OPPONION - Opposite Opinion

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/weekinreview/04clemetson.html?_r=1&ref=weekinreview&oref=slogin A fascinating article on the racial politics of "speaking well." Biden's recent comments on Obama are a nice example of this. White people often describe accomplished, intelligent African Americans as "...

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#45363

Guess who's number one?

That's about as dubious as the connection between Iraq and Al Queda, before we invaded.

Seems like people like to think of all the things they hate/don't understand/think of as evil and lump them in together, whether they have anything to do with each other or not!

100's??? Really??

I probably get a dozen or so on my hotmail account.

What great teachers/mentors/coaches/instructors/guides have you had or do you have in your life? What did they teach you?

AccusedblackracistinMN wrote: Just like your friends who started this site are now bitching and moaning about Asians taking your jobs, it's almost the same story, different race.

Um, the guy who started this site is Asian.

I'm just sayin'.

Bush said after his recent visit to Vietnam that the biggest lesson from our involvement in that war was "we will win unless we quit."

Is the man completely delusional?

- MadPotter . . Are you calling me a racist? I am saying it is a form of racial enslavement in which bureaucrats, many of them white, keep blacks in a "plantation" of welfare dependency, stripping them of dignity and initiative. Without the means or motivation for self-rescue, they waited for that ...

It's the media's job to show us the truth. What happened, where, to whom, by whom. That's what they did. They're doing their JOB.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#43812 "Yesterday, on CNN, House Majority Leader John Boehner blamed the US military for losing the war in Iraq: House Majority Leader John Boehner: Wolf, I understand that, but let's not blame what's happening in Iraq on Rumsfeld. Wolf Blitzer: But he's in charge ...

Tomd Delay doesn't consider water boarding torture.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/tom ... f-torture/

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/business/02walmart.html?ex=1159934400&en=eaafdee2075fc56d&ei=5087%0A Wal-Mart is putting caps on its wages, and moving towards hiring more part-time, "flexible" employees and forcing out long-term full-time employees to save on wages and benefits. All this to help i...

Here's a recent example of why FOX is the worst excuse for journalism in this country: On Tuesday night, Bill O'Reilly's show was dedicated to a discussion of the Mark Foley scandal. They cut away at three different points to footage of Foley, which lasted 15 seconds each. During each cut-away, they...

I have since read a few more posts and believe that it's just a few posters who try to incite people with their racists views and live within the area, or so they say. Hi. :D I think this is the case. I've been following this thread with chagrin, as a Minneapolis native, and I can assure you that, ...

This isn't even going to be about Foley anymore. This incident: the messages and the cover-up are simply going to turn into a ball on the football field of dems vs. repubs. Republicans delighted in exploiting Clinton's lascivious behavior, and now the Dems have the chance to point out their hypocris...

I got the same reaction from all sorts of people when I joined the Peace Corps and went to live in West Africa. People, including but not limited to my family, were convinced that I would be raped, get AIDS, be attacked, etc... Likewise, suburbinites fear urban areas, Americans fear the Middle East,...

You can get six years for shoplifting. He will be out in 3 years, if not sooner. We seem to put a lot of faith in judges for making a fair judgement. However, every judge used to be a stinking lawyer. How can you fix a system that is rotten from top down as well as from bottom up? Not to go back to...

http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/26/news/newsmakers/fastow_sentencing/ Former Enron CFO sentenced to 6 years. 6 years in prison. You can get more than that for marijuana trafficking. This guy and his cronies cost millions of jobs, billions to shareholders, orchestrated and manipulated "energy crises" in...

luciensar wrote:Would you trade 5 points of IQ for two extra inches of vertical jumping ability? How many IQ points would you cash in if this were possible?

No way.

Here's a great op-ed from Paul Rieckhoff, the executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, on why and how America is losing its moral high ground, and why it's vital that we gain it back (something Bush shows no interest in doing, what with his push to "re-interpret" the Geneva Co...

Yes, but this was FOX, after all. Is there ANYone still left out there who expects to get anything but direct marketing from the Administration there? :roll: NO! It's "fair and balanced..." Nod your head in agreement or I'll shoot you, hippie! :lol: This was the closest thing to a nodding emoticon ...

Yes, but this was FOX, after all. Is there ANYone still left out there who expects to get anything but direct marketing from the Administration there?

Well, I think the victims' families might be a touch too emotional to make a rational, calm, balanced decision on something like this. And I would worry that they'd be so anxious to see SOME sort of retribution and justice for their loss that they'd be hasty and make decisions not based on evidence ...

I see a lot of benefits to polyamory, and I think it requires a very strong, enlightened person to genuinely pull it off. Regardless of whether you think it's the lifestyle for you, I think it emphasizes qualities that are important in any relationship, monogomous ones included. For instance, it str...

No herpes here.

Ellison's got my vote, yessirree Bob.

Agreed, NP. Agreed.

That's a great book. Compassion and empathy as the basis for running your life, as opposed to strict adherance to arbitrary and illogical rules, definitions, and structures, is why Buddhism strikes me as the most agreeable and least dangerous religion.