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Subject: Re: Inside the Beltway - Washington Times
From: "Aguadilla '94-'98." <doni..._at_comcast.net>
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On Jun 17, 2:53=A0pm, "Its from Onion" <ared..._at_msn.com> wrote:
> If your scared, say your scared!!
>
> ____________________________________________________
>
> http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/21/inside-the-beltway-97423759/<=
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/21/inside-the-beltway-97423759/>
>
> Graduating midshipmen of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis are being to=
ld in writing to leave at home or in their vehicles all "ceremonial swords"=
and anything else "that might be considered a weapon or a threat by screen=
ers" for Friday's outdoor commencement ceremonies featuring an address by P=
resident Barack Obama.
>
> Inside the Beltway has obtained the academy's list of prohibited items fo=
r this year's graduation exercises, which, besides ceremonial swords, inclu=
des umbrellas.
>
> Yes, cell phones and texting are still allowed.
>
> SURREAL DELUSION
>
> Wow - what adjectives, adverbs and nouns did 2008 presidential candidate =
and Congressman Ron Paul of Texas not resort to when recalling a horrific v=
ision he experienced this week?
>
> "Could it all be a bad dream, or a nightmare?" Mr. Paul wondered. "Is it =
my imagination, or have we lost our minds? It's surreal; it's just not beli=
evable. A grand absurdity; a great deception; a delusion of momentous propo=
rtions, based on preposterous notions and on ideas whose time should never =
have come; simplicity grossly distorted and complicated; insanity passed of=
f as logic; grandiose schemes built on falsehoods with the morality of Ponz=
i and Madoff; evil described as virtue; ignorance pawned off as wisdom; des=
truction and impoverishment in the name of humanitarianism; violence, the t=
ool of change; preventive wars used as the road to peace; tolerance deliver=
ed by government guns; reactionary views in the guise of progress; an empir=
e replacing the republic; slavery sold as liberty; excellence and virtue tr=
aded for mediocrity; socialism to save capitalism; a government out of cont=
rol, unrestrained by the Constitution, the rule of law, or morality; bicker=
ing over petty politics as we collapse into chaos; the philosophy that dest=
roys us is not even defined."
>
> Is this where you woke up, sir?
>
> "We have broken from reality," he continued. "A psychotic nation. Ignoran=
ce with a pretense of knowledge replacing wisdom. Money does not grow on tr=
ees, nor does prosperity come from a government printing press or escalatin=
g deficits. We're now in the midst of unlimited spending of the people's mo=
ney, exorbitant taxation, deficits of trillions of dollars spent on a faile=
d welfare/warfare state; an epidemic of cronyism; unlimited supplies of pap=
er money equated with wealth ...
>
> "Of course, it could all be a bad dream, a nightmare, and that I'm seriou=
sly mistaken, overreacting, and that my worries are unfounded. I hope so. B=
ut just in case, we ought to prepare ourselves for revolutionary changes in=
the not-too-distant future."
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