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“hello cambridge. your reponse to me got deleted. i will reply here.

“If this country was put here by God to protect mankind, why did the invaders/occupiers (you and me) try to kill off all the original inhabitants ?? What chapter and verse do you cite for those atrocities?”

I never said God sanctioned the genocide of the natives who were here before our country. To infer such a thing is to use the same logic cults do to permit their members to marry multiple women: because Abraham did. Jacob did. However, God did not want them to have more than one wife and mankind has suffered a rift that will divide us until the end of time because they took extra wives. Our country will always suffer because of what we did to the Native Americans, and because of slavery and because of many things. There is much wrong with our country but because of the miracle of the constitution we hold it together and the good is very good. Without our county there WOULD have been a thousand year Reich. Or some other diabolical force woud rule over us and no one could hope to live a simple life, where man would be treated lower than animals, where the only hope we would ever have is for God to intervene and create another pocket of civilization where people could go and justice would protect them as they followed their hearts and dreams. .”

“So when we get these new jobs --- won’t those profiting from them move them to other countries as soon as they decide they want to make greater profits with cheaper labor? And isn’t that a very big part of why we need jobs so badly now? Cuz they moved so many jobs out of our country for cheaper labor? And if Americans are profiting at the expense of our country, isn’t that, at least morally, treason? I know not legally, cuz these people are in bed with the people who make the laws, but on Judgement Day, when these people stand before the Lord, are they going to cite chapter and verse of some congressional bill to defend themselves for helping to bring down the country that God put here to protect mankind?”

“i think if someone had unearthed footage of her folding laundry or waving out a window or reading a newspaper in a ratty old bathrobe and hair curlers with green goop smeared all over her face they would show it and some people like me would look at it. some people to some people are timeless wonderful mysteries, like anne frank, amelia aerhart, albert Einstein, abe Lincoln, etcetra”

“Marijuana Monroe”

“perhaps you've never sat anxiously beside someone who was bogarting a joint. however, it does look more like a cigarette --- perfectly shaped --- than a joint --- and she didn't hold it in very long ---and she aways tended to look stoned anyway. but the intimate setting seems to suggest they're all stoned. and people by and large don't share cigarettes unless they're in a combat setting --- though i don't even smoke cigarettes and i'd share a cigarette with marilyn monroe just to get her dna on my lips. my guess is, they all got stoned and now they're just sitting around smoking a cigarette.”

“i vote that i am in love with marilyn monroe, that i have alays been in love with marilyn monroe and that i will always be in love with marilyn monroe. i wish i was on the couch beside her right now, smoking a joint with her and talking about the universe.”

“and these are the people cheney and bush were going to allow to be in charge of 'protecting' our ports. cheney and bush who love our country so much. cheney and bush who would do anything after 911 to keep us safe.”

“good one. and where am i? sitting in my bathrobe on the computer, discouraged about this lost world.”

“yes.”

“Jefferson Smith: [His voice very hoarse] Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won't just see scenery; you'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than just jungle law, fighting so's he can stand on his own two feet, free and decent, like he was created, no matter what his race, color, or creed. That's what you'd see. There's no place out there for graft, or greed, or lies, or compromise with human liberties. And, uh, if that's what the grownups have done with this world that was given to them, then we'd better get those boys' camps started fast and see what the kids can do. And it's not too late, because this country is bigger than the Taylors, or you, or me, or anything else. Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. They're right here; you just have to see them again!”

“i saw the actress in question here whose name i can't pronounce or spell or remember in a movie called 'I Could Never Be Your Woman" and was so amazed by her that i proclaimed to my aunt, "She is going to be a GREAT actress!" good singer too. just perfect. never saw atonement. i read the lovely bones cuz it sounded like a wonderful premise ---- but the authors concept of heaven was so bleak that even if there was a purgatory, even if there was a holding cell to get into purgatory --- it wouldn't be as depressing as siebolts view of heaven. so i probably won't go see her movie. but i will root for this young actress to win awards and receive great acclaim all her life. and she will have a wonderful life.”

“maybe it was just a slip of the tongue. a freudian slip. watch the movie 'loose change' on google video.”

“in fact, i wonder if that's the end of curb. i hope not. i hope it goes on for the rest of my life. and i hope every season they have at least one episode of seinfeld.”

“Obama should say to garret, “before we get started, I’d like you to explain to me how on hannity’s show they inadvertently spliced footage from two months earlier into a news report --- accidental footage that helped support their exaggerated crowd numbers. I mean, I’m trying to imagine how you unintentionally dig up something from a computer file titled 9-12 and wedge it into a story that takes place at the same spot in mid November. I mean, I’m only asking because of all the controversy surrounding whether or not your network is, truly, as you all steadfastly maintain, often, as in the case of hannity, with your chins jutting out indignantly, fair and balanced.””

“The republicans will get on board and even FIGHT for this bill if you write into the fine print that after five years all these new jobs can be sent over seas.”

“i love michael richards. always have, always will.”

“two words: surveillance footage?”

“we need jobs? that's easy. you make all the people who have outsourced our jobs and who've sent factories over seas or down to mexico bring them back --- either that or strip them of their citizenship.”

“how do you inadvertently splice footage from some other story some months back into something you filmed the day of the broadcast in question? if it was some random cyber glitch the odds would be that it was some unrelated thing, like bishop wright yelling in anger, or some lady in kenya saying she remembers obama being born there. there's just no way on earth that that was an accident, there's no way on earth hannity's response is not a lie. in fact, i hope people are going through everything ever broadcast on fox with a fine toothed comb before some poor intern in the fox basement is fired for his "mistake". because this is the sort of stuff they do all day long every day. thank God the weather changed or maybe no one would have noticed that they had misrepresented reality in their passion to be fair and balanced.”

“nice essay. i think though there could be a third reason for her inaccuracies: laziness; taking herself too seriously. while not taking her job seriously enough.”

“Hello FZ. I respect your insight into all of this, What are the odds that someone like oswald would happen to get a job at the book depository a few months before kennedy drove passed it – without the assistance of someone who KNEW he’d be taking that route? Also I read in manchester’s book that dealy plaza was the only place on the route that had NOT been checked out and protected by the secret service. And why did Johnson who had so much power in the senate need so badly to become vice president when, as I understand it, the vice president had no power in those day?”

“It annoys me when they try to get us to think it was the cubans or the mob. To me, the proof that there was a massive conspiracy is the massive cover up. my suspects include nixon and Johnson, but they’re ‘bit players’. my belief is America changed at that moment. something sinister slithered into our system and possessed us, and still consumes us from the inside out. Thank you for your post. Who do you think was behind it?”

“I know a man who was a guard at a prison in california. he told me that 34% of the people on death row have spent time in prison before for murder. if someone who commits a cold blooded murder --- or attempts to --- or a rape --- were to be sentenced to life in prison without parole the whole entire nation would begin, over a few generations, to heal and flourish.”

“naked picasos, huh? well, if pornography causes homosexuality, what would ogling three nipples do to you?”

“now what if someone kidnaps one of their grandkids in exchange for those picassos?”