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Try to touch anyone in a

GregorZap — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:30:43 +0000

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Try to touch anyone in a corporate environment and the HR police will bring you into custody! I've always felt that prohibiting contact was a way to keep people separate. Watch all the managers shake hands and then slap yours if you gently squeeze someone on the shoulder having a rough day, after a nasty phone call, or being released from their own time in the HR.

Sagan was quite the peacenik.

fpie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:00:52 +0000

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Sagan was quite the peacenik. He believed that war is one of two things 1) a disease of youth for developing intelligent life forms. OR 2) an inevitable limiting factor that destroys all or most developing civilizations when they reach an advanced technilogical stage.
His cause was to try to get all humans to reason togeather to end warfare because the alternative is unthinkable.
Someplace around here I have my paperback copy of Cosmos that is in tatters and strapped togeather with duct tape. It's probably time for me to read it again. Dragons of Eden is great too.

WW II was a just cause. When

The Decider — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:51:43 +0000

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WW II was a just cause. When you are attacked, you must defend or it will be your family in those pictures.

Like when Mexico attacked the Alamo. Yeehaw, we showed them!!

Forgot to add this, oleeb:

San Fernando Curt — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:29:55 +0000

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Forgot to add this, oleeb: Great post.

Nahh...Always about money.

cmaukonen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:17:33 +0000

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Nahh...Always about money. Back in the hey days with the Goths and Visigoths and the Huns it was a bit more honest and above board. The reasons were spelled out pretty clear. "you have what we want and since we a bigger and stronger than your are...we're going to take it." Nice and to the point.

Now we try to cover it up with nationalism, patriotism, religion, morals...you name it. But it boils down to "You have what we want and since we are bigger and stronger than you...we're going to take it."

Thanks SF Curt! I agree

oleeb — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:40:32 +0000

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Thanks SF Curt!

I agree with you completely and highly recommend the link in your comment to one and all!

The one constant element of

San Fernando Curt — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:18:13 +0000

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The one constant element of war is that it's alway right when our side wages it. We battle nobly, against the forces of darkness, whether they be Japanese, Nazis, Confederates, counter-revolutionaries... or Palestinian children playing on their rooftops. Here's a post and story that sums it up for me.

And remember that the people

destor23 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:52:32 +0000

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And remember that the people responsible for this always ghave our best interest in their hearts.

Yes DD, but it's time for the

oleeb — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:40:08 +0000

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Yes DD, but it's time for the common people to understand that the "us" doesn't include the common people of this country any more than it does the common people of Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere else for that matter.

The "us" is the same class of people who destroyed our once mighty economic structure, gambled away the pensions of hundreds of millions of people along with their own fortunes and then stole the money they lost from the common folk leaving us with 15 million unemployed and climbing and no relief in sight. It has become clearer than ever these past few years that the interests of the common people here are not those of the "us" being served by the government we pay for, who own the defense industries our taxes enrich, whose international interests are protected and subsidized by the US military that the common folk pay for. It's time to rise up, restore the republic, and bring those forces that profit from perpetual war and inequality to heel once and for all.

Thanks, oleeb.

readytoblowagasket — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:28:25 +0000

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Thanks, oleeb.