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Your view on recent Middle East crisis
ednbarby:
ekeby (love your handle, by the way), I couldn't agree with you more, myself. What I'd like to see is gas going up to about $6 a gallon. That would be enough, I figure, to force a revolution. A revolution that would force people to turn to mass transit, bicycles, super-fuel-efficient cars, and return to the urban centers of our country. And those urban centers would finally be refurbished the way they deserve to be, and all of us schmos in the suburbs and exurbs would live there and enjoy the sense of community people in my generation grew up with before the world got flat.
What I'd also like to see is Jake G. at my doorstep with a dozen white roses enmeshed in lavendar lilacs wanting to whisk me away in a chariot drawn by unicorns, and that ain't happening, either.
What infuriates me the most about this latest Middle East crisis, and every one before it, really, is my and just about everyone else's powerlessness in the whole thing. I want to take all these people - all these religious extremists from every faction - and smack some sense into them.
Man, being a true pacifist is tricky business in this world. :P
dly64:
--- Quote from: ekeby on August 01, 2006, 09:19:00 pm ---I couldn't agree with you more. I just wish the rest of the world understood how powerless the American people have become and how politicians have used their power for truly evil purposes. Nothing about any of it makes any sense to me.
What infuriates ME most is that if we had taken this--what is it now $80 billion?--and put it into a kind of Manhattan Project to develop alternative energy, we'd have given quality work to Americans, and we'd have a technology to export. Not to mention defusing some of the hatred the world has for us. Instead, we've got the biggest debt load in history and a last house-of-cards economy. Not to mention 100,000 dead. Stupid stupid stupid. A small penis is the only thing that explains it, if you ask me . . . .
Watch the price of gas inching up just enough for huge profits but not enough to start a revolution. If you think that's a free market economy at work, I've got a bridge for you to look at . . . .
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AGREED! I think that if Bush would invest 1/10th in the future of our children’s education vs. more and more money into a war we’ll never win … we might be getting somewhere. It pains me to think that the rest of the world associates us (US Americans) to be in line with Bush’s policies. I get more and more concerned as to where our country is going. But you know …. I am irritated at those who chose to put Bush back in office. We are certainly in worse shape because of it. (Have you ever thought about what our nation would be like had our valid president, Al Gore, been put in office? We would be a completely different country. And, IMO, a much better country!!)
Errrrrr …..
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: dly64 on August 01, 2006, 09:42:32 pm ---Have you ever thought about what our nation would be like had our valid president, Al Gore, been put in office? We would be a completely different country. And, IMO, a much better country!!
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I think about it all the time. :'(
dly64:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on August 01, 2006, 09:35:11 pm ---What infuriates me the most about this latest Middle East crisis, and every one before it, really, is my and just about everyone else's powerlessness in the whole thing. I want to take all these people - all these religious extremists from every faction - and smack some sense into them.
Man, being a true pacifist is tricky business in this world. :P
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Ditto! I couldn't agree with you more!
--- Quote from: ednbarby on August 01, 2006, 09:45:13 pm ---I think about it all the time. :'(
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We are so on the same page!!
ekeby:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on August 01, 2006, 09:35:11 pm ---ekeby (love your handle, by the way), I couldn't agree with you more, myself. What I'd like to see is gas going up to about $6 a gallon. That would be enough, I figure, to force a revolution.
What I'd also like to see is Jake G. at my doorstep with a dozen white roses enmeshed in lavendar lilacs wanting to whisk me away in a chariot drawn by unicorns, and that ain't happening, either.
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Agree . . . $10 a gallon even better! We'd have a progressive government so fast it would make Bush's head spin like he was in The Exorcist. LOL re Jake and white roses . . . he should stop by my place too . . . .
"ekeby" . . . everybody always thinks it's "eek by" but it's actually "ek bee", taken from a province in Sweden. Given my situation, eek by is appropriate too . . .
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