george carlin is very patriotic. that's why he's so mad. you know what i mean? bill hicks, when he was alive, had a lot to say because he cares about what the government does in his name. now, the government makes decisions on your and my behalf constantly. they do not let us in on 90% of it, and then they will ask you to sacrifice your children and grandchildren to pick up the pieces and clean up the mess, which is what they're doing right now. i'm sure there was a lot of intelligence that was ignored or warned-- or forewarnings to the distaste that 90% of the globe has for american foreign policy. and if there wasn't so many people that were afraid to speak in the mainstream media or weren't so neutralized or weren't just lackeys of, you know, spin, maybe we would be more informed. you know, the average american is not-- is not well-educated, as a rule, if they're in the public school system, and certainly not well-educated as pertains to their news. so how can you expect them to listen to a stand-up comic who they see as being a nasty naysayer, unpatriotic person, you k