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 . Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanoes are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes them. Picture taken May 2, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Gutierrez (CHILE)  Geese lawn decorations are draped with veils on the front of a Crawford, Texas home ahead of the wedding of Jenna Bush and her fiancé Henry Hager. In a welcome break from two wars, terrorism, soaring oil prices and other woes, US President George W. Bush on Saturday is to celebrate his daughter Jenna's wedding on his Texas ranch. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)  A stork is seen as the sun sets, near the town of Volozhin, 70 kilometers (48 miles) northwest of Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, May 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)  An Open Border is as good as No Border. Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire The great historian, Gibbons, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, gave five reasons for the fall of the great dynasty. First: Rapid increase of divorce, with the undermining of the sanctity of the home, which is the basis of society. Second: Higher and higher taxes; the spending of money for bread and celebrations. Third: The mad craze for pleasure, sports becoming every year more exciting and more brutal. Fourth: The building of gigantic armaments, when the real enemy was within; the decadence of the people. Fifth: The decay of religion; faith fading into mere form, losing touch with life, and becoming impotent to guide it. A review of these principal factors in the decline of the Roman Empire can easily be related to our own time, and may portend our own decline from the status of a prominent world power. "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." (Prov. 14:34.) Again, "Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah." (Ps. 33:12.) Waziristan CAIR Taliban Nascar at FR ACORN Voter-registration fraud California Cruising in a field of icebergs Clinton GoreBalism Gorelick wall Guilty or Not guilty Haditha Hamdania Hugo Chavez ImaJihadnutjob IPCC McCain Musharraf Nascar New Majority Reform Institute RMSP Republican Main Street Partnership Schwarzenegger Soros Third Way TWirPs UNFCCC Zimbabwe EXPOSING THE "MAIN STREET" REPUBLICANS Michelle Malkin 11/28/05 FR keywords RMSP - Republican Main Street Partnership Main Street Investment Fund Excerpts from a few sources re: the "Third Way" ... THE THIRD WAY - Politics Of The Radical Center In his January 27 State of the Union Address, President Clinton claimed that his government represents a "Third Way": "We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say government is the enemy and those who say government is the answer. My fellow Americans, we have found a third way. We have the smallest government in 35 years, but a more progressive one. We have a smaller government, but a stronger nation. We are moving steadily toward an even stronger America in the 21st century: an economy that offers opportunity, a society rooted in responsibility and a nation that lives as a community." ... "...in a 'Third Way' society, private property must be allowed. Rather than government owning all property and the means of production, as in pure socialism, an alternative is used. In a 'Third Way' society, property and business is heavily controlled by government regulation, rather than government ownership. "However, in a 'Third Way' society, the laws to keep us citizens in line come from the communist model of government -- which means complete government control of everything from womb to tomb. We are to have a semblance of freedom. But the working class people must never have enough freedom (or accumulative power) to interfere effectively in either commerce or government. The moneyed elite, however, work under the capitalist system, and capitalist rules, so as to continue generating wealth. The elite get the freedom, the workers get strictly controlled." ... The unpleasant fact is that the massive network of non-governmental organizations represent constituencies which are unwittingly collaborating with their ideological adversaries. The success of this Third Way endeavor gives testimony to the genius of using NGOs as instruments of consensus building, as noted in the Nov. 7 Tampa Bay Online: "'Nonprofits are a way to avoid overreliance either on the state or the market. They have this wonderful way of tapping individual initiative, but they do it for public purpose,' said Lester M. Salamon, co-author of a new report for Johns Hopkins University that details the NGO movement's rapid growth. "Once viewed primarily as 'do-gooders' and religious groups trying to 'save the world,'' NGOs have evolved into a movement of liberals and conservatives. British Prime Minister Tony Blair calls it the 'third way' in world affairs. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder dubs it the 'new middle.' To academics it's an emerging 'civil society.''' ... about The Third Way - Democratic Leadership Council Defining the Third Way PPI's (The Progressive Policy Institute) mission arises from the belief that America is ill-served by an obsolete left-right debate that is out of step with the powerful forces re-shaping our society and economy. The Institute advocates a philosophy that adapts the progressive tradition in American politics to the realities of the Information Age and points to a "third way" beyond the liberal impulse to defend the bureaucratic status quo and the conservative bid to simply dismantle government. The Institute envisions government as society's servant, not its master -- as a catalyst for a broader civic enterprise controlled by and responsive to the needs of citizens and the communities where they live and work. ... Third Way or Third Reich? - FrontPageMagazine.com | June 22, 2000 On November 14, 1998, while most of us were distracted by sex scandals, The New York Times quietly reported that, in response to the growing worldwide recession, "Mr. Clinton has proposed a `third way' between capitalism and socialism." Actually, Clinton has been touting the Third Way since 1992. But his evasive language prevented most people from figuring out what he meant by it. "We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say government is the enemy and those who say government is the answer," Clinton said in his 1998 State of the Union address. "My fellow Americans, we have found a third way." Of course, most Americans didn't even know we were looking for one. But now that we've found it, how does it work? Among other things, the Third Way calls for business and government to join hands as "partners." "We are working with business to use technology, research and market incentives to meet national goals," Clinton told the Economic Club of Detroit in February. "Some have called this political philosophy the third way." What Clinton means by this gobbledygook is that Big Business will own the economy (as under capitalism), while Big Government runs it (as under socialism). Corporations will be bribed into obedience through subsidies, tax breaks, customized legislation and other special privileges. ... Governor promises a 'post-partisan' era - Hint Hint.. Schwarzenegger gave his strongest and clearest statement to date that he is displeased with the direction of his own party. He said he wants to chart a third way that combines elements of both Democratic and Republican ideologies. "I believe that we have the opportunity to move past partisanship, past bipartisanship to post-partisanship," the governor said before about 3,000 invited guests. "Post-partisanship is not simply Republicans and Democrats each bringing their proposals to the table and working out differences. Post-partisanship is Republicans and Democrats actively giving birth to new ideas together. "I believe it would promote a new centrism and a new trust in our political system," he said. "And I believe we have a window to do it right now." ...
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