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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (409472)8/23/2010 7:29:03 PM
From: S. maltophilia3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
Kudos to Paul, and a few others:
salon.com
(in updates to 8/23 post - and check out the video)

Not surprised to see that New York City is still one of the knuckledragger capitals of the world. Remember the hardhats vs the hippies after the Kent State massacre? Endorsed and abetted by Spiro Agnew, James Buckley, and the other usual suspects.

You younguns can start here<g>:
en.wikipedia.org



To: Terry Maloney who wrote (409472)8/23/2010 8:04:59 PM
From: MythMan  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 436258
 
>>Are we not overly preoccupied with this controversy, now being used in various ways by grandstanding politicians? It looks to me like the politicians are “fiddling while the economy burns.”<<

I said basically the exact same thing to someone the other day when this topic was brought up.

A voice of reason would say build it somewhere else and move on...that seems to have left this country..reason that is...

>>Lots of racist sentiment floating around up here too, fwiw ... almost as if someone's cranking it up. <nfg><<

I believe that.