11-20-2021, 07:44 PM
(11-20-2021, 03:11 PM)Minstrel Wrote: The amount of attention they draw to 'Rittenhouse crossing state lines to a town where he didn't live' is nauseating.
I served at the Naval installation at North Chicago (Illinois)...and virtually, right across the street from the base was, none other than Kenosha, WI.
He was there to protect his father's business.
And yet they twist ('spin' - thanks @"Ninurta" ) this irrelevant fact in every way imaginable, to wring every teardrop (spelled DOLLAR) possible from this soggy tissue.
Indeed! It's almost as if they hold internal state boundaries inviolate, but external national boundaries as merely "a line on a map"... that seems a bit bass-ackwards to me, but what do I know? I'm just another citizen...
Yes, states have boundaries, but we are (still - so far) allowed to travel among them more or less freely within our own nation, and the state lines merely mark a change of jurisdiction and taxation. International borders, on the other hand, used to be a Pretty Big Deal, where crossing them unauthorized once was what was called "an invasion", whereas now it's just called "seeking a better life", but a better life that has to be taken from someone else already legally there... just as invasion forces once did.
My, how the times do change, but the more some things change, the more they stay the same under the surface. They just get a shiny new coat of paint.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’