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		<title>By: I told you so&#8230; and it&#8217;s about time &#171; The Hippie Professor</title>
		<link>http://hippieprofessor.com/2009/09/13/calling-it-what-it-is/#comment-2415</link>
		<dc:creator>I told you so&#8230; and it&#8217;s about time &#171; The Hippie Professor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Derald</title>
		<link>http://hippieprofessor.com/2009/09/13/calling-it-what-it-is/#comment-1142</link>
		<dc:creator>Derald</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The ploy of the word &quot;Racism&quot; is a wedge to defeat the ideal or concept of another one does not agree with. That card is used regularly by the left hinge of our society when they have little to base their argument on. The implication of &quot;Hussein&quot; is not racial it is religious. Their concept or ideal is the name &quot;Hussein&quot; implies a connection to the Muslim faith which is antithetical to the American way of life. Works well in a Theocracy if you are a Muslim. But our America is not a Theocracy, it is a Representative Republic.

It is my personal opinion Barrack &quot;Hussein&quot; Obama is engaging in practices that are against the tenments this great country were founded on. The name &quot;Hussein&quot; has nothing to do with my opinion. But it&#039;s use does bring your attention to my statements. There are numerous avenues of communication to address your feelings about Mr. Obama. Let&#039;s take the avenue of reality.

To assume one can as President mandate to a private corporation&#039;s CEO what he or she is to do and order their removal and replacement is not Constitutionally allowed. That behavior is not unlike that of Khrushchev when he mandated 78% of Russian Farms be converted to grow corn after he came to Iowa and saw the success of corn farmers there. The act was an abysmal failure because Khrushchev didn&#039;t know anything about farming in his own country. Knowing about Khrushchev and his &quot;Narcissistic&quot; penchants it is not unrealistic to assert he saw Iowa and strove to prove the Russian Farmer could do it even better. Had climate and practices been equal for the Russian farmers they may have been able to do it as well and who knows some even better had their incentives been equal to 
Iowa&#039;s Farmers. We all know they were not and the braggadocios Khrushchev was to put it plainly, a Fool for thinking it would work.

 When Obama and Congress start diminishing incentive to produce by over taxation, Government meddling in areas they have no business messing in because they have become like Khrushchev or any other of bureaucratic socialist it is doomed to fail. Believe congress and the President are behaving properly and their agendas are what is best for America? If so then you are lacking in knowledge and understanding of what is a relatively short span of World History. Every country that has engaged in their type of idealism has either imploded or diminished and used their friendship with us as a safety net against their own demise. Some did this while their leaders publically slandered and browbeat us on the world stage. We remained the standard for freedom and the rewards success based on individual effort. 

So with Obama, it isn&#039;t racial for 99.9% of those who use his middle name to make a negative implication. Could be some don&#039;t fully understand what it is they don&#039;t like about him and use the name as a negative identifier to insert those feelings into whatever it is they are stating. 

I&#039;ll identify it for them here. We do not like Obama because he is narcissistic and his agenda is Socialism. Socialism has either failed abysmally every time it is tried or left the countries that embraced it bankrupt and weak which is also a failure. Every Socialist country has had leadership by narcissistic personalities. 

We at present have leadership that is attempting to jam Socialist programs down our throats because they think they know better than the majority of American Society. Millions have said &quot;NO&quot; to their representatives in Washington. Instead of taking heed the leadership has repeatedly attempted to slip their unwanted and unnecessary legislation past you and into law before you can again say &quot;NO&quot; .. The current opinion is they need to go if they aren&#039;t smart enough to understand &quot;NO&quot;

Find anything Racial in that?

It isn&#039;t wrong or bad to say &quot;NO&quot; when the thing you are saying &quot;NO&quot; to is wrong for America. Under scrutiny you will find the only areas where Health Care is diminished and lacking are those areas where Government has tried to provide financing. Their presence has increased cost wherever they are involved. Their presence has often caused those in need to experience undue delays because hoops must be jumped through to satisfy arbitrary Government requirements.

