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Immortalist
Nov 7, 2012, 9:16:32 AM11/7/12
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A sore loser is someone who loses in a fair competition but whines
about it on a constant basis, blaming everyone around them for their
loss except themselves. Fun to taunt, but no fun to play with.
Someone who can't simply be honorable, by accepting defeat and/or
trying again. On the contrary, said individual or group engages in
childish pissing and moaning; bitching about how it's not fair and the
other side cheated, etc...
"Stop throwing chess pieces at me, ya damn sore loser!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoCZQA5Idm0
about it on a constant basis, blaming everyone around them for their
loss except themselves. Fun to taunt, but no fun to play with.
Someone who can't simply be honorable, by accepting defeat and/or
trying again. On the contrary, said individual or group engages in
childish pissing and moaning; bitching about how it's not fair and the
other side cheated, etc...
"Stop throwing chess pieces at me, ya damn sore loser!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoCZQA5Idm0
tooly
Nov 7, 2012, 2:27:51 PM11/7/12
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On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:16:32 AM UTC-5, Immortalist wrote:
> A sore loser is someone who loses in a fair competition but whines about it on a constant basis, blaming everyone around them for their loss except themselves. Fun to taunt, but no fun to play with. Someone who can't simply be honorable, by accepting defeat and/or trying again. On the contrary, said individual or group engages in childish pissing and moaning; bitching about how it's not fair and the other side cheated, etc... "Stop throwing chess pieces at me, ya damn sore loser!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoCZQA5Idm0
What a 'shallow' view, there Immort.
> A sore loser is someone who loses in a fair competition but whines about it on a constant basis, blaming everyone around them for their loss except themselves. Fun to taunt, but no fun to play with. Someone who can't simply be honorable, by accepting defeat and/or trying again. On the contrary, said individual or group engages in childish pissing and moaning; bitching about how it's not fair and the other side cheated, etc... "Stop throwing chess pieces at me, ya damn sore loser!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoCZQA5Idm0
Elections have taken the place that WAR did in past eras. It is an expedient that 'works' ok in most cases, but not all. Ultimately, we decide the gravest and deepest questions of life itself in those elections now...and the nature of life in this world remains a 'life and death struggle' for survival.
People can withstand LOSS to some degree...when it is about health plans, or taxes. But when the nest itself is 'taken over'...when the home itself is 'occupied' by aliens from abroad...well, it strikes at something much deeper that general elections may not encompass. STRUGGLE; SURVIVAL...nest building, family...Ultimately, the decisions made in general elections play upon those deeper activities of LIFE, and when a divestment is made through a general election that is so sweeping as to 'revamp' and 're-occupy' the nest [to oust the very ones who built that nest]...well, the functional capacity of general elections is found to be lacking, and WAR a fall back that must be re-embraced. For no creature in this world simply ACCEPTS it's own degradation and diminishment of survival 'without' must of every force of energy it's own heartbeat would allow.
We've been at WAR for some time now; most of us know it. A CULTURE WAR, for the hearts and minds of the people. Elections are only a FACADE; a mask over this war...whereupon the 'established' people who built the place had some hope of addressing this assault on the land 'peaceably' through the accepted 'gamesmanship' of political ploy [and general elections].
The Tea Party is a clue. Why exactly is it mostly White? Is it racist in nature? NO. Emphatically NO! But the founders of this NEST in the world called the USA happened to be EUROPEAN, and caucasian...and the progeny inheritance 'mostly' from that root. It would not be anyone's preference to attach racial identity to such a noble undertaking as the American Ideal, but we are led astray under a force HEGEMONY where we cannot recognize that IDENTITY at All; or else, be cast as racist, or xenophobic, or bigoted, or any number of other flag words designed to hold us muzzled, and at bay while the invading hordes 'work their way' into our inner structures to 'take us over'.
The Tea Party, as remnants of that inheritance, only wanted to PROTECT the house...seeing that it's structures were become rotted and unsound under mountains of incurred debt.
Well, last nights election, showed that that inheritance is now, essentially, 'outcast'; thrown out of the teepee into the cold by that invading horde [that anyone with any sense about them understands exists; by way of new immigration, and liberalization under those flag words that have hogtied us to do anything to protect what was once ours].
