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Post Number: 51

grassman

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Posted on: Dec. 18 2015,8:34 am

(Botto 82 @ Dec. 18 2015,12:32 am)

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A system barely tolerable. There's a concept. The only buffer between how things are now and blood in the streets is the collective of entitlement programs for the poor. And conservatives all but call for the wholesale liquidation of same. Whose side are they on? Not poor people, that's for sure.

If EBT cards and Obamaphones keep riots from happening, so much the better. The only people calling for an end to such things are either no sense of where the real entitlement programs are, or whack jobs that just want to sit back and watch the world burn. But yeah, ending welfare would be that next mass-murder-sparking event here, and the leader who implements it will ultimately find his or her portrait right up there on the same wall as Hitler and Stalin and Mao.

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Posted on: Dec. 18 2015,2:19 pm

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(Botto 82 @ Dec. 18 2015,12:32 am)

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A system barely tolerable.

Skimming through Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" I ran across a paragraph that resonated:

“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”

That is the source of my paraphrase.

She spoke of environmetal issues related to various toxins, both physical and emotional. The idea of "a diet of weak poisons" crosses all boundaries of society---social, environmental, political, religious.

That "circle of acquaintancies who are not quite our enemies"? Yeh, Rachel, I know the feeling.

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Posted on: Dec. 18 2015,5:30 pm

^^ various toxins both physical and emotional?

You are just one stressed little snowflake aren't you.

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Posted on: Dec. 19 2015,2:45 am

Sorry, but the Pavla's dog reminded me of something.
During World War 2 some bright boy in the Soviet Union came up with a brilliant plan to stop the German panzers. The Soviets would train dogs to run under tanks with explosive backpacks on and thus destroy the enemy tanks the idea sounded simple enough and permission was given to set up a unit and begin training dogs using Pavla method of course. The dogs were first trained to run under tanks to get food, eventually with practice packs on until the unit commander said the dogs were ready to be employed. well the trainers made two major errors, they didn't train the dogs under combat conditions (no gunfire or explosions), and they used their own Soviet tanks not german tanks to train the dogs to look for food. The first time they attempted to use the dogs most of them paniced under the sounds of combat and they ran to where they thought they would find food, under their own tanks! The stories I've read about this program never said what happened to the guy who came up with the idea?

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