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Posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 4 16:29:01 2014 Luch can't get enough of this guy A Note to 'Fiscal Conservatives' From a Social Conservative If there were as many "fiscal conservatives" as there are people who claim to be, it is hard to see how Republicans would lose as many elections as they do. One frequently hears this political self-identification: "I'm socially liberal, but fiscally conservative." Or, "If the Republicans weren't conservative on so many social issues, I would vote Republican." Or, "It's too bad the Christian Right dominates the Republican Party. I would vote for the Republicans on fiscal issues, but I can't stand the religious right." The same sentiment holds among many inside the Republican Party. Most secular conservatives and the libertarian wing of the party agree: Let's jettison all this social stuff -- most prominently opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion, and this unnecessary commitment to religion -- and just stand for small government and personal liberty. To many people these positions sound reasonable, even persuasive. They shouldn't. Here's why. To respond to the first argument, it is hard to believe that most people who call themselves fiscal conservatives and vote Democrat would abandon the Democratic Party if the Republican Party embraced same-sex marriage and abortion. The left and its political party will always create social issues that make Republicans and conservatives look "reactionary" on social issues. Today it is same-sex marriage, the next day it is the Republican "war on women," and tomorrow it will be ending the objective male-female designation of Americans (Children should have the right to determine their gender and not have their parents and their genitalia determine it, even at birth). Or it will be animal rights, race-based affirmative action or an environmentalist issue. Concerning the latter, how many "fiscal conservatives" who vote Democrat are prepared to abandon the party on the climate change issue? I suspect very few. Fiscally conservative Democrats are fooling themselves and others when they announce that would abandon the Democratic Party if the Republicans just weren't socially conservative. They didn't leave the Democrats before same-sex marriage was an issue and they won't leave them if same-sex marriage ceases to be an issue. Let's turn now to God and religion, the most obvious expressions of social conservatism. There are many Americans -- among secular conservatives, libertarians and secular fiscal conservatives who vote Democrat -- who say that they, or many others who now vote Democrat, would vote Republican if it were not for the social conservatives in the Republican Party who are so adamant about God and religion. This group, too, is fooling itself. Anyone who thinks that you can have smaller government -- the central issue for libertarians and other fiscal conservatives -- without Judeo-Christian religions and their God-based values neither understands the Founders nor human nature very well. The entire American experiment in smaller government -- and even in secular government -- was based on Americans individually being actively religious. The Founders -- unlike the European men of the Enlightenment then and the left today -- understood that people are not basically good. That is a defining belief of Judaism as well as of Christianity. Therefore the great majority of people need moral religion and belief in accountability to a morally judging God to be good. In other words, you will either have the big God of Judaism and Christianity or the big state of the left. Social conservatives know that they need fiscal conservatives. They know that the bigger the state, the smaller the God. They know that proponents of the ever-larger state want their own gods -- like Mother Earth -- to replace the Bible's God. Fiscal conservatives need to understand that they need social conservatives. They need them philosophically, for reasons explained above. And they need them politically. There will never be enough Americans who are fiscally but not socially conservative to win a national election. Sorry. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Mar 4 16:54:24 2014, in response to Dennis Prager's "important thinking" of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 4 16:29:01 2014. "The Founders -- unlike the European men of the Enlightenment then and the left today -- understood that people are not basically good. "False. |
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Posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 4 23:16:24 2014, in response to Dennis Prager's "important thinking" of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 4 16:29:01 2014. where do you think the important thinking in here is. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 00:51:34 2014, in response to Luch Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 4 23:16:24 2014. Just sayin'. |
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Posted by DAnD124 on Wed Mar 5 00:53:20 2014, in response to Re: dand124 is a stalker, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 00:51:34 2014. he puts people's names in subject lines all the time. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 00:59:26 2014, in response to Dennis Prager's "important thinking" of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 4 16:29:01 2014. ok.this column got you all worked up? he's been repeating it on his radio show for years. and I still support abortion, think it lowers crime, and worry what will happen if we don't perform enough every year. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:27:00 2014, in response to Dennis Prager's "important thinking" of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 4 16:29:01 2014. Seriously, what's your objection?I think abortion lowers crime, am agnostic, but will continue to go to church because I like the community and sense of direction and discipline church provides. how did an Irish-Catholic guy from Boston like yourself become so Leftist? |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 01:34:36 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:27:00 2014. Probably for the same reason why so many of us OTHER Irish Catholics have had our fill with the evangelicals and their republican policies. They're making a mockery of Christianity and all that Jesus stood for. :( |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:38:48 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 01:34:36 2014. Hugh Hewitt is Irish-Catholic.He left the church as he rose in the ranks of the Republican party. He felt there was a conflict between conservatism and Catholicism so he joined the Episcopalian Church maybe because his wife goes there. Now Hewitt goes to mass at 5p on Saturday and Episcopalian on Sunday. What's funny is that the Episcopalian church I'm familiar with made me comment to myself when seeing the congregation, "It looks like a GOP fundraiser". So I gave up red meat for Lent. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 01:44:17 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:27:00 2014. I think abortion lowers crimeThose left-wing professors must be laughing at how easily they can brainwash people. Thanks for attacking. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 01:45:22 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:38:48 2014. What's funny is that the Episcopalian church I'm familiar with made me comment to myself when seeing the congregation, "It looks like a GOP fundraiser"The Episcopalians are generally liberal. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 01:45:52 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:38:48 2014. So? He was right about that conflict. But he joined the dark side. Episcopalians are OK and all, but they DO have that red coat thing going. :) |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:46:32 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 01:44:17 2014. Those left-wing professors must be laughing at how easily they can brainwash people. Thanks for attacking.MTV has a show about single mothers. I think it's called Single Moms. I support abortion even today on Ash Wednesday. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:47:26 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 01:45:22 2014. The Episcopalians are generally liberal.oh. did not know. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 01:47:29 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 01:45:22 2014. Well ... maybe compared to YOU. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:48:58 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 01:45:52 2014. Everyone at that church is pretty or handsome. Good-looking people.Well-dressed. I'd say 99% Republican. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 01:55:39 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:47:26 2014. Remember, this is Olog. Limbaugh's a librul too. :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 01:57:00 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:48:58 2014. Probably, despite Olog's affliction. I'll take them over Assembly of God *any* day. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 02:04:51 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 01:55:39 2014. my church is very liberal.the friars always talk about NRP, Haiti, and helping the homeless. I wonder how many sacraments Olog-hai made in Church? I say he got to confirmation. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 02:23:26 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 02:04:51 2014. He's not Catholic, he's an Adventist. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 02:41:10 2014, in response to Dennis Prager's "important thinking" of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 4 16:29:01 2014. I'm surprised you posted this.While I have your attention, be aware, daylight savings starts this weekend. this means crime could go up as the days get longer and weather warmer. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 02:48:11 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 02:41:10 2014. Heh. The days were going to get longer anyway despite whatever the clocks do. :) |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 02:52:15 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 02:48:11 2014. yeah but we use to change clock in April. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 02:53:35 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 02:52:15 2014. Yeah, but Democrat Savings Time ensures that the little ones are out on the road waiting for the bus while it's still dark. Consider it a retroactive abortion and sleep well. :) |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 03:44:33 2014, in response to Dennis Prager's "important thinking" of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 4 16:29:01 2014. have you read the FB comments on this article?I still don't see the big deal. 15 hours of original radio content a week, appearances, and article but this is something that bothers you? |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 04:05:51 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:46:32 2014. Single motherhood is a different problem. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 04:12:24 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 04:05:51 2014. we can eliminate it with abortion and affordable morning after pills. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 04:16:08 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 04:12:24 2014. reduce I meant to say.combat the problem. |
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Posted by DAnD124 on Wed Mar 5 09:23:22 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 00:59:26 2014. how is the column the work of an important thinker? |
