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		<title>By: Ravi Singh</title>
		<link>http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/01/05/conservatism-deserves-better-intellectuals/comment-page-1/#comment-4674</link>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Singh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Today, &quot;conservative intellectual&quot; is nearly an oxymoron, with  Sarah Palin and Joe &quot;the Plumber&quot; Wurzelbacher numbered among conservatism&#039;s leading lights.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, &#8220;conservative intellectual&#8221; is nearly an oxymoron, with  Sarah Palin and Joe &#8220;the Plumber&#8221; Wurzelbacher numbered among conservatism&#8217;s leading lights.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill</title>
		<link>http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/01/05/conservatism-deserves-better-intellectuals/comment-page-1/#comment-3590</link>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As long as we are going there with the demeaning playground metaphor, apparently. . I think it looks more like this pictorally:  

Israel is more like the bully kid, here, on the playground who says invariably to the teacher/parent who winds up breaking up his/her fights. . &quot;But, but - he (or she) (whoever they are busy pummeling - usually smaller kid) started it!&quot;  

At this point the teacher or person involved has to shake their heads.. (usually breaking  up the fight is the M.O. not egging it on here.  . also as the supposed &#039;adults&#039; have done in the media lately)

..teacher or adult anyway s&#039;posed to.. has to normally anyway, break up the schoolyard fight/s though.. and explain to this older bigger kid (Israel) at this point - how they are supposed to &quot;know better&quot; and &quot;act more maturely&quot; and so forth by virtue of them being older, stronger (receipt of U.S. Military subsidies, etc.) than the smaller &quot;kid/s&quot; on the &quot;playground/s.&quot;

Of course in these &#039;schoolyard&#039; fights are more than just petty children pointing fingers</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As long as we are going there with the demeaning playground metaphor, apparently. . I think it looks more like this pictorally:  </p>
<p>Israel is more like the bully kid, here, on the playground who says invariably to the teacher/parent who winds up breaking up his/her fights. . &#8220;But, but &#8211; he (or she) (whoever they are busy pummeling &#8211; usually smaller kid) started it!&#8221;  </p>
<p>At this point the teacher or person involved has to shake their heads.. (usually breaking  up the fight is the M.O. not egging it on here.  . also as the supposed &#8216;adults&#8217; have done in the media lately)</p>
<p>..teacher or adult anyway s&#8217;posed to.. has to normally anyway, break up the schoolyard fight/s though.. and explain to this older bigger kid (Israel) at this point &#8211; how they are supposed to &#8220;know better&#8221; and &#8220;act more maturely&#8221; and so forth by virtue of them being older, stronger (receipt of U.S. Military subsidies, etc.) than the smaller &#8220;kid/s&#8221; on the &#8220;playground/s.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course in these &#8217;schoolyard&#8217; fights are more than just petty children pointing fingers</p>
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		<title>By: John Lofton, Recovering Republican</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Lofton, Recovering Republican</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Forget &quot;conservatism,&quot; please. It has been Godless and therefore irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God both are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson&#039;s Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:

&quot;[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It .is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth.&quot;

Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).

John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forget &#8220;conservatism,&#8221; please. It has been Godless and therefore irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God both are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson&#8217;s Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:</p>
<p>&#8220;[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It .is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth.&#8221;</p>
<p>Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).</p>
<p>John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com<br />
Recovering Republican<br />
<a href="mailto:JLof@aol.com">JLof@aol.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: stateofthedivision</title>
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		<dc:creator>stateofthedivision</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And when the second child responds by scattering white phosphorous and leaving cluster bombs in the sandbox?  Who gave the child such dangerous weapons?  

Where are the parents, after all these are children?  

And the police?  What if all seven officers on duty have to unanimously agree the problem is significant and warrants police intervention?  And what if one of the police officers is related to one child&#039;s parent?

First child-punches
Second child-disproportionately retaliates
Police-UN</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And when the second child responds by scattering white phosphorous and leaving cluster bombs in the sandbox?  Who gave the child such dangerous weapons?  </p>
<p>Where are the parents, after all these are children?  </p>
<p>And the police?  What if all seven officers on duty have to unanimously agree the problem is significant and warrants police intervention?  And what if one of the police officers is related to one child&#8217;s parent?</p>
<p>First child-punches<br />
Second child-disproportionately retaliates<br />
Police-UN</p>
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		<title>By: jps</title>
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		<dc:creator>jps</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Memo

To:  Internationalization, State

From:  jps, ThinkProgress Wonk Room comments

Subject:  Handy phrases for Hillary

Please translate into Hebrew, Arabic, Pashtun, Hindi, and regional dialects:

1. &quot;You are not getting any windmills unless you stop shooting.&quot;

2. &quot;The solar and desalination plant plans will be delivered when hostilities cease.&quot;

3. &quot;We aren&#039;t going to let you use our battery technology if you get into a nuclear war.&quot;

4. &quot;If you want to see the latest nulling interferometry images in the far infrared, you are going to have to stop using those cluster bombs.&quot;

5. &quot;We are not eager to explain our Safe Routes to Schools programs to those who continue to bomb civilians.&quot;

Thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Memo</p>
<p>To:  Internationalization, State</p>
<p>From:  jps, ThinkProgress Wonk Room comments</p>
<p>Subject:  Handy phrases for Hillary</p>
<p>Please translate into Hebrew, Arabic, Pashtun, Hindi, and regional dialects:</p>
<p>1. &#8220;You are not getting any windmills unless you stop shooting.&#8221;</p>
<p>2. &#8220;The solar and desalination plant plans will be delivered when hostilities cease.&#8221;</p>
<p>3. &#8220;We aren&#8217;t going to let you use our battery technology if you get into a nuclear war.&#8221;</p>
<p>4. &#8220;If you want to see the latest nulling interferometry images in the far infrared, you are going to have to stop using those cluster bombs.&#8221;</p>
<p>5. &#8220;We are not eager to explain our Safe Routes to Schools programs to those who continue to bomb civilians.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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