daily quote

[poppy]

“Democrats only support [criminal justice reform] because all their relatives are in prison,”

Grover Norquist blowing his dog whistle at the right wing clown convention.

 

[poppy]

“And to say that this is going to pierce through the armor of cops is ridiculous because it’s a tiny bullet like this big,” she added, demonstrating the size with her fingers.

Regis Giles, founder of Girls Just Want To Have Guns, on Fox News claiming armor piercing .223 ammunition used in the AR-15 assault rifle was too small to pierce the kind of body armor worn by police.

 

[poppy]

“Hopefully we’re gonna end the attaching of bull**** to essential items of the government,”

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) on Friday pleading with John Boehner and the House to pass a clean DHS bill and stop listening to the wingnuts.

 

[Bob]

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are." - Soren Kierkegaard

 

[Bob]

The U.S. government borrows approximately $5 billion every business day. - Provided by RandomHistory.com who the phuck cares?

 

[Leader of the Banned]

“How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware?”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

 

[Lake View Too]

I never got the impression we were "free". I've always felt I was a prisoner of my impulses and the events in my mind were almost entirely caused by outside stimuli. The best we can hope for is to channel these stimuli in a way that the "cell" that is being built in our brains for us to reside in, is comfortable and somewhat amusing. Was that too heavy? My impulse is heading towards beer.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

I never got the impression we were "free". I've always felt I was a prisoner of my impulses and the events in my mind were almost entirely caused by outside stimuli. The best we can hope for is to channel these stimuli in a way that the "cell" that is being built in our brains for us to reside in, is comfortable and somewhat amusing. Was that too heavy? My impulse is heading towards beer.

The decision to go for the beer was determined by the electrochemical processes in the brain and was not "your" choice. Truth be told, there really is no "you", just a physical body and a bunch of thoughts, memories and sensations in consciousness resulting from the electrochemical processes. The brain decides to go for the beer, and consciousness becomes aware of the decision. Thoughts, memories and sensations become pleasant, even more so after "you" start drinking. It's all good.

 

[poppy]

You two have had enough, put the beers down and go home.

 

[Lake View Too]

Since Mr. Banned asserted there is no "me", how the heck am "I" going to put the beer down?