I do not plan to skewer anyone in regard to their opinions, because this is how we learn and since I am a big boy, I can take it.

Now, I will agree that a main problem we have here is propaganda coming from polarized points of view, and the media is usually slanted one way or the other, and it is definitely controlled by those who have lots of money. I also agree that our political parties stink to high heaven, because they no longer represent the people as they once did. In fact, political parties are useful for dividing the people. It is parties, instead of the people who determine who they will place on ballots. It used to not be that way, but I am afraid those days are now in the past. I do not trust Democrats or Republicans any more, which is why I am an Independent.

With that said, I am happy to have been blessed to have been born in this country, and especially in the Great State of Texas.

Happy New Year!

Cecil

>Watch out Tore, I've been flamed and roasted more than once for saying exactly the same thing. It is unbelievable how every day life in the US has been polarised by the political left and right. Everyone is choosing the media that will tell them what they want to hear, not of picking the media that draws a fairly unbiased state of affairs and leave the thinking and drawing conclusion to the consumer. Nope, the information is predigested already, In other words fabricated.

>I'm sure that in Norway, like down here, you also have media that have a certain political colour, but even those would even give you the feeling it was unbiased. is is absolutely NOTHING compared to whats happening over there.

>When I'm at the Toronto office with my colleages, CNN or FOX is always in the back ground. I always have to laugh once or twice a day for what crap its feeding you. My canadian colleages always look with an odd face when I do that :)