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		<title>By: Metal Cabinets :</title>
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		<dc:creator>Metal Cabinets :</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>solar water heaters are also energy savers, they help me save electricity bills from each month&quot;-&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>solar water heaters are also energy savers, they help me save electricity bills from each month&#8221;-&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: EnoughAlready</title>
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		<dc:creator>EnoughAlready</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All I want is a Women&#039;s room for women! and a Men&#039;s room for men. 

Period.

No unisex.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All I want is a Women&#8217;s room for women! and a Men&#8217;s room for men. </p>
<p>Period.</p>
<p>No unisex.</p>
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		<title>By: A_Nonny_Mouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Scottie said: October 21st, 2009 at 9:28 pm 

&quot;They’d have to put in a fricking elevator in the middle of the wilderness!&quot;
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Yep.  

And at ski areas, the warming houses halfway up the mountain really ARE mandated to have wheelchair-accessible restrooms.  Not sure if the wheelchair-bound are expected to come wheeling UP the mountain, or wheeling DOWN.

But, the law&#039;s the law.  (Sigh.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Scottie said: October 21st, 2009 at 9:28 pm </p>
<p>&#8220;They’d have to put in a fricking elevator in the middle of the wilderness!&#8221;<br />
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<p>Yep.  </p>
<p>And at ski areas, the warming houses halfway up the mountain really ARE mandated to have wheelchair-accessible restrooms.  Not sure if the wheelchair-bound are expected to come wheeling UP the mountain, or wheeling DOWN.</p>
<p>But, the law&#8217;s the law.  (Sigh.)</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel in Brookline</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel in Brookline</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Artfldgr:  I must echo what Baklava said.  I am trying to address you in a cordial, helpful manner -- because you have a lot to say, of great value, which should reach a wider audience than it does.

But you&#039;re not taking constructive criticism very well, I must say.  (Perhaps I should have phrased my comments more elegantly, so as not to cause offense... but isn&#039;t that the point that &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt; are making?  That we should pay attention to your ideas, and not your writing style?)

Let me add: you start out by claiming that I am unwilling to meet you halfway.  Au contraire -- I &lt;i&gt;am&lt;/i&gt; meeting you halfway, by trying to explain why (perhaps) people were not reading what you wrote.  By refusing to change &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; writing style, it seems to me that it is &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt; who are unwilling to meet your (potential) readers halfway... and that&#039;s a great pity.

Please note: I never said that you should censor your writing in any way.  I never said that you must clean up your spelling, or shorten your posts, or anything else.

I said that, &lt;i&gt;if you want more people to read what you write,&lt;/i&gt; you might want to take some of these steps.  You are free to adopt any of them, all of them, or none of them, as you wish.  And the rest of us are free to read you or ignore you, as &lt;i&gt;we&lt;/i&gt; wish.

I have no objection to you rambling on at length.  However, you then went and &lt;i&gt;complained&lt;/i&gt; that no one was reading your ramblings.  You can&#039;t have it both ways, Artfldgr.

One more thought, and then I&#039;ll leave you alone.  You seem to think that proofreading, and editing for clarity and/or brevity, are unimportant... or, at any rate, significantly less important than saying what you want to say.  If you do indeed believe that, I must disagree -- and I&#039;ll point out that I am far from alone in this.  A high-school student can&#039;t write the way you do; such a paper would get a C, regardless of content.  A job applicant for any serious writing-related position, writing the way you do, would stand a strong chance of being rejected.  That&#039;s not my laziness or political bias; that&#039;s the way people are.

If you want your words to be read, and appreciated, then &lt;b&gt;you&lt;/b&gt; must be willing to meet your readers halfway.  So far you have shown extreme unwillingness to do that.  As I&#039;ve said, this is a great pity... for you clearly have a great deal of important thoughts to share.

respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Artfldgr:  I must echo what Baklava said.  I am trying to address you in a cordial, helpful manner &#8212; because you have a lot to say, of great value, which should reach a wider audience than it does.</p>
<p>But you&#8217;re not taking constructive criticism very well, I must say.  (Perhaps I should have phrased my comments more elegantly, so as not to cause offense&#8230; but isn&#8217;t that the point that <i>you</i> are making?  That we should pay attention to your ideas, and not your writing style?)</p>
<p>Let me add: you start out by claiming that I am unwilling to meet you halfway.  Au contraire &#8212; I <i>am</i> meeting you halfway, by trying to explain why (perhaps) people were not reading what you wrote.  By refusing to change <i>your</i> writing style, it seems to me that it is <i>you</i> who are unwilling to meet your (potential) readers halfway&#8230; and that&#8217;s a great pity.</p>
<p>Please note: I never said that you should censor your writing in any way.  I never said that you must clean up your spelling, or shorten your posts, or anything else.</p>
<p>I said that, <i>if you want more people to read what you write,</i> you might want to take some of these steps.  You are free to adopt any of them, all of them, or none of them, as you wish.  And the rest of us are free to read you or ignore you, as <i>we</i> wish.</p>
<p>I have no objection to you rambling on at length.  However, you then went and <i>complained</i> that no one was reading your ramblings.  You can&#8217;t have it both ways, Artfldgr.</p>
<p>One more thought, and then I&#8217;ll leave you alone.  You seem to think that proofreading, and editing for clarity and/or brevity, are unimportant&#8230; or, at any rate, significantly less important than saying what you want to say.  If you do indeed believe that, I must disagree &#8212; and I&#8217;ll point out that I am far from alone in this.  A high-school student can&#8217;t write the way you do; such a paper would get a C, regardless of content.  A job applicant for any serious writing-related position, writing the way you do, would stand a strong chance of being rejected.  That&#8217;s not my laziness or political bias; that&#8217;s the way people are.</p>
<p>If you want your words to be read, and appreciated, then <b>you</b> must be willing to meet your readers halfway.  So far you have shown extreme unwillingness to do that.  As I&#8217;ve said, this is a great pity&#8230; for you clearly have a great deal of important thoughts to share.</p>
<p>respectfully,<br />
Daniel in Brookline</p>
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		<title>By: Baklava</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Art&lt;/strong&gt;,

you wrote, &lt;em&gt;If I want you to learn the hard stuff, I have to make it palatable, or else! &lt;/em&gt;

Can you admit that is condescending?

