Lunch in the West Wing today.

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nauga said:
I posted that I saw a large, peaceful, well-behaved protest. You posted that you did not. Neither experience means that *all* are peaceful and should be allowed under the First Amendment nor are *all* disruptive and should be stopped in the name of law and order. QED.

Nauga,
whose true political leanings are intentionally vague
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Dude I have to ask - what is up with your creepy Nauga monologues at the end of your posts? Am I missing something here lol?
 
I just think the 1% should be paying for my flight training. Simple.

CC268,

Who loves Nickelback.
 
My wife got to vote for the first time as an American citizen. She is amazed at the number of people that want socialism in this country. I tell her that most of those people grew up being given everything they want without working for it, got free breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks in public schools, got participation trophies and never had to really do anything for themselves. And never learned what socialism/communism is really about.

Her mother tells me about the time the Japanese bombed her village, then the next day the troops marched in, took all the food and money and took away all the school teachers and town leaders. Her older sister was forced to be a "comfort lady" for the Jap soldiers. The Japs held re-education classes and forced the farmers to work in the fields and then give all the crops to a Jap run co-op like system to feed the locals, after the Japs took what they needed first. My wife is afraid that will happen here. And it can if we let it.
 
Your wife Korean? I was stationed there and all the S. Koreans I talked to despised the Japanese. The Japanese did terrible things to other countries and their people, in Korea they practically cut down every tree for their use back in Japan. Weren't very kind to American POWs either, just shot them vs the Germans who mostly would imprison them.
 
She is Filipina. And now China is trying to take over the PI a little more peaceably by numbers, that is moving in and buying every building and business they can get.
 
Zeldman said:
She is Filipina. And now China is trying to take over the PI a little more peaceably by numbers, that is moving in and buying every building and business they can get.
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Plus taking those reefs, making islands out of 'em, and basing fighters on them. Just like America, buy our companies for the technology. Lived in the PI when I was a kid, in Manila and then Clark Air Base. Big ass spiders over there!
 
Zeldman said:
My wife got to vote for the first time as an American citizen. She is amazed at the number of people that want socialism in this country. I tell her that most of those people grew up being given everything they want without working for it, got free breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks in public schools, got participation trophies and never had to really do anything for themselves. And never learned what socialism/communism is really about.

Her mother tells me about the time the Japanese bombed her village, then the next day the troops marched in, took all the food and money and took away all the school teachers and town leaders. Her older sister was forced to be a "comfort lady" for the Jap soldiers. The Japs held re-education classes and forced the farmers to work in the fields and then give all the crops to a Jap run co-op like system to feed the locals, after the Japs took what they needed first. My wife is afraid that will happen here. And it can if we let it.
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There are a lot of kids from my generation who genuinely would love full blown socialism, communism - really anything other than what we have now (trust me I just graduated a year and a half ago and saw plenty of college students in my "breadth" electives who thought this way). It is essentially being shoved down every student's throat at the University level. I wish professors would simply teach and allow the students to decide their own political views without the need for the extreme political bias that is oozing out of our Universities. I give it to them though, those teachers/professors are very very successful at transforming their students. To be honest, I think the future of America is leaning towards the far left. I already felt like the minority in many of my college breadth electives. It is truly sad that you essentially cannot hold any sort of conservative vs liberal ideology discussion at the University level anymore (unless you want to be verbally destroyed). I honestly think conservatism is dying slowly and we will just have to deal with it.
 
CC268 said:
There are a lot of kids from my generation who genuinely would love full blown socialism, communism - really anything other than what we have now (trust me I just graduated a year and a half ago and saw plenty of college students in my "breadth" electives who thought this way). It is essentially being shoved down every student's throat at the University level. I wish professors would simply teach and allow the students to decide their own political views without the need for the extreme political bias that is oozing out of our Universities. I give it to them though, those teachers/professors are very very successful at transforming their students. To be honest, I think the future of America is leaning towards the far left. I already felt like the minority in many of my college breadth electives. It is truly sad that you essentially cannot hold any sort of conservative vs liberal ideology discussion at the University level anymore (unless you want to be verbally destroyed). I honestly think conservatism is dying slowly and we will just have to deal with it.
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Much like Germany in the 30s. :(
 
Bad Hombres!

....,no wait, that ain't right.
Bad Messieurs. Just doesn't sound ominous.
 
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Just for sake of continuity of the thread, all please be aware that my historical correction of Zeldman's post #133 has been pulled by the Moderators.
<sigh>
 
Why aren't the "disaffected" crybabies running to Mexico? They LOVE the Mexicans!
 
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