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To: laplata

Yep, but people have to realize that it’s rot and needs to be destroyed.

But most people won’t because it’s constantly being polished, shined, patched up until you can’t tell the rot from the good.

Until it all collapses under you.


14 posted on 03/28/2013 10:15:21 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028
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To: FreedomStar3028

You’re absolutely right.

Today the good is made to look bad and the bad to look good.

It’s all in the “Good Book”.


15 posted on 03/28/2013 10:19:33 PM PDT by laplata
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To: FreedomStar3028
I'm reminded, again, by a great quote from Atlas Shrugged that perfectly describes the current sad state of the country...

"The great oak tree had stood on a hill over the Hudson, in a lonely spot of the Taggart estate. Eddie Willers, aged seven, liked to come and look at that tree. It had stood there for hundreds of years, and he thought it would always stand there. Its roots clutched the hill like a fist with fingers sunk into the soil, and he thought that if a giant were to seize it by the top, he would not be able to uproot it, but would swing the hill and the whole of the earth with it, like a ball at the end of a string. He felt safe in the oak tree’s presence; it was a thing that nothing could change or threaten; it was his greatest symbol of strength.

One night, lightning struck the oak tree. Eddie saw it the next morning. It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an empty shell; its heart had rotted away long ago; there was nothing inside – just a thin gray dust that was being dispersed by the whim of the faintest wind. The living power had gone, and the shape it left had not been able to stand without it."

23 posted on 03/29/2013 4:28:08 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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