“The only way to argue with an East wind is to put on an overcoat”
– Unknown
Emotional arguments are based on fear
Intelligent arguments are based on logic
Rational arguments are based on science
Religious arguments are based on beliefs
Where this should have stopped.
Contrarian arguments are based on dichotomy
Friendly arguments are based on uncertainty
Political arguments are based on ideology
Ideological arguments are based on perceptions
Mathematical arguments are based on equations
Irrational arguments are based on delusion
Race arguments are based on ignorance
Biblical arguments are based on fiction
The best way to win an argument.
Besides not having one in the first place.
Concede.
Both / all, are opinions and based on nothing but electrical impulses floating loose in sponge like gray matter, protected by a calcium cranium.
Miraculously transferred to lungs and larynx. Even more phenomenal is how the sounds are transmitted to a tiny drum, hammer, anvil and stirrup.
Adding to the mix is the ocular activity receiving infinite pixels in three dimensions, deciphering facial expressions and body language in varying degrees of illumination.
So yeah, quit arguing. That is how you win.
Build it already
Or at least say you are going to
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(See recent post
Lie Back / Problem Solved)
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5b A Wall
10b Steel Slats
200b A Dome
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Whatever it takes
To get it off of the news airwaves
All I hear now
Every time it is mentioned
Are the lyrics
From the song “Separate Lives”
Sung by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin
As it crescendos orchestrally
In the middle of the song
“So you build that wall (Phil)
Build that wall (Marilyn)
Yes, you build that wall (Phil)
Build that wall (Marilyn)
And you make it stronger”
Which quickly supplanted
Pink Floyd’s lyric
“All we are is
Just another
Brick in the wall”
Much more mellow
And carries me away
To the rest of the song
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Here’s where you know
This is just a dopey distraction
Against “crime and drugs”
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Wouldn’t the “Steel Slats”
Amount to nothing more than
An international exchange window?
Transferring cocaine for cash. Huh?
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Besides in a country
So allegedly strapped
In a trillion dollar deficit
Has a few billion
Floating around to
Waste on an ineffective wall
(Most crossings are at
Airports and visa over stays)
Can’t we send some
Friendly folks and
Entrepreneurs to
Guatemala and Honduras
To at least try and fix
What it is the refugees
Are escaping from?
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Wouldn’t that be something
That Jesus fellow would do?
Without weapons by the way.
Seeing how, there must not be
Any oil there
Or we’d send troops immediately.
And we know
That is usually done
At All Cost
No more fodder
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We are pulling
For you Nancy and Rashida
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Keep your
Heads up
Eyes open
Ears perked
Mouths shut
Minds focused
And your
Noses to the grindstone
Lead with your
Heads and your hearts
Here’s the fodder to avoid.
“… most of us, speaking for myself, consider the wall immoral, ineffective, expensive, and the president said he promised it. He also promised Mexico would pay for it. So, even if they did, it’s immoral still …”
– Nancy Pelosi
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Ooops
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A wall is an inanimate object, it is neither moral or immoral. It would be a colossal waste of money and yes infective.
Here’s a few pointers.
Separating families escaping a dire situation as a deterrent is immoral. Separating families is immoral, scapegoating immigrants is immoral.
Selling out your country is immoral. Making unkeepable, impossible, illogical promises is immoral. A wall is just a wall.
Likewise Representative Rashida Tlaib
No more fodder like this.
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“And when your son looks at you and says, ‘Mama look, you won. Bullies don’t win,’ and I said, ‘Baby, they don’t,’ because we’re gonna go in there and we’re going to impeach the motherf****r,”
– Rashida Tlaib
I appreciate the passion, the “shock” value of words, but it feeds the hate. The hate that you’ve worked towards eliminating.
You’ve created for yourself an opportunity to nationalize your progressive actions. Stay busy doing that, build upon inspiring more people to your thinking.
Besides the Donald has his “Dan Quayle” in Mike Pence. Who, methinks might be a lot more destructive from a different direction.
While impeachment might sound ominous, based on Nixon resigning before it occurred. It is neither a tar and feathering or immediate removal from office.
