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2004-08-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-08-07 1:11:50 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 DateLine 2044
Texas, the Lone Star Republic. A closer ally than even Great Britain, takes Frances old position in the Security Council and demands 5 vetoes because of historical reasons and that they have 20 million Texans who are extra moody. CowBoy State demands beer for 6 million horses, whiskey for 12 million voters, threats made.

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-07 1:20:29 PM|| 2004-08-07 1:20:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Compliments the 100 million firearms and billions of rounds of ammo, Ship, heh.

Whether Hitchins will understand diddley-squat in some little short tour is neither here nor there... I doubt that many people are such quick studies that they can "get" the people in a very different locale in a single short pass. I've spent well over a year in Thailand - and I just barely "get it" - I'll view or read Hitchens with amusement, nothing more.

Texas is a damned interesting place. Lots of BS, sure, but underneath there is a very real sense of individualism, the self-determination and self-reliance kind, and that's the heart and soul of America. You see it in many locales, still going strong, such as in the mountain states full of ranchers, the plains states full of farmers, *flyover country* and those hardcore old New Englanders who fish for a living. I really found a "home" in Jackson Hole when I was a kid working on a dude ranch, heh. Wild place back then!

America's loonies are concentrated in those places where individualism has been twisted and PC-ized - the self-reliance part has been snuffed out and the self-determination replaced by lock-step loonyism or PC-gutlessness.

Posted by .com 2004-08-07 1:36:56 PM|| 2004-08-07 1:36:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 DateLine 2045
Oklahoma and New Mexico given ultimatum on boundary dispute. 1st Ranger divison is said to be moving north from occupation duties in the City of Mexico. Texas Senate calls for Peace and Understanding Or Else, UN ponders the message.

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-07 1:51:13 PM|| 2004-08-07 1:51:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 .com, I guarantee you've got more of it than you think you do. Take a trip home if you don't believe me. (I lived in Thailand for two years.)
Culture shock is way more fun when it's your own culture that's shocking you.

That said, Hitch has a reasonably good understanding of the US. That might help him in Texas, or might confuse him. Unfortunately, I can't watch this any more than Angie can.

Posted by Kathy K 2004-08-07 4:22:20 PM|| [http://site-essential.com] 2004-08-07 4:22:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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