Easy, nurse.
We hardly know eachother.
Ponderable
- Thread starter Bruddah IZ
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We hardly know eachother.
Mildred Ratched RN
SILVER ELITE
Of course we've known one another for many years now, Bernard.
Unfortunately, when you and some of the other gentlemen here have had to visit the fourth floor for treatment, often short term memory loss is a side effect. But we know the benefits of the treatments you each have received up there far outweigh this effect and other minor inconveniences to your memories.
A good night's rest will do wonders for you. And I look forward to our group session tomorrow.
Good evening, Bernard.
[QUOTE="Mildred Ratched RN]
Well that's very amusing, Mr. Sanders. But as you know, the medicines are for you and the other ward patients to serve you and their best interests.
Alcohol is strictly prohibited. However, if you feel that you do not want to take your medicine orally, we can certainly administer it in another fashion. But I am afraid you may not like the alternative.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE="Mildred Ratched RN]
Of course we've known one another for many years now, Bernard.
Unfortunately, when you and some of the other gentlemen here have had to visit the fourth floor for treatment, often short term memory loss is a side effect. But we know the benefits of the treatments you each have received up there far outweigh this effect and other minor inconveniences to your memories.
A good night's rest will do wonders for you. And I look forward to our group session tomorrow.
Good evening, Bernard.[/QUOTE]
Oh boy...Bob's back
And he's a shebe....
Oh, look! A new persona, just when some old posters' shticks were getting worn out.
Bruddah IZ
DA
..eugenics is and remains today a dirty word--precisely because of the horrors in Central Europe in the middle of the 20th century. But the Progressive Era is roughly a generation before and it had a very different meaning then than it does now. Eugenics, at the time, was the social control of human heredity. And many progressive economists and their reform allies saw eugenics as among the most fundamental of reforms that the state could carry out. In some sense, what's more important than what we would today call the human genome? So, in their view, eugenics, which comes in two flavors--negative eugenics, which is preventing children from the unfit; and positive eugenics, which is promoting more children from the fit--was at the core of any sensible social and economic policy. It's relation to Darwinism is very complicated, Russ, as you know. Each one requires a chapter in the book to sort some of these things out. A Darwinian is someone who looks at outcomes, and, in the jargon of social Darwinism says that those who survive are fittest in some sense. The eugenicist is making the opposite claim. The eugenicist is worried that those who are surviving who are outbreeding their hereditary betters need to be controlled. So, in some sense, though they both are species if you like of evolutionary thought applied to social and economic problems, eugenics starts with a very different premise--which is: The fittest are not surviving. Eugenics judges the races that are fitter ex ante, and that therefore the state must intervene to ensure that that is stopped--that the hereditary inferiors--immigrants, Catholics, and Jews from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asians, African-Americans, and the disabled--not be permitted to perpetuate their kind, or at least not be able to outbreed their biological betters.--Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era,
Mildred Ratched RN
SILVER ELITE
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Oh boy...Bob's back
And he's a shebe....
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Now when we left off at our last session, we were discussing Nonon's continuing use of his outdoor voice here in the ward. Mr. Ono, do you remember the rule that we use our indoor voices so the older gentlemen are not startled from your screaming?
Perhaps you would be kind enough to begin our talk today using our best indoor voices, shall we?
Oh boy...Bob's back
And he's a shebe....
[/QUOTE]
Now when we left off at our last session, we were discussing Nonon's continuing use of his outdoor voice here in the ward. Mr. Ono, do you remember the rule that we use our indoor voices so the older gentlemen are not startled from your screaming?
Perhaps you would be kind enough to begin our talk today using our best indoor voices, shall we?
Bruddah IZ
DA
There we go. Don't be startled Milz. Next time just hit the "reply" button.
Mildred Ratched RN
SILVER ELITE
Patients are not permitted in the nurses' station, Mr. Israel. Once you've returned to the ward floor I am sure we can have a productive conversation about the radio and the other machines designed for the patients' benefits.
I would be so disappointed if this transgression of the rules meant a more formal use of one of the 4th floor machines needed to be administered to you again. I believe we both remember how disconcerted you were the last time you left us no choice but to have you pay a visit there.
Bruddah IZ
DA
I'm very concerted. Although we lost braddah Romey last year. His tenor voice and Ono stand up bass will be missed. We would be happy to play music for your patients.
Oh boy...Bob's back
And he's a shebe....
[/QUOTE]
Now when we left off at our last session, we were discussing Nonon's continuing use of his outdoor voice here in the ward. Mr. Ono, do you remember the rule that we use our indoor voices so the older gentlemen are not startled from your screaming?
