernanke, the Bush administration, and the federal reserve are intentionally sabotaging the US economy.
The mainstream Media has been controlling your minds and dumbing you down since you were born with lies, ommisions, and propaganda.
911 was a false flag operation
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6545313046180631815&q=9+11
Ron Paul was intentionally discreditted to avoid the opportunity to allow him to fix america. Did you even know that he is still running and stiull in contention ? did you know that John mccain actually only has just over 900 delegates, most of which are unbound and are Ron Paul supporters ? "presumptive?" once again my stance against Mainstream media lying to you. But what I'm telling you is a fact.
Ossama Bin Laden died before the attacks oddly reported by Fox news.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html
Americans like to defend their government to the point of absolute stupidity. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 9:16:48 PM | thebestguyhere:
Americans like to defend their government to the point of absolute stupidity
<---- American.
Actually, I think our government sux. I firmly believe the Democratic & Republican parties should be dismantled. Every time there is a Republican in office, we go to war, and the greedy corporations get the money. Every time there is a Democrat in office, they have to fix the mess, but haven't been able to get the second term to finish the job. The minimum wage was frozen for 10 years. Now there's a new rate, but it's going to take 2 years to get to the top of it, and everyone on minimum wage will still be living at or below poverty level. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 9:31:30 PM | Designingwoman:
People who tie up the passing lane by driving very slowly should have their licenses taken away. Should definitely apply to these twits who tie up the passing lane, drive drunk, don't use signals, talk on the cellphone while driving, litter and flick live cigarette butts out the car window. If mandatory bicycle useage was applied to these kinds of drivers, people would think twice about doing these dumb things.
I agree. My oldest brother used to be a truck driver and has told countless stories about idiot drivers who pull in front of the large trucks and then slam on brakes. When they are loaded with 48,000 lbs of stuff, there is no way they can "stop on a dime" - not that they can anyhow, because of their weight! Some people just do not need to be driving. I went to SC this weekend, and on my way home, got behind one who wouldn't move over, wouldn't speed up, and kept slamming on his brakes even though there wasn't any thing in front of him. Someone finally let me over and it sounded like the gates of Hell had opened as there were about a dozen who went around him blaring horns.
I smoke and there was not an ashtray installed in my car when I purchased it. So I got one from the house and put it in the car. With the drought we suffered here in GA this year, I certainly don't want to be responsible for setting the woods on fire! | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 9:44:12 PM |
Now there's a new rate, but it's going to take 2 years to get to the top of it, and everyone on minimum wage will still be living at or below poverty level. that's the gig right there. leave the special interests and corporations to have all the wealth while the middle classes get sequestered to tent cities for being silly enough to get "great mortgage rates" until the bottom falls out and the banks that loan sharked it take your homes and the FED ironically bails them out. Who knew huh ? It's a good thing I'm a dual and living in Canada. And now they want your social security money! | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 10:23:50 PM |
leave the special interests and corporations to have all the wealth while the middle classes get sequestered to tent cities for being silly enough to get "great mortgage rates" until the bottom falls out and the banks that loan sharked it take your homes and the FED ironically bails them out. Who knew huh ?
Makes me rather thankful I own my house free and clear! I wouldn't put a mortgage on it for anything, and I'll end up having to pay for someone's mortgage in the way of higher bank fees, higher insurance, and God knows what else. Ticks me off that these people knew they damn well couldn't afford their houses, but they got signed up anyhow by the loan sharks - who could care less, and the rest of us will have to foot their friggin' debt.
It's a good thing I'm a dual and living in Canada. And now they want your social security money!
I fully expect to not have any SS money by the time I get ready to retire - I've got another 20 years of a career to get through before that happens, and living in another country is looking rather enticing at the moment. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 10:34:57 PM | TradurGirl:
I see TV commercial after commercial of drugs advertised with a LOOOOOONG list of horrible side effects -- but just let 1 person get so much as a drippy nose from an effective nutritional supplement (that lowers the sales of competing pharmecticals) -- and off the market it goes!
Now, you've got me started.
My dad had prostate cancer. There was a supplement called PC-Spez on the market that was helping lower his PSA levels down to the normal range. He had absolutely no side effects from it. One of his doctors got really snotty with him about it, so Dad asked a specialist who told him to continue taking it. Well, the product was taken off the market because supposedly it was causing men's heart rates to go up - although not dangerously high, because no one ever died from it. Well, Dad's cancer metasticized into bone cancer, when the product was pulled from the shelf, and 3 months later, he died.
It's been 4 years, and I would give my eye-teeth to run up on the b*&^$ of a doctor who refused to treat him because he was over 50 years old!
