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Post by uncltim on Jul 16, 2009 17:39:38 GMT 1
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Post by uncltim on Jul 16, 2009 14:27:37 GMT 1
This is new to me. Thanks for the enlightenment.
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on Jul 16, 2009 0:42:03 GMT 1
A complex issue. I voted no, but I am somewhat sympathetic to the feelings of gays. The complexities are enormous. Firstly, Gay adoption really only effects males. Females can go to the doctor and choose sperm from any donor they choose. (volunteers?) Males have no such option. I must agree with Jeanne that It is important for children to be raised in a home with traditional relationships. Because of my brother, I know quite a few gay couples who would make/are fine parents. My only issue is that gays tend to associate primarily with other gays and end up living in a kind of "closed community" with little interaction with "straight" couples in a close family relationship. I dont think think that being gay diminishes anyones capacity to love and foster a child, but, It may not be the best for a child to grow up in that environment. I suppose you could make the same argument about growing up in a home with an alcoholic parent or even a home with a parent who suffers from chronic depression. Again, the issue is a complex matter. My heart and my mind are at odds. I will follow my head as my heart has a habit of leading me astray. Oh, There is also that whole "sin" thing.
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on Jul 6, 2009 19:33:13 GMT 1
Many of those who come from another place, and end up in the U.S.A., find fault with us. If they don't like us, they can go back. Mike Many come here for the freebies and get disillusioned when its time to carry their own weight. Others just got scared when something changed in their homeland and were looking for a soft place to land. We know some people like that dont we? Anyways, I know plenty of people from plenty of countries who come here and work hard, work smart, and live very successful lives. They enjoy their freedoms. It is quite amusing to me when some think we have been sitting around for 235 years just waiting for them to come and "straighten things out" for us. ;D ;D And they think we are arrogant!
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Post by uncltim on Jul 6, 2009 16:08:50 GMT 1
There were some of these guys there as well. I asked them if they were down with our rally or counter protesting or what. They were totally cool with our stuff and were just taking advantage of the crowd to get their message out. I got a pamphlet and a video from them. Even if I dont agree with them, I will defend their right to say it. I showed them respect, they reciprocated. Thats how its supposed to work right?
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Post by uncltim on Jun 27, 2009 2:04:12 GMT 1
It is unusual to break a bolt repeatedly. Do you know if the mechanic is replacing the bolt with a manufacturers bolt or a bolt bought locally? The reason I ask is because a bolt bought at a local store is usually a grade 8.8 bolt, whereas, an automotive specific bolt is usually grade 10.9 or higher. www.boltdepot.com/metric-hex-bolts.aspxA powerful motor is a good problem to have!
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Post by uncltim on Jun 26, 2009 21:22:09 GMT 1
I guess that is what we refer to as a motor mount. Its a bolt that is cast in rubber and bolted to the engine. The rubber block is then in turn captured by a steel band and bolted to the frame. Is that it?
I still think you are a "motor head" ;D
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Post by uncltim on Jun 26, 2009 21:13:18 GMT 1
Is this a common problem for your model of auto? It seems you have found a good quality service station.
Does Bo have a heavy foot?? Hmmm...
We are on our fourth day of 90+ degrees f. I was lucky and had scheduled 4 hours of Industrial control networks training so I got a break from the heat.
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Post by uncltim on Jun 20, 2009 14:19:30 GMT 1
Tufta, I agree. racial and gender neutrality is really the only long-term solution. Any power without opposition will become tyrannical at some point in the future.
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on Jun 19, 2009 1:18:04 GMT 1
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Post by uncltim on Jun 19, 2009 1:04:35 GMT 1
I don't really understand why any type of pride in the white race seems to take place with Nazi symbology. That seems counter productive. Any people I've met who were members of these types of organizations really had nothing to do with the original Nazism in word or deed.
