NationStates Jolt Archive

Many of you are rather like "Chicken Little," running around in circles screaming that the sky is falling everytime something happens that you don't particularly like.

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card!

Then again, there have always been alarmists among us. Many of the Tories in "the Colonies" opposed the Declaraction of Independence because they were 100% certain the British would defeat the Continental Army and hang everyone.

Find something constructive to do: start a new hobby, read an actual book or two, take a long walk.

Or just get over it!

Many of you are rather like "Chicken Little," running around in circles screaming that the sky is falling everytime something happens that you don't particularly like.

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card!

Then again, there have always been alarmists among us. Many of the Tories in "the Colonies" opposed the Declaraction of Independence because they were 100% certain the British would defeat the Continental Army and hang everyone.

Find something constructive to do: start a new hobby, read an actual book or two, take a long walk.

Or just get over it!
:eek:!!!!

Someone has told the alarmists to stop being alarmists!!! It's the end of the world! Run for your lives!!!

:D

Or maybe post about it on NS. (I don't know about you, but I tend to sit down instead of running around in circles when I post.)

This type of forum is a new form of gossip. Gosssip has to be alarmist, exagerated, and unbelievable, otherwise it is just plain boring.

Put it into its proper perspective.

I'd complain about the PATRIOT act but that would violate the terms of my Loyalty oath.

Many of you are rather like "Chicken Little," running around in circles screaming that the sky is falling everytime something happens that you don't particularly like.

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card!

Then again, there have always been alarmists among us. Many of the Tories in "the Colonies" opposed the Declaraction of Independence because they were 100% certain the British would defeat the Continental Army and hang everyone.

Find something constructive to do: start a new hobby, read an actual book or two, take a long walk.

Or just get over it!

We can all dance naked in the dandelion patch. :)

:eek:!!!!

Someone has told the alarmists to stop being alarmists!!! It's the end of the world! Run for your lives!!!

:D
hehehe! EXACTLY! :D

Many of you are rather like "Chicken Little," running around in circles screaming that the sky is falling everytime something happens that you don't particularly like.

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card!

Then again, there have always been alarmists among us. Many of the Tories in "the Colonies" opposed the Declaraction of Independence because they were 100% certain the British would defeat the Continental Army and hang everyone.

Find something constructive to do: start a new hobby, read an actual book or two, take a long walk.

Or just get over it!

These words shall haunt you, good sir.

We can all dance naked in the dandelion patch. :)
I'm holding out for just a bit more than "dancing!" :D

These words shall haunt you, good sir.
( shrug ) So be it. Lots of things haunt me: last weeks laundry, the ghosts of Christmas' past, my ex, etc. One more or less isn't going to make me freak. :D

The only thing I'm alarmist about is peak oil.

The only thing I'm alarmist about is peak oil.
Huh? :confused:

Huh? :confused:

http://www.peakoil.com/sample/

Many of you are rather like "Chicken Little," running around in circles screaming that the sky is falling everytime something happens that you don't particularly like.

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card!

Then again, there have always been alarmists among us. Many of the Tories in "the Colonies" opposed the Declaraction of Independence because they were 100% certain the British would defeat the Continental Army and hang everyone.

Find something constructive to do: start a new hobby, read an actual book or two, take a long walk.

Or just get over it!

Exactly. We have 7 more years till the Rapture. So everyone chill.

Exactly. We have 7 more years till the Rapture. So everyone chill.


Oh you mean when Hitlary Clinton becomes president, again? :)

Many of you are rather like "Chicken Little," running around in circles screaming that the sky is falling everytime something happens that you don't particularly like.

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card!

Then again, there have always been alarmists among us. Many of the Tories in "the Colonies" opposed the Declaraction of Independence because they were 100% certain the British would defeat the Continental Army and hang everyone.

Find something constructive to do: start a new hobby, read an actual book or two, take a long walk.

Or just get over it!

I'll bet this is exactly what the Tories that were on the side of the British were saying to the ones who were worried about the stirring of the populace.

"Oh, stop being so paranoid, just because some crazy people went off declaring this or that, like it's the end of the Empire!"

http://www.peakoil.com/sample/
Ah! Ok. I didn't recognize the term. My bad.

Oh you mean when Hitlary Clinton becomes president, again? :)
[ weeps uncontrollably ]

Repent heathens! The mark is here! well the beginning of it anyway.
http://www.countdown.org/armageddon/mark_of_beast.htm
http://www.unrealid.com/
http://www.idautomation.com/666mark/
http://www.zianet.com/wblase/endtimes/nationid.htm
http://www.bible-prophecy.com/mark.htm
http://www.av1611.org/666/
http://www.bibleprophesy.org/666mark.htm

I'll bet this is exactly what the Tories that were on the side of the British were saying to the ones who were worried about the stirring of the populace.

