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Getbig Main Boards / Gossip & Opinions / Re: Some of These "99 Percenters" are complete MORONS-Incredibly Stupid
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on: October 09, 2011, 02:56:09 PM
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well that will most likely be what American will be like, all rich and very poor. So my advice to anyone is to find a job that cannot be outsourced physicaly or virtually, one that requires you to actually be present, plumber, doctor, nurse, electrician, teacher, cop, etc, etc... or get an advanced degree masters or doctorates in Project Management. Most corporate jobs will be advanced degreed people managing projects from a desktop dashboard with little physical interaction with actual emplyees. As I said, IBM ITdivision is all virtual. ITs a good job, you get to work from home.. 
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Getbig Main Boards / Gossip & Opinions / Re: Some of These "99 Percenters" are complete MORONS-Incredibly Stupid
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on: October 09, 2011, 02:37:20 PM
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There is a truth, but it seems to be a mis-guided one. Sure, Wall Streeters are scum, who made obscene profits/bonuses, year after year, until their profligacy almost brought down the economy. Then, they asked for, and received public funds to bail out their private losses. And, when the economy righted itself just enough, they went right back to making their obscene profits, again. Anger here, is justified. But, these protesters all seem to be justifying their own private losses/greeds for similar calls to the public purse. Problem is, they chose poorly, and in too small a scale. Lose small, it's your problem; lose large, it's the bank's.  I really would not just go by what a few protesters interviewed on the news have said about there personaly plight. Corporations are not creating jobs, in fact they are outsourcing jobs physically and now preparing to outsource jobs virtually, like IBM does for their IT division. How this works is: any job that doesn require you to actually physically be in a desk will go to someone outside of the country at a lower cost. All they need is a high speed connection and attend daily meetings through WebEx. Corporations are moving to working on a skeletal staff, they are not planning on hiring more people, that is over. THe middle class is screwed. All the jobs will go out of America and the top eschelon execs will take all the profits paying foreigners pennies. These people in the streets are important no matter how uneducated they are. This country was founded on the philosophy (due to Jesus and Issaac Newton) that all people are equal, rich or poor, and all people have a right to protest, to use reason and knowledge, to the best of their ability to come to their own conclusions about how they want their society to function. Then they vote on it. That is a democracy. And we are still the greatest country in the world. All the great movements started out with the hippies and crazies at first but eventually the middle class followed suit. I was called a crazy when I protested for animal rights 20 years ago. Today hardly anyone disagrees that animals deserve humane treatment and science has progessed as they move away from the animal model. As I said before the leaders of the movement are probably some very smart people, who have not come forward yet. Wait to hear their point of view before you judge the movement.
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Getbig Main Boards / Gossip & Opinions / Re: Some of These "99 Percenters" are complete MORONS-Incredibly Stupid
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on: October 09, 2011, 01:42:32 PM
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TA your wrong on this count, you might be too young to know anything about protests or every was involved in one yourself. After all your generation is the most sold out generation ever, sipping starbucks, using Iphones and wearing Nike shoes.
All great movements started by the grass roots movement, by people not corporations. They are started by a group of intellectuals who put forth ideas about societal concerns. If those ideas strike a chord and have a ring of truth they will catch like wildfire with the everday population. Yes the essential ideas may get water down or misconstrued by some ignorant participants. but for the most part the movement will continue to thrive and prosper including all classes of people. There is a truth to the Occupy Wallstreet movement if you cant see it now you will soon.
In all the great movements, environmental movement (Love Canal), civil rights movements, Anti Vietnam movement, Gay rights ( Act Up) and Animal rights (PETA), there are always some odd balls, hippies or misguided people, but they are very useful to the movement as they provide the numbers and are efffective in street theatre. But believe me there are much stronger minded intelligent people that will bolster the rest and give the movement meaning and power and eventually realize the goals, at least some of them.
Dont be ignorant TA, the media always shows the worst of a group of people, they do it all the time to try to discredit the protest, after all the media is a corporate machine. They dont like dissent or anarchy. It is not in their financial interest.
Please look deeper into the Wallstreet movement because the truth is there and you will feel foolish when you realize you almost missed it.
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Getbig Main Boards / Gossip & Opinions / Re: I believe Lee Priest!
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on: April 02, 2011, 09:30:51 PM
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I think Liar Priest lies because he wants everyone to believe that he is some genetic god, and that if everyone was using the little ammount of gear that he uses no one would be as good.
no this isnt true, you have to remember Lee said this a long long time ago, when most of the public didnt even know what steroids were. He was trying to wave a flag but not everyone got it. He was just trying to be as honest as he thought the public would accept at the time.
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Getbig Main Boards / Gossip & Opinions / Re: I believe Lee Priest!
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on: April 02, 2011, 08:19:07 PM
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I would like to defend lee priest here, when he made those statements he did a huge thing. Up until that time most of the public believed bodybuilders were natural. When he told the truth he opened the eyes for many young men, including me. I think he did a good thing. Did he have to tell exaclty the amounts he did, No! why should he??, its none of anyones' business. The fact that he told us that pharmcueticals are involved in the sport and he uses them awoke a lot of people. We didnt need it pin pointed down to the exact amounts, just the admission from one guy, and he did that and I think it was incredibly brave and it did a lot of good.
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Getbig Main Boards / Gossip & Opinions / Re: Why I'm glad Jennifer Aniston's film "Switched" is bombing
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on: August 24, 2010, 04:50:22 PM
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totally agree with your post Wiggs. Its about time you straight guys realized the way you are being portrayed in the media the past 15 yrs. You guys have most certainly been feminized or made out to be stupid. It is something that has become very obvious to us gays and we wonder where have all the real men gone? Its partly caused by Oprah as well, she leaves the man out of the equation on her show, and magazine, and makes women think they do not need them. Oprah is gay ( i know this on good authority) so it is no wonder, but she needs to get honest with her audience and cut the bullshit she has been feeding them.
I hope you guys take back the reigns soon.
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Getbig Main Boards / Gossip & Opinions / Re: Your feel about THE COVE documentory about dolphins & ARIZONA LION BURGERS??
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on: June 26, 2010, 11:31:49 AM
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Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renown dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health. http://vidreel.com/video/OTAwNzAx/ 12,000 dolphins killed a year compared to 100,000 cattle killed a day in the USA... i feel it is the right of Japanese people to catch, sell and eat dolphins in their bay if they want, just like i wouldn't want them telling me not to eat burgers, steaks, pork chops, or fried chicken... i understand the dolphin is one smart mammal but if they are able to communicate so well under water why don't they communicate to the rest of the other dolphins NOT to continue swimming to that same slaughter house cove in Taijii, Japan  Very nice of you to take it upon yourself to promote the continued cruelity and suffering of these animals. What exactly do you have against animals "Nails" ? Why are you still competiting with them, dont you think it is time to evolve? To shroud your colloboration with these barbarians in some kind of civil liberty is unconscionable.
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