Day: August 2, 2005

Q: Can 309 people aboard an Air France Airbus 340 survive when the plane skids off a runway in Toronto, rolls into a grass valley, breaks in half and bursts into flames?

A: Yes

It’s a God thing.

Dr. David Lazerson details “Myths My Leaders Told Me”:

“Say a lie long enough and it’ll become truth. There’s no shortage of these absurd myths that not only bombard our senses daily in the media, but have dangerously replaced the rare commodity known as common sense.”

Go read his OpEd, but first, here’s a few myths he highlights.

• The media keeps referring to people who blow themselves up in crowded public places as “militants” or “insurgents”. They are not. They are terrorists, pure and simple.
  
• Israel is a democracy – “It might be a country with a lot more freedoms than the 20-plus Arab countries surrounding it, but it is currently lacking in some important democratic principles. Any time the head honcho can simply fire the ministers that don’t agree with him in order to pass policy, then this system of “checks & balances” – so integral to the US Constitution – has gone haywire. Israel currently has a system in place that, quite frankly, gives too much power to the prime minister.”
  
• The myth of “land for peace” – “It’s simply never worked throughout history. Any 6th-grade student knows that. It didn’t work with the Nazis in Europe. It didn’t work for the Native Americans. And it sure as heck hasn’t worked for Israel, surrounded by a hundreds of millions of hostile Muslims, hell-bent on a very different agenda than peaceful coexistence. Their agenda is to spread Islam. Some advocate education and conversion. A sizeable portion advocate “any means necessary”, including violence and terror. This means that any other lifestyle or non-Muslim country that has the audacity to live as it sees fit is an obstacle to their agenda, to their “holy” war.”
  
• “Militant Islam” cannot be defeated; therefore, we must try to negotiate – “Negotiations and deals with terrorists is nothing more than buying time.”

In this day and age, we need more people to speak plain truth, no matter how difficult it might be. We need to call a spade a spade and deal with realities, not fantasies. Our way of life is at stake – the very freedom our ancestors fought for will be worth nothing if we allow politically correct thought to govern our land.

It’s not too late.  

Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey seeks a travel companion and lover.

So, I’m looking for a new lover, someone who can afford the time and money to travel for a long period of time either continuously or with occasional short trips home.  If things work out this could be the start of a serious long term relationship.  He should be intelligent, ethical, healthy and fit, monogamous, kind, generous, very affectionate and sexual.   No married men, smokers, STDs, or religion, and must be pro-choice and pro-gay rights.  For long-term compatibility he should be a libertarian and share a lot of my interests and hobbies.

But wait! There’s more!

Whoa…

Kids on the street in Baghdad, posing for a picture taken by a U.S. soldier.

More photos here.

Picture yourself, on a boat on a river…

…uh, I mean a waterfall.

Saddam’s trial will be carried live on TV.

Earlier this month, I listened to a fascinating program on NPR (yes, sometimes it’s possible) honoring the 80th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial.

The Smithsonian recently discovered remarkable unseen photos taken in Dayton, Tenn., of the famous clash of religion, evolution and public school education.

  Clarence Darrow questioning William Jennings Bryan outdoors on July 20, 1925

Bryan died five days after the trial ended.

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