Europe is operating their super collider. USA is arguing about lipstick.

[wurzel]

You really think we have a future?

[kurth_]

1. Eight years of abuse and brainwashing

We're fucked but we ain't dead yet.

[Subdivisions]

2. With Obama we don't. With mcsame, we have another election coup d'etat. n/t

[City Lights]

3. That sums it up, doesn't it?

x(

[YOY]

4. I am so happy for Europe that I may move there

If shit doesn't get better...that's one of the bennies to marrying an Yurpeein.

[melody]

5. Of course

We will have the future we ordain for our people -- nothing less or nothing more. And we can thank George Bush for doing his job and trying to destroy the US. He will, however, never succeed.

[Eurobabe]

6. ****spray alert******

:spray: :spray: :spray:

You only have a future if Europe decides to invade you.

Sorry :hi:

[Canuckistanian]

14. Europeans invade America?

Wouldn't be too difficult.

Just dangle a shiny object like this in front of America and you can waltz in the front door.

[melody]

25. Why are you posting that in the place with people trying to help?

Or is it you just like bullying?

[Canuckistanian]

27. You missed my point? I'll explain it to you.

America (and more specifically, American media) Is UNABLE to see real-world issues.

Why do you think this Georgia thing has been such a disastrous surprise? If the media were paying attention as they should have, they would have noticed the ultra-nationalist movement in Georgia AND Russia's opposition to Georgia's ambitions.

My point, boiled down, is that America will continue to be "surprised" by world events", unless they WAKE UP.

Lipstick, Pastors and Lapel Pins. THOSE are the things that will bring America down.

Not Terrorists. Or Abortion. Or even Campaign Finance Reform.

9/11 was not merely an event. It was a warning.

[melody]

28. Oh, I got your point -- here is mine.

Every fucking body here knows that. EVERY body. Now let's see you be a big brave man and post that at Free Republic.

Everyone here is awake -- it's the freepers you should talk to -- unless you just want to act like a jerk.

[Canuckistanian]

32. Exactly how am I acting like a jerk?

And why should I waste my time at FR to prove my point? It's not like I'll make any difference there. I can't think of a more UNproductive use of my limited time here on Earth.

Can you further elucidate what I should be doing?

[melody]

34. You're making insulting remarks against a given nationality

You cannot generalize about 300 million people and expect to be taken seriously any more than you can generalize about any other ethnicity or nationality and not be thought rude as hell. When you say "Americans", you're including ALL the people on Democratic Underground the majority of whom are Obama cash donors or Obama volunteers or both. We ALL know what the problems are far, far better than you do.

Our country will survive whether you like it or not. The country is her people. My family has been here 350 years. It is the only ethnicity I have. And I'm a liberal Democrat.

[Canuckistanian]

35. Yes, I see your point

I have seen and read MANY examples of those who show sanity, civility, intelligence and wit on this board.

My post was obviously not aimed at them, or yourself.

Unfortunately, DU is NOT a representative sample of ALL Americans. Not even close.

I wish it were.

And if you inferred that I meant every single American, I apologize.

I was over-generalizing. And for that, I am sorry.

[melody]

37. HALF of the US voting public voted for Gore and Kerry

More than half will now vote for Obama. That's far more than a representative sampling. I'm a Californian but I'm also an American. I believe in the real roots of this country but not the snake swamp the GOP has turned it into.

The majority of people on DU agree about the horrible turn our country has taken under BushCo (and that includes Ronald Reagan who was great for every country in the west but his own). We're their #1 victims -- we're not the villains.

[melody]

23. America's future is her people

We should have done a lot less policing of the world and a lot more taking care of our own people.

[bryant69]

7. Everybody's got a future - whether they want one or not

America has a lot of problems but we've got a lot of possibilities yet.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[sudopod]

8. Well...

Some of us are helping. ;)

[Hugin]

9. Oh, and... uh... Well, we kinda... Y'know... sorta....

BLEW $2 TRILLION on a WAR-TO-NOWHERE!


(I haven't added up the bail-out nonsense yet. But, it's looking to be at least another couple of TRILLION (with a "T") or so...)

[beac]

10. Of course! In the future, Maybelline's most-popular shade will be

"Nuk-u-lar Piggy"! Buy stock now. I'm series. This stuff will be selling like hot rabbit-head pancakes!

[rug]

11. Well, to be fair, we're also discussing Bristol's uterus.

[Hugin]

13. I guess I missed that...

Do you have pictures?

[Seeking Serenity]

12. What happened to our super-conducting supercollider?

Didn't we build one, or weren't we supposed to build one, in Texas? Whatever happened with that?

On edit: I see where we were supposed to build one near Waxahachie, but it's funding got pulled in 1993.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Supercollider

[Hugin]

16. Oh, that...

Well, the REPUBLICANS said it was too expensive and killed it... To fund the WAR-TO-NOWHERE!


I've got a link if necessary.

[NeedleCast]

17. Got Cancelled by Congress Critters

See wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider

[hemphammock]

19. It collided with an immovable object. Congress.

:shrug:

[melody]

24. The "conservatives" were put in place to weaken our central government

In order to make it harder for us to do things and thus easier for Europe to do them.

George is an enemy inside our own gates.

[hemphammock]

15. They're flipping quantum states...we flip burgers.

:shrug:

[Spouting Horn]

18. The US Taxpayer

kicked in over $500 million for this super-collider.

[AlCzervik]

20. that's why we can't have nice things.

[BrainStorm]

21. Depressing, isn't it.

:(

[Yavin4]

22. I Was Just About To Post The Same Thing

We live in Gooberville.

[SoCalDem]

26. We are the "crazy aunt in the attic"..They have moved on ..n/t

[cobalt1999]

29. Since nobody has spoken up yet, that's not a fair statement.

There are thousands of scientists here doing important work without all the media glare of the new collider and Europe is known to argue some pretty stupid topics also.

Just sticking up for the scientists here.

[ColbertWatcher]

30. We have a fabulous future covered in lipstick. n/t

[entanglement]

31. Scientists from 80 countries (including 1000 US scientists) are associated

with the project. Not to mention the components and funding from nations around the globe. It is a truly global scientific endeavor. Of course, that does not detract from Europe's achievement in any way.

:hi:

[David Zephyr]

33. wurzel, you just summed the whole goddamned thing up perfectly.

There it is. Jeez! Ain't that the truth?

[Strelnikov_]

36. But Jaysus is our wingman. How can we fail? n/t