Posted on 01/06/2011 7:59:33 AM PST by poetbdk
Joan of Arc was the greatest freedom fighter in history and today is the 599th anniversary of her birth.
Thank YOU!
The Founding Fathers fought for freedom that future generations of American (especially in recent decades) have failed to preserve/maintain, hence my use of “eventually.”
this is saying they planned to eventually be ruled by home-grown autocrats... which they did not... that America is becoming that has nothing to do with what they originally fought for... FREEDOM like no other country had ever offered... better wording would be: fighting for freedom that eventually turned to rule by home-grown autocrats... that was a possibility from the beginning, but not what they fought for... not at all what they intended...
yes, that's right... this song reminds me of a childhood friend i had named Penni... we used to sing the song at school... i guess were were about 8-9 years old... haha! poor Donny Hathaway :-(
Correction accepted, that was the intent of the original post.
Change the too-broad collective noun "Castholic Church" to the narrower and more precise subset "Burgundian lords and the illegal English ecclesiastical court" and you have a true statement.
Keep in mind that almost every conflict in Europe for a millennium could have been described as "good Catholics vs bad Catholics"; this is because most everybody ---even among the high clerics ---was "nominally" Catholic.
The ecclesiatical trial was itself illegal on the face of it by Church law. Bishop Cauchon didn't even have legal jurisdiction; the notary (investigator for the prosecution)could find no adverse evidence and lacked grounds to initiate the trial; they violated Church law by denying Joan's right to a legal adviser; Bishop Cauchon denied her appeals to the Council of Basel and the pope, which would have stopped his proceeding. Etc. The whole thing was a farce, and people knew that even at the time.
And that's one of the elements of pathos in this story. As always --- as even in Jesus' time --- you had corrupt Judas priests in the household of the Faith.
I love hot chicks.
G-d will get you for that,Walter.
Why did he take has own life? I know he jumped out of a hotel room window.
he had issues... perhaps a chemical imbalance? he was supposed to take meds, but didn't... if i remember correctly...
love that! haha... and her expression--she always delivered...
Wasn’t that back in the 70’s?
it was in the late 70s... i remember he sang some duets with Roberta Flack... i was just in high school when he killed himself... i was listening to KSOL on my stereo when the dj announced it...
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