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To: Scythian
Today, brain dead, vapid human beings who have contributed nothing to society are idolized and followed as though they invented the wheel. We’ve actually got two industries devoted to presenting the illusion and reality of celebrity: Hollywood shows the photo-shopped, CGI-enhanced, scripted version, while the paparazzi and weekly glossies reveal the drug-addicted, affair-crazed, family breaking, soul-less emptiness.

Tough to argue with that ...
2 posted on 09/23/2010 12:20:18 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: Scythian

the entire article is tough to argue with


4 posted on 09/23/2010 12:30:53 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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Tough to argue with any of it.

I have hope because so many millions of people have taken up cause with one another, forming a group now refered to as the Tea Party.

We have SO MUCH work to do to restore this Nation. But it has to be done.

One step at a time.

We just HAVE to keep taking the next step, and NOT faltering or wavering.

We can do it! We ARE SPARTA!


5 posted on 09/23/2010 12:32:28 PM PDT by Danae (Analnathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do che'l de'nmha.)
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To: Scythian
Let’s be honest. Forget recessions, forget even Depressions, the US is an empire in decline.

This needs to be repeated so we all understand: the US is an empire in decline.

Most of the points the author makes are indeed attributes of an empire in decline; the question is whether they are causes or effects.

Bruce Fein, who was a deputy attorney general in Ronald Reagan's Justice Department, believes they are effects: that the collapse of social institutions is a byproduct of America's being policeman of the world with all the costs that job entails.

Of course, there are still those who insist the U.S. is not an empire since we don't occupy foreign countries.

No, instead we send them billions in aid, with expectations that these nations will do our bidding.

Once the aid stops--either by voting it down in Congress or by the dollar turning to dross--how many countries will Americans count on when the chips are down? Three? Four?

24 posted on 09/23/2010 12:50:17 PM PDT by logician2u
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well we can deal with industry and finances......but its difficult to deal with a valueless mentality that insists that a place likd "Hooters" is family friendly....

its time to call a spade a spade....

43 posted on 09/23/2010 2:09:00 PM PDT by cherry
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