[lentulusgracchus]

The situation in the States is far worse than that.

Hey, snap to! (All together now ....) It's Bush's fault!!

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[familyop]

"Hey, snap to! (All together now ....) It's Bush's fault!!

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Interesting that you brought that appropriate irony and sarcasm up again. Imagine being President Bush and being surrounded, even immediately surrounded, by socially pathological socialists and seeing no way out of moral and societal decline for our nation, with the most insane folks being the most influential in politics, business and academia.

I was educated by men of the past in Texas, who were also very common in speech and mannerisms while being rather more wise and thoughtful than outsiders would suspect. It was their way of being tactful with common folks, even while communicating with each other (incl. men with oil related companies). On solving that problem of decline, maybe in the near future, the default will have been just what we needed.