How Sad It Is—More Thoughts on the Way We Are Now
The White House has proudly claimed that the Emperor is observing the Muslim ritual of iftar during holy Ramadan season.
Don't ask me how the South Carolina Republicans will go in their Presidential primary. As far as I know the auction is not over yet.
That much-acclaimed American achievement, the Civil Rights Revolution of the 1960s, would not have got far if it had not been widely believed when it started that it would affect only the South.
Here it is already well into October and I have not done a thing for Hispanic Heritage Month.
By the way, when are we having Islamic Heritage Month?
Here in old Carolina, a dozen people have been arrested for fraudulent marriages to bring in Bulgarian immigrants illegally. It seems the whole thing was orchestrated by a Bulgarian-American couple in Atlanta.
Shame on me, I must have missed Bulgarian-American Heritage month this year.
Even if someone were to prove conclusively that 9/11 was a Bush false flag operation, there would still be millions of people who would think "our President" could do no wrong.
Looking at the U.S. government, maybe there is something to be said for "balkanization" after all.
If multinationals and other large corporations actually decreased the power of governments—if they dispersed some government power into private hands—there might be something good about them. But they don't. They just collaborate with government to add another layer of irresponsible power over the citizens.
Many commentators are worried that Bush's arrogant incompetence has destroyed the future election chances of the Republican Party. But that is a good thing—the most positive contribution the Boy Decider could make to America would be to put a stake through the heart of the GOP.
Those we know as Liberals do not really believe in majority rule and never have. They don't really object to the power of corporations either, though Liberals and corporations sometimes disagree on the agenda.
My money is on Obama for the next President. The mainstream politicians and media will never dare to criticize him severely and millions will vote for him out of guilt.
It is the settled policy of the U.S. Congress to announce a problem, real or imagined, and spend a lot of money paying a lot of useless people not to solve the problem.
Of course, this is not so much because of fraud and incompetence, rampant as they are, but because the purpose of federal spending is not to solve problems but to spread patronage. Patronage enables politicians to stay in power and gratify their elephantine vanity, greed, and lust.
Contrary to popular belief, the "Great Society" and the "War on Poverty" were not primarily designed to help the poor and unfortunate. The purpose was to provide payola for political operatives and white collar jobs for liberal pseudo-intellectuals who think themselves too good for real work.
The U.S. government loses millions of dollars every day to fraud and waste. This has been going on at a high rate for close to half a century and no political "leader" has tried to do anything about. The last time anyone even promised to try to do something about it was Reagan in 1980. But I notice Rudy's ad men have calculated that it still makes a good sound bite.
American politicians and "educators" have been for years declaring their goal to be equality and excellence in education—without noticing the contradiction. Of course, they have achieved neither since they started talking that way. And the people who talk that way have done everything conceivable to prevent any child from getting a real education.
It would appear from news reports that your government has been giving "Homeland Security" grants to "American" mosques to improve their security. I feel safer just thinking about it.
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"That much-acclaimed American achievement, the Civil Rights Revolution of the 1960s, would not have got far if it had not been widely believed when it started that it would affect only the South."
Ain't that the truth. Although by the late seventies or certainly by the eighties, no normal, white, man anywhere in the empire had any doubt that "civil rights laws" offered anything but grief for him. Of course the Republican Party always helped pass this nonsense while claiming to counter it. Is there a double deal that these so called conservatives haven't passed on? What has the GOP delivered to a voting constituency against the wishes of the Democratic Party? Name it please!?
"Many commentators are worried that Bush’s arrogant incompetence has destroyed the future election chances of the Republican Party. But that is a good thing—the most positive contribution the Boy Decider could make to America would be to put a stake through the heart of the GOP."
Would that the prophets of doom be right for a change!
My thanks, CW
Vote Ron Paul is all I can say to this, even if you think he's a long shot because in the end if you are part of the millions who elect someone else or you are part of the few who tried to do something different if you truly believe he can't win and Obama or Mitt or whoever can, your vote doesn't mean a damn anyway....
