Happy Manifest Destiny Day Everyone!

[Charles]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Good Lord, take it easy. It was tongue-in-cheek humor ferfuksake.

Dave

Har, har, har, har!!!!

And the pricks are on the inside.

Chas

[Zeke]

The single argument I have most often with other Natives?

"It wasn't Utopia before they got here, don't pretend it would be if they hadn't."

The only difference is that McDonald's would be "Big Chief's" and all cars would run on liquid maize: which would be $3.50 per gallon.

[merrylander]

Time to get out the Myth of Sisyphus again.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Time to get out the Myth of Sisyphus again.

Isn't that the guy with the big rock and the steep hill?

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Charles

Ross Perot warned of the pitfalls of globalization.

But he was "crazy" and "unelectable".

But even he was only half right.

Globalization may have worked, it it were done right. Healthcare reform would work, if it were done right. Banking reform would work, if it were done right.

And the energy crisis wouldn't be nearly the crisis it is now, had it been addressed back in 1973.

Face it, the only direction you can coast is downhill. And it's a long way back up to the top of the mountain.

Perhaps it is time to elect some of those crazy and unelectable folks. How could they be any worse than the USDA select candidates both parties keep offering up?

Got some mighty rotten meat currently hanging in the locker.

Chas

I wasted my vote on old H. Ross.

When he said, "This guy, (Points thumb at Daddy Bush), wants you to trust billionaires and corporate executives. Believe me, those guys are my best friends, and there isn't a single one of 'em that gives a damn about any of you." I almost fell out laughing.

Too bad more people weren't listening.

Dave

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Isn't that the guy with the big rock and the steep hill?

Dave

That's the man.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Zeke

The single argument I have most often with other Natives?

"It wasn't Utopia before they got here, don't pretend it would be if they hadn't."

The only difference is that McDonald's would be "Big Chief's" and all cars would run on liquid maize: which would be $3.50 per gallon.

Excellent synopsis.

It didn't take Japan very long to go to shit once they saw the advantages of having a Great White Fleet.

Chas

[Charles]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

I wasted my vote on old H. Ross.

When he said, "This guy, (Points thumb at Daddy Bush), wants you to trust billionaires and corporate executives. Believe me, those guys are my best friends, and there isn't a single one of 'em that gives a damn about any of you." I almost fell out laughing.

Too bad more people weren't listening.

Dave

I got a kick out of him whenever he said he was going to buy this election for the American public because they couldn't afford to buy it themselves.

That was a fact back then, and even more so now.

Chas

[Charles]

Originally Posted by merrylander

That's the man.

Is moving the rock a metaphor for making payments to Prudential Insurance?

Chas

[JONRID]

Originally Posted by merrylander

The strange part is that those "savages" - the Iroquois had a better and more functional form of government than we have currently been blessed with. When I came down in 1984 it was a great place to be, amazing what eight years of the GWB administration was able to do. From prosperity to the shitter in one fell swoop, or is that one swell foop.

I guess you missed the events of 9/11/2001.