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A Humble Bump. (Things have gone blazingly out of control with speed high speed and no depth since this site was founded - it seems.

So, would you actually infer from this issue and your reading of Aquinas that if one is confused about the rightness or wrongness of one's action, then that action is ipso facto without sin? Amazing, if true.

I rather think that brother Aquinas would prefer the maxim of doing nothing, if such confusion exists. That is the first principle when considering the typical abortion. If you do nothing, what is the result? The result is a baby. A human being.

Primun non nocere. First, do no harm.

These guys are selfish. They could have adopted any number of disabled, unfortunate, unwanted children, but no, they have to be showboats for the gay cause, no matter what they say about not wanting publicity. You don't give high-profile interviews with newspapers if you're not after publicity.

It's all about them, don't doubt it...

Hmmmmm.

Case closed?

Well...?

BUMPITTY-BUMP

Anybody ever heard the story of the original, the REAL "Internet Explorer"?

My industry brother tells me that the original piece of internet software was developed and owned by a little Chicago company known as early as '87 or '88 as "Internet Explorer." It was a good product and the name had been originally and duly registered by this mom and pop size outfit.

When it came time for Microsoft to crank its attention, its hoary siege cannon in that little company's direction, Gates decided he liked the name almost as much as he hated the useability and high quality of the little company's sole product -- which was designed as a browser first and a massive venue for advertising second.

So, in the style of the good old robber barons, (who, like Gates always traveled with bodyguards, for obvious reasons) Gates simply decided to call his new browser, get ready, "Internet Explorer," what else? He's Bill Gates, he gets to do this kind of thing.

When this small company had finally finished trying to defend itself from the life crushing and business ruining bohemoth by bringing suit in court, after some four or five years appeals, counter appeals, counter double-whammy counter suits, etc. etc., they discovered that they had, after legal fees and the confusion of Gates grabbing the market by using their name, more massive counter-suits by Gates, etc. --these guys discovered they had exactly enough money left over to pay a small severance package to their forty or so employees and turn out the lights. And of course turn out the lights on their now re-mortgaged and re-possessed homes, etc.

If Gates really were a hard-charging, brilliant young whiz-kid entrepreneur, as his hugely expensive self-imaging job has claimed over the years, he would have been too busy designing and building a better browser using its own, and not another guy's, name. But that's not how he operates.

His first step was typical of how he proceeded afterward, he sold DOS before he owned it himself. He did not write the language, he simply gave it a name.

The guy is really really smart, in the same way that a virus is really smart. It tricks the body's own cells into replecating not themselves, but the virus. He's a genius.

And if I were to find out that he is a member of the Church of Scientology, I would not be surprised.

Now THAT would be a wonderful and entertaining face-off. Gates vs. the "Church" of Scientology. Battle of the Reptiles or what?

Have a nice Libertarian Dream of a day, everybody...

Actually, hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of crimes are prevented in just this manner each year.

A gun is brandished at a criminal, or fired into the air, or fired aiming near the culprit. The anti-gun freaks hate this data, incomplete as it actually is. They also really really hate the fact that out of the hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions, of licensed to carry citizens in this country, not one has yet committed a felony. But they're waiting with bated breath, don't doubt it, and when it sooner or later happens, expect a huge push to take our guns away. They will never ever give up.

Thank you very much. I will go and buy this book as soon as I can.

Having read some of his earlier histories, I was deeply impressed by the man's apparant love of the truth. As I recall from transcript excerpts from the trial, the greatest point of controversy was the dispute over the gas chambers, the introductions of Cyclon B through special vents in the roof, that were never located, and the still controversial question of where the bodies went, how such a volume of human remains could have so thoroughly disappeared, etc.

If Irving is claiming these days that the Holocost did not indeed happen, he has indeed gone thoroughly round the bend.

His opponant did indeed accuse him of being a Nazi based on his inability to find references to the exterminations in his research into what Hitler knew and when he knew it etc, but he was very foolish indeed to have sued her for this slander in England, where their libel laws have teeth that can grind a person up and ruin them forever.

