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To: Don Joe

I disagree. Every problem has a solution. The point is whether we as a people are willing to bite the bullet and do what needs to be done. It's like pulling a thorn from your heel. It's going to hurt like almighty hell. Are you going to live your life in pain or do what needs to be done and pull the thorn out? No matter how much it hurts? There is a solution and it's right in the Declaration Of Independence. The question is, are we willing to do our duty?


113 posted on 04/10/2006 10:59:28 AM PDT by Shaun_MD (The Tagline you have dialed is unavailable. Please hang up and try again.)
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To: Shaun_MD
I disagree. Every problem has a solution. The point is whether we as a people are willing to bite the bullet and do what needs to be done. It's like pulling a thorn from your heel. It's going to hurt like almighty hell. Are you going to live your life in pain or do what needs to be done and pull the thorn out? No matter how much it hurts? There is a solution and it's right in the Declaration Of Independence. The question is, are we willing to do our duty?

I disagree with your disagreement. :)

Not every problem is as trivial as a thorn in the heel.

I have a favorite "ethnic joke" (I figure I can tell it, since it's my ethnicity). It goes like this:

Two Jews -- a husband and wife -- are standing in front of a trench in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII. The trench is filled with bodies -- most dead, some still writhing.

Behind them stands a Nazi guard with a machinegun.

The Nazi guard cocks the bolt of his machinegun.

The husband hears that, and says, "Lousy stinking Nazi sonofabitch!"

The wife elbows him and says, "Shush! You'll make him mad!"

So... what kind of advice would you have for THOSE people? After all, "every problem has a solution" -- and THEIR problem is pretty obvious. So what's the solution?

The wife TRIED implementing a "solution" of sorts -- probably the only one imaginable -- and it serves as the punchline of a joke.

Do they run? No, that won't work. Turn around and fight the guard? No, I don't think so. What does that leave?

Save for the absurd or the impossible deus ex machina, it leaves NOTHING.

Want another example? I got a million of 'em. The passengers on that flight out of JFK a week or so after 9/11. They'd just taken off. Then, both engines AND the tail broke off their plane, and fell to the ground.

I'd say their problem is fairly well-defined. So, what is the SOLUTION to their problem? After all, "every problem has a solution."

I'll stop there, but I could go all day. Like I said, I got a million of 'em. That's because there are an endless variety of problems WITHOUT a solution -- unless "sorry, you die" is "a solution."

126 posted on 04/10/2006 11:16:32 AM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Shaun_MD
PS:

I nipped the end of your post out of my last reply:

There is a solution and it's right in the Declaration Of Independence. The question is, are we willing to do our duty?

If, as it seems, you are suggesting insurrection, I'd classify that as a "no solution" -- other than the aforementioned, "sorry, you die" type "solution".

The overwhelming power of the circa 21st century federal government, combined with the net results of several generations of sloth inculcated into the thoroughly pacified populace, leaves you with a guaranteed horror of an utter defeat if you try something like that.

130 posted on 04/10/2006 11:22:58 AM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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