'ONCE OURS'? Even that has become a 'dirty word' conveyance it seems. But there can be no question WHO founded the place; who's world vision gave structure to it's laws and sense of justice.
Lincoln said "You can fool some of the people all of the time, All of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool ALL the people ALL the time".
There can only be ONE explanation why Obama, having such a terrible performance in his first 4 years, won last night: RACE.
Zerkon
Nov 9, 2012, 9:19:46 AM11/9/12
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:16:32 -0800, Immortalist wrote:
> A sore loser is someone who
Listens and watches and believes in the infallibility of TV and radio
> A sore loser is someone who
entertainers....
Zerkon
Nov 9, 2012, 9:24:17 AM11/9/12
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:27:51 -0800, tooly wrote:
> "You can fool some of the people all of the time
by Glen Beck crying
> "You can fool some of the people all of the time
Jack McKinney
Nov 10, 2012, 4:30:05 AM11/10/12
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This Is An Unabridged Version
POSTED IN A WEBTV NEWSGROUP
Fri, Nov 9, 2012, 7:00pm (CST-2) From: xxxxxxxxx (Orco Girl)
Barack Obama And
The Death Of Normal
November 7, 2012
I was on an airplane last night as the election was decided. As the
plane landed after midnight on the East Coast, I confess that my hand
was shaking as I turned on my phone for the news. I did not want to see
dishonesty and divisiveness and raw political hackery rewarded. It is
hard enough for anyone to actually address the problems, to move this
country forward, to make the intransigent American ruling class yield
even a yard of the past to the *inevitable* future. But going backwards
last night would have been devastating. I read the returns in silent
elation; a business trip had me traveling in business class and the
gnashing of corporate teeth all around precluded a full-throated huzzah
on my part. I abhor a gloat.
But the country is changing. And this may be the last election in which
anyone but a *fool* tries to play on a national level, at least the
cards of racial exclusion, of immigrant fear, of the patronization of
women and hegemony over their bodies, of self-righteous discrimination
against homosexuals. Some in the Republican party and among the
*teabagged fringe* will continue to play such losing hands for some time
to come; this shit worked well in its day and distracted many from
addressing any of our essential national issues. But again, if they play
that weak-ass game past this point, they are fools. America is different
now, more so with every election cycle. Ronald Reagan won his mandate in
an America in which 89 percent of the voters were white. That number is
down to 72 percent and falling.
Fifty thousand new Latino citizens achieve the voting age every month.
America will soon belong to the men and women white and black and Latino
and Asian, Christian and Jew and Muslim and atheist, gay and straight
who can walk into a room and accept with real comfort the sensation that
they are in a world of certain difference, that there are no real
majorities, only pluralities and coalitions.
The America in which it was otherwise is dying, thank god, and those who
relied on entitlement and division to command power will either be
obliged to accept the changes, or retreat to the gated communities from
which they wish to wax nostalgic and brood on political irrelevance. You
want to lead in America? Find a way to be entirely utilitarian to
address the most problems on behalf of the most possible citizens. That
works. That matters. Last night, it mattered just enough to overcome the
calcified political calculations of men who think that 47 percent will
vote against them because they are victims, or that 53 percent are with
them because the rest of us vote only from self-interest and without
regard for the republic as a whole. It was a closer contest than common
sense and the spirit of a truly great nation should dictate. But unless
these white guys who have peddled normal for so long normal as in
racial majority, normal as in religious majority, normal as in sexual
orientation unless they have a hard moment of self-reflection and
self-awareness, well, it will not be this close again.
Eighty years ago, the Democratic party became a national utilitarian
enterprise, molding the immigrant waves of Irish and Italian and Jew
into a voting bloc that stunned the political opposition and transformed
American society, creating the world's greatest economic engine in the
form of a consumer class with vast discretionary income. The New Deal
asserted for American progress shaping and influencing administrations
both Democratic and Republican for three decades before running aground
on the shoals of the civil rights movement, resulting racial fears and
resentments, and, of course, the Southern strategy of political cynics.
