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americans approve of aliens?

Posted by earthling at 15:45, 24 Jul 2010

No, it doesn't say that in the Washington Post.

But a larger percentage of Americans believe in aliens and ghosts than approve of Congress. I'm not sure if the poll added the numbers of aliens and ghosts, or if people believe in both. Personally, I think aliens exist but haven't visited, and ghosts are an invention of scared minds. But that's just me.

However more Americans think that BP is doing a good job handling the oil spill currently in the news, than approve of Congress.

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Congress v. BP
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Posted by Delaiah on 24 Jul 2010 at about 20:47.

To be fair, Congress has blown a far bigger hole in the U.S. Treasury and done absolutely nothing to plug it... for years.

I wonder, if we quit believing in politicians, would they be relegated to fuzzy photos, crazy stories, and National Enquirer covers?

Mr. Misdeeds Goes to Washington?
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Posted by Redoubt on 24 Jul 2010 at about 22:23.

"... a larger percentage of Americans believe in aliens and ghosts than approve of Congress."

Good information and more important than it might seem applying this comparison.

Americans... we are a fairly heady bunch who so often seem to think we have a firm grip on things... Americans still can't control their government because once elected, officials become the tool of special interests. And as fate would have it... or us, it is those very same officials enjoying the steady flow of deep pocket change, who would write the laws that would outlaw the same.

It's a sweet setup and one the Founding Fathers could have never seen coming... at least, not in the obscene scale it now takes. And We the People, while regularly denying the existence of UFOs and life after physical death, are also in a bit of denial over other things...

The government by, for and of the people has now long since perished from this Earth.

(Did I just hijack this subject and turn it into an anti-government rant?)

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"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

Of course not
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Posted by Olympus on 27 Jul 2010 at about 16:49.

It's all connected.

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"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•