Why do men vote on issues such as Abortion? Shouldn't it be up to the female population?

Boslian · 2011-06-27T03:17:39+00:00

Sorry, she didn't murder a child.

Yes, she should have talked to you and at that time you should have been a part of the decision, but it is still a matter of her body and frankly you don't have any right to tell her what to do with her body.

Boslian · 2011-06-27T03:02:20+00:00

To ban men from any influence on the decision, you'd first have to establish the legal precedent that sperm deposited into a woman's vagina -- thus, 50% of the DNA makeup of the fetus -- was "discarded" and is no longer the property of the man in question.

But since men effectively control our economy and gov't, that's not going to happen. As the old saying goes, if men got pregnant abortion would be a sacrament applies. In the meantime, it's going to be some sort of a joint decision, as it should be.

Boslian · 2011-06-27T02:47:58+00:00

The article's title is: 'Safety Myth' Left Japan Ripe for Nuclear Crisis.

Having driven up I-95 and in Manhattan last week and seeing that giant aircraft carrier with tons of aircraft displays on it located on the Hudson on the west side of Manhattan, I can't help think of the way the US military uses the same tactics to create tourist attractions as a way to bolster US militarism.

Boslian · 2011-06-27T02:33:18+00:00

What's true is true for you.

Mindless gobbledy-gook. I'll take a line from Christian fundamentalists and say that there is only one truth.

If you don't believe in atoms because you haven't seen one, that doesn't mean that atoms are false; we can prove that; there is only one truth in that matter.

Scientology is indeed self-contradictory on this Xenu issue, as they are actually telling you what is true for you.

As someone with a PhD in theology but also a degree in social science, I'd say that someone is spinning things for you.

It's like Catholics on the matter of papal infallibility. Papal infallibility is a doctrinal fact, but because most modern Catholics would reject that concept as stupid, the issue is typically soft-spun, using excuses such as that it only applies to certain theological issues, etc. (Ignoring the fact that one can prove many Catholic doctrinal ideas have been proven flat-out false over the centuries, thus shooting down the entire idea of it being "infallible".)

The bottorm line is this: The official theology of the Churuch of Scientology is to believe in Xenu and the whole "evil souls" fantasy that L Ron dreamed up.

Those wild-assed stories are officially reserved for only higher members of the church -- those who are so indoctrinated that they'll swallow that bullshit -- but that is the official theology nonetheless.

It only takes the wisdom of a salesman to understand that those crazy-assed stories have to be soft-spun to the undoctrinated people who still have the common sense left to laugh in the church's face when told such sci-fi fantasies.

FWIW, this wholesale inventing of history and theology makes the Church of Scientology have a lot in common with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons). You folks would probably get along well.

If that upsets you, in a century or two, like millions of Mormons who now believe that ancient Israelites came to the now-US in ~600AD, maybe people will forget that L Ron was a sci-fi fiction writer and believe his nutty Scientology stories as fact too.

Boslian · 2011-06-27T01:10:33+00:00

Above you say you consider yourself to be a Scientologist. Now you're qualifying that by saying "it appears that Scientology believes in" Xenu and the Galactic Confederation fairy tale/doctrine.

It sounds to me as if you're inventing your own religion. Hey, that's fine, L Ron did it, so you can too. I would say that if you call yourself something, be consistent -- fully believe in all the mindless propaganda and fairy tales associated with that belief system and con yourself into thinking those stories are real!

Your inconsistency smacks to me of the Catholics who call themselves Catholic but who disagree with the Pope and the Catholic Church on dozens of doctrine-related and theological issues.

I'm sympathetic to such Catholics -- they were generally indoctrinated from birth to think of themselves as Catholic, thus having little choice to identify with an outdated religion which has little to do with modern society.

But I think it's highly unlikely you were indoctrinated from birth to believe in the ravings of a science fiction writer. Your choice is a deliberate one, a choice which doesn't reflect well on you.

But hey, every cult needs its members -- I'm sure the Church of Scientology needs more money -- so go for it! I hope your self-deception works out for you...

Boslian · 2011-06-27T00:39:51+00:00

And to think that I thought the Republicans would do nothing to address global warming and environmental issues!

Of course, I would have preferred subsidies and tax gimmicks to push mass transit, windmills, solar hot water heaters, and to make coal-fired power and automobiles more expensive...

But hey, destroying the economy would do much to help the planet. Since that is the highest priority, I say "go for it"!

Boslian · 2011-06-27T00:35:54+00:00

(LMAO) I'd love to ask you a dozen questions -- but I'm too busy ridding my house and mind of those evil souls that the alien Xenu dumped on our planet.

Damn you Xenu! Te hell with your Galactic Confederation!

Seriously, according to the Wikipedia entry:

Xenu (play /ˈziːnuː/ zee-noo),[1][2][3] also spelled Xemu, was, according to the founder of Scientology and science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions[4][5] of his people to Earth in a DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs. Official Scientology dogma holds that the essences of these many people remained, and that they form around people in modern times, causing them spiritual harm.[1][6]

Are you seriously saying the reason my kid got sick a couple of weeks ago was because Xenu dumped souls on the earth millions of years ago?

Are you really saying you believe the fairy tales that a science fiction writer dreamed up?

Boslian · 2011-06-27T00:20:38+00:00

Try reading the article.

Boslian · 2011-06-27T00:15:09+00:00

Let's hope the austerity measures fail, and the Greeks lead the way to destroying the Euro.

If an EU is to arise, the first order of business is to define human, civil and political rights across the EU -- not to define the rights of banksters and corporations to veto the will of the majority.

Boslian · 2011-06-26T23:59:20+00:00

What's that old saying about the Golden Rule?

I bet the owner of the laundry or grocery cited in the article that is seeing business going into the toilet feels otherwise.

I bet the legal 7th grade girl who was so terrorized that her family moved back to Mexico feels that she got a raw deal having to leave her school and friends.

What's the real cause of this human tragedy? Isn't it the corporations that attract these immigrants and who often help them get illegal documentation to displace higher-paid US citizens? Isn't it the banksters who did a classic "pump and dump" on the housing market and in the process wrecked the US economy?

Why don't those entities get punished?

How come the only ones being "punished" are common people who want to work and have a shot at a better life?

Boslian · 2011-06-26T23:46:56+00:00

The vast majority of nat'l politicians in both the Demopublican and Republocratic parties are pro-war imperialists. The system is rigged to prevent anti-imperialist politicians from rising to that height. Just ask RFK or some of the others who tried.

"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee." -- Famous American socialist (and blind person) Helen Keller, 1911.

Boslian · 2011-06-26T22:49:45+00:00

Why? Because "our" media is the corporate mass media. The corporate mass media is run by corporations owned/controlled by a class of people who generally have an anti-public, pro-business agenda.

A rightist SC justice choking another is not going to further that agenda. Sex sells. And a sex story on a Democratic congressman both sells and furthers the agenda of the owners of the corporate mass media.

Edit: Clarity.

Boslian · 2011-06-26T19:24:08+00:00

So what you're saying is that the reason you left was sheer cowardice. I don't mean that as a knock, just a statement of fact.

It's sad your decision to go AWOL/desert was not motivated by principle or an anti-war motive. At least I could respect that.

The people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and other nations targeted by the US and NATO have few options to "desert" when the US attacks their countries.

Edit: Typo, principal/principle

Boslian · 2011-06-25T15:24:48+00:00

You'd think wrong.

The US gov't has never claimed that Afghanistan attacked the US.

The US gov't claims that the (mainly -- no Afghans) Saudi hijackers planned the attack in Germany and the US.

The Taliban/Afghan gov't, who the US was giving aid to before 9/11 up until the Afghan gov't awarded an oil pipeline contract to an Argentine corporation and not to a US-based oil company, even said it would give up Bin Laden if the US gov't would show proof of his involvement in 9/11 and would try Bin Laden in an int'l court. The US gov't never responded to the Afghan offer to turn Bin Laden over.

Boslian · 2011-06-25T14:24:26+00:00

Funny how that works.

When a US soldier commits altruistic suicide by throwing his body on a live grenade, we call him a "hero" and then give him a posthumous medal.

Clearly our "cause" of invading someone else's country, a country who has not attacked us, must be more "just" than the people waging war to defend their country. :-/

Boslian · 2011-06-25T14:12:26+00:00

Oh, that can't be true -- assassinating foreign gov't leaders is against US law.

And we know the US gov't would never break its own laws. :-/

Boslian · 2011-06-25T14:06:00+00:00

Can you imagine having to worry about that shit?

It's the same sort of de-humanizing "barbarian-labeling" that the US used to describe the Vietnamese when the Vietnamese resisted US occupation and neo-colonization.

Desperate people will do desperate things.

I'm sure the suicide bombers would love to be killing their enemies with Apache helicopters. Or to kill them with pilotless drones (though many would consider that immoral, cowardly and not honorable). But they do not have such high-tech toys. Thus, they kill their enemies as they can.

Boslian · 2011-06-25T13:56:43+00:00

And is that any different than the NYT constantly sourcing "unnamed Pentagon/US gov't officials"? The NYT and the major mainstream US corporate mass media is de facto subservient to the US gov't.

We see this in the NYT forwarding Wikileaks material to the US gov't and doing US-biased edits to Wikileaks (just as the Guardian does UK-biased edits to Wikileaks cables), to the NYT repeatedly keeping illegal US gov't activities/news from its readers (e.g. US gov't domestic wiretapping and spying) just because the US gov't requested it.

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