Or something. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Question: Do you think a series of diaries on "the embryonic police state" would be of interest here at ET? For the first time yesterday I heard Olbermann use that term and I thought, I can't stop it so why not document it in a series of diaries? What think you? In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
McCain is, more than anything, a statist. So the police state jibes with his philosophy. Not as bad as Rudy Mussolini, but being better than Rudy! on the police state is like beating a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
Do you think a series of diaries on "the embryonic police state" would be of interest here at ET?
Definitely yes. It would be a good idea. "Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
I have a hunch we aren't the only other country considering toying with the implementation of police state.
aspiring to genteel poverty
The British police are the best in the world, I don't believe none of these stories I've heard...
Don't forget to bring "vos papiers" at next month's meet-up in Paris (and don't tell Mr Dunphy you're going to France...) Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
