Posted on 02/21/2002 3:00:34 PM PST by newsperson999
Pearls may also be equated with great suffering.
And I'm sitting here tonight, filled with total emptiness and despair, and I honest to God don't know how to feel...
What keeps me optimistic is feeling that the pendulum will soon swing back. Sometimes it takes a cold slap of reality to wake people up and maybe the recent events will have that effect. Despite the fact that the left has basically taken over all of our institutions over the past 30 years ther are positive signs out there.
The generation following the boomers has directly suffered the immediate consequences of the behavior of their parent's generation. As a result they generally have more traditional values regarding family and they don't trust the government. The Soviet Union is no more thanks to Americans electing Reagan to two terms. Communism as an external threat has basically been eliminated (with the exception of China (which seems more militaristic and seeking hegemony in Asia than hard line Communist). There are actually honest debates about the Ponzi Scheme we know as Social Insecurity (we haven't won it yet but at least it is being discussed).
We were able to take control of both houses of Congress for the first time in nearly half a century (of course the stupid party gave it away). This country survived three terms of Roosevelt, then Kennedy and Johnson, and then Carter. I am confident that we will overcome the damage done by eight years of Clinton. Granted there will be some permanent damage.
The media is no longer entirely controlled by ABC, CBS, and NBC. The most popular magazine on the Hill is the Weekly Standard.
While I too get completely disgusted, I also believe that most Americans are not your stereotypical soccer-mom type. They work and then endure the commute home and just want to spend some time with their families. The thing is if they get pushed hard enough they will push back so hard that those that antagonized them will wish they never heard of us.
A good example was when I lived in Mass. I lived in a community that was all Dems (except me and 17 other registered Rs out of about 20,000). Some punks from another part of town were coming in and harrassing shop owners after school. The next day the entire street was lined with the men from the community to escort them home and ensure that they got the message (hint, they weren't empty handed). There was never any more trouble. Granted, this was a working class community but the majority of Americans are not yuppies living in gated communities.
I truly believe that there will be more attacks and I pray that they don't result in any casualties. The animals behind any attacks will then see some real retribution because we would then have the stomach for what needs to be done. These sick animals supposedly don't fear death but we will make them fear a fate worse than death - true hell on earth. Then maybe they will be subdued.
You start out sounding like Noam Chomsky with those irrelevant statistics about foreign nationals killing each other in the U.S.
Your segue is the suggestion that this is all a Hollywood-style brainwashing to support more military action.
You end up with supportive comments in that regard.
You sound like you are trying to persuade U.S. Marxists to support an attack on Iraq.
Are you drafting an opinion piece for, say, tomorrow's SF Chronicle?
I know the decendants became Arabs/Muslims... but is this when the religion of Islam began? If so, why is it that it took 500 years for the prophet Mohammad..... also much of Islam is similar if not the same as with the Jews, particularly the food laws.
I haven't really been able to find a distinct difference between them. I'm sure there must be some, but are they minor or major?
Incidentally John the Baptiste was beheaded. What group did that? It seems that Herod had some Idumean bloodlines.
Just thinking out loud.
Yes, and I havce a cloudy recollection that Vlad had some dealings with those scum of the prophet
Also said that Pearl met his wife while both were attending a Christian university.
No mention that he was beheaded.
I used to beleive it could be done from within, I no longer think that. What will it take to accomplish breaking this will?
I was just thinking that when I read your post.
They are referencing another video of a gruesome beheading that made the rounds on FR a few months back. They are NOT discussing the Pearl video. Check earlier posts on this thread...there may be links to it... those who have seen it say you will need a STRONG stomach.
Okay, I've got a "color neutral" idea. I'll be taking a page out of the book of Chairman Mao, surely a first for me. He and the Communists referred to Chiang and the Nationalists as "Running dogs of the imperialists."
Perhaps democrats, regardless of hue could be referred to as "Running dogs of the Socialists?"
Yeah, like the Chechnya Republic. I hope the Russian squash those bastards.
Lori Berenson,however outstanding her other faults, surely has one that
stands out above all the rest: bad timing.
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