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By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:19:18 +0000

Until 400 million minions of the Left die in an evil cascade failure of divine proportions, I take no truck with so called Doomsday beliefs. Whether you think angels or Mayans will descend and punish the unbelievers, show me the bodies stacked to the moon FIRST. Then we can talk.

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By: Earl

Earl — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:16:33 +0000

Danny: Name me a banana republic that has been “a 1st-world country enjoying a 1st-world standard of living” and you’ll have answered your own question.

But…..you knew that, already!!

Sad, isn’t it……?

By: David Foster

David Foster — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:49:02 +0000

Danny…”So, let me raise a question: with everything that has been happening in this country and looking at our trend lines in social cohesion, education, government transparency, etc….why is it that we believe that we are entitled to be a 1st-world country enjoying a 1st-world standard of living?”
George Eliot: The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.
(Silas Marner)

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:27:31 +0000

Although I sense a rhetorical nature to your question, Monsieur Lemieux, it reminds me of a question a college student put to one of our local politicians awhile back: “Why do you keep harping on freedom? We’re always going to be free, aren’t we?”

To someone who has no other frame of reference, through personal experience, experiences related memorably by others, or by a study of history, the status quo can seem like the natural state of the universe, how history presumably began and will end. I’ve read that there’s a Yiddish saying, “To a worm in horseradish, the whole world is horseradish.” (I’m not sure why they would have a saying in English, although it’s possible that’s just an English translation and not the original.)

By: JKB

JKB — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:55:55 +0000

They Mayan Apocalypse is racist. Coming now, to deprive Obama of his historic second term of reign. Worse, there won’t even be anybody left to remember the wondrousness of the Obamanation during his first epoch.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:30:52 +0000

So, let me raise a question: with everything that has been happening in this country and looking at our trend lines in social cohesion, education, government transparency, etc….why is it that we believe that we are entitled to be a 1st-world country enjoying a 1st-world standard of living? Just asking.