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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd8cR...
to the vomitorium; hence, refuse to listen to
any of his droolings.
Jan
Or do you think I am just nutz.
But I don't hear any of them doing it. Just crickets chirping.
his exec -- Valerie Jarrett -- was born in Iran . . . the connections
are everywhere. -- j
.
do you not get it, he is a muslim so he will not see it as we do. he see's it as a muslim and he is proud of what they are doing.
Although, which devil? Beelzebub, Baphomet, Satan, Pazuzu? I kinda like Baphomet because he has a male goat's head, but a human woman's breasts. Pretty disgusting, huh? So is he.
It was particularly hateful when he closed the WW2 Memorial and veterans of that were not allowed to view it -- strictly for political reasons.
It's possible that he'd have to improve in order to become a turd.
knowing that you then can understand why he chose to ignore what a muslim did, a terrorist act which he condones. so why are you surprised with respect to his reaction to this horrific deed. and yes the act to begin with is sickening and 0 is always sickening.
I am not sure whether in his actual statement on the shooting he should have talked about extremism instead of his brief statement expressing condolences. Maybe he didn't want to politicize it or speak without having all the facts.
Any statements in support of pluralism, though, I strongly support.
This is a false choice. Having diverse cultures does not affect the pursuit of excellence.
This may be a fundamental difference. All the time I see people of different backgrounds come together and do excellent things. I see it happen time and again.
"That is the whole point of affirmative action - people get promoted based on other characteristics than performance."
AA has nothing to do with this, but I don't think that was every the point of AA. The idea was people work with people who they know, and those social networks are (the idea goes) racially segregated. So AA was supposed to force people outside their normal network to give minority groups opportunities. I'm generally against such force even if it were a real problem, but in today's world of electronic networking I don't even think the problem exists.
This seems like a discussion for 50 years ago. "Can diverse groups work together and create excellence? Do we need AA to do that?" Now, 50 years later, the answers are obvious: YES! Diverse groups without AA create amazing things people couldn't have dreamt of 50 years ago.
True
"But, if most of the top performers happen to be purple, the solution is for the greens to improve themselves, not for the purples to dumb themselves down or to simply promote the greens when they don't deserve it."
I would say that group disparity not actual a problem in need of a solution. The real problem is defining identity by a group.
"You seem to be bundling and switching unrelated items"
Yes. This has almost nothing at all to do with my original claim, which was I applaud pluralism.
He's called ISIS a "brutal vicious death cult". At some point carrying on about criminals, esp crimes committed specifically to seek attention, is counterproductive.
The way I see it, violent extremists want to create hatred and divisiveness. People who want the US president to respond to the extremists in a way that aggrandizes them also apparently want to create hatred and divisiveness. The rest of us successfully live and work with people of all backgrounds and want nothing of little people who want to turn us against one another for their own gain.
Instead of urging cultures to assimilate into one they are urged to remain separate.
Instead of urging cultures to assimilate into one they are urged to remain separate."
I certainly wouldn't urge people to be separate, but I don't think people need urging to come together, esp with today's technology.
That would be a first. Normal MO is inject himself first, learn facts afterward.