May as well make a statement with it.
RON PAUL ... !!!!!! i'm down with it.
he ain't no Ramadandandy ... or liberal/neocon from n.y.c.
by the way is ron Xian. I only vote xian... Christianity is judaism appropriately adjusted - while the patently judaism ideology is ANATHEMA. I throw down the gauntlet once and for ALL - i ain't anti-semitic or even anti-semiticFacade = also PlatonicFacade which in itself is neutral and can either be utilized for good or ill (Evil)... no, I'm ANTI-judaism... period. i guess i'm like [st.] paul & isy shamir i've had my catharsis. some ideologies [since we ARE conceptual creatures] are SALUTARY to mankind and some are NOT. i'm pisthed. we don't want to get me pisthed, do we?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It is the nature of an empire as it amasses the wealth which it has taken from its productive citizens to attract with that stolen wealth - in our case with the means of the three i's - Income tax, Interest, and Inflation - aliens and barbarians who scurry to the empire's capital and large cities in order to get a portion of the wealth and the good life perceived to go with it. Over time, however, this creates a dialectic contradiction which destroys the empire; however, the tares of the empire have so intertwined themselves with the delicate roots of the almost smothered that when the empire dies the gasping republic dies with it.
Here are two quotes from a discussion board of a "conservative" website, Liberty News Forum.
"The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats. "
"The documentation has been assembled by David Barton of Wallbuilders and published in his book "Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White," which reveals that not only did the Democrats work hand-in-glove with the Ku Klux Klan for generations, they started the KKK and endorsed its mayhem."
Does anybody know who this David Barton is? I have not read the book obviously, but it appears that the book is an attempt to cloak the Republican with the respectability of being the champions of equality and the victims of Southern, Democratic racists. It would seem that some new television program and the book are coming out just in time for the elections!
David Barton is from Texas and went to Oral Roberts University. He presents a particular perspective of the Founding Fathers, basically through the eyes of an evangelical.
#3, m.zurich,
This time you seem to ramble a bit, as if you been drinkin' ... but you are onto something:
"Christianity is judaism appropriately adjusted"
Right. Christianity is the international branch of Judaism. Free admissions vs. closed, for the suckers.
Irving Babbitt
Thank you!
Would someone get m.zurich a bourbon and branch water and set him on the front porch, whilst someone else slips over and gets his copy of the "Protocols of ...Zion" and burns it for his own good.
Well said, CNW. Thank you.
"It is the settled policy of the U.S. Congress to announce a problem, real or imagined, and spend a lot of money paying a lot of useless people not to solve the problem."
That's analogous to requiring institutions to pay more money for those with advanced degrees. That means the institutions will lose money hiring them.
The (false) promise of more money also floods the market with the degrees, which makes them as useful as Weimar bank notes -- each is pretty to look at.
"My money is on Obama for the next President. The mainstream politicians and media will never dare to criticize him severely and millions will vote for him out of guilt."
The fix is in, and the "winner" is . . .
The Hillaroid.
Bush 41 had to get out of the White House after one term because the drug running ring he was heading up out of Reagan's administration was almost exposed. They had to get somebody in there that would put a lid on it as well as keep it going, and the best person to do that was the governor of the state on the other end of the drug tunnel . . . drum roll, please . . . Bubba Clinton, governor of Arkansas, where the town of Mena is located.
After he had his eight years, they had to put another Bush in there, and when he's done (assuming that he doesn't pull another 9/11 and try to suspend the phony elections), they need another Clinton to keep the lid on.
Doesn't anybody wonder why it is that there has been either a Bush or a Clinton in the White House since 1980? In a country of 300 million people? How obvious does it have to get that the entire electoral process in this clown kingdom is a completely rigged sham?
m. zurich
Mein Freund, youh again?!... Unter einem neuen Namen ... m. zurich ... Bist du jetzt ein Schweizer?