Hitler's War was an impressive document, IMHO, although no American publisher had the guts to publish it. Nowhere in it was there anything that would cause one to think that Irving was anti-semitic, much less a Nazi or Holocost denier or anything like that.

There are a lot of outright lies on this issue and honorable people who question the six million number who are not anti-Semitic or anything like it. There were six million Jews in Europe before the war by the count of Jewish scholars of that period themselves. Most of the Jews of Europe got out before the war. Nowhere in the last years have I ever heard any reference to the five and a half million non-Jews who were also exterminated, but that figure alone can get you into hot water as being anti-Semitic.

It is a fact that the Germans slaughtered two million Poles before they actually got started on the Jews, according to Goldhagen in his book Hitler's Willing Executioners.

But regardless of where and by what means, anyone who denies that the Jews were slaughtered by the millions is guilty of wilful lying or wilful ignorance, no matter what.

I'd personally like to see somebody mention, just once in a while, the 20-30 millions of Ukranians, etc. murdered by Stalin before and during the war, and of course the forty plus Chinese wilfully murdered by Mao before and during the cultural revolution, etc.

But the Left don't like the fact that Bolshivism, in all its different forms, murdered at least a hundred million souls during the 20th century. You have to special order any books dealing with this since it's considered the sign of a Fascist to even note these facts.

Thanks again and all the best...

Quick: Tell me everything you know about this very well respected historian and also, which of his works have you read?

Great Story Willie Green!!

Worthy of the highest accolades as just the sort of uplifting, informative, educational and deeply meaningful journalism that made this country great!

It's a little bit soft around the edges, admittedly, kind of soft-peddling a broad range of juicy tidbits that would have gone to make a really and truly excellent piece if only the writer had been a little less squeamish.

This is why so many of us miss the OLD National Inquirer of the fifties and sixties. Now that was a fine fine newspaper. It's headlines alone were Pulitzer material. Such noble declarative headings as :

"Forty Die Horribly in Acid," or

"Boy Five Kills Mom (with the O in boy and the O in mom presented as little gilt frames with their mugshots indide)

Now THERE was a wonderful publication, worthy of a nation of worker bees who liked to be lifted up and delighted by the fare within it. Yes, and then there was my own personal headline favorite:

"He Stabbed Her Once for Every Minute She Was Late!!"

Simply unbeatable prose, worthy of the noblest Hollywood standards of high-mindedness and art. (I've been wondering where those geniuses went, and now I know, Hollywood!!)

Where, of late, the High Art of the Explicit has lately taken a New Lunge of Progress toward the Graphic, with many movies now starting out with a first bangup scene of dresser-rattling fornication and/or clinical trauma analysis deriving no doubt from the year's worst (i.e. best) from the ER!

A good piece indeed, but not quite up to those standards that I would term "sublime," ...

such as, perhaps an infant decapitation or two followed by a rape/murder/suicide.

But there is still hope for good old Free Republic Willie Green, just as long as guys like you keep on posting and do not give up!

Keep up the good work, and maybe next time we could have some photos, please, yes? I mean, what's a good old fashioned butt-ectomy without the pix, eh?

Thanks again Willie Green, and keep 'em coming!

Remember, as Larry Flint so candidly pointed out, from here there's only one direction...UP!

I checked these out and thank you very much. I stand corrected to the precise extent that these are not overlaps, which they some of them do indeed appear to be.

I'm not sure that I understand the connection with the Holy Catholic Church. I am a convert to Catholicism meself and consider myself what one might hopefully call devout. That is to say, I believe the Nicean Creed and attempt to practise the Faith, difficult though it be for a sinner of my full bore gold plated heavy metal jacket past and present to some lesser extent of late, at least one can only hope.

Suffice it to say that the ongoing reaction of the laity to the persistent and dogged refusal on the part of the hierarchy to prosecute these criminal priests is quite satisfying. The Church has been through much worse times than these, like the sixteenth and tenth centuries, frinstance, and it has always been the laity that in one manner or another yanks the old ship (quite miraculously) back on course.

