katsteevns, Wow, Michael Parenti sure knows how to make a point. After reading that I feel that everything "great" about the US has been little more than smoke and mirrors. It's kind of sad because there have been so many wonderful people who have bought into the lies. My parents were part of the Great Generation. I know there has always been corruption but it didn't use to be so blatant. Most people where totally unaware of most of it. My parents are both gone now along with most of their brothers and sisters. There have been several times in the past few years when my own brothers and I have been engaged in political conversations. It's not unusual for one of us to say, "I'm glad Mom and ...

katsteevns, Wow, Michael Parenti sure knows how to make a point. After reading that I feel that everything "great" about the US has been little more than smoke and mirrors. It's kind of sad because there have been so many wonderful people who have bought into the lies. My parents were part of the Great Generation. I know there has always been corruption but it didn't use to be so blatant. Most people where totally unaware of most of it. My parents are both gone now along with most of their brothers and sisters. There have been several times in the past few years when my own brothers and I have been engaged in political conversations. It's not unusual for one of us to say, "I'm glad Mom and Dad didn't live long enough to have to see this". We know their hearts would have been broken.

lifecyce1898 ( Kat, you may find this interesting too), Your compliment couldn't come at a better time. I've been feeling pretty low here on clipmarks lately. Something totally unexpected has happened to me. A few weeks ago I had what I thought was a great week on here. I had 3 clips that had over 40 pops on each one of them. That Sunday I went over 36,000 pops I had given out to other people. That's the most pops anyone has ever given out. The next day, after popping a few clips, the pop up blocker came up and said it was holding my pops for 20 minutes. I came back about a half hour later and popped a clip just to have the blocker come up again. It went on like that the rest of the day unt...

lifecyce1898 ( Kat, you may find this interesting too), Your compliment couldn't come at a better time. I've been feeling pretty low here on clipmarks lately. Something totally unexpected has happened to me. A few weeks ago I had what I thought was a great week on here. I had 3 clips that had over 40 pops on each one of them. That Sunday I went over 36,000 pops I had given out to other people. That's the most pops anyone has ever given out. The next day, after popping a few clips, the pop up blocker came up and said it was holding my pops for 20 minutes. I came back about a half hour later and popped a clip just to have the blocker come up again. It went on like that the rest of the day until late in the evening. It has been like that every day since. I've had several conversations with eric about it. What it all boils down to is that the algorithms think that I have a "disproportionate affect on the site".

Interesting isn't it. A bunch of Capitalists have a Communist algorithm to do their dirty work for them. What an interesting play on passive-aggression too. I could carry on like this but the bottom line is that I'm sol.

I don't really understand why what I did deserves the treatment I'm getting. I told myself I would stay here and try to work with the system but for someone who has been on antidepressants most of their life, this is a real downer.

So you can see, lifecyce, why your complement means so much to me. It's people like you who make me feel like I'm doing something good here and keeps me coming back.