(December 6, 2011 at 2:47 pm)Chuck Wrote: Just put all the republicans in weighted sacks and pitch them overboard over the side into an subduction trench. Much cheaper, and allows the earth to be reburbished immediately for further use.
As much as I'd like to agree - republicanism isnt the problem. The fact that the GOP is essentially corrupted by wealthy special interests is the problem and it's one of the few things where the Tea Party and I agree.
Ideally, the biggest human goal should be to rid ourselves of corruption everywhere on the planet in every government and transform the UN into a sort of government as such that the end result (after cleaning up governments and then working on the other long-standing world problems) is a world free of virtually all the problems it currently has as well as others that are still on the horizon in a one-world United Federation of Planets sort of future - a virtual paradise free of poverty, war, and disease so we can concentrate on the things that really matter.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