Well, a new voting bloc as formidable as the New Deal coalition
certainly isn't yet complete, and the political results are still
fitful. To be sure, venality has transformed the upper house of our
national legislature into a paralytic failure, with a new standard of a
filibuster-proof supermajority now the norm. The lower house of that
legislature reflects less of any national consensus than it does the
*absurdity* of post-census gerrymandering. Never mind Obama. If Romney
had won this election, our government would be just as broken. It is the
legislative branch that remains an epic systems failure. For lost and
fretful white men, unwilling to accept the terms of a new America,
Congress is the last barricade against practical and *inevitable*
change. But there, too, the demographic inevitabilities are all in play.
All the gerrymandering in this world won't make those other Americans,
those different Americans, go away. And the tyranny of minority and lack
of compromise that you employ to thwart progress now will likely breed
an equal contempt when the demographics do indeed provide
supermajorities.
Hard times are still to come for all of us. Rear guard actions will be
fought at every political crossroad. But make no mistake: Change is a
motherfucker when you run from it. And right now, the conservative
movement in America is fleeing from dramatic change that is certain and
immutable. A man of color is president for the second time, and this
happened despite a struggling economic climate and a national spirit of
general discontent. He has been returned to office over the specific
objections of the mass of white men. He has instead been re-elected by
women, by people of color, by homosexuals, by people of varying
religions or no religion whatsoever.
Behold the New Jerusalem. Not that there's anything wrong with being a
white man, of course. There's nothing wrong with being anything. That's
the point.
This election marks a moment in which the racial and social hierarchy of
America is upended forever. No longer will it mean more politically to
be a white male than to be anything else. Evolve, or don't. Swallow your
resentments, or don't. But the votes are going to be counted, more of
them with each election. Arizona will soon be in play. And in a few
cycles, even Texas. And those wishing to hold national office in these
United States will find it increasingly useless to argue for normal, to
attempt to play one minority against each other, to turn pluralities
against the feared other of gays, or blacks, or immigrants, or,
incredibly in this election cycle, our very wives and lovers and
daughters, fellow citizens who demand to control their own bodies.
Regardless of what happens with his second term, Barack Obama's
**great** victory has already been won: We are all the other now, in
some sense. Special interests? That term has no more meaning in the New
America. We are all, all of us, every last American, even the whitest
of white guys special interests.
And now, normal isn't white or straight or Christian. There is no
normal. That word, too, means *less* with every moment. And those who
continue to argue for such *retrograde* notions as a political reality
will become less germane and more ridiculous with every passing year.
Lots of waste and shouting and ignorance still to come, of course. But
last night was a milestone.
JUST WAIT UNTIL 2050
POSTED IN A WEBTV NEWSGROUP
Fri, Nov 9, 2012, 7:00pm (CST-2) From: xxxxxxxxx (Orco Girl)
Barack Obama And
The Death Of Normal
November 7, 2012
I was on an airplane last night as the election was decided. As the
plane landed after midnight on the East Coast, I confess that my hand
was shaking as I turned on my phone for the news. I did not want to see
dishonesty and divisiveness and raw political hackery rewarded. It is
hard enough for anyone to actually address the problems, to move this
country forward, to make the intransigent American ruling class yield
even a yard of the past to the *inevitable* future. But going backwards
last night would have been devastating. I read the returns in silent
elation; a business trip had me traveling in business class and the
gnashing of corporate teeth all around precluded a full-throated huzzah
on my part. I abhor a gloat.
But the country is changing. And this may be the last election in which
anyone but a *fool* tries to play on a national level, at least the
cards of racial exclusion, of immigrant fear, of the patronization of
women and hegemony over their bodies, of self-righteous discrimination
against homosexuals. Some in the Republican party and among the
*teabagged fringe* will continue to play such losing hands for some time
to come; this shit worked well in its day and distracted many from
addressing any of our essential national issues. But again, if they play
that weak-ass game past this point, they are fools. America is different
now, more so with every election cycle. Ronald Reagan won his mandate in
an America in which 89 percent of the voters were white. That number is
down to 72 percent and falling.
Fifty thousand new Latino citizens achieve the voting age every month.
