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Posted on 04/04/2006 2:31:22 AM PDT by RWR8189
The MSM (and mediot "reporters") are repeating one orwellian mantra from 1984:
"Ignorance is Strength"
I think you're on to something. It may be that many academic "elites" deliberately make their tomes boring as hell to confuse the reader. If you can't understand it, naturally a person will think that maybe he's not smart enough to understand this "genius". After all he or she has written this large, confusing book and has a phd (piled higher and deeper), and what have I done? (ha, ha)
Since he's your close friend you probably would like to enlighten him. There is clear evidence to support you on the government stats on taxes and Saddam's use of WMD (various poison gasses) on the Kurds. As I recall, a French journalist did an in-depth story on the gas attacks; maybe your friend the dem would believe a Frenchman in this matter.
Dr. Marxist, PhD, the economics professor, is a glaring example.
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He said that only the first went out of print, and he didn't say anything about later editions being subsequently released. And the price tags on those things suggest low supply and high demand.
As always, Dr. Sowell hits another out of the park.
Bless him. He is a wise man.
Ask an old Englishman if they had a navy. U-boats anyone?
There sure has been a lot of Marxist economic myth on the immigration threads. It really gets in the way with its class warfare.
Only when they are inconvenient (especially for those who are modern-day liberals or socialist one-worlders).
Ping.
I hear you, sister!
Two books about more European slaves brought to North Africa than there were African slaves brought to America have been published in recent years.
In Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Sowell points out that none of the major religions/cultures - not pagans, not atheists, not Hindus, Confuscians or Buddhists or Shintoists, and certainly not Muslims - ever rejected slavery as an institution (as opposed to something imposed on self or kith and kin). And up until the Eighteenth Century, not Christians either.Sowell's point was that while we think of slavery as being a thing of the past worldwide, only post-sixteenth century Christians (not to put too fine a point on it, white men with rifles) in all of global history ever made a disinterested attack the institution of slavery. The British maintained a squadron of the Royal Navy off the west coast of Africa for no other motive than the moral imperative they felt to interdict the slave trade.
Indeed, the Emancipation Proclamation was made by Lincoln not because of but in spite of domestic considerations; it "freed" only slaves in places where its writ did not run. It did not immediately free any slaves at all. But Great Britain had strong commercial and cultural ties to the American South; Lincoln had to keep those ties from producing sypathetic action by the British. The entire purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was to make it politically impossible for Britain to support the Confederacy. And it succeeded in that purpose because a Britain which would spend substantial money interdicting the slave trade off the coast of Africa could not support the Confederacy in a war to maintain slavery.
I got into a debate with a liberal and cited Sowell's points, and completely flabbergasted him; all he could do was promise to read Sowell's book. Highly reccommended approach.
I still compare Hillary Clinton with Elena Ceaucescu, the noted expert on polymers, and partner of Nicolae, genius of the Carpathians (and now taking a dirt nap).
Like most Dems I know, he doesn't read anything that isn't lib propaganda. You can lead a horse to water etcetera. Basically like all Dems and libs, he wants to believe the edifice of lies that the libs have built up over the years. He is immune to facts. At one time he proudly stated that he didn't read anything except sports magazines and the local liberal rag.
Willful ignorance? Pity.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
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