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Related: About this forumThings are NOT GOING ACCORDING TO THE PLAN
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Things are NOT GOING ACCORDING TO THE PLAN (Original Post)
warrprayer
Mar 2016
OP
haikugal
(6,476 posts)1. Yeah it is! Poor babies.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)2. It's a short term problem if Hillary wins the nomination
Then there will be tumbleweeds blowing through DU and the Daily Kos after the purges.
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)4. Shhh!
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)15. The tumbleweeds won't be blowing for long...
as soon as Trump or Cruz wins the election, this place will be rockin' again!
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)18. They will only win
If Hillary gets the nomination.
At least that's what the polls say...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)3. Whoa
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)5. Any way
The Wind blows...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)6. sometimes
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)7. ROFLMAO
So sad...too bad!
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)10. You see...
What I did there!
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)8. We'll Be Lucky to Live Through It
?359
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)11. http://warprayer.org/
http://warprayer.org/
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/007.html
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>
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!
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.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)13. What will become of them
when Bernie wins the nomination? Both here and on Kos?
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)14. They will move
To the Caymans and ask for billionaire asylum
Bernin4U
(812 posts)16. Why... Sir Toppam Hatt!
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)17. Indeed!
We are tired of you hooligans shenanigans!