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Colin Powell kicks ass!
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 6:49 PM, Romeo Rondeau
wrote: Allright Common ground, somewhere to start! That's what I meant when i was talking about Soundmen / Audio techs have a reputation for knowing a lot about Millitary Hardware and Formula One racing. It definately wasn't intended as a slight, it's a compliment. Sorry you took that the wrong way, or it came out the wrong way. Sorry, I have the tendency to be very defensive on this NG. Tough room for someone slightly to the right. :-) Definately a Hard room, must be the sound system. Yes there is a tendancey not to be so civil her.. We should all try and get around that one. So as a Francophone, do you see TV5 News, or RDI? Does that come from another Planet in your opinion? |
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"Romeo Rondeau" ... This guy's calling for an overthrow of the US government! Hear-hear !!! g |
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"David Morgan (MAMS)" wrote in message ... "Romeo Rondeau" ... This guy's calling for an overthrow of the US government! Hear-hear !!! g I believe our constitution demands that when the adminstration gets as bad as it is now George --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.577 / Virus Database: 366 - Release Date: 2/3/2004 |
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 6:15 PM, George Gleason
wrote: "David Morgan (MAMS)" wrote in message . .. "Romeo Rondeau" ... This guy's calling for an overthrow of the US government! Hear-hear !!! g I believe our constitution demands that when the adminstration gets as bad as it is now George It's been a steady state of decline that started with the Eisenhower admin's NSA. removing many of the powers of elected government and placing them in the appointed, with no oversight. There is the Media created illusion of "Private Industry" being "better than Public Trust". the reinforced values of this mock capitalisim. Problem is that the centers of power are unelected corporate bodies. Small business still has to deal with insurance Companies, Banks, and other marginally regulated and excesively exploitive institutions to do business. I'd like to hear from one person who owns and operates their own recording studio, or sound company, who has no complaints about these so called "Free market bodies" I've seen people argue that the American Revolution really only lasted 10 years, and then the British banks that had their Tea dumped into Boston harbor were back in control. |
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"George Gleason" writes:
"David Morgan (MAMS)" wrote in message "Romeo Rondeau" ... This guy's calling for an overthrow of the US government! Hear-hear !!! g I believe our constitution demands that when the adminstration gets as bad as it is now George IIRC that was The Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. FWIW, my dad, a US Treasury man in the 60s always used to say the people WOULD overthrow the govt if they knew what the wealthy and corporations were getting away with taxwise. Of course that was back when they were still paying their "fair share" relative to today ... prior to Reagan et al. |
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Sorry, I have the tendency to be very defensive on this NG. Tough
room for someone slightly to the right. :-) Definately a Hard room, must be the sound system. Yes there is a tendancey not to be so civil her.. We should all try and get around that one. So as a Francophone, do you see TV5 News, or RDI? Does that come from another Planet in your opinion? You know, I'm not much of a Frenchman, my family is from Saskatchawan and Quebec... that's about it. I did watch a little Canadian TV as a kid, the station in Sherbrooke I believe... channel 8? The old channel 8 in Boston used to shut off at a certain time, once the carrier was shut off, we could get the Canadian channel. What I do have is a half yankee- french canadian, half southerner perspective. I have at least seen and lived in both "halfs" of America. I travel a lot, but that's not as good as recording music. I get to meet lots of people of different races, religions, etc. So far, life has been interesting and it keeps on coming. I'm not sure how French-Canadian news is these days, my guess is that I wouldn't see eye to eye with their slant! :-) I've given up on truly "fair and balanced" news coverage, it isn't really possible. |
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"Romeo Rondeau" spaketh... I've given up on truly "fair and balanced" news coverage, it isn't really possible. Now I owe you a cup of coffee, too. |
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"David Morgan (MAMS)" wrote in message ... "Romeo Rondeau" spaketh... I've given up on truly "fair and balanced" news coverage, it isn't really possible. Now I owe you a cup of coffee, too. Why would that be? |
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"Romeo Rondeau" wrote in message ... "David Morgan (MAMS)" wrote in message ... "Romeo Rondeau" spaketh... I've given up on truly "fair and balanced" news coverage, it isn't really possible. Now I owe you a cup of coffee, too. Why would that be? You once told me that you bought FOX News (hook, line, and sinker), as the most accurate news in America. Besides, I haven't seen you in so long, a strong cup is in order anyway. DM |
