http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weberone of the "three dead white men" of sociology.first (as far as i know) to really define what a bueracracy(i can never spell it right) is.he spent a lot of time looking at different socio-economic conditions, and is most famous for his work investigating why capitalism arose in Europe. He wrote about how protestantism (specifically Calvinism) brought about capitalism. Did a lot of comparing and contrasting between Europe and China, looking at social, legal and political structures.[Edited on April 11, 2006 at 9:17 PM. Reason : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism]
4/11/2006 9:16:33 PM
4/11/2006 10:15:50 PM
^I dunno, dude...I suppose that's why I asked.
4/11/2006 11:14:04 PM
Listen to Pink Floyd, they use a lot of Weberian ideas in their music.Weber is really the only sociologist I put much stock it.SHUT THEM OFF, THEN AMERICANS WILL PICK THEIR OWN FOOD AND WORK IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSEas bill cosby would say, yeah, right. [Edited on April 11, 2006 at 11:43 PM. Reason : .]
4/11/2006 11:42:27 PM
another term is undocumented aliens.or some such thing. what is it, "a rose by any other name..." ?
4/12/2006 12:48:45 AM
the point is this country cant get by w/o cheap labor right now, unless there are some major changes (which wont happen)
4/12/2006 12:36:42 PM
4/12/2006 3:49:32 PM
4/12/2006 5:20:33 PM
that's still a ridiculous oversimplification.
4/12/2006 5:24:45 PM
he is still an idiot.
4/12/2006 5:27:06 PM
Rush is not saying that is absolutely the only reason for anyone to support the legislation,( I haven't listened to every moment of Rush so I can't be sure, but on the basis of what I've heard...) he is merely saying that the motivation of those supporting the bill is to gain voters in the long run ( he says it's more of a ten year plan most likely ). He certainly doesn't say it's just democrats for it, he has discussed his disagreement with Bush on the issue, and I heard him talk to a republican fruit farmer at length about the pro/cons and legalities of keeping illegals. It'd take several pages and hours of my time to summarize the by now lengthy commentary by Rush on this issue. The rediculous oversimplification here is the original post of this thread.(Maybe I should reformulate these comments with a suitable amount of namecalling so that some of you^ can understand it...)
4/12/2006 5:46:13 PM
considering the average politician in washington cant look past the next 6 months i find a 10 year plan hard to believe.but what justification would there be for taking a position that would take 10 years to come about instead of taking a position that would have an impact in 6 months?
4/12/2006 5:53:56 PM
4/12/2006 5:57:29 PM
^^^the oversimplification was purposefulthe point of this thread was to say he is an idiot moreso for not realizing the importance of illegals to this country right now.shutting off the border and not having a guest worker program could cripple some sectors of our economy. this is the main point here.and you automatically lose for being a fan of punditry, mathman.
4/13/2006 9:12:03 PM
if you listen carefully you can hear the sound of me not caring.
4/14/2006 2:08:26 PM
...or thinking
4/15/2006 2:04:33 AM
^^ not listening is one of the reasons this country is so fucked upthanks for HATING AMERICA!
4/16/2006 9:53:32 PM
Yes because I like Rush that means I'm not listening or thinking... obviously. If only I only got my news from the MSM like a good little liberal then maybe I would be worthy of your esteem... whatever.
4/17/2006 12:57:37 AM
you get your news from a pundit? and liberals are the ones getting their news from the MSM? wouldnt that make the majority of americans liberals, seeing as how, you know, the msm is mainstream?i mean, getting your news from a guy giving his opinions? thats dumb.
4/17/2006 1:17:00 AM
4/17/2006 1:36:32 AM
4/17/2006 2:01:11 AM
Rush has alot of news on it, yes it also entertainment. You can disagree with his opinions if you like but at least he is up-front about having opinions. Not like the self-proclaimed "objective" and "impartial" MSM.And I never said Rush was my only source of news. I usually take what I hear on Rush and combine it with other news... most days I can't even listen to Rush anyways. Good grief, Rush is at least as "credible" as the usual news. If Rush is so wrong all the time then tell me specific news events he has lied about. And don't just go cut and paste some antiRush site. Since everyone here is so wise as to know Rush is almost always wrong ( and a moron) it ought to be easy to provide me with concrete examples of misfactual reporting on the part of Rush.
