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It's not mandatory to know these things or how well one can write about them, but an opinion on the whole enchilada based on the half-truths and outright lies is a tainted and dangerous one - it might just allow for more rip-offs being planned and permissing the real criminals (Cheney and Bush and like company) to get away with treason.

Voting away from the same old crap is one thing, but supporting prosecution of the existing problems is another. We can't afford to repeat these failures. We haven't yet even begun to realize the costs they levied. I'd even like to see how we're able to absorb the returning troops and live-up to our bumpersticker slogans when that time comes, if it ever will. Cheney's hoping it won't. McCain is adamant about it never coming into being either.

Here's to our future, one we're too busy trying to keep up with to notice the failures of our current and past and how that is going to dictate our lives from here on out. In just a small insignificant way, the price at the pump is nothing compared to what's coming, and we let it be so.
 
I'm no socialist but do you think deregulation of certain industries is working? I sure don't. To me, the B/C team put way too much faith in their capitalist comrades. A lot of money was made. Unfortunately, many of the recent LOSSES will be absorbed by tax payers, not by those who assumed the risk.
 
I doubt everyone is as clueless as you make us out to be Oakwilt. We just don't have any recourse beyond voting. Protest doesn't get one anywhere. Meaningful boycott is impossible, armed rebellion is impossible... what would you have us lemmings do?

Money and the pursuit thereof drives this country above all other things. Only integrity among the plutocrats can turn the US in a more sustainable direction... and it's in very short supply.
 
I don't know - but protests against the King, against the North, against Vietnam ended a lot of nasty situations that were certain to continue. Perhaps that's why it is, as so many felt what was said to be truths, up to and including a father who lost a son on 9/11 to send a Marine unit enough money to stencile a name on a 105mm shell to bombard a Bhagdad suburb, only years to find out that the nation was lied to, as was he, and he admits complicity to murder now.

Being busy, but when someone tries to redress a greivance, like a few hundred independent truckers or disgruntled airline pilots and crews, we look upon them with disdain and loudly suffer the inconvenience we claim. We're taught to hate unions, trash welfare moms on dope but support slushfund brokers to get compensation for their erronious ways. We send in the troops to quell unrest when homes and businesses are destroyed and promises to help are political flamethrowers, making nice but lying through the teeth.

Not everyone works for change, some make it by not even being aware - buying this or not buying that. The draft itself is because people won't, and how many deferments do we manufacture - like Cheney himself - to quitely remove ourselves from a necessary evil or live well without the responsibility needed to maintain that freedom?

It's not busy, it's lazy and or fear - something we've proven ourselves to be overly sensitive about and extremely easy to be manipulated by. That's rooted in ignorance. We're happpy to be committed to the troops by a $2.00 bumpersticker, how're those failed Guard marriages and job losses doing anyway? Emails to Senators lately, or even ever? Buzzwords over coffee like "Saddam had it coming" without even knowing the evident truths, continue the process of lies and you'll be believing like we worshipped the heroism of Tilson's surrounded by enemy forces and his Silver Star for our actions, not his.

We're supporting offshore drilling, or did enough to make it real now - and the Arctic, so for three years we can burn more fuel, period. Then what? Russia and Iran have some, we'll ask them nicely for some more.

I agree we're busy and have a life, without such we're nothing. Well, not much anyway but with this - the beginning of something we're all going to experience and not perhaps too comfy-like, it's going to become very interesting and someone somewhere will ask....

But then, here I sit, about to taste some retirement for a few days, go south and check-out the damage from the storm and see if my boat made it okay (she's down there where it's wet and windy now). I admit I'm about as lazy as one can be, but hey - it wasn't this that helped recognize Agent Orange for what it was, or helped get the Vet Centers started without federal help, or maintain a cancer patient's helpline and site when really, I don't have to do anything...I have my X-box and beer fridge.

It's a personal choice and skill thing, and something inside some of us to do certain things - even raising a kid is a good example of contributing to the future world - if we don't fill his head with lies and right-wing (or left-wing) hatred.

I don't buy WalMart,and that's a good start I think.
 
But really, I don't know.

I guess it's all boiled down to choices, personal and real.

I discovered I am no longer turned-on by just a beautiful woman - she has to have a brain (and I might just need a Viagra!).
 
Reed, good to see you're still kicking. I pass through F-burg often. Today will be my 9th time to pass through in less than 3 weeks. We need to meet up for a beer.

I am glad to work in the food and fuel industry now (analytical chem) as it seems pretty recession proof. Only things more recession proof I can think of are booze and p0rn.
 
Guys,

if your gonna do politics/economy/war in Iraq/Bush/recession etc for god's sake, do it properly.......

Arboristsite Political Forum

I've never understood why Oakwilt doesn't post there. Having said that, he would be up against a tsunami of right wingers who constantly post links to right wing think tanks/blogs to back up their weak arguments.
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looks like a photo shop job to me masterbalster.
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Yes, mb's arms are really very puny in real life.

This image on the other hand is not photoshop, it happened after Barack Obama became President.

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Sounds like Clinton tactics - silence the opposition.

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It actually sounds more like Bush-Co tactics. Anyone been following the row over NASA scientists being gagged by the administration?

Oh yeah, moron boy Bush and his cronies will get their rightful place in history.....let's just hope it doesn't get "silenced"


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I'm just excited about the future and amazed that the best the GOP can run is a corpse that can speak a little Bush that made it out of Annapolis on the bottom and enjoyed most favored friend status from the caretakers at the Hanoi Hilton and was against the war but now is for it!?!?!

Nathan, give me a holler! Moved a few miles from before but still within earshot. Email!

The boat's fine (100 mph wind from the west, where she was pointed) and the bildge's dry snd the rigging's tight.

Grover, I can't support a site (simply by even clicking on it) that indirectly pilfered a windfall from political connections that led to sub-standard work on Katrina's victim's homes and enjoyed zero oversight that enabled him to get away with it all the way to the bank. That was America's money, not Micheal Brown's or G.W. Bush's (but this GOP can't understand that). The far right is dangerous as they've gunned-down worshipers that aren't eye to eye, bombed govt. buildings with innocents inside, sent anthrax from their own research facilities and appoint jurists who force politics and Gods to supercede laws. NASA was a drop in the oceans - FDA, EPA, DOD, DOJ, CIA, etc., all corrupted by the greed of the right and controlled to the point the nation's broke, the war's lost, the enemies grown, the water's poisoned, the food's deadly, and not just crappy toys and tools come from China, but most of all our prescription drugs. The cost of fuel? Hmm. That too. God shed his grace on thee, mission accomplished and "they're" winning.
 
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