Quite simply ...... The Oprah show is just like Jerry Springer ..... Dr. Phil ...... Dr. Oz ...... or any other talk show that is on at that time of the day ........ cheap non-intellectual shows! .... as ome posters have already said. Who has time for this? Check out the times that they are on .......... that is the target audience! Wow!

There are much better intellectual venues to get information that is more meaningful than what she shows on her show. What came first ... the chicken or the egg .... what came first Oprah manipulating the public viewers ....... or the public viewers wanting what Oprah gives?

The fact that there are more pro-Oprah posters here also says something about the POFers here ... this is not necessarily a reflection of the whole North American public.

... this thread has been an interesting and amusing read though!
I particularly like the posts talking about "jealousy" , etc. ..... quite a simple analysis of what is being discussed here ....... and, as another poster said ...... a product of the Oprah mentality!

The fact that she is famous and rich ..... is that she knows how to target a certain proportion of the North American audience. All successful celebrities and Business people have done this. That is the name of business.

Some of you discuss how "good" she is verus how "evil" she is ....... Most "evil" people who have become successful often have some "good" in them. It is not a black and white world (... oops ... sorry for that comment) ...... hopefully you know what is meant here ..... Nothing is so simple as to have only two sides to it.

I simply won't waste my time on Opray, Dr. Phil, Jerry Springer, Dr. Oz or any such show. It is sensationized melo-drama! ... a good avenue for manipulation and brain washing, that is for sure. .... target the crowd mentality ........ what most dictators of the world use! I hate to say it, but as some will say ..... target the "simpletons".

Lateef.... what site you are on means nothing. I was on Match... got sick of their exhorbitant fees and decided to come on here. I am the same person. And I noticed a lot of the same guys on there were on here anyway.

Point is... for a guy... why pay for rejection when you can get it here for free? LOL.

Due to the political correctness we have in our nation this man is just considered a "alleged shooter", or "shooter'.

I thought you are supposed to be proud of your due process?
Doesnt everyone get a fair trial?

And I will call your sister for you, but is she cute?

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Most of my life, I was looking for sex by the second or third date. Sometimes, if I was lucky, I might get it on the first date. (Usually, when I had sex on the first date, there was some real chemistry there.) Recently, however, I was in a relationship where I didn't even get a kiss for 7 weeks. I tried to kiss her at the end of our second date, during which we both had fun, but she rebuffed my advance. When she rebuffed my advance, I just assumed that she just wasn't into me. I told her that was okay, I was a big boy, just tell me.... But, she stated that wasn't it.... She just wanted to take it very slow. So, for the first 7 weeks, the most that we did was hold hands. And, we did not have sex for several months.... After about 5 weeks, I was about to break it off. But, one afternoon, I was planning that if that date did not go well, it was over, I was out of there..... Well that afternoon, we got involved in this conversation that went on for about 6 0r 7 hours.... I was hooked and ,ultimately, I fell head over heels in love with her.... I must say that it was the most unique and refreshing experience of my life..... Some of my fondest memories of our relationship were those first 7 weeks when it was so simple and innocent..... Kind of funny how life can throw you curve now and then.....

"eharmony ... Really? I'm a match with a troll?" " ... The only guy I'm remotely interested in is 200 miles away. The rest either have no picture, they're shorter than I am or they're uneducated goobers. ..."

As far as I can tell, the Bible extolled the virtues of conservativism. It was not extremist about this, but it told many stories about hard work paying off, lazy fools being left out in the cold, etc. I for one don't view it as a "liberalist" work at all. I view it as a well-balanced guide to life, as a whole. There are plenty of instances of charity, grace, and forgiveness in the Bible, but I find precious few, if any, that a moderate would take issue with or call "socialist".

"All who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need."

Acts 2:44-45

"18: I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19: And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book."

Revelation 22:18-19

wow, i feel bad for that ladies family. there was a comment on he video a few posts down, he said "You DO NOT threaten a police officer with a weapon, old people should know better. " But often they DON'T know better. Obviously i don't know what her mental health is, but it's not a stretch to think MAYBE she was under confusion or mild dimentia.

interesting reading.....
but,
did you ever consider for one second
that it was actually Gates that acted out of racism and NOT Crowley?

probably not-

and I wonder how many time Crowley has been prejudged to be a racist becaues he is white and wears a badge

... But do know that the Dems are scared of Palin and not of Clinton....

I made a number of posts in the N-word thread in the Off Topic section. I tried to get a respectful discussion going, but it fizzled -- which just happens on these forums. No biggie.

