haunting prescience ...

[welshTerrier2]

a little ahead of his time?

We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end ... But I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.

click and drag between the arrows to see the quote's author ==> Abraham Lincoln in 1864 <==

Note: please don't post the author's name in the subject line of your response ... thanks ...

source: The Assault on Reason by Al Gore (page 88)

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. Indeed.

MKJ

[Jillian]

2. How did you do that???

I never expected that answer :)

[welshTerrier2]

4. simple HTML

before the "invisible" words, just use a font tag as follows: <font color=white> and then after the words, close the tag with </font>

on DU, substitute square brackets for the angle brackets ... it works because the "color" being assigned is the same as the background color, in this case, white. the letters are there but you can't see them because they blend into the background. when you click and drag, the highlighting the browser performs by default makes them visible.

[merh]

9. actually, one of our own created a really neat web page

that helps with using the forum codes http://www.iterapi.com/dccode.html

It's explained in this thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=744003

[bonito]

3. Its been a problem for some time

But for those who have kept it at bay it must be.

[Double T]

5. History ALWAYS repeats itself. Humans NEVER learn from their........

same repetitive mistakes.

[welshTerrier2]

6. passing knowledge between the generations

before we had printed materials and radio and TV and internet, "stories" were handed down by the elders from one generation to the next. now? not so much ... the system wasn't perfect but the experience of one generation became the best available wisdom for the next ...

after Vietnam, it seemed unimaginable to me that any president could dupe the country into another totally corrupt war. but I see that, somehow, the lessons learned in the past seem to have been forgotten. perhaps this is a failure of my generation to teach the next because we depended too much on commercial sources of news rather than on ourselves.

whatever the reason, we'll be paying for our failures for generations.

[Double T]

8. The actual facts of history are often spun into fabrications of history.........

which have nothing to do with the actual events. America has a really bad habit of doing just that in an attempt to make the failed, the incompetent and the terrible something different.

[Maq]

7. Them corporations still win

The military arsenal has been so depleted that it will take many many billions, maybe TRILIONS to get the US Armed Forces back into first rate READINESS.

Further, since we have populated the military with a fresh crop of stupider people, we will need more complex and costly replacement machines and armaments. Smart Bombs that have more intelligence than the human operator. Drones and robot vehicles which fly or race into action controlled by some nerd/geek or teenager videophile thousands of miles away. Playstation Wars are coming to your neighborhood. They already are in Nevada at Creech Air Force Base.



Meet the new GRIM REAPER

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. Imagine how smart they must be to hone in on and crash a

wedding party or two. Must be some thirsty little buggers.