In my life as a gay man, I have had occasion to witness something akin to MOB mentality from the LGBT community. If you don't agree with A, B, C & D, you do not belong with us. Let me give an example:
In 1999, I was in Boston for the Gay Pride Festival. While there, I saw a booth sponsored by PLAGL, the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians. Suddenly, before my eyes, a group of about 15 lesbians with hammers and bats attacked the booth, smashing it to pieces and calling the 2 lesbians and 1 gay man working there fascists and using language I have never before heard. The 3 PLAGL workers complained to the Festival organizers and were told to leave. However, the 15 lesbian attackers were left to enjoy the rest of their day. Nice, huh?
That same day I was speaking to my friends that I don't believe in Gay Pride. I told them I believe that you cannot be proud of something you did not actively create, and since I didn't create my homosexuality I didn't think I should be proud of IT, but that I can be proud of the fact that I have become comfortable with my sexuality. As soon as the statement came out of my mouth, 3 men who were nearby verbally attacked me, saying that I was suffering from internalized homophobia, and that I was a disgrace to "the MOVEMENT". Again, because I wasnt a rainbow flag waving, screaming queen, I was not wanted by "the MOVEMENT".
Now, as far as PDAs are concerned (Public Displays of Affection), I am just as uncomfortable watching a straight couple in public sucking face and making fools of themselves as I am watching gay couples do it. They all do it for the same reason- TO GET ATTENTION.
Gay Marriage- oh boy. I am all for Gay Marriage, as long as the 2 men or women in question are marrying because they want to be in a monogamous committed lifelong relationship. Sometimes that is the case. However, I have seen too many Gay couples get married as a political act and then act as if they are not married to ever take it seriously. Honestly guys, if you are MARRIED you should not be going to bath houses in Montreal, fucking around at the Gargoyle House, or picking guys up at rest areas on the Interstate. I can't tell you how many guys in both Gay and Straight relationships have come to me asking for sex- HAVE SOME SELF-RESPECT.
People are sick and tired of you, The "Minority", either we work together as a people and find a just middle or this is going to explode, people won't say this in public but you know their thinking it.
I believe the Fox posting, so here is the information anyone would need to help with a boycott of Brookstone.
It's the Christmas season, so let them know you will not be purchasing from them this year and will let others know the situation.
Brookstone Customer Service Email
customerservice@brookstone.com.
Brookstone Customer Service Phone Number
1-800-846-3000
She baits him continually, he responds after being brow-beaten and then Brookstones fires him.
Here we see the power of the gay community in all its glory. Can't wait to see all the other abuses that are coming up.
Thanks to the folks in Maine for showing the way. Now all we need to do is tell our legislature we want the vote and they need to grow the balls to allow it.
(Like this is ever going to happen here --- right)
1. "You don't have the balls you 'peace' of shit"
I'm going to assume that you meant to say "peice" of shit. Do I really need to say anything more about this?
2. "Come bitch bring it on."
Again, I would assume you were attempting to say "Come on bitch, bring it on!" Or, maybe you were goin in a totally different direction, like: "Cum-bitch! Bring it on!"
Either way, you still failed to deliver the intimidation.
Thank you for proving my theory, though I really didn't need confirmation. Why on earth would you care so much about my personal opinion of a car dealership anyways?!
Could it be you that is the neanderthal? If so then I guess I should've given you more credit, because I never would have guessed this guy could turn on a computer, nevermind operate one.
Now, are you really this stupid, or are you having difficulties typing because your hands are dragging on the floor?
You have got to be fucking kidding me. ( If you are for real) You are nothing but a jobless welfare out of state white trash junkie looking for help. WHO THE FUCK CARES WHAT YOUR PROBLEM IS!!!
Our ( the people who actually have jobs) taxes pay for you poor pathetic ass everytime you go to the ER just because of your crack habit and your asking for help......well FUCK YOU!
Here, help yourself. Go buy yourself some more dope, allot of it. Shot it all up at once and overdose. It will save the state of VT allot of money ( although we will get stuck paying your body cremation or what ever they do with low life vagrants such as yourself.
Here, help yourself. Go buy yourself some more dope, allot of it. Shot it all up at once and overdose. It will save the state of VT allot of money ( although we will get stuck paying your body cremation or what ever they do with low life vagrants such as yourself.
A little like going to Boston on Jet blue even though they fly Burlington and Boston,you have to go to JFK then Boston.
Welcome to Vermont,spend lots of money.
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Alright folks just purchased a timeshare for week 51 (sking) up in Stowe, VT. I've never been further up than NY and that was simply flying into and out of on overseas trips. Where are the good places to go, what is there to do, and is the area fun? TIA.
