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  •  No matter how you look at it... (none / 0)

    ...there are difficult times ahead.

    The mean old man would probably like to be left alone, wouldn't he?  But we're not doing that...are we?  And he's got his hillbilly brethren in the backcountry, itchin' to put you in your place if you come one...step...closer.

    We are at a critical point.  Right now.  We've become high-handed and self-assured in our prosperity, but it's going to end.  We ought to look deeply into the core of our values, and take honest assessment...are we, as a nation, really living up to our ideals?  Individually, maybe...but do we really police the heavy-hitting wrongdoers that we have spawned here?

    And if not, then who will?

    I'll bet you know.

    Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. --Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)

    by perspicio on Thu Oct 21, 2004 at 11:16:07 PM PDT

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    •  I like this mean old man analogy. Do the hillbilly (none / 0)

      brethren sell moonshine on the side? Maybe grow a little hooch in the woods behind the homestead?

      "We are at a critical point.  Right now.  We've become high-handed and self-assured in our prosperity, but it's going to end."

      Good. We deserve it. Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the coming fiscal and economic apocalypse.

      "We ought to look deeply into the core of our values, and take honest assessment...are we, as a nation, really living up to our ideals?"

      That's the other spooky part though. Folks in the blue zone have a very different idea of what our ideals are than folks in the red zone. The country hasn't been so politically self-segregated since 1860.

      "but do we really police the heavy-hitting wrongdoers that we have spawned here?

      And if not, then who will?

      I'll bet you know."

      Well I know who Bush has in mind. Its the tens of million strong generation y that's just coming of age now, and who he plans to start drafting if he wins a second term.

      "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter S Thompson

      by spot on Thu Oct 21, 2004 at 11:34:27 PM PDT

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