muddysmind.com

google - searching for MythTV links...

My husband said, "Hey, babe, check out my web site." so here I am:) Good job, babe...impressive:)

I spent countless days fighting moveabletype to get this thing going. Not to mention the code changes that I'm still working on to add catagory icons and the last few comments where the catagories are listed on the right side. So that's how I found it. ;-)

Google too - searching for "french bastards" or "french cowards" (can't remember) when the US/France relationship began to get dodgy... I wanted to get other "objective" points of view.
:-)
Good job for the site mate

lol, not exactly the way I envisioned someone finding my site Nico. Thanks for the complement.
I've posted up Guidelines for all of us on the front page.. hopefully it will remind us to remember it's a human being we're speaking too when we type our comments.

found it searching for music videos but funny stuff about the french

Stumbled over it as I was looking for sites specializing on french cowards. . .

A space alien from the central part of the heart told me to "check it out, dude"

it rocks compared to www.links.net

I was looking for a way to communicate online with a thoughtful group of intelligent people about the situation in Iraq...but all I found was Muddy's Mind.

Despite the fact that a few of the posters are just to the right of Hitler...I like it here and I'm going to stay...sorry.

:o)

Hey marty
stay ...together we shall overcome!

no comment

Why dont't we get any links to where we can find the "supposed" hard facts from the creators of this site?
Just a bunch of whining.

tell me about it..it is intersting as a spectator. This is the first time I post...its pretty alien.

Hey, have the balls to let me say
It doesnt rock...okay. Or are you scared someone may agree?

The only cool thing is the brain..hmm, its interesting

yeah whatever...
I never said you site "rocks" I said it sucked.
And I guess what you consider to be civilized differs drastically from myself so lets agree to disagree. I am here to listen to definately french rebuke you all and to get a good laugh.
Watch me get Muddy mad:
Semper Fi I hope you Die!

There I guess that was uncivilized...now go censor it.

If you think it's not up to your standards, then why do you keep coming back under different names all the time? Is life @ UCR that boring that I'm good entertainment? Actually that's a compliment, hey.. thanks.

I'm not a Marine Les... sorry bro.

You are so cool man

why DO YOU censor what I write hey?

In Case you missed this on the front page Les :

Only one rule : Keep posts civil and intelligent
Muddy will edit and/or delete posts that fall outside this rule

This page is not good in comparison to www.links.net
is that civil enough?

yes les, that's fine.
You seem to think I won't let you disagree with me.
On the contrary... I enjoy a good discussion.
Life would be boring if everyone agreed with me, I just won't let this site turn into a bar room brawl.

I thought you might find humor in this:

Hello fellow Americans,

It is important to our global domination plans to recruit as many people as possible to our Internet Deployment In Overseas Terrorism taskforce, also known as the IDIOT taskforce.

You have all demonstated all the requirements of being real IDIOTs.

You are all loud, opinionated, overweight, ugly and you smell bad.

Your president will perosnally contact each of you via ESP so make sure your receptors are functioning. If you dont get the message this will be your fault as his ESP transmitter works just fine.

If all the IDIOTs in America combine nothing can stop us, not logic, not the truth, not even common sense.

Thank You and Good Night.

Donald Rumsfeld.

Posted by: Donald Rumsfeld on February 27, 2003 04:31 AM

This too:
Dear Fellow Americans,

I aggree with what Donald has proposed. All members of my inner circle are IDIOTs.

As can planely be seen by the really smart way we deal with this whole iraqi thing.

I am currently tranmitting a telepathic message to all IDIOTs in America. You know who you are you voted for me in the first place.

If you telepathic receiver is down please ask the IDIOT next to you for the secet message. (if he/she gives it to you report them to the Monitoring Of Regional Offences Network, or MORON, as it is an offence to divulge the contents of a telepathic message)

They are plenty of MORONS in the USA and they are here to help you understand why we are in Iraq. As you know it takes a MORON to understand my foreign policy.

I have to go now, an intern is offering me a blow-job. She says here name is Monica or Sandra!

