Posted on 02/18/2008 6:23:55 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20
10/4. Spot on.
bttt for the Mencken quote.
We must fight the road to socialism...and that might mean, I fear, voting for the lesser of two evils this election.
I detest the ideas of Obama and Hillary that the GOVERNMENT should make all my health care and energy decisions.
McCain is bad, but not to the extent of the Democrats.
I agree, too, but nowadays, it’s not just the “unemployed” that are the problem—unemployment is low. How do we take away the vote of the working, but whiney, “I want the government to take care of me” crowd?
CHANGES
David Bowie
Oh yeah
Mm
Still dont know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought Id got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But Ive never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
Im much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Dont want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I cant trace time
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
So the days float through my eyes
But stil the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
Theyre quite aware of what theyre going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Dont tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Wheres your shame
Youve left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you cant trace time
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Ah changes are taking the pace Im going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Oh, look out you rock n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now youre gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I cant trace time
I said that time may change me
But I cant trace time
Shows they love empty rhetoric.
That’s a Mencken quote I’ve never seen, and I have read nearly all of his printed work. I’m glad Boortz put it in his column. It is a gloomy but realistic assessment.
Easy. No taxes, no vote.
I kinda like the word change myself, but my definition is that we change back to things that worked in the past.
I like the no work, no vote idea.
Good words of wisdom. But who is listening?
How do we take away the vote of the working, but whiney, I want the government to take care of me crowd?
NEWS FLASH!
McCain is no different, except he wants to include illegalss and he supports the global warming fallacy also!
“I think that we should give this election a theme.”
How about this?
“Give Me”
We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.
There’s actually two themes to this election:
Give Me
Make Things Like They Used to Be
Neither promise will be kept.
Mencken is great. Anyone who hasn’t read a book about him or his writings is missing a treat.
Totally agree
Who is John Galt?
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