http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/516 Thoughts on Politics, Technology and the world around us Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:12:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/516/comment-page-1#comment-1930 Powell Lucas Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:41:53 +0000 http://www.technicalbard.com/?p=516#comment-1930 Tell all these whining, sniveling countries to get off their useless butts and take responsibility for making their lives better. And all you social engineering types can shut your yammering traps about how these poor excuses for nations are being abused by the west. A little over two hundred years ago a group of clod kicking farmers, backwoods trappers, and small merchants felt they had enough of being dictated to by the big boy on the block. They got their act together and booted one of the world's supper powers out on their ear and formed a republic that became the most prosperous and mightiest on the planet. These people didn't have a history anywhere near as long as those in the countries that are now decrying their success. If the U.S. can do in 200 plus years what these clowns haven't been able to do in 2,000, I say tough. Wallow in the pigsty of your own making. Tell all these whining, sniveling countries to get off their useless butts and take responsibility for making their lives better. And all you social engineering types can shut your yammering traps about how these poor excuses for nations are being abused by the west. A little over two hundred years ago a group of clod kicking farmers, backwoods trappers, and small merchants felt they had enough of being dictated to by the big boy on the block. They got their act together and booted one of the world’s supper powers out on their ear and formed a republic that became the most prosperous and mightiest on the planet. These people didn’t have a history anywhere near as long as those in the countries that are now decrying their success. If the U.S. can do in 200 plus years what these clowns haven’t been able to do in 2,000, I say tough. Wallow in the pigsty of your own making.

]]> http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/516/comment-page-1#comment-1928 Cynical Bard Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:46:07 +0000 http://www.technicalbard.com/?p=516#comment-1928 I'm frequently amazed, almost every day, to hear some politician, either local or from away, tell me how we need more government to regulate, control, or operate every aspect of society, yet every time it has been tried, it has been a dismal failure, imposing great suffering on millions of people. Yet we are supposed to buy into the idea of doing it again. Why, pray tell? I’m frequently amazed, almost every day, to hear some politician, either local or from away, tell me how we need more government to regulate, control, or operate every aspect of society, yet every time it has been tried, it has been a dismal failure, imposing great suffering on millions of people. Yet we are supposed to buy into the idea of doing it again. Why, pray tell?

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