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Mississippi - state of mind
I'm walking down the street in one of the "ever so diverse" towns in central Jersey when I see a thugmobile with two negroes parked in my church's parking lot. The thugs are blasting their rap while a white stripper is performing right infront of their car. and there ain't a thing I can do about it. Had that happened in the blessed state of Mississippi, the neighbors would have called the cops and you know what would happen to the scum. Maybe that's why this sh*t doesn't happen in the south.
food for thought...
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I am of the same mindset as Peters when it comes to the flag-burning amendment. The flag is important, but I cannot support measures that smack of idolatry.
First, give me an ammendment that would prohibit the burning of crosses. Now there's a blasphemy!
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WW
I have all the respect in the world for the flag, people who burn flags are despicable america-haters, but I will not cross the line of protecting a civic symbol against the 1st amendment guarantees.
There's another issue with the flag-burning amendment. Flag burning is clearly a political statement - and that is what 1st amendment is intended to defend. Why do we put so much effort into chipping away at the freedom of political speech when things like porn and cross-burning don't get a mention. Criminalize porn and cross-burning first - these are NOT forms of political speech. After you do that, come back to me about protecting the flag. Until you deal with indecency in American culture that has flourished under the 1st amendment guarantee, I don't want to hear about flag protection. How about we protect our children and Christian symbols first.
EW
A debate is a debate - Christian viewpoint is as good as any. If Bible passages make you feel uncomfortable, maybe that's because they are hard to refute.
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WW, you confused my post with Peters; I'm honored 
Flag burning is NOT the same as yelling bomb - the latter can result in a stampede and injury and is therefore dangerous, the former is an expression of a political viewpoint that does not pose direct physical threat to anyone.
Human body is not indecent, the selling of it is. You have it on loan from God, you and I will be held responsible for how we treated it in this life. Sacred things, like procreation, are not to be paraded in public. Societies that do so degenerate and cease to exist.
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WW,
For the record, I'm not a veteran. The closest I've ever come to serving was enter my info for the selective service.
"Mental anguish" is difficult to measure and prove. It's also very subjective. I, for instance, experience mental anguish, whenever I hear a liberal open his or her mouth.
Having said that, you make a convincing argument as to the need for protecting the flag. Personally, I think we have greater priorities and I listed them earlier.
On indecency, one more time: naked bush-men in africa don't exploit their bodies, porn industry does. That's what makes it wrong. How you treat God's creation, especially your very body, is a reflection of your respect for God. When you were a kid, you wouldn't go into your mom's garden and stump on the flower beds or wreck your dad's work-shop. But we feel we have the right to utterly abuse the creative work of our heavenly Father. I'm not talking about anyone in particular, I'm explaining my point on why indecency of any sort is blasphemous. Flag, as important as it may be to men, is a human creation. I do not feel as strong about its destruction as I do about abuse and desctruction of human life.
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EW: please disregard, bible quote moment : )
WW,
"Are we committing sins just entertaining ourselves with programing?"
we sure are; to paraphrase: "If a man so much as looks at a woman with lust he has commited adultery in his heart". I'm not trying to be killjoy here, I'm just saying there's a far greater decency standard out there than what is allowed by FCC and it would behove us to go for the higher standard. Do I always follow the higher standard? I'll plead the 5th on that one...
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EW,
ain't nothin' wrong 'bout havn' a beer or two on a Sunday or any other day, even for a preacher - he's just a man, too.
I come from eastern european stock - we take our beer seriously. ; )
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while we're dragging the South through the mud, why don't we delve into how the white Pilgrims robbed and murdered the indians, then let's move on to the wrongful annexation of mexican territories and Hawaii and conclude with the discussion of the rasist policies of FDR that resulted in the incarceration of Japanese during the WWII. And when we're done let's all shoot ourselves because white men are and have always been good for nothing and caused nothing but problems for this world.
"the average guy in the south with the Southern Cross on the truck is not showing respect for the fallen any more than the white supremacist is wearing the swastika for the fallen Germans"
Wow! take it easy, will you?
If memory serves me right, I think it was Marx who said "the way to defeat a nation is to rob it of its history". Our enemies are sure getting there.
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Somehow we managed to get back to the topic:
" Why do you think they placed literacy demands at polls in MS after 1877"?
