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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (1143)	8/24/2009 10:57:05 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23934

I live in an area populated by hollywood industry types...very liberal. But my silicon valley friends who supported Obama during the election are disillusioned. And I think Pelosi will probably take Boxer down with her (feinstein isn't quite as bad, I suppose).

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (1143)	8/24/2009 11:00:28 PM
From: PuddleGlum	1 Recommendation Respond to of 23934

Hey, I'm about 25 miles from Santa Cruz and there are 2 registered Republicans in my house who vote. But I must say, I avoid Santa Cruz for the very reasons your friend jokes about. With respect to the recent posts that compare Nazis with the current far left in our country, and discussion about government fostering dependence upon it, I've been reading "God in the Dock" by C.S. Lewis (of Chronicles of Narnia fame), which is at least one of the best books I've read, if not the best. It's a collection of his essays, some of which are political and are highly relevant to this thread. Keep in mind that the vast majority of his writing was done between 1940 and 1960. One could almost say that he predicted the rise of people like Pelosi and Obama. All of his writing is insightful, and his conclusions, such as this one from the essay "Is Progress Possible?", are chilling: "Hence, the horrible suspicion that our only choice is between societies with few freemen, and societies with none." Delinquents in the Snow scribd.com Is Progress Possible? books.google.com I also enjoyed the essay on "Dangers of National Repentance", which addresses a movement in England after WWII in which some people thought that England should be repentant for its actions during the war with Germany. So, you see, our nation is not the only one afflicted with such a disease. books.google.com