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To: templar
What make you think I feel threatened?

Letting a prank by a few drunken frat boys prompt grumblings about "decadent Greece and Rome" sounds like someone who feels threatened. Believe me, college kids have been pulling things like this for CENTURIES; it's really not the end of civilization. The Classical civilizations' fall had a lot more to do with overextended empires and military supply lines than it did with erect weenies on the furniture.

And BTW, I'm not a "conservative." If you take me for one, it's probably because most of the people who tend to indulge in the sort of risible public stupidity I enjoy mocking, are left-wingers. Forty years ago, when the uptight, humorless control-freaks that I love to needle were mostly RIGHT-wingers, I probably would have been (erroneously) labeled a "liberal" for pointing out their foibles.

If you take this attitude, as I do, California is actually a pretty nice place to live. I reside in the Bay Area, so you can imagine how much free entertainment I get on a daily basis here.

BTW, cool handle. I wear a badge on my leather jacket that's a replica of the MILITI CHRISTI two-on-a-horse seal.

109 posted on 02/24/2003 1:30:47 PM PST by MikalM
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To: MikalM; wimpycat
nd BTW, I'm not a "conservative."

Well, that explains our disagreement about public morality. But, remember that wimpycat brought up Greece and Rome back in #57, not me. I just pointed out that their morals are considered decadent and are not justification for our standards in America today.

Believe me, I'm not feeling threatened by anything. I stand for what I stand for and will till the day I die. Times change but I do not. In the late 60's and 70's I was called a left winger. In the 80's I was called middle of the road in the 90's I found myself being called conservative and a right wing extremist. The country has changed. I am still the same, believe the same, but I do behave a bit better than in my youth.

155 posted on 02/24/2003 3:44:43 PM PST by templar
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