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We've got to BE

As "Americans", particularly right now, at this moment in hisotry, we need to get our heads around the FACT that it's not enough to just SAY we're great - we actually have to BE great.  Sitting on our increasingly fat asses, espousing ideals that we don't really understand ain't workin'.  And for (fill in your higher-power-of-choice here)'s sake, we MUST start THINKING FOR OURSELVES. 

Video may have killed the Radio Star (am I dating myself?) but for sure, it killed critical thinking.  Where are the Smother's Brothers when you need them?

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