To Xtine: thank you for the comment - nothing wrong with knowing you don't know as much as you think you do. I'm in the same position myself. And I like people who don't follow the herd.
I suppose I can't really call this an article... It is however a genuine response that I posted on one of the threads of the Guardian's 'comment is free' section. ( Link ). I post it here in hopes of encouraging you to explore the site at the Guardian, partly because
To Chaos Manager: no doubt the gods of chaos (Loki in particular) are smiling on you even now...
At some point I made a rather inflammatory comment about the aboriginal inhabitants of America... For all you Red folk out there, don't take me too seriously. It was my inner racist exercising his freedom as a consequence of a little too much 'herbal remedy' and waaaaay too much bourbon. Much as the repression of sexuality in the UK eventually introduced me to my inner Sadist, so the repression of issues of race here in America eventually in
To foreverserenity: Thank you for the comment. I find myself a little perplexed by this, however - That young man is probably just fed up and bored with his own existence. He hasn't put a foot 'out' into his own world to see what else there is for him. Sometimes people feel that they have to go elsewhere to mak
Abu al-Zarqawi died, George Washington met him at the Pearly Gates. He slapped him across the face and yelled, "How dare you try to destroy the nation I helped conceive!" Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, "You wanted to end our liberties but you failed!" James Madison followed, kicked him in the groin and said, "T
Foxjazz is proof that God does indeed play dice - and that He occasionally craps out.
still waiting....
To KellyW and foreverserenity: Thank you, Thank you. And Thank you.
And here it is again... the idiot notion that the children of those who were culpable ought to pay for the crimes of their forefathers. It's on a par with asking the descendants of slave-owners to 'atone' for a guilt that cannot possibly be theirs by giving yet one more handout to a bunch of lazy, parasitic, welfare-queens an' dey baby-daddies. Suppose that fifty or so years ago one of your grand-parents - or better still some unknown cousin - commits a crime against some group o
Let's start with a few simple assumptions (whether or not I agree with these assumptions is a different matter - but I am no longer a Christian in any usual sense of that word). We'll assume that Jesus ('Christ' is a title meaning 'anointed one', not a family name) was both man and God. We'll also assume that the basic Gospel narrative concerning his life, ministry, death and resurrection are also true. Since it's the nature of Godhead to prod
To Texas Wahine: thank you for the comment. I hope you and yours are still doing well?
To MM: I hope you're feeling better - thanks for the applause [takes a bow].
To cactoblasta: As I said originally, I don't understand the American sense of patriotism in the visceral way that many Americans appear to experience it. And I'm not entirely sure that this visceral commitment is a good thing. Being English, I take a less emotive and more intellectual approach - so that my patriotism relates to law, the Constitution, the duties and rights of citizens, rather than to any sense of 'my country, right or w
To little-whip: V^^^^^^V and thank you - but then, you know God loves lions tooooo (family joke).
To cactoblasta, and others making similar points - I still fail to see why tha act of questioning should be seen as anti-patriotic. There's a sense in which the honest citizen ought to subject everything his government does to questioning - because everything done is done in his name. Patriotism should never be blind, especially in a democracy and still more so in a Republic founded on the idea that it is the will of the
As to songs... here's my own favourite patriotic ditty... Lloyd George knew my father Father knew Lloyd George Lloyd George knew my FAaaaaaatherrrrrr FAaaaaaaaather knew Lloyd George (repeat infinitely, to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers)
To cactoblasta: I agree that everyone thinks they have the right to an opinion, and to air it, and while that can lead to all sorts of nonsense being current in the public sphere I don't think that it's necessarily a bad thing in itself. Contemporary democracy is nothing without free exchange of opinion and open debate. America could (and would, if need arose) fight any number of what might be called 'classical' wars, in which large-s
To cactoblasta: I seem to remember you and I disagreed about various things before my recent departure - but that you were always civil and held up your end rather gamely - which is all that can be asked from an exchange of views. Thank you for the welcome back - I appreciate it.
To Shovelheat: I don't know if I've told you this before but I've often read your posts and always been impressed. You manage to convey a very strong sense of yourself without ever taking yourself too seriously - and Lord, there are some here who should take lessons from you.
I'm sorry your ill, elie. Feel better soon, and thank you.
Than k you singrdave
To Tova7: It's ok. When you join me in the fires of ultimate perdition I shall torture you quite horribly and we shall be quits}:->
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