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To: one_less who wrote (167159)	7/25/2005 6:58:52 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

You say you see but then you provide more hyperventilating claptrap. Human beings aren't 'noble', we're human beings. Nothing more, nothing less. We aren't bad, we aren't good, we just are. We organize ourselves (being the flockers and herders that we are) into societies that then pin 'good' and 'bad' labels on all aspects of us. If you keep repeating stuff like this: "Noble human beings, by nature, regard the well being of other persons and other creatures in all endeavors." you will turn into a high fat, high sugar cup cake, possibly a Twinkie.

To: one_less who wrote (167159)	7/26/2005 10:27:12 AM
From: Lou Weed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Just dropped back in here after many months absence......looks like the landscape has changed a little :-) Don't see many of the notable radical-righties (the no tycoon left behind glitterati).....I'm kinda disappointed. On a side note, maybe the Dems aren't the bunch of morons I recently suspected them to be. Is it possible that they deliberately throw the last election in order to let this current admin. self destruct, thereby guaranteeing victory in '08, hmmmmmm??? As for the heart straining sentiment...... <<"Noble human beings, by nature, regard the well being of other persons and other creatures in all endeavors.">> Nice prose....the usual marketing type pap put out to justify our bringing "liberty" to others. We bring liberty to those who bring "strategic benefits" to us. Their liberty is merely a consequence of our strategic manoeuvring. If we are truly noble, then Darfur would never have become what it is, Rwanda would be just another small African nation that nobody knows anything about. We wouldn't need rock stars to highlight the plight of millions in extreme poverty and so on, and so on....... MON.

To: one_less who wrote (167159)	7/26/2005 1:17:55 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The political use of the liberty concept has all too often been the last bastion of scoundrals -- have you ever noticed how many "revolutionary" organizations whose modus operendi is to shed as much blood as possible use the word "liberation" just before they pull the trigger and kill somebody? Bush is just one more case in point of a "leader" using the English language to distort the reality of his actions. Bush is not a uniter, he is a divider. Bush is not a builder, he is a destroyer. Doublespeak is now the official language of America.