Keep the Peace and long live Texas.

George W Bush
Presedente of America

Posted by: George W. Bush

and you actually spent your time making this up? You really do love this site.

Seems like quite a few people are running searches for "French Cowards"...and finding numerous examples of the same.

Nice Site Muddy!

Les: Muddy isn't a Marine. I AM!

The quote "Have you ever had a pissed off Marine on your ass?" comes to mind.

Thankfully, ignorance of your kind does not piss me off easily.

"Semper Fi I hope you die."

That's an oxymoron. Les, can you translate Semper Fi off the top of your head? I can, Fi is short for Fidelis. Semper Fidelis (the United States Marine Corps' motto) is Latin for Always Faithful - in the sense of a brother or a lover. So, essentially you said you'll always be here for me and you hope I die. Roughly speaking of course.

Now tell me Les, if let's say the Chinese invaded our west coast, do you think they would think twice about killing you and everyone near you just because? Who do you think is going to do everything they can to protect you? I'll give you a hint: UNITED STATES MARINES! (Along with members of the Army, Air Force and Navy, but as Marines we have a superiority complex and are thus given top billing.)

Be glad you live in this country and can disagree with the government so freely. If you lived in say, Iraq, North Korea or China, you wouldn't have that luxury. So instead of telling the people who are willing to die for you (like cwilli and I) that you hope they die, just because; maybe you should tell them thank you for providing a blanket of protection so that you and others like you shouldn't need to worry about whether or not you're going wake up in the morning with your throat slit.

You hope I die? Well, I know I will, just a matter of when. So, go on, hate me. Despise the military and everything it stands for. Despise the people who try to do the best they can to ensure the security of your freedom. Just do me a favor - go somewhere else and do it.

If it is so bad here in the US. If your freedom is so restricted, if the government is so bad, just go somewhere else. Tell me, what is holding your here if you hate it as badly as you seem to hate it?

For the record (for Marty): I'm not to the right of Hitler. On the contrary I'm a card carrying Libertarian Party member. People to the right of Hitler don't believe in freedom of speech, a free market, so on so forth. I don't like the Patriot Act. I hate the DMCA. I had a heck of a letter writing campaign against the SSSCA (or whatever they are calling it these days.) I don't like government in my bedroom. I think the war on drugs is a waste of resources and should be abandoned - treatment and drug prevention probably would be a better bet. The thing is some of the people here are so far to the left of Lenin that I and others on here look like right-wingers next to them.

As for the people who want us to provide hard evidence:
This is a discussion forum. A place for heated debate (something I enjoy so long as the opponent can sound remotely intelligent, otherwise I get sick of it.) If you want hard evidence, research it for yourself. I've spent a great deal of time researching things throughout my life, whether it be a phong shading algorithm or the cause of WW2. I'm a fairly smart guy (I hope so, I managed to get into a great engineering school), so I experience little difficulty with this concept of researching. Someone of slightly less intelligence might have some difficulty, but I'm quite confident that anyone with an average IQ or better can pull it off.

If you don't want to research the ideas people place on here, then don't. But don't ask us to provide the source every inkling of information we get to you also. We simply can't. We link to news stories sometimes, but if we do not, then go look it up for yourself.

I bring you now to two quotes, points with me to the person who can name both of the authors.

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
"There can be no peace without victory."

I bring you now to two quotes, points with me to the person who can name both of the authors.

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Plato

"There can be no peace without victory."
Bernard Weissman...I think...or else it was where he quoted someone else...I can't remember that for sure.

Can any of you please find the sarcasm in my post?
Yes, there indeed was some. I am GLAD of living in this country, having lived in a few 3rd world countries, I enjoy the freedoms America gives very much.

Did I ever say my freedom was so restricted ? No, I did not. If I ever point out to the Patriot Act etc it is merely to show some of the laws which can restrict my freedom.

I am afraid I don't hate you. I don't even know you so for me to hate you would be pretty stupid of me. You and your friends do offer some comedic relief now and then as I am quite confident I do to you as well.

