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To: neverdem

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken


16 posted on 02/11/2009 1:18:53 AM PST by StACase (Global Warming is CRAP!)
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To: StACase
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” “- H.L. Mencken

This is one of those truisms that one cannot repeat enough.

So I will do it again. ;-)
38 posted on 02/12/2009 7:51:13 PM PST by RedMonqey (Arm yourself if you must. For your enemies surely will.)
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