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“What is speaking to someone on a soul level?”

“A line from one of my favorite "graphic novels". "What happened to the American Dream? You're looking at it."”

“Simple. Couple 20th and 21st century development and progression of womens roles towards financial and professional individual accomplishment, despite thousands of years of evolutionary roles being geared towards familial development and management, with unrealistic expectations of what their relationships with men (that they all are princesses that deserve knights in shining armor) and this should not be shocking.”

“Oh this is simple. Women have departed from the constraints or more aptly defined, the learned boundaries of their evolutionary roles, specifically with their lowered emphasis on maintaining a family, and society's constant emphasis of the need for women's individual financial and professional capabilities. There's nothing wrong with that, in fact many women have contributed irreplaceable work for society, science, and culture. With that said the rapid development in the 20th and early 21st century, this has gone despite the thousands of years of an evolutionary role, in just a span of a hundred years. Societal underpinnings have outpaced biological ones. Finally, mix in the standard expectations thrust upon women, that they are all entitled to an infallible knight in shining armor, a cultural inclination on meeting a certain standard of physical "beauty" and unrealistic standards of what relationships should be and it is not surprising that unhappiness is the trend.”

“Or perhaps a winner...”

“The many are controlled by the elite few, as it has always been. Your article from a certain standpoint appears presumptous that somehow the "soul" of this nation is inherently unique. We have never broken the ritualistic and tribal oppresions of the most archaic impulses of human nature. It is all encompassing and transcends any drawnpolitical boundary or geographic location. We fear what is different. We become defensive when fear appears in the form of a specific threat. We fight for resources and we horde whatever we gain. So it has been for 200,000 years or more. Until we break the very impulsive nature of the flesh it will be the same, hopefully to lessening degrees.”

“BTW and I promise this is the end of my babbling, what makes a likely measured and balanced individual is nearly certain a result of your flexibility.”

“Oh and as the old famous saying goes.... happiness is fleeting. I tend to consider the overall mood state of an individual much like a sinuisoidal curve, an oscillation, with a frequency, one is never happy all the time nor is one unhappy all the time. We have no baseline as our mood states are purely cyclical. Our coping mechanisms always assure homeostasis, which oddly enough is linked to our insular cortex.”

“I hate to sound like a bugger Tara Stiles, but I would suggest you read some medical journals on neurology, the insular cortex, homeostasis, and empathy's biological foundations. I bet that would expand and add a realistic dimension to your otherwise abstract and and inherently subjective opinions. I'm not suggesting that a person must have a medical degree to achieve more accurate philosophical observations, or even that one should dismiss abstract and purely reactionary critiques, but that rather than merely discuss the effect you can actually understand the cause.”

“It's a waste of time. We need to work in unison to prevent a gamma ray burst, a massive solar flare, environmental degradation, or a meteor impact from wiping us off the face of the Earth.”

“Just another observation from a faceless internet phile:

There have been several studies, medical, psychiatric, and even statistical, that have shown how positive thinking definitely helps. Of course everyone can't be the richest and best person on Earth. It's about optimizing your circumstances and opportunities.”

“It's the kids.”

“You're willing to share with us the fact that you have completely removed the passion from your relationship?”

“Dude it's called propaganda. What is their to "get"? It's the rich obfuscating the truth in order to rile up the masses. That's the story of the last 2000 years.”

“What changed I think is Obama's more committed willingness to attack inside Pakistan. He didn't stop air strikes and in fact I think increased them. Pakistan does not want to deal with an increased US presence insider their borders. Additionally, Cenk hit it dead on, the Pakistani people are increasingly angrier towards the Taliban due to their attacks on innocents and imposed Sharia law. A new government doesn't hurt either, considering how Musharaff was unwilling to act. These are the seeds that have come to fruition.”

“I hate to disagree with you because I strongly support women's rights especially in Muslim dominated cultures, but this is kind of like danged if you do and danged if you don't. If Pres. Obama were to emphatically impose American assertions of our cultures treatment of women over other nations then it's looked at as American arrogance and assumed exceptionalism. People might even call it imperialism. If Obama doesn't explicitly denunciate it, then it might be called "Politics at its best". The line is drawn and clear, do we impose our American ways of democracy and equal rights on a sovereign nation just because we don't agree with the their government or do we support the will of their people?”

“Of course.”

“Think of it as taking out a student loan while you attend law school. Sure it sucks eating Ramen noodles and being negative $20k, but when you get out of school it's meaningless.”

“Arianna you're above Morning Joe.”

“Actions speak louder than words.”

“What inspires the vitriol is your strict adherence to an ethos that is not only uniform and homogenous among your ilk, (journalists on cable shows and conservatives), but is unrelenting and bold faced when confronted with a factually based view point. Of course all of your criticisms aren't based purely on facts, but you have an unabashed and undeterred ability to maintain on message. Your points are predictable, and I've yet to consider you provocative. You are not McCarthy, because realitistically you aren't nowhere near that controversial. Your points are strictly in line with what every other conservative is saying.

It's a humorless display of how your oblivious to even your own body language when you address the issue of Mika. Whatever the reasons for her actions, the ridicule is merely a reaction, an effect, a symptom of the overall perception of her role on the show. People have a natural reaction, mostly imperceptible nonetheless highly focused, to the projection of your synergy with Mika. You speak over her often, at times she is left with no comment or even a single relevant question when you interview a guest, and there are numerous occasions where you overwhelm her personal space. It generates a sympathetic laugh, but yields to despair when Mika literally has to lean sideways to avoid your encroachment. But that's the issue with the current content of your party, and that is of a movement oblivious to their environment.”

“Yeah and the whopping 40% of college students who binge drink and 80% who drink occassionally is just fine right? Any doctor would tell you that as far ever research study is concerned the effects of alcohol on the body are a lot more detrimental than marijuana. The policy behind the criminalization of marijuana is not fact driven but more of a stigma than anything else. There is such a irrational double standard here.”

“Get him out now!”

“There is a lot more layers there. I bet the Iranians are loving this despite their condemnations. Ehud Olmert is a corrupt politician, and is supposed to step down, and now he is weighin a peace treaty? Why does he have any say in this? There is a lot of stuff happening behind the curtain.”

“Paul, didn't you write Wolverine: Origin? If you did, it was great work man. Relative to the topic at hand, didn't the U.S. Gov't release a study showing how white males would be the minority by 2042. That's a long ways off, but the trend is indicative of an increase in ethnic diversity, not a lessening, which means it will get harder and harder for the GOP to win while remaining homogenous and we already elected a bi-racial president, which does not bode well for the Grand Ole Party.”