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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ron who wrote (66327)	4/12/2018 12:31:10 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 364287

"Injuns, Bears, Bay area Liberals." Stanfurd Indians, Cal Golden Bears, it's all the same. Doesn't matter if the Indians call themselves the Trees; we know who they are. google.com

To: Ron who wrote (66327)	4/12/2018 3:17:19 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 364287

I liked the part where he said the Pacific Islanders who were cannibals did not like the taste of sailors, they were stringy and too salty-lol. "Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit" "Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.". Will Durant << I've been reading some Will Durant: "Slavery was a huge moral leap forward for the human race. Until slavery, we killed and ate the people we conquered.." The veneer of civilization is pretty darn thin....