RANT: The lesson of Nagasaki

Sunday, August 21, 2011

http://lewrockwell.com/kohls/kohls12.1.html

Duty to Warn
The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: Another Example of Christians Killing Christians in the Name of Christ
by Gary G. Kohls

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So, at 11:02 am, August 9, 1945, in the middle of morning mass, the Christians of Nagasaki were boiled, evaporated and carbonized in a scorching, radioactive fireball that was several times hotter than the sun. The vibrant center of Japanese Christianity was wiped out. It had become Ground Zero.

And what the Japanese Imperial government could not do in over 250 years of persecution, American Christians had done in 9 seconds. 8,500 of Nagasaki’s worshipping community of 12,000 perished that day. None of those who died were combatants.

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Perhaps the next military atrocities like Nagasaki, Fallujah and My Lai can be prevented if a substantial number of Christian churches courageously and publicly start to resist the militaristic policies of their nations by actively refusing their government’s call for the bodies and souls of their sons and daughters.

If the churches start to exercise their sacred duty to warn their parishioners about the soul-destroying nature of war, it may not be too late to save our dying, war-torn, morally and financially bankrupt planet.

Heeding the lessons of Nagasaki is a good way to start.

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Hard to read this or see the picture.

And, the various churches, who supposedly revere the Prince of Peace, seem to be out sync with the meme.

How does one reconcile this militarism, empire, and killing?

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RANT: Bankruptcy repairs?

Saturday, August 20, 2011

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/19/gm-impala-lawsuit-idUSN1E77I0Z820110819

GM says bankruptcy excuses it from Impala repairs
Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:47pm EDT
* New GM said not responsible to fix Impala made by old GM
* Suspension problem said to cause excessive tire wear
By Jonathan Stempel

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NEW YORK, Aug 19 (Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over a suspension problem on more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas from the 2007 and 2008 model years, saying it should not be responsible for repairs because the flaw predated its bankruptcy.

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Argh! So it wasn’t just the bondholders that got weenied. But I but the Big Unions are whole!

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RANT: Afghanistan until 2024?!?

Saturday, August 20, 2011

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8712701/US-troops-may-stay-in-Afghanistan-until-2024.html

US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024

America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

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Yah gotta be kidding me.

From the “hope and change” ersatz peace candidate!

Vote Ron Paul!

What the <synonym for the act of procreation>!

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POLITICAL: How do we end the warfare / welfare state?

Saturday, August 20, 2011

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92943.html

August 12, 2011
The War To End All Wars Continues
Posted by Christopher Manion on August 12, 2011 06:34 PM

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My father, a student in Washington at the time, led Catholics for Wilson — “We want Wilson, one time more! We want peace, we don’t want war!” But Cardinal Gibbons, aware of the unfortunately widespread anti-Catholic sentiment in the US, feared that Catholic opposition to the war would brand Catholics as “unpatriotic.” As though we loved our country more than our government? No, that we were more loyal to “Rome” than to Wilson.

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Maybe I’m a hopeless cynic.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), I think that “We, The Sheeple” have been being hoodwinked by the effete elite for a very long time.

Wilson ran as a supposed “peace candidate” and, once firmly ensconced in power, took the USA to war.

When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up?

In history class, we learned about the “Hundred Years War”. How can a war go on for 100 years?

Now look at Korea?

Now look at Germany?

Why?

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INTERESTING: Hanks’ Personal Refund

Friday, August 19, 2011

http://www.movies.com/movie-news/tom-hanks-larry-crowne-refund/4090?wssac=164&wssaffid=news

Tom Hanks Personally Refunded Disappointed Couple’s ‘Larry Crowne’ Tickets

By Peter Hall Aug 16, 2011

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A novel way to make Customer’s happy. Now what about all the rest of the folks?

Guess not so much!

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POLITICAL: Gooferment diktats kill!

Friday, August 19, 2011

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=331793

A government that kills
Posted: August 09, 2011
John Stossel

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Life involves tradeoffs. If we want to minimize deaths from auto accidents, we may use more fuel than we might otherwise use. Who should make that decision, the government? Or you and I?

