BS: Dubbya, Gore and DUI, CONT'D.

Subject: RE: BS: Dubbya, Gore and DUI, CONT'D.
From: Troll
Date: 07 Nov 00 - 09:57 AM

You and me, Bart.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Dubbya, Gore and DUI, CONT'D.
From: MiriamKilmer
Date: 07 Nov 00 - 01:50 PM

Jim Dixon [Date: 06-Nov-00 - 02:49 PM]wrote:

"Yes, I agree, drunk driving is a serious crime, but we must admit that attitudes have changed a lot over the years. ....

"Around 1968 .... Apparently I was the ONLY one who called the police, because I was the only one who hung around after the car was gone....

"I told this story mainly to illustrate how attitudes have changed. I'm rather sure the same thing wouldn't happen today."

I wish that were true. I called the police to tell them about someone who was very slowly, deliberately, and crookedly, try after try, driving a car onto the sidewalk at a busy intersection. I called 5 minutes after I saw it happening ( I didn't have a car phone or CB), and gave the location and the licence number. The police would not do anything about it. They said 5 minutes was too long.

That was about ten years ago, by which time MAD was very active.

BTW, Tim just told me about another organization called "DAM" - Mothers against Dislexia."

Subject: RE: BS: Dubbya, Gore and DUI, CONT'D.
From: DougR
Date: 07 Nov 00 - 08:06 PM

Ebbie: I truly am sorry to disappoint you, but frankly I'm getting tired of defending my position. It doesn't appear, according to what I'm hearing on TV, that it will make any difference anyway. It appears Gore is going to win. Congratulations to all of you who worked so hard to get your candidate elected. Especially Big Mick. I know you have worked tirelessly to get Gore elected. Good job, Mick!

I'm disappointed, but the country will survive.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Dubbya, Gore and DUI, CONT'D.
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Nov 00 - 08:14 PM

Is that a bit tongue in cheek, DougR?

Eb

Subject: RE: BS: Dubbya, Gore and DUI, CONT'D.
From: Troll
Date: 07 Nov 00 - 10:08 PM

Doug, I HOPE we'll do better than just "survive".

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Dubbya, Gore and DUI, CONT'D.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Nov 00 - 10:26 PM

Yes, the country will survive. I have confidence in you Americans, because you are at heart a good and courageous people, although you're under a wretchedly phony political system that divides you against each other, and robs you blind. Darn right the country will survive!

It will grow up and truly prosper when you dump both the Republicans and Democrats forever and start over from scratch, with an electoral system that is funded from a public fund...with equal funding to all eligible candidates...rather than unequal funding by graft and corporate domination.

It is the buck that rules you, and as long as that is the case your "democracy" will be an empty exercise, a device to merely fool you into thinking you still have a voice.

To vote Democratic or Republican is as meaningless as it was to vote between 2 or 3 communist bureacrats put forward by the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Soviet Russia. Your vote is simply a rubber stamp for the corporate system and the status quo.

Best of luck. Remember 1776 and dare to dream.

Subject: RE: BS: Dubbya, Gore and DUI, CONT'D.
From: DougR
Date: 08 Nov 00 - 12:04 AM

No, Ebbie, it was not tongue in cheek. I really thought, at the time I posted that message, that we had lost. I was listening to MSNBC who was so anxious to hand an easy victory over to Al Bore, and I thought it was all over.

Later, my daughter called me and said, "Dad, what are you doing?" I allowed as to how I was watching a video movie. She said, "Well, maybe you gave up too soon." So I tuned back in to the election returns, but I tuned in to CNN instead of MSNBC. Amazing what the difference is between the reporting services.

DougR