Do you think you are above us?

Start from the premise that we are ALL smart, know quite a bit, have common sense.... (except liberals jk)

Once you do that you understand that we have filters as everyone should. Our brain applies the filter for a reason. We have to prioritize what we read. 

Appeal to us as intelligent human beings with common sense. Make a quick point - don&#039;t be offended if nobody commented on it. In time a few of us will start reading your comments again. 

We are appealing to you because we are your friend. Don&#039;t treat us like we are enemies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Art</strong>,</p>
<p>you wrote, <em>If I want you to learn the hard stuff, I have to make it palatable, or else! </em></p>
<p>Can you admit that is condescending?</p>
<p>Do you think you are above us?</p>
<p>Start from the premise that we are ALL smart, know quite a bit, have common sense&#8230;. (except liberals jk)</p>
<p>Once you do that you understand that we have filters as everyone should. Our brain applies the filter for a reason. We have to prioritize what we read. </p>
<p>Appeal to us as intelligent human beings with common sense. Make a quick point &#8211; don&#8217;t be offended if nobody commented on it. In time a few of us will start reading your comments again. </p>
<p>We are appealing to you because we are your friend. Don&#8217;t treat us like we are enemies.</p>
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		<title>By: Artfldgr</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Daniel in Brookline, 
  &lt;i&gt; it’s up to you to encourage your reader to read what you’ve written. If you make your reader work too hard to understand you, the reader will, at some point, give up and read something else.&lt;/i&gt;

I see...  I do understand our new culture.

I understand that people who say what you do have no work ethic, and cant apply themselves to meet someone else half way. that you need to have your meaningfulness validated by having things made to your specifications. And that its offensive to you that I don’t write things that a less smart, less experienced, less knowledgeable person who is really looking for entertainment, and a pleasant ride through life, and really doesn’t think anything is important enough to not get their hedonistic jollies off on some level (or they are out of there).

I think I get it….  

If I want you to learn the hard stuff, I have to make it palatable, or else! 

Or else what? 

Or else I will listen to the promises of the left, they are a lot more fun as they are always writing their propaganda for the stupidest section of the population (I can quote Hitler on this if you want – but then it would be too long for you). 

So lets codify the new rules for neo… 

That this is a collective, and that the people who want to participate, wont unless it’s made for them, caters to them (even if their interests are whimsical and capricious). 

That to maximize the size and participation of the collective and not make some people feel bad or left out, because the work is too hard. 

We will implement dumbed down standards, that way they don’t have to strive upwards.  That is, the idea here is to lower all obstacles, that way they can step over them easily and not have to break a sweat.

The new public standard will not return us to the level of the past, when James Fennimore Cooper wrote stories for young people at 13th grade level (like phd today)… and we will not return to the business standards level of the 1970s where common writing was at the 8th grade level. We will instead strive to maximize inclusiveness and we will write at the 5th grade level. 

We are to endeavor not to ever show different levels of ability below the minimum or risk lack of inclusiveness.

Any person, who doesn’t comply, as made clear by our poster, will be banished from the collective. Their works will not be read; they will become a non entity. Banished into, into, now what was that word? oh yeah, irrelevance… Along with Plato, Thomas Aquinas, those wig wearing Americans with the lederhosen, and all the others who wrote at a level too high for the common man. we also have to banish engineering, and physics and mathematics… obviously long, complicated, and not fun, so no one wants that either.

How Stalinist of you. 

If we apply this to society at large, no one would get out of kindergarten. 

Why? 

Because everyone outside who learned more would make the new people feel dumb as their writing exceeds.

Are you getting the hint of how they got everyone to favor moving lower and lower instead of higher and higher, and how now that is inculcated into how we think? They just had to convince the ones at the bottom to impose rules to those on the top who are not saying what they want to hear.  (truth is not pleasant)

From henceforth.   After this post..  

no post should exceed 500 words.  if something is too complicated and unknown that it needs more than 500 words, then it probably wasn’t worth knowing.  If it’s not pleasurable to read and tells you things you don’t want to hear, then that cinches it as not being worth knowing

The following authors and references are not allowed. 

Why?  Because if they are, then writing from them will make posts too large, and make them too complicated, and not tell us stuff to make us feel good. And why would we want to do that? 

Gurdjieff is out, you cant understand him, and I make you feel dumb when I post stuff that is out of your league. 

&lt;b&gt;You want your indulgences scratched, not have your mind expanded. 
You want your reality confirmed, not expanded. 
You wish comfort over freedom&lt;/b&gt;

I get it…

Which is why school isn’t fun either, except maybe liberal schools where you can have lots of sex and take drugs… and learn fun things that let you know who to hate (which is fun) and be patted on the head for it. but that’s a digression and digressions are also not allowed. Recursive literary structures are too complicated for the lowest largest readership. 

Henceforth, no more digressions. They make posts go past 500 words. And that just turns people off. 

Just to be clear…  do not bring in: 

Kurt Gödel he is a mathematician, and you know they are boring

Nietzsche, he is too complicated and long and confusing

Karl Marx, his work is too complicated for lesser minds, only our betters can of course read him. Anyway his das capitol is too big, and the communist manifesto even larger

Hitler, he was too smart, he tricked a whole country at the peak of their intelligence in history, and besides his book is big.  