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Why is it that when our Gooferment “protects” us that decisions suck?

“Cash for clunkers” deprive the “non-rich” of good quality at a fair price.

“Gooferment Motors” puts the Taxpayer into the car biz; screws the bond holders.

The FDA retards, and in some cases stops, drugs from deployment while raising the ante on development to stratospheric levels. And, prevents cheap supplements from being marketed as alternatives to expensive drugs.

Gooferment’s phony car mileage concern takes choices from us.

Argh!

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HARDWARE: HP betrays its Customer

Friday, August 19, 2011

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hp-punts-on-webos-discontinues-touchpad-cuts-outlook/55386?tag=nl.e019

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HP’s move to shed the PC business as well as discontinue the TouchPad has its risks. For starters, HP will take a reputation hit for launching a TouchPad and then killing it.

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Trust your hardware vendor to “vote you off the island”.

Argh!

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FUN: Old age ROI?

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Interesting? The first question I ask every time is “what’s the roi?”. Is that too dumb? I rode by pton airport. Always wanted to fly; Frau nixed that. Now, while it might be “fun”, and a fast way to catch up with her, what would be my roi?

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RANT: “Big Church”, another failed concept

Thursday, August 18, 2011

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/diocese-of-orange-raises-bid-for-crystal-cathedral/

Diocese of Orange raises bid for Crystal Cathedral
By Marianne Medlin

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Garden Grove, Calif., Aug 11, 2011 / 05:59 am (CNA).- The Diocese of Orange upped its previous bid and signaled openness to new negotiations for the Crystal Cathedral after board members recently announced that the building is no longer for sale.

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The liturgist for the Orange diocese, Monsignor Arthur Holquin, said July 26 that several changes would need to take place in order for the Crystal Cathedral to become a Catholic worship space.

Along with a central altar, a tabernacle and a baptismal font, the building would need a “cathedra” or bishop’s chair. While renovations are needed to the building, “not much deconstruction would be required and the iconic personality of the original architecture and design would, for the most part, be retained,” he said.

Purchasing the Crystal Cathedral is an attractive option for the diocese because it provides an instant solution to its building needs and would cost roughly half the $100 million price tag for the planned Santa Ana cathedral.

Though the diocese made an official $50 million bid for the Crystal Cathedral on July 22, the church’s board later voted against selling it and decided to appeal to church members and viewers to donate the funds instead.

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Guess I just don’t understand.

Couldn’t God be worshiped in an appropriately decorated warehouse?

As far as the “bishop’s chair”, I have a old folding chair to donate. Won’t that hold a butt.

$100M$?

Reminds me of the French’s Maginot Line and Patton’s famous apocryphal remark “fixed fortifications are monuments to man’s stupidity”.

Maybe a cathedral is marketing? Of an idea who’s time has past. “Big Church” must join the dustbin of failed concepts like: Big Gooferment, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Labor, Big Biz, “Too Big To Fail” (2B2F), Social Security “Insurance”, the misnamed Federal Reserve Bank, Wall Street, Fiat Paper aka “monopoly money”, and all such stupidity?

It’s always sad when the illusions and delusions die. And all we are left with is the wreckage.

Is it too late to rebuild from the pieces?

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POLITICAL: Cribs can be … anything

Thursday, August 18, 2011

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Feds-to-Issue-Massive-Drop-Down-Crib-Recall-71803397.html

Listened to the “news”.

One of the stories (at ~2310) was that “drop down cribs” were being sold on Craig’s List.

Interesting.

You can do anything but throw them away.

Isn’t that a Fifth Amendment “taking”?

The three that they cited were: 130, 150, and 175 each.

That’s a regulation that takes that wealth from individuals.

It’s to prevent 18 deaths over 5 years across 300,000,000 people.

That’s a tax. And, an infringement. And, it’s making a tradeoff decision for people.

But, maybe that’s a risk that a parent would take.

Maybe they’d rather have an old $130 crib rather than a new more expensive one. And, have the freedom to use the difference as they see fit. Maybe it’s for food, or rent, or a six pack.

It should be their choice.

Then Nanny State takes away our liberties.

Argh!

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