Perhaps you would be kind enough to begin our talk today using our best indoor voices, shall we?[/QUOTE]
Bob...you need to stop.
This fantasy you have of being Andy Kaufman's alter ego is going to land you in jail, you're just an old dude
who has a moderately quick wit.....eventually you will cross the line and some woman is gunna slam a zinger on ya....
Watch it Bob....someone might use this tool set on ya if you keep these psychotic rants up.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Are lobbyists the problem? Trump and his advisers seem to think so. They’ve vowed to keep lobbyists out of the administration, and Trump has signed an order forbidding all members of his administration from lobbying for 5 years.
It’s not clear whether these plans will succeed, but why should we care? Lobbyists are individuals hired to represent others with business before government. We might lament the existence of this profession, but blaming lobbyists for lobbying is like blaming lawyers for lawsuits. Everyone seems to complain about them right up until the moment that they want one.
It’s not clear whether these plans will succeed, but why should we care? Lobbyists are individuals hired to represent others with business before government. We might lament the existence of this profession, but blaming lobbyists for lobbying is like blaming lawyers for lawsuits. Everyone seems to complain about them right up until the moment that they want one.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Sheriff Joe
DA
Too Cool
GOD BLESS AMERICA
The “day without immigrants” became a teachable moment
Do you remember that “day without immigrants” protest that we talked about last week? It took place as predicted (and in fact demanded by activist organizers on the left). But in at least one location in Tennessee some of the participants learned a rapid and likely lasting lesson about the intersection of free speech and personal responsibility. Bradley Coatings, Inc. found out at the last minute that their tightly packed customer schedule was going to go up in flames when nearly 20 of their employees announced with roughly 12 hours notice that they would be taking part in the poorly defined protest and not participating in their job assignments. They made good on the threat and their employer responded in pretty much the way you would probably expect. (KTNV)
A total of 18 people were fired from a Tennessee business after joining the nation-wide protest “A Day Without Immigrants.”
The 18 employees at Bradley Coatings, Incorporated in Nolensville, Tennessee told their supervisors on Wednesday they’d be taking part in the nationwide movement. Then, on Thursday, they were told they no longer had jobs.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Rush Limbaugh is on Fox news today at 11:00 pm.
You libs shut up and listen, you might just learn something. That means you Magoo.
You libs shut up and listen, you might just learn something. That means you Magoo.
Bruddah IZ
DA
The following was printed in the newspaper "The Nation" on August 9, 1900. Special thanks to the Molinari Institute for preserving this essay.
To the principles and precepts of Liberalism the prodigious material progress of the age was largely due. Freed from the vexatious meddling of governments, men devoted themselves to their natural task, the bettering of their condition, with the wonderful results which surround us. But it now seems that its material comfort has blinded the eyes of the present generation to the cause which made it possible. In the politics of the world, Liberalism is a declining, almost a defunct force. The condition of the Liberal party in England is indeed parlous. There is actually talk of a organizing a Liberal-Imperialist party; a combination of repugnant tendencies and theories as impossible as that of fire and water. On the other hand, there is a faction of so-called Liberals who so little understand their traditions as to make common cause with the Socialists. Only a remnant, old men for the most part, still uphold the Liberal doctrine, and when they are gone, it will have no champions.--Edwin Godkin
To the principles and precepts of Liberalism the prodigious material progress of the age was largely due. Freed from the vexatious meddling of governments, men devoted themselves to their natural task, the bettering of their condition, with the wonderful results which surround us. But it now seems that its material comfort has blinded the eyes of the present generation to the cause which made it possible. In the politics of the world, Liberalism is a declining, almost a defunct force. The condition of the Liberal party in England is indeed parlous. There is actually talk of a organizing a Liberal-Imperialist party; a combination of repugnant tendencies and theories as impossible as that of fire and water. On the other hand, there is a faction of so-called Liberals who so little understand their traditions as to make common cause with the Socialists. Only a remnant, old men for the most part, still uphold the Liberal doctrine, and when they are gone, it will have no champions.--Edwin Godkin
Bruddah IZ
DA
This is excerpted from Eastman's Reflections on Socialism, which was published in 1955.
We are still beguiled by this other fairy tale: that a group of liberal-minded reformers can take charge of the economy and approximate a free and equal society.--Max Forrester Eastman
We are still beguiled by this other fairy tale: that a group of liberal-minded reformers can take charge of the economy and approximate a free and equal society.--Max Forrester Eastman
Wez
DA
Only in the minds of the hypnotized.