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suralos
05-01-2008, 07:33 PM
News At Dawn

Good morning! Today is August 18, 2011.

Here's Your News At Dawn national news at dawn:

-- Record heat on both the east and west coasts continues into its sixth week as the death toll in the heartland mounts to 111 from continued record floods.
-- Inflation has dropped 15% since last month to 55% while black market prices have dropped 25% over the same period.
-- The price of gas is up to $11.95 a gallon and rising, where you can find it.
-- Yesterday, the government reported that "the economy has almost no measurable pulse." "What the fuck does that mean?" noted Harvard economist Hanford Hart is quoted as saying upon hearing the news. Indeed, analysts continue to hotly contest what it means, but there have been no reported casualties.
-- For reasons of personal safety and national security, President Obama has not yet returned to the US since he traveled to Africa on July 4th to celebrate America's independence. His whereabouts remains unknown.
-- Riots continue in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and Miami.
-- Martial law in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit and San Francisco continues at June levels. A government spokesperson said today that the success of community curfews and the "shoot-to-kill" authority given national guard and local law enforcement in July has had "a measurable calming effect" in all areas of discontent, and could be implemented nationally if not for the fact that the military has split into three hostile ethnic and racial factions.
-- US soldiers continue to desert and join organized gangs in urban areas since guns were banned nationally two years ago. The level of uncontained violence in some metropolitan areas is unprecedented in 150 years since the Civil War.

Your News At Dawn International update:

-- Wars continue throughout south Asia, most of Africa and South America.
-- The US yesterday completed withdrawl from Iraq as promised by the President in 2009 in order to shore up badly needed federal defenses within the US.
-- Congress has tabled debate over provisions for a new military draft, a government spokesman confirmed today, because there is no shortage of volunteers for service. The more pressing problem, according to several sources, is that no one is in charge of the military.
-- The tide of refugees from Africa and elsewhere arriving in America is growing, according to statistics released today, and many of those new to our shores are reportedly taking up arms and joining the several breakaway rebel factions hostile to the US, supposedly their new home.
-- In many formerly upscale suburban areas, guerilla warfare by unidentified roving paramilitary gangs has caused residents to flee.
-- Canada announced yesterday that it has opened its borders to refugees from the US who can prove American citizenship.

News At Dawn locally:

Closer to home, an armed truth squad is scheduled to arrive in Elmhurst Hills today to recruit for resettlement and indoctrination into the President's "National Unity for Change" volunteer service to America's inner city hoods and various Green Up America programs, which have grown significantly over the past two years, though data remains unavailable for full descriptive purposes. If you are one of those who have not yet served, be advised that you are a "person of high interest" to NUC, according to the President's communique.

News At Dawn is instructed to report that phone, cable and cellular services and postal mail remain spotty or nonexistent in most areas. Furthermore, Elmhurst Hills residents are to continue their moratorium on use of electricity and gas in the interest of preserving air quality here, in Africa and at the North Pole.

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Have a G-R-R-EAT dawn, Elmhurst Hills!

potter
05-01-2008, 07:48 PM
Fearmongering....it's all some people have.

PatrickHenry
05-01-2008, 09:54 PM
I wouldn't discount this, potter...

He just may have channelled it from the future...

David
05-02-2008, 03:44 AM
I wouldn't discount this, potter...

He just may have channelled it from the future...

Replace Obama with Hillary and I agree. Or remove the president outright, I see anarchy on the horizon and not of the libertarian/communist type ether.

ViolaLee
05-02-2008, 05:51 AM
Apparently he hasn't caught on to President Obama's message of hope.

Poor thing, he's all about despair.

