Alan Shore, elucidifier.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/03/15.html#a7532

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Good stuff. Could be controversial though. The whole freedom of speech and right to expression debate could rear its ugly head here. Remember the whole flag burning debates that raged across the country? We have rights but then again where do your rights end and mine begin? Do gays have the right to march in a parade that has nothing to do with them?
If so then can hetero's march in a homo parade? If women have the right to play on men's sports teams, then do men have the same right to compete in female athletics? What about the locker room issues? Argh!!!!

Great food for thought Ho.

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How much is the ticket? I'd like to go for a ride. XD

Next stop, bigot city:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-pat14.html
"Robertson calls radical Muslims satanic"
Radical christians? Just creepy.

^^^^ Sounds like fascism to me. Now where was that website again?

^ This is a quote stolen from Hugo or 56k but why can't we just be like mimes?--Shut up and love each other. But look where we are--on the verge of a nuclear war with Iran while tearing up Iraq and seeing all Muslims as terrorists.

I'm reading "Washington's Secret War" by Thomas Fleming. Fleming shows how fragile the revolution was and how narrow the victory. The conviction of principled leaders held the revolution together despite wavering popular and political support.

What surprised me is how deeply apathetic most Americans were at the time. Washington struggled to maintain an army while the states withheld troops he desperately needed. Many liked the idea of independence but weren't willing to make the personal sacrifices needed to earn it.

Today, most Americans are still apathic. A Civil War, two World Wars, and Vietnam changed that, but not for long.

@Fish
Good point. By the way, nothing woke us up as a nation as much as the events of 9/11!
Well, Pearl Harbor kind of did too. So it seems that it's a natural cycle for us Americans to get lulled into a deep sleep of complacency and apathy until someone drops a bomb on us! Why does it have to come to such an extreme measure?
As painful and scary as that time was, it was also very moving to see how much pride and compassion we all had.
The good in the USA offset the evil that invaded our land on that day and that continue to kill our boys and girls overseas.

"What surprised me is how deeply apathetic most Americans were at the time. Washington struggled to maintain an army while the states withheld troops he desperately needed. Many liked the idea of independence but weren't willing to make the personal sacrifices needed to earn it."

I've been wondering if its a sign of our times, or how its always been. Interesting.

Some people just don't get behind big ideas. I guess there's a large class of folks who would make better bovine than homo sapiens...waste of grey matter.

Apparently, loud music isn't allowed, either... Rage Against the Machine and Michael Moore almost got arrested for filming a video outside the 2000 RNC. I'm not going to cite this, on grounds of the article having graphic content, but it's easily confirmed.

All aboard!!!

No thinking person can deny that the events after 9/11 were orchestrated by W and his merry band of thieves...

However, and I don't mean to diminish historical event of 9/11, how would we have reacted if the collapse of the towers was caused by an earthquake? It probably would have caused even more deaths. I mean, tragedy? Yes. Rally time for nation? Yes. Go to war? No way. Throw away our civil rights? No way.

I know I'm walking on the ledge here... How much were we brain washed with the constant repeating of the (condensed) event on TV? 30 seconds between pictures of two jets slamming into the towers to their collapse. Over and over and over again. Shit, they took a stun gun to our brains.
Then we were taken advantage of...

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