+++And, what 'white pride' assures that 'human pride' wouldn't assure?+++
The problem as I see it is this, White people are the only group or race that is not treated as a group or race. Here in the States we have all kinds of groups and organizations that are race based. they are all celebrated and encouraged by the government, even supported by tax dollars. The problem is that any group or organization who wanted to support exclusively white people would trigger an immediate and Pavlovian response from the media and government. (And -ironically-white people)
There is a huge double standard here. Let me give an example of how things have changed where I live. In Dayton Ohio, the city passed several policies that encouraged it to do business with minority owned businesses. That seems like a good idea right? Well, since the white people have slowly left Dayton for greener pastures, The blacks have pretty much taken over government here and become the majority of the population. Still sounds OK. Heres where it gets ugly. When some of the remaining white people realized they were now the minority, they wanted the "favored minority" status that the blacks had enjoyed. City hall came unglued! Late at night the city council held a policy review meeting and changed the policy terminology from "minority" to "people of color". The term "people of color" excludes only one race. There you have it, Institutionalized racism against white people.
I live in a very diverse place in Ohio. I work and live with people of all kinds and flavors. One thing I can tell you with great certainty is that they are not race neutral as you and I are expected to be. I have never in 43 years met a white person as racist as a some of the colored people I've met.
I hope that you will learn to worry more about what other groups think of you. and, what their ultimate goals are. Well meaning people have put their own kind into a very questionable future. At the very least, I hope that you will learn to recognize when you are being treated unfairly. It happens more than you think.
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on Jun 18, 2009 5:12:15 GMT 1
Does Poland also have the AFA? I remember on the anniversary of the bombing of Dresden this year that 6000 nazis showed up and 10000 AFA members showed up! the AFA decided to fight with the cops. the nazis were the peaceful ones! I dont personally have a problem with "white pride".
I have a thread that I saved from a image board where some former AFA members and the general scum of the planet (me)had an extremely open conversation about this. Just ask and I will send it to you. It is far from appropriate to post on the open forum.
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on Jun 17, 2009 21:11:50 GMT 1
Hi Paulo!
You sound like an Ohioan to me.
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on Jun 9, 2009 2:17:22 GMT 1
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Post by uncltim on May 31, 2009 1:24:38 GMT 1
Bo, There is much attention paid to inner city people in the U.S. The truth of the matter is that the poorest live in the rural parts. They get very little attention payed to them because they are predominantly white. They have no advocacy group. I am very familiar with the area where this event took place. I have many friends in S.E. Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia. Most of these friendships came from mutual interests in hunting and Bluegrass music. Most of these people are truly dirt poor. I must add that you will never have a truer friend than someone from these areas. The area I was raised in N. Wisconsin was much like these areas.(Much, much, colder though.) I only saw a dentist twice before I got a good job with insurance. My teeth were quite bad. I had an appointment with my dentist every two weeks for five months! I must say that I have a very good relationship with him, We are the same age and got to know each other very well. Whenever I see him I tell him about the shoddy workmanship of the dentist that fixed my teeth. He obligingly asks who that was, and I tell him "YOU!" The look on his young assistants face is always priceless!
+++Christine Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery in Louisville, Ky.+++ The Industry that I work in is very heavy and crushing accidents are rare but not unheard of. There is a standing order in the shop that I work in to demand helicopter flight to Jewish hospital in Louisville Ky. If such injury occurs. They are the best. I would also proudly tell you that my wifes Aunt Joy was a surgical nurse in the O.R. for the first mechanical heart transplant using the Jarvic heart.
These are some tough, tough people. They are as likely to put a pair of pliers in their mouth and pull a bad tooth as you or I am to make a dentist appointment. The bad part of this is that when they finally seek care they are terribly sick. I am glad to see them being helped.
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Post by uncltim on May 28, 2009 21:37:20 GMT 1
Good Man!
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Post by uncltim on May 28, 2009 1:54:46 GMT 1
Bo, I suspected at one point in my life I was an alcoholic. I was counseled by a good friend that I was not an alcoholic. I was in fact just a drunk. When I asked him to explain the difference, He informed me that alcoholics go to A.A. meetings. Drunks do not.
-Tim
As a general rule, If you need a drink, You have a drinking problem. I myself had a problem and was blessed with victory! I hope the same for you.
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Post by uncltim on May 23, 2009 0:28:26 GMT 1
A very controversial subject in Poland I see!
You may have read my post on another forum where I revealed that I was present at my gay brothers wedding. I wish to explain my thoughts on the subject if you would so humor me.
It is my opinion that my Marriage consists of two very different components.
1. A covenant with God. 2. A contract (Civil) with the state.
When my brother asked me to be present at his"wedding" I asked only one question "Will the ceremony be of a religious nature?" He replied that It would not be. I said "I will be there."