To impeach merely means charging a public official with a crime. If justice wasn’t so blind, and was a means to a peaceful end, we’d see nearly every president could be or have been charged as war criminals.
Regardless, as slow as the wheels of justice turn for (allegedly) wealthy white “pink” people, it will be 2020 before anything is done.
By that time, either one of you could be president.
45 is 45’s own worst enemy and appears to need absolutely no help in self-destruction.
All the posturing and grandstanding is keeping nearly 1m people out of their indentured servitude (employment).
Furloughing the wrong federal workers, when around 535 + 1 would have done the trick. So the rest of the country could easily go about their meaningful lives.
So Nancy and Chuck here’s the plan. Take a page from the perjurious petulant presidential petty playbook.
LIE.
Tell 45, you’ll set up a super special secret meeting that not only are you going to fund his “wall”. For the optics of him being the great negotiator, make it 10 billion. Besides, he’ll sign anything as it is apparent, he can’t read.
Let him know it will be a see through wall, arrange to meet him at a specific place at the border. Hire a few hundred Mexican mimes, “attempting” to hurdle and climb this extremely “clear” wall.
Video record all of this “Candid Camera ” / “Punk’d” style. Let him go on “Faux and Enemies”, brag how he not only got funding for the wall, he doubled it.
Approved the prototypes and it will be a very fast process and will be done in a few weeks to erect this big, huge, the best, greatest incredibly transparent barrier all along the 2300 miles. (Part of which was stolen in the first place.)
This of course will be an exit strategy and a dilemma, for it may suffice his base, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, semi aware, that the emperor has no clothes.
He will lose his tool of distraction. Which, when the “real” footage is played globally on CNN that there “really” is no “wall”.
45 can kick, scream and whine that the “dems” colluded with Mexico to deceive him, his base, Ann and Rush.
To which Nancy and Chuck can repetitiously regurgitate and repeat, there was no collusion, even though the “evidence” shows otherwise.
Quintupling down on stupidity
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Wall, wall, wall
Safety
Security
Drugs
Crime
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Holy #uck 45, if a wall is your argument for Mexico.
Why aren’t you proposing a dome over Chicago?
Reality is
We don’t know what we don’t know
Now what do we do
By Articulation and Enunciation
Or perhaps “political correctness”
It wasn’t until 1987 when A&M records released “A Very Special Christmas” with, at the time current pop stars such as Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Run-D.M.C., U2, Sting, Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi, The Pretenders, John Mellencamp, Bob Seger, Bryan Adams, Eurythmics, E Street Band, The Pointer Sisters, Alison Moyet, The Silver Bullet Band.
Prior to that, it was stars like Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Connie Francis, Burl Ives, Johnny Mathis, Eartha Kitt, etc.
Rarely and thankfully there wasn’t much “Country Christmas”.
That CD released the onslaught of Christmas songs by anyone with vocal chords, desperately putting their take on “traditional” songs.
In 2018 somewhere between Pandora and Sirius, I heard someone ruin “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”. It was a country singer and I don’t want to shame them.
Completely leaving out the audible kicker, that the singer is a kid missing their two front teeth, therefore lithsping the part, highlighting they have no way to wish anyone a Merry Christmas.
Completely eclipsing the whole point of the song in the first place. Most poignantly on “Sister Susie sitting on a thistle”, sung originally with extended s’s for entertainment value and making the listener believe the singer is missing teeth.
All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth:
Every body Pauses and stares at me
These two teeth are gone as you can see
I don’t know just who to blame for this catastrophe!
But my one wish on Christmas Eve is as plain as it can be!
All I want for Christmas
is my two front teeth,
my two front teeth,
see my two front teeth!
Gee, if I could only
have my two front teeth,
then I could wish you
“Merry Christmas.”
It seems so long since I could say,
“Sister Susie sitting on a thistle!”
Gosh oh gee, how happy I’d be,
if I could only whistle (thhhh, thhhh)
All I want for Christmas
is my two front teeth,
my two front teeth,
see my two front teeth.
Gee, if I could only
have my two front teeth,
then I could wish you
“Merry Christmas!”
