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Doing what is right is could be considered as the highest good, this is what every one suppose to be done. We are rational being I presume we knew what is righ and what is right although sometime we try to overlook the righteousness because of some factors that affects us.One of the more popular automobile maintenance problems usually overlooked is checking tire demand. This is incredibly quick for any person to accomplish, and also you won't have to take out a pay day loan to fix any strain issues. By making sure your tire strain is precise, you not only will keep away from more chances of accidents and blow outs, but you may also get far better gas millage. The recommended tire pressure is imprinted around the sides of all four of your respective tires. Many small things like your tire pressure will keep your vehicle running better and safer, so do not overlook them.
I'm hoping Curtis Sliwa is reading this blog. I would imagine with his arrogant attitude, he more than likely stops by to see who here is worshiping him after his brief, disgusting "debate" on Thom's show.
I remember when Sliwa first formed his roving band of neighborhood watch vigilantes. In those early days, I had some respect for him. Now he has become so full of himself, I can't believe he's doing much good anywhere he travels.
Having visited undercover several Republican and Tea Party blogs, I've found a common thread throughout the right-wing spectrum: facts don't matter; logic doesn't matter.
Listenting to Thom repeatedly trying to make very simple points about how the silent bombing of innocent people in Pakistan and Afghanistan is creating more new enemies than eliminating old ones, Sliwa never once understood the concept.
As a former Marine with a Purple Heart, Sliwa's arrogance and self-engrossed attitude is enough to make an enemy of me, and I live in the United States.
People like Curtis Sliwa make me ashamed of my country. Fortunately, there are still people here like Thom who help wash away some of that shame in the eyes of the nations.
Shalom
Here is what America and the world need in order to attain peace and justice on our planet for all of God’s children. Here is also what I believe God wants for His children and His vision for the world.
Shalom translated means peace but it is much more than peace. Shalom is a vision of social wholeness; a state of well being for all, where everyone has access to the goods of creation intended to meet the needs of all. Shalom is the substance of the biblical vision of one community embracing all creation where all enjoy the resources that make communal harmony joyous and effective.
Shalom is nothing less than God’s intended vision of the world, a dream of God that resists our tendencies for division, hostility, fear, lust, and misery. If there is to be well-being, it will not be just for the isolated and insulated individuals, it is security and prosperity granted to the whole community: the poor, the widow, the orphan, the immigrant, the tax collector and the sinner, the despised and the rejected, young and old, the have and the have nots, the powerful and the dependent. We are in it together. Together we stand before God’s blessings and together we receive the gift of life. Shalom comes only to the inclusive embracing community that excludes no one.
Ayn Rand Facist?
Interesting (long) read from http://www.alternet.org/story/147133/like_glenn_beck%2C_ayn_rand_peddled... Among other things, it compares the economic views of Rand with facisim:
Here he [Hitler] is in 1933 addressing another group of industrialists:
And here is Rand in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1967):
Hey Rahm . . . flush this! Signed, A "f**king retard," and proud of it!!
Strange, I haven’t heard from Golda either . . . She never writes. Sigh.
My point was over thirty years have passed and both sides need to come to the table.
The question of whose dirt is it in easily remedied by all sides accepting the United Nations Resolution 48 . . . The Transjordan portion of the British Mandate was trisected into Jordan, Israel and what should have been Palestine.
Now . . . Having typed the above, I am more than willing to admit that the situation is far from perfect. Religion or not has little to do with my views on Israel’s existence. Folk deserve dirt they can call their own . . . Dirt where they can be guaranteed a chance to be free from attacks by malicious outside forces. This includes Israelis, Palestinians, Darfur refugees, Afghanis and everyone . . . Even Libertarians and Republicans. Where that is for each folk in question is the eternal question . . .
A quick review of the proposed plan from Resolution 48 resulted in Israel being founded with indefensible borders. I suspect that the original intention was largely designed to finish off the remaining Hebrews. Fortunately, Israel’s defense against the attacks by its newly minted neighbors reconsolidated its borders into something almost manageable. We have to remember that the Palestinian camps were foisted off onto Israel by its neighboring Arabic nations. The Israelis are charged with defending and supplying folk sworn to their destruction AND the world is pissed off that they are still around to attempt to do so.