America will soon belong to the men and women white and black and Latino
and Asian, Christian and Jew and Muslim and atheist, gay and straight
who can walk into a room and accept with real comfort the sensation that
they are in a world of certain difference, that there are no real
majorities, only pluralities and coalitions.
The America in which it was otherwise is dying, thank god, and those who
relied on entitlement and division to command power will either be
obliged to accept the changes, or retreat to the gated communities from
which they wish to wax nostalgic and brood on political irrelevance. You
want to lead in America? Find a way to be entirely utilitarian to
address the most problems on behalf of the most possible citizens. That
works. That matters. Last night, it mattered just enough to overcome the
calcified political calculations of men who think that 47 percent will
vote against them because they are victims, or that 53 percent are with
them because the rest of us vote only from self-interest and without
regard for the republic as a whole. It was a closer contest than common
sense and the spirit of a truly great nation should dictate. But unless
these white guys who have peddled normal for so long normal as in
racial majority, normal as in religious majority, normal as in sexual
orientation unless they have a hard moment of self-reflection and
self-awareness, well, it will not be this close again.
Eighty years ago, the Democratic party became a national utilitarian
enterprise, molding the immigrant waves of Irish and Italian and Jew
into a voting bloc that stunned the political opposition and transformed
American society, creating the world's greatest economic engine in the
form of a consumer class with vast discretionary income. The New Deal
asserted for American progress shaping and influencing administrations
both Democratic and Republican for three decades before running aground
on the shoals of the civil rights movement, resulting racial fears and
resentments, and, of course, the Southern strategy of political cynics.
Well, a new voting bloc as formidable as the New Deal coalition
certainly isn't yet complete, and the political results are still
fitful. To be sure, venality has transformed the upper house of our
national legislature into a paralytic failure, with a new standard of a
filibuster-proof supermajority now the norm. The lower house of that
legislature reflects less of any national consensus than it does the
*absurdity* of post-census gerrymandering. Never mind Obama. If Romney
had won this election, our government would be just as broken. It is the
legislative branch that remains an epic systems failure. For lost and
fretful white men, unwilling to accept the terms of a new America,
Congress is the last barricade against practical and *inevitable*
change. But there, too, the demographic inevitabilities are all in play.
All the gerrymandering in this world won't make those other Americans,
those different Americans, go away. And the tyranny of minority and lack
of compromise that you employ to thwart progress now will likely breed
an equal contempt when the demographics do indeed provide
supermajorities.
Hard times are still to come for all of us. Rear guard actions will be
fought at every political crossroad. But make no mistake: Change is a
motherfucker when you run from it. And right now, the conservative
movement in America is fleeing from dramatic change that is certain and
immutable. A man of color is president for the second time, and this
happened despite a struggling economic climate and a national spirit of
general discontent. He has been returned to office over the specific
objections of the mass of white men. He has instead been re-elected by
women, by people of color, by homosexuals, by people of varying
religions or no religion whatsoever.
Behold the New Jerusalem. Not that there's anything wrong with being a
white man, of course. There's nothing wrong with being anything. That's
the point.
This election marks a moment in which the racial and social hierarchy of
America is upended forever. No longer will it mean more politically to
be a white male than to be anything else. Evolve, or don't. Swallow your
resentments, or don't. But the votes are going to be counted, more of
them with each election. Arizona will soon be in play. And in a few
cycles, even Texas. And those wishing to hold national office in these
United States will find it increasingly useless to argue for normal, to
attempt to play one minority against each other, to turn pluralities
against the feared other of gays, or blacks, or immigrants, or,
incredibly in this election cycle, our very wives and lovers and
daughters, fellow citizens who demand to control their own bodies.
Regardless of what happens with his second term, Barack Obama's
**great** victory has already been won: We are all the other now, in
some sense. Special interests? That term has no more meaning in the New
America. We are all, all of us, every last American, even the whitest
of white guys special interests.
And now, normal isn't white or straight or Christian. There is no
normal. That word, too, means *less* with every moment. And those who
continue to argue for such *retrograde* notions as a political reality
will become less germane and more ridiculous with every passing year.
Lots of waste and shouting and ignorance still to come, of course. But
last night was a milestone.
JUST WAIT UNTIL 2050
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