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SittinOnDubsWGW · 08-09-2011, 01:33 AM

I want to riot.

thekremlin · 08-09-2011, 07:38 AM

Odds that FC's Jeep gets jacked tonight?

DJ FC · 08-09-2011, 07:54 AM

Please direct this garbage to the London riot thread.

Another thing America has kicked ass for a long time: Hollywood.

Saint DH · 08-09-2011, 09:30 AM

Until the god damn Jews ruined everything. Today, imo, Hollywood is one of the things wrong with America.

DDTempest · 08-09-2011, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry

Until the god damn Jews ruined everything. Today, imo, Hollywood is one of the things wrong with America.

So you don't like TV or movies?

thekremlin · 08-09-2011, 10:49 AM

People have been saying "SNL isn't as good as it used to be" every season since the second.

Saint DH · 08-09-2011, 10:50 AM

I like both. I know what he meant and I agree completely.

SinisterKid · 08-10-2011, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry

I think this is overly dramatic. We didn't cut the space program, we cut the shuttle program. For now, I say good. The economic environment of this country has really sucked for about four years now. It's expensive to send people into space. Space is a miserable, unforgiving slut of never-ending proportions. Let's just focus our attention on sending unmanned vessels into the vastness. Vessels that can do anything a manned shuttle can do and more. A satellite can go further and is more resistant to the extreme conditions of outer space. All for a fraction of the cost.

We cut the shuttle program only to pursue the new shuttle program. My employer received quite a large contract to develop the new "shuttle." To me, this is a good sign for the US; a willingness to innovate. Other facets of our culture, industrial base, and economy need to follow suit.

SNC - Sierra Nevada Corporation | SNC News

Saint DH · 08-10-2011, 06:12 PM

That's awesome, and it's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to see.

Cocktooth · 08-10-2011, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry

Until the god damn Jews ruined everything. Today, imo, Hollywood is one of the things wrong with America.

The days I went through life angry were some of the worst. Look at the cup 1/2 full. Does wonders for your overall attitude!

Saint DH · 08-10-2011, 10:14 PM

Is the American Dream still alive?

Beebs · 08-11-2011, 11:46 PM

I would say the actual downgrade isn't a huge deal, other than symbolically; with downgrading private debt, there can be some surprising information or at least surprising to the average investor. With government debt, everything I can think of is out in the open, and most of it is getting heavy play with the 24 hr news cycle of the modern day.

Hard to call any one point the high-point of American culture: first what metric are we using? The 20s were glamorous but we were not a world superpower until WWII. The 60s were artistically rich, but social ills were pretty rampant. The economy is fried at the moment, but the way technology is making information and communication mind-blowingly easy and interesting makes it hard to feel poor at times.

I don't think anybody ever correctly calls the end of an era right as it's happening; obviously if it is constantly said, then they will eventually be right, but there is a lack of insight as to where an when until after the fact.

I don't think it's the death of American culture, because for the most part, I think time will reveal that happened a decade or more ago with the homogenization into something that can broadly be defined as "Western" civilization, both with the Americanization of many parts of the world, and the breaking down of traditional impediments to global ideas and norms.

f3lix · 08-12-2011, 08:16 AM

Strolling around in Vegas in 2007-2008 UB and I went calling Bubble on the city and economy for the complete lack of recognizing all of it was unsustainable.

SittinOnDubsWGW · 08-12-2011, 03:44 PM

Goddamn dude, good job, you fucking knew it. Atta kid for being able to say "i told you so."

Cocktooth · 08-12-2011, 03:51 PM

You forgot to add a (10) to that dubs.

DJ FC · 08-12-2011, 11:23 PM

If it weren't for Club -69000 I'd pos rep you for that (0)

08-09-2011, 07:54 AM	#28 (permalink)
DJ FC MURICAN Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Virginia Posts: 5,136 Internets: 253094	Please direct this garbage to the London riot thread. Another thing America has kicked ass for a long time: Hollywood.
	The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

08-12-2011, 03:51 PM	#40 (permalink)
Cocktooth Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Warsaw Posts: 4,220 Internets: 124047	You forgot to add a (10) to that dubs.
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08-12-2011, 11:23 PM	#41 (permalink)
DJ FC MURICAN Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Virginia Posts: 5,136 Internets: 253094	If it weren't for Club -69000 I'd pos rep you for that (0)
	The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

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