Posted by cockeyed on September 16, 2005, at 22:14:23
In reply to Re: Revolutioncockeyed, posted by Nickengland on September 15, 2005, at 20:48:19
Nick, you are one ornery bastard. I'm 63. When I was a kid my gramma used to fill me with horror stories of the black and tan. She'd give me a dime everytime I told her I'd spit on a map of England. Her brothers were IRA gun-runners.
In fact here in the greatest natioon in the world we have Catholic Parishes which still have solicitations for the IRA. I was shocked be-cause my best friend who is Italian, attended Mass there and felt a bit "out of place"
Come to South Boston on St. Paddies day and take observations. Drunken kids in the streets,;
ghetto mentality is not just for blacks and hispanics alone.
And let's talk black. The U.S. has changed. Again, I grew up in a racist conspiracy..."oh, they're not like us. stay away from them." You'll have to take my word. Things have changed and are changing everyday. [Altho we voted in Bush agian. so open borders so our "sh*t" jobs can be filled. Still, people keep coming. And you know why: there is opportunity for menial labor. of course any intelectuall endeavor is "outsourced"
Still for all the crap, and believe me the other side of freedom is a great deal of crap and hucksterism,...oh, the hell with it, things increasingly stink. But then I'm old and in the way. Money talks, and talks, and talks...today the color of democracy is "lean, mean, green"
But maybe the Irish can get along. And the palestinians and Israeli's. Still, the news of the Belfast riots was extremely disturbing. But what the hell can one expect from the Irish?
But every four years, what can one expect from the land of the free and the home of the brave? Cockeyed.
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