Even though mein weekend is für mein resting, this is ein emergency. OK, lay here on ze couch, and tell ze good doctor all.
".. RON PAUL … !!!!!! i’m down with it. ..."
Ich verstehe nicht...
"... he ain’t no Ramadandandy … or liberal/neocon from n.y.c. ..."
Uh?
"... by the way is ron Xian. I only vote xian… ..."
Wer ist das?.
"... Christianity is judaism appropriately adjusted - while the patently judaism ideology is ANATHEMA. I throw down the gauntlet once and for ALL - i ain’t anti-semitic or even anti-semiticFacade = also PlatonicFacade which in itself is neutral and can either be utilized for good or ill (Evil)… no, I’m ANTI-judaism… period. ..."
Christentum ist ein jüdischer Import, korrekt. Aber, du bist incoherent...
"... i guess i’m like [st.] paul & isy shamir i’ve had my catharsis. some ideologies [since we ARE conceptual creatures] are SALUTARY to mankind and some are NOT ..."
Bist du nicht gesund?...
"... i’m pisthed. we don’t want to get me pisthed, do we?!!!!!!!!!!!!! ..."
Du bist ein raving Maniac, ein verrücktes, unheilbar, youh are incurable, Ich vergeude meine Zeit mit dir, und I go back on mein vacation, Auf Wiedersehen...
#12 Big M................Is on to something. I watched Clinton win the Whitehouse through surrender on the part of Bush Sr.......It was so obvious, like a corporate decission instead of an electoral process. In the boxing world an investigation would have been in order claiming the fight was thrown! I once read a greatly convincing story, stating that Oliver North flew into Mena Airport to tell Bill Clinton that "operations" were over, and he was excused until further notice.
As for Government spending, it was all I could do to not regurgitate when I first heard John McCain state that "We have spent like drunken sailors!"...............And I'm to believe that they have sobered up?........The GOP(Gutted OUR Principles)has run it's course, and I now view the party as a racehorse with a broken leg!.....I apposed my grandfather's philosophy of "The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer!"......."But the Dems always get us in a war."......I now realize that the "Pubs" discovered exactly how much richer they could get by making war an industry, and China an employee State.
All the top tier candidates offer bandaids for a NATION that has become diseased, but Ron Paul offers a vaccination in the form of the "Constitution", and nothing else will heal this nation.
"Don’t ask me how the South Carolina Republicans will go in their Presidential primary. As far as I know the auction is not over yet."
I loved this one.
"Here it is already well into October and I have not done a thing for Hispanic Heritage Month."
Dr. Wilson, I live in Miami, in Coconut Grove, which is still somewhat provincial but close in proximity to downtown and to Little Havana--and the funny thing is, neither have I.
Concerning the KKK and the Republican Party, isn't Barton's claim essentially true? The KKK targeted "uppity" blacks, scalawags, and carpetbaggers. Wouldn't "uppity" blacks, scalawags, and carpetbaggers during Reconstruction be Republicans by and large? Wouldn't Klansmen identify themselves as "conservative Southern Democrats"? And wouldn't they be racists, too? Mr. Peters, just because you don't like a reality doesn't mean that reality is any less true. The Klan existed, it was bad, and it was rightly suppressed as a criminal secret society. Would that its suppression had been accompanied by an end to Radical Reconstruction, but it's still better that one error be checked than that none be.
And YES, I am indeed aware that in the Klan's second incarntion, in the 1910s-30s, it was just as much a northern and Republican institution as it was anything else. If Barton denies this, then he's a phony. But his analysis of the origins of the Klan seems safe. (Too, I would add that the Southerners had a right to self-defense against lawlessness in the aftermath of the War between the States. Unfortunately, the Klan proved to be unworthy of the cause.)
