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That's about the way I figure it. Actually I think the GOP may do better than that.
The scandal regarding Rep. Mark Foley's sexual activity is of an equal-oppotunity kind.
Politicians --- and people --- have displayed behavior that disgusts others (with merit in my judgement).
The number of U.S military KIA in Iraq --- (all volunteers) --- is tragic --- but relatively low by earlier standards.
The U.S. Civil War --- yes we had one too --- as has most every nation in the world --- was the must violent in our history --- and until the weird, wacky, wonderful, bizzarre and brutal
20th Century the ugliest miltary action in history.
Brother killed brother, the prisons in the South were notorious, and to so good in the North.
The march of William Tecumseh Sherman's troops from Atlanta to the sea --- under the direction of Ulysses S. Grant --- previously a drunken failure --- under the direction of President Abraham Lincoln was murderous.
(Father Abraham is regarded by some as the greatest prose stylist in American history)
Read Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind.
Curiously, we now now re-enact Civil War battles, as sport, with bullets made of paint.
Bang-bang-you're-dead.
Fun, huh?
Ben
That's about the way I figure it. Actually I think the GOP may do better than that.
The scandal regarding Rep. Mark Foley's sexual activity is of an equal-oppotunity kind.
Politicians --- and people --- have displayed behavior that disgusts others (with merit in my judgement).
The number of U.S military KIA in Iraq --- (all volunteers) --- is tragic --- but relatively low by earlier standards.
The U.S. Civil War --- yes we had one too --- as has most every nation in the world --- was the must violent in our history --- and until the weird, wacky, wonderful, bizzarre and brutal
20th Century the ugliest miltary action in history.
Brother killed brother, the prisons in the South were notorious, and to so good in the North.
The march of William Tecumseh Sherman's troops from Atlanta to the sea --- under the direction of Ulysses S. Grant --- previously a drunken failure --- under the direction of President Abraham Lincoln was murderous.
(Father Abraham is regarded by some as the greatest prose stylist in American history)
Read Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind.
Curiously, we now now re-enact Civil War battles, as sport, with bullets made of paint.
Bang-bang-you're-dead.
Fun, huh?
Ben
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