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would turned 204 today, and based on this quote, woulda been the typical cranky old man about the state of the nation "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the (Civil) war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

often the very land the soldiers had just subjugated, the original manifest destiny!

incidentally, saw a crazy docu on the tsunami last week: "tsunami and the cherry blossom" or some such - highly recommend, if only for the first 5 minute hand-held video from a group miles in from the coast who catch the total destruction of their city in detail, including at the end an entire nursing home, w/ all the old ladies n' rescue folks riding hte range before your eyes...

watching the most recent episode of walking dead at the moment and it don't look like mass disasters in hollywood at least go peacefully japan's plenty different - strict gun laws, yes? a culture built on conformity. tsunami destroyed everything that could be looted anyhow. nuclear melt-down probably helped folks stay in-doors too as for blaming, i don't understadn japanese culture well enough to know what that would look like, but i'd be suprised if there wasn't much monday-morning q'b'ing going on.

didn't seem to do the trick in new orleans?

actually that's my shitty handwriting, though i think it was a word-for-word copy of what you wanted i'll take whatever poisons you have on your person whatever day the fates are pleased to push us together on

if every bum had a gun, there would be fewer bum fights!!!

but or-e-gone is huuuuge! groovy, groovy weather all weekend, sunday particularily - right frosty at night but shorts n' t-shirts if you wanted in the popular spots today

my 2nd ascent of the whole thing this weekend, and a smash n' grab on a saturday at that did the first 4 pitches as a block, cheat-sticking through all the bullshit to keep it clean - the powderhound had the last, which i misremembered being more free, but he got'er done lickety-split regardless as the light faded and i did the hanging-jitter-bug to pogues tunes on the juke-box zebra zion as the cherry on top for sunday after a good evening of burgundy binging and camel-sucking, watching old boy cook up his chili and have many a good gut-chuckle over all the draws we bootied along the way that day gear notes for plw: -2 3's n' 4s for the exit pitch - cliffhanger for 2 cruxs on p1 - offset blue/yellow metollius for p1 nice - whole lotta cheat-stick'n on p 3 n' 4, but better than nailing in mud or wringling in bullshit just to reach a beautiful 1/2 incher

this former girl scout got picnic lunch wall as a smash n' grab this weekend, w/ zebra-zion as the cherry on top the day after

the "great society" wasn't a total bust, and to what extent it was, i'd blame the cock-sucking conservatives that made johnson so determined to "win" in vietnam, which ultimately scuppered the program - no vietnam, and it woulda been "johnsoncare" progressives got us to the moon, didn't they? ended a race-war of south african proportions before it could get going. did in fact transform the vast inequities of the era of the robber-barons (even if you and your ilk have done a fine job of reversing that with the church of deregulation) "bullying" fans of the kkk, now that's rich

even i got belatedly drawn in on that drama (and seem to recall i'm promised a 1/5 of a poison of my choosing for it!)

What you guys want is "progress". Always. Gotta love the propaganda. How's that war on poverty going, BTW? Any progress yet? i notice you didn't answer the question i grew up hearing the word "*" everyday, and not in a cheeky, ironic way, a fucking dirty, dirty serious way - you think that's better than today? as to the war on poverty, well, umm, like, compared to a hundred years ago things are better by most standards you'd care to use - would you rather they not? i'm not sure that anyone was thinking economic inequality could be utterly gotten rid of, but minimizing the gap between rich and poor doesn't seem a half-bad goal. what's your ideal world look like?

"progress" LOLZ you think the social world of 1950 is better than today? holy shit, you shoulda grown up in south carolina w/ me, even in the '70s!

the irony of the party of lincoln disapproving of "social engineering" is palpable as well course, if there's anything fundamentalists have a problem w/, it's irony - they seem born to take words literally

i re-read this several times but can't quit grok it i don't stay up at night worryign about what the bsa does b/c i see no place in it for me or my son particularily - that said, i do still have opinions and what the hell else is spray for? i'm not one to set up shop as a moralist, shit, i'm pretty certain that, like most meat-popsicles, my morals are malleable to what the world demands my gut-feeling though, call it a moral if you wish, is that folks shouldn't be discriminated against over thigns they have no choice in (kids don't choose their sexuality, and i think one's religious views are generally the result of a process beyond control too) it's not like anyone's bitchign about the scouts not taking in pederasts and felons - they're out of touch w/ the modern world, and as pat says, they can adapt or not - i hope they do, but i'm not gonna cry if they don't, and will not hide my joy when they met their just demise as a result

shee-it, i even chaperoned a girl scout trip the other weekedn - oddly, i was the only man, and odder still, i was the only adult present NOT chain-smoking

but holy shit, don't know if it's the subject that summoned it, but why am i getting banner ads for: "Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit!!!"

no, i think the organization, despite its historical and modern flaws, can adapt to fight the modern era and serve a very good purpose, and i hope that it does in fact become more open to quote "red dawn," the bsa is "an elite para-military organization," and given that our national armed forces have embraced aethiests and boy-lovers of all stripes, i'm pretty sure the wussed-out version can too

thus his deep fascination w/ early nazism, which was riddled w/ boy-buggers

hmm...pretty sure the aclu ain't part of the governmetn, just a buncha private citizens dedicated to making the government due what it's supposed to, by the rules.

baden powell thought "mein kampf" was a great book and recomended everone to read it, so i'm pretty well passed accepting him as a moral authority think he also got his chops in the boer war, another less than honorable endeavour...

or they can double-down and join forces with chick fil-a?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57568392/boy-scouts-face-pressure-before-vote-on-no-gays-policy/ you'll note in the article the pressure on the scouts, both for and against their policy, is all from other private associations of citizens - the obama-llama is quoted as saying he thinks the ban sucks, but there's no gov organization going after them. here's a question: what would jefferson smith say?