Posted by sigismund on April 20, 2011, at 16:40:42
In reply to Trump This....Karl Rove lets the side down, posted by sigismund on April 19, 2011, at 21:46:06
>"I hate what's happening to our country," he told CNN's State of the Union. "We are not respected. We're scoffed at. We're laughed at. We are a whipping post for the world."
Taking the oil of other countries is not the best way to win respect. The Marshall Plan did that.
There was a time, a long time ago, when the respect and affection flowed naturally.
This song (I was surprised to learn) is about the moon landing, and the lunar excursion module, LEM, and was one of my favourites.It's been a long way down. It is so hard to have any optimism whatever. I'm so glad I'm not younger. The decline will bring out the worst.
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