Please, don't remind me of everything the marines can do for me. My father is a marine and I am quite well aware of what they do for me... You say you are not pissed off, you sure sound it.

If you and others can make such broad generalized statements which make liberals sound like morons, is it not only fair that I ...on the other side of the spectrum do the same?
It is humor. If you took it seriously well, then you didn't read my other post in which I spoke of my military family.

Les: No I did not read your post about your military family.

Trust me, that was not pissed off what I wrote last night, that was mildly irritated. I don't get truly angry very easily, but if I ever do you will know it.

Frankly, what you said wasn't funny. Especially in light of what your little UCR buddy Erika said to me a few weeks ago.

Aside from that, sorry if I misunderstood you.

Again though, I'm not a liberal. I'm not a conservative, I'm a every-so-slightly right leaning libertarian. Maybe if a good drug-war topic or something along those lines came up, we could agree on something. In fact, I'll try to dig one up.

I myself hate no one except child molestors, wife beaters, rapists and kidnappers. In fact, I hope there is a special section of hell set aside for them. Why? I feel the same way: to hate someone you don't know is pretty darn stupid.

this is a web-log. I would appreciate if you didn't make silly threats."I don't get truly angry very easily, but if I ever do you will know it."

And don't try to "dig" something up for us to agree on. If you only knew my party affiliation I am sure you would not care to agree with anything I said. You are a libertarian, I am a socialist. I doubt there is much, except for that shady grey area in the middle...

Oh don't worry, that wasn't a threat. I don't make threats - they usually come from people who don't want to, or don't know how to back them up. You're not worth threatening or giving physical harm.

Socialist, figures. Your credibility just went down the toilet.

Lovely. I see we are not mature enough to have discussion with those horrible commies? I thought the cold war was over, eh? You care about private business and military and I care about education and healthcare...we are still both human and in reaching that revelation we should be quite capapable of having discussions no matter what our political agendas may be.

I care about education and healthcare also.

I'm sick of our hideous public education system. Government education in this country pretty much sucks, and throwing money at the problem hasn't helped. In Georgia, the consensus is that 3.0 from a Georgia high school is worth next to nothing. Yet, we have some of the highest per pupil budgets in the country (Atlanta City schools spend nearly $14k per student a year, the national average is less than $6k.) We've had governor after governor, state representative after state representative, and state senator after state senator propose putting more money into the system, "To provide better tools" or "To attract the best teachers." Our schools are still crap.

I think the biggest problem with our healthcare system is forced costs. For instance I can not buy an insurance policy without getting coverage for pre-natal care. Well, I'm not married. I don't plan I getting married anytime soon. I'm not even dating anyone, why the crap do I need pre-natal coverage? I have a bit of authority on this subject as well, particularly in the area of geriatric healthcare - my mother is a nurse at an Emory nursing home, and we're in the middle of placing my grandfather in home.

Government provided healthcare is NOT the answer. Canada is proof of why. I could go tomorrow and get an MRI. I'd have to drive 5 minutes to do it. In Canada, there is a waiting list.

I did not say I couldn't have a discussion with you. I said you have no credibility with me.

My political agenda is freedom and security of that freedom. Yours is equality, which is the enemy of freedom. You can not have both.

You ever see the Sienfeld where Elain dated the Commie? He got Kramer fired from his Santa Clause job... That was hilarious....

cwilli: Yeah! I watched that one Friday night while I was working on my CS project! I love watching Seinfeld, ever heard his live stuff?

"My political agenda is freedom and security of that freedom. Yours is equality, which is the enemy of freedom. You can not have both"

Last time I read the Constitution of this country, as a citizen you were promised both...the Declaration promising these freedoms and the Constitution upholding them.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, LIBERTY and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." -Declaration of Ind.

I thought our constitution had made it clear that you can...but of course, who goes by the constitution now...its just some utopian ideaology right?

I think by you meant the enemy of socialism independence, individualism??
Actually, the above are more enemies of authoritarian governments.

As we have never seen a country that truly places the ideals of pure Marxism into effect, one can say the same of democracy...