Tolstoy, forget it, his book is actually used as an example of how large and hard a book to read can be. 

Lenin, the syphilitic man was as hard as marx to understand, but he wrote more, so his over 40 volumes cant be read. Nor can someone else read them and talk about them, they might be marginalized by the larger masses who now want things at their level, not striving for higher levels. 

Gramsci, he wrote nine volumes in prison… way way too complicated for contemporary minds


So you see… the assertion you are making was given to you by education which said that all learning had to be fun, or else it wasn’t needed to be learned. 


&lt;b&gt;The funny thing is that, that process insures that you will NEVER understand what they are doing to you, and what they are going to do to you. 

Your reading requirements puts that understanding completely out of your reach. &lt;/b&gt;

When you figure out how to make long Russian philosophical texts fun to read and understand, let me know. 

Baffle them with BS, they are too stupid to understand stuff long, complicated, and not edited properly to ease their troubled abilities. 

And don’t worry about offending their intelligence, they have little of it as expressed by their own verbal requests for simple fun fair, or else.

&lt;b&gt; All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. Thus its purely intellectual level will have to be that of the lowest mental common denominator among the public it is desired to reach. 
The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, . . . . 
The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward. 
The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. 
Propaganda must be limited to a few simple themes and these must be represented again and again. Here, as in innumerable other cases, perseverance is the first and most important condition of success. &lt;/b&gt;
Aldous Huxley and the others were right. 
That the public will want their slavery as long as we make the entrance to that comfortable and seem warm and have nice feelings. 
Their freedom is cold hard, full of work, dreariness and constant striving upwards. They don’t want that, because that would mean having to work hard and taking responsibility for their lives. That they will have to work hard… 
Yup I get it…  
(by the way that paragraph above is from a now forbidden book by that Austrian guy we cant talk about any more since its so boring to do so)
Here is your problem guys. 

I am handicapped (deafness), and was always blowing the curve, I am ugly, and have read hair, and am huge at 6’3” and 230lbs (if I am lucky). 

As a child, being a red head (and male), I have always been the outlier who never belongs.
I have always been the easy target of abuse and manipulative people selecting randomly
And unlike red haired women, this doesn’t change at puberty, and you get some liking you.


Nope… unlike most humans, I don’t need other people or their approval.  
Especially when they offer nothing in return. 

Here is another uncomfortable truth… 

Your not offering anything in return except the eyes of a nobody who wants to be catered to.   generally that tends to make me think… 

“oooh..  Someone who I don’t know, and doesn’t like me, makes demands, and threatens that they might actually not read me?”       

Guess what… there are others that DO read me… and DO like what I am offering. 

So in the now immortal words of tim curry from rocky horror when janet weiss told him what she would like… 

“I didn’t make it for YOU!”

I made it for those who do have the interest, who can read complicated works, and who do understand that they control their own destinies, lives and have the ability to make choices, so don’t have to make demands of reality around them to be pleasing and narcissistically for them. 

Hats of to youse…   

No. what frustrates me is the smarter people who want to know and are wasting their lives energies if they don’t have all the information!!!   after all, discussing half of things and ignoring the other half, will not bring you to some fit conclusion and understanding. But I suspect that I just wrote too much for you to understand again.