"Oh, stop being so paranoid, just because some crazy people went off declaring this or that, like it's the end of the Empire!"
Perhaps so. Have a beer! :D

Exactly. We have 7 more years till the Rapture. So everyone chill.
mmmm rapture... :)

Repent heathens! The mark is here! well the beginning of it anyway.
http://www.countdown.org/armageddon/mark_of_beast.htm
http://www.unrealid.com/
http://www.idautomation.com/666mark/
http://www.zianet.com/wblase/endtimes/nationid.htm
http://www.bible-prophecy.com/mark.htm
http://www.av1611.org/666/
http://www.bibleprophesy.org/666mark.htm
Aieeeee! The mark of the beast! Run awaaaaayyy!

[ hands Mutated Sea Bass a beer ] :D

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card!


Something about this sentence struck me as amusing. :D

Sorry, Eut, and no offense, but 10 years from now it could read:

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card or because they reinstituted the draft or because they require all newborns to give a genetic sample or because they outlawed Islam or because they required all schools to teach Creationism or because they gave sole power over nuclear weaponry to the generals or because they appointed Tom Delay King of America or because they abolished the Supreme Court or because they ....

Well ... you get the idea. :D

mmmm rapture... :)
Not that kind of "rapture," you dweeb! ROFLMAO!

Something about this sentence struck me as amusing. :D

Sorry, Eut, and no offense, but 10 years from now it could read:

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card or because they reinstituted the draft or because they require all newborns to give a genetic sample or because they outlawed Islam or because they required all schools to teach Creationism or because they gave sole power over nuclear weaponry to the generals or because they appointed Tom Delay King of America or because they abolished the Supreme Court or because they ....

Well ... you get the idea. :D
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here! Have a beer! [ hands K a Carona ] :D

Not that kind of "rapture," you dweeb! ROFLMAO!

I know what he meant, you dork. :rolleyes:

Aieeeee! The mark of the beast! Run awaaaaayyy!

[ hands Mutated Sea Bass a beer ] :D

Thanks, SKOL!

I know what he meant, you dork. :rolleyes:
ROFLMAO!!!!! Argh! I have been cut to the quick! I am metaphorically bleeding from a thousand alegorical wounds! Quick ... someone call a philosopher! :D

Thanks, SKOL!
L'ach hiem! :D

ROFLMAO!!!!! Argh! I have been cut to the quick! I am metaphorically bleeding from a thousand alegorical wounds! Quick ... someone call a philosopher! :D

Repent heathen!

Shut up

Repent heathen!
[Covers himself in sack cloth and ashes and beats himself with a cat-o-ninetails. ]

There. Happy? :D

What, I'm supposed to wait for that one big change, the "Now everyone dies" movement before I do anything about it?

It doesn't happen in one big change, it happens in many small increments, little conscesions here and there-yeah, "that sucks but I guess we'll live's" until you wake up one day and realize that for the last X years you've been living in a totalitarian state, that you've let the rope slip from your hands.

Bullshit. I cry extra bullshit because I don't believe that you even believe that bullshit. I don't believe for a second you'd be 'letting it go' if Kerry where president. I seem to remember not a few postings hot about whether or not some pancake breakfast could lead a prayer or other some such minutia.

"C'mon, roll over and play dead. You know ya wanna. How bad can it be to have me mount you? It's only servitude...."

No thanks.

What, I'm supposed to wait for that one big change, the "Now everyone dies" movement before I do anything about it?

It doesn't happen in one big change, it happens in many small increments, little conscesions here and there-yeah, "that sucks but I guess we'll live's" until you wake up one day and realize that for the last X years you've been living in a totalitarian state, that you've let the rope slip from your hands.

Bullshit. I cry extra bullshit because I don't believe that you even believe that bullshit. I don't believe for a second you'd be 'letting it go' if Kerry where president. I seem to remember not a few postings hot about whether or not some pancake breakfast could lead a prayer or other some such minutia.

"C'mon, roll over and play dead. You know ya wanna. How bad can it be to have me mount you? It's only servitude...."

No thanks.
Sigh. :rolleyes:

Cannot ...

which party would have taken away a portion of my freedom of associatation by saying I couldn't choose my own doctor?

which party continually proposes more and more restictive interpretation of the second Amendment?

Yes, freedom tends to disappear by small degrees, but you're looking in the wrong direction.

