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Thanks, katray.
Given the current trend, I believe we'll probably end up with a Second Amendment longer than a First.
posted by
saul_relative
on February 22, 2005 at 5:00 PM
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I like your anger Saul...and Damon's too, of course. Because without it, we'd be going down without a fight, something I too refuse to do. Write on, fellow Word Warriors!
posted by
Katray2
on February 19, 2005 at 7:28 PM
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Riled?
DamonLeigh, I'm as mad as a bird-fed cat forced to take laxatives after a trip to the henhouse. Man, don't even get me started.
But I agree. To the Prose Barricades!! Man those paragraph trenches!! Toss a few loaded sentences into their ranks that they'll never forget!! Stand and be heard!!
Yes, perchance to dream...
posted by
saul_relative
on February 15, 2005 at 4:27 PM
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Man...
...you sound about as riled up as I get at times!
Quick - to the barricades!! It's Payback Time!!!
Well, we can dream...
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
on February 14, 2005 at 8:27 AM
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Not only that, DamonLeigh,
but the entire Dubya Deal is hellbent on Armageddonist policies, while ensuring corporate invulnerability. Munitions manufacturing, petroleum products, Haliburton interests, ad nauseum add to the ridiculous amount of wealth already accumulated by Bush and his henchmen. And the cost? Just a few thousand American lives. The mere fact that exporting our particular aggressive style of capitalism kills millions around the world every year in sweat shops (there are little or no child labor laws or enforcement of such in most third world or developing nations), manufacturing accidents (there are few, if any, OSHA-type agencies), chemical and toxic runoff and spilloff that poison land and water supplies, rampant deforestation and ecosystem collapse -- the list goes on forever, and I didn't even mention the animosity/civil strife between the haves and have-nots that sudden wealth engenders in a depressed economy.
And those are just the foreigners killed by our free-trade and capitalism. Those foreigners killed by our military and foreign policy ventures don't count, so it seems, because they are killed promoting democracy(whether they really want it or not), capitalism (a more insidious and efficient profitable form of humane slow death), and the American way (because nobody, and I mean nobody, has a better way of doing things than the good ole U.S. of A).
posted by
saul_relative
on February 13, 2005 at 7:18 AM
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Yes, There's a Lot...
...of so-called 'discretionary' items in for cuts or the chop from Bush. Incidental expenditures like health (!), education (!!) and the environment (!!!), not to mention social security (!!!!!).
Meanwhile, defence spending is due to RISE by nearly 5% (from an already-obscene number).
So there are no mixed messages, Saul! Clearly, it's no longer considered all that vital to educate the next generation of Americans, to look after those who have given their all to the country and are now aging, and to keep the nation healthy and fit. It's way more important than all those things to kill foreigners! Which in turn is a cosy off-shoot from a policy that ring-fences public money and funnels it into arms manufacturers and dealers that dutifully line the pockets of the Bush family.
This is not trickle-down. This is gush-up.
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
on February 13, 2005 at 6:31 AM
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