The time hath found us

from friggin' Eisenhower: "Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense, a theft from those those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."

An article about Not burning the flag posed quite a Q: if i am protesting the seat belt law, and don't wear my seat belt, why am i tickited when there is a freedom of speech clause? well, sir, first of all, i totally hate and don't see the Governing qualities of the seat belt law, and don't see why we Illinoisians can't overturn it given that there is no helmut law. I never wear my seatbelt. It is my freedom to choose, though as in the land of the f'n free it's not my license to do so. So to answer a question, that noone will read, we aren't allowed to protest while breaking a law, even though we are protesting the law. We are hypocritical asses. Though,in China, they shoot us...

Creation of the American REPUBLIC-Gordon S. Wood- "The coherence and significance of the Americans is an incredible jumble of references from every conceivable time and place cumulatively, from the overriding purpose to which to which these purposes were put, the understanding of which John Adams called, 'the divine science of politics'." So, in order to understand and correct politics, we must understand and rationalize past politics and experiences, and learn from yoreland's mistakes.

the f'n Brits: politics as usual: before the Americans: (one more): politics nothing more than a perpetual battle between the passion of rulers, whether one or a few, and the united interest of the people-an opposition both inevitable and proportionable-(because in the past the rich proclaim divine right)-. Thomas Gordon, "Whatever is good for the people, is bad for their Guvna's, and what is good for the Guvna's is pernicious to the People." This is when we'll get the Whigs and a conception of a mutual contract...