Gob and American woman

[ex-khobar Andy]

Lib told us:

I remember watching Donahue, maybe it was one of the interviewers, of the time. A liberal, hippie‑type guest was being interviewed, and something he said stuck with me for the rest of my life. He said that anything you have to work for, implying anything you have to fight for, is not worth having. Perhaps that should have been the liberal motto.

I'll take 'Things that never happened' for $200, please, Alex.

Actually, maybe I'm wrong: and Phil Donoghue did in fact comb through all the liberals he knew to find a lazy slob. I'm sure they exist, just as they do in all spheres.

As a lifelong liberal by anyone's standards, anything we do not have now, and that we want, is worth fighting for. Universal emancipation, for example - not just white male landowners. Freedom to shop or go to a restaurant on a Sunday if shop workers and bus drivers and chefs can be persuaded to work on a Sunday (or Saturday or Friday depending on your point of view). Freedom to drink clean water or breathe clean air that won't kill you.

Morons exist, lib. We have one living in the White House (I'm in DC at the moment so he's just down the street from me). But that has never been the liberal motto.

[BoSoxGal]

(I'm in DC at the moment so he's just down the street from me).

Have you ever visited the Einstein memorial in front of the NAS building at 2101 Constitution Avenue?

You probably have, but lots of people don’t know it’s there, so I always encourage people - especially science nerds - to visit it. It’s one of my favorite places in DC.

Enjoy your visit!

[liberty]

Now I’m afraid that, in less than a generation, we will fight Russia, and we are much less prepared—especially psychologically—for what may come. It is most likely to happen in the Arctic, where they have the advantage. True, their forces there have been reduced somewhat, but their bases and supplies are still in place. They moved some of their weapons out, but everything else they need is still there; and the weapons can always be replenished.

If that conflict ever happens, I don’t want my grandson suddenly becoming enthusiastic and enlisting. I suspect he’d be sent on a fool’s errand and end up dead in a frozen wasteland, just like the German army in World War II.

Christ Almighty, liberty, was your old man Joe McCarthy?   You're more worried about Commies and the Red Menace than even he was.
And this fixation that we're going to be fighting in the Arctic like in the climactic scene in "Ice Station Zebra" is getting old, too.

-"BB"-

Ice Station Zebra was a movie. The real world is a hell of a lot different. Have you ever been to the Arctic? I have. I was stationed there for a year. I have been out in the cold at Condition Green, not even Condition Yellow, and I can tell you that imagining being in that for months at a time would be a special kind of hell.

And do not think you can build igloos. There may be snow, but not enough to build with; the wind blows it away. Sometimes the winds blow with the force of a hurricane.