Nobullthinker

I did not mean to imply that religious people are crazy. You can understand what I mean by examining any religion other than your own. Your religion is, of course, the one true religion (though I do not know what religion you subscribe to). You can clearly see that people of those other religions are indulging in fantasy. But they are not crazy. Each believer can move into and out of his fantasy quite freely and is entirely capable of distinguishing his religious world from his everyday world - unless he is captive to a radical cult.

Religions can be both the best things on earth and the worst things earth. But it only takes one mad cult getting its hands on doomsday weapons to finally end the eternal argument of whose god is the baddest.

Thanks again.

I'm afraid you're right. The madness of liberalism seems unstoppable. Our schools are hopelessly infected with the disease and work diligently at infecting our young without fear of interferrence from reason.

I have reached some conclusions as to why liberals pursue social destruction but am still resisting Ayn Rand's ultimate solution. Liberals are neither smarter nor more stupid than conservatives. I would not say that they are technically insane either. Nor do I think that the fact that they are not grounded in reality is necessarily enough to qualify them as insane. Religious people step out of reality all the time when they go to church or otherwise indulge their particular God fantasies. But they can return to reality as easily as they've gone there simply by switching off the imagery. Religious fantasy only reaches the level of insanity when it becomes personal reality. When that happens people will strap bombs to their bodies, drink poison or otherwise seek to end the world.

The path of liberalism can only lead to social and personal destruction. But this seems to be only recognized by people who haven't taken that path. Rand understood that any average realist could look down this path and see that destruction was its end. Her conclusion, then, was that liberals are not crazy - they're suicidal.

Maybe she was right. I haven't been able to bring myself to agree to that just yet. I'm still working on the question of whether choosing to walk a path of destruction is insanity or suicide - a death wish born of a disconnect from reality?

Thanks for providing the shoulder to whine on.

And suppose McCain is as bad as you imagine he is. Could he be half as horrid as either Obama or Hilly? There's no way out my friend. The system has been corrupted beyond repair.

Sorry, global warming is not going to go away once the Dem/socialists have gained absolute power. Global warming is the bogeyman that tyrants of the Gore, Kennedy, Pelosi etc. etc. etc. stature intend to use to terrorize and stampede the simple-minded masses (i.e., Leftists).
Recall or read "1984" and substitute global warming for war's role in controlling the prols.

I'm freezing my a$$ off down here in my mom's basement. What the he11 is taking so long for the disaster I've been promised?

1. - Bush NEVER mentioned either a person or a political party when he made his appeasement comment. It was the Dems and Obama who immediately identified themselves with the remark due to their stated positions on negotiating with our enemies.

2. It seems that neither you nor Matthews spent the minimal effort required to look up the word "appease". Generally it means to give in to demands or surrender to the aggression of an antagonist in the vain hope that he will respond with mercy or reason.

For Obama to flatly declare that he would prostrate himself before our enemies as our President absolutely IS appeasement in light of the fact that 'Dirtyjag' and the Islamic terrorists have no intention of granting mercy or indulging in reason.

Obama may be a star-gazing lib but I doubt it. He simply knows how to pander to the type. The first thing he will do when he gets into office is begin knocking down your sandcastles.

Why did you bother? This has to rank as one of the emptiest posts I've ever seen. Who gets disenfranchised exactly?

If the Hamas quote is accurate and true to context why is it a smear? It's not. Obama knows it's not. Which makes him a liar.
Obama's denial is simple political (and courtroom) deception. You deny the facts because there is always a certain percentage of people who find the lie more appealing than the truth and will choose the lie on that basis. The facts are irrelevant.
And so it is that Obama can sit in a racist "church" for 40 years and claim that its teachings did not agree with his views. When called on to defend the absurdity of his position he spent an additional 6 weeks defending the person and words of his "church's" racist leader. When it becomes clear that the public was not buying this nonsense he reversed his position and - by God - the media and his blind faith followers ate it up. He told a dozen different lies until the media and his followers decided they could accept the last one. That is the deffinition of social insanity.

My only problem with this piece is that its focus on industry as a corrupting force is one-sided. Government holds the power of life and death over every form of industry in America. They have ruthlessly put to death or put on the brink of death our mightiest industries with their taxation and regulation policies. Can't anyone out there imagine what it's like to try to survive with the axeman/taxman standing over him every minute of the day? These people have to be paid off. Industry does not bathe politicians in cash because they haven't got better uses for their money. They do it because they are trying to stay alive.
Is Obama something new and pure in politics? Obviously not. Is he new in his depths of evil and deception? Quite possibly by American standards but the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and a long list of others are familiar with his type.

Yes it's awful. On the other hand, the good news is that the electoral college won't let Nader win.

The solution is so simple any Democrat(Socialist) can spot it. Since the corporate pigs have fewer payroll expenses they can easily afford a new tax increase. Basic math you see. Keeps the scales in balance.

I hope you are wrong about the impossibility of reform. The one chance we have of reform is what remains of the power of The People. I intend to exercise mine until someone puts me in a box.

It's true that the politicians are getting richer and The People are getting poorer. It's also true that the reason behind it is greed and corruption on their part and the devious ways they have stripped us of our ability to stop them by dividing us against one another.

More directly to the point of your article; my BB gun was also taken leaving me bereft of even that scant defense. Yet the police, who by law can do virtually nothing to protect MY person, are permitted to carry weapons of war. Madness. I will arm myself before the weather gets much warmer and racism and political anxiety blow the lid off my city yet again.

The needs you cite may be real, though the panic in your tone is only an echo of political fear mongering. You may collect all the new taxes you want but to imagine that a dime of it will go to where your wishful thinking would direct it is the weak link in your argument.

EJ's right. Politicians are incapable of operating on the common sense needs of the People.

Unfortunately I've found that Conservatives are not the activist types. All the activists are on the emotionally excitable Left. Passiveism of the sort Heston encouraged requires a charismatic leader on an historical scale like Gandhi and the others he listed. I wish we had a leader like that but since we don't there is little chance of the Right taking to the streets until we have no other choice.
We still have a voice on the radio and the internet. Both are being threatened by government as we speak. If they take either of these from us we will have cause to rebel under arms in my opinion.
Heston was part of "the greatest generation". Wisdom like his is only part of the reason they are remembered that way.