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04-24-2015, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by BeamOn
The power of TV is waning, newspapers are history and now it's all social media.
The one that can tweet with the best can waltz into the White House, a scary thought.
The power wielded by Facebook and Twitter is astounding.
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Rajoo.................
I'm finding that knowledge of history, even the desire to study and understand it is disappearing. In some cases it is being replaced by some sort of bizarre, utopian vision of the past. Everything was better........WAY better. Everyone was happy, healthy and wealthy. Cars ran better. The air was cleaner. We could cull elephants by the herd for their tusks and tomorrow there would be twice as many of them. Toilet paper was softer on our bungholes................
I've recently been informed that things like tainted food products, slavery, racism, robber barons and their excesses, forced relocation of Native Americans.........never really existed, or at least weren't "really" so bad. Those things are all just dirty lies that "progressives" invented to smear an idyllic America and establish the totalitarian Communism we have today because of Obama and his Buds.
Democracy is a form of tyranny, designed to ".....crush the individual and rob him of his freedom", foisted upon America by wealthy, powerful elites.
This what a 20 year old relative, serving in Iraq (Air Force), told me a few weeks ago. I had a similar conversation with a young man this morning.
"People who burn our flag and protest against this country should be shot on sight."
This is our Brave New World, my friend.
I am losing optimism by the minute, now.
Dave
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04-24-2015, 11:50 AM
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Need more data. One example isn't enough.
And 20-year-old still have considerable wising-up to do.
Some more than others....
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04-24-2015, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Rajoo.................
I'm finding that knowledge of history, even the desire to study and understand it is disappearing. In some cases it is being replaced by some sort of bizarre, utopian vision of the past. Everything was better........WAY better. Everyone was happy, healthy and wealthy. Cars ran better. The air was cleaner. We could cull elephants by the herd for their tusks and tomorrow there would be twice as many of them. Toilet paper was softer on our bungholes................
I've recently been informed that things like tainted food products, slavery, racism, robber barons and their excesses, forced relocation of Native Americans.........never really existed, or at least weren't "really" so bad. Those things are all just dirty lies that "progressives" invented to smear an idyllic America and establish the totalitarian Communism we have today because of Obama and his Buds.
Democracy is a form of tyranny, designed to ".....crush the individual and rob him of his freedom", foisted upon America by wealthy, powerful elites.
This what a 20 year old relative, serving in Iraq (Air Force), told me a few weeks ago. I had a similar conversation with a young man this morning.
"People who burn our flag and protest against this country should be shot on sight."
This is our Brave New World, my friend.
I am losing optimism by the minute, now.
Dave
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So what happened to the land of opportunity which my family so well benefited from? It's in the past.We now offer self deportation! But heck we get to sing "land of the free and home of the brave" at baseball games.
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The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite. Thomas Jefferson
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04-24-2015, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
This is our Brave New World, my friend.
I am losing optimism by the minute, now.
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You still have some?
My optimism was gone years ago and I'm damn near out of hope.
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04-24-2015, 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Boreas
You still have some?
My optimism was gone years ago and I'm damn near out of hope.
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I became a confirmed cynic when Gerry Ford issued a blanket pardon to Tricky Dick and Agnew didn't get hard time.
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04-24-2015, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by bobabode
I became a confirmed cynic when Gerry Ford issued a blanket pardon to Tricky Dick and Agnew didn't get hard time.
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The thing about that "pardon" is that it wasn't one. Nixon hadn't been prosecuted or convicted of anything. What Ford did was give Nixon a blanket grant of immunity. Given this grant of immunity, it became pointless to conduct any further investigations into Nixon's the criminal actions or those of his administration so, not surprisingly, basically, none were ever conducted.
This was a disgraceful act and a dangerous one. It preemptively forestalled any real investigations into Reagan's Iran Contra operation and Bush's WMD hoax. It will doubtless be used again.
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04-24-2015, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Rajoo.................
I'm finding that knowledge of history, even the desire to study and understand it is disappearing. In some cases it is being replaced by some sort of bizarre, utopian vision of the past. Everything was better........WAY better. Everyone was happy, healthy and wealthy. Cars ran better. The air was cleaner. We could cull elephants by the herd for their tusks and tomorrow there would be twice as many of them. Toilet paper was softer on our bungholes................
I've recently been informed that things like tainted food products, slavery, racism, robber barons and their excesses, forced relocation of Native Americans.........never really existed, or at least weren't "really" so bad. Those things are all just dirty lies that "progressives" invented to smear an idyllic America and establish the totalitarian Communism we have today because of Obama and his Buds.
Democracy is a form of tyranny, designed to ".....crush the individual and rob him of his freedom", foisted upon America by wealthy, powerful elites.
This what a 20 year old relative, serving in Iraq (Air Force), told me a few weeks ago. I had a similar conversation with a young man this morning.
"People who burn our flag and protest against this country should be shot on sight."
This is our Brave New World, my friend.
I am losing optimism by the minute, now.
Dave
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The Limbotomised dittiots of Excrement in Fraudcasting in evidence. Things don't really go better with Koch.
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05-04-2015, 11:01 AM
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"Fiorina is joining a crowded GOP field. Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas have announced that they will run. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, also formally announced on Monday, with former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee scheduled to join on Tuesday." WaPo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...onday/?hpid=z4
They're going to need a bigger bus.
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05-04-2015, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by bobabode
I became a confirmed cynic when Gerry Ford issued a blanket pardon to Tricky Dick and Agnew didn't get hard time.
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My faith started to crumble in the 8th grade when Khrushchev caught Eisenhower lying his ass off about the U2 incident.
By the time my ass got sent to Vietnam in August of 1970, I knew it was all bullshit.
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05-04-2015, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by bobabode
"Fiorina is joining a crowded GOP field. Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas have announced that they will run. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, also formally announced on Monday, with former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee scheduled to join on Tuesday." WaPo
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Here is the Fiorina website:
http://carlyfiorina.org/
Carl
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