Ray’s friend Paul Stahnke (a retired Foreign Service Officer) then forwarded this May 13 response (to Breger’s essay) by M. J. Rosenberg, adding this comment: “As you m[a]y know, Rosenberg was once an official with AIPAC before he saw the light.” Ray’s further comments by way of introducing Rosenberg’s response: “Rosenberg pulls no punches. More …
Category: America
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May 16 2010
Part 1 of 3: First the good news…
…bad news to follow. Here’s a short introduction Ray Close (retired CIA) added yesterday to a recent essay by a credentialed Republican: This short essay contains no particularly original ideas or deep insights, but in the simplicity and clarity of its logic and language, (and the credentials of its author), it is exceptionally helpful. It …
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May 14 2010
Humor me
For just a few moments… Let’s assume that oil is now spewing into the Gulf of Mexico at a much higher rate than BP originally suggested (some are now speculating it’s the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill every 3 or 4 days). Let’s also assume that the oil giants know exactly how much oil …
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May 10 2010
Sarah Palin is a Nimrod
And I thought I wrote long sentences: “I have said all along that America is based on Judeo-Christian beliefs and, uh, nobody has to believe me though, uh, you can just go to our Founding Fathers’ early documents and see how they crafted a Declaration of Independence and Constitution that, um, allows that Judeo-Christian belief …
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Mar 24 2010
Remarkable evidence that Ezekiel Bulver is dying
… In 1941, Ezekiel Bulver recounted the story of how, at the age of five, his destiny was determined when he heard his mother say to his father – who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than the third – “Oh, you say that because you are a man.” …
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Mar 21 2010
Tourism as terrorism
I came across this interesting (if dismaying can be interesting) article today: http://www.shipoffools.com/features/2009/a_visit_from_the_settlers.html It contains a link to the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI): http://www.eappi.org/en/about/overview.html Apparently Baptists in Sweden and the UK are a more enlightened bunch than our local crop of rapture-ready nimrods…
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Jan 31 2010
When a congregation is just an audience
Maybe what passes for congregational singing these days is part of the Christian suffering I am expected to endure during my sojourn on this doomed dirt clod in space… When did the tired cliché of a Broadway interlude become the model for all these clever-but-purgatorial tunes we trudge through Sunday after Sunday? Here’s a novel …
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