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

To: Ilaine who wrote (30844)	2/14/1999 12:36:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

If Geraldo comes on, Dan walks out of the room until I turn him off. He IS terrible, and I also like Chris Matthews, but my boys don't like his confrontational style. Ammo still thinks PeeWee is funny. What a double standard we have displayed though! We accept our president's disgusting behavior saying that it doesn't affect the job he does, and PeeWee is thrown out and ostracized for his private behavior. Do we really think the President of the United States has less influence than a rather strange TV character? The contempt for law and the courts seems omnipresent. I am admittedly biased in the American Airlines dispute, but still feel that to ignore court orders, to strike- which is what a sickout is, by any name- illegally is to tear at the foundations of an orderly society and should not be tolerated. Flicker recently posted a site on DAR- adaweb.walkerart.org This is apparently a list of truisms, one of which was "You are a victim of the rules you live by." I don't feel like a victim of the rules, rather I choose to live by them because in general they enable life to flow smoothly and cooperatively, which is not to say that I accept them unquestioningly. But a victim by definition is taken advantage of or harmed by someone or something; I don't see that rules do this automatically. Digressing is fun...

To: Ilaine who wrote (30844)	2/14/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Bullhorn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Bush/Dole vs Gore/Feinstein what do you think...Dan Q no way baby.

To: Ilaine who wrote (30844)	2/14/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Respond to of 108807

<<And I really liked Reagan, so maybe you shouldn't trust my perceptions.>> I'll take that advice! Reagan made us feel good while he lead our government to ruin financially. He may have done all the leg work to bring down the evil empire and Bush tried to take the credit for it. But actually the soviets were going to crumble regardless, Reagan just gave them a push. I suppose the revelation of the stealth fighter and stealth bomber were a shock because they didn't have the technology or the money to duplicate it. Then the threat of the "star wars" defense system was too much. They had lost the arms race for good. That's not to say they were/are not a threat, of course. They are.