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Tuesday, June 12. 2007

Tuesday Morning Links

A great Connecticut couple.

20 years ago today, Reagan almost did not say "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

Will amateurs threaten the porn industry? Crittenden. I have always found it amusing that hookers refer to non-working girls as "amateurs" in the same way that cops and soldiers refer to others as "civilians."

How Tyranny arrived in Zimbabwe. Kirchick in Weekly Standard.

More evidence for the theory that delinquency has biological roots.

"You can't base your immigration policy on a bad old poem on an ugly French statue." Small Dead Baby Seal. With Steyn. 

Richard Rorty and Pragmatism. Deneen, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Evil, greedy Big Pharma. Attack Machine

Slo-mo Kristallnacht in Canada? Driscoll

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The formulation is not Steyn, it's the inimitable Kathy Shaidle of relapsedcatholic.com, guest-blogging at SmallDead.
#1 dilys on 2007-06-12 07:29 (Reply)
I know. The source is misleading. Will fix it.
#2 The NJ on 2007-06-12 07:42 (Reply)
I told you this was only round two of a heavyweight fight last week. I received this today. Please do your thing and sread the word it ain't over

Grassfire.org Alliance
Bush-Kennedy Amnesty Bill Update
To: Habu


Habu,

Bush and the Amnesty Senators are now preparing to bring
the Bush-Kennedy Amnesty bill back for a vote immediately.

Yesterday, Commerce Secretary Gutierrez said the administration
is "more determined than ever" to pass amnesty and Tony Snow
added that the Senate "could wrap this up in two days." Now,
Bush has scheduled a meeting with Senate Republicans on
Tuesday to plan strategy and Majority Leader Reid is saying
he is ready to move the bill to a vote.

Habu, I am outraged and you should be as well.

Just last week, the American people soundly rejected Bush-Kennedy
Amnesty. The New York Times even featured Grassfire.org and
three of our team members in a Page One lead story yesterday
entitled "Grass Roots Roared". Now, they are bringing amnesty back!

See the NYTimes article linked here:


http://www.grassfire.org/19042/offer.asp?rid=13413755

Two crucial action items:

Action Item #1-- Call Your Senators and the White House
and tell them to "Back Off"!

Sen. Martinez 202) 224-3041
Sen. Nelson (202) 224-5274

White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414
White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111

Talking Points:

1. I am outraged that the President and the Senate are
again planning on pushing this amnesty bill.

2. I am offended that these leaders are ignoring the
clear voice of grassroots Americans.

3. I call on you to announce publicly your opposition to
the Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill and call on the Senate
to abandon plans for further debate.

Action #2 -- Fax the President and Senate NOW!

I know you have done so much already, but we cannot stop now.

We have added key Bush Administration targets to our Fax Hot
List, in addition to key Senators who must be reached today
with a flood of faxes.

Go here to send your faxes:


http://www.grassfire.org/19042/offer.asp?rid=13413755

Our staff and contacts on the Hill sensed all along that the
Amnesty Gang would bring this bill back.

Now, they have made their intentions perfectly clear.

The New York Times said that the "Grass Roots Roared" in
opposition to Bush-Kennedy Amnesty. Well, now we must
roar even louder!

Thanks for your immediate action!


Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org

P.S. I included links on my FireSociety blog to the news article
where the Commerce Secretary and Tony Snow made their comments.
Go here to read those articles and give me your comments.


http://www.firesociety.com/blog/100/14417/?src=111



+ + Feedback or comments on this update?

Go to FireSociety.com and post your comments so that the
Grassfire staff along with thousands of citizens can
benefit from your thoughts and opinions:


http://www.firesociety.com/comments/14418/Discussion/?src=111
#3 Habu on 2007-06-12 08:50 (Reply)
yeah i called DC last week. i ain't doing it again. i'm going to the mall. what's so wrong with 20 million illegal people? racists.
#4 jones on 2007-06-12 13:20 (Reply)
Kirchick's article in the Standard is good. It is truly a shame that Carter is still able to continue the damage he has caused the world that began with his presidency. What a vain and pompous dimwit he is.

Don't know much about Rorty really. But I can say I don't agree with this quote as excerpted by Byrne in the Chronicle:

"“we may be able to keep the moral gains — the increases in political freedom and in social justice — made by the West in the past two centuries even if 9/11 is repeated year after year. But we shall only do so if the voters of the democracies stop their governments from putting their countries on a permanent war footing — from creating a situation in which neither the judges nor the newspapers can restrain organizations like the FBI from doing whatever they please, and in which the military absorbs most of the nation’s resources.”"

That seems a little nonsensical and fantastical at the same time. That we as a country could survive a 9/11 every year and would be better off for it, if we just keep the FBI out of our houses, does not motivate me to learn much about the man.

The Kristallnacht story is worrisome, but expected I suppose, considering the current political climate up north. Harper has his work cut out for him.


Kathy Shaidle of relapsedcatholic.com is now on my daily list, well reasoned writing.
#5 Luther McLeod on 2007-06-12 15:58 (Reply)
"Don't know much about Rorty really."


can't fill you in exhaustively,Luther,
but Rorty is a darling of the decon/pomo world view.

as such,he's not on my personal list of wise men.

Stephen Hicks' "Explaining Postmodernism"
is likely to cover his views and academic history.
#6 gumshoe on 2007-06-12 17:07 (Reply)
Thanks gumshoe. That's an entirely adequate summation and appears to support my not caring to know much about the man.

Philosophy has always been 'fuzzy' for me anyway. Attempted, years ago, to gain some knowledge of it, and did somewhat I suppose. But I could never find a writer that could make it 'really' understandable. Just too esoteric a discipline for my simple mind I guess.
#7 Luther McLeod on 2007-06-12 17:43 (Reply)
Stephen Hicks is about the best, Luther. He dismisses the esoteric and makes it relevant. I can't read a philosopher who knows what he means but cannot explain it in writing. Torture.

Just like reading William F. Buckley is torture though he writes little of philosophy. Someone steal his laptop. Or at least his thesaurus. What a dreary man!
.
#8 Phoenix on 2007-06-12 21:39 (Reply)
Well on your recommendation P. I shall read up on S. Hicks. I must admit I will be surprised if it is relevant. Philosopher's always seem to be behind the times. More interested in their Philosophy than the real world.
#9 Luther McLeod on 2007-06-12 22:57 (Reply)
gumshoe

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2007/06/a_tolerance_for.html

A bit more detail on Rorty.
#10 Luther McLeod on 2007-06-13 13:25 (Reply)
And, from Scruton's comment's at openDemocracy.net a link to an interesting exchange between:

"Can the “American dream” belong also to the world? In the sixth of our Letters to Americans series, the Iranian scholar Ramin Jahanbegloo, who teaches at the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran, and the philosopher Richard Rorty of Stanford University discuss the future of America’s national story.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-letterstoamericans/article_2067.jsp

Wherein Rorty makes some astounding projections. A philosopher maybe, but not a very deep political thinker. Rorty's comments also tie in neatly with Habu's warnings on other threads about the coming 'internationalist's' world order.
#11 Luther McLeod on 2007-06-13 14:07 (Reply)

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