Grateful Dead

If that were true, then why are so many comapnies moving their operations offshore? I know the answer, it is because it is to expensive to operate here, but the governement is not controled by the corps. The gov. in many cases are driving the companies away. Members of the government may be, but not the government as a whole. With the influence of corperate influence, you also have to take into account special interests who are even worse. While, corperations trying to influence the governement may be somewhat of a problem, they are actually distracted from time to time because they have a business to run....Special interests make bitching to the government a full time job, so in my opinion, they are worse.

Why can't we create our own topics here? There's lots to talk about and interesting people to talk to about them but we are very restricted as to where we talk about it...To fully express ourselves we essentially have to hi-jack threads. The other political threads get about as much action as an elderly nun. Anyway, here we go... - William Blake is wrong. Perception is still a paradigm even if you could "clense" it, hence we need to gain knowlege without the distortion of perception; a priori knowlege aquisition, if you will. Perception in it's purest state, still distorts, by defintion. -Ron Paul does make good points and I would like to see nothing more than these crooked ass companies, who used these mass amount of junk loans as collateral, go down. Where he makes his mistake is two fold. One, these companies gambled and pooled obsene amounts of money, enough to put the economy on it's knees. Second, we, the tax payer, will assume the debt anway when these companies declare bankrupcy. The bail out is more likely, the cheaper option. The good news here is that every one of the companies invovled are under investigation by the FBI...Anybody caught acting fraudulently, in this case will be made an example of. See Enron, lessons were not learned from 2000. - The panthers the Dead played for were not the same violent ones as were on the east coast. They may have shared some philosophies, but at that time, those Pathers were community activists, not militants. I can't see the Dead playing a bennefit for people who hurt and kill other people; at least not intentionally.

MY TIX WERE JUST DELIVERD,FEEL MORE COMFORTABALE NOW THAT TICKETS ARE IN HAND,,, I BEEN TRYING TO STAY OUT OF ALL THIS BICKERING THATS BEEN GOING ON HERE SO I JUST WANT TO SAY ONE THING--IT IS WHAT IT IS- DONT TRY TO MAKE IT SOMETHING ITS NOT ,OR BELIVE IT SHOULD BE, THIS IS WERE THERE TAKING US LIKE IT OR NOT ITS WHAT THE BOYS ARE DOING,LETS HAVE FAITH THAT THE RIDE WILL TAKE US WERE IT SHALL,THE MUSIC IS PREVALLING THATS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT -NOT ABOUT WHO SOLD OUT,OR WHO SHOULD OR SHOULDNT BACK A POLITICAL PARTY OR WHAT JERRY WOULD OR WOULD NOT DO IF HE WAS STILL WITH US,ITS ABOUT THE MAGIC THAT WAS IN THE MUSIC, THATS WHAT KEPT US ALL TOGETHER,-- ON TOUR NOT EVERYBODY GOT ALONG, THE NITROUS DEALERS DIDNT GET A LONG WITH THE VENDORS,THE VENDORS DIDNT ALWAYS GET A LONG WITH THE SWINGERS, THE SWINGERS DIDNT GET ALONG WITH THE WARFRATS AND SO ON......BUT IT ALL WORKED TOGETER AS A WHOLE BECUSE OF OUR LOVE OF THE MUSIC,NO MATTER WHAT OUR DIFFRANCES WERE---ONE BIG SPIRALING BALL OF BREATHING ENERGY THAT NO ONE COULD STOP. I FOR ONE AM JUST HAPPY THE MUSIC GETS A CHANCE TO SHINE AGAIN, AND WE GET TO DANCE AT LEAST ONE MORE DAY,,,,SEE YA AT THE SHOW................JINGLE - FEW GOOD MEN MC - NEW YORK