Replies to post #417425 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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eaglesurvivor

I'm sorry, I don't watch any of those people so I cannot comment on what they do for a living. Not completing collage seemed to be presented as some kind of impediment. My point was that in spite of not completing collage, they were able to become successful well beyond the average graduate. I was not condoning or supporting their positions. I don't watch or listen to them so I am not even sure what they are.

Perhaps it was my support of not tying in the Pittsburgh shooter to the right wing talk shows. As far as I am concerned at this point, it had no basis for being dumped on that direction.

Derb

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"We are the ruling race of the world. . . . We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. . . . He has marked us as his chosen people. . . . He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples." : Sen. Alfred Beveridge

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"I firmly believe that when any territory outside the present territorial limits of the United States becomes necessary for our defense or essential for our commercial development, we ought to lose no time in acquiring it." : Sen. Orville Platt of Connecticut 1894.

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"Between 1898 and 1934, the Marines invaded Cuba 4 times, Nicaragua 5 times, Honduras 7 times, the Dominican Republic 4 times, Haiti twice, Guatemala once, Panama twice, Mexico 3 times and Columbia 4 times," Washington has intervened militarily in foreign countries more than 200 times."

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"If the people are not convinced (that the Free World is in mortal danger) it would be impossible for Congress to vote the vast sums now being spent to avert danger. With the support of public opinion, as marshalled by the press, we are off to a good start. It is our Job - yours and mine -- to keep our people convinced that the only way to keep disaster away from our shores is to build up America's might." -- Charles Wilson, Chairman of the Board of General Electric and Truman appointee to head the Office of Defence Mobilization, in a speech to the Newspaper Publishers Association, 1950