He saw in the Christian Right, long before we did,
disturbing similarities with the German Christian
Church and the Nazi Party, similarities that he said
would, in the event of prolonged social instability
or a national crisis, see American fascists, under
the guise of religion, rise to dismantle the open
society. He despaired of liberals, who he said, as in
Nazi Germany, mouthed silly platitudes about dialogue
and inclusiveness that made them ineffectual and
impotent. Liberals, he said, did not understand the
power and allure of evil nor the cold reality of how
the world worked. The current hand wringing by
Democrats in the wake of the election, with many
asking how they can reach out to a movement whose
leaders brand them "demonic" and "satanic," would not
have surprised Adams . Like Bonhoeffer, he did not
believe that those who would fight effectively in
coming times of turmoil, a fight that for him was an
integral part of the Biblical message, would come
from the church or the liberal, secular elite.
Wow, I wonder how this ad would fly today? Well,
there's nothing like a little bald faced chauvinism to
make you feel like a man. Sorry ladies. Just be glad we
don't make you into rugs anymore.
Now, most of you will watch this movie and say "man,
this guy's a major dick", and for the most part I will
agree with you. However he is proving a very valid
point- the border patrol cannot stop you 50 miles
before the border and start questioning you without
probable cause. If they do, in the perfect world, you
should really do exactly what this guy does. And it's
nice to see someone do it because I always wondered if
it really worked just to keep repeating "am I being
detained, am I free to go?", well apparently it really
does.
So you can call this guy a dick, but keep in mind that
he's one of the only people out there fighting for your
freedoms (spineless democrats certainly aren't).
Without people like him rights are given up much more
easily. So I will call this guy what he really is- a
hero.
Wow, I thought I was the only one who's ever done this.
Fortunately with the recent crippling of my drinking
career and the long time crippling of my MIS career
this happens far less (usually only as a result of jet
lag).
Every now and then I feel bad because some of my many
Jewish friends feel that I am against their people
since I don't believe in the way the Israeli military
behaves (much in the same way I don't believe in the
way the American military behaves while still loving
the American people- although the ignorance does get to
me a bit). I wish anyone who felt that way would read
this article and realize that supporting a military is
not the same as supporting the people who live in the
country of that military. Often they are polar
opposites.
Excerpt:
Let us conclude. The Israeli people are America’s
friends and have a right to peace and secure borders.
We should help them secure these rights. As a nation,
we have made a moral commitment, endorsed by half a
dozen presidents, which Americans wish to honor, not
to permit these people who have suffered much to see
their country overrun and destroyed. And we must
honor this commitment.But U.S. and Israeli interests
are not identical. They often collide, and when they
do, U.S. interests must prevail. Moreover, we do not
view the Sharon regime as “America’s best
friend.”Since the time of Ben Gurion, the behavior of
the Israeli regime has been Jekyll and Hyde. In the
1950s, its intelligence service, the Mossad, had
agents in Egypt blow up U.S. installations to make it
appear the work of Cairo, to destroy U.S. relations
with the new Nasser government. During the Six Day
War, Israel ordered repeated attacks on the
undefended USS Liberty that killed 34 American
sailors and wounded 171 and included the
machine-gunning of life rafts. This massacre was
neither investigated nor punished by the U.S.
government in an act of national cravenness.
I find this very interesting. Apparently these
days if all you've got it a house full of lemons, you
can just pop a couple of these funny little berries and
scarf down a whole bushel of lemons and have them
taste like sweet oranges (I still think my stomach
wouldn't like it much, but who knows). It's a
fascinating idea and I really want to try it.
People are throwing sour to sweet parties and
eating all sorts of things like this. Gotta order
some.
The evidence is mounting that the DC madam was most
likely murdered. First off is this tape where she is
interviewed and says that she is absolutely not suicidal and if
something happens to her it's murder.
Secondly, was the fact that she was 3 days away
from releasing her list of everyone in Washington
who was using her escort service to the judge. Why
wouldn't she wait at least until afterwards?
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