Egg on my face: Don't ever read a post too hastily. I just learned that. My apologies, Mr. Peters, for my quite rude reply earlier -- I didn't catch the point that Barton saw the Klan as a *Democratic conspiracy,* with a top-down command structure: Democrats plot, Klansmen effect. That's wrong, to say the least: as though the Catholics in the Democratic Party would be puppet-masters for the virulently anti-Catholic Klan! As though other law-abiding Democrats were in cahoots with the Klan just by the fact they were Democrats! I'd like to see Barton's evidence concerning Democratic politicians turning a blind eye to Klan activities, which no doubt happened. On the other hand, the Klan in Indiana tried to sway the election in favor of the respectably WASP-nativist Republican Party there. So you're right -- the claim is inaccurate and motivated to recast the Republicans as the pro-black party.
Last night, I took the students and the parents of the little school at which I teach to the site of the Battle of Mansfield (Sabine Cross Roads for Yankees).
There reenactors helped us relive, as much as post-moderns can relived such moments, the night after the afternoon of the battle. That night there were 3000 to 4000 dead, dying and severely wounded men writhing and beginning the first phase of decay on the battle field. Scores is not hundreds of civilians were looking by candle light in the dark for the living or the dead - a brother, a husband or a friend.
All of the scenes were played out by candle and campfire light: a firing squad for a spy; the surgeon's tent with legs and arms being amputated; embalming teams working in the night for the more well-to-do; a burial detail putting the remains of a young drummer in a shallow grave; civilians bumping into us in the dark asking us if we had seen their loved ones; and a triage in which the physician was ordering that the dying be put under the dying tree.
There, under the dying tree, and this is the point of my post, was the field chaplain, praying with the dying. One of the dying soldiers told the chaplain to reassure his mother that he had in a revival among the troops bent his kneed to Christ. The chaplain then prayed in the name of Jesus the Christ. There was no Allah on this battlefield, no Budda, no Lama from Tibet, no Shinto ancestor.
As we left this scene and stumbled to the next one, our way lighted by only the candle of the escort soldier, (We were playing civilians being led through the battlefield because the road to Mansfield was closed as ambulances went toward Mansfield and fresh troops came from Mansfield.) my youngest and best student asked, "Was Jesus really on this battlefield?" My answer was that the Prince of Peace can always be found at the darkest hour where death abounds, for He is the Resurrection.
Thus, in nooks and crannies, the Old Faith is not dead at all, for It is the Eternal. In the dialog of reenactors, It spoke anew from 143 years before and found its voice as fresh as it has ever been in a little girl's question and a middle-aged man's answer.
If you are ever in Mansfield, Louisiana, on the Saturday before All Saints' Day, visit the battlefield. The past and Eternity will speak to you with one voice.
hello to my friend dr. ichy again or j. he's still curing himself via projection out at the likes of me. das good. i'm an optimist, mitt misty optics. at least i ain't ichy.
no let's get serious (quote): "If multinationals and other large corporations actually decreased the power of governments—if they dispersed some government power into private hands—there might be something good about them. But they don’t. They just collaborate with government to add another layer of irresponsible power over the citizens." -C.N.W. They can't afford to since it's all about utilizing the trillions in taxes sent to oz (washington d.c.) each year, utilized as outright gifts to themselves, insurance of themselves, leveraging etc. That's what State-Capitalism is (from how the banks function on down), publically financed, leveraged, and insured, though privately owned. Given the system C.N.W., and it's abject Unchangeability at this point - you ought to become George Bernard Shaw or G.B.S. and push for outright socialism, so at least your bus ride (I assume you take the bus I hope) to the university wouldn't cost you anything? OTHERWISE why would 'they' want to disperse more power into private, presumably responsible hands as you suggest - that's just one more bell to have to answer, one more egg to have to fry and serve. AND as the liberals know if we did (which we can't) change this State-Capitalistic SYSTEM back again to laissez faire capitalism and each state legislature again elected their state's 2 Senators to Congress (giving as you suggest more responsible, private interests, more power.) Then sooner or later (probably sooner) der people would scream again locally for the federal level to intercede, and it would all come once again full circle, to where it is now. The seasons go round and round.