"I did not say I couldn't have a discussion with you. I said you have no credibility with me."

Then why have a discussion at all?
An attempt at futility?

Wow, Les is pouring it on, that's some good stuff there Skywalker.
Les sounds like you were on the debate team in H.S.

The equality of the constitution and declaration of independence of equality of humanity. Basically saying one man is the same as another.

The equality of socialism is economic.

You're right though, no country has ever fully implemented the ideals of democracy or Marxism. Good thing this country is a Republic.

"We are at war with the concept of the individual!" Who said that?

Marx said that everything must be done for the collective good. In fact, from my reading of Marx, that's one of the foundations of Marxism. Which, sometimes the good of the collective is not good for individuals - sometimes it is.

Socialism is the step towards communism. To implement it properly, one must eliminate several economic freedoms to provide for economic equality of the collective. This is called as I am sure you know "Redistribution of wealth." This requires a level of authoritarianism.

I bring you from Marx three things that must be done to take a free market society to a socialist society:
A heavy, progressive income tax
Elimination of rights of inheritance
A free public education system.

All of which require taking money from an individual to spend it the way a government directs instead of the way that individual would direct, in order to provide economic equality. Thus, taking that person's freedom to spend that money the way they would choose away from them.

The sort of equality given by socialism IS the enemy of freedom.

Why discuss this further? It is fun.

Obviously you have not read all of Marx's writings. He does wish to bring equality to the masses only in economic terms, but he also speaks of the "alienation" which capitalism incurs upon the individual. Marx saw humanity as a community, in which the basic needs of all should be tended to.

Marx's writing's with regards to his idea of man as a "species being" give great credence to the ide that not only is man a communal creature as wellas an individual one. In "Economic and Philsophic Manuscripts of 1844" Marx states, "Man is a species being, not only because in practice and in theory he adopts the species as his object but,-and this is another way of expressing it, but also because he treats himself as the actual, living species being; because he treats himself as universal and therefore a free being..."

Marx is quite interested with the good of the individual. His belief is that by being a factory worker, working for wages and such, you are in a sense loosing you individualism. You are no longer the cobbler, the smith; your work has been commodified and that which was once your essence and lent meaning to your life has been placed outside of the self. And here we are dealing with his concept of estranged labor.

It is this estranged relationship between the worker and nature which has been set in place by capitalism that Marx wishes to remedy...and not by stripping everyone of their belongings but by re-connecting man to his environment and making him more in control of his production.

"Thus, taking that person's freedom to spend that money the way they would choose away from them."

This country already does that...we have taxes. but then I assume you are against that as well.

I am for freedom as long as it does not impede someones ability to eat, to bring nourishment to their family, to better themselves. We may not be controlled by a government that is "for the people and by the people" but we are sure controlled by massive multi-national corporations.

Ask yourself how much do you need to be happy?
How many refills do you need...how any cars...how many blouses? My problem is not ownership, but the excess that I see proliferated within our society. When one is not enough, and rather than strive to solve the problems of our homeless or the plague that is AIDS, we think of ways to become the next Bill Gates.

The almighty dollar is the God of America.

Rather than be well read, healthy and content people wish for fortunes. With all the money we are spending towards the war effort, we could have solved the homeless problem and have money to boot.

so skywalker are you a libertarian?
they are against the war
www.lp.org/lpnews.0303.Iraq.html

I don't have time at the moment to explain to you how Marx was an idiot. But I'll tell you this. I'm aware of the position of my party on the war. I am however, a free thinking individual and do not agree with every idea my party has.

Les your statement "With all the money we are spending towards the war effort, we could have solved the homeless problem and have money to boot."
would only work if you educated and gave jobs to the homeless folks. If you have not realized there is a severe shortage of decent paying jobs out there. Myself and the thousands of other laid off Worldcom employees are evidence of this.

Hmmm. You don't have time. Seems as though I have pulled a "Lurker".:> Most just know of Marx what they learned in gradeschool, from their communist fearing parents, etc. So I don't expect you to be familiar with all of his philsophy.

