Cheney for President ’12!

Posted by ligneus1 on Apr 26th, 2009 in Words Worth Quoting | 3 comments Liz Cheney that is. See her run rings around Norah O’Donnell on MSNBC who continually and unsuccessfully tries to trap her with false statements and marvel how there are people like LC who can speak in whole sentences on complex matters without a single ‘um’ or an ‘er’ in the whole discussion unlike our Dear Leader who couldn’t order a pizza without his teleprompter. [Speaking of which, does anyone know who came up with TPOTUS? I'd like to shake his/her hand for that one.] [And , so how come we ended up with that Bozo? Yes, yes, I know, and a sad story it is...

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Posted by zee on Aug 18th, 2008 in War, Western Civilization, Words Worth Quoting | 0 comments Excerpted from Michael Ledeen’s War & Democracy The belief in the inevitability of peace and democracy rested on one of the great conceits of the European Enlightenment, namely the belief in the perfectibility of man. In this view, man’s basic goodness (as found in “the state of nature”) had been corrupted by a selfish society (a notion that finds much favor among today’s more extreme Greens), but that once the heavy weight of misguided was lifted, man’s intrinsic goodness would reemerge. In our modern rendition of that Enlightenment folly, an appeal to reason is sufficient to...

The Tyranny of Those Damnable Bleeding Hearts

Posted by zee on Aug 8th, 2008 in Words Worth Quoting | 0 comments Dropped into a comment by reader Just Another Richard and well worth quoting…. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis Sphere: Related Content

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Posted by zee on Aug 6th, 2008 in Words Worth Quoting | 2 comments From Did She Say That When I was about 11 or 12, my mother rented all the episodes of ROOTS. I tried to watch it, but I couldn’t. I got real emotional and left the room. My siblings stayed and watched, but my mother joined me in another room. She told me it was O.K. because it was the past. It’s important to know the past. I didn’t watch the complete Roots, until I was 20. When I was 14, we went to the slavery museum in Baltimore, Maryland. It’s a wax museum with a duplicate of a slave ship. I almost vomited when they started explaining what it might smell like, how long they had to endure...

Why Are Americans So Willing to Give Up Freedom?

Posted by zee on Jul 7th, 2008 in Western Civilization, Words Worth Quoting | 2 comments If you haven’t read Ligneus’s post on Adam Smith, do so. If men like that governed today in America, we wouldn’t have to deal with pompous pretenders like Obama or McCain. In the comments I remarked as follows: “Must be the redneck in me, but i could never have conceived that so many would willingly throw down freedom”. Indeed, it’s the fact that so many Americans are willing to allow the government to control their lives that has me flabbergasted. I have no answers for it, but “Just Another Richard” left an eloquent response, reproduced below. Ah but zee, you...

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Posted by zee on Jul 6th, 2008 in Marxism, RINOs and Socialist News, Words Worth Quoting | 4 comments From….Flanders Fields Americans can no longer trust their own government, because that government is not operating for the best and vital interests of America. The natural functions of our government have had it’s processes co opted by a coalition of internationalist forces which operate on behalf of private corporate interests. Those internationalist forces and the corporate leftists, which together make up most of the corporatist network, are intent upon establishing a socialized world accountable to their doctrinal command, and they are not of an American-loving, freedom-loving intent....

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Posted by zee on Jan 14th, 2008 in Israel, Muslims / Islam, Words Worth Quoting | 0 comments Bush’s ignorance about the true nature of Islam has put all of the West in harms way. Bush makes some very glib, naive (very Western) assumptions that are quite false: “I believe, deep in the soul of every man, woman, and child on the face of this Earth is the desire to live in a free society. And I also believe free societies yield peace. And, therefore, this notion of two states living side by side in peace is based upon the universality of freedom, and if given a chance, the Palestinian people will work for freedom.” This very commonly held assumption ignores religion and ideology...