Well, the Committee talked it over....
Posted on 10/30/2005 1:05:06 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Labor Unions? Looking through the big end of the telescope from our vantage point, we would see the rise of the labor movement to be a paradoxically antisocial eddy of history right along with "tolerance" and "diversity."
I have been coming to believe that diversity caused the fall of Rome. As they allowed more and more conquered civilizations to have citizenship the ideal of what it meant to be a Roman became diluted until it meant nothing at all. "Tolerance" leads to paralysis in the face of those who would have you dead.
I myself count the spreading of foie gras production from the Egyptians and Greeks as a very important Roman contribution to our world also. ;-)
No doubt your statement is true, but they also represent an amazing type of muddled thinking that is borderline (or perhaps actually) psychotic. The rantings of Howard Dean, Moveon.org, PETA, Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, and others represent a bizarre alternative world the likes of which could not possibly stand if implemented, and in fact don't even stand the simple test of common sense.
Sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health.
Unintentional from the Romans' point of view.
Lions 1, Christians 0
But I think that both Christ (remember Constantine) and the Christians very much intended Christianity to spread.
Cheers!
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You mean like illegal immigration from Latin America and the US agricultural, construction, and service industries.
Or outsourcing technical jobs to dictatorial juntas like China or Third-World places like India...
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you meant jobs for US citizens. Naah, all we get are "bread and circuses" (welfare and TV--Oprah and Lifetime on cable for the women, ESPN for the men).
Cheers!
Incidentally, I came across this vomitous series while traveling and staying in hotel rooms. It, along with the other programming I encountered, have led me to believe that HBO is "The Perversion Channel"...am I right?
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I'm amazed it took 31 posts before someone posted it.
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the aqueduct?
Why a duck?
Our short hairstyles are roman hairstyles, too.
I like this series on HBO - anyone else?
"I think I understand why Rome needed a Caesar, because I think I see why WE are going to need a caesar to bail our butts out of the crack we're getting ourselves into, and when I was younger I would never have bought into that idea."
So, you think a dictator could solve all our problems?
Fascinating. Tell more!
Fascinating. Tell more!
First, I'm not calling for a dictator. I understand that the problems that come with a dictator are not outweighed by the benefits. As another poster posted to me, "For every Hadrian or Marcus Aurelius, you get a Commodus or Nero."
My thesis is that we're heading for a dictatorship whether we like it or not, that it's been the fate of Republics throughout history, and that we've tended to delude ourselves into thinking it couldn't happen here.
I think we all see the rule of law breaking down. If it continues, if the population of those who have never known the rule of law continues to grow, if we have a few more attacks on our soil and it becomes apparent that the government can't/won't protect us from them, the people are going to start looking for a strong man that can get the job done.
I'm already ready to vote for a hard liner, but I don't think that the situation is dire enough yet that a real hard liner will get far enough to have a real chance at the top job. Now putting a hard case in the WH doesn't equate to a dictatorship or a president for life, but it's a step on the way.
On the other side chaos could lead to a banana republic style oligarchy where the only laws that are enforced are the ones that enrich the top ruling cadre and its friends.
Then again, we could go communist. The ways we could go with a dictatorship are numerous. I guess we need to work harder to save the Republic.
The Romans gave us a language - Latin. The basic communications medium for medicine, the law, religion, biology and countless others. Learn Latin, and you too can conquer the 'known world'...
Look at our government and military. The very structure dates back to Rome. Roads and other large civic projects. I think Rome had the first sewer. The list is much longer than I can remember.
Well, the Committee talked it over....
Anyone shocked a poster named "Watery Tart" did it.
Yes, they did give us the Senate.
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