stevendedalus

Reply to Enslavement? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Thanks, especially coming from you. You know what it means when the nation loses sight of priorities and human kindness.

What combat is really like in Blogging JoeUser Forums

D-Day Plus One [excerpt from my novel] As the first squad descended the slope the next morning into an open field of picturesque rice paddies and leisurely herded together civilians who had hidden in the copses dotted along the way to the western shore, another company further ahead suffered severe casualties as one of its platoons was trapped in a deep ravine and its other two rifle platoons bravely attacked under heavy enemy fire to rescue the few remaining men.

Reply to The state of JoeUser: Feb 2004 in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Since point accumulation seems to be the soul of this site if one is to draw out commentary, I should like to know how points are deducted. I have lost 267 within a week.

Reply to New Directions to Peace in Politics JoeUser Forums

They're also tricky because there are several provinces they leave alone--watch and see how their capitalism works.

Enslavement? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Is there no difference between people in need and people dependent on government? Are people in need of security, whether it be protection from criminals or national defense, not dependent on branches of government? Are not the captains of industry dependent on government that insures their holdings and estate will be forever safe? Are not the super wealthy beholden to the government’s Federal Reserve preventing run-on banks that would jeopardize their funds and also are they not behol

Reply to Should Offensive Art Be Taken Away? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Plato had an answer for this: ban the artists from society, even though he loved their "divine madness."

Reply to Same Sex Marriage vs. Bush in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Poi Dog, did you catch the news item on the rape victim with a contraceptive prescription which was refused by a Texan Christian pharmacist at Eckerd because of his belief? Unbelievable. And Bravo for taking on Wardell!

New Directions to Peace in Politics JoeUser Forums

Let us first deal with the perception that Americans don’t feel secure in time of crisis with Democrats. Since Reagan this has been forced fed to the public by the right wing. Odd that it didn’t bother the nation during eight years of Clinton. Surely, the rest of the world felt more secure with Clinton even though he sent troops to Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo, bombed Iraq innumerable times, devastated bin Laden’s camps. The reason is that, except for preemption in Haiti, clearly to e

Reply to Creating a society of dependents in Politics JoeUser Forums

Wardell arrogance par excellence! You are a purposeful antagonizer simply to keep your points in the statosphere. How you could be so self-righteous to think that drop-outs are ignorami, forgetting that we are talking about minorities, senior citizens, and new citizens. That post-grad people are liberal is not so much a matter of intelligence but that they have more leisurely time to really study statistics and political science to come up with sensible decisions, not rubbish like yours. You kee

Reply to Regarding "Lies & the Lying Liars who Tell Them" in Politics JoeUser Forums

I'm afraid you're right; he will get away with it--even though polls show he's in trouble.

War Travesty in Politics JoeUser Forums

At one time the Republicans were right as far as foreign policy goes that the Democrats were always, it seemed, getting us into some meaningless but tragic wars. However, when Republicans got us into “skirmishes” they were out of self defense, or patriotism. These critics would conveniently forget that Truman and Johnson were under constant pressure from the hawkish Republicans never to let the commies get away with anything. Understandably the young would not know of Nixon who began hi

En route to Education in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Education must be as concerned with directing youth toward a code of ethics suitable to each individual and to the general good as it is with the growth of their intellectual citizenry. It must be concerned with the development of moral values as in the development of his economic and political potential. Educators must disclose their inherent distaste for the world of what too often is and espouse with immeasurable resources the philosophy of what can and ought to be. For edu

Reply to Reality?! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Update: the Super Bowl show--crotch tugging and boob revelation prove my point.

Reply to Service to The World in Current Events JoeUser Forums

There certainly is the rolling of the dice or [Iraqi cards] in politics and society in general. I get a kick out of business news each day trying to give "reasons" for the day's gamble.

Reply to Boredom on the Campaign Trail in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I take it back--now that the voting is in full swing--the campaign is filled with surprises and attrition--I like it.

Reply to Progressive American Axioms for the Future in Politics JoeUser Forums

You might consider a buck extra if the kid shovels and also chips away the ice. Messy, it not charity of which I speak but rather an employer's commitment to keeping productive workers who can also feel good about their community, equal to the employers respect in a thriving community.

Reply to DNA of Everything? in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Awesome multiplied by infinity.

Reply to Wardell Protests Too Much in Blogging JoeUser Forums

But according to one of his blogs on "his perfect marriage", I doubt that he would be interested in picking up chicks or writing about. He does draw maps well--his latest contribution.

Reply to Republicans freed the slaves, Democrats to save slavery in Republican JoeUser Forums

Luna, you're right: to be neutral you have to be split down the middle, but you can alos split half a brain, too, you know effecting greater chaos. From stevendedalus [I sign this because I think Brad has changed me to oops! ]

Reply to Election 2004 early prediction in Politics JoeUser Forums

I don't think Ridge has the pulling power in PA as in 2000; I would agree that Graham would put FL in Kerry's hip pocket; but he might be too old--two guys running who have surgery? It depends on whether Kerry wants Ohio and Missouri rather than picking up a couple of questrionable southern states like SC and LA, he will probably opt for Gephardt. I think Kerry has a good chance in AZ.

Tax Cuts & Nostalgia in Blogging JoeUser Forums

When I was a kid--and an Errol Flynn fan-- the Republicans resented the New Deal because it meant institutionalizing Robin Hood — spreading the wealth around. Their philosophy was that the national and global decisions are made by the profit motive, regardless of consequences. In spite of the Crash of ‘29 or Reagan’s Black Friday, they still believe the common good is in the grubby hands of the money vendors. If that’s so, then why at the turn of the last century did the auto-industry

Reply to Listening to the arguments on gay marriage in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Brazen public display bothers me. However a Gay parade is a sincere openness to get results, just as the civil rights and Nam movements in the sixties and seventies. I would not equate gay marriage as in your face with Janet's boob in my face.

Reply to Same Sex Marriage vs. Bush in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Wow, we sure were on the same wave--yours more eloquently. Love by any other name would sound as sweet--whether it be union, contract, social contract of inclusion. Who cares? As long as lovers want to be together, stay together be at one, I think it's great and would not shake the foundations of our society--we are above that paranoia and should accept it gracefully.

Reply to Republicans freed the slaves, Democrats to save slavery in Republican JoeUser Forums

Reaction to Blogger's "Republican's Freed the Slaves..." Granted that Woodrow Wilson turned a blind eye to the South were he to win election, he is no more a racist than Lyndon Johnson who did turn a good eye, which led to the fracture of the solid south for the Democratic Party. Woodrow Wilson capitalized on the Republican split between the liberal wing and the conservatives leading to Teddy Roosevelt’s third party based on “New Nationalism” — a strong central government steeped in social l

Reply to Why Separation? in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Right on GemCity; but I fear Mr. Bush, who brags about not reading newspaers, for certain doesn't read the Constituion.