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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,605
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    our modern lifestyle is the #1 killer of humans. and all the money and research in the world can't cure our stupidity. before we'd mostly die before we got disease. maybe man was not made to live to 75, much less 95.

    I say this as someone who consumed an entire bag of Doritos after 5 beers last night at 11pm watching Letterman.

    :lol:

    NBA and NHL playoff season does nothing to help my liver.
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  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1815

    good article

    In reality, the biggest threat to America today is not terrorism, which is really a much more minor problem than drunk driving (and one which would subside if the US stopped trying to be a global empire), but rather a government that has become increasingly unhinged, unmoored from the people and the Constitution, and thoroughly unprincipled — ready to lie without hesitation and acting in the interests of the rich and the powerful, instead of in the broad interests of the majority of the population.

    Our government lies about the extent to which it spies on us, it lies about the integrity of the IRS, it lies about wanting to rein in the banks, it lies about “winning” the war in Afghanistan, it lies about the Social Security program going bankrupt, it lies about the US not torturing captives, it lies about chemical weapons use in Syria, it lies about not deliberately killing innocent civilians, including women and children, with its drones in Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan, and it lies about nuclear power being safe (and about there being no radioactive fallout in the US from the Fukushima disaster).

    But the real reason we have a problem is that the government — the executive branch, the Congress and the federal courts, especially the Supreme Court — don’t trust the people.
  • aerial
    aerial Posts: 2,319
    JC29856 wrote:
    http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1815

    good article

    In reality, the biggest threat to America today is not terrorism, which is really a much more minor problem than drunk driving (and one which would subside if the US stopped trying to be a global empire), but rather a government that has become increasingly unhinged, unmoored from the people and the Constitution, and thoroughly unprincipled — ready to lie without hesitation and acting in the interests of the rich and the powerful, instead of in the broad interests of the majority of the population.

    Our government lies about the extent to which it spies on us, it lies about the integrity of the IRS, it lies about wanting to rein in the banks, it lies about “winning” the war in Afghanistan, it lies about the Social Security program going bankrupt, it lies about the US not torturing captives, it lies about chemical weapons use in Syria, it lies about not deliberately killing innocent civilians, including women and children, with its drones in Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan, and it lies about nuclear power being safe (and about there being no radioactive fallout in the US from the Fukushima disaster).

    But the real reason we have a problem is that the government — the executive branch, the Congress and the federal courts, especially the Supreme Court — don’t trust the people.
    Good article.....but I would say "they don't care about the people"
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln

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