The last paragraph of Dave's post:

"Having said this, there obviously are hold outs to the old fucked up white culture white people have had in the past. There are those that want to cling to ideas of "racial supremacy". It will take time to completely cleanse society of this rubbish and we are working on it. It's pretty obvious is if you really look around and not just at the sensational headlines that this is so."

At Dachau there is a haunting, skeletal sculpture with the words in several languages below it:  Never Again.  No one is saying we should ignore our history; it's history from which we learn.

It's painfully clear that even in the pre-internet age, it was perfectly possible, though even more so now, to find information that supports one's desire to continue to feel oppressed, or to justify one's desire to oppress.  It's also possible to move past that and actively work to a better future.  That is where Dave is going.  That is where we all must go.  And I think there is indeed enough energy naturally flowing in that direction to counter its opposite.

But we can't keep one foot in the boat and one on the dock.  There's no voyage without casting off.

Trillion Becky, it's trillion.

fixed.  Still wondering how it freaking doesn't seem to bother anyone in charge.

18 trillion in debt, soon to be 20.  Unfunded liability for social security and medicare, another 50 trillion or more depending on whose numbers you believe.

What am I missing?  How is this so okay that the government virtually ignores it? 

Thank you.

Interesting article: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/iran-sailors-obama-republicans/424371/

Good example of how unwilling we, as a nation, have become to truly look at both sides of an issue.  I do worry about flaccid leadership, but also about over-hawkishness.  Best point in the article, I think, is about the young Muslims and their willingness to go in new directions, away from the old, bearded ayatollahs and imams, and old ways of thinking divisively. 

I think Cruz is smart enough to see all the nuances in this particular international problem, but plays to the base of hawk lovers.

How to get people to meet in the middle and truly analyze?  Too much acting and taking sides based on feelings only.

Pilots are comfortable with a certain level of danger.  They have to have a certain level of intelligence.  Refusal to engage in a true discussion of observable realities doesn't seem to me a good quality for a pilot to have.

My husband is wonderfully able to discuss all sides of an issue.  Noting that this seems to go along with a more fully-engaged, actively working brain, I'm actually becoming more comfortable with the idea of flying with him.   

Thank you, FLTP!

Invest 4:52

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That thing should go viral.  The points made there are succinct, true, and germane.  And my liberal friends would stop listening as soon as they saw "Heritage Foundation."  How many more shootings/rapes/murders and the like will it take for them to see that indeed, "The peaceful majority is irrelevant."?

We watched all of it intently.  It's like getting an IV of real leadership, which we have longed for so much it hurts.  Cathartic! But then I start to fear the lemmings will march us all off the cliff again and swoon Hillary in for more of same.  It's good to see them taking off the gloves and picking the low hanging fruit this administration leaves so stupidly there.

Also I fear that Cruz and Rubio will duke it out so harshly it will weaken any strengths we can accumulate.

But true that ANYONE on that stage would be leagues better than O or H.

Quote from: Anthony on January 12, 2016, 06:30:22 AM

Well at least Elizabeth Hurley is better than Monica.  Yuck!

That's like saying the P-38 flies better than a brick.

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