Comments on: Gas-related self-rightenousness http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/03/20/gas-related-self-rightenousness/ The official ramblings of David Colborne - part of the problem since 1980! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:53:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: John C. Cardoza http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/03/20/gas-related-self-rightenousness/#comment-99 John C. Cardoza Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:34:00 +0000 http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/03/20/gas-related-self-rightenousness/#comment-99 <i>Our ancestors, when but three millions in number, had the courage to declare their political independence of every other nation; shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to seventy millions, declare that we are less independent than our forefathers? No, my friends, that will never be the verdict of our people. Therefore, we care not upon what lines the battle is fought. If they say </i><b>environmentalism</b><i> is good, but that we cannot have it until other nations help us, we reply that, instead of having </i><b>oil</b><i> because England has, we will restore </i><b>environmentalism</b><i>, and then let England have </i><b>environmentalism</b><i> because the United States has it. If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the </i><b>oil</b><i> as a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for </i><b>oil</b><i> by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of </i><b>black</b><i> gold.</i><br/><br/>Since this is most certainly public domain by this point, I'm sure William Jennings Bryan has no choice but to accept my little <i>parody</i>.<br/><br/>By the way, the sentiment is sarcastic. Our ancestors, when but three millions in number, had the courage to declare their political independence of every other nation; shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to seventy millions, declare that we are less independent than our forefathers? No, my friends, that will never be the verdict of our people. Therefore, we care not upon what lines the battle is fought. If they say environmentalism is good, but that we cannot have it until other nations help us, we reply that, instead of having oil because England has, we will restore environmentalism, and then let England have environmentalism because the United States has it. If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the oil as a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for oil by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of black gold.

Since this is most certainly public domain by this point, I’m sure William Jennings Bryan has no choice but to accept my little parody.

By the way, the sentiment is sarcastic.

]]> By: Army of Dog http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/03/20/gas-related-self-rightenousness/#comment-98 Army of Dog Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:04:00 +0000 http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/03/20/gas-related-self-rightenousness/#comment-98 Seems like the American left has been shopping around for a mechanism to implement what they couldn't sell on it's own for at least a couple of decades. From all appearances, they found it in environmentalism. Now they have a nice, neat package to wrap their socialist policies in, and with any luck the general public will swallow the thing whole and thank them for the privilege. Seems like the American left has been shopping around for a mechanism to implement what they couldn’t sell on it’s own for at least a couple of decades. From all appearances, they found it in environmentalism. Now they have a nice, neat package to wrap their socialist policies in, and with any luck the general public will swallow the thing whole and thank them for the privilege.

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