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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Krowbar who wrote (13847)	11/25/1997 1:29:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, Del, I certainly wouldn't hold Dan Quayle up as any sort of a hero or anything. I particularly remember that when the question was posed as to what he would do if his teenage daughter came to him pregnant, his answer indicated that abortion would be one of the options the family would consider, which I found a little hypocritical, but typical. At the time he was running on an anti-abortion platform. Still, I think a mockery was made of him when he was Vice President, and even Clinton acknowledged that he was right about Americans needing more family-oriented role models. It would be interesting to see if maturity has caused him to develop more fully. He sure is handsome!!!!!

To: Krowbar who wrote (13847)	11/25/1997 2:42:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Del, it's too bad you missed the PBS series on the American Revolution. Benjamin Franklin was ragging on because the American ministers insisted that towns be totally closed down on Sundays. Just prior to the Revolution he was spending much of his time in London, because they had no such restrictions, and he noted that God wasn't striking down any of the happy Londoners enjoying their lives on Sundays!!! The most interesting thing about the series was how rag-tag the American forces were. George Washington had been a military leader, but he had mostly lost a lot of battles. The Americans showed up wearing whatever, and instead of ordering them around like you are supposed to be able to do with soldiers, the leaders had to coax and cajole and talk about their FEELINGS in order to motivate the men. One-fifth of the soldiers were black!!!!! A lot of slaves ran away from the plantations and came north to fight, because the government promised them freedom. The continuing practice of slavery seems even more inhumane when you consider this fact. We would probably all still be English without the help of the black soldiers, because our army was vastly underpopulated. Oh, and the soldiers from Vermont were so different from the soldiers from Pennsylvania that they felt like they were from different countries. Definitely not a unified fighting force!! This series is available on video, and I'm sure is rentable. It was very well done.