Re: OT:Thanksgiving



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HeyBub <heybub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pete Dashwood wrote:
They just ran a news item here mentioning that the US is preparing to
celebrate Thanksgiving.

Greetings to all concerned. Hope you all have much to be thankful for
and you spend a happy time with families.

They also noted in passing that 800,000 American homeless won't be
enjoying the turkey.

<snip>
Assuming you, Heybub, are a US citizen:

Americans at their best are wonderful, generous people who'll do anything
to
help their friends, and to a certain extent even their enemies. But the
average American is ingorant, agressive, and parochial. At their worst,
they are capable of most intense bigotry. You, sir, are not an example of
the best of Americans.

Well, Peter, at least he has a sense of humour... :-)

(There is hope for any society in which that is demonstrated...)

Most systemic problems in America can be traced to an up-stream liberal
program that failed.

In the case at hand, the institutionalization of the mentally disturbed
was
challenged on the grounds that many were not a hazard to themselves or to
society and, therefore, should not be placed in supervised facilities.
The
insane asylums were emptied.

Paranoics, Manic-Depressives, and democrats were sent forth to work their
insults upon the masses.


We take it, then, that Democrats are all paranoics and/or
manic-depressives?

I think it was a joke... (hope so :-)). Anyway, it made me smile...


The homeless are homeless because they choose to be homeless. That they
reached this choice - and through it drug addiction, malnutrition, health
failure - through impaired mental processes is an unfortunate consequence
of
liberty.


I wonder if you have the guts and intellectual honesty to take up a
homeless
lifestyle yourself? Or even to go out and talk to a few dozen of them?
If
you take to the streets with only the clothing on your back and attempt to
survive you'll know whereof you speak, instead of making ridiculous
generalizations.

Unfortunately, the influx of the insane in the 60's and 70's was not
enough
to provide the liberals with sufficient, long-term, political popularity.
Their current strategy is to re-infranchise those convicted of a felony
(in
many jurisdictions, a felony conviction is a life-long prohibition to
voting).

Republicans have to rely on the Roe Effect, but that takes generations.

No Republican woman ever has had or ever will have an abortion?


If your 800,000 no-turkey number is correct, then outreach programs are
doing pretty well.

As to your last question, "Can/is anything be/ing done?" well, no.



I am appalled that a supposedly well-educated man, citizen of a country
and
society that looks upon itself as a beacon of hope to the world, can spew
forth such venom. "Send them, the tempest-tossed, to me ... I lift my
lamp
beside the golden door". Still, that's one of the benefits of living in a
liberal society, that you're allowed to do so.

Whatever else HeyBub may be, he has demonstrated through long time posts
here that he is not venomous. In fact, some of his posts are the most
entertaining I find here.

I think this is a case where you took it a bit too literally, Peter.

(A proud Texan with a background in Law Enforcement and a wicked sense of
humour is a very good combination. If you were going to be arrested, you
might hope it would be someone like HeyBub who was the arresting officer.
:-))

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."



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