Eric, what is wrong with making sure only the educated are entrusted with political decision making power? Electricians and plumbers are required to demonstrate a level of competency before they can do their jobs, but you can be a total numbscull and still have a right to select the leadership of a nuclear superpower. Makes no sense to me.
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Eric,
I understood what you meant by your comment on literacy requirements (and poll taxes for that matter). No question these policies were meant to suppress the black vote.
But there was also some validity in these policies as they identified the portion of the population that was less than prepared to make educated political decisions. The black population should have been gradually admitted into the political process as their education and standard of living rose to the levels of white population. Instead, the republican administration of that time instituted Reconstruction policies that trampled on states and property rights, completely antagonised the white population and led to the rise of KKK and subsequent anti-reconstruction reaction, including the resurrection of the Confederate Flag.
Having said all that, importing African slave labor was, by far, The stupidest thing in the history of this country.
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EW,
It's a free country - what stopped your uncle from marketing the invention himself?
WW,
Oil dependency is stupid but not the stupidest and here's why. We have the military wherewithalls to ensure our oil supply, we just don't have the resolve to do it.
Our nation has no unity of purpose because our national identity is slpintered among ethnic faultlines.
Do you hear what I'm saying? Race is a fundamental identifier imbedded deep in our genes; for millenia, identifying with your race allowed for your survival, that's why a man will nearly always side with "his people" regardless of what the circumstances of conflict are. To ignore this fact is to ignore human biology and when social policy goes against human biology, the biology always wins. People are herd animals and they prefer their own herd. We have too many different herds in this country and not that much pasture. Hence we have internal conflics related to our heterogeneity. We're weak from the inside. As long as the white majority ruled the country - America was strong and the minorities, though they had no political influence, were strong with it. Now the white majority is waning, the Western European civilization based on the Christian principles of Universal Redemption and the Triumph of Righteousness is being replaced by oriental philosophy of indifferent creation:
"Nature holds no prejudice and cares for all things the same. It views everything as so many straw dogs, neither loving nor hating them." Lao-Tzu , Tao, Chapter 5
The ethnic shifts in America are causing a growing internal strife and the external enemies see it and are starting to nip at our heels. Oil would be within our grasp had we really wanted it, but not everyone sees our fundamental need for it, minorities for the most part do not want to see America as the sole ruling superpower and so we're a house divided.
How did we get here? By importing millions of Africans and keeping them segregated from mainstreem for upwards of 200 years.
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WW,
I'm not at all saying white ownership of blacks was the worst example of slavery in history; in fact, it might have been among the mildest. The problem is the interracial nature of American slavery.
Many nations who practiced slavery could get over it because 2-3 generations after slavery ended there you couldn't tell who was the slave and who the master - so long as skin color was the same. Or the nation that enslaved another nation no longer did so. We don't have this luxury here - anyone with African features will forever claim victim status because of what happened centuries ago and they are not about to leave either, nor should they have to. Recent black immigrants are anothger issue; funny thing how many actual Africans cross the ocean now a days and cry about racism once they settle here.
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"They dilligently snap to attention when accused and admit wrong and pay penalties"
despite the decades of getting stumped in the dirt that protestant ethic is still showing through. Somewhere it says that the children of the righteous are blessed to the seventh generation. I figure the last truly righteous generation of Americans to be the great generation who fought WWII. If you measure each generation to be the time it takes for an average adult to begin procreation, it's about 30 years now in the US. So add about 200 years to the end of WWII and that'd be about the time all hell should break loose.
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EW,
I am well enough aware of how difficult it is to put a new product on the market and your uncle was hardly in a position to compete with established autoparts makers.
My comment had more to do with your contemptious comment about "big business". Big business exists to make money, pure and simple. Don't expect them to exhibit higher morals or altruistic attitudes. They bought out your uncle's invention because it suited their interest. Your uncle, may he rest in peace, didn't have to sell his invention.
What would you prefer, that we have no big business? that all businesses be small? Who makes just about anything you or I have of any commercial value? Some local mom and pop outfit? Big businesses aren't "good" or "bad" - they are money making operations, and, by the way, they pay a lot of people, including myself, decent wages. Very much unlike Big Labor or Big Government.
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