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coffee_addict Member (Idle past 120 days) Posts: 3645 From: Indianapolis, IN Joined: |
Dude, you are very disturbed.
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Chiroptera Inactive Member |
I've just read their blurb on Keynes' book and found this gem:
FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt. Strange that they don't mention that the last president to balance the federal budget was that "liberal" Democrat Bill Clinton, while the current record deficits are being racked up by our most Keynesian president in history, GWB (with help from a Congress dominated by his party).
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jar Member (Idle past 92 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Don't forget RR, who damn near spent us into bankruptcy.
Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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jar Member (Idle past 92 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: |
(Or perhaps the egyptian book of the dead) I was lucky enough when growing up that one of the books we had around the house was a copy of the Book of the Dead. I remember many happy hours pouring through it and the wonderful converstaions with mom and dad and my younger brother at dinner about the fantastic things to be found in it. If I had missed that a great and wonderful part of my life would be missing and I strongly urge anyone who has not read it to do so.
I personally disagree with some of the liberal books that elementary schoolkids are allowed to read, like A Way Of Love, A Way Of Life: A Young Person's Introduction To What It Means To Be Gay . Why would you disagree with a child being allowed to read any book? Isn't that the best way to start a discussion on the subject? This message has been edited by jar, 07-07-2005 05:53 PM Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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Morte Member (Idle past 6355 days) Posts: 140 From: Texas Joined: |
You say:
I personally disagree with some of the liberal books that elementary schoolkids are allowed to read, like A Way Of Love, A Way Of Life: A Young Person's Introduction To What It Means To Be Gay. {emphasis added} ...but then you say:
Not because i am anti gay so much as because I believe that the state has no right to indoctorinate children on what constitutes "normal' behavior. {emphasis added} Could you please clarify? I'm not quite sure whether you're objecting to students being allowed to read the book or being forced to read the book as a mandatory assignment. I would certainly consider the two to be completely different issues. If it's the latter, could you also please link to the specific instance you're talking about where elementary schoolchildren had to read the book? (I may or may not feel the same way in either case depending on further details.)
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lfen Member (Idle past 4930 days) Posts: 2189 From: Oregon Joined: |
But the idea that there are dangerous books has been embraced by the Catholic Church, Adolf Hitler, and Soviet Russia to name three. Those three institutions perceived perhaps with some good reasons that some books were a threat to their functioning.
lfen
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nator Member (Idle past 2422 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I'm pretty sure that the NeoCons have read it. At least, they sure sound like they've read it.
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Chiroptera Inactive Member |
Could be a case of kindred minds thinking alike.
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5285 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
Das Kapital was useless for me in trying to apply the industrial revolution power to supramolecular chemistry. My guess is that Faraday was not realized for an overfeeling on Darwin. I dont know but post-Communist Marxists couldnt change the tune to have a higher faculty offer what the internet does the lower in position to invert the conditions extant and rights in disupte.
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Alexander Inactive Member |
How the hell did they miss the Bible?! It's a stretch to say Kapital or the Manifesto "caused" communism or likewise for Mein Kampf and the holocaust, but it's no more of a stretch to link the Bible to the inquisition or the German or American witch hunts.
Someone explain to me why Ralph Naders book was on this list? Monk? Tal? Anyone? I can't think of any reason, valid or silly, that makes sense. 'Most temperate in the pleasures of the body, his passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable.'
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5285 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
Alex, the university's division into "chairs", "specialists" or "departments" was orginally 10 from degrees across the astrological sky but apparently they have failed to found a findable faculty for the difference of the Biblical and the philosophical theologian. Theology indeed it was(to speak like a little green Yooda). Entrupensurship does not substitute in during transit.
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2228 Joined: |
Alexander writes: How the hell did they miss the Bible?! Perhaps it's because the Bible was written/compiled at a time when counting centuries was still a bit of a novelty? We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins
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Alexander Inactive Member |
Haha ok I'm stupid. The question about Nader's book still stands.
'Most temperate in the pleasures of the body, his passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable.'
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2228 Joined: |
Alexander writes: The question about Nader's book still stands. I must pass on that one, it's something I know nothing about.
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robinrohan Inactive Member |
I read it recently. It's not as boring as its reputation suggests. Some of what is said in that book took my breath away. The hatred steams out from just about every page. That's what makes it interesting. Evil is very interesting, for some reason.
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