I've gotten a few things done around the house that I've been meaning to do, and now I'm taking off with my Father to go purchase another classic car that he has found!
Then later I have the joy of returning to the rest of my family for our Sunday Dinner...something that has always proven to be nothing less then amazing!
Ever have one of those days where you wake up feeling like it's just gonna be the BEST day EVER?! Well, that was today!
On a side note, to those of you who are still stuck with posting your opinion about EVERYTHING...move the fuck on in life! LOL!
Like, oh say...URANUS...dude, for real...
This board just isn't what it used to be.
I'm off...to enjoy this day to the fullest!
I won't be back to read whatever hate filled responses you sour people have to spew either! I'll be too busy buying a car and spending as much time outside as possible!
I suggest that you all do the same! It's too damn nice out to be stuck inside dwelling over what has been posted online by someone you don't even know...
I will say this about Miller though, their mechanics and such are not up to par! I've heard more than a couple people complain about the services they've received. Or, a lack of I suppose.
There happens to be a car detailer that wanders around aimlessly, in fact I don't think I've ever seen him work any of the times I've been on the property!
You'd know him if you saw him. He looks like a neanderthal! I'm shocked that his hands don't drag on the ground, and more shocked that he doesn't attempt to pick bugs off of people!
I mean, hell, it's only cleaning cars! How hard could that job really be?!
The second goal of the New Deal was to stimulate the private sector. Instead, it supplanted it. To justify their own work, New Dealers attacked not merely those guilty of white-collar crimes but the entire business community -- the "princes of property," FDR called them. Washington's policy evolved into a lethal combo of spending and retribution. Never did either U.S. investors or foreigners get a sense that the United States was now open for business. As a result, the Depression lasted half a decade longer than it had to, from 1929 to 1940 rather than, say, 1929 to 1936. The Dow Jones industrial average didn't return to its summer 1929 high until 1954. The monetary shock of the first years of the Depression was immense, but it was this duration that made the Depression Great.
This outcome is worth reviewing, component by component, for what it suggests about individual Obama administration projects. The first of these would be ambitious spending on infrastructure. Obama has said that he wants to "put people to work repairing crumbling roads, bridges and schools." In addition, he would like to modernize 75 percent of government buildings, as well as equip tens of thousands of schools with new technology.
Roosevelt, too, proceeded boldly on infrastructure. The budget of his Public Works Administration was so large that it shocked even the man who ran it, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. Sounding a bit like Republicans today, Ickes said of his $3.3 billion allowance: "It helped me to estimate its size by figuring that if we had it all in currency and should load it into trucks, we could set out with it from Washington for the Pacific Coast, shovel off one million dollars at every milepost and still have enough left to build a fleet of battleships."
New Deal public-works spending did have a short-term effect, creating jobs and economic activity during Roosevelt's first term. Americans took heart at the sight of schools, swimming pools and auditoriums rising in nearly every county in the country. FDR so pumped up the federal government that 1936 was the first peacetime year when it spent more than states and towns. A master of timing, he even managed to get unemployment down to a low of 13.9 percent in November of that year, the month of the presidential election. The voters rewarded him by giving him 46 of 48 states.
But many of the jobs that the early New Deal produced were not merely temporary but also limited in economic value. It was in these years that the political term "boondoggle," to describe costly make-work, was coined. It came from "boondoggling," the word for leather craft projects subsidized by New Deal work-relief programs.
Roosevelt combined a stimulus project with his goals for social equity. He created the Rural Electrification Administration to wire the countryside. He also created the Tennessee Valley Authority to provide hydropower. One can picture private and public working together, and that's what Commonwealth and Southern imagined, too, at first. At a tense meeting at Washington's Cosmos Club in 1933, the company's chief executive, Wendell Willkie, begged a TVA officer, David Lilienthal, to strengthen public-private cooperation. Instead, Lilienthal waged war on Willkie, using the TVA's tax-free status to compete for customers and fighting Commonwealth and Southern in the courts. In 1935, Roosevelt signed a utilities law that so restricted private capital raising that it was known as the "Death Sentence Act."
At the time, observers told themselves that the shift caused no economic loss. But the stock indexes told the real story. Instead of matching or outperforming the industrial average, the Dow Jones utilities average lagged behind. The great "stimulator," government, had emerged as an opponent. The effect, beyond the tragic unemployment, was to slow down the creation of new companies. Even the New Dealers despaired. "We have tried spending money," Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau said to the House Ways and Means Committee in the late 1930s. "We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. . . . I say, after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started . . . and an enormous debt to boot."
