Autism Made in the USA- Video

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Pushing on a string

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogoct10/normalized-pathologies10-10.html

While the American/Western worldview holds that we are autonomous individuals exercising free will at every moment, in reality we are all heavily programmed by our socio-economic class conditions. What is so striking about present-day America is the way in which the narcissistic, no-moral-compass social pathologies of entitlement, denial and fabrication of "truth"/reality has been "normalized" (accepted as normal behavior and thinking) in all social classes.

Charles Hugh Smith has a good piece on the rot in society and why it is so hard to fight against it.

As a parent, it frustrates me to see this mechanism at work while trying to show my children a better way.

End of the world????

Jon Stewart and the mortgage mess...

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Foreclosure Crisis
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Thought for the day....

There will always be a society. Meaning (to me) an organization run by a sociopath class, with a sycophant class, and lots and lots of true-believing dumbasses. These three groups are what history is. The trick is to be part of the sycophant class or - failing that - a pretend dumbasses. Wave the flag, watch the eagle, keep your mouth shut, but know that the sociopaths WILL happily kill the dumbasses for fun and profit - all you can do as an invisible dumbass is to slowly move yourself - and your kids - to the back of the pack of dumbasses - away from the line of fire.

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School loans

Infographic by College Scholarships.org

Tune of the day

Blue Collar Man

Written by Tommy Shaw
Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw

Give me a job, give me security
give me a chance to survive
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line
my god, I'm hardly alive
my mother and father, my wife and my friends
You see them laugh in my face
But I've got the power, and I've got the will
I'm not a charity case

I'll take the long night, impossible odds
keeping my eye to the keyhole
if it takes all that to be just what I am
well I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Make me an offer that I can't refuse
make me respectable, man
this is my last time in the unemployment line
so like it or not, I'll take the

long nights, impossible odds
keeping my back to the wall
if it takes all night to be just what I am
well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man

keeping my mind on a better life
where happiness is only a heartbeat away
paradise can it be all I heard it was
I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there

I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
keeping my back to the wall
all that to be just what I am
well I'm gonna be a blue collar man

do do do do do do do do do do do

you don't understand

do do do do do do do do do do do

I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
keeping my eye to the keyhole
if it takes all night to be just who I am

well, I'd rather be a blue collar
got to be a blue collar
gonna be a blue collar man

My cat loves me....????