posted on October 12, 2001 02:00:23 PM new
cariad - You are sooooo correct. It has already happened on threads here. (And if they did that, you would be complaining that Bush is a coward and he should be very public and show that he is unafraid of terrorist attack possibilities.)
Some disagree with certain issues or problems they have with our President...some will speak their dying breath always being negative about anything and everything he does. But at this point in time, most of America (not truly represented here in the RT, THANK GOD) do support the way President Bush is leading the country, and the hard decisions he's having to make.
posted on October 12, 2001 02:02:49 PM new
It is a, completely different economy today than it was in WWII. Look at Vietnam. Did they stop making cars and ration things?
The fact is today that there is a glut of production of almost everything and the limiting factor is that a lot of people don't have the money to buy the products at the base price the industries are willing to market them at.
Same with food. There is enough food to feed the world but many in third world countries have virtually nothing we want to trade for that food. If we just give it away as a humanitarian gesture a great deal of it gets stolen and it encourages the poor to have more children who will need more food - until the limits of production are met.
A lot of the shortages in WWII were more symbolic to make the public feel a part of the war effort than needed. Why ration rubber when we can make more synthetic than we can use?
posted on October 12, 2001 02:16:09 PM new
Yes. Last night on the news...hustling to his car, from some meeting. Don't ask me which news...I was switching around.
posted on October 12, 2001 03:05:14 PM new
"Some disagree with certain issues or problems they have with our President...some will speak their dying breath always being negative about anything and everything he does."
We don't have any of the first kind of "some," here, only of the second sort.
posted on October 12, 2001 03:16:07 PM new
LOL - Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. But I've read a few that fall into the first category.
What matters to me is that while we can post, #*!@, defend, knock or whatever one chooses to call it....it will be the decisions that are made by President Bush and his advisors that will determine the future actions taken...no matter how 'some' don't like it.
I think that's part of the frustration for 'some'.
posted on October 12, 2001 03:56:31 PM new
Well, Toke, it's kind of like the story about the little boy who never said a word...
There was this kid, around 11 or 12, who'd never said a word. All through his life, his parents had tried to get him to talk, took him to countless doctors, nothing worked. He just never said a word.
One morning at the breakfast table, eating his oatmeal, the little boy looked up and said - "This oatmeal is cold."
His mother was flabbergasted.. she couldn't believe it. "What did you say?" she asked, in disblief. He repeated himself - "This oatmeal is cold."
"You can talk!" she cried. I can't believe it, all these years, and you can talk! But son, why have you waited all these years to speak?
"Because," said the boy, "up until now, everything's been fine."
Me, I'm like that kid. If something's fine, I don't say anything. The only difference between us is that I come across cold oatmeal at least a couple of dozen times a day.
So I would characterize it as - I only say something about oatmeal when I find something wrong with it, and someone else would say, about me, that - I always find something bad to say about oatmeal.
That's the difference between the two sorts of "some"s.
posted on October 12, 2001 07:41:22 PM new
Dick Cheney was on the Jim Lehrer News Hour tonight. Just saw him. Says he is in constant contact with the prez. Caught only the end of it. Will look at the re-run later tonight.
Ken...What's going on with Alcatraz? Heard it was evacuated of all tourists today because of a "suspicious" something...the nature of which they will not reveal yet? Would you have a link to that please?
Thanx.
posted on October 12, 2001 08:06:22 PM new
Shosh, sorry I didn'tt answer sooner, but I was on the phone with a realtor and then went to dinner.
I think there is a mass nude swim-in going on out on Alcatraz sponsored by "Queers for Palestine". It's nothing all that new really, as it's just an adaptation of an anal event that's put on. Last year, you re,member, it was the nude skydive onto Coit Tower by the same gang then calling themselves "Queers for the penetration of Deep Meanings".
. T'was tongue in cheek.
