Re: OT - Political Solutions

The Leviathon, huh?  Interesting how you mention that after the quote I put
up; Nasty, brutish and short!

DF

cathy carpenter wrote:

> Ah, but the devil is in the adoption of solutions. You have to convince
> most of both Houses of Congress to vote on them (or at least on those
> you can't implement by executive order). The most effective form of
> government is a benevolent dictatorship...the trick is keeping it
> benevolent!
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 12:36 AM, Melody wrote:
>
> > DF: Had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago of meeting with Congressman
> > Dick Gephart of Missouri...-his ideas and more importantly, his
> > solutions are awesome in scope and really at their most basic, address
> > the most pressing problems of the global world we live in without
> > resorting to means of violence to do so...
> >
> >
> >
> > Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
> >
> > "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
> > --Albert Einstein
> >
> >  --- On Tue 02/18, David Franzman < dfranzma@pacbell.net > wrote:
> > From: David Franzman [mailto: dfranzma@pacbell.net]
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:43:24 -0800
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Duct Tape
> >
> > Do some research and then vote for the person who most closely
> > represents the
> > ideals you hold!
> >
> > DF
> >
> > Melody wrote:
> >
> >> Jim: Just FYI, our largely liberal, college community just held it's
> >> third prayer vigil (all well attended I might add) of the week to pray
> >> for peace and also to pray that the various world leaders will receive
> >> divine guidance in finding peaceable resolutions to these extremely
> >> complicated and intricate issues facing the world today. IMHO, as
> >> Americans, who by and large live the comparatively wealthiest lives of
> >> any persons on the face of the earth today, we should be asking
> >> ourselves what are the driving factors that would lead a person/group
> >> to
> >> the desperation of embracing an ideology of violence and terrorism and
> >> what can we, as a nation and as individuals do to ameliorate those
> >> factors? And I do not mean to merely speculate about what we can be
> >> doing to nullify the influences of poverty, starvation, illiteracy,
> >> abuse, etc... but what can we actually get off our behinds and DO? We
> >> as
> >> a nation of incredibly diverse and talented peoples should be willing
> >> to
> >> put our monies and our resources of time, energy, knowledge,
> >> experience,
> >> etc. where our mouths are instead of putting more violence into the
> >> world. When we can give a viable alternative of peace and hope to a
> >> young, 20 something would be terrorist lured by the promises made by
> >> ideologic fanatics rather than face a life that he/she perceives to be
> >> filled with little hope for the future, then I believe we will be on
> >> the
> >> road to changing the world for better. Okay...I know this is a few days
> >> late but sorry...I've been on vacation and am just catching up so I'll
> >> get off my soapbox now...Thanks!
> >>
> >> Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
> >>
> >> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
> >> --Albert Einstein
> >>
> >>  --- On Fri 02/14, Island Jim < jsinger@igc.org > wrote:
> >> From: Island Jim [mailto: jsinger@igc.org]
> >> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:46:29 -0500
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Duct Tape
> >>
> >> how come no one has suggested using prayer instead of duct tape to
> >> neutralize all this government-hypothesized nastiness? we seem to
> >> evoke it
> >> for everything else, including [just the other day] ameliorating the
> >> woes
> >> of the needy.
> >>
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