BFD.

Quick and co. got too much time on their hands.

More Republican targeting of gubmint.

What a laugh.

I guess the "market" should have decided whether we got rid of DDT, whether coal burning should be minimized, whether food should be labeled at all. This is knee-jerk, true-believer, Church of Capitalism dogma.

Big business is every bit as corrupt, slow-witted, and incompetent as big government, and neither can be trusted without being watched.

Those cruise ships are really big polluters and don't pay no tax nowhere. They should pay user fees for use of the seas.

Them with all those country club memberships never go to any public facilities. Same old trickledown thinking. Water carts on trails is such a hoot. They'll cut costs on the backs of every worker. In the winter they could have a St Bernard on the path with a cask of brandy 'round his fookin' neck too.

Them with all those country club memberships never go to any public facilities. Same old trickledown thinking. Water carts on trails is such a hoot. They'll cut costs on the backs of every worker. In the winter they could have a St Bernard on the path with a cask of brandy 'round his fookin' neck too.

Syria's situation illustrates what GW dreamed would happen all across the MiddleEast after the wise and timely invasion of Iraq.

[quote][b]proftom[/b] -
One up-manshipping us again I see. What's the drone packin' ?
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I think that cluster munitions take out the most first-graders, according to research carried out in Serbia.

squeezin that lemon

So funny...just like those joint exercises of South Korean and American troops.

Be sure they won't be doing this stuff in Crystal Hills.

David Berle deserves some credit, sho nuff.

And please, Brer David, don't be afraid to identify with activist ideas (which I know you secretly harbor). I know a professor at a conservative, strait-laced school that has the likes of Clarence Thomas visit to lecture, cannot step even one toe's length out the liberal limb without dire risk, but all the same, congrats for good community based effort. (I hope that is not too Socialist a thing to say here in the wild west of privatism and granite-jawed individualism).

"...This country is headed down the tubes no matter who is at the helm..."

Haha.

So, is this what General Westmoreland meant when he used the metaphor of "light at the end of the tunnel?"

We seem, as a nation, to have kept our tunnel vision ever since those days, Vietnam having failed to light a fire under any kind of balloon of awareness. Instead, we huffed and puffed and blew it completely in Iraq, only to direct the same foul wind into our financial sector, whose overinflated appetite led to the great splitting of seams, requiring the obliging housekeeping staff to mop up.

Jaxdawg, the funny thing about apocalyptic visions is that they can be spot-on predictions, but may only apply in their application on an individual basis.

Leon reassures me that at least a few people are still able to think.

Very good piece about an almost non-issue.

I agree that the breakdown of order leaves us no "protection" of any right to anything.

On the other hand Leon, remember Waco, Texas and that loopy religious order that tried to assert its arms-bearing rights within the structure of order?

Hah!

[quote][b]snarkydude[/b] - "This is their issue"? Really?
No, sweetie...it's YOUR issue. Time to find out who's in charge, and build a fire under their butt.
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the same thing the Bush Admin said about those massacres in Iraq by the hired thugs who guard the State Department.

BTW, ever wonder why Benghazi embassy was not guarded like it was spozed to be?

Blame it on the catering of our war efforts, not Obamer.

Why the sensitivity? Because despicable attitudes still persist among us, as the weirdo just pointed out.

Compromise at the expense of human rights is a failure, not a way forward.

Our nation has yet to live up to its ideals, even after two and a quarter centuries.

The lack of political will is endemic among those who choose to serve by getting elected.

Makes me wonder what the f*** they thought they signed up for.

These events are reflections of our barbaric culture. Noone is shocked when a drone missle wipes out a family in Yemen because they have been fingered as suspicious.

What goes round comes home.

I hate to say it but I don't think this stuff will stop as long as we behave en masse so violently in the global village.

We are, none of us, as "individual" as we dream we are, but only members of a variety of herds.

So much for deification of the military brass. See how ordinary and tawdry are their miserable little private lives?

The irony is like a hammer.

This AM the news said 20-30 thousand e-mails?

So when did they have time to run any wars?

As JT alludes in his epilogue, our electoral process has been hijacked by corporate media. Who the H*** gave faceless media bureacrats the right to define the places, times, and rules for these "debate" events?

Why was the Green ticket arrested trying to simply gain access to the Hofstra Campus?

Why did Libertarians not get to be in the debates?

We the public are being sold a load of manure. Our national elections have been reduced to the level of "American Idol".

I think the media are being controlled by the Great Satan himself!

Boo!

Been there, done that.

In early '74 I had a little job helping a feckless local boy who had a furnish/install contract on room furnishings at the "new" Ramada Inn across from Bubber's package store on the corner of Finley and Broad.

We helped him load mattresses/box springs onto a big rented flat bed stake-side truck at the Chase St wharehouses and headed to Cleveland-College and right for that trestle. He stopped (from north), asked our opinion, we said "gun it" which he did, only to get get stuck about halfway through!

What a kick! We laughed in spite of ourselves, then helped him haul out enough layers to clear.

Another time in the day I saw a dogfood truck have its top peeled off there and a river of dogfood pellets run down the steep paving!

"...mama's got a squeezebox, daddy never sleeps at nite!..."---the Who.

The design is an abomination and an insult to the original, historic design. Had it been run through the gauntlet of historic preservation review it would never have made it.

It reminds me of a local redneck's installation of an exterior closet or trophy case onto his single-wide mobile home.

Without all them guns that feller'd a just waded into that crowd with a baseball bat, or maybe the jawbone of a ass, and woulda whupped up on them innocents anyways!

Yeehaw!

I don't think it is too much of a stretch to see this kind of senseless violence as a direct reflection of the same senslessness and violence that our "foreign policy" as a nation inflicts on others abroad.

Our efforts to "fix" Afghanistan and Iraq by force have been a grotesque theatre of absurdity, with countless innocent victims of our supposedly well-meant efforts.

At first I was sure that the shooter would be another mistreated military vet fresh from duty "over there", but it turns out to be worse.

To the extent that we share a collective mind, there in Aurora go you and I, friends.

Great example of predatory development strategies.

Great example of predatory development strategies.