His reason for entering into Civil Union was simple enough. He has amassed a comfortable retirement and does not wish for it to be given to the state through taxation or given back to the CEO of his company after his eventual death.
He understands that the Church will never condone his Union. He would never ask them to. Both he and I agree that he has a Civil Union with another man, He does not have a Marriage. Marriage is a covenant with God. A Civil Union is a contract with the government.
Is my logic flawed on this matter?
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on May 22, 2009 21:14:07 GMT 1
+++I think embrace is the wrong way to put it. I think Poland almost embraced too much of western consumer society. I think you should take over the fundamentals of a good system, but I actually, in a way, wish that Poland had kept more specific features of its own culture, and I think that's a challenge for each individual country to combine the basics of a well-functioning liberal democracy with characteristics of its own culture and society.+++
I hope the Polish people will take the above paragraph to heart. I also hope they realize that the day they convert to the Euro as currency, Will be the day that Poland ceases to be a sovereign nation.
In my ignorant yet observant opinion.
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on May 19, 2009 21:58:14 GMT 1
Thanks, That makes more sense now.
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Post by uncltim on May 19, 2009 21:23:59 GMT 1
Does the term "insanity" come to mind for anyone else?
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on May 19, 2009 5:02:46 GMT 1
Besides, you American people (well, SOME of you) have some strange trait In the other forum I just read how a well traveled, intelligent American explains to 'non-native English speakers' the meaning of an Ancient Greek word, which was incorporated into European languages long before Cristopher Columbus learned how to sail.... And now you...
We have A Lot of strange traits!
Well traveled, intelligent American..... No such thing exists. You know that.
non-native English speakers' the meaning of an Ancient Greek word. I am unsure of the word in question. It is late and I have been traveling for the last three days. Sorting through the other forum is tedious and I tire easily. Give me a hint!
Admittedly, We Yanks tend to do as we please with regard to language. Arguing the intricacies of language with us is like pissing in an ocean of piss. It ends up making no difference.
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on May 15, 2009 21:58:52 GMT 1
Tufta, You used a technique that I like to employ myself. Role-reversal is extremely useful when considering an ethical situation, It helps one to empathize with others in a given situation. I agree that the family looks to have been treated unfairly! The question of motive remains. I despise irrational bigotry. But, If they have had problems in the past I think they should have the right to protect themselves from loss. Lets keep in mind that the owner lost money by not renting the rooms. outwardly it looks like a case of bigotry but maybe, maybe not. Racism is an incorrect term, but it gets used a lot in these situations because it gets the maximum reaction and media exposure.
I have learned that you must choose your words wisely when involved in race/culture situations. The definitions below have subtle differences and overlap in places, but it is important to note the differences
Racism is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
A bigot is a person who is intolerant of or takes offense to the opinions, lifestyles or identities differing from his or her own, and bigotry is the corresponding attitude or mindset.
Bias is a term used to described a tendency or preference to-wards a particular perspective, ideology or result, especially when the tendency interferes with the ability to be impartial, unprejudiced, or objective.
I hope that we learn more about the hotel owners reasoning.
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on May 14, 2009 23:59:25 GMT 1
Without knowing the reason the owner of the hotel chooses not to host jewish guests we make a large jump to assume "racism" is the cause. It is foolish to accept this kind of "labeling" as an automatic truth. It only serves the needs of others who seek to control a situation when we give that kind of talk an unthinking credibility.
-Tim
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Post by uncltim on Mar 20, 2009 0:20:38 GMT 1
Thank you Gigi!
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Post by uncltim on Jan 16, 2009 23:23:11 GMT 1
I can resist making comment no longer! Women should not be ordained as a priest. In fact, The Bible provides evidence that there are no women in heaven! My proof? Revelation, 8:1
Tim. (back to my lurking)
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Post by uncltim on Jan 14, 2009 5:57:15 GMT 1
bonobo, The term "actual photo" is a bit strange.
I would normally just ask someone to "send me a photo", or "send me a photo of yourself".
If I wanted a picture that was not old. I might ask for a "recent photo".
All photos are considered to be "actual" just by the fact that they are photographs. The only situation that the term "actual photo" would normally be used is in the case of a passport when a copy of a photo is not permitted.
Hope this is helpful. Tim
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