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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-05-06 11:30 PM Original message |
Back from a Sci Fin Con |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-05-06 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. Right now the Republic is dead. Maybe it will lead to |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-05-06 11:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Since one party, the supposed opposition party |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-05-06 11:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I know. |
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Arkham House (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:05 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Have you noticed that Heinlein's "Future History"-- |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
23. Heinlein got mentioned on a regular |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 01:04 PM Response to Reply #8 |
29. Heinlein's one of my inspirations... |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 01:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
37. sigh--"rational anarchy" is a great ideology |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:06 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Heinlein ain't nuthin'! |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:15 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Mmm. Lovecraft. |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:27 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. I read "At the Mountains of Madness" when I was 8 or 9 |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:47 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Would never have thougth that. |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-05-06 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
2. I had almost the exact same conversation with family today |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-05-06 11:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. On globalization, they have a point, even if |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:03 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. True, it can't be stopped |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-07-06 06:03 AM Response to Reply #21 |
48. Hurricanes can't be stopped either |
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Citrene (231 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-05-06 11:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. What is the saying? "there are none so blind.............."? n/t |
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Nomen Tuum (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
7. Sadly, I see secession on the horizon |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
11. All is not lost yet. |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
12. Very nice post. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:22 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. It is an MA in history |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
15. The "mechanisms of the state" have not FAILED... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 11:58 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Ask the average american |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 01:21 PM Response to Reply #15 |
32. failed because they were dismantled. |
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jokerman93 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
16. Bravo to you, sir n/t |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
17. Soon, we will no longer be able to scream, for we will have |
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ChickMagic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
18. I have been saying something similar for quite some time |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 11:59 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Yeah I have been saying this for over four years now... and |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 01:38 PM Response to Reply #20 |
34. It started around 1975 |
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Lindsay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:07 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Thanks for that phrase, "a cold civil war." |
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ChickMagic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:31 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. I have a great fear that it will go hot |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:48 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Just a question of time |
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ChickMagic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:55 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. That's true enough |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 01:10 PM Response to Reply #18 |
30. Cold civil war |
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ChickMagic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 01:28 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. It's the same for me |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-07-06 06:05 AM Response to Reply #30 |
49. Yep, look at the Bush approval ratings |
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quiet.american (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
24. I'm looking around, too, albeit without benefit of Gates' millions |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
31. Thanks for the post and another warning. Proud to give the 5th recommend |
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QuettaKid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
35. where did you hear this about Gates |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 01:52 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I was told this |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
38. Maybe it's De Nile, but I think you are overstating things a bit |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 02:07 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. and my belief is that he is right |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 02:15 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Not being alarmist is not the same as not noticing |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 02:19 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. and macro trends show to us that we might be |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 02:28 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. I agree -- but don't forget the 1890's or the 1950's |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 02:51 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. You are a Pollyanna |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 03:29 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. I'll plead guilty. I'd rather be Pollyanna than a Cassandra |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 03:14 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. I think what a lot of people don't realize is that the fifties |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
46. I do think there is a Socialistic vs Capitalistic conflict coming |
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Pathwalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-06-06 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
47. I've always thought globalization required The U.S. be dissolved. |
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