Mr. Not-so-Smart says:
So, who was president in the years leading up to the depression? Republicans Calvin Coolidge (a Vermontah) and Republican Herbert Hoover.
What caused the Great Depression? Absurd, unregulated financial irresponsiblitiy.
Who was the President who turned the tide and began the slow and painful recovery from Republican irresponsibility? Democrat Franklin Roosevelt, with massive government spending and employment programs that benefited the middle class and produced infrastructure that still exists today.
I think we can recover from this past Republican-led economic meltdown without a World War.
Who was the President who turned the tide and began the slow and painful recovery from Republican irresponsibility? Democrat Franklin Roosevelt, with massive government spending and employment programs that benefited the middle class and produced infrastructure that still exists today.
I think we can recover from this past Republican-led economic meltdown without a World War.
I pay only $48.00 / month, and as we all know this covers ANY vehicle that I drive.
I pulled a few strings with finances and banking so that there were no "Auto Loans", thus the reason why I wasn't required to carry Full Coverage.
Hey, it's not the bank's property/investment, it's all mine, so screw them!
A few years ago, before the SR-22, I was paying (keep my "tarnished" driving record in mind) $328.00 / month for full coverage on just ONE of my vehicles! WHAT?!
So, yeah, to the dude who had all the problems with the DMV and whatever, you should have just paid for the SR-22. If you played your cards right then you could have saved yourself a butt-load of cash!!
Personally, I'd rather see a gay/lesbian couple with kids LONG before I'd ever care to see someone like yourself with one!
Just what this fucked up world needs, MORE IGNORANCE!
The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world.
Though the U.S. economy had gone into depression six months earlier, the Great Depression may be said to have begun with a catastrophic collapse of stock-market prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929. During the next three years stock prices in the United States continued to fall, until by late 1932 they had dropped to only about 20 percent of their value in 1929. Besides ruining many thousands of individual investors, this precipitous decline in the value of assets greatly strained banks and other financial institutions, particularly those holding stocks in their portfolios. Many banks were consequently forced into insolvency; by 1933, 11,000 of the United States' 25,000 banks had failed. The failure of so many banks, combined with a general and nationwide loss of confidence in the economy, led to much-reduced levels of spending and demand and hence of production, thus aggravating the downward spiral. The result was drastically falling output and drastically rising unemployment; by 1932, U.S. manufacturing output had fallen to 54 percent of its 1929 level, and unemployment had risen to between 12 and 15 million workers, or 25-30 percent of the work force.
The Great Depression began in the United States but quickly turned into a worldwide economic slump owing to the special and intimate relationships that had been forged between the United States and European economies after World War I. The United States had emerged from the war as the major creditor and financier of postwar Europe, whose national economies had been greatly weakened by the war itself, by war debts, and, in the case of Germany and other defeated nations, by the need to pay war reparations. So once the American economy slumped and the flow of American investment credits to Europe dried up, prosperity tended to collapse there as well. The Depression hit hardest those nations that were most deeply indebted to the United States, i.e., Germany and Great Britain. In Germany, unemployment rose sharply beginning in late 1929, and by early 1932 it had reached 6 million workers, or 25 percent of the work force. Britain was less severely affected, but its industrial and export sectors remained seriously depressed until World War II. Many other countries had been affected by the slump by 1931.
Almost all nations sought to protect their domestic production by imposing tariffs, raising existing ones, and setting quotas on foreign imports. The effect of these restrictive measures was to greatly reduce the volume of international trade: by 1932 the total value of world trade had fallen by more than half as country after country took measures against the importation of foreign goods.
The Great Depression had important consequences in the political sphere. In the United States, economic distress led to the election of the Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency in late 1932. Roosevelt introduced a number of major changes in the structure of the American economy, using increased government regulation and massive public-works projects to promote a recovery. But despite this active intervention, mass unemployment and economic stagnation continued, though on a somewhat reduced scale, with about 15 percent of the work force still unemployed in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II. After that, unemployment dropped rapidly as American factories were flooded with orders from overseas for armaments and munitions. The depression ended completely soon after the United States' entry into World War II in 1941. In Europe, the Great Depression strengthened extremist forces and lowered the prestige of liberal democracy. In Germany, economic distress directly contributed to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933. The Nazis' public-works projects and their rapid expansion of munitions production ended the Depression there by 1936.
