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Presbyterian, definitely explosive types!

Monsieur, at first I was quite bewildered by your words as they seemed to be thoroughly nonsensical, then I noticed your screen name and it occurred to me that you must be French and do not understand well how the language English to use. Perhaps you could repost your remarks in French and one with a knowledge of that language could discern your meaning. As it is, your words seem a bit random.

I'm starting this Sunday to withhold my donations.

It would be wrong to actually withhold your donations. Make those donations (and I hope you are tithing) but send them to Rome or to specific Catholic institutions that are doing the Lord's work. Look at the continually increasing number of traditional Masses offered in the modernist extremely liberal dioceses whose bishops once staunchly opposed any return of the old mass. The traditionalists in the parishes started sending their money to Rome, etc. and the modernists do not tithe for the most part and, the Church not really being an important part of their lives, just don't contribute very much.

The modernist bishops have allowed and even promoted a certain number of traditional masses to get some of the traditionalist money back in the diocese. The financial result is immediate and more old masses are added.

Modernist bishops a few years ago went on a spree of closing historically traditionalist parishes that even retained altar rails and the old high altars in order to chase the tithes of the traditionalists into the modernist parishes. What happened is that the money went to Rome or the parishioners found SPX parishes in which to sit out the modernist lunacy. The Church is not a democracy, but the parishioners do, in fact, have a vote, because the society itself is free market based.

In Australia, policies inspired by the Culture Cult have brought the illiterization of thousands of Aborigines whose grandparents could read and write

In Ameerica, this has been accomplished for a large part of the general population by public schools.

This is still a version of the Viet Nam Approach, i.e. the measured response, the sending of messages. It did not work in Viet Nam and will not work in Israel.It strengthens the enemy because the people in those villages do not reason back from effect to cause. They only see that the Jews destroyed their homes.Why should Dershowitz, a liberal, think this would work? A major Liberal trait is the insistence on assigning arbitrarily chosen causes to given events, even where obviously absurd.

Such a system would drastically raise the mortality rate of people who go to emergency rooms from auto accidents and such.

Gorbachev's quote is great to use in exchanges with liberals because he is an idol of theirs. He is a handy liberal icon on whom to blame - that is- to whom to credit with the decomposition of the USSR.

Who said, "Evil prospers when good men do nothing"?

Actually that quote or variations is attributed to just about everybody who lived before 1900.

Having said that, I think Israel will be taking off the gloves

I hope that I am wrong but I suspect that it will take a change in the government to effect the removal of any gauntlets. Israel's polititians are too deeply committed to the Viet Nam type of warfare, i.e. the "measured response" and the "message". The people who think in that manner do not learn anything from failure. As the actions to be responded to increase in frequency and severity, so do the "measured responses" and the futility eventually causes the populace to demand cessation, whatever that entails, even surrender and emigration.

Perhaps it will take a change in Israel's proportionally representative parliamentary system that guarantees that splinter parties have a veto over anything the government proposes. If the splinter is displeased it pulls out of the coalition and the government dissolves.

Your Hamlet string has behind it a whole language, with idiom and abstract meaning, embeded in a complex cultural context. The compound only needs to specify

The language and its development is quite irrelevant here. Itis purely a mathematical problem. The monkey does not have any language base, knows not what he is typing, and the keys could be random numbers. The problem would not change. A string of DNA has many times more information in its structure than does an alphabet.

Hey Mr. Raf... World War III is upon us but I don't think the history books will denote it as such. The Cold War should have received that label, but it already had a tag. Perhaps this war will be remembered as the Moslem War, or, as that is politically incorrect, the Religion of Peace War.

This fellow is using a lot of space to refute an unposed argument. And he does it poorly.

have been freed from what amounts to a family curse

These children were NOT freed from this curse- they never had it. The children who had it were prevented while those that did not have it were allowed to live. They may be free of the curse but they were not freed from it.

Get rid of Colmes

Colmes is useful as a continual reminder of the way a Liberal's mind works.

It's hard to believe in big conspiracies requiring many conspirators

There were many witnesses who saw a missile but the government and the press called them mistaken or liars when they referred to them at all. Many of the witnesses were told in an intimidating manner that they were mistaken and that was crazy to talk about it at all. It does not need great numbers of people keeping their lips sealed, only the cooperation of the press and the relentless repetition of the official story.

If things went as this item relates then everyone has acted properly, even if it is a case of a "jittery" screener.

I don't know that this is totally accurate

As always, there were other reasons proclaimed, but expansion was the reason for those wars. The so-called Indian wars were border wars fought against unruly barbarians that were in the way of expansion, so I guess they were wars of expansion also.

in order to create "people's democracies" worldwide. We, on the other hand, fought the Cold War for the principle of national sovereignty

Wrong. We fought the Cold War for survival.

We fought the Mexican and Spanish Wars for territorial expansion. We fought the Kosovo war for vanity. All other wars were fought for survival.

Did they declare war?

Nobody declares war any more. And our recent "wars" have not been classic wars, anyway. Wars are fourht between major power. War was once "declared" by one state against another because that formally cahnged a host of diplomatic realtionships. Since WWII we have fought border wars (Viet Nam, Korea, Afghanistan, Nicaragua,etc.) and punitive wars (Iraq, AfghanistanII,) Historically these have never been "declared".

Border wars are actions between nations or empires with generally hazily defined border areas and are fought over ostensibly minor issues but are actually a contiuous testing of strength between rival powers.

Punitive wars are expeditions mounted by empires against unruly, or threatening minor powers on the periphery of the empire or against barbarians. China's "war" with Viet Nam was such a punitive war.

Is China a republic

Yes, China is a republic. A republic is simply a country ruled by a group that has no hereditary status, that comes from "the people" rather than being descended from the gods or ruling as vicars of the gods. A democracy is run by "the poeple" themselves and tends to be or to be moving towards the majoritarian form and totalitarianism.

A democracy is a species of republic as is a constitutional representative democracy which seems to be the longest lived form and which we retain in the USA.

Other forms that are not republics are monarchies and true aristocracies (which tend to exist as periods of interregnum).