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The thing I like best about being a conservative is that I don't have to lie. I don't have to pretend that men and women are the same. I don't have to declare that failed or oppressive cultures are as good as mine.
Nor do I have to say that everyone's special or that the rich cause poverty or that all religions are a path to God. I don't have to claim that a bad writer like Alice Walker is a good one or that a good writer like Toni Morrison is a great one. I don't have to pretend that Islam means peace. Continued
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This article is so dead balls right on right not even I could have said it better, although it is a recurring theme of The Aurora. Liberals can not win the argument so they must frame the argument, and sadly, it is working thanks to a complicit media and their ignorant welfare spoon fed masses.
If anyone is interested, this guy Klavan writes some pretty good dime store detective novels. Im a big fan of continuations, so Id reco his trilogy, which in my opinion is almost of the level of Ludlum's Bourne series.
In full disclosure I only read the first two, but picked up the third last night after reading this article. Its only 3 hundo pages so at my current clip I should have a book report ready in about three or four months.
"We find ourselves at a precarious moment in an endeavor of great importance: namely, the preservation of Western rationalism and liberty."
I agree, and if "western rationalism and liberty" are conservative values, and they are, they are liberal values as well. Obviously these values are not shared by al Qaeda, which means that we also share a common enemy.
On the home front, however, these values seem to me to be more threatened from the political Right than the Left. It is the Right (or a part of it) that seeks to teach "Creation Science" in the public schools, that threatens the separation of Church and State, that has attacked the ancient common-law right of Habeus Corpus. Need I go on?
Mr. Klavan seems to feel that the Right is handicapped by an excessive civility. I had not noticed. There are civil conservatives, of course--William F. Buckley comes to mind. But he is, I'm afraid, yesterday's Conservative. Today's conservatives, including those at The Aurora, regularly accuse those who disagree with them with Treason.
No doubt you feel that liberal policies are destructive to this country and that justifies the attacks on patriotism. Many of us, mself included, believe that the policies of the Bush administration are very destructive to our country, our values, and our national security. Yet I would never call those who support those policies, incuding yourselves, traitors on that account.
Creationism? Separation of Church and State?
This is exactly the point....
Separation of church and state is a liberal interpretation.
Whereas in just the past two weeks alone liberals have violently attacked the Constition of the United States of America.
Nappy headed ho' is no longer allowed in the American lexicon as a result of the liberal assault on the First Amendment.
Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (despite not knowing shit about guns, google her name and tucker carlson to see her get bitch slapped) and the rest of her liberal lot trying to take advantage of the Va Tech tragedy to put forth their anti-Second Amendment legislation.
Need I go on????
... and youre fucking concerned with a bible in classroom? Well so am I. The bible of liberalism that has destroyed our education system..
TRAITOR!
Ill save you the time.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/04/18/video-carolyn-mccarthy-doesnt-understand-her-own-gun-control-legislation/
"Separation of church and state is a liberal interpretation."
Perhaps, but the liberals in question were Jefferson and Madison.
"Nappy headed ho' is no longer allowed in the American lexicon as a result of the liberal assault on the First Amendment."
Imus had a right to say it. He doesn't have a right to be paid to say it on a radio program.
"TRAITOR"
Proving my point once again. Imbecile.
Jefferson and Madison huh? You mean the authors of the Constitutuion who were adamant about including the phrase....
"or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . ."
...but yet separation of church and state an oft used phrase by both men was not included. Inconceivable! You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.
and to which Madison later added...
""Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." "
Imus doesnt have the right to get paid to say nappy headed ho? Says fucking who and why? If you believe that I hope you believe that the NEA should be abolished as well. Last time I checked their was no constitutional right to not get offended watching tv or listening to the radio.
That's right, folks..
Don't touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin'room floor
Imbecile?
Ok, I will concede that point.
Well, let's see:
Madison:
"The civil Government, though bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success, whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State" (Letter to Robert Walsh, Mar. 2, 1819).
"Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and & Gov't in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history" (Detached Memoranda, circa 1820).
"Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together" (Letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822).
Jefferson:
"Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State" (Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 1802).
Minor correction regarding the Danbury letter....
Legitimate powers, not "legislative powers of government". Big difference, and once again proving the point of the linked article. Liberals lie, twist, and skew words meanings and interpretations to fit their agenda.
As a recent example, John Edwards defense of Reid...
...."depends on what your defintion of the word LOST is..."
Pathetic!
Those quotes are all well in good, and I do not doubt their sincerity, but more importantly...
..."or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . ."
--The United States Constitution
the founders weren't stupid and clearly they knew how to write so if they wanted the constitution to say "seperation of church and state" that's what they would have written.
..."or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . ."
Absolutely. And if you are referring to prayer in the schools, it is legal. Students can pray as individuals. The government cannot however get in the business of writing prayers for children to recite.
Then stop being a god damn prohibiter and a supporter of policies that fire teachers for wearing a cross necklace and expels students for singing Christmas carols.
On that note I believe it is about that time to receive my daily communion, that is if the body of h. zeus resides in a bottle of Tulla.
i didn't read the whole article (sorry, didn't go beyond 'continued'), BUT i will say that i agree completely about alice walker and toni morrison. i think that they have been put on massive (and not entiredly deserved) pedestals. i think this is a bad thing, both for serious students of literature as well aspiring african american writers. the bar is high to be considered a 'great' writer. and neither of these women have achieved it in their work, yet are given credit for having done so.
i don't even have to tell you what i think of alice walker and toni morrison...
but here's a hint:
they're not exactly straight-haired maidens.
Yeah the test of a "great writer" is when people are still in love with them after 500 years. Amy Tan and Tony Morrison and Alice Walker will be so over by then!
Oh, yeah and here in California they are now just plain immigrants, not even undocumented any more! My Mayor has just informed me that I am not to aid and abet anyone in capturing them as now we are officially a safe sanctuary. I joked with Beelzabubba that Hispanics can no longer be arrested for any reason even murder, in Oakland, only Blacks and Whites can. Beelza said "yeah but at least now Blacks and Whites are equal."
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