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To: Solon who wrote (18662)	12/21/2011 12:56:54 AM
From: Greg or e	Respond to of 69300

Everything about her was ugly, but especially her so called philosophy.

To: Solon who wrote (18662)	12/21/2011 1:24:58 AM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Now the two resident thread clowns are quoting Chesterton someone who would not recognize their salvation brand of Christianity. "Chesterton once remarked “children,” “are innocent and love justice; while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.” JRR Tolkien I'm sure gregoree and brumar will find justice in this life and the next.

To: Solon who wrote (18662)	12/21/2011 2:13:32 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Gregoree is of course trying to immitate Goebbels by dehumanizing rather than Christ by forgiveness and love. "Master propagandist of the Nazi regime and dictator of its cultural life for twelve years, Joseph Goebbels was born into a strict Catholic, working-class family from Rheydt, in the Rhineland, on 29 October 1897. He was educated at a Roman Catholic school and went on to study history and literature at the University of Heidelberg under Professor Friedrich Gundolf, a Jewish literary historian renowned as a Goethe scholar and a close disciple of the poet Stefan George. Goebbels had been rejected for military service during World War I because of a crippled foot - the result of contracting polio as a child - and a sense of physical inadequacy tormented him for the rest of his life, reinforced by resentment of the reactions aroused by his diminutive frame, black hair and intellectual background. Bitterly conscious of his deformity and fearful of being regarded as a "bourgeois intellectual," Goebbels overcompensated for his lack of the physical virtues of the strong, healthy, blond, Nordic type by his ideological rectitude and radicalism once he joined the NSDAP in 1922." jewishvirtuallibrary.org

To: Solon who wrote (18662)	12/21/2011 2:16:07 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

There is perhaps an underlying reason why gregoree is a misogynist dinosaur that hates Israel. "Israel and those who attack it are not moral equals. Israel is, like the United States, a "mixed economy," which retains a significant respect for individual rights. Its citizens, whatever their race or religion, enjoy many freedoms, including freedom of thought and speech, and the right to own property. The purpose of Israel's military is only self-defense: to protect its citizens from aggressors. Consequently, Israel has a moral right to exist. Those attacking Israel, by contrast, are terrorist organizations, dictatorships and theocracies, which deliberately violate the rights of their own subjects. Even if these organizations and regimes had never initiated force against Israel, they still would have no moral right to exist. ARI's moral support of Israel is obviously not an endorsement of all of its actions or policies. We are critical, for instance, of Israel's failure fully to separate state from both religion and economics, as the principle of individual rights demands. But we recognize that those who attack Israel are not seeking to establish an even freer nation: they are seeking to wipe out the only outpost of freedom in the Middle East. We support Israel not for its failings but for its virtues, and we understand that those who threaten Israel's freedom also threaten America's. If they succeed in destroying Israel, they will turn their full attention to the United States. Thus, in the name of justice and self-preservation, we hold that America should openly support Israel against our common enemies. Ayn Rand on Israel (Ford Hall Forum lecture, 1974) Q: What should the United Sates do about the [1973] Arab-Israeli War? AR: Give all the help possible to Israel. Consider what is at stake. It is not the moral duty of any country to send men to die helping another country. The help Israel needs is technology and military weapons—and they need them desperately. Why should we help Israel? Israel is fighting not just the Arabs but Soviet Russia, who is sending the Arabs armaments. Russia is after control of the Mediterranean and oil. Further, why are the Arabs against Israel? (This is the main reason I support Israel.) The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it's the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. Israel is a mixed economy inclined toward socialism. But when it comes to the power of the mind—the development of industry in that wasted desert continent—versus savages who don't want to use their minds, then if one cares about the future of civilization, don't wait for the government to do something. Give whatever you can. This is the first time I've contributed to a public cause: helping Israel in an emergency."