Apple ripping people off with the black MacBook 1712

"They sure didn't make art. When you generation dies out, no one will even remember that Led Zeppelin ever existed. "

Uh, George, just because you aren't into pop music, don't claim that it is not memorable. Led Zeppelin is probably still as popular today with teenagers as it ever was. Whereas most of the lame pop music that was made in the 80s and 90s is mostly forgotten, 70s rock still sells many albums, T-shirts, and concert tickets. The Allman Brothers from the 70s can sell more tickets than the Counting Crowes or the Spin Doctors, who were really big in the mid 90s.

"The liberal agenda is to run us all through the meat grinder so that we all come out the same"

You are actually claiming that individualism is a conservative thing? Wherever you see blandness and conformity there is usually a megacorporation. That megacorporation swallowed up many smaller companies that actually made exciting products. Business and mergers, always cheered on by free marketers, are the main factors in turning everything you see into focus group drivel.

"give up your freedom of speech (for the common good), "

Once again, you just are not reality based. You don't acknowledge where conservatism leads. It is virtually always left wing people who defend freedom of speech on unpopular topics. It is virtually always the far right people who want to ban flag burning and limit all speech to blandly "loving America". Which side is it that is bothered by the NSA spying?

I see this in a lot of your posts. You have these hypothetical ideas about the results that conservatism is supposed to deliver, when in fact it is simply George Bush.