BY MIKE STIMPSON, Roundtree7
With Select Original Comments
Many, many moons ago, I heard a professor in a poli sci course glibly say socialists think everyone should finish a foot race at the same time.
I told him a better metaphor would be that capitalism is a party where everyone is invited with full knowledge that the vast majority can’t attend. Continue reading »
By Krell, Roundtree7
Democrats: A leadership completely in the pocket of the plutocracy, as their "foes", the Republicans, but with a different approach to fooling the masses.
A Zero-sum Game is a situation in which one side will have results of a gain or loss that exactly balances the gains or losses of the other side. Sounds more complicated that it really is.
Arm wrestling would be a zero-sum game, one person is going to win, the other person is going to lose so it equals out.
Another example may be a chocolate cake that needs to be divided up into portions for a Scout Troop. One way that the events may unfold, I will call it the “That’s not fair” scenario is that the first person takes ALL the cake and runs away. Continue reading »
By Krell, RoundTree7
July 7, 2011 | with select original comments
Regular Democratic rally: meeting of the deluded
Republicans and Democrats… to even suggest that they may be the same thing seems absurd to some, invoking strong debate or personal attacks by others. It’s “Us versus Them” for the political landscape and future of the country, right?
But if you look at the actions of both parties, the actual policies and voting records, the wide dividing line between the parties becomes narrow and blurred.
There is a saying that goes… “If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…”
Let’s look at the facts and try to separate the Ducks from the Mallards. Review some of the talking points that Democrats use to distinguish themselves from their “lessor” counterparts. Continue reading »
By AL OSORIO
All manner of injustice and violence is hidden in the fog of time and adulterated history.
IDF soldier
Following centuries of Diaspora, the Jewish people returned to their ancestral homeland . Eretz Israel, the land of Israel, the Promised Land. Promised to them by God, fulfilling prophecy from the Old Testament. Following centuries of religious persecution, the Christian people sought and found their own promised land, sailing across the sea to establish a colony in what is now Massachusetts.
They knocked, but no one answered the door
Palestine was sparsely settled, nomadic tribes foraged for food. “A land without people for a people without land”. Israel made the desert bloom. They delivered the blessings of Western civilization to the native tribes. The land discovered by the Christians was sparsely settled, nomadic tribes foraged for food from sea to shining sea. Manifest Destiny allowed these colonists to spread across the land, fulfilling their destiny as granted to them by God. Continue reading »