But one of the points I made is that individually, I am not a racist. I sincerely know in my heart that I can judge an individual, regardless of race.

But I also know that I have a number of racisms toward the black race as a whole. Yet the more I try to educate myself and prove my racist thoughts wrong, I'm having difficulty doing so. I see what I see ... and unfortunately, I'm not finding people on this forum to prove my "racist" thoughts wrong.

I'm not going to repeat them here, so if you're interested, check out that N-word thread. Like I said, I simply lost my gusto to contribute to this topic on here.

^^^^^^Barney Frank and others ordered the banks to REDLINE. when the minorities bought homes they couldn't afford the home mortgage industry collapsed and that's one of the reasons we're in the mess we're in.

the federal Community Reinvestment Act -- enacted in 1977 -- applies only to depository institutions, such as banks and savings and loan associations. In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, Michigan law professor Michael Barr stated that while problems in the subprime lending industry were a driving force behind the housing crisis, he estimated that only 20 percent of subprime mortgages were issued by depository institutions under the CRA. In his testimony, Barr stated:

" Despite the fact that CRA appears to have increased bank and thrift lending in low- and moderate-income communities, such institutions are not the only ones operating in these areas. In fact, with new and lower-cost sources of funding available from the secondary market through securitization, and with advances in financial technology, subprime lending exploded in the late 1990s, reaching over $600 billion and 20% of all originations by 2005. More than half of subprime loans were made by independent mortgage companies not subject to comprehensive federal supervision; another 30 percent of such originations were made by affiliates of banks or thrifts, which are not subject to routine examination or supervision, and the remaining 20 percent were made by banks and thrifts.

...There has been a tendency to conflate the current problems in the subprime market with CRA-motivated lending, or with lending to low-income families in general. I believe it is very important to make a distinction between the two. Most of the loans made by depository institutions examined under the CRA have not been higher-priced loans, and studies have shown that the CRA has increased the volume of responsible lending to low- and moderate-income households."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200809300012

racial profiling- you go after those who are committing the crimes.
black population - 12%.
black prison population over 40% black. one in four black men between the ages of 18 and 30 have been in jail. that speaks for itself.
blame it all on the honkies.

Lateef

This was racially motivated... because you want it to be.

There really isn't anything wrong with this... Yes sure, the lady could be a racist... but her statement here doesn't make it so.
If she said this? would it be Racist? ("I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" ) 65 unknown kids.... Any parent of young kids could be concerned... It just makes them a worried parent... not a racist. Now yes you put in the word "Black" and you want to make it about race... when it might just be a way someone would describe a group of Black Kids..... That they would not normally see.

It's a private club....

Private is Private... people pay for that....

The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club.

again 65 kids you don't know.... These are kids... They might have gotten out because they didn't know what was going on, and could have even been scared.

If you rented a place and were having a barbecue in your back yard.... with about 20 of your friends.... and then 40 people just showed up because your landlord invited them... You would be a little pissed....

unless they were all NFL cheerleaders...

I respectfully disagree.
We currently have no laws on any books in any state, fine sir, that required her to deny promotions to men because of their race. Oh wait..we actually have laws that forbid that, me thinks.
The reversal of the decision by Judge Sonia Sotomayor was due to the blatant racism that was played in promoting African Americans and Hispanics instead of more qualified Caucasians.

Avoiding potential discrimination against one group by actually discriminating against another is universally unethical. <-------A third grader can grasp this. One doesnt need a Law degree from Havard to see that, only an unbiased mind and an ethical standard higher than that of a dumpster rat. (one Sotomayor apparetnly lacks)

"I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" said camper Dymire Baylor.

The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers' first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.

"When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool," Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. "The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately."

"... Campers remain unsure why they're no longer welcome.

"They just kicked us out. And we were about to go. Had our swim things and everything," said camper Simer Burwell.

The explanation they got was either dishearteningly honest or poorly worded.

"There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club," John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a statement."

By KAREN ARAIZA
NBC/Philadelphia News

i am not thrilled with sotomayor. i was disappointed to read about her ruling in a property rights case, which basically tells us where she would have stood on the kilo ruling - a disastrous imminent domain case. i think she is another ruth bader ginsberg, of whom i am also not a fan due in part to her position on this case and several others. i am sure no one knows what i am talking about... not unusual on this forum. i'll see if i can find a link to the case. not that anyone would read it... yawn...

I simply wrote that she had to be corrected for her faulty ethics. (much like my 2 year old nephew I'm afraid.)