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Posted by DAnD124 on Wed Mar 5 09:23:53 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 01:27:00 2014. how did an Irish-Catholic guy from Boston like yourself become so Leftist?now you're just making stuff up |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 12:56:29 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Wed Mar 5 09:23:53 2014. now you're just making stuff upI believe that statement to be factual. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 13:23:26 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Wed Mar 5 09:23:22 2014. how is the column the work of an important thinker?not every word or work of Dennis Prager can be great. 15 hours of radio. Television appearances. Columns. Live tours and debates. Listen to his show. He's obviously an important thinker. So is Hugh Hewitt. |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Wed Mar 5 13:38:26 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 13:23:26 2014. Unfortunatley, Dennis Prager comes on tape delay after midnight here in Chicago. |
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Posted by Easy on Wed Mar 5 14:55:24 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 13:23:26 2014. Hey luchaaa. Did you see this?http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1709694 |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 15:04:59 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by Easy on Wed Mar 5 14:55:24 2014. Hello Easy. I weighed in at 215 this morning.Going to do 20 yard cardio sprints on grass. That is my workout for now. I am losing weight while taking in 2000-2400 calories a day. 1500 is too little. I will read the link later. Gotta run. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 15:52:06 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 04:12:24 2014. You're talking like a leftist college professor again. The problem was created to impose that solution you speak of. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 15:53:03 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 01:47:29 2014. They elected a druid as head of their church a decade ago. |
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Posted by bingbong on Wed Mar 5 17:38:34 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Mar 5 13:23:26 2014. Still waiting to hear or read any variety of thinking out of him. Otherwise it's the same warmed over hatespeak available anywhere. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 20:52:37 2014, in response to Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 5 15:53:03 2014. So? |
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A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week |
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Posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 11 01:02:26 2014, in response to Dennis Prager's "important thinking" of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 4 16:29:01 2014. http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2014/03/11/a-letter-from-africa-n1806776I am writing this column from Cameroon during my sixth trip to Africa. Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather I am referring to the African peoples. Here, then, are some observations. First and foremost, just as when I visited Auschwitz and the killing fields of Cambodia, when I visited places here in West Africa from which Africans were sent as slaves to the New World -- and places in East Africa from which Africans were sent as slaves to the Middle East -- I was overwhelmed by the amount of cruelty human beings have inflicted on other human beings. There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human being who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good. There is no more obvious example of widespread wishful thinking than the belief that people are basically good. Come here and see where millions of men, women and children were yanked from their families, villages and friends, and then shipped in torturous conditions in ships from hell to a life sentence of backbreaking work. And then tell me that people are basically good. And needless to say, do the same after visiting a Nazi death camp or a Cambodian killing field. Second, racism -- the belief that people of a certain skin color are inherently different (and inferior or superior) -- is not only evil; it is moronic. Racism is in equal amounts stupid and vile. Third, given how evil racism is, and how much horrific suffering it has engendered, it is as tragic as it is reprehensible that it has been thoroughly politicized, and thereby thoroughly cheapened, in America. What the left -- both black and white -- has done to racism will one day be regarded as one of its worst moral legacies. Every person who has called criticism of President Barack Obama racism, who has labeled opposition to race-based affirmative action as racist, or who has called the tea party racist, has not merely engaged in a libel, he or she has done something even worse: cheapened the evil that is racism. If the Republican Party is racist, if America is racist, if opponents of President Barack Obama are racists, then, let's be honest, racism just isn't all that bad. Fourth, nearly every African who has given the issue thought knows that America is not only not racist, it is the best place for an African to immigrate to. That is why more black Africans have come to America voluntarily than came to America as slaves -- a statistic that virtually no college student is allowed to know. Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world. Fifth, every African economist who has written on the subject and that I have interviewed on my radio show is convinced that most Western monetary aid to Africa countries not only does not do good, it does great harm. The reason, of course, is that it goes mostly to corrupt elites. Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism. The word corruption does not arouse the moral revulsion that it should. We think of it as more a nuisance than a great evil. But corruption kills societies every bit as much as murder kills an individual. Moreover there is no hope for any society in which corruption is endemic. One final thought: Here in Cameroon, as elsewhere in Africa, the knowledgeable guides who lead tours of the slave centers note that Africans were deeply involved in the slave trade, and that without them, the slave trade could not have existed. If only this fact were taught as readily in American universities as it is here in Africa -- not in order to minimize white complicity, but because universities should teach truth. Flawed human nature has no color. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Mar 11 01:13:52 2014, in response to A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 11 01:02:26 2014. Whiskey fucking Tango Foxtrot. :(So let's go full retard then ... cut off the aid and just move everybody to the suburbs over here where they can climb into that big tent and vote for Rand Paul, Steve King, Santorum and company. Maybe Sarah Palin will make them Mint Julips on her porch. Problem solved. |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Mar 11 01:39:10 2014, in response to Re: A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Mar 11 01:13:52 2014. I will agree with one line from DAnD's post: Human beings are NOT basically good. I agree with that premise unreservedly.I spent too many years with too many people in the back of my ambulance, who had been done to death in ways that defy rational understanding. If I were to describe, in accurate detail, the unspeakable things people are capable of carrying out against each other, they would haunt your waking and sleeping, to know that each and every one of your neighbors is perfectly able to do such horrors to YOU. Evil knows no racial or ethnic boundaries, it is everywhere. What human beings are, at their core, are predators. Think about it. Benevolent, "good" human beings do not rationally dream up devices like nuclear weapons. (Edward Teller remained unapologetic for having developed the hydrogen bomb, right up to the day he died, arguing that if he had not created the H-bomb, "others would have, and others in the Soviet Union did". He ignored his own moral responsibility not to have partaken in the development of such a weapon, knowing what its usage and meaning was.) Only severely twisted individuals come up with implements that they know full well, can render humanity a minor species, or even an extinct one. That's just my $0.02. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Mar 11 01:40:47 2014, in response to A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 11 01:02:26 2014. Uh-oh; you posted from TownHall. You will now be considered worse than a Freeper. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Mar 11 01:45:21 2014, in response to Re: A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Mar 11 01:39:10 2014. Unquestionable as to what meat bags can do to one another. :)But the apOlogism for his side really pissed me off. He's basically towing the company line of "fuck'em" ... and I just can't let that go. :( |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Mar 11 01:50:50 2014, in response to Re: A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Mar 11 01:40:47 2014. Seems Town Hall liked what Prager said ... no problem with that, though? |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Mar 11 07:43:07 2014, in response to A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by DAnD124 on Tue Mar 11 01:02:26 2014. He practices exactly what he denounces.Yes, some leftists are far to ready to call conservative thoughts or actions racist. Yet he says: Here in Cameroon, as elsewhere in Africa, the knowledgeable guides who lead tours of the slave centers note that Africans were deeply involved in the slave trade, and that without them, the slave trade could not have existed. If only this fact were taught as readily in American universities as it is here in Africa -- not in order to minimize white complicity, but because universities should teach truth. Universities? I learned that in junior high school. The American educational system does not keep it a secret that slave traders bought slaves from one black tribe that had conquered another. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Mar 11 09:55:24 2014, in response to Re: A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Mar 11 01:39:10 2014. Sad, because then you have the opposite spectrum of those that are always helping people. I have been in many situations where human "angels" have come to my aid by helping me at a bad time....in an ambulance being one of them.So I think it's pretty sad you have such a pessimistic view of people. There's plenty of good out there, we just hear mostly about the bad. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Mar 11 10:01:00 2014, in response to Re: A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by AlM on Tue Mar 11 07:43:07 2014. Universities? I learned that in junior high school. The American educational system does not keep it a secret that slave traders bought slaves from one black tribe that had conquered another.LOL, and what year was that? Do you think they still use chalkboard and don't use computers in classroom too? You think everything is done and is the same as when "you went to junior high"? |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Mar 11 10:10:07 2014, in response to Re: A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Mar 11 10:01:00 2014. I went to junior high more recently than either of you and was taught that. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Mar 11 10:19:43 2014, in response to Re: A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Mar 11 10:10:07 2014. And you aren't all that recent either. |
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