eagleye13 Loc: Fl

"I must have missed where you weren't lumping them all together." - Morgan


I have been doing it two years. Most have figured that out.
You have that old knee jerk response, without paying attention.

My beef is with NWO Political Zionism.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Life is full of disappointments Morgan.
And you're wrong.

Morgan

I'm not negative at all, I'm one of the few who have been trying to get people not to have people come together and try to see eye to eye as American's only to receive lashes from the right of how I'm a #$%*&liberal and they hate all liberals. I'm also not the one who has a problem with people who don't believe what I do, which you'd know if you actually read my posts,but your accusation is a very vague comment and opinionated to say the least.

I didn't think my request was such a big deal, similar to when grownups are having a discussion and the little child keeps running in, interrupting and being disruptive. I guess that was too much to ask. You've skillfully positioned yourself very well as the queen bee, really quite amazing I've never witnessed anything like it before. To make any kind of critical comment to you one can assume the onslaught of your worker bees. My hat is off to you, good job.

Why thank you, you have a pleasant day and Happy New Year too!

Morgan

Yes life is full of disappointments... and rewards.
I thought when I spoke to some here as yourself, I thought I was an individual, but when I read how liberal's are the destruction of the country,and how I'm considered a liberal, those are hateful provoking words and I realize no matter what I say, I am not considered as an individual or a person, and any attempt to build a bridge is futile, which is very disappointing.

If I am wrong about you I sincerely apologize, and I hope I am, and not the one you'd like to punch in the face, as I know AO would like to.

Morgan

I don't think it's a knee jerk reaction, as I know others see it as I do. You believe Jews do not have a right to live in Israel?

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

You and a few others have liked to misrepresent my position. Not in the mood to waste my time on you for the moment.
"You believe Jews do not have a right to live in Israel?" - Morgan
Nope.

Morgan

...and who are you? Funny you should buzz in now, with recollections of my conversations with Lindajoy from August...I can see you are very devoted to her, an admiral quality.

Morgan

I don't like to misrepresent anyone, if that exists than it is due to a misunderstanding.

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

When a wild animal attacks a human, you simply shoot it...so I have to consider you are a skunk with rabies....and what would be the best course of action for a human to do with you? BINGO!

Many of the people in the USA are just not going to tolerate what you lefties have done to OUR Nation. When that pea sized brain of yours can register that, maybe you will come to terms with the fact YOUR thought process is like lighting a building on fire and expecting no one to desire to put it out. You are destructive, UN American, clearly against freedom and have ZERO mental ability to do much more than to cry about the fact your days of free stuff...is over!

Progressive One

how do you come up with such brain-dead bullshit on a consistent basis?

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Progressive One

2017 will be just as bad

By Ann Friedman
IT’S TIME to bid good riddance to everything horrible that has happened in the past year. From headlines in the Washington Post and BuzzFeed to posts sprinkled across social media sites to casual conversations at holiday parties, we’re collectively writing off the past 12 months as truly terrible in the hopes that next year will be an improvement. “It wasn’t a bad year for me personally,” a friend said to me this week, “but, wow, was it an awful year for the world.”
This line of thinking might seem pessimistic, the result of a depressive tendency to highlight only the worst aspects of the past 12 months. Some good things happened too, even if none immediately springs to mind. But “worst year ever” comments are actually unnaturally optimistic. To declare you’re “so over” 2016 is to assume that everything that made this year difficult will come to a hard stop when the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31. To declare 2016 the worst year ever carries the audacious implication that we can leave behind the negative things that happened and start fresh.
Complaints about 2016 are well-founded. The United States elected a uniquely unqualified president who embraces misogynistic and white-nationalist rhetoric — and saw a subsequent spike in hate crimes. The public mourned the deaths of beloved figures including Prince, Muhammad Ali and David Bowie. According to a BBC survey of obituaries, twice as many notable people died in 2016 as did in 2015.
Across the Atlantic, voters in the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union, even as thousands of Syrian refugees shivered in makeshift camps from Greece to Germany. Venezuela’s economy collapsed, and its democracy may follow suit. The Philippine president bragged about gunning down citizens in the streets. And there was a parade of natural disasters (wildfires in California, landslides in Indonesia) corporate scandals (Wells Fargo) and communicable diseases (Zika).
Social media compounded the effect of each piece of bad news. “The awful folkways of social media — which encourage us to call out bad things in dramatic fashion and then pretend that we’ve been helpful — have led to something of an annual conclusion,” Jia Tolentino wrote in the New Yorker. “Google searches for ‘worst year ever’ spike each December.”
But 2016 isn’t done with us.
The things that made the year so difficult — war, economic inequality, broken democracies, entrenched racism and sexism — are not going away. Important artists and cultural figures are going to die in 2017. Openly racist politicians with autocratic tendencies will be elected in 2017. Economies will collapse in 2017. Unarmed black people will be killed by police in 2017. Civilians will die in senseless wars in 2017, and many others will become refugees.
This is only cause for despair if we’re willing to sit idly by. Most of us have the ability to work against the forces that made this year so terrible (with the exception of human mortality, of course). We can support electoral reform efforts and opposition candidates. We can turn up in the streets to demand that our leaders protect Medicare and respect civil rights and hold police accountable. We can support organizations working to counteract the negative effects of civil wars and forced migration.
Action will require a shift in perspective. As consumers of news and social media, it’s easy to feel we are passively watching an endless number of heart-rending and blood-boiling stories unfold. The “worst year ever” frame encourages the view that we are powerless to change the headlines we read. But if we can start thinking of ourselves as agents rather than mere observers — as people who have an important role to play in changing the circumstances that currently bring us despair — the parade of negative news becomes a call to action. These compounding events are, in fact, a to-do list for the coming months.
“The past is never dead,” as the oft-misquoted William Faulkner line goes. “It isn’t even past.” This is acutely true in the waning days of 2016. While it might be an exhausting truth to recall on New Year’s Eve, when we’d rather sip bubbly wine and toast to a fresh start, next year won’t be an improvement simply because it’s a new calendar year. If we want 2017 to be better, we have to work to make it so.
ANN FRIEDMAN is a contributing writer to Opinion. She lives in Los Angeles.

Progressive One

I never look at YouTube references on OPP.............never...........

Morgan

The sad thing is you actually believe you and your onslaught of hateful diatribe is accomplishing something, when it doesn't, it only makes people want to react in kind, and you most probably and typically will say good. There isn't any reason to speak to you about anything. You want to blame liberals, because you need someone, instead of seeing where it's really coming from. Your rhetoric is a broken record, it has no impact whatsoever.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

People lump liberals together just as you do the right as you call us. You do lean to the left, no denying it on your part. I, myself am one of the 'right'. I don't get my feelings hurt over the constant attacks. I laugh. We have been bombarded, and bludgeoned for 8 years about our beliefs by the left without relief. We are tired of it. America is tired of it!

And no, I don't want to punch you in the face. Neither does AO. I know him to be a very kind, caring man who is watching the country that he has fought, bled, and killed for go down the toilet. He expresses himself harshly because he is sickened by the path our country has taken.

We are all individuals with different views, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings. Some of us are fed up with being told what those 'should' be.
Try looking at it through that lens.