I see the basic issue as: One sovereign nation is being told by the whole world to make peace with a marketing campaign design to de-legitimatize that nation’s status . . . If the Palestinian leadership stepped up and declared themselves a nation and worked towards that goal . . . The issue would be solved.
@rladlof, we have too much talk from people who preach God, mother, and country. Bush disgusts me and Obama is carry the torch for Bush and his killing policies and practices. Personally, I see Obama as a lost cause in our pursuit of a better world. Yes, Obama is a corporatist.
@radloff: Golda Meir said that when she was alive. Haven't heard anything from her lately.
Thom, McDonnell Douglas doesn't exist anymore, bought out by Boeing long long ago.
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Albert Einstein was brilliant. We need more Albert Einsteins in the world.
@gerald:
No, the present American killing being enacted in the Middle East is wholly unjustifiable and unjust. I do not condone or support the practice. I live firmly in the ‘nation-building is good’ camp.
My point is that “Carrying the name of the One God before you into vain, earthly pursuits” (Shemot – Exodus 20:06) is, also, a sin AND if folk chose to do it, they should, at least, be accurate in their depravity.
@rladlof, I know this may found disrespectful, I don't mean to be, but other than the religious significance of Israel, is there anything else that makes the area desirable? Natural resources, or key trade routes or something like that? I know the question may seem simplistic, but I still wonder what actually makes the land so important.
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@radloff: so god did give the land to the tribes of Israel? Albert Einstein advocated a Jewish homeland, but feared a Jewish state.
Saying it's ours because our ancestors may have lived there could logically extend to Africa, where we are all from. So, when are we going to Kenya and Ethiopia and demand our property back?
@Gene Savory:
Two thoughts:
1. Golda Meir died in 1978.
2. It should be noted that there is no evidence that the folk presently calling themselves ‘Palestinians’ are direct or even indirect descendants of the occupying Hellenistic Greeks who had renamed the region to Palestine during their 28 years of occupying the region as spoils of war over two thousand years ago. After the Israelites re-claimed the country (Hooray Chanukah!), Palestine officially ceased to exist forever. Largely the folk who people call ‘Palestinians’ are the Ottoman Empire underclass which lived in Transjordan during to the British Mandate (1917-1948). In truth, some of them have roots going back centuries . . . Perhaps even a millennia or two . . . But I have yet to see any evidence that they are descendants of Hellenistic Greeks. You appear to have reached the conclusion that Israel is a roguish state enacting malfeasance based partly on faulty reasoning.
I know everybody is upset with Obama, I am too. Still when I wake up from a bad dream at night having visions of Newt Gingrich peeking in my window, or Larry Craig waving his fingers under my door. I look over at the wall and see my blackvelvet paint by the number, glow in the dark picture of Obama I know he has my back and can go back to sleep again with visions of him alternately kicking Mitch McConnel and John Boner in the gnads. I just wish Rahm Emmanuel would put some damn clothes on that really is disgusting!
@rladlof, is our killing in the Middle East a just killing? Protecting yourself from an attack can justify a killing. The problem with our country is that we consider ourselves above the law. There is no country on our planet that can defeat us. Americans are glorified with killing.
Another Red Neck story:
There is a History Channel story in which the striking miners who assembled and armed themselves to fight the coal operators and their thugs in West Virginia wore those red kerchiefs.
@rladlof, yes I wouldn't want to be impolite, in fact I would be all to happy to provide an extra hand (or whatever) if requested.
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RFK Sr.
@MAXROT:
I know of no biblical prohibition against two women being ‘in bed’ with one another.
The polite thing would be to let them finish THEN crawl into bed . . .
Here is an early Christmas song for the United States of Hell.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Oh-Come-All-Ye-Hateful-by-Darren-Wolfe-100609-787.html
Is that Bobby Kennedy Jr., of Ring of Fire fame?
Bobby Kennedy pointed out that when we want to arrest a criminal in New York City, we don't blow up the entire block where we think he may be.
A list of failures!
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=113251