Shut up

Looks like someone got up on the wrong side of bed today. :)

[Covers himself in sack cloth and ashes and beats himself with a cat-o-ninetails. ]

There. Happy? :D

No, give me the whip!
Repent you heathen! Repent! :)

No, give me the whip!
Repent you heathen! Repent! :)
No! I refuse!

[ Dives into a Bachnaal with twenty naked female pornstars! ] :D

Sigh. :rolleyes:

Cannot ...

which party would have taken away a portion of my freedom of associatation by saying I couldn't choose my own doctor?

which party continually proposes more and more restictive interpretation of the second Amendment?

Yes, freedom tends to disappear by small degrees, but you're looking in the wrong direction.
Sigh right back at ya, big guy. Now who's being alarmist?

Which party is trying to pass the first amendment since prohibition to restrict peoples rights?

Which party wants to allow public institutions to compell me to worship and pray to their god?

Which party wants to have a say in how I spend my time, and who with?

Which party wants to be able to put me under survalance without all that pesky due process?

But hey, your right. Even though we register something we drive because they can kill, we shouldn't register something that all it does is kill. Crazy talk.

Seriously, you only see it coming from one side-and the best you can come up with is restricting what doctor you see??? (I mean, come on-private insurance providers do that...) That centrist claim is looking more and more tatered every day...

EDIT: Forgot a real quality one because it's a trick question:

Which party is it that wants to take away any recourse I might have to defend myself against entities with larger resources that I could possibly amass, such as corperations...?

Sigh right back at ya, big guy. Now who's being alarmist?

Which party is trying to pass the first amendment since prohibition to restrict peoples rights?

Which party wants to allow public institutions to compell me to worship and pray to their god?

Which party wants to have a say in how I spend my time, and who with?

Which party wants to be able to put me under survalance without all that pesky due process?

But hey, your right. Even though we register something we drive because they can kill, we shouldn't register something that all it does is kill. Crazy talk.

Seriously, you only see it coming from one side-and the best you can come up with is restricting what doctor you see??? (I mean, come on-private insurance providers do that...) That centrist claim is looking more and more tatered every day...

EDIT: Forgot a real quality one because it's a trick question:

Which party is it that wants to take away any recourse I might have to defend myself against entities with larger resources that I could possibly amass, such as corperations...?
Professor Moriarity, I presume!

Those were the ones that came to me off the top of my head. I could try a point-by-point refutation, but I'm just not up to it at three o'clock in the morning. Besides, we're never going to agree on most of this stuff.

which party would have taken away a portion of my freedom of associatation by saying I couldn't choose my own doctor?I don't know, but one party recited some bullshit about another party saying you couldn't choose your own doctor

Professor Moriarity, I presume!

Those were the ones that came to me off the top of my head. I could try a point-by-point refutation, but I'm just not up to it at three o'clock in the morning. Besides, we're never going to agree on most of this stuff.
There is one thing we would agree on, if you where being honest-

You aren't/wouldn't 'roll over and take it/get over it' and you shouldn't expect anyone else to.

I don't know, but one party recited some bullshit about another party saying you couldn't choose your own doctor
That was one of the requirements of Hillary Clinton's national healthcare proposal. How quickly we forget. :(

If some people didn't scream about every little thing, other people wouldn't moderate their ideas. The whole idea of opposing sides here is so neither side can go overboard with it's ideology.

There is one thing we would agree on, if you where being honest-

You aren't/wouldn't 'roll over and take it/get over it' and you shouldn't expect anyone else to.
True. And in most situations I wouldn't expect anyone else to. But I get rather tired of seeing so much knee-jerk alarmism from the "I hate Bush" crowd that my irritation sometimes overrides my usual inclination to be conciliatory. :)

If some people didn't scream about every little thing, other people wouldn't moderate their ideas. The whole idea of opposing sides here is so neither side can go overboard with it's ideology.
I can see that ... most of the time. So far as I know, I don't have an "ideology," which may help explain why I get so frustrated with some of those who do.

I can see that ... most of the time. So far as I know, I don't have an "ideology," which may help explain why I get so frustrated with some of those who do.
Dude, seriously...c'mon...

BTW Eutrusca, I love the quote in your sig. But who the hell is this March guy?

That was one of the requirements of Hillary Clinton's national healthcare proposal. How quickly we forget. :(how quickly we forget that Hillary Clinton wasn't a politician in 1993

No! I refuse!

[ Dives into a Bachnaal with twenty naked female pornstars! ] :D

You do that, God loves those who sin the most, the best, provided of course they REPENT! REPENT! REPENNNNNTTTTTT!!!

