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To: rodguy911
'Western thinking has become conservative:
the world situation should stay as it is at any cost;
there should be no changes. ....
The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support
from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see
communism's crimes.
And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them.
In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero
and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with
empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to
withstand the East.'

[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn at the Commencement, 8 June 1978, Harvard University]



22 posted on 11/15/2015 5:17:45 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Diogenesis

I had to flip off Fox and Friends because Whorealdo was on. Can’t stand that guy on a good day. Waiting for Trump to come on now.

Have to say CNN does a much better job covering international events. FNC just doesn’t have the staff for that.


23 posted on 11/15/2015 5:22:03 AM PST by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: Diogenesis
The biggest hope I see with the commmunist dems now in charge is that they have a history of “over-lying” which usually sinks their ship and aids them in self-destruction which they usually do.One can hope.When Pinocchio's nose grows three feet long he can't walk.
33 posted on 11/15/2015 5:47:40 AM PST by rodguy911 (Sarah Palin our secret weapon --Home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: Diogenesis

An AMUSING Historical parallel

37-41AD Caligula “The Evil Emperor who proclaimed himself a god”

41-54AD Claudius “The bumbling Emperor who married the infamous Messalina”

54-68AD Nero “The mad tyrant who blamed the Christians for the burning of Rome”


39 posted on 11/15/2015 6:02:48 AM PST by DanZ
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