[demkicker]

Having a hard enough time wrapping my brain around our current catastrophe, Katrina. I just can't get worked up about anymore gloom & doom right now or I'll have to go do something constructive like suicide bomb some terrorists.

[Osage Orange]

Drinking water COULD kill you too....

[neverdem]

bump for later

[Red6]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling.

Red6

[fallujah-nuker]

Thanks for posting the article, I read through the entire thread, interesting. In front of me is a book titled "The Valor of Ignorance" written by Homer Lea in 1909. In the first chapter he writes:

"...Besides being the subterfuge of rogues, patriotism is divisible into three forms; two that are false and common; one that is true and rare...The next ordinary and false form shows itself in vaingloriousness, whether over great deeds or greater crimes; the condoning of national faults or their concealment by this fetish worship.

True patriotism would rot away if its exemplification lay only in contempt or prejudice toward others...

In peace, and not in war, is the time to judge the worth of a man or a nations patriotism. Those who are indifferent to their countries welfare in peace will be of no use to it in time of war; while those who make it a practice to rob the public exchequer of its virtues, as well as gold, or to condone such thievery, are, during warfare, so delinquent in patriotism as not to be removed from the sphere of negative treason.

Patriotism in its purity is a political virtue, and as such is the antithesis of commercial vanity. To boast of a nations wealth, under the delusion that it is patriotic, is to commit a crime against patriotism.

To boast does not liquidate the debt of duty."

There seems to be some of what he warns against displayed by some posters.

[Eighth Square]

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