I am humbled by your charity of mind. I too worked with Muslims, Tunisian ones actually and found them pretty generally charming and gracious and to the extent knowable, full of what I would call honor.

I wish I had your reflective tolerance, which as a Southerner I lack in spades going instinctively for the sword, ever and always, especially when the old plantation is threatened.

But my wonderful Yankee wife (Mass.) usually yanks me back to Christian reality when I start making rumblings of the pogrom-espousing sort.

Thanks again and please pray for me, I need it.

And also don't forget to bone up on your History of Islam, a fairly hair-raising enterprise I've found and indicative of why these two cultures have had nothing much of an unbloody nature to say to each other over the centuries.

Thanks again and all the best,

I'M REALLY RELIEVED TO HEAR ABOUT THE MUSLIMS THAT YOU WORK WITH. HOPE THEY DON'T GET HURT TOO BADLY WHEN THE NEXT SHOE DROPS, AT LEAST NOT BEFORE THEY HAVE A CHANCE TO GET OUT OF THE COUNTRY.

PLEASE GIVE ME FOUR OR FIVE PLACES TO GO TO READ THESE LOUD LAMENTS OF 9-11 ON THE PART OF MUSLIMS QUOTED IN THE MAINSTREAM PRESS/ MEDIA.

AH, WHAT THE HELL. JUST GIVE ALL OF US FOUR EXAMPLES, THAT WOULD DO JUST FINE.

WAITING...

The Founding Fathers, according to their correspondence among themselves and with others, tended to abhor the idea of abortion because one could not know what one was killing. Admittedly, it seems to us that what is being killed in the case of a "brainless" fetus is "an amorphous tissue mass."

But that sounds sickeningly like what a pro-choice fanatic thinks of a child under the knife of a partial birth abortionist.

Therefore, because I do not know what we're paying out tax dollars to kill, based on an ultrasound and little more, I will gladly let the government pay the hospital costs for the minutes or hours it takes these creatures to perish.

Mother nature seems to take care of it...

Yes, God Bless America and our troops, all of them.

Good night and all the best to you...

Good. I'm confident that I agree with you on all points.

The principle that the government shall not pay for, or sponsor in any other way, the practice of abortion is far more valuable to me than the fantasized "hundreds of thousands" of dollars for the temporary survival of the baby,(which I seriously doubt is actually much more than all the corollary costs etc. of an abortion, especially if the abortionist knows he's sending his bill to the government) no matter what kind of shape "it" is in.

In fact, even if you took these hundreds of thousands of hypothetical, for the argument, dollars and divided them by the millions and millions of taxpayers, each of us would be contributing pennies for that purely imaginary cost.

In short, the principle that the government never, ever pay for abortions is so much more important than Bannie's outrage over these pennies (is he some kind of libertarian or something?) that I'll have to side with you on this one.

Not solely out of sentiment either, but out of simple cold-blooded logic. If I were a libertarian I would feel even more strongly on drawing the line here on this particular issue, but thank God I am not.

In fact, I've found that God has very very little to do with the pseudo-philosophical rantings of the Libertarians. For them it's all about "Me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more."

All the best

I'm really enjoying this discussion, but I'm confused on a couple of things. Is it your opinion, or that of your adversary, banny, that forcing a man to pay for acts, issues, beliefs, etc. he despised is tyrannous, a la T.Jefferson?

Or is that the opinion of both of you?

Also, if this is the case, is it justifiable for a citizen to simply refuse to pay taxes for such activities, of which there seem to be so very many in these days of the nanny state?

Also does this issue turn solely on which of the two options, (live birth followed by fairly speedy natural death, versus abortion) is more expensive than the other, or is there not a lot of much higher principle at stake?

Just curious... thanks.

Naw, hell I think it's sompin-other kind o' Jewish meal, ain't I right?

LOL

Pretty depressing, huh?

I mean of course the relative state of education among Freepers in general. How could ANYBODY not see this and understand that it is SATIRE???? I mean ANYBODY???