Something about this sentence struck me as amusing. :D

Sorry, Eut, and no offense, but 10 years from now it could read:

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card or because they reinstituted the draft or because they require all newborns to give a genetic sample or because they outlawed Islam or because they required all schools to teach Creationism or because they gave sole power over nuclear weaponry to the generals or because they appointed Tom Delay King of America or because they abolished the Supreme Court or because they ....

Well ... you get the idea. :D


Yeah, you are an alarmist nut.

Are we there yet?

which party would have taken away a portion of my freedom of associatation by saying I couldn't choose my own doctor?

.

I don't like everything the left does, but um, there might be aspects of the Patriot Act that are a greater intrusion than this.

Many of you are rather like "Chicken Little," running around in circles screaming that the sky is falling everytime something happens that you don't particularly like.

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card!

I wouldn't be so fast: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=3546593

Clearly, the sky is falling :D

I wouldn't be so fast: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=3546593

Clearly, the sky is falling :D

Heh. Notice the planetary geologist is named Jesus. Could be a sign.

There is nothing wrong with being an alarmist. If anything it is quite an honourable way of life, running around (in circles you say) causing mass hysteria is the only way to go. The current American administration do it so well, so why can't NSers have a go too!!!?

how quickly we forget that Hillary Clinton wasn't a politician in 1993
Bullshit.

Hillary Clinton was friggin' BORN a politician!

BTW Eutrusca, I love the quote in your sig. But who the hell is this March guy?
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/cg&csa/March-PC.htm

There is nothing wrong with being an alarmist. If anything it is quite an honourable way of life, running around (in circles you say) causing mass hysteria is the only way to go. The current American administration do it so well, so why can't NSers have a go too!!!?
:rolleyes:

Many of you are rather like "Chicken Little," running around in circles screaming that the sky is falling everytime something happens that you don't particularly like.

The world is not coming to an end just because Congress passed the Patriot Act, or because a few strict-constructionist judges are appointed to the bench, or because America impliments a national ID card!

Then again, there have always been alarmists among us. Many of the Tories in "the Colonies" opposed the Declaraction of Independence because they were 100% certain the British would defeat the Continental Army and hang everyone.

Find something constructive to do: start a new hobby, read an actual book or two, take a long walk.

Or just get over it!

YEAH

bend over and take it like a man!!

Bullshit.

Hillary Clinton was friggin' BORN a politician!

WooHooo!! Go Hillary. Up to 1993 she had a fairly good role, suggest and forcibly implement policy( Bill if you don't do this I'll make you have sex with me) and never get the blame for it. Where did it all go wrong..oh ya Health care!

I'm holding out for just a bit more than "dancing!" :D


Which is probably why you are still waiting! ;) :p

Heh. Notice the planetary geologist is named Jesus. Could be a sign.
This is actually nothing new. I remember reading about this same phenomenon in the late 50s.

BTW ... although it's spelled the same, Jesus in Spanish is pronounced "Hey-soos." :)

I'd complain about the PATRIOT act but that would violate the terms of my Loyalty oath.

SEDITION!

BURN HIM!

I'll bet this is exactly what the Tories that were on the side of the British were saying to the ones who were worried about the stirring of the populace.

"Oh, stop being so paranoid, just because some crazy people went off declaring this or that, like it's the end of the Empire!"

Basic history lesson: America's Declaration of Independence was not the end of the Empire nor was it even a death toll to the Empire. The Americans gained their independence in the 1770s - the British Empire lasted until about the 1960s and it only began to decrease in size after 1945. 300 years, that is one long death.

Basic history lesson: America's Declaration of Independence was not the end of the Empire nor was it even a death toll to the Empire. The Americans gained their independence in the 1770s - the British Empire lasted until about the 1960s and it only began to decrease in size after 1945. 300 years, that is one long death.
The sturdier the tree, the longer the fall. :)

Reactionaries complaining about "alarmism"? I want to have sex with the irony.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=362859&highlight=leftist+tactics

Remember this one Eutrusca:

No One Left To Speak Up For Me

First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.

Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

The erosion of civil rights is the same thing. Protest any attempts to remove your freedoms. It is your duty to do so for yourself, your family, your friends and your country.

why are you getting so upset, its just a little SAND.

http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/photogallery/LakeLevels/images/0814.jpg

This is actually nothing new. I remember reading about this same phenomenon in the late 50s.

BTW ... although it's spelled the same, Jesus in Spanish is pronounced "Hey-soos." :)

I was kidding both about it being a sign and the relevance of the guy's name. I live in the American Southwest, so I'm familiar with the Spanish pronunciation. Besides, when I wrote "Jesus", how do you know I wasn't pronouncing it "Hey-soos"?
:)