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Monday, June 07, 2004 |
Patriotism. Illinois radio talk show host Scott Thomas, on patriotism: Let me be clear on this. I do not think you can fully be a true American patriot without first loving the God who blesses this nation. Sure, an atheist can fly a flag, pledge allegiance (without mentioning God), even fight... [The Raving Atheist]
6:20:38 PM Permalink
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'Tis unmanly grief. Craig Cantoni writes in a forwarded email: According
to my calculations, it will cost taxpayers $575 million to give federal
workers a day off for Reagan's funeral on Friday, although the last
thing that Reagan would want is for federal workers to get another
holiday. Check my math: There are approximately 2.5 million
federal workers who earn on average approximately $230 per day in pay
and benefits. Thus, 2.5 million times $230 equals $575
million. I admired Reagan, but I'll be working on Friday and so
will my wife. But we work in the private sector and have to work
to pay our taxes so that federal workers can have a day off. And
don't you know that all the Democratic unionized government workers
will be mourning Reagan's death.
[Hit & Run]
3:16:14 PM Permalink
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Reagan's Legacy in Good Hands. James K. Glassman looks at the kind of leader Ronald Reagan was -- and finds many similarities with our current President, George W. Bush: First, like Reagan, the current president adopted a simple, straightforward program and is resolutely pursuing it:... [Bush-Cheney '04 Blog]
So it took the Republican less than 2 full days to use the death of Reagan as a campaign tool. And this after Kerry announced he was suspending campaigning for the week. Just wait till the convention hits!
12:13:13 PM Permalink
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Department of "D'oh!". The Poor Man reports that Donald Rumsfeld has joined the ranks of the shrill and unbalanced, and is in
The Poor Man: Donald Rumsfeld Is Shrill And Unbalanced: the grips of irrational Bush-hatred: "The United States and its allies are winning some battles in the terrorism war but may be losing the broader struggle against Islamic extremism that is terrorism's source, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Saturday. The troubling unknown, he said, is whether the extremists -- whom he termed ''zealots and despots'' bent on destroying the global system of nation-states -- are turning out newly trained terrorists faster than the United States can capture or kill them. ''It's quite clear to me that we do not have a coherent approach to this,'' Rumsfeld said at an international security conference."
If even Donald Rumsfeld believes that Al Qaeda is growing stronger, who is left to defend the Bush administration's conduct of the War on Terror? [Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004)]
11:22:28 AM Permalink
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He also said "Facts are stupid things."
Not Even a Hedgehog. The stupidity of Ronald Reagan. [Slate Magazine]
Ronald Reagan claimed that the Russian
language had no word for "freedom." (The word is "svoboda"; it's quite
well attested in Russian literature.) Ronald Reagan said that
intercontinental ballistic missiles (not that there are any
non-ballistic missiles—a corruption of language that isn't his fault)
could be recalled once launched. Ronald Reagan said that he sought a
"Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the
tyrants of the U.S.S.R. Ronald Reagan professed to be annoyed when
people called it "Star Wars," even though he had ended his speech on
the subject with the lame quip, "May the force be with you." Ronald
Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely
they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. Ronald Reagan used to
alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the "End Times"
foreshadowed in the Bible. In the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan told
Yitzhak Shamir and Simon Wiesenthal, on two separate occasions, that he
himself had assisted personally at the liberation of the Nazi death
camps.
And that's just for starters.
10:30:51 AM Permalink
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Bush's tobacco flip-flop is complete. We saw this coming, but I was a little surprised at how fast it happened. The Bush White House on a federal tobacco buyout, in early May: "They've got the quota system in place -- the allotment system -- and I don't think that needs to be changed," Bush said. The Bush White House on the buyout, four weeks later: In an election-year switch, the Bush administration is willing to consider multibillion-dollar legislation to end the government's Depression-era tobacco program, congressional Republicans said Thursday. The Bush White House on the... [The Carpetbagger Report]
8:47:32 AM Permalink
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Evolution "is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been
challenged in the world of science and is not yet believed in the
scientific community to be as infallible as it was once
believed." --Ronald Reagan
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