[TheForge] Patriotic rant.... With smithing content

[Ralph]

At 08:55 PM 6/20/02 -0400, you wrote:
>I, for one, am very happy with our current President, even if you consider him
>a raving lunatic.
>Sure beats the pants off the last guy we had in there, AND the last guy's 
>VP as
>well.

AMEN to that!


>Are Americans stupid as a brick?
>Let's see, they elected Clinton not just once, but re-elected him as well.
>I think you may have a good point there. You certainly have some strong
>evidence to prove your point.

Again I agree.


>I must be less than a half-wit (quarter-wit maybe?) to be able to figure out
>what behavior our government has displayed to justify terrorists flying
>airliners into the World Trade Centers. No, we aren't innocent bystanders on
>the stage of world politics.
>Our form of government and the freedoms we enjoy because of it scares a lot of
>people in the world.
>The only way to satisfy those people is to change our form of government to
>something more restrictive like they have.
>
>I think the terrorists are acting on their beliefs at least as much as PETA
>does. You might as well respect them as well.
>
>War on drugs, war on AIDS, war on terror...
>Nope. That language doesn't bother me one bit.
>Except for the fact that these are virtually impossible to "win" in the same
>way as a conventional war.
>
>You love the nation, but hate what the government does.
>Other than the land and the people in it, the only thing left that defines 
>this
>nation IS the government.

Bob, all in all I would say we are in agreement.
And so the folks who only want to talk smithing..... I am going to be going 
to a hammer-in a week from tomorrow(Friday)

Ralph



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