If assets = elitism
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Not sure, 7 houses and a rich wife or shady land deals.
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shady land deals? - you make it seem like obama goes around and purchases shady land deals all around the globe with every chance that he gets… - you can’t compare the elitism or assets of obama and mccain and come out of that discussion with thinking that obama is more of an elitist… - even with the shady land deal of his house and the neighboring piece of land that he bought from rezko… - mccain’s jet alone is probably worth more than all of obama’s assets combined… - c’mon man…
we’re talking elitism… - not shadiness… - and even if we were talking shadiness… - mccain takes the cake… - with the keating five scandal and money pouring in from alcohol profits year after year… - he’s basically married to the female al capone… - that’s not shady at all… - he’s voted with bush a reported 90 percent of the time… - nope… - nothing shady going on over there… - and don’t let me start rambling about his bombing days as a napalm dropper…
listen… - even if i didn’t know anything about either of these two candidates… - obama or mccain… - i know how to read body language… - and obama seems to have a much cleaner conscience…
the tabulated result: mccain is way more of an elitist and way more of a shady character than obama…
I was talking which one better represents me. The rich wife or the shady land deals. They are all shady.
I thought all that crap was his wifes? And I am not quite sure how she is the female Al capone.
you make a joke and i get all bent out of shape… - thumbs up dave… - way to go… - i’m not wound up or anything… - damn it…
sorry man… - here… - this should lighten up the mood…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNUxI8c9SRE
Leading our children down a patently unsustainable primrose path
How could one generation go so wrong? Evidently, the leaders in my generation of elders wish to live without having to accept limits to growth of seemingly endless economic globalization, increasing per capita consumption, and skyrocketing human population numbers; our desires are insatiable. We choose to believe anything that is politically convenient, economically expedient and socially agreeable; our way of life is not negotiable. We dare anyone to question our values or behaviors. We religiously promote our widely shared and consensually-validated fantasies of ‘real’ endless economic growth and soon to become unsustainable overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, and in so doing deny that Earth has limited resources and frangible ecosystems upon which the survival of life as we know it and the success of any manmade economy depend. My not-so-great generation appears to be doing a disservice to everything and everyone but ourselves.
Never in the course of human events have so few members of a single generation stolen, consumed and hoarded so much wealth at the expense of so many other people. We have mortgaged the future of our own children. We are the “what’s in it for me generation”. We demonstrate precious little regard for the maintenance of the integrity of Earth; shallow willingness to actually protect the environment from crippling degradation; lack of serious consideration for the preservation of biodiversity, wilderness, and a good enough future for our children and coming generations; and no appreciation of the vital understanding that humans are no more or less than magnificent living beings with “feet of clay”.
Perhaps my not-so-great generation does live in unsustainable ways in our planetary home; but we are proud of it nonetheless. Certainly, we will “have our cake and eat it, too.” We own fleets of cars, fly around in thousands of private jets, live in McMansions, exchange secret handshakes, frequent exclusive clubs and distant hideouts, and risk nothing of value to us. We will live long, large and free. Please do not bother us with the problems of the world. We choose not to hear, see or speak of them. Remember, silence is golden. We are the economic powerbrokers, their bought-and-paid-for politicians and the many minions in the mass media. We hold the much of the world’s wealth and the extraordinary power great wealth purchases. If left to our own devices, we will continue in the exercise of our ‘inalienable rights’ to outrageously consume Earth’s limited resources; to recklessly expand economic globalization unto every corner of our natural world and, guess what, beyond; and to carelessly consent to the unbridled global growth of human numbers so that where there are now 6+ billion people, by 2050 we will have 9+ billion members of the human community and, guess what, even more people, perhaps billions more in the distant future, if that is what we desire. We never lie but also never tell the truth as we see it. The “thing” that matters most of all to us is “the only game in town”. We are the reigning, self-proclaimed masters of the universe. We enjoy freedom and living without limits; of course, we adamantly eschew any talk of the personal responsibilities that come with the exercise of personal freedoms and any discussion of the existence of biophysical limitations a finite planet naturally imposes.
We deny the existence of human limits and Earth’s limitations. Please understand that we do not want anyone presenting us with scientific evidence that we could be living unsustainably in an artificially designed, temporary world of our own making….a manmade world filling up with gigantic enterprises, virtual mountains of material possessions, and boundless amounts of filthy lucre.
Most of our top rank experts appear not to have found adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth’s limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet’s environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world’s colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic ‘wall’ called “unsustainability” at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth’s ecology is collapsed. Who knows, perhaps we can realistically and hopefully hold onto the expectation that behavioral changes in the direction of sustainable production, per human consumption, and propagation are in the offing…..changes that save the global economy, life as we know it and Earth’s body.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001