The problem is that the amoeba is too large today for its own health. The U.S. is larger than the all of the European Union combined, yet none of the (nation) states in the u.s. are sovereign any longer or clearly identifiable, like a France or an England etc. We're all a big blob now mindlessly sending our trillions in taxes to a few unidentifiable trolls in oz (washington d.c.) hoping against hope that an anacronym [e.g. FEMA...or a cultural abberation e.g. torture] will 'save the day.' It's ludicrous. I think it's the Titanic now and might as well just enjoy the rest of the ride...chill! Why fiddle with the deck chairs...better to sing hymns...and get one's pistol ready for one's head when the ship (of state) is about to go vertical. Or apply for citizenship in Switzerland...it takes about 15 years for anyone so applying to get to the point wherein you'll probably be rejected. That's why it's good.
But here's the good news; the very first single cell organism or amoeba at some point, once too large -automatically for its own health and well being self-divided into two smaller albeit healthier and sustainable organisms. Of course they weren't yet 'conceptual creatures' and so we won't do that 'automatically' in a timely manner...rather no doubt it will be like the Titanic a night'mare to remember... Or better still to forget?! Probably that's what was really happening when the South attempted to secede from the North... see what I mean?! Isn't being 'conceptual' grand!!! C.N.W. you yourself may go full circle back to Lord Byron?! You could do worse. TJF thinks byron was a rake...but he could have been worse.
I have a question - who set the fires in Greece and then in Caleefornia? Sad.
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"... hello to my friend dr. ichy again or j. he’s still curing himself via projection out at the likes of me. das good. i’m an optimist, mitt misty optics. at least i ain’t ichy. ..."
Hallo, mein sehr geehrter Herr m. zurich! Ich bin back from vacation, was gut! Escusen mir mein friend, aber we ze psychiatrists, while we are crooks, we also have wives und mistresses und must make a gut living. Bloß eine andere jüdische betrügerische Erfindung.
Und du bist absolut korrekt: Christentum ist ein ausländischer jüdischer Import.
dr. jay you're too pure. christianity isn't simply or merely a jewish import but a greek & roman one (hybrid) as well. it's why conversely such purist jews who don't adjust and convert prefer their own anachronism. as perhaps you do in your own way prefer yours?
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Re: #9
"Greetings and salutations --hic"
If you are ever in Mansfield, Louisiana, on the Saturday before All Saints’ Day, visit the battlefield.
Visit any such battlefield. This past summer, me and The Bride and some in-laws were in Franklin, Tenn and we visited the Carter House and wept our way through the tour.
http://www.carter-house.org/TheBattle.htm
#21, m. zurich,
"christianity isn’t simply or merely a jewish import but a greek & roman one (hybrid) as well."
One should be careful not to confound the chronology. In the beginning, Christianity was a 100% pure Jewish invention. An "alien Jewish import" into Europe as your "doctor" says? You bet.
Subsequently, it took upward of three centuries to infest the eastern and western portions of the Roman Empire (your Greeks and your Romans, respectively) and move beyond. The infested indigenes added their own twists to it, incorporating their own old superstitions into this new superstition, and adjusted it to suit their own politics and power structures.
As a result, today in the world there are no less than 2600 (!) disparate groups, each one of them claiming to be "the true" Christian church.
Who is David Barton?
A Republican party apparat in Texas, he is infamous for originating a spurious quotation of Patrick Henry:
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."
Called to account for a source, Barton at one point was claiming that the quotation was actually from the patriot's uncle and namesake, the Reverend Patrick Henry, an Anglican parson who died in 1777 in Hanover County, Virginia.
Barton subsequently dropped all pretense that these were words flowing from an eighteenenth-century source.