The nature of the beast is to want more if the Federal Government is buying it. Always has been and always will be. Experience, you know that thing that creates wisdom through a clarity of knowledge. Well; Experience is Government involvement assures the system will never again work as well as it did when free market solutions were paramount. 

We just want Washington to stop being stupid with our money. If using the name &quot;Hussein&quot; helps some to express their dissatisfaction with his performance their isn&#039;t a lick of Racist connotation to it. Get over it.


Derald in Dallas</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ploy of the word &#8220;Racism&#8221; is a wedge to defeat the ideal or concept of another one does not agree with. That card is used regularly by the left hinge of our society when they have little to base their argument on. The implication of &#8220;Hussein&#8221; is not racial it is religious. Their concept or ideal is the name &#8220;Hussein&#8221; implies a connection to the Muslim faith which is antithetical to the American way of life. Works well in a Theocracy if you are a Muslim. But our America is not a Theocracy, it is a Representative Republic.</p>
<p>It is my personal opinion Barrack &#8220;Hussein&#8221; Obama is engaging in practices that are against the tenments this great country were founded on. The name &#8220;Hussein&#8221; has nothing to do with my opinion. But it&#8217;s use does bring your attention to my statements. There are numerous avenues of communication to address your feelings about Mr. Obama. Let&#8217;s take the avenue of reality.</p>
<p>To assume one can as President mandate to a private corporation&#8217;s CEO what he or she is to do and order their removal and replacement is not Constitutionally allowed. That behavior is not unlike that of Khrushchev when he mandated 78% of Russian Farms be converted to grow corn after he came to Iowa and saw the success of corn farmers there. The act was an abysmal failure because Khrushchev didn&#8217;t know anything about farming in his own country. Knowing about Khrushchev and his &#8220;Narcissistic&#8221; penchants it is not unrealistic to assert he saw Iowa and strove to prove the Russian Farmer could do it even better. Had climate and practices been equal for the Russian farmers they may have been able to do it as well and who knows some even better had their incentives been equal to<br />
Iowa&#8217;s Farmers. We all know they were not and the braggadocios Khrushchev was to put it plainly, a Fool for thinking it would work.</p>
<p> When Obama and Congress start diminishing incentive to produce by over taxation, Government meddling in areas they have no business messing in because they have become like Khrushchev or any other of bureaucratic socialist it is doomed to fail. Believe congress and the President are behaving properly and their agendas are what is best for America? If so then you are lacking in knowledge and understanding of what is a relatively short span of World History. Every country that has engaged in their type of idealism has either imploded or diminished and used their friendship with us as a safety net against their own demise. Some did this while their leaders publically slandered and browbeat us on the world stage. We remained the standard for freedom and the rewards success based on individual effort. </p>
<p>So with Obama, it isn&#8217;t racial for 99.9% of those who use his middle name to make a negative implication. Could be some don&#8217;t fully understand what it is they don&#8217;t like about him and use the name as a negative identifier to insert those feelings into whatever it is they are stating. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll identify it for them here. We do not like Obama because he is narcissistic and his agenda is Socialism. Socialism has either failed abysmally every time it is tried or left the countries that embraced it bankrupt and weak which is also a failure. Every Socialist country has had leadership by narcissistic personalities. </p>
<p>We at present have leadership that is attempting to jam Socialist programs down our throats because they think they know better than the majority of American Society. Millions have said &#8220;NO&#8221; to their representatives in Washington. Instead of taking heed the leadership has repeatedly attempted to slip their unwanted and unnecessary legislation past you and into law before you can again say &#8220;NO&#8221; .. The current opinion is they need to go if they aren&#8217;t smart enough to understand &#8220;NO&#8221;</p>
<p>Find anything Racial in that?</p>
<p>It isn&#8217;t wrong or bad to say &#8220;NO&#8221; when the thing you are saying &#8220;NO&#8221; to is wrong for America. Under scrutiny you will find the only areas where Health Care is diminished and lacking are those areas where Government has tried to provide financing. Their presence has increased cost wherever they are involved. Their presence has often caused those in need to experience undue delays because hoops must be jumped through to satisfy arbitrary Government requirements.</p>
<p>The nature of the beast is to want more if the Federal Government is buying it. Always has been and always will be. Experience, you know that thing that creates wisdom through a clarity of knowledge. Well; Experience is Government involvement assures the system will never again work as well as it did when free market solutions were paramount. </p>
<p>We just want Washington to stop being stupid with our money. If using the name &#8220;Hussein&#8221; helps some to express their dissatisfaction with his performance their isn&#8217;t a lick of Racist connotation to it. Get over it.</p>
<p>Derald in Dallas</p>
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		<title>By: John Hampton</title>
		<link>http://hippieprofessor.com/2009/09/13/calling-it-what-it-is/#comment-607</link>
		<dc:creator>John Hampton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Somehow I just knew that I would end up being called a quark - before this was over. 