Oh well
Happy New Year.
Or at least confused
By made up words
In this instance the
Worst one being
Versus
In seeking a life
Affirming outcome
By the occupants
On a spherical
Spaceship called Earth
Under the fragile
Atmospheric shell
Democrats vs Republicans
Conservatives vs Liberals
Indigenous vs Immigrants
United States vs Mike Flynn
Gets the collective no where
Save for the repeat and return
Of us versus them to no end
No resolve to progress forward
Evolve into enlightened beings
As for Flynn
To the sports betters
And political prognosticators
Were mostly all figuring
He was walking out
Scott Free
Ooopsie
Of course some tenured judge
Doesn’t know if he should be
Tried for treason or not
(Shouldn’t he know that? )
A simple free instant definition
Look up would have solved that
Treason : the crime of trying to overthrowyour country’s government or of helping your country’s enemies during war
M-W.com
Turns out he is just a greed pig
Willing to do shit for money
Just shining a light
On a glimpse I’ve seen
Of a world that doesn’t
Go against itself
Meanwhile people are holding on
To an ideal that doesn’t exist
Hoping against hope that this time
The Rule of Flaw
Will be its own saviour
It is not
It is a game of
Three-card monte
Played out on
Telescreens
Keeping you
Distracted and confused
Going nowhere near
The truth
For it is
Redacted
In Congress
Ethics
Is merely the name of
A blind
Watchdog
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Therefore
An ethics committee
Is a group of Congress people
Figuring out how they
Are going to
Screw the pooch
“Controlled behavior
Reacts as it’s taught”
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– John Trudell
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Whenever you see
A Facebook posting
Of a meme with an
Illicit torture device
Such as a belt, paddle or
Get your own “switch” story
Explaining how giants
Used these implements
To procure a desired and
Unnatural fearful behavior
Of obedience and control
Some sort of masochistic
Malevolent MK parental
Stockholm Syndrome
With spare the rod
Spoil the child
Biblical undertones
Know that that person
Who has “liked” or “shared” it
“Justified” what a good
Citizen they are because
Their parents were unfit
To raise an adult thereby
Raising more children to be
Societal conforming
Pavlovian automatons
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On one hand must be
Seeking sympathy for
Their parents striking them
Whilst on the other hand
Searching for
Approval and justification
For extending the violence
Another generation more
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How do you think people
Take an alleged
Gift from God or
An alien entity that just
Traversed time and space
From inexplicable dimensions
As a little “miracle” which is
No more miraculous than
Converting chicken and beer
Into feces and urine
Feed and water them
For a few years then
For expediency of
Discipline and convenience
Discover that a
Cry inducing
Swat on the behind
Is a lot quicker than
Actual guidance into
The same desired outcome
With the mixed message
That it is being done
For their own good
And they are loved
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“Stop hitting me, you’re HUUUUGE, How could you hit me? That’s Crazy. You’re a Giant, and I can’t defend myself.
I really think it is crazy that we hit our kids. Here’s the crazy part about it.
Kids are the only people in the world you are allowed to hit.
Do you realize that?
They’re the most vulnerable and they are the most destroyed by being hit. But it’s “totally” Ok to hit them, and they’re the only ones!
If you hit a dog, they fuckin’ will put you in jail for that shit.
You can’t hit a person unless you can prove that they were trying to kill you.
But a little tiny person with a head this big, who trusts you implicitly,
Fuck ’em, who gives a shit, let’s all hit them. People want you to hit your kid. //
We’re proud of it. // Your damn right I hit my kids!
Why do you hit them? Cause they were doing a thing I didn’t like at the moment, and so I hit them, and guess what??
They didn’t do it after that.
Well, that wouldn’t be taking the easy way out now would it? How about talking to ’em for a second, //”
Being a parent means you have your back up against the wall, all the time. Because its the only job you can’t quit.
It’s the only job where you can just put your wrench down, and say “fuck it, guys, I’m leaving. I don’t even want my last check, I’m going home.
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– Louis C.K. from his “bit” other people’s kids from the CD “Hilarious”
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Looking at the world through a windshield. 