At least in part, the Great Depression was caused by underlying weaknesses and imbalances within the U.S. economy that had been obscured by the boom psychology and speculative euphoria of the 1920s. The Depression exposed those weaknesses, as it did the inability of the nation's political and financial institutions to cope with the vicious downward economic cycle that had set in by 1930. Prior to the Great Depression, governments traditionally took little or no action in times of business downturn, relying instead on impersonal market forces to achieve the necessary economic correction. But market forces alone proved unable to achieve the desired recovery in the early years of the Great Depression, and this painful discovery eventually inspired some fundamental changes in the United States' economic structure. After the Great Depression, government action, whether in the form of taxation, industrial regulation, public works, social insurance, social-welfare services, or deficit spending, came to assume a principal role in ensuring economic stability in most industrial nations with market economies.
POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS
The Depression had profound political implications. In countries such as Germany and Japan, reaction to the Depression brought about the rise to power of militarist governments who adopted the regressive foreign policies that led to the Second World War. In countries such as the United States and Britain, government intervention ultimately resulted in the creation of welfare systems and the managed economies of the period following the Second World War.
In the United States Roosevelt became President in 1933 and promised a "New Deal" under which the government would intervene to reduce unemployment by work-creation schemes such as street cleaning and the painting of post offices. Both agriculture and industry were supported by policies (which turned out to be mistaken) to restrict output and increase prices. The most durable legacy of the New Deal was the great public works projects such as the Hoover Dam and the introduction by the Tennessee Valley Authority of flood control, electric power, fertilizer, and even education to a depressed agricultural region in the south.
The New Deal was not, in the main, an early example of economic management, and it did not lead to rapid recovery. Income per capita was no higher in 1939 than in 1929, although the government’s welfare and public works policies did benefit many of the most needy people. The big growth in the US economy was, in fact, due to rearmament.
In Germany Hitler adopted policies that were more interventionist, developing a massive work-creation scheme that had largely eradicated unemployment by 1936. In the same year rearmament, paid for by government borrowing, started in earnest. In order to keep down inflation, consumption was restricted by rationing and trade controls. By 1939 the Germans’ Gross National Product was 51 per cent higher than in 1929 — an increase due mainly to the manufacture of armaments and machinery.
Though the U.S. economy had gone into depression six months earlier, the Great Depression may be said to have begun with a catastrophic collapse of stock-market prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929. During the next three years stock prices in the United States continued to fall, until by late 1932 they had dropped to only about 20 percent of their value in 1929. Besides ruining many thousands of individual investors, this precipitous decline in the value of assets greatly strained banks and other financial institutions, particularly those holding stocks in their portfolios. Many banks were consequently forced into insolvency; by 1933, 11,000 of the United States' 25,000 banks had failed. The failure of so many banks, combined with a general and nationwide loss of confidence in the economy, led to much-reduced levels of spending and demand and hence of production, thus aggravating the downward spiral. The result was drastically falling output and drastically rising unemployment; by 1932, U.S. manufacturing output had fallen to 54 percent of its 1929 level, and unemployment had risen to between 12 and 15 million workers, or 25-30 percent of the work force.
The Great Depression began in the United States but quickly turned into a worldwide economic slump owing to the special and intimate relationships that had been forged between the United States and European economies after World War I. The United States had emerged from the war as the major creditor and financier of postwar Europe, whose national economies had been greatly weakened by the war itself, by war debts, and, in the case of Germany and other defeated nations, by the need to pay war reparations. So once the American economy slumped and the flow of American investment credits to Europe dried up, prosperity tended to collapse there as well. The Depression hit hardest those nations that were most deeply indebted to the United States, i.e., Germany and Great Britain. In Germany, unemployment rose sharply beginning in late 1929, and by early 1932 it had reached 6 million workers, or 25 percent of the work force. Britain was less severely affected, but its industrial and export sectors remained seriously depressed until World War II. Many other countries had been affected by the slump by 1931.
Almost all nations sought to protect their domestic production by imposing tariffs, raising existing ones, and setting quotas on foreign imports. The effect of these restrictive measures was to greatly reduce the volume of international trade: by 1932 the total value of world trade had fallen by more than half as country after country took measures against the importation of foreign goods.
The Great Depression had important consequences in the political sphere. In the United States, economic distress led to the election of the Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency in late 1932. Roosevelt introduced a number of major changes in the structure of the American economy, using increased government regulation and massive public-works projects to promote a recovery. But despite this active intervention, mass unemployment and economic stagnation continued, though on a somewhat reduced scale, with about 15 percent of the work force still unemployed in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II. After that, unemployment dropped rapidly as American factories were flooded with orders from overseas for armaments and munitions. The depression ended completely soon after the United States' entry into World War II in 1941. In Europe, the Great Depression strengthened extremist forces and lowered the prestige of liberal democracy. In Germany, economic distress directly contributed to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933. The Nazis' public-works projects and their rapid expansion of munitions production ended the Depression there by 1936.