Sigh..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Daniel in Brookline,<br />
  <i> it’s up to you to encourage your reader to read what you’ve written. If you make your reader work too hard to understand you, the reader will, at some point, give up and read something else.</i></p>
<p>I see&#8230;  I do understand our new culture.</p>
<p>I understand that people who say what you do have no work ethic, and cant apply themselves to meet someone else half way. that you need to have your meaningfulness validated by having things made to your specifications. And that its offensive to you that I don’t write things that a less smart, less experienced, less knowledgeable person who is really looking for entertainment, and a pleasant ride through life, and really doesn’t think anything is important enough to not get their hedonistic jollies off on some level (or they are out of there).</p>
<p>I think I get it….  </p>
<p>If I want you to learn the hard stuff, I have to make it palatable, or else! </p>
<p>Or else what? </p>
<p>Or else I will listen to the promises of the left, they are a lot more fun as they are always writing their propaganda for the stupidest section of the population (I can quote Hitler on this if you want – but then it would be too long for you). </p>
<p>So lets codify the new rules for neo… </p>
<p>That this is a collective, and that the people who want to participate, wont unless it’s made for them, caters to them (even if their interests are whimsical and capricious). </p>
<p>That to maximize the size and participation of the collective and not make some people feel bad or left out, because the work is too hard. </p>
<p>We will implement dumbed down standards, that way they don’t have to strive upwards.  That is, the idea here is to lower all obstacles, that way they can step over them easily and not have to break a sweat.</p>
<p>The new public standard will not return us to the level of the past, when James Fennimore Cooper wrote stories for young people at 13th grade level (like phd today)… and we will not return to the business standards level of the 1970s where common writing was at the 8th grade level. We will instead strive to maximize inclusiveness and we will write at the 5th grade level. </p>
<p>We are to endeavor not to ever show different levels of ability below the minimum or risk lack of inclusiveness.</p>
<p>Any person, who doesn’t comply, as made clear by our poster, will be banished from the collective. Their works will not be read; they will become a non entity. Banished into, into, now what was that word? oh yeah, irrelevance… Along with Plato, Thomas Aquinas, those wig wearing Americans with the lederhosen, and all the others who wrote at a level too high for the common man. we also have to banish engineering, and physics and mathematics… obviously long, complicated, and not fun, so no one wants that either.</p>
<p>How Stalinist of you. </p>
<p>If we apply this to society at large, no one would get out of kindergarten. </p>
<p>Why? </p>
<p>Because everyone outside who learned more would make the new people feel dumb as their writing exceeds.</p>
<p>Are you getting the hint of how they got everyone to favor moving lower and lower instead of higher and higher, and how now that is inculcated into how we think? They just had to convince the ones at the bottom to impose rules to those on the top who are not saying what they want to hear.  (truth is not pleasant)</p>
<p>From henceforth.   After this post..  </p>
<p>no post should exceed 500 words.  if something is too complicated and unknown that it needs more than 500 words, then it probably wasn’t worth knowing.  If it’s not pleasurable to read and tells you things you don’t want to hear, then that cinches it as not being worth knowing</p>
<p>The following authors and references are not allowed. </p>
<p>Why?  Because if they are, then writing from them will make posts too large, and make them too complicated, and not tell us stuff to make us feel good. And why would we want to do that? </p>
<p>Gurdjieff is out, you cant understand him, and I make you feel dumb when I post stuff that is out of your league. </p>
<p><b>You want your indulgences scratched, not have your mind expanded.<br />
You want your reality confirmed, not expanded.<br />
You wish comfort over freedom</b></p>
<p>I get it…</p>
<p>Which is why school isn’t fun either, except maybe liberal schools where you can have lots of sex and take drugs… and learn fun things that let you know who to hate (which is fun) and be patted on the head for it. but that’s a digression and digressions are also not allowed. Recursive literary structures are too complicated for the lowest largest readership. </p>
<p>Henceforth, no more digressions. They make posts go past 500 words. And that just turns people off. </p>
<p>Just to be clear…  do not bring in: </p>
<p>Kurt Gödel he is a mathematician, and you know they are boring</p>
<p>Nietzsche, he is too complicated and long and confusing</p>
<p>Karl Marx, his work is too complicated for lesser minds, only our betters can of course read him. Anyway his das capitol is too big, and the communist manifesto even larger</p>
<p>Hitler, he was too smart, he tricked a whole country at the peak of their intelligence in history, and besides his book is big.  </p>
<p>Tolstoy, forget it, his book is actually used as an example of how large and hard a book to read can be. </p>
<p>Lenin, the syphilitic man was as hard as marx to understand, but he wrote more, so his over 40 volumes cant be read. Nor can someone else read them and talk about them, they might be marginalized by the larger masses who now want things at their level, not striving for higher levels. </p>
<p>Gramsci, he wrote nine volumes in prison… way way too complicated for contemporary minds</p>
<p>So you see… the assertion you are making was given to you by education which said that all learning had to be fun, or else it wasn’t needed to be learned. </p>
<p><b>The funny thing is that, that process insures that you will NEVER understand what they are doing to you, and what they are going to do to you. </p>
<p>Your reading requirements puts that understanding completely out of your reach. </b></p>
<p>When you figure out how to make long Russian philosophical texts fun to read and understand, let me know. </p>
<p>Baffle them with BS, they are too stupid to understand stuff long, complicated, and not edited properly to ease their troubled abilities. </p>
<p>And don’t worry about offending their intelligence, they have little of it as expressed by their own verbal requests for simple fun fair, or else.</p>
<p><b> All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. Thus its purely intellectual level will have to be that of the lowest mental common denominator among the public it is desired to reach.<br />
The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, . . . .<br />
The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward.<br />
The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another.<br />
Propaganda must be limited to a few simple themes and these must be represented again and again. Here, as in innumerable other cases, perseverance is the first and most important condition of success. </b><br />
Aldous Huxley and the others were right.<br />
That the public will want their slavery as long as we make the entrance to that comfortable and seem warm and have nice feelings.<br />
Their freedom is cold hard, full of work, dreariness and constant striving upwards. They don’t want that, because that would mean having to work hard and taking responsibility for their lives. That they will have to work hard…<br />
Yup I get it…<br />
(by the way that paragraph above is from a now forbidden book by that Austrian guy we cant talk about any more since its so boring to do so)<br />
Here is your problem guys. </p>
<p>I am handicapped (deafness), and was always blowing the curve, I am ugly, and have read hair, and am huge at 6’3” and 230lbs (if I am lucky). </p>
<p>As a child, being a red head (and male), I have always been the outlier who never belongs.<br />
I have always been the easy target of abuse and manipulative people selecting randomly<br />
And unlike red haired women, this doesn’t change at puberty, and you get some liking you.</p>
<p>Nope… unlike most humans, I don’t need other people or their approval.<br />
Especially when they offer nothing in return. </p>
<p>Here is another uncomfortable truth… </p>
<p>Your not offering anything in return except the eyes of a nobody who wants to be catered to.   generally that tends to make me think… </p>
<p>“oooh..  Someone who I don’t know, and doesn’t like me, makes demands, and threatens that they might actually not read me?”       </p>
<p>Guess what… there are others that DO read me… and DO like what I am offering. </p>
<p>So in the now immortal words of tim curry from rocky horror when janet weiss told him what she would like… </p>
<p>“I didn’t make it for YOU!”</p>
<p>I made it for those who do have the interest, who can read complicated works, and who do understand that they control their own destinies, lives and have the ability to make choices, so don’t have to make demands of reality around them to be pleasing and narcissistically for them. </p>
<p>Hats of to youse…   </p>
<p>No. what frustrates me is the smarter people who want to know and are wasting their lives energies if they don’t have all the information!!!   after all, discussing half of things and ignoring the other half, will not bring you to some fit conclusion and understanding. But I suspect that I just wrote too much for you to understand again.</p>
<p>Sigh..</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel in Brookline</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2009/10/21/on-the-growing-trend-towards-unisex-bathrooms/#comment-130823</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel in Brookline</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Artfldgr said:
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;I just went through the posts a second time.

not one person wanted to find out where this all comes from.

everyone was more focused on using whatever they know to create a dialogue to explain what it is.

not one person thought to read and check out what i said. not one.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Please forgive my lack of sympathy.

