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I thought this was the omega-list. Oh, I must have accidentally found a forum on political correctness. Where's the techies?
At 02:25 PM 10/15/02 -0400, Kent Rollins wrote:
>Maybe he's just not old enough...
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>Kent
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>Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 1:33:04 PM, you wrote:
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>> No kidding. He must have had a really bad trade today too.
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>> This response is obviously from someone who is completely out of touch
>> with reality. These type of people are the one's we really have to worry
>> about. They endanger the very existence of our country.
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>> I totally agree with the original message.
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>> Ken Chrane
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alex Matulich [mailto:alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:58 AM
>> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER AMERICA?
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>> Off topic...
>>>The following was found in some work papers from 25+ years ago. I wish
>> I
>>>could claim authorship. The author is unknown. In today's venue of
>> America
>>>being attacked from within and without, maybe there's some truth in...
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>> Very little truth in it. That was one of the most ignorant pieces of
>> crap I have ever read.
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>>>ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER AMERICA?
>>>- When you never dreamed your country could loose?
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>> It's "lose" -- and its dangerous to become overconfident. I'm glad we
>> have woken up to the fact that we are vulnerable.
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>>>- When you left your front door opened?
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>> Still can, in some parts. I lived in Maine during the year 2000.
>> People routinely left their front door open, and their car unlocked. If
>> you left a laptop in an unlocked car, it would very likely still be
>> there when you got back.
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>>>- When you went to church and the preacher preached from the Bible?
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>> This happens in church, just not on TV.
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>>>- When a boy was a boy and a girl was a girl, and you could tell
>> them
>>>apart?
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>> Whoever wrote this must be blind. If he wants to tell them apart, maybe
>> everybody should go around nude. That would make him happy.
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>>>- When the word "Socialism" was a dirty word?
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>> Yeah, during the McCarthy era. We should go back to that, eh?
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>>>- When you were embarrassed to be described as a "Liberal"?
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>> I know of no liberals who are embarrassed about their political
>> orientation.
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>>>- When the poor were too proud to take charity?
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>> Still are. I have a friend who has been on the ragged edge of
>> homelessness for years. He wants to work. He finds jobs. I told
>> him the welfare system was set up just for people like him, to give
>> him a hand up while he gets back on his feed, but he was too proud
>> to take advantage of it. Now that he's married with kids, his wife
>> just totaled their only car (no collision insurance) and he lost is
>> job as a retail salesman for Nextel, he'll be evicted Thursday if he
>> can't come with $1600, he's decided to apply for public assistance.
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>>>- When a nickel was worth 5 cents?
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>> It is still worth 5 cents.
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>>>- When you bragged about your hometown, your state and your Nation?
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>> People still do brag about hometown and state. Unfortunately our
>> foreign policy has made us one of the most hated nations. This isn't
>> the fault of American citizens.
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>>>- When the flag was a sacred symbol?
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>> Remember when idolatry was a sin?
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>>>- When the government stood up for America?
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>> It still can. We can vote.
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>>>- When the man who went wrong was to blame; not his mother's
>>>nursing habits or his father's income?
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>> A man who goes wrong like that still goes to jail.
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>>>- When everyone knew right from wrong?
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>> Everybody THINKS they know right from wrong, including the author of
>> this miserable tract. That's part of the problem.
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>>>- When things were not perfect, and you didn't expect them to be?
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>> In THIS economy? Who expects perfection?
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>>>- When people still had the capacity for indignation?
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>> I feel pretty indignant about this arrogance and ignorance of the
>> author of this piece spreading around the internet.
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>>>- When "sick" meant that you were not feeling well?
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>> It still does.
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>>>- When people expected less and valued what they had more?
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>> Some still do.
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>>>- When everyone was not entitled to an annual wage, whether he
>>>worked or not?
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>> Few people (except some labor union members) think they are entitled
>> to a wage, except for people I met in former communist countries
>> like Bulgaria and Croatia.
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>>>- When a man's word was his bond?
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>> It still is, in my circle.
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>>>- When America was the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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>> In a song lyric, it is.
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>>>- When fewer words were needed to say what you meant (this one is
>> for
>>>politicians everywhere)?
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>> Some do. They're generally not from either of the two major
>> parties. They don't get elected though.
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>>>If you spend as much time doing the things you worry about getting
>> done, as
>>>you do worrying about doing them, you wouldn't have anything to worry
>> about.
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>> Not bad. Finally one I can agree with.
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>> -A
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