Posted on 09/05/2005 6:20:49 AM PDT by Mary Kochan
We’ve been hit. Not like on 9/11 when we were sucker-punched in the face. And I don’t even mean to imply that “someone” or “Someone” did this to us. But we have been hit in the soft underbelly of our country.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicexchange.com ...
"Government is not a real dad. Or husband, for that matter. We have countenanced for too long those who accumulate political power by nurturing a dependent and shiftless underclass, and the chickens have finally come home to roost, only they aren’t chickens — they are vipers."
Home run...
Morality, that "outdated archaic patriarchal" concept need to come back stripped of its infernal guises of social justice, deep ecology, and resume all of it under the name of Christian Charity.
Charity is one of those concepts that I offend lots, even though I have a better-than-most understanding of the command.
Those who don't have the slightest understanding of it, are the most in need of it.
Robustly-mixed metaphors ... and doesn't this belong in "Bloggers and Personal," rather than "News"?
Welcome to FR.
NO has more than it's share of "moral rot." This morning a reporter was interviewing a woman (white, if anyone is still playing the cards) in a suburb of NO who was at her son's convenience store. The reporter, in amazement, stated, "and it hasn't even been looted."
I erroneously assumed this was about Michael Moore.
This is an excellent response to the left and all their spin about the federal government's response to the hurricane:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477689/posts
again, a Catholic breath of fresh air amidst the noxious smog of publicized remarks.
You wrote that? Great article. You are 100% correct.
We have been wondering if Europe would wake up in time to save itself. Well, Katrina was America's alarm clock going off!
It is time for Americans to wake up and get to work. There is enough time, at this point, but no time to waste.
The first thing to do is throw the Democrats out of power.
The next thing is to unite behind President Bush and focus on national security and maintaining a healthy U.S.A.
The third thing is to allow the Left--including its Propaganda Machine (the "Mainstream Newsmedia")--sink into oblivion where it belongs.
The Left, if it had its way, would sink America faster than Sean Penn's "rescue" boat filled up with water.
Get moving, America! The time is NOW!
Note Tagline!
Oops. Yer linked thread was pulled.
It can be read here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477440/posts?page=652#652
The thread got pulled but can also be read here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477440/posts?page=652#652
Excellent article.
I think we're wasting our time and missing the point if we try to "respond" to the left's spin.
We need to be pointing out that we are facing Goebbels-like, "Big Lie Technique" propaganda.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fight the "Big Lie Technique"?
I don't have any idea, except to present the facts.
It's unfortunate the MSM still doesn't present balanced panels. For all the left's criticism of Fox, the irony is that FNC is the only one to nearly always try and present balanced viewpoints.
This is probably a topic for another thread--but I'd be interested to hear more on Charity. I happen to be a Christian (and no doubt a flawed and fallible one at that), and I hope I have always done my best to live by the principle of 'charity' (New Testament 'charitas'); but in my time, in many parts of the world, I have witnessed supreme acts of what I think to be true Charity--and not only by Christians, but also by Jews, by Hindus, by non-believers, and yes, even by Muslims. That Charity is a virtue I do not doubt; that it is exclusively Christian, however, I do question.
Wonderful article heading this thread, many thanks to the first poster for that.
I am sorry if I put my article in the wrong place on FR. I have only posted a few times and I don't have the whole thing sorted out. If anyone can tell me how to switch this article to the correct category, I will do so.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fight the "Big Lie Technique"?
This thread points to my analysis of the propaganda media.It is just barely possible that the turnover in the Supreme Court might - by the time a lawsuit started now got to that level - be sufficient to bring the FCC and its licensees under control.
The First Amendment doesn't specify a right to hear; it specifies that the government may not prevent you from speaking, or assembling a crowd, or spending money to publicize your ideas with a printing press.
In contrast, the FCC promulgates a right to be able to hear certain people - and an unconstitutional duty for the rest of us to shut up. The FCC broadcast license is in effect an unconstitutional "title of nobility."
This is ingrained in our culture by now, though - so the question is, "what remedy could we-the-people accept?" My answer is, the American people should accept, and should demand, actual competition among the journalists.
It is easy to show (to anyone who is not proud of their unwillingness to see) that the "objective journalism" establishment is a cabal of go-along-and-get-along charlatans who are negative, superficial, arrogant, and cowardly. Broadcasting which claims to be objective should be banned; a claim of objectivity is inherently an oxymoron.
I agree, Charity is present in all religions where believers practice it.
Christian charity goes beyond.
Thomas Merton was a good source, too.
It would be an interesting thread. Maybe someone can start one in the religion section.
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