Thanks much for contributing your insightful personal insults to the discussion. Your line about the “honorable men” of the GOP was good for a laugh. Good luck with your selective memory problem.

Peace.

DS

We need none of the above on the ballot. I am tired of holding my nose and voting on the one who will do the least damage. Also, I like a split government and a senate split 51 to 49.

If that is true, I presume that a change of power from one party to the other is routinely accompanied by substantial reversals of policy. (And no, whether US tax funding of family-planning efforts in the third world can or cannot include abortion, is NOT substantial.)

I cannot think of an instance of this happening.

I would say, rather, that Democrats want to move the country forward at 100 MPH, Republicans think that 90 MPH will get us where they want us to go with less risk of the voters rebelling… and neither one is paying attention to the fact that there is, somewhere up ahead, a cliff…

“I lived in London in the early 70’s. The English were depressed. Strikes were continuous. Coal, railroads, you name it. Supplies of goods and services were spotty. Most industry was on the brink of bankruptcy and being nationalized.”

One of the artifacts of that period, which I think unintentionally captures how dire their straits were is the show:

“Are You Being Served”

While the writing was classic English vaudevilian broad comedy, the set was the real giveaway…how great it would be to work in a…(wait for it!)…DEPARTMENT STORE!

No one that had a choice avoided the National Health Service.

Average people were liquidating household goods to make ends meet.

Thatcher saved Britton. Period.

Now we have the socialists in America trying duplicate Britton of the 70’s.

Go figure.

“You are welcome to share your knowledge for the enlightenment of all in attendance.”

How kind of you to extend such an invitation! Are you now one of the proprietors of PJM? Or are you only a barely tolerated and clearly unwelcome sockpuppet/troll? Judging from the commentary, I’d say the answer to that rhetorical question is abundantly clear.

“Including an ‘intelligence test’ in my post doesn’t equal stupidity or dishonesty.”

Since the entirety of your befouling “contributions” to this thread are evidence of stupidity and dishonesty, you’re once again wrong in this statement.

“What does the past President of the Prometheus Society have to say for the intelligence of our last three Republican Presidents?”

I won’t presume to guess AVI’s opinion. I will, however, note that all of them are/were considerably more honorable men than their Democrat Party contemporaries.
I don’t recall that either of the Bushes or Reagan had any problems with “bimbo eruptions” or selling military secrets to our enemies, or trashing our country abroad for the benefit of those who had killed Americans.

“Peace.”

I’ve got one for you: MOA.

You are welcome to share your knowledge for the enlightenment of all in attendance. Including an ‘intelligence test’ in my post doesn’t equal stupidity or dishonesty.

What does the past President of the Prometheus Society have to say for the intelligence of our last three Republican Presidents?

Peace.

DS

“I can see Democrats using President Bush for the next quarter of a century, just as they have used McCarthy to quell any criticism levied at any behavior.”

I’m afraid that you’re entirely prescient in this.

Made for Tee-Vee,(or whatever we’re watching then),movies of the future will have themes about noble anti-war homosexual ecowarriors bravely “MoveOn”-ing despite how bad the grub was in the Halliburton-run Labor Camps that BushCo confined them to.

Look at how many free lunches Woodward and Bernstein have noshed on over Watergate, while Ken Starr couldn’t hail a taxi in New York or Hollywood while waving a crisp new $100 bill…

David…as a past president of the Prometheus Society I know a little bit about IQ’s, distribution, political correlations, etc. While there are certainly those who know more than I, my knowledge of same is well above-average. Let me assure you that you don’t want to go head-to-head on this one – but I’m game. As you have started with the non-existent Lowenstein Institute, you are already down one point for either stupidity or dishonesty. Keep digging.