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Thursday, September 13. 2007QQQMany Christians misinterpret Jesus' promise of the "abundant life" to mean perfect health, a comfortable lifestyle, constant happiness, full realization of your dreams, and instant relief from problems through faith and prayer. In a word, they expect the Christian life to be easy. They expect heaven on earth. From Rick Warren's A Purpose Driven Life. John Hawkins of Right Wing News has a collection of his favorite quotes from the book. Monday, September 10. 2007QQQ"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers. In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor-geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I am readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I will, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials - after the fact." General Robert E. Lee, 1863 Monday, August 27. 2007QQQWe will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come. Prime Minister John Howard, as quoted at Blair. Monday, August 20. 2007QQQ
Barry Goldwater. Quote borrowed from Samizdata. I hope they don't mind.
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Thursday, August 9. 2007QQQI'll believe it's a crisis when the people who say it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis. Glenn Reynolds on QQQThe best test of your tolerance is whether you can tolerate my intolerance. Dr. Joy Bliss, who is in Maine this month - a crusty old state where nobody tolerates anybody and where nobody ever says "Have a nice day." In Maine, the correct response to "Have a nice day" is "Don't tell me what kind of day to have." Sunday, August 5. 2007QQQI won’t meddle any more than Arthur Sulzberger does. Rupert Murdoch, on his purchase of Dow Jones and the WSJ Friday, August 3. 2007QQQCalvin Trillin Tuesday, July 31. 2007QQQDoes one have a right not to be offended in America? From a piece on the toilet Koran story by Rick Moran. Also, with photos, at Moonbattery. In my view, it is the privilege of every American to both offend and to be offended. This kid was charged with a felony? Gimme a break. The only thing he is guilty of is bad manners. Friday, July 27. 2007QQQAll human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future, and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. Benjamin Franklin Wednesday, July 25. 2007QQQGeorge Carlin Tuesday, July 24. 2007QQQ: Ask what your country can do for you...During the Republican debates, I hit my cocktail every time a candidate mentioned Reagan. Tonight, I’m going to take a nice-sized gulp whenever a YouTuber asks “What are you going to do for ME?” Or, any words to that effect. I might not make it through the entire debate. ... Blogger Vodkapundit, live-blogging yesterday's Dem candidate debate. (h/t, Prof Bainbridge) QQQ
From a Grade A rant at Australia's A Western Heart, via Synthstuff Wednesday, July 18. 2007QQQThe correct response to the CAIR complainers should have been "Sorry guys, but this is America." The Barrister of Maggie's Farm, re CAIR's intimidation of the gutless wussie National Press Club Monday, July 16. 2007QQQ...when I read much of what comes from the left, I'm left with the feeling that they want to consume the benefits that come from living in the U.S. and more generally the West without either doing the messy work involved or, more seriously, taking on the moral responsibility for the life they enjoy. From a piece about the BBC at Winds of Change, a blog we need to, and will, add to our blogroll. Also, Samizdata has an excellent piece on Anthony Jay's "confession." It does ring true to me, and applies equally well to the American MSM, I think: arrogant but strangely ignorant. Friday, July 13. 2007QQQIt’s as if pomos use the hammer and nails given them to maintain the lovely house they’ve inherited to, instead, indulge in interior demolition and funky, unlivable re-dos. Pretty soon they’re gonna hit load-bearing walls a little too hard… . An anonymous commenter at Maggie's Farm
QQQ“[Liberalism] envisions the natural fraternity of mankind. The liberal view is that man’s nature prepares him to live uncoerced in society. [It] aspires to the transcending of the nation, if only through the union of the nations. Rightly repelled by vain self-love, it is dogmatically blinded to just self-respect and conceitedly captivated by a priggish self-depreciation. Liberalism, which makes a by-word of pluralism and recoils from ‘absolutes’ however misunderstood, should welcome the diversity of nations, and their sovereign security upon which that diversity rests, as a valuable guarantee of the freedom of men to go their separate ways in the quest for justice or for the truth about justice. It must be conceded, however, that the highest good known to liberalism is not truth or even liberty itself, but fraternity and its alter ego, equality. Politically speaking, this has come to mean that the highest good known to liberalism is peace, or self-preservation. “If it is narrower, it is also more human, surely more civil, to love what is near and similar, as such, than what is remote and strange, as such. [Patriotism will necessarily] be extinguished by the doctrine that exhibits it as offensive to peace, as an ignorant expression of ethnocentric bias, the neurosis of aggressive personality types, the posturing of the fatuous for the edification of the gullible, or the delusion of innocents seduced by schemers after wealth and power. “The liberal view is consistent with itself in applying to domestic as well as to foreign affairs the dictum that trust edifies and absolute trust edifies absolutely.” Joseph Cropsey. Borrowed from a piece at No Left Turns. Wednesday, July 11. 2007QQQIf any more extremists are still wanting to rise up and start trouble, know this: We’ll rise right back up against you. New York, Madrid, London, Paisley ... we’re all in this together and make no mistake, none of us will hold back from putting the boot in. John Smeaton, the Toast of Glasgow (via Blair). I suspect it's been a few days since John has had to buy his own pints at the local. QQQConsider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I say unto you, not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these. Jesus, in Luke 12:27
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C.S. Lewis, in his essay Equality (as quoted at Evang. Outpost) Friday, July 6. 2007Another QQQ"Men," a sergeant told his people aboard ship before our invasion of the island, "Saipan is covered with dense jungle, quicksand, steep hills and cliffs hiding batteries of huge coastal guns, and strongholds of reinforced concrete. Insects bear lethal poisons. Crocodiles and snakes infest the streams. The waters around it are thick with sharks. The population will be hostile toward us." There was a long silence. Then a corporal said, "Sarge, why don't we just let the Japs keep it?" From William Manchester's Goodbye, Darkness. (h/t, Buddy) QQQ"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if, only, by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube." Ayn Rand, borrowed in toto from SDA Tuesday, July 3. 2007QQQA warning from John Adams, in a letter in 1814: Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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