Somewhere along the line we have to come up with a decent definition of *#%&* Repos though. (As distinct from Repubs - a 'part' of the One Party with Two Right Wings\ufffd which currently have mock elections in which one-part sorta 'wins' over its near carbon copy other-part.)

Repubs appear to imagine that 'Govmint' is an abomination which should be sold off SAP to their fellow 5% buddies: so as to garner that vaunted "bizness efficiency" we all hear so much about. These are all umm so-called 'conservatives' natch (I mean - ever hear of a moderate Repub? and clearly a Liberal Repub is an oxymoron). So they want to see schools, prisons, medicine - run by Corporate er 'ethics' and for heap Big profits first - actual performance of the tasks, well.. that might come later. (I guess if you have most of the chips, you'd kinda Want to 'conserve' that position - no?)

But Repos: I've assumed are folk what think&act as Repubs often do, but they can call selves most anything (even Demos or Liber-agrarians, Posses Comatose? if'n it seems the expedient color to adopt). Most anyone who talks in euphemisms, acts sanctimonious and - all that stuff (?)

I'd suppose that in above scenario -- them what has the Learjets to play Great White Hunter with -- qualify as Repos alright: their priorities are pretty clear, and they could give a shit about even what the word subsistence might mean

(Kinda like - was it McNealy? in Silly Valley - and his big suit about bein discriminated against: they didn't want his Gulfstream a landin' in their nice bucolic local arport after 10pm at night.. noise and all. Well we've all suffered this dilemma and know just how inconvenient that is..)

Anyways - sure sounds as if yer AK Repos are reeel Self-conserving, so much so - they haven't upgraded their motto. It's still the same old:

The law in its majesty forbids both the rich and the poor to sleep under bridges.. Isn't that pretty close to, lettin them insecure males go off and kill somethin before dinner.. equally with - those who kinda need to get a dinner of some kind?

Hell, Bill - just send several o' those local papers your screed above: short, clear - al punte. Always and everywhere, to be a Man one must afflict the comfortable. No?


Ashton

PS - save me a tail wheel, if'n ya accidentally toss a net a bit high - and happen to snag one o'them Gulfstreams a divin in for the Kill..
OK? (I'll put it on the mantle, next to the jar I'm keepin ready for Billy's ball.. if he still has one left).

Those last 2 'questions' are brief enough to make the cut (letters or Op-Ed) AND pithy enough to create some attention: what most pubs Dream of.

Y'know?

And of course the same great-White-er, spirit.. suffuses the lower-48 as we all know. Doesn't matter which 'indians' are being ignored: they Will be subordinated to the noisier and richer groups ~ as you suggest. 'Least it's been that way all my life. (Only a few brilliant exceptions do occur - and are latched onto as rebuttal by the Repos of every stripe - yada yada. M$ didn't invent spin; it's merely the only thing they do well.)


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