#24 TO a. lugano
the chronology you report is accurate. human beings are weak, not strong. in terms of our imaginations which chronologically speaking gave birth to rational thought (only [relatively] recently) we are biologically strengthened by myth which since the jews-in-the-west includes belief as well in a 'transcendant' god. the notion of the transcendant is a sort of nagging intuition all people generally share one way or another.
the logos or word made flesh in xianity is greek (plato's.) as well as semitic, in terms of their own version (Law) of workable Facade for the better, if possible. Both suggest that the transcendant albeit unknowable per se can be perceived in the world via the appropriate or 'revealed' ideal.
this tends to legitimize the divine as something also more than the totality of our world, making it both like us though Other.
that sort of belief {a sort of super candy store of the mind, in terms of endorphin release, the brain's and body's natural dopamine or painkillers} tends to on the one hand strengthen the believers' backbones especially in times of struggle politically and/or in war, while paradoxically on the other hand making them less disciplined even sometimes less principled than the classic or classical and thus atavistic.
Thus it (belief in the transcendant) really does in the present embrace the extremes or the so-called alpha and omega of human inclination and sensiblility as well subsequently as behaviour.
Here's the rub...it itself Can't be (nor should-?-it be) 'eliminated' without eliminating or replacing human biology [in human beings themselves] which is silly.
Plus it ignores the spiritual possibility that since mother Nature herself provided for the paradoxical reality of a conceptual biological creature capable (however imperfectly) of viewing Her and themselves, there may also be something transcendant involved with herself as well? Mama - if i'd only known... yes son but then there wouldn't be any need for faith, right?!
It's the question that all spirituality in so far as anyone is interested places before us on the table to both consider conceptually, and to experientially as well stand within, with CAUTION...so as not to be whisked away by one belief system in this regard or another.
That's why the Church - the Roman Catholic Church - or the Greek Orthodox Church, and why their expertise in these matters. Savez?
i fear... a. lugano may merely be a demi-god in his or her own mind? instead the Church suggests lets all do a hierarchy of submission under God or at least 'as if' under God. -?- why at least 'as if' - because in being human we ALREADY know there is also an 'as if' dimension BIOLOGICALLY speaking. then spiritually speaking if you wish to take it farther that's the realm of faith ... and the expertise of our mother Church.
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Dr. Wilson,
I suppose the following vignette as reported on the evening news last night fits with the theme of this thread - The Way We are Now.
The anchorman, I believe it was NBC, stated that Vice-President Dick Cheney was in hot water. I thought, "Well, they are actually going to report that a memo in his hand writing laying out the WMD fraud in Iraq had been discovered." But no, it seems that Mr. Cheney had gone hunting again. I then anticipated that he had shot some lackey or that he had killed at spotted owl, having mistaken it for a dove. But no, yet again. It seems that somewhere in the lodge which hosted the hunt there hung a Confederate flag. Which Confederate flag it might have been the anchorman did not say. The anchorman did, however, reassure the televsion public that the Vice-President did not see the flag, as if the flag were a great seductive whore inticing great men to fall but the VP's innocent eyes were spared even a glimpse at this vestige of Southern Babylon which had infiltrated this otherwise innocent place.
One has to wonder whether or not the Cross of St. Andrew is to Vice-President Cheney what a Latin Cross is to Count Dracula. His security probably has specially trained dogs to sniff out any Confederate totems which might come in his post. When he, along with his Praetorian Guard, motors into the Old Dominion, are the good folk obliged to cover the motto "Sic semper tyrannis"? As an aside, do they yet sing "O Maryland, My Maryland" in the post-modern people's republic thereof? Whoever might dare to contemplate it might consider merely humming it when Cheney is passing through.
rmp again with the non-essential... - i don't read him do you? his poor head.
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sorry that's the 'vibe' i get. correct me violently if i'm wrong. i can take it. send a. lugano - he'd probably enjoy it. me to lugano - hi lugie... you mean it's finally over ... thanks. wow, you look like jack nicholson. cool.
