AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 826) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | April 26, 2003 | All of Us

[tillacum]

I agree IG. We have a neat, young, congressman. He has the sweetest, young, wife and she does her how housecleaning, etc. They have a 14 month old and when it comes to baby sitting, they are lucky, his or her parents are there.

[LionsDaughter]

Okay, my last hoorah...YOU SAW 50-60 DOLPHINS!!! ARGH! I've never seen dolphins! First Josh finally gets together with Katie and now you see dolphins. I leave for a few months and suddenly everybody's doing stuff! *takes a deep breath* Oh well, at least marching season is coming up again. We converted someone from the Million Dollar Band!

[Mr. Mulliner]

I bought a few essentials for my new job at Walmart today: sleeping bag, backpack drinking system, small cooler (to keep my heavy cream fresh for my tea), and bug repellant.

The lawnmower quit working today and I'll have to wait until tomorrow to get it fixed. Ugh! It's a jungle already out there.

[tillacum]

See y'all in a couple of days, company coming and they will be with us for a few days.

Guenie, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the Birthday Boy.

[LionsDaughter]

Good luck with your finals! I'll be praying for you.

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm sure we'll see the names. President Bush is too smart politically not to expose the truth.

12 hours and 15 minutes until I see the dentist. Thank You, Jesus.

/john

[JRandomFreeper]

Thanks. Written finals should be a cake-walk (pardon the pun). It's the practical exam that is going to be a challange. Lean dough, rich dough, croissant, danish, blueberry muffins, a pie, and cookies. Timing will be paramount.

Good luck on your finals, too.

/john

[Mr. Mulliner]

This is weird. I'm not overly alarmed, but I can see the possibility for some real nasty fights if some things don't change. This is from this thread

The GOP's unusually late nominating convention -- it does not begin until Aug. 30 -- is the problem. Bush is not scheduled to accept his party's nomination until Sept. 2, 2004. That falls after the deadline for certifying presidential candidates not only in Alabama, but also in California, the District of Columbia and West Virginia. There are bills in the Alabama legislature to move its deadline from Aug. 31 to Sept. 5. But if, for some reason, they don't pass, the president would be forced to run there as a write-in candidate.

[nicollo]

Mr. Mulliner... your Y2K analogy to SARS strikes me as ever more relevant to America in general. You told us of poster who freaked at the SARS hysteria and compared it to Y2K, saying that it was all exagerated.

I didn't and I don't subscribe to the tunnel diggers over Y2K, or over SARS, but I appreciate that heightened concerns lead to solutions. The most asiduous aspect of the Clintoon administration was it's denial of problems. Clintoon's political agenda, foreign and domestic was to deny worry. Where he applied hysteria, ironically, is where danger did not exist: church burnings, the economy, the need for higher taxes. It's a record of singular stupidity, for he avoided real danger and exagerated non-existing danger. The dynamic worked like this: where he could find horror with easy solutiion he trumped the horror in order to take credit for its defeat. Where larger dangers required serious attention he denied it in order to avoid any connection to it. His entire Middle East policy was built around inflating mild dangers while avoiding the larger ones, from Arafat to Bin Laden.

American politics are uniquely susceptible to this type of politicking. Voters want solutions, so voters will seek those who profess it. Clinton took advantage of this dynamic by hyping mild problems he could either truly solve or which were non-existent, and by denying the larger ones he was incapable of solving. The problem is that by ignoring the larger problems he made them worse.

America is great because America does not avoid problems. We air them, we debate them, we fight them out. Not even Clinton could make it otherwise. Other societies seek to solve things centrally; we do the opposite. It all comes of the empowerment of the individual in America. Yes, many freaked out over Y2K. They did it because they worried for themselves, they took responsibility for themselves. Other societies would look to the government for protection. Americans act on their own. Same goes for SARS... and Afghanistan and Iraq. We went there because the American people willed it -- one at a time.

Just another Nicollo Whiskey Definition of America...

[Utah Girl]

What a cute little doggie!

[Utah Girl]

Congratulations, Grandma!

[Mr. Mulliner]

You just said essentially what I said to that poster who thinks SARS is a media creation. He asserted that in a year from now we will have completely forgotten all about SARS. I said that if in a year from now we've forgotten about SARS it will be because a lot of work went into the problem and some medical breakthroughs were made.

Ugh! I don't want to talk about that idiot. He's still going around accusing everyone else of being duped and thinks he's the only enlightened one around here. I'd love to have him go to a village in China or India where SARS is a very real threat and daily worry and tell them all that they are being duped by a non-existent threat created by our media.

[Mr. Mulliner]

Hey, I was just going to wish you a happy Easter (Orthodox, that is). Nice poem, buddy.

Dog, have you seen this? Revoke the Oscar (Michael Moore)

[Mr. Mulliner]

I just remembered a little incident where the Orthodox having their Easter a week late really came in handy. In 1999 when I was the team leader for that 7-week trip to Ukraine, there was a woman on our team who had really bad asthma attacks our first week there. She was put in the hospital where she stayed for 6 days and I took it upon myself to visit her and try to keep her spirits up. She was really bummed that she was in the hospital for Easter, but I told her that where we were, Easter was a week later and she'd be out to celebrate with the rest of us. She had never heard of such a thing and for a long time wouldn't believe it, but when she finally was convinced she was so happy that she didn't have to miss Easter.

Here's a picture of me visiting her. (I've got a lot of my pics online now.)

[JRandomFreeper]

It turns out that my dental problem is a bone spur that is (very slowly) working it's way off of my jaw through the inside of my mouth. I now have exposed bone in my mouth. I will be SO FREAKING HAPPY to see Bart in the morning. 10 hours, 54 minutes.

But I'm not going to complain. This is the day the Lord has made, and I rejoice in it.

/john

[Mr. Mulliner]

Ouch! That hurts!

Hang in there, buddy. Just 10 hours and 52 minutes to go now!

[MozartLover]

You handsome devil, you.:^)

[MozartLover]

OWIE! That sounds................UNCOMFORTABLE, to say the least.:(

[Mr. Mulliner]

Just a few hours ago, people all over Ukraine and other places in Eastern Europe were sitting down to this. It's Pascha and eggs.