“Congress Has No Clothes”

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Congress Has No Clothes

”Never has so much been stolen, from so many, by so few, so quickly.”

by Bob Smith

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CHNC is my attempt to suggest,

as one lemming among many,

that maybe we ought to slow down and consult a map.

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‘The Ten Terrifying Premises’ that kick things off are just junior high arithmetic, history and science.

Yet they shake the very foundation of everything we believe ourselves to be.

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CHNC addresses the most divisive issues known to man yet does so at such a fundamental, ‘survival-of-the-species’ level that I believe it will unite rather than divide.  Written a decade ago, virtually every word still rings powerfully true.  I’ve always though of it as ‘the question’:

“Do we need to do something?  If so, what lies do we have to quit telling ourselves in order to move forward?”

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CHNC will be almost as difficult to dispute as it will be to digest.

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Enjoy. 

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Congress Has No Clothes

”Never has so much been stolen, from so many, by so few, so quickly.”

by Bob Smith

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I. Introductions, Premises, & Bob

…CHNC

…Ten Terrifying Social Observations

…B.S.

…Tomorrow

…The American System

II. Culture, Community, & Me

…Grandma’s World

…Being an American

…National Values

…Fear Itself

…The Sixties

…Riches vs. Wealth

…Education

…Our Elders

…Cyberspace

III. Foreign Policy, Wall St, & Them

…The Exponentialities of Capitalism

…Tweaking Capitalism

…Oil Contradictions

…Adolph Hitler

…September 11th

…History’s Lessons

…The Iraqi Quagmire

…Islamic Democracy

…The United States, Al Qaeda, & Israel

…Revolutions, Rebellions, Insurgencies, & Civil Wars

…The Good Guys

…Palestine & the Palestinians

…The United Nations

IV. Apple Pie, Democracy, & You

…The Republican Party

…The Democratic Party

…Bi-Polar Politics

…The Fourth Estate

…Mandates

…Leadership

…The 1st Tuesday in November

…JFK

…Ronald Reagan

…Patriotism

…Family Values & the Christian Conundrum

…The Conservative Christian Vote

V. God, The Universe, & Us

…Science & Religion

…Faith in America

…The Passion of the Christ

VI. Tomorrow, The Day After, & Our Kids

…Bigshots, Fearless Leaders, & Muckety-Mucks

…Alohas, au Revoirs, & Hasta la Vista