4/17/2006 8:55:05 PM
[Edited on April 17, 2006 at 8:56 PM. Reason : stupid mozilla]
4/17/2006 8:55:44 PM
4/17/2006 8:59:56 PM
4/17/2006 9:06:58 PM
well, last week he was talking about the south florida labor force being unaffected by a loss of illegal immigrants. if thats not a crock of shit, i dont know what is.
4/17/2006 9:48:38 PM
4/18/2006 12:24:39 AM
here comes the "THOSE SITES HAVE LIBERAL BIAS" comment
4/18/2006 12:27:38 AM
Here comes the "SO DOES REALITY, APPARENTLY" comment
4/18/2006 12:56:05 AM
4/18/2006 5:17:06 PM
Are you really that dense?Rush has repeatedly explained himself as an entertainer, not a reporter.
4/18/2006 5:27:30 PM
4/18/2006 5:28:36 PM
its easy to just call every site you dont like "anti-rush", isnt it?are you trying to say you want a site you approve of to say something like this? b/c that obviously isnt happening.i mean, this fuckin guy didnt believe it when China had stores, and they took money
4/18/2006 6:10:43 PM
This will do for starters.1. Volcanoes do more harm to the ozone layer than humans.2. Spray cans still have CFCs in them.3. Banks take the risks in issuing student loans and they are entitled to the profits.4. "Don't let the liberals deceive you into believing that a decade of sustained growth without inflation in America [in the '80s] resulted in a bigger gap between the haves and the have-nots. Figures compiled by the Congressional Budget Office dispel that myth."5. Comparing the 1950s with the present: "And I might point out that poverty and economic disparities between the lower and upper classes were greater during the former period."6. "Oh, how they relished blaming Reagan administration policies, including the mythical reductions in HUD's budget for public housing, for creating all of the homeless! Budget cuts? There were no budget cuts! The budget figures show that actual construction of public housing increased during the Reagan years."7. There's no such thing as an implied contract.8. "Ladies and gentlemen, we now know why there is this institutional opposition to low tax rates in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. It's because [low tax rates] are biblical in nature and in root. When you can trace the lowering of tax rates on grain from 90 percent to 20 percent giving seven fat years during the days of Pharaoh in Egypt, why then you are tracing the roots of lower taxes and rising prosperity to religion.... You can trace individual prosperity, economic growth back to the Bible, the Old Testament. Isn't it amazing?"9. It has not been proven that nicotine is addictive, the same with cigarettes causing emphysema [and other diseases].10. "The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane -- or put your children on a plane -- if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks."11. "Most Canadian physicians who are themselves in need of surgery, for example, scurry across the border to get it done right: the American way. They have found, through experience, that state medical care is too expensive, too slow and inefficient, and, most important, it doesn't provide adequate care for most people."12. "Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the constitution was written."13. "The videotape of the Rodney King beating played absolutely no role in the conviction of two of the four officers. It was pure emotion that was responsible for the guilty verdict."14. "Anytime the illegitimacy rate in black America is raised, Rev. Jackson and other black 'leaders' immediately change the subject."15. "There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?"16. "Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along."17. "Now I got something for you that's true--1972, Tufts University, Boston. This is 24 years ago--or 22 years ago. Three year study of 5000 co-eds, and they used a benchmark of a bra size of 34C. They found that the--now wait. It's true. The larger the bra-size, the smaller the IQ."18. On Whitewater: "I don't think the New York Times has run a story on this yet. I mean, we haven't done a thorough search, but I--there has not been a big one, front-page story, about this one that we can recall. So this has yet to create or get up to its full speed--if it weren't for us and the Wall Street Journal and the American Spectator, this would be one of the biggest and most well kept secrets going on in American politics today."19. "You know the Clintons send Chelsea to the Sidwell Friends private school.... A recent eighth grade class assignment required students to write a paper on 'Why I Feel Guilty Being White". '... My source for this story is CBS News. I am not making it up."20. Quotes President James Madison: "We have staked the future...upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."21. "And it was only 4,000 votes that--had they gone another way in Chicago--Richard Nixon would have been elected in 1960."22. In an attack on Spike Lee, director of Malcolm X, for being fast and loose with the facts, Limbaugh introduced a video clip of Malcolm X's "daughter named Betty Shabazz."23. Explaining why the Democrats wanted to "sabotage" President Bush with the 1990 budget deal: "Now, here is my point. In 1990, George Bush was president and was enjoying a 90 percent plus approval rating on the strength of our victories in the Persian Gulf War and Cold War.24. The Sierra Club wants to limit the number of kids you can have to two.I mean, I suppose you can cop out behind the sources, but the reality is, Rush asserted each of these things. The sources just happened to make a note of them.[Edited on April 18, 2006 at 6:13 PM. Reason : ...]