At least in part, the Great Depression was caused by underlying weaknesses and imbalances within the U.S. economy that had been obscured by the boom psychology and speculative euphoria of the 1920s. The Depression exposed those weaknesses, as it did the inability of the nation's political and financial institutions to cope with the vicious downward economic cycle that had set in by 1930. Prior to the Great Depression, governments traditionally took little or no action in times of business downturn, relying instead on impersonal market forces to achieve the necessary economic correction. But market forces alone proved unable to achieve the desired recovery in the early years of the Great Depression, and this painful discovery eventually inspired some fundamental changes in the United States' economic structure. After the Great Depression, government action, whether in the form of taxation, industrial regulation, public works, social insurance, social-welfare services, or deficit spending, came to assume a principal role in ensuring economic stability in most industrial nations with market economies.
POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS
The Depression had profound political implications. In countries such as Germany and Japan, reaction to the Depression brought about the rise to power of militarist governments who adopted the regressive foreign policies that led to the Second World War. In countries such as the United States and Britain, government intervention ultimately resulted in the creation of welfare systems and the managed economies of the period following the Second World War.
In the United States Roosevelt became President in 1933 and promised a "New Deal" under which the government would intervene to reduce unemployment by work-creation schemes such as street cleaning and the painting of post offices. Both agriculture and industry were supported by policies (which turned out to be mistaken) to restrict output and increase prices. The most durable legacy of the New Deal was the great public works projects such as the Hoover Dam and the introduction by the Tennessee Valley Authority of flood control, electric power, fertilizer, and even education to a depressed agricultural region in the south.
The New Deal was not, in the main, an early example of economic management, and it did not lead to rapid recovery. Income per capita was no higher in 1939 than in 1929, although the government’s welfare and public works policies did benefit many of the most needy people. The big growth in the US economy was, in fact, due to rearmament.
In Germany Hitler adopted policies that were more interventionist, developing a massive work-creation scheme that had largely eradicated unemployment by 1936. In the same year rearmament, paid for by government borrowing, started in earnest. In order to keep down inflation, consumption was restricted by rationing and trade controls. By 1939 the Germans’ Gross National Product was 51 per cent higher than in 1929 — an increase due mainly to the manufacture of armaments and machinery.
If I say it's false, it's false. I deal in facts, you make things up. It's deficit neutral because the Congressional Budget Office says it is, not because I say it. The money will come from savings from not having to pay for people going to the ER instead of a family doctor. It will also be paid for in higher taxes on people making more than $500,000 a year, or families making more than $1 million. They can afford it.
Yeah, thank you George Bush for the two wars, that fucking criminal idiot who couldn't finish the job in Afghanistan and invaded Iraq, a country that did nothing to us.
And if you are so incredibly stupid that you say the Republicans, who mount up trillions in deficits, are "fiscally responsible," when Democrats, who balance budgets and restore fairness to taxation, then you are beyond any kind of intelligent debate. In fact, our country would be way better off if you'd bury yourself in a pile of cow shit and shut the fuck up.
And by the way, the Great Depression, caused by Republicans, was resolved by Democratic government spending. And if you suggest that WWII brought us financial stability, you're a real patriot. Let's just keep killing young Americans in war so you can afford paying a few bucks in taxes. Honestly, you suck and you hate America, asshole.
And if you are so incredibly stupid that you say the Republicans, who mount up trillions in deficits, are "fiscally responsible," when Democrats, who balance budgets and restore fairness to taxation, then you are beyond any kind of intelligent debate. In fact, our country would be way better off if you'd bury yourself in a pile of cow shit and shut the fuck up.
And by the way, the Great Depression, caused by Republicans, was resolved by Democratic government spending. And if you suggest that WWII brought us financial stability, you're a real patriot. Let's just keep killing young Americans in war so you can afford paying a few bucks in taxes. Honestly, you suck and you hate America, asshole.
Super Motard or Shifter Carts. We could have an event like the running of the bulls, but chase the greenies and liberals instead. Between entry fee and spectator gate fee, we could offset the BT fiasco. How about Mr. Kiss-my-taint?
Political correctness has lead to the deaths of innocent individuals.
We need to abandon the foul, egregious concept of political correctness and stop declaring minorities as "protected classes" with special consideration when crimes are committed. ANY crime is a crime! Making a crime more critical because it involves a minority simply means that minorities are BETTER than regular folks.
But her band-mate - and boyfriend - looks like a real creep. I mean, look at this guy - he looks like a total Ted Bundy type. Look how he wears his hair! I think he is dangerous and will one day shock the world with a violent crime, possibly against Blake Hazard.
When she figures out that she can go solo and make ALL the money he's going to boil over and burn down.
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