...Progressive doctrines of delusion and grandeur.
RexRed wrote:Setanta wrote:Every damned post in which you indulge your mania for idiosyncratic and loony interpretations of biblical passages constitutes an example.
An example that simply disagrees with something you do not support with a biblical rebuttal. Set, I could rebut my arguments better than you do...
It requires a shared reality for any discussion to be meaningful.
Fortunately, my faith allows me to believe that your crazy vote will be balanced by someone who, in previous races, would have voted for Ross Perot.
DrewDad wrote:RexRed wrote:Setanta wrote:Every damned post in which you indulge your mania for idiosyncratic and loony interpretations of biblical passages constitutes an example.
An example that simply disagrees with something you do not support with a biblical rebuttal. Set, I could rebut my arguments better than you do...
It requires a shared reality for any discussion to be meaningful.
Fortunately, my faith allows me to believe that your crazy vote will be balanced by someone who, in previous races, would have voted for Ross Perot.
More like a shared foundation. By a foundation I mean chapter and verse, not someone who said this that was taught it by this person who erroneously thought that it was verifiably biblical.
I am not saying the Bible is necessarily right, but one should at least know the difference between what is written and what is not written. What is easily substantiated biblically and what is purely biblical conjecture.
My gosh, all Christian religions are generally quoting the very same book! Why so much diversity? Answer: Some biblical students of the word are sloppy and do not actually believe in the Bible's integrity and some believe in it's integrity to the degree that they look for it's answers rather than their own answers.
Berkeley-Like Incident in DC
by Katie O'Malley
Posted: 02/22/2008
Last week's Vietnam flashback was courtesy of the mixed nuts in Berkeley who took it upon themselves to label the local Marine recruiters "intruders" and "unwelcome." Some people will do anything for a feelgood liberal headline. But we were heartened by the overwhelming numbers of proud and patriotic Americans standing by our defenders. And, typically for liberals, Berserkely kinda backed down under their pressure. (Hey, Mrs. Obama: plenty of folks manage to find lots to be proud of in America.)
While we were distracted by the Berserkely street theater, a much more disturbing scene was unfolding in our Nation's Capital. On Friday, February 15, members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) stormed a recruiting office at 14th & L and laid siege while Metro Police stood by. In a protest entitled "Funk the War" these children delighted in an act of civil disobedience that is as pathetic as it is chilling. Didn't see that on Keith Olbermann's report? I wonder why.
These spoiled privileged brats are the tools of some of the most disturbing figures on the Left. At Friday's event, the sagging hags of Code Pink stood off to the side while cheering on the SDS kidz' action. You can almost see their petuli-addled brains whirling, "If we send the children to do our dirty work, the police will be hesitant to make arrests."
I have to believe that the police would find joy in hauling one of those old prunes off to the clink. But getting your photo in the paper arresting a white, fresh faced college student? Not so much.
According to witnesses, Code Stink and the other aging hippies stood by the side and sent the children to the front lines, and ultimately into the recruiting station. Yet another technique the Left has borrowed from the Viet Cong.
I struggle to find the relevance of trashing a recruiting station. What message is this collection of mush trying to impart by vandalizing the station? These men and women are doing their jobs for a volunteer military. They do not set policy. The White House and Congress are only blocks away, kiddies, go where the decisions are made. Methinks the Secret Service would be less accommodating than the Capital Police.
Like a toddler who calls his parents to the bathroom after a successful event on the potty, these minions captured their dirty work on the web and proudly crowed,
"Prior to ripping up all their *&^%-but (sic)inside at 14th and L recruiter. After many previous protests had found the 14th st recruiter 'closed' at 5PM, Funk the War found them open, and the door unlocked at nearer to 6Pm and promptly exploited the situation by demonstrating to them first hand how an occupying force behaves.
After a loud commotion inside while outnumbered cops watched, recruiters finally managed to get protesters to leave-but not before literature and full-body length cardboard displays in the street window area were destroyed. In addition, hundreds more "Funk the War" stickers were plastered all over just about everything that would take them. By the time everyone was out it looked like a tornado had swept through the lobby."
Not content at this destruction, they turned to the DC GOP headquarters but found the door locked. Apparently the deterrent was a locked door, not the presence of police. How telling.
And calling themselves an occupying force? Their delusions of grandeur are staggering. Please. These twits took no risk. They know that they have friendly ears with the powerbrokers in DC. They know that the Mayor and the Police do not want images of little Johnny and Susie being hauled away in handcuffs. They know mommy and daddy went to school with the folks who now run the ACLU and that steady donations are coming from the family checking account. Wow. Super-brave. In the minds of these idiots, they are as brave as the Marines walking the streets of a struggling Iraq, helping to liberate an entire people while avoiding terrorists trying to blow them to pieces.