Why would you assume that it was intended as an insult?  LOL</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Somehow I just knew that I would end up being called a quark &#8211; before this was over. </p>
<p>Why would you assume that it was intended as an insult?  LOL</p>
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		<title>By: John Hampton</title>
		<link>http://hippieprofessor.com/2009/09/13/calling-it-what-it-is/#comment-601</link>
		<dc:creator>John Hampton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice comeback on the lepton remark.  LOL. At least you didn&#039;t say I&#039;m a racist for calling you a lepton.</description>
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		<title>By: Paul Brandon</title>
		<link>http://hippieprofessor.com/2009/09/13/calling-it-what-it-is/#comment-593</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul Brandon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HippieProf has already said it pretty well.
Forming an opinion based on the first few words that someone says sounds to me like pre-judging.

And mesons to you too.</description>
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Forming an opinion based on the first few words that someone says sounds to me like pre-judging.</p>
<p>And mesons to you too.</p>
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		<title>By: hippieprof</title>
		<link>http://hippieprofessor.com/2009/09/13/calling-it-what-it-is/#comment-590</link>
		<dc:creator>hippieprof</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK - well - you&#039;re a quark!

(OK - not sure I have ever seen someone insulted by being called a subatomic particle before...... heck - maybe its a compliment for all I know....)

;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK &#8211; well &#8211; you&#8217;re a quark!</p>
<p>(OK &#8211; not sure I have ever seen someone insulted by being called a subatomic particle before&#8230;&#8230; heck &#8211; maybe its a compliment for all I know&#8230;.)<br />
 <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: John Hampton</title>
		<link>http://hippieprofessor.com/2009/09/13/calling-it-what-it-is/#comment-589</link>
		<dc:creator>John Hampton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you&#039;re a lepton.</description>
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		<title>By: John Hampton</title>
		<link>http://hippieprofessor.com/2009/09/13/calling-it-what-it-is/#comment-588</link>
		<dc:creator>John Hampton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmmm...well, Paul, perhaps you&#039;d like to elaborate on just what point I succeeded in getting across to you of which I&#039;m not aware. You&#039;re so cryptic.  Help me out with this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmm&#8230;well, Paul, perhaps you&#8217;d like to elaborate on just what point I succeeded in getting across to you of which I&#8217;m not aware. You&#8217;re so cryptic.  Help me out with this.</p>
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		<title>By: John Hampton</title>
		<link>http://hippieprofessor.com/2009/09/13/calling-it-what-it-is/#comment-583</link>
		<dc:creator>John Hampton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t know hippieprof I just can&#039;t stand the guy. The first time I heard him speak on NPR radio a few years ago I knew it just from listening to him the first time.  My first thought was , &quot;Now where the hell did this joker come from?&quot; So the joker thing goes back some time. An inner fear of clowns?  Maybe. 

