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Posted on 09/20/2008 9:32:40 AM PDT by bobsunshine
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato
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Your words:
“Yes, she and her lawyers won that war against the big bad power company (and it may have done some bad things but not necessarily with the environmental consequences claimed)”
That's akin to saying the people of China shouldn't be upset just because the milk they fed their children was intentionally tainted with harmful ingredients by greedy,unscrupulous suppliers. After all, not all of them are sick or dead! sarcasm//
China is the best example of why free market capitalism, uncoupled with law, honor and personal responsibility, may not be a viable system for much of the world. And also perhaps why, we in this nation, are having serious problems right now.
Your own admission that "the big bad power company may have done some bad things" and subsequent willingness to ignore the very serious damage those "bad things" caused many innocent people to suffer, leads me to think you may need a refresher course in Honor 101 yourself!
And then if they do anyway, to take it to them so harshly as to make an impression in their, their childrens, their grandchildrens, and their great grandchildren's minds down to the 6th generation that it was a mistake to do so.
Then, once they are sufficently humbled, to help them stand back up and take on republican, constitutional, moral principlas of liberty themselves.
Why, thank you!
This war, the defining one of this century IMO, will not end no matter who wins this election. Whether or not WE want peace is irrelevant.
What is relevant is whether or not THEY want peace. And the enemy has made it painfully clear time after time after time that they don't want peace. In fact they don't even define peace the same way we do.
We, those of us in the Western world, define peace as the absense of war. The enemy defines peace as the absense of resistance to islam.
The two are not and never, ever will be the same thing.
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To the point that the support base is completely and utterly fractured and those ideologies are annihilated and become a hiss and a by word to their own people as the Nazi and Imperial Japanese are today.
Insults this evening?? I think not.
I deal in these matters daily and have been on both sides of the fence. I have advised companies when they have a problem and that they have to take action. If they don't and if they're violating the law, they deserve what they get. On the other hand, I know when environmentalists are crying foul to bring in a few more members and they don't care if it causes businesses to be shut down. I get tired of enviro-nutters who shout chicken little at the drop of a hat and then go to the jury and cry harm and play upon their emotions. What's most important are the facts in the case and not the emotionalism.
Here is a little primer on the case and the lady. Take it for what its worth but know that there are two sides to these issues and that elevating one figure to a place on the high pedestal may be doing the actual facts a disservice.
It was not the cause that Brockovich was fighting that I was promoting...it was that she took up the fight with little background and education. Please re-read my post without thinking that it was a comment on the worth of Brockovich's attempts. This thread is about Palin and not Brockovich, and I merely made a comparison of their similar paths. I believe others "got it." Please don't be so offended and make an issue of something that was not intended and does not pertain to the subject of the thread.
Forgive me if I do not agree with you. I believe there are other role models for women that can be better compared to Sarah and her rise. While Brockovich may be admired by feminists is is likely more for her politics than her accomplishments.
On the other hand, several women who had to overcome racial/ethnic challenges come to mind and I could likely name others if it were not so late. Two are black - Condolezza Rice and Oprah. The third is Hispanic and like Palin was a mayor and has a son with Down Syndrome. Rosario Marin was appointed treasurer of the US by President Bush but resigned to run for the US senate from California, a race which she lost.
Their problem is that they - like many liberal commentators - just can’t fathom why Palin is so popular.
Go water Biden’s hair, Liz.
If Diana had been born in Iowa rather than as Lady Spenser, she would have ended up working at the Dairy Queen or as a receptionist at the local accounting firm or something similar. She might have been very happy as a very ordinary woman. Sarah, on the other hand, is a woman of exceptional talents who has risen from humble beginnings because of talent, hard work, and strong values. No comparison at all.
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