Ghoat wrote: # One of the points that Tim is missing is that these demonstraters # are only protecting their property, in their view. In which case Bush just poked them in the eye, with the response to the demonstrators that they are hurting the very poor they claim to represent. He's as anti-green as you get. I wouldn't be surprised if there's an assassination attempt sometime. I'll be it'll happen on August... Oh, sorry, there are Feds listening with no sense of humor. ----
Sandman wrote: # # The part I like is that the wording suggests that the writer # is surprises that a population can have a lot of guns and "yet # maintains a remarkably low homicide and armed crime rate." Duh.
George@Orwellian.Org wrote:
A different society.
It wouldn't work here.
Bear wrote: # People are surprising. Even the most idiotic can show a grain # of common sense once they realize that their accustomed prey is # carrying. I'd bet that, after an initial few killings, an # amazingly polite and civil society would develop. No. A heat wave would be like a deadly jiffy-pop affair here. I'm sure Tim would envision that as a cool thing.