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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo why is the world on fire right now?
Jesus Christ.
Terrorism
Orlando
France,
Police
Falcon Heights
Baton Rouge
Dallas
Political
Turkey
Brexit
What else is next? What piece of the puzzle will fall next?
Lance Bass esquire
(671 posts)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.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)which will somehow not be surprising, given the occasion.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)We would be nuking the ME right now.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Sometimes masked by fake religion
Tal Vez
(660 posts)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!
VOX
(22,976 posts)Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)Lance Bass esquire
(671 posts)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)I guess I'm the right age, but I've always liked that song and I know I'm in the minority.
Lance Bass esquire
(671 posts)but your welcome.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)doc03
(35,345 posts)Igel
(35,317 posts)Well, there's Nice.
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)For 2000 years
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Humanity is thriving, actually, based on total population.
MFM008
(19,814 posts)We will shit in our own nests.
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Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)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)madinmaryland
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