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Are We Rome? Tu Betchus!
New York Times ^
| October 11, 2008
| Maureen Dowd
Posted on 10/12/2008 4:50:22 PM PDT by NCjim
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posted on
10/12/2008 4:50:22 PM PDT
by
NCjim
To: NCjim
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posted on
10/12/2008 4:51:21 PM PDT
by
stefanbatory
(Do you want a President or a King?)
To: NCjim
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posted on
10/12/2008 4:52:19 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
To: NCjim
This woman has confirmed her place in the parade of idiots.
Pundits needc to retire BEFORE it becomes obvious
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posted on
10/12/2008 4:53:53 PM PDT
by
woofie
To: stefanbatory
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posted on
10/12/2008 4:54:00 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(Vicious Babushka)
To: NCjim
The decline and fall of the American Empire...
I stopped reading at this point.
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posted on
10/12/2008 4:54:10 PM PDT
by
monkeycard
(There's no such thing as too much ammo.)
To: NCjim
We have the Government passing out cheap money (mortgages) to the masses to gain their quiesence, we have one political faction who controls the corrupt process to acheive their political ends, while leaders of that faction are having openly homosexual affairs with members of the Government entity handing out these goodies.
It certainly sounds like Rome to me.
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posted on
10/12/2008 4:55:32 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: NCjim
Oh God, there’s nothing more irritating than a media elitist pretending to inform the hoi polloi with references to ancient Rome.
Especially from this wretch, Maureen “Hate Everybody” O’Dowd.
Wanna look at history? Try more the Athens at its height: an empire yet exporting democracy everywhere, with another power (Sparta) just waiting to strike.
I wonder if columnists (how easy a job is that?) think they’re IQ points go up when they use the phrase “are we Rome?” in their scribblings.
To: NCjim
To Ioannes McCainus and Sara Palina:
Illigitimi non carborundum est.
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posted on
10/12/2008 4:55:44 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(An expression of deep worry and concern failed to cross either of Zaphod's faces - hitchhiker's guid)
To: Alouette
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posted on
10/12/2008 4:56:53 PM PDT
by
stefanbatory
(Do you want a President or a King?)
To: sauropod
one of my favorite “Latin” phrases...:)
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posted on
10/12/2008 4:57:33 PM PDT
by
stefanbatory
(Do you want a President or a King?)
To: NCjim
If we are talking Romans, Down reminds me of Agrippinila (Agrippina the Younger): Granddaughter of Marcus Agrippa (Augustus’s general and colleague), Daughter of Germanicus the hero, sister and lover of the Emperor Caligula, wife of the Emperor Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, her murderer.
To: NCjim
No mention of Doddus Gassbagius and Barney Buttslammicus?
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posted on
10/12/2008 5:01:25 PM PDT
by
paddles
To: Alouette
What did Michael Douglas ever do to deserve this!
To: sauropod
Hehehe ...Don’t let the mofos grind you down !
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posted on
10/12/2008 5:04:49 PM PDT
by
sushiman
To: NCjim
You are, Slimes. Me? Spartan all the way. Well-trained. Unflinching. Have read my enemy well, and will look him in the eye when fightin’ him.
Gladly.
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posted on
10/12/2008 5:06:24 PM PDT
by
combat_boots
(God, gun and babies. Justices, taxes and sovereignty. Otherwise known as White Trash. Count me in.)
To: monkeycard
I’d really start worrying about the decline when people stop making such statements. :)
To: NCjim
Didn’t notice that this was by old Dowdy until I started reading it.
I’ll quit gagging in a little while.
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posted on
10/12/2008 5:20:59 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
To: NCjim
I'm tired of the over-simplified explanation of Rome's fall being used as comparison to present day America.
Until America divides itself in two and creates a second capital, for starters, then I'll start to worry about it's fate.
There were many, MANY things that caused Rome's fall.
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posted on
10/12/2008 5:24:41 PM PDT
by
mike182d
("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
To: MetaThought
Rome ended when the politicians taxed the populice into oblivion, made citizens believe the military was not an honorable profession, starved the people with enormous social projects that the rich enjoyed and the poor toiled for. and then when surrounded by their enemies, instead of fighting to the last they opened the gates and let the hoards pillage away.
Are we Rome?
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posted on
10/12/2008 5:28:10 PM PDT
by
McCloud-Strife
(Lenin was a community organizer, Reagan was a governor)
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