No Mookie, what you have is a paranoid former tea partier, he is also a paranoid former republican.
The reason why he is a former tea partier is explained in his rant about how the movement has been taken over by the very people it thinks it is against...which is the same reason he gives as to why he isn't a republican anymore.

Yes...your certainly a demon with that cane :O:

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They will riot the next time their hockey, football or basketball team loses. This seems to be status qou these days. It is in my opinion that unemployment benefits are stopping two things, soup kitchens like we have seen in the depression and rioting. As benefits come to a stop problems will begin to become more prevalent.

No riots in America? A sample over 200+ years, in no particular order:

Cincinnati, 1855
The Battle in Seattle
Days of Rage
1742 Election Riot in Philadelphia
1979 White Night Riot

We're perfectly capable of blowing up. The difference is, we tend to come back together again.

On 9-11, it would have been perfectly logical to think that New Yorkers would have taken advantage of the chaos of that morning, but by and large, they didn't.

The OP takes a rather dim view of us, for one who claims to speak for us. I've seen more of my neighbors helping each other during community crises than exploiting each other.

Not my personal views.
Merely posted as a discussion point, nothing more, nothing less.
My views of the US are far from gloom and doom and oppression and inferiority. Or a view of suppression or losing all sense of reality. Or exerting it's muscle upon the global scene.
Far from it.
My views of the US are of Miami, Florida, where my parents and I were many moons ago, before emigrating to Australia. The US was one place my parents had considered as a final destination.
I have a lot of respect for the US. It's people, it's geography. It's history. Oh especially it's history.
I have American friends, and have met many a US citizen, whom i have all enjoyed conversing with.

This just in - looks like they finally pushed Steve and his homies too far. They've taken over downtown Salt Lake City and say they won't leave until their demands are met. This could get ugly, folks.

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Hen Fap?
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Apologies, my friend. I had not intended that to look as though I was directing my comments to you, but rather to the author of the piece you quoted.

No offense taken, my friend.
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Dose this mean we will not get the recipe for coka~cola?

I think we will survive with 3 less tourists per year

We had some pretty wild race riots in the US back in the 1960s. Watts. Detroit. Philadelphia. Camden. D.C. Newark. Atlanta. And let's not forget the "police riot" in Chicago in 1968. Last riot that I can recall that wasn't a bunch of jackwagons celebrating a sports victory/defeat was almost 20 years ago: Los Angeles, 1992. I'm certain that there will be others in the future. There's no shortage of "anger" in many cities, and, as history has demonstrated over and over, "anger" provides opportunity for some.

Where the doomsayers (both foreign & domestic) get it wrong (in my opinion) is that they fail to take into account the underlying resiliency of a free society. As much as we may bitch and moan about things, its mostly about things we believe others (including the government) don't deserve, and that we want for ourselves. Although these tensions make for some anxious days from time to time, such temperaments have never been fatal to an orderly society bent on balancing justice and liberty.

I'm reminded that 50 years ago today a wall was erected by a government to separate a people. So long as people in the United States have unfettered rights to travel within its borders, and if dissatisfied pick up and move, I don't fear our future as a free people.

We'll work it out.

Well said.

Still have the bruises, eh?

It's not helping. They just changed all the bus schedules and now none of us knows how to get anywhere. There oughta be a law!

And it took a Canadian to write the best description of the Detroit riots (and maybe any riots) ever penned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPXL3iEVnCM

How rude of you to hit the nail right on the head. Sometimes it sucks to be human.

Excellent! :up: