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2004-05-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tipper 2004-05-10 1:08:01 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Pardon my irreverence:

replace Journalism, academia, policy wonkery:

with:

Journalism, academia, policy wankery:

Posted by badanov 2004-05-10 1:17:59 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-05-10 1:17:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It is tragic in the extreme that America's captains of industry did not step forward during the Vietnam era and make clear for once and all the right and proper reasons why free market capitalism is the only functional economic system this world has ever seen.

That the United States then went on to prove how Yankee wage slaves were the only ones who could safely return an astronaut from a lunar landing was a critical high water mark for our nation's economic and political ascendancy. It is difficult to imagine another single program that has spun off so many vital commercial and military technology applications.

The mind-death philosophical masturbation that has spewn from our academic institutions is not just an enduring embarassment, it has directly contributed to the stunning degree of prevailing ignorance that continues to cripple America's technological might.

Posted by Zenster 2004-05-10 1:43:55 AM|| 2004-05-10 1:43:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "It is tragic in the extreme that America's captains of industry did not step forward during the Vietnam era and make clear for once and all the right and proper reasons why free market capitalism is the only functional economic system this world has ever seen."
What are you talking about, ZucchiniStick?
If anyone came forward to stand up for free market capitalism and democracy it was the United States of America, backed by her "captains of industry," by fighting the good fight for a democratic Vietnam during the "Vietnam era."
We lost almost 60,000 men over 12 years trying to keep Vietnam free from Communism.
And while we may have "lost" the war, we stopped Communism from spreading to most of South East Asia and the Pacific, places like India and Thailand.

Where do you get these scrambled ideas, Zabaglione for brains?
Betcha you're a keeper at cocktail parties with your patter!

Posted by Jen 2004-05-10 2:44:14 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-05-10 2:44:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sometimes you can stare them down Zenster.

Posted by Fury one 2004-05-10 7:23:57 AM|| 2004-05-10 7:23:57 AM|| Front Page Top

"The Soviet Union is going to remain a stable state, with a very stable, conservative, immobile government" Robert F Byrnes and his associates proclaimed in 1983"

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-10 12:02:32 PM|| 2004-05-10 12:02:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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