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A Holiday Potpourri
Kit Carson and Native Americans. Ben Stein and Ron Paul. Liberals and Santa. Obama and National Security. Napolitano and Rendell. Plus much more.
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That’s eerily similar to the definition of the “harry reid” (Phragmites nevadis) a tall thin man who lives in shallow water out of the mainstream, characterised by a hollow core and a propensity to bend in the slightest breeze, whose only common use is to make a loud shrill sound when someone else plays the tune.
Didn’t the Pied Piper of Hamlin play his fatal music on a reed instrument?
Ah, History!
—A.C Santore
WELCOME BACK
Re: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder’s Business
as Usual:
It is good at this holiday season to see the return of Jackie and
Raoul even if it involves the execrable Tiger Woods. Their
musings are always welcome although too rare. I certainly do not
want to insult two fine Jewish Gentleman, (well Raoul anyway),
but they really do seem to practice Christian principles all year
long.
— Jack Wheatley
Royal Oak, Michigan
Tiger, Tiger, not too bright Philandering in the forests of the
night. (With profound apologies to William Blake!)
— Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virgini
— Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virgini
SOLD
Re: G. Tracy Mehan, III’s Seeking the Welfare of the Citiy of Our Exile: This is an excellent Review of Fr. Neuhaus’ book by Tracy Mehan. I look forward to reading it.
— Mary Ellen Schweitzer
Re: G. Tracy Mehan, III’s Seeking the Welfare of the Citiy of Our Exile: This is an excellent Review of Fr. Neuhaus’ book by Tracy Mehan. I look forward to reading it.
— Mary Ellen Schweitzer
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Pingback| 12.31.09 @ 6:31AM
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Le Cracquere| 12.31.09 @ 10:42AM
J. Elfrank-Dana's letter merely supports what everyone already knew: Einstein's opinions were utterly valueless at sub-cosmological scales. Additionally, I'll leave it to other readers to judge whether abolishing tenure and union featherbedding amounts to "tyranny." I shall only observe that the depredations of Elfrank-Dana and every other union member merit nothing less than tyrannical treatment, and quite a bit more into the bargain.
IMKessel| 12.31.09 @ 11:50AM
Mr. Dooley,
If you return to my original post, you will find we are in agreement on marriage. Religious institutes sanctify marriages; the state regulates contracts, My point was, and is, that if the people who want to have civil contracts truly want just a legal agreement, the state is the place to go. For those who want the sanctity of marriage, the church, mosque or temple is the place for them.
To all,
I wish you a happy new year. To make this happen, lets do all we can to return sanity to our government and the government to the people.
Richard L.A. Schaefer| 12.31.09 @ 4:41PM
One can argue that (individuals and groups) have the right to name themselves as they wish and to require others to use that name, keeping in mind that there is a distinction between a generic name and an official name that the group prefers. Regarding the generic name, there are no Native Americans. Generically, one could call them "Asian-Americans" or "Japanese-Americans," based on the DNA studies to discern where people immigrated from--specifically, those who are sometimes called "Indians" and sometimes "Native Americans." Note the complications regarding blacks. James Jones is just one of many who repudiate being called an African American, with or without hyphen. Some prefer to be called blacks, with or without a capitalized first letter and note that the immediate ancestors of many blacks did not come here from Africa. Others are insulted by the word "Negro." With this disagreement, people can be forgiven for taking the approach of trying to determine a generic term; that is, not using the term that particular blacks or even "Native American Indians" might insist that everyone use for all who are in their category.
Seek| 12.31.09 @ 4:49PM
Glen McCarthy:
Egypt has received the same amount of money as Israel since the Camp David Accords of 1978. But I suppose their hands aren't "grubby" enough to merit any mention. After all, they're not Jews.
IMKessel| 12.31.09 @ 6:21PM
Seek,
Amen.
Your information is correct. While questioning the wisdom of sending American money abroad is prudent, the questions asked often show the (askewed) mind set of the questioner.
Ira
Electricity meter | 4.20.11 @ 4:33AM
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