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We need a better closing quote than that one.

Texas congressman, Martin Dies Jr. (not to be confused with his father Martin Dies Sr., who was a congressman from 1909 to 1919), who was the Chairman of the House Un-American Committee during World War II, in a 1932 statement about the fundamental issues, said: "During the past decade a radical change has taken place in our economic life. Although we still retain the external form, the professions and precepts of a democratic Government, there has grown up in our midst an industrial and financial oligarchy as absolute in its sway as ever existed in the heyday of mediaeval feudalism." (Martin Dies The John Day Company hardback page 33)

Is it too late to mention that Australia is celebrating Remembrance Day?

Now, the disk jockey will play "Puff the Magic Dragon," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," and Sloppy Secondz' "Whacky Weed." We have to go and participate in a Veterans Day debate on the topic: "If Bush and Cheney are War Criminals are they entitled to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery?" Have a "Why didn't the NTSB reassemble (in a nearby warehouse) the jet airliner that hit the Pentagon, just like they did with TWA flight 800?" type week.

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BP graduated from college in the mid sixties (at the bottom of the class?) He told his draft board that Vietnam could be won without his participation. He is still appologizing for that mistake. He received his fist photo lesson from a future (more...)
 

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