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[novapsyche]

There sure have been a lot of plane crashes lately.

Pat Robertson is an idiot. A dangerous idiot.

There is still hope for the separation of church and state.

Here's your next scandal, on a plate.

Is the awareness of pain the beginning of self-awareness? What is the debate about, again?

Just a reminder of how far we've come and how far we still need to go.

Comments

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Robertson continues to be a dangerous nut case and has been a general pain the ass for rational thinking adults for decades now.

[ameliabadilia.livejournal.com]

did you hear about the one in peru this morning. plane crash? i heard once that 50% of people in plane crashes survive.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I did. I'll link to it eventually.

I'm still in awe of the crash in Toronto a few weeks ago where everyone survived.

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

I saw Robertson on TV last night. The man is senile. He has aides everywhere to keep himself going. The saddest thing is that there are people who don't recognize that fact yet. *sigh*

[m0n90053.livejournal.com]

We have our own argument going on in the Monterey Bay area over the Defense Language Institute and the Naval Postgraduate School; the local debates sound like an awful lot of porkbarreling, and maybe that prejudices my viewpoint, but the truth is: amongst other difficulties, we don't have enough budget to keep all the bases that we have opem; we don't really need all the bases that we have open open; nobody wants a base which they have come to depend on for revenue to shut down.

So (not an indifferent so, just a proclamative so), some bases and other facilities are going to shut down, some revenue is going to go away as a result, some jobs and etc. are going to be lost as a result of that; I don't feel and never have felt that anyone should be dependent on a military base for a job, and I say that despite having been in the Air Force for a couple of years, having parted with the Air Force on less than amicable terms, not being able to find work for 2 years after that (this was more than 10 years ago), and now having been out of work for 3+ years at this point, and if a bunch of people in this area are suddenly unemployed because DLI and NPS shut down, that's that many more people competing directly in my (potential) job market-

The need of the civilian sector of a population for jobs should not ever dictate the form, nature, or distribution of that population's military- as anti-war/anti-violence/anti-the present regime as I am, that much is just plain common sense in my book.

If we're going to make allegations of improper weighting in determining shutdowns- not that two wrongs make a right, but- then we should also investigate whether or not there was any canoodling going on in choosing the sites for those activities in the first place- eh?