In news:rec.food.cooking, Michel Boucher > posted on
Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:09:01 -0500 the following:

> Damaeus > wrote in
> :
>
> > As I see it, they shouldn't say anything in public that they aren't
> > prepared to step up on stage and say in person.
>
> The amazing thing is that she is hiring Levant to represent her in a human
> rights complaint after HER organizers shut down the debate. Can you say
> "self-absorbed"? I knew you could :-)

I read more about it and found out that the police shut down the thing
going on in Canada, not Ann. Ann actually wants to press forward. Maybe
that makes her more of a bitch than I thought she was originally. I
dunno. Some people just hit me that way. "Bitch..." You know the type.
Doesn't mean I stick to the view, but sometimes it hits.

> It might have been politic to let her put her foot in it and then arrest
> her for hate-mongering. Of course, her whole argument falls apart as she
> is trying to deny a much larger group of people THEIR right to free speech
> in a democratic society.

Yes, having your voice heard on a planet of many is hard to do.
Unfortunately people who are "important enough" to get on TV get a lot
more attention than someone who lives in a trailer in Mississippi. The
guy living in Mississippi would be able to say more about what's needed
than some career politician with a lousy tie.

I don't think anybody can deny that "more money" makes the living of life
better. I know people like to parrot that "money can't buy happiness". I
think that's propaganda. I know there are wealthy people who have lost
their happiness. Also, as someone who has never had a lot of money, I
can't see how having more of it could make me unhappy, or prevent me from
being happier.

The lack of enough money in my own life has lead to all kinds of
depressing things, like not being able to buy all the latest video games.
Video games certainly make me happy. There are some I want now, and not
being able to get them makes me unhappy. Or not being able to pay the
bills I ran up going into debt for the necessities (like car repairs) I
needed just to keep going to work every day. Not having enough money
starts you out in a position of discontent to begin with. At least having
plenty of money to spend on the things you need and want keeps that aspect
of life (the lack of money) from making you unhappy.

Money didn't buy happiness for one person who perhaps had a remarkable
story. But it has turned into a religion. You can't buy happiness with
cash, but who wants to order happiness and pay the bill for it? In that
case, it's the trip toward happiness that is more fun: spending the money,
and using what you've bought.

Damaeus
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"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
-Harry Anslinger (1929), Federal Bureau of Narcotics