Open thread for Sunday, April 13th: The Ultimate Warrior
Here is the open thread for Sunday, April 13th; please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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With the tax deadline looming just around the corner I had intended to take the obvious route with my musical selection of the week by posting ‘Taxman’ by the Beatles but my plans have changed.
Okay, I admit it, when I was growing up I was a huge wrestling fan and during that time there were probably two wrestlers who stood out above all the others in my mind and they were Kerry Von Erich and the Ultimate Warrior.
Last week, at the age of 54, the Ultimate Warrior passed away so instead of posting a musical selection this week I have decided to give you a tribute to a man who I loved to watch back in the day. It may seem silly now but this was part of my youth, and he gave me many moments of enjoyment, so it is sad to see him go even though I have not watched wrestling in many, many years.
Enjoy, and I hope you all have a great week:
And a bonus video of the Ultimate Warrior defeating Andre the Giant in less than one minute.
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http://brittius.com/2014/04/13/18-us-senators-bribed/
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I cannot say this shocks me one bit. We know that money talks out there in DC, so imagine this is normal. That Al Franken took money, but says he is “against” the merger also doesn’t fool anyone, either. I think THEY think we believe everything they tell us, after all we are just the little people. We are told what they want us to know and that is all. I am getting tired of THEM thinking I do not have a mind of my own and that I might be that gullible to think what they tell me is the truth. Ha!
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Lou: It’s a bit worse than that. It is behavior of “Betrayers”. They say to your face how they are with you, then, they think nothing of putting the blade of a knife deep into your back. Very dangerous, and in Sicilian traditions, those are the ones to be eliminated first and without any remorse, because they mean to cause harm to you and your family while lying to your face. Their vote was purchased, as I suspect Bloomberg purchased all of the anti-gun nonsense that decent people must suffer along with. I want to know, what else are they hiding? How deep and widespread is the problem of purchasing freedom and people’s rights? Obama must be collecting millions plus other not as of yet, accounted for, items. ROPE CURES THAT ILLNESS.
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Let’s see – first, thanks to whoever went digging through the reports to dig up this information. To me, it means that someone’s got too much time on his or her hands, but hey, who am I?
So Franken accepted $5k from Comcast PAC in 2009 – that means he’s committed to support whatever Comcast does? He must come cheap – I saw others on the list who’d accepted north of $30k.
So everyone who contributed to Mr. Romney’s campaign was offering a bribe? Interesting – doesn’t that mean he’s still obligated to use his influence in their behalf, even though he didn’t win the election? Or must he refund the bribes?
How about if Franken votes against Comcast? Can they sue for a refund of their $5k?
I don’t see most campaign contributions as bribes. Honestly. I do see them as payments for access – an unfortunate development but inevitable when we have a single House member representing nearly a million people, and on average they represent about three-quarters of a million people. But if I want to speak with Mr. Gingrey about a matter of pressing importance to me, and an executive from Lockheed who contributed the max allowable, also wants to have a chat with him, and he’s only got ten minutes available, who’s going to get the sit-down? Especially considering that I didn’t contribute anything at all to Gingrey’s campaign? I know he represents both of us, not just the other fellow, but how else is he to determine how to allot his time?
We’ve really gotten ourselves tangled up in this issue. Freedom of speech, we insist, means that everyone can contribute as much as they want to to political campaigns, but we still cap those contributions, even if those caps are way out of a normal person’s range. But now it appears that those contributions are really bribes. So what’s the solution? Public financing? Bake sales?
Take good care, and may God bless us all.
TGY
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You might not like the word bribe, but as you pointed out, this does give them much more influence over the politicians than they average person, and then there are the lobbyinsts. When you have the members on the Senate Committee voting for war with Syria and the members who were in favor just happened to have received the most in campaign donations from defense contractor–and likewise with the NSA data-mining scheme–there is something wrong because it becomes clear that they are not thinking about the American people first. At least to me that is the way it seems.
What is the solution? I don’t know but at least at the Congressional level I honestly believe that only people in the district where a person is running for office should be allowed to contribute to that person, it bothers the hell out of me that national money flows into state elections.
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I agree with you about money from outside a district tainting elections.
With respect to how Senators vote – did they vote the way they did because of the contgributions, or did they receive the contributions they did because of their positions on certain issues – positions that could be reasonably used to predict that they’d vote a certain way on certain issues? I know it’s like the chicken or the egg, but I don’t like to assume – as some on both sides of the aisle do – that everyone on the other side is automatically corrupt.
Take good care, and may God bless us all!
TGY
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Yes it is a chicken and the egg thing, and most likely they know who will vote a certain way and donate more money to those candidates. But they also protect themselves in many cases by giving at least some money to both sides just to make sure they have all bases covered.
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Speaking of the Ultimate Warrior, I BEG anyone reading this to read “Unlearning Liberty” by Greg Lukianoff. Worship probably is too strong a word, but it comes close to Lukianoff’s feeling about the First Amendment. His says that nothing is more important, because it allows everything else to follow.
AND HE IS A LIBERAL! He is just about the opposite of me in so many ways, yet his defense of free speech, ESPECIALLY in education, is stronger than mine.
He works at an organization named F.I.R.E. and their mission is to go after any school who tries to hinder free speech, and their “speech codes”, and the mindless sheep they produce. We have seen the result of (non)freedom of speech last week with Eich. At least read about them on line, and give them a like on FB.We need their help.
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Interesting, I will have to add it to my must read list. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Good Old 80’s..Blitz – Warriors
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Thanks for sharing!
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Kathleen Sebelius resigning, finally giving up on her contest with Holder to see what it takes to get fired by Obama.
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Apparently you have to really make Obama look bad!
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Sebelius wasn’t fired, nor would she ever be. Obama never cared how harm his people did to the country. Remember, their job was to “fundamentally transform” the country. Sebeluis just moved over to give Obama more room to orchestrate his next move against ‘American Exceptionalism”.
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Technically she was not fired, but I do not doubt that she was “urged” to step down.
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She wasn’t in the room when the President gave his victory speech – unless she was at a dying parent’s deathbed, she should have been, unless, as Steve says, she was persuaded to resign.
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Yes, it was odd that she was not there. I think it tells us this split wasn’t as mutual as they would have us believe.
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