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You once told me that you bought FOX News (hook, line, and sinker), as the most accurate news in America. Besides, I haven't seen you in so long, a strong cup is in order anyway. David, I don't think I said that. I believe I said that I thought that Fox News was the most accurate on TV (Liberals, flame away! I'm not responding to it). The other choices being CNN, MSNBC and the networks. I don't buy ANY television news hook, line and sinker. But then again, I don't doubt everything simply because it doesn't support my point of view. As a matter of fact, I watch CNN, Fox and MSNBC so I can see how the different networks put their spin on it. I often find that Fox reports the whole story, although not always. But if I was stuck on a desert island... it would be Fox News, a blonde and a Shure SM57 :-) |
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"Romeo Rondeau" wrote in message ... You once told me that you bought FOX News (hook, line, and sinker), as the most accurate news in America. Besides, I haven't seen you in so long, a strong cup is in order anyway. David, I don't think I said that. I believe I said that I thought that Fox News was the most accurate on TV (Liberals, flame away! I'm not responding to it). The other choices being CNN, MSNBC and the networks. I don't buy ANY television news hook, line and sinker. But then again, I don't doubt everything simply because it doesn't support my point of view. As a matter of fact, I watch CNN, Fox and MSNBC so I can see how the different networks put their spin on it. I often find that Fox reports the whole story, although not always. But if I was stuck on a desert island... it would be Fox News, a blonde and a Shure SM57 :-) any really important news is filtered through John Ashcroft and the Bush adminstration before we get to hear it They are going as far as making up scientific reportsd in regards to environmental issues and actual american deaths and how do you like the spin they put on that Jessica Lynch thing. That is why it is just as important to hear out any one who offers up thier unique slant on things and not buy into any one repot as truth but seeing as there is not truth we have to formulate uor best opinions on all we take in the more you take in the betyter a chance of haveing a complete picture when opinions get formed which is why I participate in these long boring pointless threads I might just learn something or I might just teach something George --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.577 / Virus Database: 366 - Release Date: 2/3/2004 |
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any really important news is filtered through John Ashcroft and the Bush
adminstration before we get to hear it They are going as far as making up scientific reportsd in regards to environmental issues and actual american deaths and how do you like the spin they put on that Jessica Lynch thing. How in the world would they have the time to filter all the news when taking over the world takes so much out of the day? That is why it is just as important to hear out any one who offers up thier unique slant on things and not buy into any one repot as truth but seeing as there is not truth we have to formulate uor best opinions on all we take in the more you take in the betyter a chance of haveing a complete picture when opinions get formed which is why I participate in these long boring pointless threads I might just learn something or I might just teach something I doubt you will learn anything. |
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"Romeo Rondeau" wrote in message ... any really important news is filtered through John Ashcroft and the Bush adminstration before we get to hear it How in the world would they have the time to filter all the news when taking over the world takes so much out of the day? Boy.... I hate to go getting political on you again Romeo, but I think your Commander In Chief is getting scared. At any rate, he's pulling a couple of stunts behind our backs again ("filtered news" as it were) to make the economy *look* better than it really is. First, he's proposed *amnesty* for ALL illegal mexican immigrants. You've probably heard that one already. Secondly (and you'll have to scour the news to find this one because I just heard it on the BBC - but I'll drop some links below) they're saying that the "The White House" has decided to reclassify MANUFACTURING jobs to include *FAST FOOD* workers !!!!! Sheeesh... they were just re-classified into the "service" sector a few years back. :-( In light of millions of real manufacturing jobs being out-sourced to foreign countries, the Honorable Mr. Bush, with a potential single stroke of his pen will balance his numbers from the manufacturing sector by the somewhat absurd re-classification of fast food workers as "manufacturers". I dunno' what to say... are we really 'manufacturing' hamburgers? http://www.iht.com/articles/130523.html http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...p-145751c.html http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...how/509917.cms DM |
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"David Morgan \(MAMS\)" wrote in message .. .