4/18/2006 6:12:19 PM
^ what that nigga said
4/18/2006 6:19:31 PM
wow, typed that yourself really quick. Guess Rush isn't the only one who encourages people to think like him. Of course if I repeat anything remotely resembling something Rush might have said the all ya all are like OMG that's just what Rush said, what a shock. I'm only asking you to tell me some things that YOU have personally heard Rush to say that are wrong. Since you have such conviction that he is not a legitimate source of new I feel it's only fair to apply the same standard of independent thinking that you espouse for me. If I can't say anything Rushish then you can't say anything antiRushish unless you have met the standard of independent thinking that you seem to be requiring here. I've seen it alot. More than once I've read things on TWW like " Sean Hannity said that" or "Rush said that" followed by the immediate dismissal of the idea merely because Rush or Sean said given topic. This makes you no better ( in fact worse ) than those you disdain. You say Rush and Hannity are the end of thinking but you stop thinking and start calling names at the mere hint of their presense. Eyeballing the list, I'd say #17 is a joke. Certainly many of those statements are at a minimum taken out of context and others are plainly speaking true. But, I'm not going to spend alot of time on something you just cut and pasted.
4/18/2006 6:30:58 PM
Actually, #17 is something he said on his program, and he preceded it with "Now I got something for you that's true...".I love your baseless, blanket dismissal. It's so Rush.So, care to outline which ones you think "plainly speaking" are true? Or are aware of how quickly and easily I will destroy that notion into oblivion as soon as I see it?---When he asserted the items on the list:1. The Way Things Ought to Be, pp. 155-1572. Ibid.3. Radio show, Summer '934. The Way Things Ought to Be, p. 705. See, I Told You So, p. 846. The Way Things Ought to Be, p. 242-2437. Radio show, Spring '938. Radio show, 6/28/939. Radio show, 4/29/9410. The Way Things Ought to Be, p. 13511. See, I Told You So, p. 15312. Radio show, 2/18/9413. Radio show, Summer '9314. The Way Things Ought to Be, p. 22515. See, I Told You So, p. 6816. Radio show, Summer '9317. TV Show, 5/13/9418. TV Show, 2/17/9419. Radio show, 1/16/9420. See, I Told You So, p. 7321. TV show, 4/28/9422. TV show, 11/17/9223. See, I Told You So, pg. 30424. The Way Things Ought To Be, Chapter 15[Edited on April 18, 2006 at 7:07 PM. Reason : ...][Edited on April 18, 2006 at 7:08 PM. Reason : ...]
4/18/2006 6:48:28 PM
Gamecat = FAIRhttp://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1895
4/19/2006 9:43:36 PM
Is there any possibility you'd, y'know, refute anything they said? It's not like I claimed to come up with the list myself, genius.Also, try reading sometime:
4/19/2006 9:46:14 PM
doesnt rush need some more pills or somethingfucking douchebag
4/19/2006 9:50:43 PM
4/19/2006 10:02:43 PM
You just embarrassed yourself by admitting that you take Limbaugh seriously, and now you don't want to further embarrass yourself by trying to justify it.I understand.
4/19/2006 10:14:32 PM
^^ Is your mom aware that before feminism, women couldn't vote?
4/19/2006 10:33:44 PM
4/19/2006 10:43:03 PM
^^^^wow, thats greattoo bad everyone isnt your mom
4/19/2006 10:52:59 PM
and I repeat:
4/20/2006 12:59:14 AM
4/20/2006 1:41:31 PM
On thursday Maha Rushie ( ) claimed that SUV sales were doing better than ever.b/c GM did well in march due mostly to international truck sales, and Prius sales were down in march. Those two facts = environmentalists losing, Americans buying "mammoth" SUVs more than ever.
4/22/2006 1:04:10 AM