And I didn't notice, at least among the minority here whose IQ's seem to be somewhere above room temperature, anyone pointing out the brilliant allusion to T.S. Eliot, "And Rachel nee Rabbinowitz tears at the grapes with murdurous paws." !!

Maybe if Freepers spent a little more time soaking in the civilization and culture of the West, hands-down the BEST, and a little less time glued to the screen, then they might be in the ball game instead of scratching their heads. Might even understand these obvious SATIRES when they come along.

Let them all now go and henceforth sin no more, says I...

You are quite right. It's moral relativism, much like that manifested by the person who started this thread. It's also cultural relativism, another modern multi-culti fashion.

Also concerning Arabs, you do NOT, repeat NOT want to leave any female of any age or condition alone with an Arab man for even a second.

The flip side of their despising women as inferior and always holding the WOMAN to blame in any sexual embroglio, is the moral obligation Arab males feel to try and force intercourse on any woman or girl left alone in their presence. Unprotected goods are goods for the taking, and I had a Palistinian friend tell me once, in his cups, that the terms for rape in Arabic, both slang and traditional, do NOT have a negative connotation.

Something like "to take by happy storm" as I think he said. On sobering up, he said he regretted telling me this.

Fascinating culture.

So as the Democrats and other leftists, like the pathetic Brits, will tell you, we simply MUST keep importing these exotic creatures into our countries so that in a generation or two there won't be anything left of anything we hold dear. What happy days these are.

If you think Arabs are rational creatures, the news just came in that Pakistan, in the middle of this horrific nuclear stand-off, has just tested a surface-to-surface missile in Northern Pakistan. Wonderful folks, and if your child's milk is glowing in the dark a week or two from now, you can thank the ARABS and the MUSLIMS.

My goodness gracious me oh my!! So this really is the best of all possible worlds we live in after all, eh God-fearer? I am so very very relieved!! And to think I thought Mssr. Voltaire's "Candide" was a satire. But not so. Candide lives and prospers among us and his name is "God-Fearer."

Now I see. These obstreperous youths are but the golden and rustic savages from the earthy and ebullient Rousseauvian Paradises of the Muslim Turd World, seeking the honest and rightful chance to better themselves while making Europe a finer and more decent and more humble place! Thank you, thank you God-fearer. The scales have fallen from my eyes, and all thanks to you!

Oh oh yes and mirabile dictu and thank you, thank you God-fearer for making me see the innate goodness of all Man...er I mean Person-kind!

Now I lay me down to sleep secure in the knowledge that the greeting formerly called flashing your wongydong at women in their own land is merely the customary greeting of the jovial, nay, the NOBLE young men of the Islamic pursuasion -- whose obligation, as part of the rich multicultural experiment of the Left--is to take by happy storm (rough translation of Arabic word for rape) the quivering quims of the lovelorn and longing ladies of Europe, starting at roughly the age of nine, as I believe the Prophet preferred them.

Again I thank you God-fearer!! Life is destined to get better day by day, until that happy morning dawns when we all wake up and find that our happiest dreams have come true, and our country, once abandoned to the mercy of something cruel, called Civilization, has been rescued by the Sons of the Prophet. Oh happy day, may it come soon, come soon!!

Dear Mia T:

That is absolutely the most amazing, intelligent, and downright brilliant, entertaining and arresting post I have ever seen. I only wish there were some way for me to mail it to everybody on the WWW. Bless you!!How do I copy it or try to forward it or at least save it?

All the best...

Does anyone know or recall what was said by our little junior (Dim) senator from here in North Carolina, John Edwards in the middle of all this? I heard that he jumped in and made a total ass of himself, trying also to score points against the Commander in Chief with the same sort of weazly, back-stabbing, retro-attack. So it turns out that he too is eager to learn the vilest sort of leftist tactics as quickly as he can. Didn't take him long to show his true colors and lust for notoriety. He's looked oh so squeaky clean until this...Wonder specifically what he said? By the time I had heard about it, it was too late.