Aside from some minor distortions in time-measurement I would also mention that the slippery slide toward fascism is a tad more important than whether someone thinks I talk too much.

Did YOU say that Amos *Smiles*

If it matters at all, we are in total agreement for once, but the air here is rather thick with an irony that not many seem to be aware of.

To quote from the cut and paste - that Joe has so kindly not deleted, although I am sure that it would have filled-up his PC screen, which is supposed to be the hard and fast rule on cut and paste contributions - There is a risk that we might keep our eyes trained on the horizon for some foreign enemy while we are quietly looted and
disenfranchised from within.