The One About You Do Know "Die In A Fire" Is A 'Net Curse Not A Goal To Help Someone Achieve, Right?

Well while most all of the MSM(Mindless Stinking Morons) were putting Operation: Panties In A Bunch The Tiger Woods Edition into full swing, it seems there was some real news being reported by The Socialist Worker on their website. You know how those parasitic internet types are, always ready to screw the MSM out of their rightful due.

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The One About You Want To Eat? You Should Be Ashamed!

There is a great deal of uncertainty in The Love Of My Life's and my lives right now. So in trying to keep an eye on the horizon I have been looking around at what kind of social programs our new home state offers, just in case things should reach a point where we might need them. This is partly blog related, as I think it is important to know about what goes on in the area in which I live. So today I looked up food stamp related information, and I found this article from the NY Times,

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The One About A New American Holiday.

So, we’ve survived another Thanksgiving.

Now don't get me wrong, I like the day a lot. And I like the idea behind it. We should all regularly take stock of what we have to be thankful for. The problem comes in that so often when people have legitimate gripes and problems the Thankfulness Nazi's want to jump on any complainers and silence them. So personally I’d like to suggest a new holiday to counteract Thanksgiving, and thereby give a little balance.

Ragegiving!

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The One About If You Think Women Won The War For Equality Then You Don’t Understand What The Fight Is About.

It seems like Americans love to discuss everything in terms that evoke, if not invoke directly war. And more than that we seem to love to declare those wars won. Even if sometimes they aren't. Even if sometimes the one or ones declaring a victor doesn’t even seem to understand what was being fought for.

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The One About Hey While We’re Denying People A Diploma Based On BMI Why Not Add A Few More 19th Century Classics Of Pseudo-Science!

There are times when I am reminded why I came within a hairs breadth of becoming a Libertarian. When I read about crap like Lincoln University in Oxford, PA refusing to give seniors a diploma they’ve earned, unless their Body Mass Index is below a certain number, is one of those times.

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The One About One Choice Is No Choice.

I found an article recently at Alternet, extolling the virtues of vasectomy for men who want to shoulder some of the responsibility of contraception. While I am in agreement up to a point about this approach, after all the procedure is the surest way for a male to make certain he doesn’t accidentally impregnate a female, I am more than a little nonplussed that the female viewpoint has been allowed to highjack what is really a gender equality issue, and assert itself so forcefully that I’ve never heard any man, no matter how progressive speak up and say what to me is a simple truth... If you told women that their only choice was to risk pregnancy or to have permanent sterilization, that kind of thinking would be called incredibly sexist. Which it is. So why aren’t mean speaking out against this all or nothing kind of thinking?


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The One About But If The Fort Hood Shooter Had Been A White Neo-Nazi It Wouldn't Be Terrorism. Right?

I have a really long memory. Unfortunately it is also a really sketchy memory. For example, when all the hullabaloo started after Maj. Nidal Hasan, opened fire at Fort Hood, and many in both the media and politics wanted to start carrying on about how since Hasan, was a Muslim, with links to a radical mosque, his actions were clearly terrorism, I felt a tickle in the back of my brain. It was like a piece of song that you can only remember a couple of the words and have to half hum the rest. In this case it went, “Something, something, Neo-Nazi's something, la da da, United States military.” Or something like that.


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The One About Just Walk It Off Soldier.

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There's a saying, you may have heard at one time or another, “There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Army way.” Now I don't know if this is actually something that anyone in the United States Army says much, but even so, there is a certain amount of truth to it. To an extent the idea of the military having ways of doing things that are different from the ways that civilian organizations do things, is sensible and to be expected. But sometimes the army seems to think that they can by force of bureaucratic will force human beings to somehow be significantly different from their non military brethren. This is something that frankly is only workable in the short term. In the long term people are people. Their physicalities and more importantly their psychologies are not really terribly different, one from another.

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The One About In Two Words Mr. Herbert, “You're wrong.”

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Sometimes, when I read the opinions of some of my contemporaries I honestly have to wonder how they can be so blind. I'm not usually the sort to think that my opinion is the only possible correct one about most things, but as regards some things there are some opinions that frankly to me just make no sense.

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The One About The Wisdom Of Randal Graves.

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So Rupert Murdoch is considering not allowing Google to search his precious content. A move that Douglas Rushkoff wholeheartedly approves of apparently.

