Although Obama wasn't my choice, I'm relieved that the not-so-maverick McCain with his nutty fundamentalist sidekick didn't win. At least we got to show the world that we rejected the nation-destroying neocon policies of the past 8 years and there's some satisfaction in that.

Yet I don't expect to see much change coming from Obama's win. I know he hasn't been inaugurated yet, but I'm going by the policies described on his change.gov website and some of the choices he has already made, such as his vote in favor the bailout and the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff. I expect to see the same corporate-welfare polices continue, with some cosmetic changes in order to fool the citizens into thinking that actual changes will be made.

So I was very interested to read the following article which makes some of the same points that I have believed in all along.

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

I hope you live in interesting times....

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I'm Proud I never Voted For Bush!



PAT PAULSEN FOR PRESIDENT

We all do, Affrayer.

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

Okay - so what should we be passively - or actively - resisting now?

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies

Paying for the bailout comes to mind.

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

The difference is I do not choose to...

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I'm Proud I never Voted For Bush!



PAT PAULSEN FOR PRESIDENT

How - refuse to pay taxes? It's been tried.

Right now, I'd like to see all bailout money go to a huge WPA program that would fix infrastructure and provide jobs so that citizens can make purchases....and so on. Obviously I am a radical communist for not wanting to bailout banks and big businesses who f*cked up big time!

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies

No....you're just normal unlike our 'rulers.'

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

Our rulers don't care what form of government we have as long as they can maintain and expand wealth and power.

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No party holds the privilege of dictating to me how I shall vote. If loyalty to party is a form of patriotism, I am no patriot. If there is any valuable difference between a monarchist and an American, it lies in the theory that the American can decide for himself what is patriotic and what isn't. I claim that difference. I am the only person in the sixty millions that is privileged to dictate my patriotism.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

I thought this paragraph was interesting: "Likewise, a lot of people know full well that the Great American Experiment has failed. It had a pretty impressive start, but it's never going back to anything resembling a free country. It is an empire now, a tyrant's playground. It has nothing to do with individual liberty, and everything to do with dominion and control. So why drag out its demise any longer?"

Of course, Barack Hussein Obama bin Laden is just going to continue on this same course of turning America into Europe and surrendering its sovereignty to an international body like the UN - just as McCain would have done.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."