If only the SDS'rs could realize how completely absurd they really look.
My initial calls to the police were fruitless as were repeated calls to the Mayor's office. Each person I spoke with expressed surprise when told of the events. The few return calls I did get were too little, too late.
I find it mind-boggling that an incident of domestic terrorism holds so little importance in the eyes of those charged with public order in our Capital.
The military has been battling thugs like SDS and others for decades. For obvious reasons, the mainstream press has not chosen to cover it. It might make their peeps look bad. Recruiter's cars have been torched, their offices vandalized, bricks have been thrown through windows and these fine men and women have literally been chased from high school and college campuses.
The internet and the foolish bravado of these malcontents has made official reporting unnecessary. The Left gleefully posts the evidence of their dirty work (with pictures that the police should be able to use to id some of them) and their hatred for all to see. They gleefully call the recruiters pedophiles and these lovers of peace post threats and make harassing phone calls to those who stand opposing them. Do as I say, mews the little flowerchild, not as I do.
Like a bad STD, SDS has reemerged from the mindlessness of the 60's under a new banner with the same old tired socialist mindset. They join other parasites like the IVAW who fancy themselves the new Winter Soldiers. Both groups are powerful reminders of the danger of a diseased and troubled mind. Unlike their counterparts in the 1960's, these tools of the Left face a powerful, vocal and committed opposition.
As success in Iraq and in the War on Terror continues to expand, expect to see more public temper tantrums from these groups. Their irrelevance chafes at their tender hides and they will continue to ball their pudgy little fists and scream into the night.
I was just a child when my step-father returned from Vietnam. He and his brothers-in-arms were treated like dirt. I was unable to comprehend the horror of it or to protect him from it. Despite my age at the time, I carry a veil of shame at what some of my fellow Americans did to those men and women. Never again is not an empty platitude for me.
Nor is it an empty platitude to the folks who stand outside Walter Reed Hospital every week or to the folks who will surely stand outside 14th & L this Friday to let our heroes know that this time, they are not alone.
Whose the village idiot?
George Soros after his meds have kicked in.
Here's one for Hillary/Obama fans!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/17/clinton.plantation/index.html
RexRed wrote:Whose the village idiot?
This actor really does look amazingly like Soros, doesn't he? But actually, his name is Bernard Goldheim. The photo we see here was taken during a rehearsal for the New York play, "Surprise!" set in Judea about two thousand years ago. Goldheim plays Joseph and, in this instant in the play, Mary has just told Joseph that she is pregnant and that "God did it".
blatham wrote:RexRed wrote:Whose the village idiot?
This actor really does look amazingly like Soros, doesn't he? But actually, his name is Bernard Goldheim. The photo we see here was taken during a rehearsal for the New York play, "Surprise!" set in Judea about two thousand years ago. Goldheim plays Joseph and, in this instant in the play, Mary has just told Joseph that she is pregnant and that "God did it".
haha LOL!
God has that impression on liberals!
George Soros will be sore once Obama is done "redistributing wealth" in this country... He may want to take out a "progressive" policy to insure his own retirement.
RexRed wrote:George Soros will be sore once Obama is done "redistributing wealth" in this country... He may want to take out a "progressive" policy to insure his own retirement.
I don't think so, Rex. Soros has been redistributing his own wealth quite happily for a long while...
Quote:Philanthropy
George Soros (left) and James H. Billington.Soros has been active as a philanthropist since the 1970s, when he began providing funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa, and began funding dissident movements behind the iron curtain.
Soros' philanthropic funding in Central and Eastern Europe mostly occurs through the Open Society Institute (OSI) and national Soros Foundations, which sometimes go under other names, e.g., the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland. As of 2003, PBS[17] estimated that he had given away a total of $4 billion.
He has promoted non-violent efforts to increase democracy in many countries.
The OSI says it has spent about $400 million annually in recent years.
TIME Magazine in 2007 cited two specific projects - $100 million toward internet infrastructure for regional Russian universities; and $50 million for the Millennium Promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Africa - while noting that Soros has given $742 million to projects in the U.S., and given away a total of more than $6 billion.[18]
Other notable projects have included aid to scientists and universities throughout Central and Eastern Europe, help to civilians during the siege of Sarajevo, worldwide efforts to repeal drug prohibition laws, and Transparency International. Soros also pledged an endowment of 420 million to the Central European University (CEU). The Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus and his microfinance bank Grameen Bank received support from the OSI.
