On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:49:09 GMT, Gunner
calmly ranted:

On 11 Dec 2004 20:06:20 -0800, wrote:


** So, since both sides seem to be subject to "group think", to all our
detriment, I think the most important question to chew on is, "how can
each side be more open to the other side's views?"

http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/23194.html

http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1654

http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/c..._03-04-24.html

Excellent!


http://www.townhall.com/columnists/d...20020821.shtml

A bit over the Right edge, wot?


The only way to make the Left open to the Rights ideas..is with a
shaped charge.

Speaking of those, I just finished Robert Marcinko's "Rogue Warrior".
I was in tears laughing at some points. That was a truly great
autobiographical story. (I'm now 40 pages into my last unread Niven
book, "Ringworld Children" and rank his work right up there with
Asimov and Heinlein.)


--

From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has
become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by
an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people.
But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who
among us has the capacity to govern someone else?
All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the
burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one
group singled out to pay a higher price.

-President Ronald Reagan
First Inaugural Address
Tuesday, January 20, 1981