It is good to be a free thinking individual...very good.

And don't worry about explaining to me how Marx was an idiot. I do not think you could do a very good job of it. I wouldn't necessarily call him an idiot. His writings are in most American textbooks, and he had quite a good grasp on language, he will not be forgotten. Seems a quite few of us can say the same over our own existences.

I know...I included education and employment in my assumption...afterall we are spending a couple trillion dollars. The average person pays 10,000 for a four year education. Let's see A couple trillion divided by 10,000...that's not a shoddy estimate.

There are many jobs. Many of us don't want minimum wage paying jobs is all.

I am sure fast food joints are hiring.Gas station attendants..Agricultural jobs, etc. But some of us are too good for these jobs so we leave them to the minorities to fill.

Les,
Yes there are alot of $10 an hour jobs, but try making a mortgage payment and supporting your family on it.

$10/hr...I was thinking 6.75!...I have, My husband an I have to pay tuitions, we are still students so we rent...that's around 700 a month. And we have lived off a 6.75/hr wage. Of course, we don't have children and we do not own cars.

Then unemployment isn't laziness!

It is a fact of life, I see. Well, I do hope you find a job, having been in situations very dire I can understand.

How much does renting a 1 bedroom go for in Georgia...that is where you are from?

Actually Les, muddy has a house in Ohio. I live with my parents in Atlanta.

You're right tho, unemployment is not laziness. Here in Atlanta, you can easily get a job at McDonalds for at a minimum of $9 an hour. A 1 bedroom apartment will typically run $500-700 a month, you could get one lower than that, but not without hiring an off duty Navy SEAL to guard your car at night and apartment during the day.

I don't have time to explain it, since I was in the middle of working on a CS assignment. Ever written a table-driven scanner for an assmebler? It's tedious. Apparently you don't care for me to explain it, so I won't bother.

As for my readings of Marx, I've read his stuff straight out. Never out of textbooks. My english professor (an avowed socialist whose class I enjoyed so much that I asked for an overload into her section for the follow on class) assigned quite a bit of Marx, and Adorno & Horkheimer for us to read. Peaked my curiousity so I read more. I should say it this way: he was an incredible idiot and extremely smart at the same time.

10k homeless sounds really low to me. I would estimate at least 2k in the metro-Atlanta area alone.

Trillions of dollars? The highest figure that I have heard is in the Billions and that is just estimated. However it is already helping the Atlanta economy. Lockheed's Marietta (suburb of Atlanta) plant just recieved a very large order for more jets - more jobs.

From my experience (quite a bit, I do volunteer work frequently, mostly Meals on Wheels lately), most (certainly not all) homeless people are either mentally ill, drug addicts, criminals, or runaways. I have met some who truly are down ont heir luck, lost their job and have never been able to find another one. They are VERY few and far between.

"From my experience (quite a bit, I do volunteer work frequently, mostly Meals on Wheels lately), most (certainly not all) homeless people are either mentally ill, drug addicts, criminals, or runaways. I have met some who truly are down ont heir luck, lost their job and have never been able to find another one. They are VERY few and far between."
There are 10 times more criminals, jail population and homeless people as a ration to the population in the USA as in Europe.
Of course this has not link with the welfare system and employment security.
It's just that americans aas a rule are more prone to be
"mentally ill, drug addicts, criminals, or runaways. "
Sometimes they even tend to elect as their president a pas alkoholic that has made a lot of money out of troubling behavior (not unlike enron leaders, whom he was SOOO close) and whose mental sanity is questioned my the majority of this planet.

ta envie de rire, Definately French au bientot au plaisir

Babel Fish translated it as;

your desire for laughing, Definately French with soon with the pleasure

Il a été un plaisir lisant vos poteaux DefinatelyFrench... que mon Français n'est pas aussi bon. Je prie pour l'état d'humanité en ces jours suivants

Babel fish gets the Syntax wrong.
I typedin a phrase in spanish and had it translated to english.

It did horrors to the language!

google searching for french jokes (true !) :-)