Jun 20 2007
Gov. Huckabee, Thank you for taking time to respond to my concerns re. your position on the war in Iraq. I saw you this morning on MSNBC and when asked what you are currently reading, you mentioned “Beyond Iraq” by Mike Evans. Very disappointing. An excerpt from Publishers Weekly says this: With the Bible’s various …
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Jun 09 2007
Thanks for sending the review, it was very interesting. To me, it sounds like the biggest beef the writer has is that the movie isn’t the one he wanted it to be. He reminds me of someone who knows so much about the subject matter that he nitpicks every deviation from absolute historical accuracy. Amazing Grace …
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Jun 01 2007
Good letter, but the worst of it is the massive loss of Iraqi life, the mass exodus of Iraq’s best-educated and experienced citizens, the unending lack of basic civil infrastructure throughout Iraq, and (worst of all for us Americans who don’t really care about anyone but lily-white Anglo-Christians) the establishment of a “terrorism incubator” that will hatch …
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Apr 02 2007
The point I tried to make was this: I think the death-spiral of humans towards exclusivity is as innate as taking the next breath. Many religions take advantage of that human characteristic, but not just religions. Political parties, advertisers, specialists of all kinds (scientific, academic, skill-based, etc.), frat-brats and sorority chicks — more often than not, they tend …
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Mar 30 2007
Arthur C. Clarke came to mind when reading your post. Whether or not this has anything to do with your thesis is probably open to debate, but I think you will find Clarke’s comments entertaining if not enlightening… The quote that made me think of Sir Clarke: “Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, …
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Mar 28 2007
We’re about to finish out our 5th March in Iraq and according to http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_casualties.htm, this is the deadliest one yet for our boys and girls in the military. Thank goodness our wise commander-in-chief has outsourced the “ugliest” operations to Blackwater mercenaries (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Blackwater_USA)… It hardly matters really, since they aren’t good Christian Americans (isn’t that a triple tautology?), but who knows …
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Mar 27 2007
Randi Rhodes keeps harping on the idea that there’s a warped misogynistic, sado-masochistic, repressed-homosexuality theme running through a lot of what’s going on today in the Republican party and in our military fiasco in Iraq — phone sex with congressional pages, torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and black prisons, and of course, the wild popularity of …
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