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  2. Salmonella crisis

    in Domestic United States Politics

    Posted

    Well, if this is true, you need to provide your evidence, and make these facts well-known. You should not depend on government approval to determine the safety of your food. Take responsibility for your own life! Of course, you need to have facts and not just a feeling, to support that accusation. We have a competing theory that it is due to the American "organic" cabal (hippy spinach, Odwalla killer juice, diseased sesame seeds, toxic sprouts). One thing is for sure: it is caused by government interference in the free market.

    I heard Odwalla juice was making people sick awhile ago , now it is $3 a bottle.

    I cannot state facts I do not have them, just a theory at the very least.

    Does one need to take responsibility for their own life down to the food they eat and the air they breathe and the water they wash with and drink?

    A person could spend all day/all of their lives just figuring those things out. Can't we hold anyone else accountable ? I think we can. We pay taxes.

    (ok I realize that is pretty funny)

    Pam

  3. Salmonella crisis

    in Domestic United States Politics

    Posted · Edited by pam

    My opinion (since the FDA won't disclose the information) is that these and all other questionable produce came from Mexico.

    (My understanding is the workers relieve themselves in the fields and they use human waste as fertilizer-I could very well be wrong though. OK I heard it on Michael Savage's show and I agree.)

    Some govt entity put a stall on all "Mexican" produce recently I don't know if that has been lifted.

    This is what happens in a global economy, everything is sold at the lowest to the highest.

    I admire the concept of laissez faire (sp?) but in a GLOBAL market where there are so many players without scruples, is that even possible?

  4. Ten Things Every Single Man Must Own.

    in Miscellaneous Topics

    Posted · Edited by pam

    Wow that (original article) was one of the most horrendous things I have ever read.

    :dough:

    I am surprised they didn't have a number 11-get a lobotomy, men dont like chicks who think too much.

    Gah!

    Great reply Mammon-I really liked it.

    Pam

    http://msn.match.com/msn/article.aspx?arti...544657%3E1=6657

    Am I reading this right? Because this is what I got out of it --

    1) Make sure you have a good picture of yourself because the only thing you care about is the way you look and how others percieve the way you look. You could care less if the guy actually likes you, as long as he, his friends, your friends and everyone else thinks you look good -- YOU ARE GOOD. Superficial values are all that matter.

    2) Trick people into thinking your taller because of #1

    3) Make sure you let the guy know you listen to music about abuse of women so he knows your up to being abused yourself. Anything to feed your self-destructive impulses. Eninem especially. You want a man who want's to call you a whore, slut and physically abuse you. Nothing says "treat me like shit" then endorsing modern day rap music!

    4) Make sure you intiate contact with the guy because anyone who shows a shred of interest in your is obviously a stalker, creepy guy or a rapist. You want someone who doesn't give a shit about you right? Yeah, and make sure you can say "UMMMMMMMM NO LOLOLOLOLOLOL!" to anyone who walks up and offers a meaningful healthy relationship!

    5) Nothing says,"Get me drunk and take advantage of my whorish nature" then a 6 pack of beer already waiting for the random asshole you just picked up at the bar! Make sure it's something trendy too, because you always want to look trendy. Always.

    6) Again, make sure you put trendy magazines in your bathroom to keep up that trendiness.

    7) Business cards are cheap and easy to mass produced, your going to need 250 so you can hand them out to that many random guys who dry hump your out-of-control-drunk-ass at the club everynight.

    8) When your man has a snoring problem, don't let him know that it bothers you, got behind his back and pretend like who don't care! That's the greatest and more effective way to have a relationship!

    9) Have a straight male friend you can always count on to cry on his shoulder when all the random hot guys you meet abuse you in some way. Make sure you pick a guy who loves and cares about you so he will actually take time out of his day to put up with your bullshit in hopes that you'll come around actually say "yes" when he asks you out. Keep giving him false hope so he will do things for you and always treat you nice when you call him with cum on your face and tears in your eyes! Do this until this man kills himself, then find another one!

    10) Last but not least -- you're a whore! Make sure you make this obvious to the random drunk who you just brought home from the bar by having a condom ready. Nothing says "I'm a shameless trendy slut" then having condoms ready for those "spontaneous fun of the bodily kind" moments. :thumbsup:

    [Note: I'm being satirical here.]

  5. My Job

    in Work, Careers and Money

    Posted · Edited by pam

    I Love the quotes that this site puts up.

    I thought this one was appropriate and I also think it applies to this thread well.

    Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer\'s permission. He does not hold it by permission - but by contract, that is, by a voluntary mutual agreement. A worker can quit his job; a slave cannot.-- Ayn Rand

  6. My Job

    in Work, Careers and Money

    Posted · Edited by pam

    Thanks all for the responses.

    Tenzing_Shaw, thanks-I am not a very prolific writer so let me just say I agree with you for the most part-well probably 99.9 percent. ha.

    The only thing I think that appealed to me about the essay is probably the misplaced rebellious spirit of it.

    Yes Haemp-a calling is something you are good at-I agree that many think once they realize what it is for them the skies will part and they will effortlessly skip into success.

    Pam

  7. My Job

    in Work, Careers and Money

    Posted · Edited by pam

    After looking more carefully at the website you linked to, I believe my previous response was too mild.

    That man is profoundly evil. If you can truly relate to him in any way, I strongly suggest that you give some hard thought to whether his ideas are good for your life.

    Can you explain profoundly evil in more detail? (I understand what you mean in that he is a parasite, but the profoundly part is something I would be interested to hear your thoughts on.)

    I am much more inclined to Objectivism believe me to anything this person or others like him espouse.

    It is just the idea of maybe everyone doesn't have a calling, or do they? Maybe people expect a "calling" to be something glamorous or exciting when maybe one's calling is making a good burger (AS).

    Pam

  9. My Job

    in Work, Careers and Money

    Posted · Edited by pam

    Thanks all

    I completely agree that i need to find my calling but i also know to wait for that may hurt one's psyche if it is never found.

    I think it may be too much to expect sometimes...

    I will look for that book ty Athena, sounds like exactly what I would need to read right now.

    But,

    I fluctuate.

    Any opinions on this vs Ayn Rand?

    http://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html

    Quite the contrast but I can relate to both ideologies.

    Thanks again

    Pam

  12. My Job

    in Work, Careers and Money

    Posted · Edited by pam

    OK, I have done office work (tech/pc/hardware-phone support, job got outsourced and job prospects along with it) office work (clerical), and retail work.

    I incredibly dislike cubicle land - it seemed unnatural and a slow form of suicide, so I decided to cut my expenses, economize and work only part-time at a brain "free" job and use my intellect elsewhere.

    Well my retail job is really getting to me, I have to deal with managers who are either rude or stupid, they are mostly both, and supervisors who are put there by said managers who are TEENAGERS, they aren't even the smart teenagers at my place of employment they are the bubblehead teenagers.

    :)

    I have a resume that I doubt anyone there could even understand, let alone spell.

    I know I am sounding stuck up but I am TIRED of stupid people having the upper hand over the wage earning part of my life.

    Guess I am just venting-I guess I already know what I need to do (AGAIN :( )

  14. feminists

    in Ethics

    Posted

    i get the idea from reading her books (ok i dont just get the idea it screams at me lol) that a r wasnt a feminist

    but wasnt dagny a feminist role model ? i think so

    her acquiescence to rearden was annoying but it made sense in context

    it is also a bit off putting that all the big "speeches" in her books were made by men

    SHE wrote them and she was i think (lol) female so what the heck?

    pam

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