Numerous people have complained, on numerous occasions, about your long, rambling posts, your lack of attention to capitalization and spelling and punctuation, and so forth.  You clearly choose not to follow that advice.  And then you complain that nobody pays attention to you.

You obviously have important things to contribute to this discussion, and to many other discussions.  But it&#039;s up to you to encourage your reader to read what you&#039;ve written.  If you make your reader work too hard to understand you, the reader will, at some point, give up and read something else.

If you insist on writing the way you&#039;re used to writing, then your reader can certainly choose to ignore the things she&#039;s used to ignoring.  

respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Artfldgr said:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>I just went through the posts a second time.</p>
<p>not one person wanted to find out where this all comes from.</p>
<p>everyone was more focused on using whatever they know to create a dialogue to explain what it is.</p>
<p>not one person thought to read and check out what i said. not one.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Please forgive my lack of sympathy.</p>
<p>Numerous people have complained, on numerous occasions, about your long, rambling posts, your lack of attention to capitalization and spelling and punctuation, and so forth.  You clearly choose not to follow that advice.  And then you complain that nobody pays attention to you.</p>
<p>You obviously have important things to contribute to this discussion, and to many other discussions.  But it&#8217;s up to you to encourage your reader to read what you&#8217;ve written.  If you make your reader work too hard to understand you, the reader will, at some point, give up and read something else.</p>
<p>If you insist on writing the way you&#8217;re used to writing, then your reader can certainly choose to ignore the things she&#8217;s used to ignoring.  </p>
<p>respectfully,<br />
Daniel in Brookline</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel in Brookline</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel in Brookline</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;unisex bathroom creep&quot;.

I do no think that means what you think it means...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;unisex bathroom creep&#8221;.</p>
<p>I do no think that means what you think it means&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Artfldgr</title>
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		<dc:creator>Artfldgr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>my opinion is that wheel chair access as an argument has no place here. 

why? 

because the poor guy/gal in the wheel chair has it rough most of the time. and most people see that and understand that.  also, most people internally know that there is absolutely no correlation between a person in a wheelchair and deviant or criminal activity. (while there is always a small number of exceptions, they prove the rule, not disprove it (otherwise what would they be exceptions to?))

the problem was the mandates. that a store had to close if it couldnt accomodate them. 

and before you say i dont understand, i am quite surely 50% + deaf.   and unlike a wheel chair a deaf person gets zero sympathy and help. they are treated as morons, and other things if their speech doesnt sound right. people will refuse to help them in a store, and ignore that they exist. and what i find the worst is that cars will beep their horn so they can blow through a yellow light or a street with no signal assuming every person can hear. i have ended up on top of a hood of a car more than once. 

but do i say that intersections should have pop up walls that match the lights? not at all. 

while i think that forcing a small business to put in a ramp when the business is too small for such is wrong. i think its even more wrong that the state takes billions from us and then exempts themselves from that law and rules so that subways are semi accessible. heck they dont even take the time to mark off which stations can accomodate things so its a completely hit or miss situation. always focused on new business they completely leave out the old unfinished stuff. 

there is a lot of literature and study linking homosexual behavior to other deviant behavior, like pederasty, pedophila, paraphilia, copraphilia, and sexual sadism as a norm for many. 

is this wrong between consenting adults who are playing games? not at all. who cares what they do by themselves for entertainment. (heck when i was an emt i was called on several runs because of their games. in a general way, somethings dont belong going places they dont belong (i am talking lightbulbs here))

every male that abuses a male child, is technically what? every female that abuses a female, is techically what?  what we have done is remove a distinction to hide the obvious. 

john wayne gacy was not just a serial killer and a pedophile, he was a homosexual one.  we dont draw distinctions between those and the ones that attack along other lines. why?  beacuse if we did we would see a much larger number on one side. 

same with fathers vs step fathers. bio fathers are the least likely to hurt the children. mothers are more likely to hurt the children. step partners are even more likely to hurt them, but are more likely to be prevented by the bio father. step fathers are the most likely to abuse the kids. 

the feminists have us combining fathers and step fathers so as to mix up the data.  same is true of other parts of the same movement that seek to compartmentalize each condition into its own special category. 

however if you look at the numbers a male child is much more likely to be a victim of another male than he is to be a sexual victim of a female.  the numbers are not so clear for girls. however the left glorifies homosexual drugged rape in the vaginia monologues as &#039;good rape&#039;, and even whoopy and others wanted a get out of jail free card for polanski. and thats because the left used the false work of kinsey to establish that children are sexual beings. 

and so if they are not allowed to have sex we are oppressing their natures,and so they have to be taught as early as possible so as to beat out the oppressive message and they can be healthy.  

this gets the oppression fighters to implement luckaks ideas by equicalency. (like abortoin and eugenics. they are arguing equivalents and then making a false separation). 

PC news keeps things APPEARING differently and tends to play games with the appearance of things so that we as a culture cant get a sense of whats valid or not, except thorugh their pronouncements. 

so we miss stories like this. 

Gay Duke University Official Arrested
Cops: Duke Official Offered Adopted Son For Sex
FBI Nab Frank Mccorkle Lombard In Internet Sting
cbs2.com/national/Frank.Mccorkle.Lombard.2.1062818.html

[and nambla is all male seeking boys... the equivalent female org is not present since we dont prosecute women a la vagina monologes when they do the same unless its interacial or violent. same as there is no such thing as a female transvestite since we normalized that to be a look]

&lt;i&gt;Authorities said that Lombard tried to persuade a person — who he did not know was a police officer — to travel to North Carolina to have sex with a child.

The detective&#039;s affidavit charges Lombard said in an online chat that he had sexually molested the boy. The court papers say Lombard also invited the undercover detective to North Carolina to have sex with the young boy and even suggested which hotel he should use.

