tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post5559949221291037376..comments2023-09-05T08:34:20.322-04:00Comments on susan the bruce: cause and effect - a lesson never learned by the GOPUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-52707758453646535492009-10-24T10:36:24.375-04:002009-10-24T10:36:24.375-04:00I don't think cause and effect as different en...I don't think cause and effect as different entities is something one learns. The brain either gets it or doesn't. I suspect that the people who conflate the two and, in consequence, tend to assign cause to (especially) the victims of negative events, are instinct-driven and respond, in the main, to preconceived notions that arise from their emotions.<br /><br />They really can't perceive a conflict between the personal and the political because they don't see a difference. You are what they perceive and that's the beginning and end of it. That they're reacting to preconceived notions--i.e. to their own imaginings--doesn't occur to them. Because, although they are self-centered, they have no awareness of self.hannahhttp://hannah.smith-family.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-81383336137107806082009-10-15T12:42:23.964-04:002009-10-15T12:42:23.964-04:00As another of the 'churls' to whom Counsel...As another of the 'churls' to whom Counselor Thomson wrote, I'd like to mention that the very first letter I received from him (about a year ago) called me out for objecting to the stranglehold that AIPAC has on Congress and the White House. The good barrister proceeded to call me an anti-Semite and a Jew hater. This will come as something of a surprise to my many relatives who were killed in the Russian pograms and gassed at Auschwitz. If not replying to a troglodyte who called me a 'Jew hater' makes me a churl, well, as the French say, ainsi soit-il. <br /><br />And the horse you rode in on, Maynard.Irregardless NHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-49388566089228742262009-10-15T08:11:31.859-04:002009-10-15T08:11:31.859-04:00Oh Susan! How I wish I had your gift and skill of ...Oh Susan! How I wish I had your gift and skill of the written word! Outstanding. Today is BLOG ACTION DAY, Let's sock it to 'em.<br /><br />As to Mr. Maynard I have a response here for him and the large club he sadly belongs to;<br /><br />I too am exposed to the diatribes of Mr. Maynard and read them with flinching pain. Mr. Maynard, as 'a dirty stinking foreigner' (I've since learned that being a citizen is to some, meaningless) here are my thoughts. When I first arrived on your beautiful shores, I was confronted with a surprising passion and vehemence of anti-Apartheid protesters. How wonderful I thought. This is truly the home of the free and the brave, rallying for the underdog and against injustice globally. The passion was overwhelming and tear provoking. There is hope for the world. Then I stayed for twenty two years. <br /><br />Those same individuals of which you very well may have been part, now refuse to practice what they have preached unfailingly for over hundred years. Do what I say, however, I choose to live differently. Mired in racism, xenophobia and homophobia, I see and recognize it all the moment I hear it or read it. I see it in your writings, Mr. McLaughlin's and many others. <br /><br />This is why the world has a difficult time "liking" Americans. You don't practice what you fling at others. Start now, start quickly, before you are turned into Dinosaur dust!!<br /><br />I have friends who moved with their children to North Dakota. Just the other day, the young man (22 yrs) walked into a hardware store and moving through a gauntlet of white thugs heard them yell at him "Hey N******r!You buying tools for your white masters"? Yes Mr. Maynard, it's alive and functioning! Time to end it.<br /><br />Thankyou Susan for the work you do for those of us with 1/2 a brain. Happy blog day to you!DissedBeliefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055548880061195929noreply@blogger.com