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m. zurich,
Ah, here in a side alley ... gotcha. All you need right now is a professional de-programmer, merely to finish the job. Your case is easy, you display fault lines in your residual superstition ready to burst any time. Don't be alarmed, it's natural, even "mother" Theresa admitted her dis-belief, and you ain't no "mother" Theresa... Or perhaps you are
... ... Greetings to your valiant Katzenjammer doc.
"Of course, this is not so much because of fraud and incompetence, rampant as they are, but because the purpose of federal spending is not to solve problems but to spread patronage. Patronage enables politicians to stay in power and gratify their elephantine vanity, greed, and lust."
Can I have some patronage please? I need a job. I work really hard and I am reliable.
I would tell you my qualifications, but I know they don't matter, and they might put someone off.
Obama is just a poster boy of The Establishment and the most likely running mate of Hillary (if he were not the poster baby, he would still be an unknown assistent to an unknown politician.)
Only three candidates oppose The Establishment: Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, and Ron Paul.
Gravel is entertaining but ineffective.
Kucinich is a thorn in the Democrat's side, especially by bringing impeachments proceedings against Bush.
Ron Paul is the dark horse that can win the race.
(If the "'He can't win, I've never heard of him'" is not a self-fulfilling prophesy. Fortunately, more and more people are hearing of him.)
This disgraceful action is the result of years of multiculturalism training. Multiculturalism says it values diversity but it does not even know what that means.
Culturism takes diversity seriously. Some cultures celebrate beating women, drinking a lot and female genital mutilation. If you think that is shocking, the GOP should know that some cultures advocating blowing up Americans for GOD!!!
If diversity is real we must judge some uncompatible with our unique civilization. You should not celebrate cultures that seek to impose theocracy by any means necessary. Not all cultures are the same. And if diversity is real, culturism is necessary.
learn more at http://www.culturism.us
Ron Paul is the one and only hope for America. The only conservative, pro-life republican that has a chance.
All else is doom and gloom.
Dr. Wilson's remark that the best thing Bush could do for America would be to put a dagger into the heart of the GOP was a hard saying....and absolutely correct. I have voted GOP most of my life beginning with Nixon in 1972. The exceptions have been either (1) not voting at all in "minor" elections; (2) voting for Tom Anderson in 1976; and (3) voting for the conservative Democratic Ohio auditor of state a few years back. I think there was a time when the GOP could have become the conservative/traditionalist party in America, but they just couldn't throw off their heritage of being the party of big government/big business for long. In spite of usually voting Republican, I have often pondered the irony that most of the political leaders I have admired (such as they are) were conservative Democrats, mostly (but not exclusively) of the Southern stripe (as a high school senior in 1968 I rooted for George Wallace). The Dems have long since lost their way of being the party of conservatism and states rights, even as the GOP has recovered itself as the party of Wall Street and carpetbaggery. I don't look for the Dems to recover any time soon if ever. As a Catholic I long for a political party (or even one candidate) to support restoration of traditional ideas of politics and economics (i.e., strong support of families---economically, not the silly "family values" tripe that most politicos reluctantly pull out at election time for the hoi poloi), pro-Christian moral principles in private and public life, sane foreign policy that doesn't involve constantly trying to resurrect WWII and find a new Hitler that we can go to war with, and the basic Catholic doctrine of subsidiarity which could fit comfortably with the old understanding of federalism. Ron Paul comes close in some respects, but I am not naive to think that the "Club" will select him, much less support him if he were miraculously nominated. Watching the GOP "debates" I have at times wanted to shoot myself. Recovering my rationality, I wanted to shoot the candidates. I may write my own name in for president when and if I vote next year. All I know is, the GOP will not succeed with me any more with the argument, "Yes, we are nominating an idiot, but if you don't vote for our idiot a bigger idiot will win." Sorry guys. May the biggest idiot win. They usually seem to anyway.
Mr. Flinn, I agree with you entirely that conservative Democrats have always been better than Republicans. I recommend writing in Jefferson Davis.
An EXCELLENT idea, Dr. Wilson. I have a couple of good biographies of him and he certainly is worlds above anything we have seen around in a long, long time.