In article , zxcvbob
wrote:

paghat wrote:


There's nothing stopping you [Cereus] from writing a big ol'
check and giving it to any one of these causes -- but I guess you have
your priorities.


Do you mean to imply your priorities are balloons & bleechers &
prohibition of expression of free speech in any location where such
expression might be seen?

-paghat the ratgirl


No, I only mean to imply that talk is cheap.

Actually free speech is a right that has cost many Americans even their
lives. To go hip-hip-hoooray for a President that has criminalized a lot
of free speech through the Patriot Act, & made sure there will be no
expression of free speech in sight of the inauguration, is not simply
trying to destroy something that came cheap.

It doesn't cost anything
to criticize Bush, and there is nothing stopping Cereus from giving
money to the poor if he is so concerned about them.

So, the sacking of America is okay & if anyone doesn't think so, they
should give quarters to a bum. Novel thinking.

From what I've read
of his many posts here, I'd presume to say that he couldn't care less
about them.

I wouldn't know about that one way or another & wouldn't hazard to guess.
But being obnoxious for sport doesn't rule out the possibility of
humanitarian spirit.

(A better criticism would be, "Is it appropriate to have such an
over-the-top celebration when there is a war on? Couldn't it be toned
down just a little?)

That's a side-issue of some significance, sure. The bigger issue is how
much bigger & freewheeling & overt does corporate purchase of the
presidential office have to get before citizens revolt & take back our
government?

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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