Robert McNamara's Pentagon office in 1965...
Posted on 11/09/2006 4:03:16 AM PST by Chi-townChief
"May he find peace now"
A nice sentiment, but given that Roeper has tried to put Buddhist fatalism with Christian hope on the same level, I think that the man in question now finds his circumstances have not cooled off.
Silly bugger.
Any chance of this catching on? (Perhaps mention to Sindy a similar act will get her on TV???)
"Ritscher describes an incident in 2002 in which he claims to have had a knife as he passed within close range of Donald Rumsfeld. To his "deep shame," he didn't attack. There is also discussion of God's role in the universe, the two-party system, and the Bush administration. Throughout he comes across as intelligent, passionate, bitter, angry, disoriented -- and disturbed. Brendan Burke was a friend of Ritscher's. "Malachi was an incredible and gentle soul," Burke said in an e-mail to me."
Crazed vanity, to suppose that anyone is going to take a look at his burning corpse and say, "Oh, this has just inspired me: let's stop all that icky fighting over there in Iraq and instead pursue Peace Studies."
Er, with the shift of political wind, something like this could be, excuse the pun, fanned into the flame of an icon.
It wasn't the heat, it was the stupidity, that killed him...
Um thanks for all that but the monk that burned himself was protesting the treatment of the monks by the south vietnamese government. They were not treated as well as the christians.
Let me get this straight. He's an anti-war activist. The anti-war party just won a major election. His reaction to that victory is to BBQ himself.
Maybe his friends didn't know him as well as they thought they did. Maybe he was a PRO-war activist, upset that Pelosi and Reid were now in charge of congress.
I wonder if he voted first.......
Actually, he cooked his own goose last Friday.
LOL - man, wish I thought of that one!!
" . . . he claims to have had a knife as he passed within close range of Donald Rumsfeld. To his "deep shame," he didn't attack."
Another hate-filled looney gone from the planet. No loss.
How dare you question popular "history" with facts! Just who do you think you are!
KFA. Kentucky Fried Activist.
What a fargin idiot.
If only he had the courage to "come out of the closet" he would not have killed himself.
Hey, maybe it will catch on.
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