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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1951764, member: 38849&quot;]For WestTexasBound - I saw this quote today, from a blogger named Fred Read:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The rot [in America] goes beyond the academic. The whole epicene circus smells of weakness of character. Watching our prancing half-men and furry co-eds, I wonder what would happen to them if it rained hard. America today lives in an unconsciously precarious equilibrium. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some two or three percent of the population grow food for an urbanized country that has never shot a rabbit, baited a hook, or existed other than in the world of McDonald&#039;s, dope, and latchkey afternoons. They seem never to have been in a schoolyard fight, never had to take care of themselves, defend themselves, or to understand that one day they might have to do it.</p><p><br /></p><p>What if one day Mommy, or Mommy Washington, isn&#039;t around to take care of them? Any disruption -- riots, for example, that stopped the flow of food trucks into the cities -- would cause devastation. We have become soft, mentally vacuous, helpless, a civilization on the brink...&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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