Neil wrote:
Hey, I just use search engines...

Neil wrote:
He (Charles de Gaulle) was unusual among French commanders, in that he preached & practiced armored maneuver warfare, like the Germans. Like Englishman Percy Hobart, however, his colleagues weren't ready for his ideas.

From one WWII buff to another.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Americans, should not be tricked into wars, such as Bush Jr.'s [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars]]]Banana_War[/URL]. Apparently neither he nor his advisers even read the first couple chapters of Lao Tzu's book on war.
However, the utter foolishness of isolationism can only be two America's detriment. Something that we did learn at the beginning of World War II.

Mike wrote:
I don't think we can afford all the vacations, though.

Hopefully Obama won't be able to spin the current crises as wonderfully as FDR did the Great Depression to get himself re-elected. I'm hopeful that enough of the US public is now willing to change the "change" come November.

How messed-up is that?

Government increasingly wants to be the middleman/arbiter in more and more areas of life--and the people increasingly seem to love it so, or are indifferent.

Forgive me for once again using my own family as an example but my mentally ill sister qualifies for social security even though our family is more than wealthy enough to care for her ourselves. Instead of pooling our resources to help her directly we pay taxes which support her SS payments. Dad likes it that way because as he says he's "payed into the system" and now wants at least some of his money back. Meanwhile the rest of us are "relieved" of any burden to care for our sister since we've been conditioned to accept government assistance in this case.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Mike of NY, I don't see you ever saying anything nasty about the Republicans?

Jim Lincoln wrote:
One used to be able to tell what party that a politician was in, the Democrats suffered from sexual sins, and the Republicans from theft, unfortunately the lines have been blurred recently.

Maybe I'm lazy but I much prefer Mike's succinct way of laying out facts AND backing them up than having to slog through 2 or 3 links to try to get to whatever point you're trying to make.

Neil wrote:
Since I'm one of those stubborn folks who don't believe in the Pretrib Rapture, I suppose I'll just have to swag a ride on this [URL=http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3108149248/tt0044207]]]baby[/URL].☺

Mike wrote:
Kenny said he notified the county of his intention to homeschool, a proper thing to do. "We homeschooled at our house for over 20 years and I can assure you that if somebody from the 'state' had tried to come into my home without a warrant and an armed escort they would have left sorely disappointed and probably have had their feelings badly hurt"
Where in this is Homeschoolers assertion that Kenny said "they will need their guns out even if they have a lawful warrant?

Neil wrote:
kenny, as you probably know, the 20th century was dominated by the ideology of educational statism (care of Imperial Germany), so be not surprised that many folks of Jim's generation & my parents' have been conditioned to regard dissenters with suspicion. While I was growing up, hardly anyone besides conservative Anabaptists even thought of home schooling, let alone practiced it.

The so-called "silent generation", who's formative memories include big government clobbering the Axis in WWII and "helping" America get through the great depression as well as increasing public access to government-funded education. Is it any wonder that big-government liberalism is so strong with these people. It was and still often is regarded as a "savior" of sorts to these dear folks. Just look at the AARP and it's overall political leanings.

@Homeschooler:

kenny wrote:
BTW - How do you manage to post on virtually every single thread here around the clock, Jim? Is your wife still out earning you a living? Does she know what you're doing all day while she's working? Shouldn't you be working? Maybe get a hobby?

Justanotherthought wrote:
"Keep the faith" writes off everyone who is not a calvinist!!
Mike you are too generous! You only write off some calvs.

DogTags wrote:
The late Francis Schaeffer once said that liberal theology is nothing but secular humanism in religious terms. The liberal theologian will always side with the secular humanist on any issue.
Carter's words betray him as a secular humanist.

Robert Bork in his book Slouching Toward Gomorrah noted that so-called "moral capital" tends to linger for a generation or two within even the unsaved descendants of truly saved parents/grandparents, making it look like the child is also faithful, until they "fall away" later in life.

Mike wrote:
Matthew 19
4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Come on Jimmy!

That's the basic counter I use for those who try to compartmentalize Jesus' sayings from the rest of the Bible regarding this topic. To try to somehow justify their own acceptance of homosexuality and defend it.

Another lesser but effective counter is to point out that Jesus ministry on earth was mainly to the Jews and much of his rhetoric was directed toward the Pharisees, who were so self-righteous that sins as low and pagan as homosexuality or child-sacrifice never would've entered into these disputes recorded in the Gospels. The BIG problem with the Jews of Jesus' day--especially the Pharisees--was not sin so blatant as homosexuality, but rather pretense of holiness and an attempt to justify oneself by works.

Culture of Death wrote:
When Christians started downing them (birth control pills) by the truckload, amazingly they found that their minds were being tuned to a prostitution frequency. Instead of loving and being open to children, they started having "accidents." And for those who
elected against "accidents," they visited a clinic.

Recent concepts thanks to the "all-powerful" modern god of pharmacology.

It drove me crazy when my "Christian" mother would try to "reassure" me that I was "planned" even though there was a 4-year gap between me and my older brother instead of the 1-1/2 year gap between the rest of their kids. She evidently thought my "fragile" self-esteem might be somehow mortally wounded if I concluded I was a so-called accidental pregnancy, so instead of crediting God with my ultimate origin, she credited herself and my dad (and their collective "wisdom") for "bringing me into the world" and not just being careless with their sexuality.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Gentlemen, I assume you had the same idea about [URL=http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/life_20.html]]]The GI Bill[/URL]? You gentlemen make a good point, perhaps education should be like healthcare, universal and free. An educated populace is always beneficial to the country. So, perhaps many of you have rendered a service by getting people thinking along those lines.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
...the nonintellectual abilities of present-day candidates...

Neil wrote:
IMHO, the Student Loan program is nothing more than another net, like Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, to gather middle-class voters into the Progressive Left camp, since there must not be enough extra working-class voters to harvest anymore.
Once folks get a freebie, it's very hard to convince them to surrender it later. Thus continues our terminal decline.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
One commentator says it goes back to this, [URL=http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sarah-palin-and-other-ignorant-candidates/2012/03/12/gIQAoOPG8R_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop]]]Sarah Palin’s foolishness ruined U.S. politics[/URL].