Troubadour
05-02-2008, 09:22 PM
The problem with prophecy is that it can't account for emergent properties, the continuous elaboration of which is the basis of all observed phenomena. Even the most insightful science fiction authors (e.g., the late Sir Arthur C. Clarke) are only right in vague terms, over the near future, and get most of the details wildly wrong. Things we assume are static, or have never even considered, are in constant motion and influence everything else. World-changing technologies and social movements can appear seemingly out of nowhere, from simple conditions that no one thought much about before they became significant. And contrary to the current taste for dystopian scenarios, this fact works both ways, always. The 2011 timeframe is only two and a half years away, but wild cards can show up at any time. Still, radical change over any given 2-year period is unlikely.

suralos
05-02-2008, 09:38 PM
When was the last time a government brought about utopia, and when was the last time a government delivered hell on earth?

potter
05-02-2008, 09:41 PM
When was the last time a government brought about utopia, and when was the last time a government delivered hell on earth?


a - never

B - Iraq

Buck Laser
05-02-2008, 10:56 PM
When was the last time a government brought about utopia, and when was the last time a government delivered hell on earth?
Umm, lessee...I think it was about the time that one of the utopian communities actually succeeded. It's a part of being human for people to turn everything they touch to shit. Governing bodies are generally a bit more restrained from creating shitstorms than crowds of selfish individuals.

Troubadour
05-03-2008, 01:46 AM
When was the last time a government brought about utopia, and when was the last time a government delivered hell on earth?

Suralos...this was utopia. We defeated deeper and darker hells every time we fought in earnest, throwing off a petulant king, crushing vile slavemasters, wiping away the last European vestiges of the two-millennia ancien regime (Kaiser is Germanized "Caesar"), annihilating the most evil (and thankfully short-lived) civilization in the history of the world, and then standing bravely in the face of a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma...concealing the most absolute nightmare ever to exist outside the pages of 1984. We did all this because we chose to - we chose to be free, so we were free. And we can choose again.

PatrickHenry
05-06-2008, 05:57 PM
we chose to be free, so we were free. And we can choose again.Ya gotta admire optimism.

Mayberry
05-09-2008, 03:56 AM
Ya gotta admire optimism.
In a way, it is optimism. The feces is going to hit the fan soon, in one way or another. The OP's vision might not be too far off the way things are going. Either way, one is wise to prepare for the worst, and hope for the best. But as a wise man once said, you can crap in one hand and hope in the other and see which fills up first. But anyway, if things do crash down, a new society will emerge from the ashes and it will most likely be much better than what we have now. In essence, we can choose freedom again, and we would be infinitely more free than we are today where freedom is lost. Today we are slaves to our jobs, slaves to consumerism, slaves to the Ponzi scheme that is our economy, and slaves to the ever increasing power and intrusiveness of our government which has been perverted beyond recognition of it's original inception.

David
05-11-2008, 12:59 PM
Freedom? Freedom is dead. 'Freedom' is now the difference between total authoritarianism and semi-despotism.

Osborn F. Enready
05-11-2008, 09:38 PM
David said:
Freedom? Freedom is dead. 'Freedom' is now the difference between total authoritarianism and semi-despotism.

That is the choice presented by Republicans and Democrats this election, and for the past few, surely.

Thats why many refuse to vote for either..... They mutually use partisanship as a tool to disenfranchise the people, while simultaneously extinguishing any counter to their rule through gerrymandering, ballot access and debate restrictions, etc. etc. etc.

A vote for either is a vote against individual rights and Constitutional Law.

The change they are all bringing is detrimental, not positive.

Troubadour
05-12-2008, 07:59 AM
How can freedom be dead if I am free? Or am I a "slave" because there is anything at all I can't change, and anyone at all who might get away with abusing my rights? Freedom is a choice, people - make it and sleep well.

Osborn F. Enready
05-12-2008, 03:45 PM
Troubador said:
How can freedom be dead if I am free?

Freedom ain't dead, but I would lay dollars to doughnuts I am freer than you, and I ain't free.

Troubador said:
Or am I a "slave" because there is anything at all I can't change, and anyone at all who might get away with abusing my rights? Freedom is a choice, people - make it and sleep well.

Free is free, not free is not free.

You are most likely a grey area of not free.

Troubadour
05-13-2008, 07:33 AM
Freedom ain't dead, but I would lay dollars to doughnuts I am freer than you, and I ain't free.

What the hell does "freer" mean? Is that like "more pregnant"?


Free is free, not free is not free.

Hence my puzzlement at "freer."


You are most likely a grey area of not free.

It's ironic that you define freedom - an aspect of human nature - by the state of government. Freedom is who you are, not something other people can give or take. The American Way is about using freedom for maximum mutual benefit, whereas in less liberal cultures it's largely preoccupied with survival.