...>>.....and as usual it didn't work. Russian tanks are now on the way to Tsiblisi. Good job, Bushie. So you're advocating we spend more money to develop a military capable of waging a ground war against the Russians? Didn't say that. Bush has exactly no, none, zero, zip control over any action by the Russians. They will do what they wish with Georgia as, deep in his heart, Putin thinks Georgia should be part of Russia. WB Yeats

...>>What happened? I can't figger it out. The cowboy vernacular is conversational. Gee, and I thought it was from riding sidesaddle. Bush said it was "unacceptable" and within HOURS the Russians HALTED and stood down. Why? They didn't, doofus. Because Bush wasn't having a conversation, he was GIVING AN ORDER. .....and as usual it didn't work. Russian tanks are now on the way to Tsiblisi. Good job, Bushie. WB Yeats

.... Gee - just like Charlie Manson prophesied - Helter Skelter is here. All the righties will get their dune buggies, head for the desert, and hide themselves in deep caves until the race war comes. They would then rise up like Phoenixes and rule the world like the white race is destined to do. Oops, you say, it doesn't make any difference as the Chinese own everything. Oh, that's different. Never mind. (Thanks Gilda Radner) WB Yeats

... He senses that with all the drive, wit, love, pride, anger, hope, and anxiety that characterize the species he will in the end be sure only of helping to perpetuate the same cycle. Poets have defined this truth as tragedy. Yeats called it the coming of wisdom: "Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth." The first dilemma...

...for Hoobert Heever - he just kept on with the Republican good times from the 20's and then the bubble popped. So it was either Hoover or those historical giants - Harding and Coolidge. Take your pick.   WB Yeats How about none of the above? I agree with President Roosevelt's (32 not 26) assesment. The great depression was caused by fractional reserve banking - "when you deposit money in a bank the bank does...

... As for Hoobert Heever - he just kept on with the Republican good times from the 20's and then the bubble popped. So it was either Hoover or those historical giants - Harding and Coolidge. Take your pick.   WB Yeats How about none of the above? I agree with President Roosevelt's (32 not 26) assesment. The great depression was caused by fractional reserve banking - "when you deposit money in a bank the bank does not put the ...

... for the great depression. If obama is elected this year will the coming recession be his fault? Coming? For 90%% of the country who have not seen their disposable income increase for the past 6 years it's here, Bunky. As for Hoobert Heever - he just kept on with the Republican good times from the 20's and then the bubble popped. So it was either Hoover or those historical giants - Harding and Coolidge. Take your pick. WB Yeats

... about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? William Butler Yeats --------- The true-blue Homestead; http://geocities.com/fairdinkum_trueblue/ -----------

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...; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? William Butler Yeats --------- "The document's radical, but we mustn't be afraid of that, the proposals are just. History shows us that there have been many struggles between the honest men of England and those that ...