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So why is the world on fire right now? (Original Post) runaway hero Jul 2016 OP
Unfortunately Next is Cleveland. Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #1
Expect the unexpected Zambero Jul 2016 #5
President Trump? lapfog_1 Jul 2016 #2
Assholes driven by oppression and hateful rhetoric Roland99 Jul 2016 #3
Well, a lot of these terrorists feel that they have no futures. I feel very, very lucky to have Tal Vez Jul 2016 #4
Well put! n/t VOX Jul 2016 #13
The world has always been on fire... Joe the Revelator Jul 2016 #6
Good Call Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #7
Props for typing all the lyrics. Boomerproud Jul 2016 #17
It was a copy/paste Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #21
damn beat me to it craigmatic Jul 2016 #20
Well we haven't had a mass murder here in a day or two n/t doc03 Jul 2016 #8
Yeah, I guess there's that. Igel Jul 2016 #10
The world has been on fire TeddyR Jul 2016 #9
Planet Earth is now Live 24/7, thanks to global media. bluedigger Jul 2016 #11
As long as man exists MFM008 Jul 2016 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author Squinch Jul 2016 #14
Its not, we just have connections to the rest of the world that makes these events more noticeable Doctor Jack Jul 2016 #15
And while you were watching those events, Africa was still starving and dying of treatable diseases. tonyt53 Jul 2016 #16
MY ASS IS ON FIRE! madinmaryland Jul 2016 #18
It's always been burning since the world' been turning. Harry Truman, Doris Day... craigmatic Jul 2016 #19
 

Lance Bass esquire

(671 posts)
1. Unfortunately Next is Cleveland.
Fri Jul 15, 2016, 08:42 PM
Jul 2016

You will see armies of protesters clubbed like baby seals on the Eskimo 4th of July.

When you nominate a racist POS like Trump Monkey that's what happens.

Tal Vez

(660 posts)
4. Well, a lot of these terrorists feel that they have no futures. I feel very, very lucky to have
Fri Jul 15, 2016, 08:46 PM
Jul 2016

been born in the USA, to have received a good education and to have had a fairly successful career. A lot of people in the world have no education, no job and no resources. A whole generation of Syrian kids are not even going to school right now.

If you asked a lot of these people why things are going so badly for them, they will tell you that the world is rigged against them. Yes, indeed, when they lose, they have the same explanation that Trump has when he loses - the system is rigged.

Trump speaks for the terrorists - the system is rigged!

 

Lance Bass esquire

(671 posts)
7. Good Call
Fri Jul 15, 2016, 08:57 PM
Jul 2016

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye


We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it


Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez




Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo




Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?




Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore


We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

Boomerproud

(7,955 posts)
17. Props for typing all the lyrics.
Fri Jul 15, 2016, 11:23 PM
Jul 2016

I guess I'm the right age, but I've always liked that song and I know I'm in the minority.

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)
11. Planet Earth is now Live 24/7, thanks to global media.
Fri Jul 15, 2016, 09:10 PM
Jul 2016

Humanity is thriving, actually, based on total population.

Response to runaway hero (Original post)

Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
15. Its not, we just have connections to the rest of the world that makes these events more noticeable
Fri Jul 15, 2016, 09:51 PM
Jul 2016

If you really think the world was just dandy 10, 20, 30, or 40 years ago and now everything has gone to shit, I'm sure there are people that were living in Africa, the Middle East, South America, Eastern Europe, and South East Asia that would like to talk to you about that.

 

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
16. And while you were watching those events, Africa was still starving and dying of treatable diseases.
Fri Jul 15, 2016, 10:17 PM
Jul 2016

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
18. MY ASS IS ON FIRE!
Fri Jul 15, 2016, 11:38 PM
Jul 2016

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