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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:21 AM
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If America Excuses *, How Will I Live in This Country?
If America excuses * or buys his crap about NO, how will I continue to live in the United States?

Ever since 911 I've felt I was living in some crazy dreamworld, and since the election I've felt I was living in some Planet of the Apes in which everything was turned upside down.

But if America finds a way to rationalize Bushco's bungling, I don't know how I can go on living with these people, part of an insane, corrupt system that fails even the most basic functions of government.

Am I alone?
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:21 AM
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1. Thru what sounded like tears, that is what Mike Malloy was saying last
night. :-(
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:22 AM
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2. Not alone at all
I agree. If this isn't the last straw then all bets are off. I have to get out or go underground because I won't be responsible for my actions after that. Hi agent mike.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:22 AM
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3. I think it's too late for George. I think America is on to him.
I saw three, yes three, Impeach Bush bumper stickers in the past 24 hours. Brand new...

Unfortunately, it is taking the deaths of innocent American men, women and children for that to happen.
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Qibing Zero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:22 AM
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4. You're not alone.
I can hardly live with it now as it is. This is so so horrible.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:22 AM
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5. You're right.
It may be time to get out.

Has this country jumped the shark?
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durablend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:27 AM
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8. Teetering on the edge...
And won't take much to push it off :scared:
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:23 AM
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6. you are definitely not alone
the cognitive dissonance has been overwhelming these last four years. If it kicks up another notch, my head might well implode. :shrug:
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:25 AM
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7. There is no excuse for him, and that sentiment
is being shared far and wide, from one end of this country to the other. I don't think you have to worry. He is toast. Now, we need to find someone with cojones to take up the slack, and what a lot of slack it is.
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wake.up.america Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:30 AM
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12. I will believe it when I see it. That is to say when they run him out ...
of town.

Did I see a recent poll where 80 per cent of the registered Republican approve his job performance?
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:28 AM
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9. I believe you will find yourself in good company.
I agree, but then again I volunteered for VN, so what do I know.
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:28 AM
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10. I hate to say this, but I'm hearing people around me already excusing
Bush.

As I told my wife this morning, I fear this is what's going to happen: many Americans are going to continue clinging to the self-absorbed fantasy world Bush and corporate America sells them, while those who are shut out from that fantasy are going to seethe and simmer until they explode into violence and shatter that corporatist fantasy bubble.


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whatever4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:28 AM
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11. NO, and what we need is a place to run
It's driving me crazy. Where to go.

Even in this nation, where to live? I want to live by like-minded people. People who see bad times coming. People who NEVER supported this admin. A sane, IRL community of folks who are saying the exact same things.

If you find one, let me know, eh? Please?

I'm wondering N.H. Free State Project, but, I'm not sure. It's well known now, a nice fat target of opportunity. Pockets of small communities would probably be safer. Easier to defend. You either know the local crazies, or you can see them driving up from a mile off. Local produce, families supporting each other, trying to live.

Cities aren't going to be the place to live. They can every one of them wind up like New Orleans; it's not the water that did them in. It's not a natural disaster that's caused the real horror. It was the planned disregard for facts about dangerous situations, and further failure to help those in need. Don't need a flood for that.

You don't even need nature for that.

It's insane. Where to run??
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4 t 4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:32 AM
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13. You're not alone!
New world order- up is down, right is wrong, black is white (unless black is african american ) then black is black and this ASS ministration looks the other way. I have felt just like you for very long time. I'm moving to Canada half the year and Mexico the other half. You people can have this country!
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daninthemoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:36 AM
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14. Country might not make it through this one.
Shrub already has us in the biggest economic hole in history. This event on it's own is going to be hard to come through. Watch what rebuilding the rich folks house and business does t othe defidit. Watch what happens to your insurance. This is only the beginning of this years global warmed hurricane season. What about next year? What if California get's their big earthquake in the immediate future? What if Al Quaida starts up later today? The neocons have had us on the edge for years, and stuff is still coming our way.
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Greybnk48 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:37 AM
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15. Others feel this way
I watched Aaron Brown last night and he asked an on site reporter if he ever thought he would see something like this occur on American soil. The reporter did'nt answer at first, like the question hit a nerve. He then said he was trying not to thnk about that but that "this is not the America I grew up in."


Many, many people are thinking this way. This is not America. If it is, I'm leaving too.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:39 AM
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16. I'm getting my family
passports next week. I think it's time to quit hoping and prepare my family for an exit if needed. I really don't need to see anymore.
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 09:08 AM
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18. I think this may finally convince my SO to get out.
100K dead Americans on Bushler's watch I suspect will be enough to convince her.
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lisby Donating Member (254 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:50 AM
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17. No, you're not.
I just don't know how I can live here any more.

:scared: :hide:


Lisby
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