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To: mistermj who wrote (521234)	11/9/2012 2:00:54 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 794130

The Greece-ification of America might change their minds. But of course, by then it will be too late.

To: mistermj who wrote (521234)	11/9/2012 2:10:30 PM
From: simplicity	4 Recommendations Respond to of 794130

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to rant... Your may call it a 'rant'. I call it one of the most insightful reactions/explanations I've read since the election. Thank you!

To: mistermj who wrote (521234)	11/9/2012 2:19:23 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794130

and a fine rant it is!!! Thanks for giving me the opportunity to rant.

To: mistermj who wrote (521234)	11/9/2012 3:17:16 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794130

great rant..... maybe my idea of joining the democrats to infiltrate and destroy is the wrong strategy. Like you said, the Republican brand is poisoned....but what do we conservatives love? Peace and Freedom!!! Maybe we need to join the Peace and Freedom party and take over from there just like the progressives did with the democrat party.

To: mistermj who wrote (521234)	11/9/2012 4:09:58 PM
From: Neeka	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794130

nice rant mistermj, but I'm not giving up and I'm going to stand proud as a conservative and do everything I can to let my more liberal friends know they are backing a lie. I will not stand down.

To: mistermj who wrote (521234)	11/9/2012 4:15:08 PM
From: locogringo	9 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794130

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to rant... It is a very good rant, and quite accurate (IMO). I agree with much of it. As dark as it looks right now............let me take you back 4 years. It was a total wipeout. Worse than this week All 3 branches of the government under Dem control. The republicans could not bow down fast enough (as Boehner is doing again) Carville was on TV telling everyone how they now had conrtol for 40 more years. Obamacare got passed because the Repubs would not make a deal with Arlen Specter, or even a weak Dem. The press laughed at the Republican party (as they are again), but the Repubs could not book themselves fast enough to grovel on TV and talk about compromise. Then...............some old goobers and geezers stood up and said "NO NO NO NO MORE. Enough is enough". The Tea Party was born, and it was victorious beyond belief within 2 years. 2010 was a miracle that whacked the Dems, and THEY LEARNED FROM IT. It's bad.............but there have now been 2 total routs and reversals in just over two years. We can't give up.............it is the Dems and the yellow press that are saying that we are finished. WE, The People, say "NO".

To: mistermj who wrote (521234)	11/10/2012 1:05:06 AM
From: KLP	2 Recommendations Respond to of 794130

Great Rant, mistermj !!! It reminds me of the 1976 movie "Network" = I'm Mad as Hll and I'm Not Going to Take It ANYMORE! (Windows opening and each one has at least someone who yells this out the window...) The movie was ahead of its time....but fits well today! We watched a re-run of it the other night.... >>>>>When they come home from those jobs they watch the news dominated by a left wing media...a drunken Diane Sawyer prattling on about the evil 1% perhaps....sipping her Chardonnay and popping another Ambien in between commercials while she gears up for the next sound bite targeted at the evils of industry, or fiscal responsibility or maybe some humor closing out the news with a Bill Maher clip noting how Republicans will be eating Big Bird for Thanksgiving rather than Turkey this year....ha ha ha, as the camera's soft focus her face for the closing shot, Diane half winking with that all knowing twinkle in her soft focus eyes...another job well done, delivered with sugar and spice and everything nice. Her producer jokes off camera that nobody twists the knife better than Diane, not only do they not see it coming they don't even know they've been knifed until they bleed out. It's that twinkle in the eye thing, if only they could see her real eyes he half mutters to himself while watching her stumble off set, another "show" in the can! <<<<< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(film) 888888888888 Share this quote Howard Beale*: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" imdb.com