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I've lived in Florida most of my life and never realized that we have deserts here. Typical moonbat ignorance on display, right there.

Love ya, "Awakened"! Didn't know there were any deserts in Florida (lots of swamps, though), nor mountains in Iowa (pretty flat there, last time I looked). Wow -- I'll have to take a course in remedial geography.

By the way, where are all the ACLU, Amnesty International, et al., complaints about these Gestapo tactics on the part of the Bush administration? Seems like they'd be screaming from the rooftops about this if your precious compadres were being rounded up en masse and deported to concentration camps set up in FL and IA (a la FDR and Japanese Americans early in WWII).

Strange -- haven't heard a peep out of these folks (at least on this score; they raise plenty of hell about the "separation of church and state," the "mis-treatment" of irregular combatants [i.e., your friends, the Islamofascist terrorists], etc., but not a single word on this very important issue). Maybe you'd better give 'em a call . . .

It's a typo, it was meant to be "desserts", for which Florida is indeed famous.

I'm almost sure Awakened is yanking their chains.

Was that English?

I do not know those African "click click" languages, nor do I feel like translating from something like that when I try to inform myself. This is something that has been bothering me for a while. How can anyone expect to be taken seriously when the readers have to do algebra and translate from Klingon every word they write?

What has happened to our language that it is now okay to use random abbreviations and numbers to talk? Especially if you're trying to convince people of a political point? Its one thing to text message someone and need to cut your message down for space. And face it, those little keyboards on phones aren't made for writing Shakespeare.

Most of the people reading here are reading because they know what the other side is like, they just like to stay up to date on the latest Moonbattery. Thus, seeing this kind of so-called "English" is not surprising. Nor do we, rightfully, take them seriously when they talk in riddles and numerals. We can't, because they have no interest in communicating ideas, only hate and slogans. Since we are desensitized to this style of...semi-communication, we just glance over it. "Thats the way they talk..." lurks in the back of our mind.

But its deeper than that. Its more than a sign of a lack of respect for language and the political process. It is one of the earliest ways of creating a non-thinking society. Do I think this is part of some vast, some-wing conspiracy? No. Its not, as far as I can tell, intentional. It is a derivation of the bullet point world, the sound bites and slogans that replace learned speech in the world.

What I would love to see would be long, well thought out papers written by politicians and pundits that lay out, in researched, footnoted, deeply detailed writing, where and what they stand for. Historical examples, original thought, and yes well rounded and respectful criticism.

We'll never get that, at least not soon. It behooves the politicos to have an unthinking, slogan shouting herd instead of an informed electorate.

Democracy as it is classically defined is not dead - but it is bleeding out. It wasn't killed by a politician - it was killed by us. "anti war girl" and "Awakened" and their ilk are just pumping bullets into its head every time they uncap their sloganeering pen.*

*Or maybe lovingly smothering it for carbon credits, since bullets are EEEEEVILLLL!!!1!!!**

**and that part was a joke...

>>DEMOCRATIC?!?! haha, that's hillarious!! wow, I can't believe people still think the united states is a democracy!>>

I can't believe it either! The United States is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!