[BluesDuke]

Though things may look a bit bleak, you must have confidence in the Fighting Tigers of the GOP.

I'd sooner have confidence in the Flying Tiger Line. They deliver, at least.

For the GOP and the Damnocrats today, flying pussycats is probably more appropriate. (You realise, don't you, that "pussycats" is the only way I can say what I'd like to say on a real or alleged family news forum.

Bottom line: The United States wasn't broken, until the usual gang of idiots tried to fix it anyway. And that began a rather long time ago. I'm not entirely sure of a pinpoint date, but I think it's reasonable to presume that when it did began, they were still calling baseball "base" and not yet developing it all the way forth from its root in rounders...

[tacticalogic]

I'm not entirely sure of a pinpoint date,

I believe circa 1937 is about the time they started seriously screwing with things that should have been left well enough alone.

[Brian Allen]

I'd sooner have confidence in the Flying Tiger Line. It delivers, at least.

Flying Tigers was taken over and nowadays it's called "FedEx." [Sacrilege!]