can the modern american left genuinely claim to be anti-racist?

I don't think pot is covered :(

none that i'm aware of. most ob/gyns won't even do them.

I think this is why i still don't have a 401k of any sort.

Don't be such a snotty bitch.

I demand an evaluation of the entire thing, my entire life.

You give me a hearing and get back to me, you snotty little bitch.

I have proof. Tell me you don't believe me - I dare you.

I want you ball-less shitheads to tell me to my face that I am a paranoid schizophrenic who is lying about 'attempted murder'.

I give other people a fair shake, and that is documented.

You give me a fair shake and evaluate the whole damn thing, and all of my usenet posts going back to 1996 and everything I've written....and then tell me I have no credibility whatsoever.

Oh, and this is what got me a death sentence:

http://homepage.mac.com/dymaxia

Yeah, really looks like the rantings of a 'crazy person'.

I wasn't pissed off on ilx till about two days ago, and that is a documented fact.

It's not my fault the current Chicago ilx crop don't know me. I was stalked and harassed so bad, and I nearly died when someone sabotaged my bike that I went into hiding after that...and all of those people showed up later.

Got anymore cowardly sniping?

Or will you finally show some fucking class and quit libeling me until you've given me a fair hearing.

'Cos you're acting just like the 'socialites' in high school did.

I've been putting this together since 2002. You think it came out of nowhere? I have a track record for being lucid and rational, and you vain identity thieves keep embarrassing yourselves by not giving me a fair hearing.

That's right - 'cos the blackballers' tactic is to eye-roll and never engage the blackballed directly.

Crazy. Yeah, right. Crazy is what got me through Northwestern.

Oh go roll your eyes some more, you libeling whore.

You don't want me to post more of my 'paranoid schizophrenic' rants?

Then don't act like a pampered, eye-rolling immature bitch. And don't appropriate people's identities unless you can master their styles and personalities.

You think I'm acting irrationally? I saw this coming two years ago. Please, bitch.

Oh yeah - there was an entire board dedicated to it on LUSENET.

And there's a track record of it here, too.

And you know where it started....USENET.

I saw it there, it's documented there, so why shouldn't I believe you're doing the same thing here?

That's not implausible either, and you know it.

Write something articulate - prove you're worthy of your education, or shut the fuck up about me FOREVER.

I want to see articulate paragraphs about it tomorrow.

'Cos you all seem to be in agreement that former membership in or association with the Klan is grounds for permanently labeling someone a 'racist'...and that is verifiably FALSE - something for which you've offered no defense.

There we go - we're back on topic now, aren't we. Oh, but let's not talk about our own idiocies about racism....let's eye-roll some more to deflect from our own ignorance.

Oh yeah, it's just my paranoid schizophrenic crazy Irish imagination again.

But about the Ku Klux Klan.....and about how we should never take Robert Byrd's actual words and voting record into consideration.

:):):)

O God, put pressure on them and their supporters. O God, help the Muslims' leaders support Islam and liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque, strengthen them. O God, spare Muslims of the plots that are being hatched against them. O God, extend support to them, make them steadfast and strengthen their hearts. O God, disappoint the criminal Zionists, destroy the fanatic pagans. O God, support the mujahidin in Palestine and elsewhere. O God, avenge for your faithful subjects. O God, destroy the Zionist aggressors. O God, disperse their assemblies, prevent them from committing aggression against your servants, freeze the blood in their veins, deal with these criminals for they are within your power.

O God, strengthen Islam and Muslims. O God, destroy your enemies, the enemies of Islam. O God, destroy the tyrannical Crusaders, destroy the aggressor Americans. O God, destroy the tyrannical Crusaders. O God, unleash your might on them for the sake of the blood of the innocent children.

True, but it's interesting to note that the rich paid more under Reagan.

http://www.presidentreagan.info/share.cfm

I can't fully debunk that site's numbers after a casual look, but the first thing that pops out at me is that those look like figures for the income tax only. Since the income tax system is set up to be progressive, one way that Republicans make taxes more regressive is by cutting capital gains taxes or cutting (and now attempting to eliminate) estate taxes. Since the very wealthy make most of their money as capital gains rather than straight income, this blurs the picture a bit.

haha good thing you're not applying for medicare now with all the changes that are taking place to the plan(s)! i'm learning all about the new medicare drug benefit for a project i'm involved with; it's seriously complicated shit, and there are something like 46 different plans to choose from, each with its own set of rules, premiums, deductibles, penalties, formularies, cost tiers. and if the applicants don't make the right decision, they may be screwed out of money, time, services, or appropriate medicines.

I haven't read this whole thread yet, but I have to respond to this because it is such utter bullshit. Ethan, I spent the week after the 2004 election examining the Ohio election results ('cause I, you know, live here) and "black republican voters" had precisely NOTHING to do with the swing to Bush. Bush won in Ohio because of a huge rural county (read: white) turnout, which in itself was inspired largely by the presence of an anti-gay measure on the top of the ballot supported by ass-backwards rural preachers.

Oh, and if what you mean by 'black republican voters' is Ken Blackwell . . . well, there's only one of him, and I can flat-out guarantee you that he won't be elected governor in 2006 no matter what evangelical ass he kisses. There are a lot of real black-men-are-coming-to-rape-your-women racists in Ohio and they all vote Republican, but they sure as hell aren't going to vote for Ken Blackwell. I'm sympathetic to the thrust of your viewpoint on this thread, but you make it really hard to take anything seriously when you pull shit like this out of your ass.

i gathered that when i clicked "show all details." (omg datamining)