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The One About Like It Or Not MSM We're Part Of The Family.

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I have this uncle, my mother's brother. Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim, was frankly a bit of a jackass. He wasn't really mean or anything, just kind of obnoxious. But still despite any failings he was family, and it never would have occurred to any of us to deny our connection to him. Because that's the way family works. You may fight with each other. You might trash talk to one another's faces, and shit talk behind each other's backs. But you don't deny them, and when needed you make sure that they are taken care of. You (ideally) don't seek your betterment at their expense, nor (ideally again) do they seek theirs at yours.

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The One About A Business I Don't Mind Seeing Wal-Mart Take A Bite Out Of.

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So, Wal-Mart is offering coffins and urns at a huge discount through their website eh? Well it's about damn time!

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The One About To Hell With You (Health Care Reform Edition).

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Well it's angry hour once again here at The One About... Now I can hear you asking, “Gosh Roy, what on earth could you possibly be angry about?” Well faithful reader I'm glad you asked. And to your question I can only reply, “What cave have you been hiding in and did you happen to see Osama Bin Laden there?”

I kid. Seriously though, following path of health care “reform” and watching as it seems like any kind of meaningful reform has gotten watered down to the point that when (if) it's enacted it will amount to no real change either for the people, or for the insurance companies. And after a while of reading all the spin and nonsense I just throw up my hands and have to say, “To Hell With You!”


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The One About Well Mr. Schaeffer That Depends On Your Definition Of Bad.

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Well Frank Schaeffer is at it again. Now before I go any further, in keeping with my tradition of openness and transparency at The One About..., I have a confession to make. I don't really like Frank Schaeffer. Now I'm not saying that he's a horrible person or anything, but frankly he seems in some ways not to have changed as much as he would like to think from the bad old days when he was one of the leading voices in the fundy right-wing Christian mafia.

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Every Time I Think I'm Done Talking About Michael Vick.

You know I think Michael Corleone said it best when he said, “Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in!”

Seriously, every time I think I've written my last about the flaming piece of excrement that walks like a man known as Michael Vick, I suddenly discover a whole bunch of new things to talk about. Not so much with Vick himself, but rather with people's reactions around Vick.

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The One About Sometimes A Basketball Game Is Just A Basketball Game.

The One About Sometimes A Basketball Game Is Just A Basketball Game.

It has occurred to me for some time now, that one of the greatest weaknesses plaguing many of my fellow Liberal Progressives, is the tendency to spend more time picking over nits than focusing their energies working on more substantive matters. The recent kerfuffle over President Obama and his sports habits is just the latest and most glaring example.

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The One About This Is An Old Story WIth An Unhappy Ending.

The One About This Is An Old Story With An Unhappy Ending.

I recently came across a story so awful, it has to be read to be understood. So for those of you with a little time I'm going to wait, while you click on the link above and go read. Then when you get back, I'll continue.

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The One About Worthless Versus Pointless.

The One About Worthless Versus Pointless.

Well, it seems that health care reform is hurtling down the home stretch. And to the guarded delight of Progressives everywhere, it looks as if there will indeed be some kind of a public option.

The first problem is whether or not it will be what they call a “robust” public option. Most likely it won't be.

The second much larger problem is that the final bill will most likely have provisions that make the public option all but meaningless.

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The One About The Danger Of Blind Allegiance.

The One About The Danger Of Blind Allegiance.

So apparently President Obama committed the one unpardonable political sin. He dared to open his mouth and make a blunt statement. He called Fox news on the fact that they are not a news organization at all, but rather an unofficial arm of the Republican party.

Now as to be expected the fine fucks at Fox had a little bit of a big problem with this. After all there's nothing that a liar and a cheat likes less than being called a liar and a cheat. What has been unexpected is the way that others in the mainstream media have rallied to Fox's defense. They seem to be adhering to the kind of “an attack on one is an attack on all” thinking that one often sees in professions such as law enforcement and medicine.

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The One About Has The Sleeping Giant Been Awoken At Last?

The One About Has The Sleeping Giant Been Awoken At Last?

It seems like everyone falls in and out of love so quickly these days. No one really seems to want to put in the work it takes to make a relationship last long term. If you read the papers they are full of stories of couples who meet, are hot and heavy for a while, and then part acrimoniously. Like Brad and Jen, Ben and Jen, Britney and K Fed, The Insurance Industry and Washington DC.

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