I understand that when you are young and inexperienced in the big world it’s easy to philosophize abstractions and believe the answers you have found are the only right ones.
However, I promise you that as you grow up you will find that the joy of this country comes from debate and not name calling. It is so easy for children when found speechless to resort to the usual recriminations and detail analysis to prove some abstract and illogical value system. I’m not so bad, because there are some who are worse! Didn’t your Momma teach you that good old American saying! “Sticks and stones my break by bones but names will never hurt me!”
I don’t know about what you learn in school but in my day we had a proposed hypothesis and then extended it so we could visualize the ultimate conclusions of the hypothesis.
You are quite right, I do feel that you have never endured life without all the comforts and from your cozy little desks it is easy to create an imaginary world full of imaginary playmates who are what you wish them to be.
Your morality makes you feel so good and so superior, but what really is your morality? Does it give you justification for bad manners and a lack of civility? So throw away my ideas if you will and rather than discuss the conceptual differences, call me names and be demeaning and insulting does that make you right? It only exposes you’re own real indifference to the kindness and generosity you choose to discuss as long as it’s in someone else’s responsibility. I am if nothing else tenacious and you do not humiliate me, you embarrass yourselves.
So I do not believe in beating up our government…what a crime I have perpetrated! So I believe that a cultist or a sociopath is not to be defended or protected but to made responsible for his/her actions.
Yes! in this real world I keep a rifle for an emergency so I can live until the police get there. But, shame on all of you, we have had the most uplifting period in the past 40 years of seeing those people who gave up their time and some their lives to help each other. And, why not for the money! not for the glory! not because they were trying to buy a good seat in heaven but just because they cared there were human beings who might have been alive and needed help.
I was in college when Karl Marx and his dreams of Utopia hit the college scene. I have seen the effects and so have you. Bin Laden and people of his thinking are not interested in a democracy, and there is no price we can pay to buy them. They believe and have a vision that let’s them endure more horror in one day than you will ever see on the screen.
Reality check please! How much money do you think we need to spend to buy Bin Laden? How far should we go? They have oil and they could have all the money they want! So what else should we offer them? Do you seriously believe that if we gave them the state of Israel it would stop there?
MY GOD! children these are terrorists and bullies who will pick at your weak spots until they are raw. How much will be enough? The White House? the Statue of Liberty? the Captial building?
George Bush whatever he may speak like, is intelligent enough to be surrounded by great minds who respect him. He is not just George Bush anymore he is the “President of the United States of America”. This is your country that has given you shelter and comfort and opportunity. If there was someplace better then we wouldn’t have an immigrant problem at all.
Whoever told you that it was the government who was responsible to you? It isn’t you are the government and under law the majority which is centrous makes the rules. Democrats and Republicans will disagree on principles regarding little personal issues but in this they are united,both, have had lesser Presidents and greater Presidents.
So you go ahead and make fun of my thinking if it makes you feel more important because that does not diminish me. You go ahead and make sarcastic comments about punctuation and speech habits if that makes you think you got something for the time you spent in college. It doesn’t change a thing.
This government is of the people, by the people and for the people and you are the people so get used to it. Elect liars and cheats who make you feel good and you will get what an electorate deserves when they don’t respect and honor the government. Elect Madison Avenue packaged people and you will prove that Andy Warhol was right. Will the can of Campbell’s soup take the place of God? Brave New World must have been on your reading list still, remember “Georgie Porgie Ford and Fin, kiss the girls and let’s begin?” When I read it I identified with the savage, with which group do you indentify? On the Island of the Alphas there always was war, so do you prefer the brain conditioned worker bees and babies raised in hatcheries?
Just maybe if you had a really open heart and mind (which you think you have) we wouldn’t have bitter and self centered politicians who are willing to say or do anything just to get elected.
Just maybe you could be a little more tolerant and cerebral.
YES! this is your world and you are making it in your own image. I hope you like what you get!
[This message was edited by Snowbird on Oct. 01, 2001 at 10:43 PM.]
, is that your health insurance premiums for this next year have already been decided. Nothing that has happened over the past months will affect it for, say, what?, another year or so? 
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