"Romeo Rondeau" wrote in message ... SNIP! I dunno' what to say... are we really 'manufacturing' hamburgers? have you *eaten* fast food lately!? |
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Actually, democracies have a pretty bad track record as far as stability
and longevity goes. We never even get to hear about most of them because they don't last long enough. Historically, Monarchy and Imperial Despotism created the longest lasting governments. So it really remains to be seen, but when weighed against 'freedom' as a concept (in the enlightenment sense, not the abstract and misleading GWB 'patriot act' sense), I tend to fall on the side of freedom over stability. That's funny that you say this because the longest surviving democracy today is the United States (actually a republican government), with the longest surviving written Constitution. The longest surviving monarchy is Great Britain, which isn't really a monarchy any more. It's more like a republic now. This is very interesting to me. Do you have any facts to back this up? Rome lasted 850 years (OK, really only 600 or so years as an actual empire... not just a city), and it was a republican government (a lot like the US in some ways.) I'm not trying to start waves here, I really am curious. |
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"Romeo Rondeau" ... That's funny that you say this because the longest surviving democracy today is the United States (actually a republican government), with the longest surviving written Constitution. Whigs and Torys. What was a republican in 1776? Was it left or right? Was it liberal or conservative? Sorry... couldn't resist. ;-) |
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"Romeo Rondeau" wrote in message ... Actually, democracies have a pretty bad track record as far as stability and longevity goes. We never even get to hear about most of them because they don't last long enough. Historically, Monarchy and Imperial Despotism created the longest lasting governments. So it really remains to be seen, but when weighed against 'freedom' as a concept (in the enlightenment sense, not the abstract and misleading GWB 'patriot act' sense), I tend to fall on the side of freedom over stability. That's funny that you say this because the longest surviving democracy today is the United States (actually a republican government), with the longest surviving written Constitution. The longest surviving monarchy is Great Britain, which isn't really a monarchy any more. It's more like a republic now. This is very interesting to me. Do you have any facts to back this up? Rome lasted 850 years (OK, really only 600 or so years as an actual empire... not just a city), and it was a republican government (a lot like the US in some ways.) I'm not trying to start waves here, I really am curious. 200 years isn't very long. If you look at ancient states that had some sort of representative governent, it almost always ended up morphing into a type of despotism. Rome was only a republic with a strong merchant class for roughly four hundred years, and ended with empire worship, a huge gap between the rich and the poor (no middle class), a castrated representative body, and extreme decadence. A similair though not identical transition occured in ancient Israel, when rule under the Judges morphed into rule by Solomon. This was accompanied not by decadence, but by extreme religious conservatism, and warfare in the name of religion. The Vikings had a form of independent, reperesentative government during their heyday as primarily merchants and pirates, but as their influence grew they succombed to a more roman-style monarchy, with centralized power in a few locations - a structure which lasted far longer then their independent 'democracies' did. In all cases, the change came from within, and has much to do with the difficulty of managing large tracts of land, remote colonies and/or far-off organized military initiatives, and from what we can tell, the diminshment of a 'middle-income' group that has the ability to demand political rights and prevents wealth (and it's sister power) from becoming centralized. As to the US being a Republic, it was at one time, back when the states could make up their mind about everything, like whether women could own property, states competed with one another economically without much regard for what lay outside the United States, and contributed directly to the Militia, and the only people that could vote were free white men that owned acres and acres of land. We are no longer that country, due mostly to incursions on 'state's rights' by the federal government. We are a modern Democracy. We walk a global stage only because we are no longer a loose coalition that forms a Republic. The danger in Democracy is that we could slide into despotism, which has nothing to do with the size of the government or the tax rate, but the nature of the government. jb |
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"David Morgan \(MAMS\)" wrote: [snip] Secondly (and you'll have to scour the news to find this one because I just heard it on the BBC - but I'll drop some links below) they're saying that the "The White House" has decided to reclassify MANUFACTURING jobs to include *FAST FOOD* workers !!!!! Sheeesh... they were just re-classified into the "service" sector a few years back. :-( Wasn't it the Reagan administration that defined ketchup as a vegetable? (Or something to that effect...) -Jay -- x------- Jay Kadis ------- x---- Jay's Attic Studio ------x x Lecturer, Audio Engineer x Dexter Records x x CCRMA, Stanford University x http://www.offbeats.com/ x x-------- http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~jay/ ----------x |
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