Philosophy
Happy independence day, everyone. To show that there's no hard feelings, here's a couple of thoughts relating to Great Britain.
The first is truly a celebration of freedom. Alan Johnston, the BBC reporter who has done some of the best work in the world from the West Bank has been freed. He is truly one of the good guys and through the efforts of Hamas, he has been released. We rarely get good news from that part of the world, so this is truly something to celebrate.
My younger asked what independence day celebrated. I explained that at one time this country belonged to England and they told us what to do. He said that didn't seem nice. Then I told him that there were a group of people who decided to make this land its own country that made its own decisions. He thought about it and asked whether we now tell England what to do. I replied, "Not exactly." He then asked, "Do we tell other countries what to do?" My response was, "Sometimes, but it usually doesn't turn out so well."
Hanno with a similar sentiment:
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Philosophy
Happy Independence Day
Happy independence day, everyone. To show that there's no hard feelings, here's a couple of thoughts relating to Great Britain.
The first is truly a celebration of freedom. Alan Johnston, the BBC reporter who has done some of the best work in the world from the West Bank has been freed. He is truly one of the good guys and through the efforts of Hamas, he has been released. We rarely get good news from that part of the world, so this is truly something to celebrate.
My younger asked what independence day celebrated. I explained that at one time this country belonged to England and they told us what to do. He said that didn't seem nice. Then I told him that there were a group of people who decided to make this land its own country that made its own decisions. He thought about it and asked whether we now tell England what to do. I replied, "Not exactly." He then asked, "Do we tell other countries what to do?" My response was, "Sometimes, but it usually doesn't turn out so well."
Hanno with a similar sentiment:
The Bush administration has argued over the last several years (as a last resort) that fighting the war in Iraq was keeping the war on terror away from our shores. It is better to fight in Baghdad, than in New York. I have always been suspicious of this claim. For years, I could not see how creating the Iraqi Proving Grounds for terrorist techniques, allowing for on the job training, exacerbating violent opposition to the US and fulfilling the war rhetoric of Muslim extremists were making us safer. But the notion that if we were not fighting the terrorists there, they would be fighting us here seemed almost silly. Why cannot they do both?Have a happy and safe holiday everyone.
I now admit I was wrong. What I did not see that the Bush Master Plan actually had Great Britain in mind all along. We fight the war in Iraq, and get the UK to help, so that the terrorists would attack the UK instead of us! They are keeping the good ol' US of A safe after all! We need to keep fighting the war in Iraq so the terrorists will attack London, not New York.
- The Police And Bitter Old Liberals
Since their re-union tour is connected with the Virgin festival which is coming to Baltimore, local stations have been playing a lot of Police. Tunes I haven't heard in years. That was some good stuff. It's made me think... Sting has done fine...
- Bush's State Of The Legacy Speech
Reading the State of the Union speech from last night, I couldn't help but think of that line from the Rich Little interview from last week, "They don't want anyone knocking the president. He's really over the coals right now, and he's...
- Hanno On Kerry
From Hanno: The latest flap over John Kerry is solid bullshit and it amazes me how the Republican party can take absolutely nothing, turn it into a political issue, and have the press run with it. Kerry said "You know, education -- if you make the most...
- Lieberman: It's About The Battle, Not The War
I've been reading on-line and mainstream discussions about the rise of Ned Lamont and attempts to explain (or explain away) the anger towards Joe Lieberman and it strikes me that nowhere have I seen someone who quite gets it right. The usual explanation...
- Bush The Democratic, Bush The Tyrannical
The discussion of the tyrannical man is the focus of Book IX of as Socrates and his young friends analyze how the son of a democratic man evolves into a tyrant. This situation is one that, like all other anecdotes and stories told by these philosophers,...