Perfect Example Of the New Republican Party

I knew a guy sort of like Mr. Blue Balls here once... The guy actually exposed himself in front of a French girl scout troop and one of the French girls said something like

My father had the decency to not be around, I'll give the prick that.

Sorry to hear that. My father was a warrior, an educated professional one who'd seen enough war to hate practicing his profession. Archie Bunker was as far from his demeanor as possible, except for the cigar. He retired in 66 and became a high school biology teacher. He considered Viet Nam a bigger boondoggle than Korea. It was, in his opinion, a meat grinder created by politicians who had never had a bullet fired at them in anger and that war violated a basic precept of Darwin because it killed the fittest.

In 68 he was a Republican, but was never a fan of Nixon. As a Republican though he had a hard time supporting Humphrey. He worried about me and the draft because (as he said) "I became a warrior so my children wouldn't have to."

He died in 71 when I was 21, so we didn't have too long to appreciate each other as men, but in retrospect I have come to appreciate what he did, where he was and who he was.

Rap

The old men cause the wars that the young die in. Too bad it isent the other way around.

War is a failure of politics--Sun Tzu

Politics is the practice of compromise--somewhere in this partisan world that has been forgotten. The sad thing about the lack of compromise will lead to the failure of politics.

Sad

Rap

You need a better class of friends.

What we need, and what we can achieve, are not always in congruence.

Absolutely. Yet we celebrate our politicians who take us to war. It satisfies a basic instinct to fight. Even better when it is someone, somewhere else.

We humans have such an easy time letting our emotions overwhelm our knowledge.

I didn't say he was a friend, just somebody I knew. I know lots of people I wouldn't want for friends.