Comments on: This, that, some other… http://www.jennmanleylee.com/journal/2004/02/24/this-that-some-other Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:38:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jemale http://www.jennmanleylee.com/journal/2004/02/24/this-that-some-other/comment-page-1#comment-413 jemale Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:08:17 +0000 http://www.jennmanleylee.com/wordpress/2004/02/24/this-that-some-other#comment-413 The Founding Fathers also called the Constitution a temporary meassure, an emergency government, until some future and wiser administration came along and provided a better solution. And why they made room for amendments. I think they'd be appalled that theirs is still the best of all alternatives for this country. And, yeah, their views on women and civil rights were, ah, less than enlightened. And as much as I admire a lot of B. Franklin's work and contributions, I can't forget that he popularized the phrase "All cats are gray in the dark"; that older women can still be enjoyed in a carnal way once you ignore the face. The Founding Fathers also called the Constitution a temporary meassure, an emergency government, until some future and wiser administration came along and provided a better solution. And why they made room for amendments.

I think they’d be appalled that theirs is still the best of all alternatives for this country.

And, yeah, their views on women and civil rights were, ah, less than enlightened.

And as much as I admire a lot of B. Franklin’s work and contributions, I can’t forget that he popularized the phrase “All cats are gray in the dark”; that older women can still be enjoyed in a carnal way once you ignore the face.

]]> By: Kevin Moore http://www.jennmanleylee.com/journal/2004/02/24/this-that-some-other/comment-page-1#comment-412 Kevin Moore Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:56:27 +0000 http://www.jennmanleylee.com/wordpress/2004/02/24/this-that-some-other#comment-412 While I appreciate the contribution the FF have made to formulating the basics of our democracy, it is frustrating to deal with people who seem to think that they worked it all out, end of discussion. If that were so, we wouldn't have needed struggles for the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights, labor rights, consumer protections, public financing of elections, environmental justice or even public schools and libraries. All that stuff "the left" has been so "extreme" about. Ben Franklin's cool. He brought Tom Paine to the colonies. That alone earns him a gold star. While I appreciate the contribution the FF have made to formulating the basics of our democracy, it is frustrating to deal with people who seem to think that they worked it all out, end of discussion. If that were so, we wouldn’t have needed struggles for the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, civil rights, labor rights, consumer protections, public financing of elections, environmental justice or even public schools and libraries. All that stuff “the left” has been so “extreme” about.

Ben Franklin’s cool. He brought Tom Paine to the colonies. That alone earns him a gold star.

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