Crude oil is EXPLODING TODAY!

[buckman]

Originally Posted by Karl F

Fred I think you are so right... it's splintered today, no unity, and a lot less pride and sense of history... June 6 passed, and hardly a mention of D-Day... Sad.... but D-Day would never happen with this version of America, we'd roll over and take it... How PC would it be to launch a magnificent operation like that today.... knowing that the casualties would be too high to sell to the public... NOT that I am advocating casualities, but that WW2 Generation, much like the American Revolution generation.... had some major BALLS.... and paid the price willingly.... one remaining old WW2 vet I know tho, he has confided in me...if his "guys", as he says, knew how this country was going to change... they would have said to hell with it, and walked away.... I think a lot of us were born a generation or 3 too late, in that aspect as well...
like one old salt told me, shortly before he passed... "I've seen the best of it boy... you'll se the rest of it..."... he's been gone for almost 20 years, but those words haunt me with there truth...

but... alas... I'm being too cynical... again ....

"VIVA LA REVOLUTION!

PS:...
call me when the revolution meetings start

Well spoken, I agree 100%

[Backbeach Jake]

There's a lot of truth to this, we have little blood investment, and what we have invested was broken off in our butts in Viet Nam. When you ask a generation to sacrifice there must be a reward, or at least a point. This BS of starting wars for money has got to come to an end. It is beneath us. Win or lose, we never come out ahead, and it reinforces our culture as selfish and vain.
We had a huge oppurtunity, with the fall of the Soviets, to change the world for the better. We had a windfall dropped into our laps that could have proven to the rest of the world that we were indeed who we said we were. Won over our foes by making their lives better. What did we do? We bullied, we threatened, we played favorites and now we wonder why we're despised worldwide. Still we beat our breasts and declare our superiority.That opportunity will never come again.
We depleated our resources to the point where a hurricane destroys a major city and friggin Walmart gets water to the people before our all powerful government even acknowledges the dire straights that NO's citizens are in. FEMA was in total denial. And we claim to know what's better for other countries..
It is OUR government. It is OURS to change, there's a piece of paper somewhere that says so, no matter what our leaders say.
This will be my last for a while on this subject, it just take too much out of me to rehash over and over without fighting to fix it. So I'll just ask, plead, and beg all of you, VOTE for a change, a real change. The Pols who have been "loyal representatives" for umpteen terms have betrayed us all and have sold our futures, our childrens' futures, and our grandchildrens' futures. Their shortsightedness has ruined us all. Now IF we are who we say we are, we can change this, we can regain our pride and remove our shame. It just takes a little courage and a little attention to what's going on in the world.
Vote for a change and vote for your lives