Authorities told WRAL that Lombard told the undercover officer that he has seen and may still have videos depicting children under 5 years old engaging in sexual activity, but that he cleans his digital collection every so often for fear of detection. Those files may still be traceable, a digital specialist told WRAL.
&lt;/i&gt;

there is even a bigger kicker here

&lt;b&gt;In the chat transcript, WRAL reports, &quot;F.L.&quot; is asked how he got access to a child so young. &quot;Adopted,&quot; he replied, and said that the process was &quot;not so hard ... esp (sic) for a black boy.&quot;

In the chat, &quot;F.L.&quot; told Palchak that abusing the child was &quot;easier when he was too young to know what was happening and when he couldn&#039;t talk ...He had a little too much Benadryl. Was knocked out.&quot;
&lt;/b&gt;

basically it was more pc to let single gay males adopt black children...  (if you know the left you know the logic of this one clearly). 

look at the pattern here. 

luckaks bela kuhn state and its experimentation at using early sexualization to destroy the culture by heading it off at the pass where child and parent/s have what was a sacred place. 

kinseys raping babies to get them to orgasm (and using prison deviates to develop numbers from. and how his &#039;work&#039; now is hugely sited in law). 

Meades false garbage work (now known also to be false), also dots teh ideological landscape. 

vagina monologues promoting drugged homosexual pederastic rape of a girl as a &#039;good rape&#039;, with the same attitude also transfered to members of the same community like polansky, and many others not caught (micheal J passing his childhood experiences too). 

earlier and earlier sex education in school. making it EASIER for older people to do this to children. more liberal drugs available, which also facilitates these experiences... oversexualization of the media. revisioning all the childrns books and stories. 

new socialist man (below the elites) is to be able to be separated by male and female, so that breeding can be controlled. we normally would not be healthy in that since we are a social species, so they think they can get aroudn this, by making bisexuality dominant.  new socialist man is also homogeneous like cows... that way there is no huge menu of how to treat the prols.. and since they are like cows, none of them are more important than the others. imagine farmers saying cow j456BG is special...   each are to work out their prime years, are not allowed to harm their work...  they are to work and exceed their worth... if not, then they have to go... euthanasia for the elderly by some means. 

its all pretty clear, but the idea is unconscionable to the average person. but to those with no conscience, how could it be unconscionable? to them its perfectly pragmatic. to their followers, its better to be on the winning side. 

too much work today...  :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>my opinion is that wheel chair access as an argument has no place here. </p>
<p>why? </p>
<p>because the poor guy/gal in the wheel chair has it rough most of the time. and most people see that and understand that.  also, most people internally know that there is absolutely no correlation between a person in a wheelchair and deviant or criminal activity. (while there is always a small number of exceptions, they prove the rule, not disprove it (otherwise what would they be exceptions to?))</p>
<p>the problem was the mandates. that a store had to close if it couldnt accomodate them. </p>
<p>and before you say i dont understand, i am quite surely 50% + deaf.   and unlike a wheel chair a deaf person gets zero sympathy and help. they are treated as morons, and other things if their speech doesnt sound right. people will refuse to help them in a store, and ignore that they exist. and what i find the worst is that cars will beep their horn so they can blow through a yellow light or a street with no signal assuming every person can hear. i have ended up on top of a hood of a car more than once. </p>
<p>but do i say that intersections should have pop up walls that match the lights? not at all. </p>
<p>while i think that forcing a small business to put in a ramp when the business is too small for such is wrong. i think its even more wrong that the state takes billions from us and then exempts themselves from that law and rules so that subways are semi accessible. heck they dont even take the time to mark off which stations can accomodate things so its a completely hit or miss situation. always focused on new business they completely leave out the old unfinished stuff. </p>
<p>there is a lot of literature and study linking homosexual behavior to other deviant behavior, like pederasty, pedophila, paraphilia, copraphilia, and sexual sadism as a norm for many. </p>
<p>is this wrong between consenting adults who are playing games? not at all. who cares what they do by themselves for entertainment. (heck when i was an emt i was called on several runs because of their games. in a general way, somethings dont belong going places they dont belong (i am talking lightbulbs here))</p>
<p>every male that abuses a male child, is technically what? every female that abuses a female, is techically what?  what we have done is remove a distinction to hide the obvious. </p>
<p>john wayne gacy was not just a serial killer and a pedophile, he was a homosexual one.  we dont draw distinctions between those and the ones that attack along other lines. why?  beacuse if we did we would see a much larger number on one side. </p>
<p>same with fathers vs step fathers. bio fathers are the least likely to hurt the children. mothers are more likely to hurt the children. step partners are even more likely to hurt them, but are more likely to be prevented by the bio father. step fathers are the most likely to abuse the kids. </p>
<p>the feminists have us combining fathers and step fathers so as to mix up the data.  same is true of other parts of the same movement that seek to compartmentalize each condition into its own special category. </p>
<p>however if you look at the numbers a male child is much more likely to be a victim of another male than he is to be a sexual victim of a female.  the numbers are not so clear for girls. however the left glorifies homosexual drugged rape in the vaginia monologues as &#8216;good rape&#8217;, and even whoopy and others wanted a get out of jail free card for polanski. and thats because the left used the false work of kinsey to establish that children are sexual beings. </p>
<p>and so if they are not allowed to have sex we are oppressing their natures,and so they have to be taught as early as possible so as to beat out the oppressive message and they can be healthy.  </p>
<p>this gets the oppression fighters to implement luckaks ideas by equicalency. (like abortoin and eugenics. they are arguing equivalents and then making a false separation). </p>
<p>PC news keeps things APPEARING differently and tends to play games with the appearance of things so that we as a culture cant get a sense of whats valid or not, except thorugh their pronouncements. </p>
<p>so we miss stories like this. </p>
<p>Gay Duke University Official Arrested<br />
Cops: Duke Official Offered Adopted Son For Sex<br />
FBI Nab Frank Mccorkle Lombard In Internet Sting<br />
cbs2.com/national/Frank.Mccorkle.Lombard.2.1062818.html</p>
<p>[and nambla is all male seeking boys... the equivalent female org is not present since we dont prosecute women a la vagina monologes when they do the same unless its interacial or violent. same as there is no such thing as a female transvestite since we normalized that to be a look]</p>
<p><i>Authorities said that Lombard tried to persuade a person — who he did not know was a police officer — to travel to North Carolina to have sex with a child.</p>
<p>The detective&#8217;s affidavit charges Lombard said in an online chat that he had sexually molested the boy. The court papers say Lombard also invited the undercover detective to North Carolina to have sex with the young boy and even suggested which hotel he should use.</p>
<p>Authorities told WRAL that Lombard told the undercover officer that he has seen and may still have videos depicting children under 5 years old engaging in sexual activity, but that he cleans his digital collection every so often for fear of detection. Those files may still be traceable, a digital specialist told WRAL.<br />
</i></p>
<p>there is even a bigger kicker here</p>
<p><b>In the chat transcript, WRAL reports, &#8220;F.L.&#8221; is asked how he got access to a child so young. &#8220;Adopted,&#8221; he replied, and said that the process was &#8220;not so hard &#8230; esp (sic) for a black boy.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the chat, &#8220;F.L.&#8221; told Palchak that abusing the child was &#8220;easier when he was too young to know what was happening and when he couldn&#8217;t talk &#8230;He had a little too much Benadryl. Was knocked out.&#8221;<br />
</b></p>
<p>basically it was more pc to let single gay males adopt black children&#8230;  (if you know the left you know the logic of this one clearly). </p>
<p>look at the pattern here. </p>
<p>luckaks bela kuhn state and its experimentation at using early sexualization to destroy the culture by heading it off at the pass where child and parent/s have what was a sacred place. </p>
<p>kinseys raping babies to get them to orgasm (and using prison deviates to develop numbers from. and how his &#8216;work&#8217; now is hugely sited in law). </p>
<p>Meades false garbage work (now known also to be false), also dots teh ideological landscape. </p>
<p>vagina monologues promoting drugged homosexual pederastic rape of a girl as a &#8216;good rape&#8217;, with the same attitude also transfered to members of the same community like polansky, and many others not caught (micheal J passing his childhood experiences too). </p>
<p>earlier and earlier sex education in school. making it EASIER for older people to do this to children. more liberal drugs available, which also facilitates these experiences&#8230; oversexualization of the media. revisioning all the childrns books and stories. </p>
<p>new socialist man (below the elites) is to be able to be separated by male and female, so that breeding can be controlled. we normally would not be healthy in that since we are a social species, so they think they can get aroudn this, by making bisexuality dominant.  new socialist man is also homogeneous like cows&#8230; that way there is no huge menu of how to treat the prols.. and since they are like cows, none of them are more important than the others. imagine farmers saying cow j456BG is special&#8230;   each are to work out their prime years, are not allowed to harm their work&#8230;  they are to work and exceed their worth&#8230; if not, then they have to go&#8230; euthanasia for the elderly by some means. </p>
<p>its all pretty clear, but the idea is unconscionable to the average person. but to those with no conscience, how could it be unconscionable? to them its perfectly pragmatic. to their followers, its better to be on the winning side. </p>
<p>too much work today&#8230;  <img src='http://neoneocon.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Scottie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scottie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>anna &amp; Tatyanna,

