Posted on 11/26/2004 11:23:48 AM PST by Publius
I have to disagree with you on this. I see them as hopeless romantics, like the people of my father's generation who spoke nostalgically of joining the Abraham Lincoln Bridage to fight Franco and the Fascists in Spain. I still see some of it in baby boomers who live nostalgically for the days of their youth when they were demonstrating in the streets against the war or racism or some such thing. It's a sign of people who don't want to grow up and face reality, a kind of political Peter Pan-ism.
Capital idea. Then, while they're bowing down before it, call in air strikes.
Du-u-u-ude, you're so wrong! They don't want their kids to achieve, they want their kids to just be!
(Dude, don't bogart the bong.)
You misunderestimate the King County Democratic organization. They are political Mozarts, capable of multitasking and carrying on a variety of nefarious schemes at once.
Queens County? Hm-m-m-m-m. Did Laguardia know something that nobody else knew at the time?
There are a few sane people.. more than half. Then there are people who know no better.
Yeah, some prog like that.
Merwin, who moved here from Vashon Island (which has its own share of characters), said her friends worried about her living in the big city. "But then when they heard I was going to Fremont, they said, 'Oh, she'll fit right in there.'"
I'm not sure if she understands that this sentiment isn't exactly a compliment. Fremont is full of people in various stages of vegetative decay; some are worse than others.
Personally, I'd prefer that strung lights on the Fremont Bridge Troll or the "Waiting for the Inter-Urban" statue.
LOL !!
Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
I don't know if it is posted but this "personal view" article is worth looking at:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3173
WELCOME TO SEATTLE, EVERYONE - HOME OF WTO !!!
I read this thread earlier and was ignoring it ;) BTW, Publius, I have just finished the introduction in your Robert Moses book and am proceding along to chapter one - it is very well written. Have to ask you though, how did you manage to read this book and not even a page is bent? I am afraid to pick it up. Hope you aren't too fussy about the "new look." :)
I first bought the Caro book in 1974 and read it so many times that it fell apart. I bought a new copy in 2002 and read it cover-to-cover. That's why it looks so pristine.
LOL Well then I might venture forth to turn a few more pages ;)
I'm glad they have the statue of Lenin. It should be preserved so that future generations should learn about him and understand how evil he was. Decorating him for Christmas is a way to mock him and all he stood for. (he was anti-church, and a socialist)
Concur. However, when it comes to teaching future generations, we'll have to wait until the last baby boomer smokes his last joint.
When the statue was first raised in Fremont, many Russian émigrés protested the move, arguing that Lenin represented the system that had persecuted and killed millions of their people. But the "tolerant" segment of the Fremont community ultimately won out. Lenin stayed
seems some people will tolerate anything.
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