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To: sea_urchin who wrote (20636)	4/12/2004 3:28:43 PM
From: philv	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81011

People today are bombarded with propaganda and spin at every turn. You find it in the newspaper you read, the web sites you frequent, in business, government, even politics <g> etc. etc. I think people yearn for simple truth, but the truth is no longer simple. Someone with a simple message, clearly stated over and over has a sort of simple appeal. Worked for Reagan, works for Bush. Bending the truth, revealing just one side, obscuring the other is now taken for granted. Sometimes the spin or slant is so subtle that most people would not take any notice of it. I guess one could argue it has always been that way, it is in the nature of humans to promote their points of view, but it sure seems to be getting more strident and obvious lately. But then, an amateur psychiatrist might diagnose me with suffering from a hopeless, untreatable illness. How many guys do you know who are skeptical of even their own B.S.?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (20636)	4/12/2004 7:57:15 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 81011

Re: I'm interested in your opinion on this piece, which I think gives the best and clearest understanding of the mind-set of We the People. Great AMMO! I'll be firing that at some of the limp-wristed ministers and priests in town very soon. I wished I'd had that brilliant essay to hand over to the Christian ministry a couple Saturday's ago. They organized an evening of "peace vigiling", meditation and listening to a Syrian Christian woman lament some human rights violation or other. It was a frightful example of the insipidity and wrong-headedness of the progressive Christian community who seem to have lost their cojones and act more like Carla Fay Tucker every day. **** Re: US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush They may be the ones facing danger on the battlefield, but US soldiers in Iraq are being asked to pray for President George W Bush. Thousands of marines have been given a pamphlet called "A Christian's Duty," Formulating a precise definition of obscenity has proven to be impossible. Justice Potter Stewart summed up the problem with his famous oneliner: "I know it when I see it." This is "it".