Posted on 08/02/2014 10:08:35 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Good commentary.
This captures the essence of what the Jews mean by saying “Chosen People”. Jews are chosen by God to be a light, an example, to the world, but without any thoughts of superiority or exclusivity. There are other peoples in the world like that, too. For example, the Tibetan Buddhists.
As someone who struggles with this concept from time to time and appreciates the differences between words and actions, I can't help but be impressed, even if my own efforts make me look bad by comparison.
...whilst the Arabs are enough to make any of us feel good about ourselves.
Amen.
Great quote from Twain, never read that one before.
One of the raids on Dresden by the 8th Air Force hit the rail yards. The yards were packed with trains. It was one of the most precise strikes of the war. The rail yards looked like a lunar landscape.
The trains were full of refugees. Thousands of fleeing civilians died.
From 25,000 feet it is not possible to tell if trains are full of munitions, soldiers or civilians. If I had squeezed the pickle on one of those B-17G bombers, I would have no regrets. Such is war.
Wyrd bid ful ared.
Twain, when asked by a Rabi what he thought of the Jew, replied, “I take him as a man, and that’s bad enough for me.”
Actually, Goebbels, a paleo-Nazi, originally inflated the Dresden fatality totals, by about a factor of ten. (Most of the fatalities were due to poorly improvised air raid shelters, btw.) The Soviets found that the Nazi lie served their purposes, so they perpetuated it.
Goebbels merely took the original Dresden police reports and multiplied by ten. After the fall of East Germany, the German government commissioned a study, which revealed the deception, and attributed the still high fatalities to Nazi air raid shelters, basically, the basements of apartment buildings, with single exits easily blocked by rubble. People who remained in their homes and stayed in the streets when their homes caught fire had much higher survival rates.
Well apparently you just were not listening to Obama the other day when he explained that Muslims were responsible for the very fabric of America. :-)
Yep. I hear his crap all the time and generally agree with him.
Moslems further resolved us to throw tyranny wherever it is exerted on us.
I do not like Moslems and never, ever make any bones about it.
You wanna play nice, then I’ll hang out with you or do business with you.
You go jihadi on me and I think I’d feel good ending you where you stand....
‘After the Holocaust, I have no patience for people who won’t leave alone one of the tiniest population of the worlds people alone on their own land’
Well said. I agree whole heartedly, but never wish anyone get cancer, FRiend.
“I wish I could have said that. I like your direct style.”
Thank you kindly Mountain. I find it very difficult to be anything other than direct. Gets me in trouble once in a while, lol.
“Of course now, minutes later, after having read the comments above, I realize the depth to which FR readership has sunk. Pathetic.”
It’s been a good run. Ain’t many of us left these days. It may be about time to walk away.
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