SondraK, Lympian Slayer Rational Benevolence Collaboratory meeting is down the road not across the street
Join the Rational Benevolence Collaboratory and help end suffering, help create joy.
The Rational Benevolence Collaboratory is an intellectual experiment in which researchers collaborate to deeply re-think our solutions to the problems of widespread suffering and scarce joy.
Researchers try to suspend all ideological biases and approach these problems from a position of neutral objectivity. (They put their sacred cows out to pasture and start from scratch.) To achieve this neutral objectivity, researchers use various methods of radical premise-checking (such as the Socratic Method).
Bring your minds & hearts, and maybe a
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“The door’s wide open now ... Whether you like it or not!”
Thus spake the over-groomed one. And now?
San Francisco Democratic Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose campaign for governor sputtered to an early halt last year, plans to launch a bid for lieutenant governor Friday…
Settling for the most pointless, work-free political job on the planet, eh Gavs? Sounds about right for your skill level.
Side note for those interested:
He received $6,500 each from Mark and Susie Buell, owners of the Esprit clothing company and longtime backers
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 03/12 at 07:35 AM •
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yeah… lettuce
The lovely burg of Colorado Springs has made a purely sensible decision in the wake of budget challenges to quit picking up the trash from their public parks and remove all the trash cans. Hey—that’ll save ... er, wait.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The animal rights group PETA is offering to help the cash-strapped city of Colorado Springs by paying to put trash cans back in parks - on one condition.
The cans have to carry an anti-meat slogan and a picture of a woman in a lettuce bikini.
Actually, this ain’t such a bad idea, much as it pains me to say PITA had a good idea. Maybe we could broaden it to hardware stores and Puddin’ Pops and lawn food and Toyotas. well - ok; not that last…
Mayor Lionel Rivera says he’ll consider the offer if it PETA also pays to have the trash picked up and hauled to the dump.
But he joked that the Colorado Beef Council might demand equal time.
What the hell—go for it!
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 03/12 at 07:28 AM •
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Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that of the doll’s white counterpart at one store and possibly others.
A photo first posted to the humor Web site FunnyJunk.com and later to the Latino Web site Guanabee.com shows packages of Mattel’s Ballerina Barbie and Ballerina Teresa dolls hanging side by side at an unidentified store. The Teresa dolls, which feature brown skin and dark hair, are marked as being on sale at $3.00. The Barbies to the right of the Teresa dolls, meanwhile, retain their original price of $5.93. The dolls look identical aside from their color.
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A Walmart spokeswoman, who could not verify the exact store shown in the photo, said that the price change on the Teresa doll was part of the chain’s efforts to clear shelf space for its new spring inventory.“To prepare for (s)pring inventory, a number of items are marked for clearance, “ spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien said in an e-mail. “… Both are great dolls. The red price sticker indicates that this particular doll was on clearance when the photo was taken, and though both dolls were priced the same to start, one was marked down due to its lower sales to hopefully increase purchase from customers.”
“Pricing like items differently is a part of inventory management in retailing,” O’Brien said.
But critics say Walmart should have been more sensitive in its pricing choice…
I spotted some cute little cowboy boots at WalMart a couple months ago in brown and black. They were a little more than I cared to pay so I waited.......the browns ones went from $35 to $25 within a couple of weeks so I bought the brown pair. Just yesterday I checked and the black ones are still holding strong at the original price of $35 while the brown ones are now down to $17....
So what does that mean?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife and daughter were hospitalized Thursday after their minivan was rear-ended by tractor-trailer truck on an interstate in suburban Virginia, authorities said.
Reid’s wife, Landra, 69, broke her back and neck in the accident.........
~ * ~ .......... the Nevada Democrat went to the hospital after being told of the accident and later returned to Capitol Hill for a meeting with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on efforts to pass health care legislation....
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A raadio guy [dunno who] that my pal was listening to was talking about this recently and my pal told me to look this up this morning. This pic [with the big black glasses] made me think of it again…
Read the poem“Pops”,
paying attention to the last 12 or so lines…
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 03/11 at 05:26 PM •
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...and imagine this guy standing in front of you naked as a jaybird poking you in the chest and screaming............
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Might benefit from a little responsibility.
8 10 Things the Global Warmists Could Do to Convince Me They Want to Save the Earth
......................... I wanted to comment on an item VH posted earlier: Regarding the desire of the Global Warming Cult to convince We The Skeptics. I went to one of the referenced articles, which opened as follows:
There is one question that no one who denies manmade climate change wants to answer: what would it take to persuade you?
Actually, I am more than willing to answer that question. Here are some persuasive moves the environmental left could make if they wanted me to believe they want to minimize human impact on climate, and aren’t simply trying to impose Karl Marx by way of Rachel Carson. I would be less skeptical about man-made Global Warming if…
1. Al Gore, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Arianna Huffington, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Robert F’in’ Kennedy, and all the other elites would foreswear private jet travel and get rid of their monstrous homes in favor of more eco-friendly homes, like the one George W. Bush lives in.............................
Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools.
For anyone who lives in this part of the country, the ongoing Keystone Kops antics of the KC School Board are a long-standing bone of contention. School closings, smaller districts splitting off trying to escape the madness, etc. So this is just the latest cupful of water tossed onto the inferno.
However, this line in the story grabbed me:
Kansas City Councilwoman Sharon Sanders Brooks said the closure plan had prompted some housing developers to consider backing out of projects.
“The urban core has suffered white flight post-the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. the Board of Education, blockbusting by the real estate industry, redlining by banks and other financial institutions, retail and grocery store abandonment,” Brooks said to applause from the standing-room-only crowd.
Emphasis mine.
“White flight?” Note the accusatory tone with regard to “suffering.” How dare those uppity white folks choose to NOT raise their families in an area beset by crime, drugs, and violence? The nerve.
I’ve got news for you people (yes, YOU PEOPLE, if you’re going to single us honkies out for opprobrium I’m not going to feel bad about returning the favor)...the white people leaving to the relative peace and security of the suburbs wasn’t the cause the crime, drug problems, or violence. It was the EFFECT. And if the retail and grocery stores abandoned an area with no money and a high probability of getting robbed, and move to where the money is and the crime isn’t, THAT’S THEIR JOB. That’s how they survive. They literally have no choice. The alternative is remaining in the “urban core” to wither and die, which benefits no one.
Us white folks can’t force you to clean up your act. But you can’t force us to live with the result.
apotheosis, unrepentant milkaholic On the Wednesday, March 3, World News on ABC, inspired by current efforts to adopt orphans in Haiti, correspondent Ron Claiborne filed a report promoting the view that black children may be harmed psychologically from being adopted and raised by white parents. Claiborne focused on the case of black filmmaker Phil Bertelsen who complains that “he and other black adoptees tell a similar tale, of feeling estranged, cut off from their own racial identity and culture.”.......
And yet, these same idiots will stand in front of the line proclaiming that “children raised by 2 mommys will grow up normal”.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and first lady Michelle Obama share a laugh during their participation in the 2010 International Women of Courage Awards at the State Department in Washington, March 10, 2010.
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