To: Raymond Duray who wrote (19371 ) 5/30/2002 2:55:05 AM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559 Unfair to take away my Jesus-too-was-a-woodworker defense before i even use it, and what is this 'your sense of impending doom'? - i have doom neither suspending nor pretending nor impending, because i do not hold any tech or financial productions, nope not me ... gold stocks, mah man, read the charts ... remember Bre-X? - well it went to two hunnerd and something, that's all you need to know, just sell at 199.95 ... but 'cruci-fiction', that is good, lol .... if all the peoples could just get their gods to agree on stuff, like on which land is whose, that would fix everything up, eh .... as for whether it is a 'Republican' Right that is the problem, i dunno, don't feel the need to pick a side there, looks like there has been the odd Democrat involved in sleazy little wars of terror against folks around this planet, and they do get into some vicious episodes of porkbarrel protectionism themselves, it is said ... there are several republican senators strongly against that pine lobby being in control of the Commerzwaffe, for instance, and several 'democrat' senators for it .... as for the johnbirchers, aren't they out way to the 'right' of the republicans ... the 'right' and 'left' are useless as labels, imho ... better to say 'militarist' when you mean 'drooling psychopathic brute', perhaps .... remember Alexander 'i'm in charge me me me i'm in charge now' Haig? ... funny eh ... that just came up in the normal course of thought ... ever check out jbs.org .... i never have, just found it on google one time and remembered the url, NOT gonna click on something like that, they might not consider british columbian chiapaneco loggers to be part of their exclusive little club .... that salon.com article i cannot read, not a subscriber, first i heard they went pay site, sad ... do they mention the red heifer that a bunch of good ol' boy southron cattle breeders helped develop to fulfil some passage in a book? ... has to be pure red at three years of age, no white or black spot, and presumably no little bits of manure stuck anywhere ... now there are people with 'impending sense of doom', that's Armageddon they're lookin for .... they hear the sound of a thunder that roars out a warnin, hear the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world, hear one hundred drummers whose hands are a-blazin, hear ten thousand whisperin and nobody listenin ..... but all taped and archived at the NSA complex, of course ..... but are they all card-carryin republicans, this i dunno ... and would all card-carrying republicans be included in their class, this too i dunno, seems like there might perhaps be a few non-whacko in that group, it's rather large .... there used to be in this country such an animal as a Red Tory, member of the conservative party who also happened to be such a deluded commie pinko naif that s/he didn't believe in the absolute necessity of planting land mines around villages to blow up the little kids of Nicaragua, even if the funds to procure and install them did come in a proper free-enterprise manner such as the dealing of arms to Iran and of crack cocaine into US inner cities It does seem like a state of perma-war might assist solidification of power around whoever had it at the start of the hostilities, doesn't it .... for a while