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talkpolitics"DAILY QUOTE:
"We might be up Shit Creek. This sure looks a lot like it, but we've never been here before, so this could also be Turd River, or Excrement Lake. Either way, the boat's leaking."
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It's GOOD the boat is leaking, I say. We could've been already drown.
Where, for God's sake, you think, the Turd River or Excrement Lake are coming from???
A fiend of mine says our problems are mostly the result of our own efforts, folks.
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take the so-called 'arab spring'. There were the 'dictatorships', we've been told. Okey-dokey. With Mubarack in Egypt the american flag hasn't been torn down from the embassy roof and fired. With Quaddaffi in place american ambassadors there were alive.
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'If it's working don't touch it.'
I just wonder - who made the hole in our boat?
"We might be up Shit Creek. This sure looks a lot like it, but we've never been here before, so this could also be Turd River, or Excrement Lake. Either way, the boat's leaking."
(a_new_machine)"
It's GOOD the boat is leaking, I say. We could've been already drown.
Where, for God's sake, you think, the Turd River or Excrement Lake are coming from???
A fiend of mine says our problems are mostly the result of our own efforts, folks.
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take the so-called 'arab spring'. There were the 'dictatorships', we've been told. Okey-dokey. With Mubarack in Egypt the american flag hasn't been torn down from the embassy roof and fired. With Quaddaffi in place american ambassadors there were alive.
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'If it's working don't touch it.'
I just wonder - who made the hole in our boat?
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Date: 7/10/12 08:49 (UTC)Oh, here's another one: "The more you stir the turd, the more it begins to stink".
Damn, folk wisdom! LOL.
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Date: 7/10/12 10:00 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/10/12 10:27 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/10/12 08:51 (UTC)There are causes that are just and worth fighting for, and intervening for. And then, there are just Realpolitik and economic and geopolitical interests. The trick is to distinguish which of the two ends where and gives way to the other.
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Date: 7/10/12 08:53 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/10/12 09:00 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/10/12 09:02 (UTC)And I thought you just asked some questions.
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Date: 7/10/12 13:06 (UTC)So they start nibbling at the bottom of the boat, and we shoot at them. Oops.
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Date: 7/10/12 20:46 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/10/12 17:57 (UTC)Wrong question. A better one would be, "Why did we build a leaky boat, and what are we doing in it?"
I've actually been trying to frame an analogy of our economic system based on how boats float. It's tricky.
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Date: 7/10/12 18:10 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/10/12 19:50 (UTC)Plus overload, selbstverstaendlich.
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Date: 7/10/12 19:54 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/10/12 19:50 (UTC)Ah yes that would be Lake Apoka
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Date: 7/10/12 20:30 (UTC)