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fiatbrat70
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ken is a 74 year old guy from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Liberal news junkie. Korean veteran, World traveled and educated. Likes fishing, nature, history, dancing, cars and mechanics, exploring, cooking, and I build wooden rowboats. Each time you try something new, you'll add 75 more days to your life! "There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."(Mark Twain)
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While in Montevideo, I stayed for about a week, saw the mast of the Admiral Graf Spee which was still scuttled in the harbour, and did the normal tourist and dining thing. I told my Uruguayan host that I wanted to see a country cantina. He took me about 4 hours drive west of town and we stopped at a little crossroads hotel much like the picture of the art gallery above. We stayed for a week, drinking beer with the gauchos, rolling these huge dice made of cattle knuckles, eating asados, and listening to a very pretty young lady, with long braided hair and eyes that flashed their amusement clear across the room. She sang Spanish love songs while playing an old upright piano. I fell in LOVE with her! Spanish songs have been special ever since. (maybe it was the beer (^_-) ) -
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A warrior from the highlands of New Guinea
New Orleans is a "Party" town. And masquerade is the preferable mode. I would love to see the guy brave enough to wear this to the Christmas party!
And better yet ... I'd like to see the girl drunk enough to ask for a dance!
(I think that those little tassels are to prevent you from poking your eye out!) -
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WOW! Wouldn't I look cool, all dressed up and wearing a straw boater, tooling this around the city on a summer Sunday! I'd be frightened half to death to drive it on the streets with some of the yahoos we have on the road. I wonder how many of my kids I would have traded for it? (just kidding ... maybe) -
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You might however consider whether you should not unfold as a background the great privilege of habeas corpus and trial by jury, which are the supreme protection invented by the English people for ordinary individuals against the state. The power of the Executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government, whether Nazi or Communist. In a telegram by Churchill from Cairo, Egypt to Home Secretary Herbert Morrison (1943-11-21).
Our present situation fits this to a "T" ! -
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This picture tells a huge story ... A story of 400 plus years ... a story of the lives of many generations in a struggle for dignity, decency, and justice. A personal story of my forefathers clearing land with axes and their bare hands and of the women by their sides in the wilds of swampy Louisiana. A story of a quest to be free from the tyranny of noble and serf. One of my Grandfathers left La Rochelle France with a new bride in 1612 to come here and help carve out the freedom he and she were seeking. And my story is only one of millions that were given hope by this new land. It wasn't the USA then ... it was just a new opportunity to correct the long endured injustices of the dark ages of Europe. Through many trials, tribulations, wars and other skulduggery, this part of the new world became the USA. It was a place of mixed blessings, but its opportunity was a shinning light for the rest of the world. I contributed to this land and also received some of its blessings. At a time not long ago, that discarded little flag would have made me sad. Now we are changed to a nation which is entirely different from the vision of my youth. Among the many changes toward a police state and a new dark age, we declare war pre-emptively, we allow torture like the Spanish Inquisition, and no citizen has any freedom from surveillance of our government. It is with regret for my children and everyones children, that I have now determined that our flag is best put among the dying leaves of a life that has been. Gone with the wind ... -
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Have you ever followed a slow moving car on a curvy two lane road for miles and miles while wondering why this "slowpoke" doesn't pull up on the side of the road and let this trail of 50 autos pass him by? And then suddenly the road widens and becomes a four lane ... and instead of maintaining his slow pace in the slow lane, "slowpoke" speeds up and tries to stay in front of the fastest cars passing him by. This is the characteristic of a psychotic control freak ... we have many of these in our "competitive" society. In fact, I would venture to say that 90 percent of the people who become police officers have a very large share of this disorder. So anytime someone is not in the complete control of the police, they will use extra-ordinary force (ie tasers, hand cuffs, etc) to subdue even a person who has not broken the law. It is time for our citizens to demand police reform ... especially in the psychological testing and training of policemen.