According to the National Review[19] the Open Society Institute gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Defense Committee of Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who has defended alleged terrorists in court and was sentenced to 2⅓ years in prison for "providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy" via a press conference for a client. An OSI spokeswoman said "it appeared to us at that time that there was a right-to-counsel issue worthy of our support."
In September 2006, Soros departed from his characteristic sponsorship of democracy building programs, pledging $50 million to the Jeffrey Sachs-led Millennium Promise to help eradicate extreme poverty in Africa. Noting the connection between bad governance and poverty, he remarked on the humanitarian value of the project.[20]
He received honorary doctoral degrees from the New School for Social Research (New York), the University of Oxford in 1980, the Budapest University of Economics, and Yale University in 1991. Soros also received the Yale International Center for Finance Award from the Yale School of Management in 2000 as well as the Laurea Honoris Causa, the highest honor of the University of Bologna in 1995.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
blatham wrote:RexRed wrote:George Soros will be sore once Obama is done "redistributing wealth" in this country... He may want to take out a "progressive" policy to insure his own retirement.
I don't think so, Rex. Soros has been redistributing his own wealth quite happily for a long while...
Quote:Philanthropy
George Soros (left) and James H. Billington.Soros has been active as a philanthropist since the 1970s, when he began providing funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa, and began funding dissident movements behind the iron curtain.
Soros' philanthropic funding in Central and Eastern Europe mostly occurs through the Open Society Institute (OSI) and national Soros Foundations, which sometimes go under other names, e.g., the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland. As of 2003, PBS[17] estimated that he had given away a total of $4 billion.
He has promoted non-violent efforts to increase democracy in many countries.
The OSI says it has spent about $400 million annually in recent years.
TIME Magazine in 2007 cited two specific projects - $100 million toward internet infrastructure for regional Russian universities; and $50 million for the Millennium Promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Africa - while noting that Soros has given $742 million to projects in the U.S., and given away a total of more than $6 billion.[18]
Other notable projects have included aid to scientists and universities throughout Central and Eastern Europe, help to civilians during the siege of Sarajevo, worldwide efforts to repeal drug prohibition laws, and Transparency International. Soros also pledged an endowment of 420 million to the Central European University (CEU). The Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus and his microfinance bank Grameen Bank received support from the OSI.
According to the National Review[19] the Open Society Institute gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Defense Committee of Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who has defended alleged terrorists in court and was sentenced to 2⅓ years in prison for "providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy" via a press conference for a client. An OSI spokeswoman said "it appeared to us at that time that there was a right-to-counsel issue worthy of our support."
In September 2006, Soros departed from his characteristic sponsorship of democracy building programs, pledging $50 million to the Jeffrey Sachs-led Millennium Promise to help eradicate extreme poverty in Africa. Noting the connection between bad governance and poverty, he remarked on the humanitarian value of the project.[20]
He received honorary doctoral degrees from the New School for Social Research (New York), the University of Oxford in 1980, the Budapest University of Economics, and Yale University in 1991. Soros also received the Yale International Center for Finance Award from the Yale School of Management in 2000 as well as the Laurea Honoris Causa, the highest honor of the University of Bologna in 1995.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
How about listing the, err, dollar figures and the money he has paid to unseat US political opponents to his, "socialist agenda"?
How about letting some other people earn their billions "George"...
Hmm, Adolf Hitler was nominated for that same Nobel Peace Prize...
Philanthropy is also important to (Bill) Gates. He and his wife, Melinda, have endowed a foundation with more than $28.8 billion (as of January 2005) to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning, with the hope that in the 21st century, advances in these critical areas will be available for all people. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed more than $3.6 billion to organizations working in global health; more than $2 billion to improve learning opportunities, including the Gates Library Initiative to bring computers, Internet Access and training to public libraries in low-income communities in the United States and Canada; more than $477 million to community projects in the Pacific Northwest; and more than $488 million to special projects and annual giving campaigns.
Now what is the dollar figure that "your friend" Soros has contributed out of his billions? Maybe it was not his generosity to "poor black students" that you REALLY admire?
I'll let you do the research. But carefuly, it might bite you.
blatham wrote:I'll let you do the research. But carefuly, it might bite you.
I have been bit by bigger domesticated animals.
RexRed wrote:blatham wrote:I'll let you do the research. But carefuly, it might bite you.
I have been bit by bigger domesticated animals.
I suspect quite often by small rabid ones too.
parados wrote:RexRed wrote:blatham wrote:I'll let you do the research. But carefuly, it might bite you.
I have been bit by bigger domesticated animals.
I suspect quite often by small rabid ones too.
Yes, foaming at the mouth liberals! How did you know?