Figured you two would get a kick out of the bedtime story I told my kids when they were younger.

There once were 3 little pigs.

The first pig was a contractor, the second pig was an architect, and the third pig was an engineer.

Each pig built themselves a house.

The contractor pig built his using only the lowest bidder for each sub-contractor, adhering as tightly as possible to the required building code (aka, minimum acceptable standards), and planned to occupy the house for only one year before flipping it for a profit on the housing market.

The engineer pig just shook his head as his design was completely ignored after the contractor pig obtained his building permit using the engineer pig&#039;s design documents....

The architect pig, in turn, built a monument unto himself.

It was beautiful.

It was full of graceful, pleasing lines.

It was avant gardist in concept and design.

It was a &quot;green&quot; design that was LEED certified!

Of course such advanced design techniques required a certain amount of compromise, but the contractor pig who ultimately built it for him assured him that it still met the building code (still aka *minimum acceptable standards* of construction).

The architect pig did have a momentary qualm when presented with the list of RFI&#039;s and Change Orders, but ultimately decided that the contractor pig knew what he was doing as he was very experienced in such matters.

Again, the engineer pig only shook his head as the architect pig and contractor pig decided which parts of his design they could change in order to cut the increased overall costs back down to within budget due to the change orders presented by the contractor pig....plus the fact the architect pig had underestimated his total construction costs by an order of magnitude and was loath to give up any visible design features when he figured he could easily make up the difference by cutting back on the hidden aspects of construction.

Te engineer pig, on the other hand, built his house using the strongest steel, the best CMU, the finest grade woods, the longest warrantied shingles, the tightest and most energy efficient double paned windows and doors, even a hardwired home network and entertainment system!

He designed in a solar water heater system and also a backup gas powered generator!

It was ugly (but then again engineers are in charge of ugly) but it was his and he was happy.

At the end of construction, the big bad building inspector came a&#039;callin.

The first house he came to was the contractor pig&#039;s.

The big bad building inspector ruffled his fur and he huffed, he puffed, he found numerous code violations and refused the contractor pigs Certificate of Occupancy and BLEW the house down!

The contractor pig went squealing to his buddy the architect pig and sought refuge in his domicile.

The architect pig and the contractor pig huddled together, hearing the footsteps of the approaching big bad building inspector.

