I wasn't impressed last night

[ValuJet]

VJ--since you were paying attention to the reporter seating, were there any former male gay prostitutes in the press corps lobbing softballs (as opposed to soft balls)? :eek2:

I'm not sure. I couldn't identify Barney Frank's congressional pages but I am sure they're in positions of prominence.

 

[JAXFLBAMAFAN]

I'm not sure. I couldn't identify Barney Frank's congressional pages but I am sure they're in positions of prominence.

I wold be careful when talking about the position of Barney Frank's pages. I'm sure he stands behind them all, especially the young male pages. :eek2:

 

[JAXFLBAMAFAN]

Our president now says over and over again that government is our only hope to rebuild this country. Government is our only hope to generate jobs and produce commerce. Without the govrnment we can do nothing.

It is a sad commentary on our country and society that we have deteriorated to the point that we are a wimpy wimpy nanny state. This is stark contrast to the rugged individualism, and indepence that that this country was founded on.

Everyone is now looking to take their turn at the government trough at the encouragement of their own federal government.

This government will succeed in choking off the private sector or it will succeed in causing a failure of monumental and epic propotion.

 

[Ldlane]

Our president now says over and over again that government is our only hope to rebuild this country. Government is our only hope to generate jobs and produce commerce. Without the govrnment we can do nothing.

It is a sad commentary on our country and society that we have deteriorated to the point that we are a wimpy wimpy nanny state. This is stark contrast to the rugged individualism, and indepence that that this country was founded on.

Everyone is now looking to take their turn at the government trough at the encouragement of their own federal government.

This government will succeed in choking off the private sector or it will succeed in causing a failure of monumental and epic propotion.

Government of the people, by the people..

 

[jthomas666]

Our president now says over and over again that government is our only hope to rebuild this country. Government is our only hope to generate jobs and produce commerce. Without the govrnment we can do nothing.

It is a sad commentary on our country and society that we have deteriorated to the point that we are a wimpy wimpy nanny state. This is stark contrast to the rugged individualism, and indepence that that this country was founded on.

Everyone is now looking to take their turn at the government trough at the encouragement of their own federal government.

This government will succeed in choking off the private sector or it will succeed in causing a failure of monumental and epic propotion.

 

[crimson fan man]

To sum it up different face same crap.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

i think the entire stimulus package should be given to me. i think that would stimulate the economy.

 

[Tidewater]

Government of the people, by the people..

"The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of the Websters, Sumners and Everetts seem gaudy and silly It is eloquence brought to a pellucid and almost gem-like perfection—the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Nothing else precisely like it is to be found in the whole range of oratory. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous.
But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination—"that government of the people, by the people, for the people," should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. What was the practical effect of the battle of Gettysburg? What else than the destruction of the old sovereignty of the States, i.e., of the people of the States? The Confederates went into battle free; they came out with their freedom subject to the supervision and veto of the rest of the country—and for nearly twenty years that veto was so effective that they enjoyed scarcely more liberty, in the political sense, than so many convicts in the penitentiary."
H. L. Mencken

 

[crimson fan man]

Tidewater, thank you for that piece. I never thought of it in that respect but that is so very true.

 

[Tidewater]

Tidewater, thank you for that piece. I never thought of it in that respect but that is so very true.

Mencken was a curmudgeon, but he posed some interesting and provocative arguments at time. Like this one.