Posted on 02/14/2009 11:27:03 AM PST by Publius
My husband believes this is a center-right country, as well. He thinks that in 2 years, Congress will have another 1994, and that Obama will be forced to the right like Clinton was.
I am not so optimistic. As long as the people screaming “Give me pie!” are 50.1% to the pie-makers of 49.9%, we are stuck. I honestly don’t believe that PA will throw Specter out, because the “Give me pie!” people in Philly will always outnumber the God’s Country people of Potter County.
I’m reading it for the first time too. I’m almost done. Part of me can’t put it down, and part wants to make it last because I’m enjoying it so much. I love being able to talk about it with like-minded people, though.
I’m debating whether to get an Atlas-related bumper sticker or tee-shirt from http://www.johngaltgifts.com/ It might make for an interesting conversation-starter.
Money may trump ideology, but money eventually runs out.
I am doing all I can to minimize the taxes I pay to the looters. Cleaning out the closets and donating to worthy charities. Not exactly shrugging, but more like cutting off the blood flow to the tumor.
Certainly they were in turmoil for a time but look at Poland, The Check Republic..far more free and far more capitalistic.
Total repudiation is what is needed.
Children are born competitive..Left to their own devices they will try to best one another if it is only in a foot race.
Children naturally want to achieve..that's why they climb, jump and run.
The victim mentality has to be taught and cultivated, they have to have their own quest for excellence crushed out of them.
The left has left only sports and only certain ones as suitable material for competition..basketball, foot ball and the latest multiculturally correct soccer.
Witness the recent automatic assumption that Caroline Kennedy should be anointed to being Senator of NY.
Many of them would be perfectly content being in the court of Louis VIX.
They have the right of enlightenment and status to rule over the rest of us.
Their real goal isn't equality but feudalism.
Rush has enough money to buy NZ and ship all the inhabitants to Australia.
I talked to my husband about this very subject.. given unlimited funds he says Brazil.
They first captured the press and then the modes of education.
They captured education first in the universities and then by totally infiltrating schools of education so that they could get to kids from the beginning.
They control the message that people hear and they control the means whereby people rather than learning to think become indoctrinated..
It's the main reason the Nea howls about home schooling is the ones that learn to think on their own are very dangerous.
And I will be exploring that in an essay when we reach the chapter where we meet Lee Hunsacker. I'll be tying Hunsacker to Dennis Kucinich and others as we explore what the courts did to Michael "Midas" Mulligan.
Pennsylvania is culturally conservative for a northeastern state. One wag described Pennsylvania as “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh at each end and Alabama in between.”
Potter County? You’re from Coudersport?
AGREED!
Maybe, just maybe, if we get off our dead asses and do something, we can derail the LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist FReight train.
It seems it all happened just like in AS. What HAVE the rest of us been doing since FDR? We've been raising families and building businesses. We've been dragging our asses our of bed at 0-dark-thirty for decades to create a good life for ourselves and our children. We've not asked for anything we could not accomplish for ourselves through hard work and creative thought and perseverance.
What has the other side been doing all this time? Since hard work isn't in their vocabulary, they've had much more time on their hands. Idle hands are the devil's playground?
Rearden, Hammond, Dr Akston, Wyatt, Danagger...they kept working and working, not understanding what was upon them until it was too late. I would argue that our asses have not been dead, we've just been blind, not understanding the true evil in this world.
We’d best help the people of PA throw Snarlin’ out — and while we are at it, help the people of Maine change their Senate diapers!
We be soulmates.
I am feeling the same way. I look forward to Saturday's to read the insightful posts and learn new things along the way.
No, I’m from outside of Pgh. Just referencing where everyone went to go hunting :)
I once watched him shoot and skin a woodchuck. That was educational.
Roger that!
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