And for all you men in Canada - The doctor that killed my dad got the information from your doctors that men over 50 do not need to be tested for PSA levels. I'd like to know how many Canadian men die of prostate cancer because they aren't being treated! | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 11:06:43 PM |
Ticks me off that these people knew they damn well couldn't afford their houses,
They didn't know they couldn't afford their homes though.I drive through michigan and I see blocks and blocks of house with foreclosure notices and for sale signs that used to house families that beileved in the "american way" You work hard raise your family and live a decent life . Not so much anymore. The jobs are being run out of the country by big business and who cares about the people that trusted their unions. You can picket and demand all you want but the bottom line is that you are going to have to explain to your kids that this box is all you have to sleep in and we may not be able to really eat this week but maybe next week we will have some food. Sounds like third world doesn't it but it's happening right now in Americon. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/6/2008 11:41:43 PM |
I drive through michigan and I see blocks and blocks of house with foreclosure notices and for sale signs that used to house families that beileved in the "american way"
I've seen those rows of houses in Michigan on the news here - not to mention that when the housing market crashed, all the contractors in this area stopped building. Now there are paved, lit streets to "no where," unfinished houses sitting and rotting in the weather, and our homes are now worth less than what we paid for them because of the market.
There have been 4 manufacturing plants here in town that chose to go to Mexico - people lost their retirement, after having spent 20+ years there. I know quite a few of them. Now, they're struggling just to stay afloat, when they should have been able to enjoy their old age. People are selling out their estates just to put food on the table.
The jobs are being run out of the country by big business and who cares about the people that trusted their unions.
I used to work in the union - it's the ones on the bottom who are hit first. "Last hired, first fired."
Last night on the news, the report was that 80,000 people had been laid off in '07, over 360,000 were out of work, and only 6000 had filed for unemployment - Looks like the "land of milk and honey" is drying up rather quickly.
...the bottom line is that you are going to have to explain to your kids that this box is all you have to sleep in and we may not be able to really eat this week but maybe next week we will have some food. Sounds like third world doesn't it but it's happening right now in Americon.
Americon is right - and there are enough sheeple here now to be forced into those 600+ empty concentration camps we've got scattered across the country. People are not going to wake up until it is too late to do anything, and then they're going to scratch their heads and wonder where it all went wrong. Move over - I want 10 acres of farmland. ;) | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/8/2008 4:34:28 AM | "People who tie up the passing lane by driving very slowly should have their licenses taken away. We don't need that!! As the above poster says about mandatory bicycle useage: Should definitely apply to these twits who tie up the passing lane, drive drunk, don't use signals, talk on the cellphone while driving, litter and flick live cigarette butts out the car window. If mandatory bicycle useage was applied to these kinds of drivers, people would think twice about doing these dumb things."
If I were a lawmaker drafting legislation about this, I might write the following:
Section 64(A) - Offences pertaining to driving slowly in the overtaking lane
- A person who wilfully drives slowly in the overtaking lane is guilty of an offence;
- A person who wilfully drives slowly in the overtaking lane and who also:
1) Smokes, drinks or consumes food or drink of any kind which they expel from their driver window while committing the above offence;
2) Uses a mobile phone or any other communications device while committing the above offence;
- Shall be liable to a penalty of watching of 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' or 'Manos: The Hands of Fate' for a minimum period of 100 consecutive hours or a maximum period of 300 consecutive hours, or in its place, a suitable bad science fiction or television series at the discretion of the magistrate, or;
- Shall be liable to spend 200 hours of community service clearing doggy poop from streets and local parks, or;
- Shall be liable to lick a minumum of 50 ashtrays or rubbish bin bottoms and a maximum of 100 ashtrays or 150 rubbish bin bottoms at the discretion of the magistrate. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/9/2008 8:51:18 AM | Plain and simple, executions should come back to the Canadian justice system with a some stricter execution laws.
Murderers = execution
Pedos = execution
Political Corruption/Incompetence = execution
Theft equal to or greater than 100,ooo = execution
damages equal to or greater than the offenders yearly income = execution
Human or Drug Smuggling = execution
Also that teens should automatically be tried as adults, they wanna act like hard asses, give'em a hard ass sentence, main reason why they end up doing it is cause they think they're gonna just get a slap on the wrist which they usually do.
Canada's legal system is far too soft for my liking. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/9/2008 9:50:06 AM |
executions should come back to the Canadian justice system with a some stricter execution laws.
Nice list, although on political incompetence I'd settle for dismissal (and being barred from any public office for life) and for corruption, mandatory jail time and mandatory restitution. I'd also add rape to the list.
How about this? Drivers who do not stop for crosswalks are guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, therefore: execution.
And...
Drunk driving = execution.
...and let's not forget to put all those marked for execution on the organ donors list; might as well get some benefit from them. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 4/9/2008 9:54:23 AM | | Yeah, but what if you execute someone and you later find out the person didn't commit the crime? I say at the very first offense of rape, murder, corruption, treason, child molestation, or drunken driving, a mandatory life sentence with NO chance for parole should be meted out. | |
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