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Things are NOT GOING ACCORDING TO THE PLAN (Original Post) warrprayer Mar 2016 OP
Yeah it is! Poor babies. haikugal Mar 2016 #1
It's a short term problem if Hillary wins the nomination BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #2
Shhh! warrprayer Mar 2016 #4
The tumbleweeds won't be blowing for long... Contrary1 Mar 2016 #15
They will only win warrprayer Mar 2016 #18
Whoa In_The_Wind Mar 2016 #3
Any way warrprayer Mar 2016 #5
sometimes In_The_Wind Mar 2016 #6
ROFLMAO SoapBox Mar 2016 #7
You see... warrprayer Mar 2016 #10
We'll Be Lucky to Live Through It Babel_17 Mar 2016 #8
... warrprayer Mar 2016 #9
http://warprayer.org/ Babel_17 Mar 2016 #11
Correct! warrprayer Mar 2016 #12
What will become of them RoccoR5955 Mar 2016 #13
They will move warrprayer Mar 2016 #14
Why... Sir Toppam Hatt! Bernin4U Mar 2016 #16
Indeed! warrprayer Mar 2016 #17

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
2. It's a short term problem if Hillary wins the nomination
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 03:56 PM
Mar 2016

Then there will be tumbleweeds blowing through DU and the Daily Kos after the purges.

Contrary1

(12,629 posts)
15. The tumbleweeds won't be blowing for long...
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 08:31 PM
Mar 2016

as soon as Trump or Cruz wins the election, this place will be rockin' again!

Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
11. http://warprayer.org/
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 05:47 PM
Mar 2016
http://warprayer.org/

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/007.html

Correct; the title of "The War Prayer" is a nod to Twain's piece of the same name, which should be read by *everyone*. Given the growing problems with illiteracy, I try to refer not to pop society so much, as to literature...Tennyson, Twain, even writers whose last names don't begin with T.

Did I mention this already to you? Sorry if I'm repeating myself.

I made a thread about it at the JMS B5 forum.

http://jmsnews.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41565

P.S. Btw, JMS seems to think kindly of Sanders.

https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/674833837185040385

<snip>
The War Prayer
by Mark Twain

It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.
<end snip>

warrprayer

(4,734 posts)
12. Correct!
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 05:50 PM
Mar 2016

Twain's "War Prayer" was about the Spanish American war, and was suppressed.

To me, it perfectly describes the rush to war immediately after September 11, 2001.

Some things never change.

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