The rest of that about words like hate and despise not being cool - well that&#039;s just semantics, dude.  It&#039;s not polite to use a lot of foul and vulgar expletives for emphasis when in mixed company so I have to find a way to express my disdain and contempt.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know hippieprof I just can&#8217;t stand the guy. The first time I heard him speak on NPR radio a few years ago I knew it just from listening to him the first time.  My first thought was , &#8220;Now where the hell did this joker come from?&#8221; So the joker thing goes back some time. An inner fear of clowns?  Maybe. </p>
<p>The rest of that about words like hate and despise not being cool &#8211; well that&#8217;s just semantics, dude.  It&#8217;s not polite to use a lot of foul and vulgar expletives for emphasis when in mixed company so I have to find a way to express my disdain and contempt.</p>
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		<title>By: hippieprof</title>
		<link>http://hippieprofessor.com/2009/09/13/calling-it-what-it-is/#comment-580</link>
		<dc:creator>hippieprof</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John....

Thanks for dropping by and commenting.... but dude - where is all that anger coming from?

You use the words &quot;hate&quot; and &quot;despise&quot; and similarly strong, emotional words....

Maybe it is just a semantic difference - but I really reserve &quot;hatred&quot; for very very extreme cases - Hitler, Bin Laden - not too many others.

&quot;Despise&quot; is less strong of a word - but I don&#039;t know that I even use it very often.  I disagreed with much of what Bush did - especially after the Iraq invasion - but I would never have said that I despised him.  The closest a politician comes for me is probably Sarah Palin - but I don&#039;t even think I despise her.  I think she is uneducated and not very bright - and hides it behind a snarky personality - and I guess I do fear what she could do if she ever were to become President - but I don&#039;t despise her.

I think Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck come the closest to &quot;despise&quot; for me.  That is because I believe they willfully spread disinformation all in the name of the huge amount of money they are making.

Maybe you are just more emotional than I am - and maybe we are just using words differently - but what has Obama actually done that would lead you to despise or hate him?  You say he is &quot;the Joker&quot; and that he is full of deceit and malevolence - but where is that coming from?  What has he actually done to deserve those labels?  

Certainly you can disagree with his positions - but to the point that you hate and despise him? 

Please take that as an honest question - I mean it sincerely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John&#8230;.</p>
<p>Thanks for dropping by and commenting&#8230;. but dude &#8211; where is all that anger coming from?</p>
<p>You use the words &#8220;hate&#8221; and &#8220;despise&#8221; and similarly strong, emotional words&#8230;.</p>
<p>Maybe it is just a semantic difference &#8211; but I really reserve &#8220;hatred&#8221; for very very extreme cases &#8211; Hitler, Bin Laden &#8211; not too many others.</p>
<p>&#8220;Despise&#8221; is less strong of a word &#8211; but I don&#8217;t know that I even use it very often.  I disagreed with much of what Bush did &#8211; especially after the Iraq invasion &#8211; but I would never have said that I despised him.  The closest a politician comes for me is probably Sarah Palin &#8211; but I don&#8217;t even think I despise her.  I think she is uneducated and not very bright &#8211; and hides it behind a snarky personality &#8211; and I guess I do fear what she could do if she ever were to become President &#8211; but I don&#8217;t despise her.</p>
<p>I think Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck come the closest to &#8220;despise&#8221; for me.  That is because I believe they willfully spread disinformation all in the name of the huge amount of money they are making.</p>
<p>Maybe you are just more emotional than I am &#8211; and maybe we are just using words differently &#8211; but what has Obama actually done that would lead you to despise or hate him?  You say he is &#8220;the Joker&#8221; and that he is full of deceit and malevolence &#8211; but where is that coming from?  What has he actually done to deserve those labels?  </p>
<p>Certainly you can disagree with his positions &#8211; but to the point that you hate and despise him? </p>
<p>Please take that as an honest question &#8211; I mean it sincerely.</p>
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