"MajorOz" wrote in message
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On Dec 24, 4:00 pm, " wrote:
On Dec 24, 10:50 am, sandy wrote:



I haven't participated here much--last year or so.
There was just too much political wrangling going on
and I found it too hard to ignore. So I largely took a powder.
(no not that kind. all my dollar bills are still in my wallet).

So, exhibiting typical consistency on my part, the following:

The republicans unanimously opposed historic health care
legislation today--watered down and impotent as it was, due
to their unanimous hostility for over a year now. But lose the
battle they did. Or soon will, as the senate was the only
reactionary chance left for them.

All of which reminded me:

Republicans opposed social security, originally and as recently as
a few years ago.

Republicans opposed the Marshall Plan after WWII.

In the early 50s republicans did half-heartedly supported voting rights
for southern blacks, largely because it was Yellow Dog Dixicrats who
supported segregation. But after the civil rights bill passed and it
became clear the new wave of black voters would all vote democratic,
the republicans almost instantly switched camps and became
states-rights reactionaries. They got the Ross Barnett, Bull Conner-like
democrats and they've controlled the redneck south ever since.

The republicans also opposed Medicare.
And now they've done absolutely everything possible to give
Health Insurance corporations the right continue ripping us off, and to
keep upwards of 20 million citizens out of any kind of health care luck
at all.

I'm beginning to think this kind of stubborn
resistance to needed change is a genetic condition. Rational
evaluation of the evidence just doesn't support this kind
of boneheaded behavior.

The only thing non-obstructionist they've ever done is to
drive us into near bankruptcy by slashing revenues (taxes)
and giving most of that the rich, and to start a series of
ill-advised and remarkably expensive wars. And I count Viet Nam
in that category too, even though Johnson started it. Because
everybody knows Johnson did that because he was so afraid of
right-wing reaction.

:-)

Here's my favorite quote from William F. Buckley, founder of the
modern conservative movement:

“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling
"Stop!"”

Just to give you an idea of the quality and depth of his opinions, he
also said (or wrote):

“The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible,
so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of
the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of antimusic.”

Well, at least, in this quote, he was correct, as history will (and to
a degree, already has) show(n). Their music does not "live". It was
a fad, was not musical, barely rhythmic, and appealed only to the
journalistic mind that believed it had found something, or to
rebellious dilatants.

cheers, anyway; and Merry Christmas

oz, who never confuses sales figures with quality

So is it the Christmas spirtit or Satan that has you by the balls?!

Jeez, he hates college sportz and the greatest musical talent to ever grace
this godforsaken planet!

Op --a non-Christian with at least an inkling of the joy and spirit of the
season--