Upon arriving at the architect pig&#039;s house, the big bad building inspector didn&#039;t even bother to go inside.

He took one look at the structure, smoothed back his fur, laughed, and began huffing and puffing, and in no time he BLEW the house down!

Scampering out of the crumbled wreckage of the architect&#039;s house, the two pigs ran a scampering to the engineer pig&#039;s house.

Arriving at the engineer pig&#039;s house, the architect pig and the contractor pig took refuge, cowering in the closet as the engineer pig relaxed in a recliner and continued watching FOX news on his 60&quot; flat screen TV.

In no time at all they heard the approaching footsteps of the big bad building inspector.

Upon arriving he again ruffled up his fur, reviewed all documentation and could find nothing out of order.

He twitched his ears and reviewed the design documents against actual construction, and could find no deviations.

He bared his canines and asked for a copy of the change orders, and was told there weren&#039;t any.

Finally, exasperated, the big bad building inspector huffed and puffed, and huffed and puffed, and huffed...and puffed.....but he couldn&#039;t blow the engineer pig&#039;s house down cause the engineer pig knew his $hit.....

Finally, in a rage the big bad building inspector blew up himself - and the engineer pig ended up with a nice new fur skin rug for his living room.

Not being a very cold hearted soul, he did help the contractor pig and the architect pig design new homes - but he also presented a bill for additional services in the process.

This time the contractor pig and the architect pig built their houses strong, and they all lived happily ever after.

The end.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>anna &amp; Tatyanna,</p>
<p>Figured you two would get a kick out of the bedtime story I told my kids when they were younger.</p>
<p>There once were 3 little pigs.</p>
<p>The first pig was a contractor, the second pig was an architect, and the third pig was an engineer.</p>
<p>Each pig built themselves a house.</p>
<p>The contractor pig built his using only the lowest bidder for each sub-contractor, adhering as tightly as possible to the required building code (aka, minimum acceptable standards), and planned to occupy the house for only one year before flipping it for a profit on the housing market.</p>
<p>The engineer pig just shook his head as his design was completely ignored after the contractor pig obtained his building permit using the engineer pig&#8217;s design documents&#8230;.</p>
<p>The architect pig, in turn, built a monument unto himself.</p>
<p>It was beautiful.</p>
<p>It was full of graceful, pleasing lines.</p>
<p>It was avant gardist in concept and design.</p>
<p>It was a &#8220;green&#8221; design that was LEED certified!</p>
<p>Of course such advanced design techniques required a certain amount of compromise, but the contractor pig who ultimately built it for him assured him that it still met the building code (still aka *minimum acceptable standards* of construction).</p>
<p>The architect pig did have a momentary qualm when presented with the list of RFI&#8217;s and Change Orders, but ultimately decided that the contractor pig knew what he was doing as he was very experienced in such matters.</p>
<p>Again, the engineer pig only shook his head as the architect pig and contractor pig decided which parts of his design they could change in order to cut the increased overall costs back down to within budget due to the change orders presented by the contractor pig&#8230;.plus the fact the architect pig had underestimated his total construction costs by an order of magnitude and was loath to give up any visible design features when he figured he could easily make up the difference by cutting back on the hidden aspects of construction.</p>
<p>Te engineer pig, on the other hand, built his house using the strongest steel, the best CMU, the finest grade woods, the longest warrantied shingles, the tightest and most energy efficient double paned windows and doors, even a hardwired home network and entertainment system!</p>
<p>He designed in a solar water heater system and also a backup gas powered generator!</p>
<p>It was ugly (but then again engineers are in charge of ugly) but it was his and he was happy.</p>
<p>At the end of construction, the big bad building inspector came a&#8217;callin.</p>
<p>The first house he came to was the contractor pig&#8217;s.</p>
<p>The big bad building inspector ruffled his fur and he huffed, he puffed, he found numerous code violations and refused the contractor pigs Certificate of Occupancy and BLEW the house down!</p>
<p>The contractor pig went squealing to his buddy the architect pig and sought refuge in his domicile.</p>
<p>The architect pig and the contractor pig huddled together, hearing the footsteps of the approaching big bad building inspector.</p>
<p>Upon arriving at the architect pig&#8217;s house, the big bad building inspector didn&#8217;t even bother to go inside.</p>
<p>He took one look at the structure, smoothed back his fur, laughed, and began huffing and puffing, and in no time he BLEW the house down!</p>
<p>Scampering out of the crumbled wreckage of the architect&#8217;s house, the two pigs ran a scampering to the engineer pig&#8217;s house.</p>
<p>Arriving at the engineer pig&#8217;s house, the architect pig and the contractor pig took refuge, cowering in the closet as the engineer pig relaxed in a recliner and continued watching FOX news on his 60&#8243; flat screen TV.</p>
<p>In no time at all they heard the approaching footsteps of the big bad building inspector.</p>
<p>Upon arriving he again ruffled up his fur, reviewed all documentation and could find nothing out of order.</p>
<p>He twitched his ears and reviewed the design documents against actual construction, and could find no deviations.</p>
<p>He bared his canines and asked for a copy of the change orders, and was told there weren&#8217;t any.</p>
<p>Finally, exasperated, the big bad building inspector huffed and puffed, and huffed and puffed, and huffed&#8230;and puffed&#8230;..but he couldn&#8217;t blow the engineer pig&#8217;s house down cause the engineer pig knew his $hit&#8230;..</p>
<p>Finally, in a rage the big bad building inspector blew up himself &#8211; and the engineer pig ended up with a nice new fur skin rug for his living room.</p>
<p>Not being a very cold hearted soul, he did help the contractor pig and the architect pig design new homes &#8211; but he also presented a bill for additional services in the process.</p>
<p>This time the contractor pig and the architect pig built their houses strong, and they all lived happily ever after.</p>
<p>The end.</p>
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