On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 20:17:15 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"Cliff" wrote in message
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On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:07:22 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

Chuckle..actually I am pretty much mainstream for most of the US

Ohmigod. Gunner really has to get out more.

Ed...Im out every day. All across the US.

Not in boardrooms, or Ivy League offices, or among the "elite"..but
out among the Little People..Joe Sixpack. Or when in California..Jose
Sixpack. Workers, dirty fingernail types, white shirt types, shop
keepers and store owners, roach coach drivers and Mr. SUV, Ranchers,
farmers, cab drivers and truck drivers....

The folks that make up the heart of America.

I think Ed..you should get out more. That beltway bunch or the Joisey
bunch you hang with...have Ghettoized you badly.

Gunner

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose
and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

In the past few decades, a peculiar and distinctive psychology
has emerged in England. Gone are the civility, sturdy independence,
and admirable stoicism that carried the English through the war years
.. It has been replaced by a constant whine of excuses, complaints,
and special pleading. The collapse of the British character has been
as swift and complete as the collapse of British power.

Theodore Dalrymple,