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Negative but unfortunately realistic comment. Was hoping Paul would encourage and change the GOP so the RINOs will be gone.
My you are optimistic aren't you? I gave up on the GOP establishment during the 2010 midterms when they did all they could to sabotage the Tea Party. Rand Paul should stay just how he is. If he does so he at least shames the rest of the GOP by demonstrating what they should be.
OK, I see it now. The UN does, the same organization that puts countries like Sudan and North Korea on the Human Rights council.I will give you that is an interesting measure though. Wonder of wonders that with the exception of Canada, the US, Israel and Switzerland the first 25 countries are all in the EU.
Linguistic thuggery? That's the first time I've seen that phrase. Did you coin it? LOL.
Yes, I did. I think it has a nice ring to it myself.
I have said my piece about what I think of the term. It may have once been useful but any usefulness of that term is long gone through abuse of the term itself. Anymore the term is used much like accusations of racism or discrimination, to shut down debate. After all, if it is genocide how can there be any debate so those who wish to debate it better just shut up and toe the party line. The term genocide is now just one more weapon in the semantic/semiotic war to control peoples thoughts and modes of expression. It is no more than another side of the BC/BCE debate or any other argument about political correctness and approved modes of expression. I refuse to go along with such linguistic thuggery and so get attacked, so be it I am a big boy and will not be intimidated.
Yes, I know we are talking about a girl who was 11 when she saw Schindler's List, a film she also played a role in. Am I the only person who thinks it is strange that she claims to be traumatized by seeing a work of fiction of which she was a part?I will not say anymore before you start beating me up for being insensitive too. I just wonder how we as a species have not only survived, but managed to become the dominant species on earth given the manifest weakness of our psyches to trying times and events.
Well, It couldn't have been Apollo 2 because that was an unmanned test-flight that launched in 1966 before Nixon was President.
Actually, he's visiting astronauts in quarantine after returning to Earth from the Apollo II mission.
You mean Apollo 11 and not Apollo 2 correct? NASA has never used Latin numerals for numbering missions because it can lead to confusion. That is definitely Apoolo 11 as Aldrin, Collins, and Armstrong are all recognizable as well as the Apollo 11 mission patch.
Only the ground floor was ever finished. When I first visited the castle in 1995 that was all you could see. I went back in 2009 and now they have built out a portion of the second floor into a gift shop and cafe. It is worth seeing if you ever come to Germany but don;t expect anything but a superficial resemblance to a real castle. One of the most impressive things in the castle is the King's bed, it supposedly took something like 20,000 man hours to carve and I can believe it.
A guy who fought in Mexico as a lieutenant was a veteran but he was not a veteran general. There is a world of difference between commanding a company or battalion and commanding a brigade, division, or corps.
You didn't cite any evidence but your own assertions. There is nowhere sources you can provide to support what you write.And you ask for mine ? However if you really know what you are talking about then you are borderline with genocide denial and if not with historical revisionism. - The Rwandan Civil War of '94 should be on the list at a minimum. The media and bleeding hearts like to call it a genocide but it was in reality a short, extremely violent Civil War. - Genocide is an artificial term coined in the wake of WWII to justify prosecuting Nazis.- It is just as politically loaded as calling something/someone racist. If you object to its use than you must be heartless, therefor I am a heartless, pitiless rogue because I object to tis use. You can check further about this here under :http://www.hdot.org/en/trial/defense/evans/6Especially in 6.20 and 6.21
Your reaction to my rejection of the term just proves my point for me. It is in fact an emotionally and politically laden term. I have not denied that crimes were committed, I just object to their characterization. I have not said these things did not happen, just that we did not need to invent a new word to describe things that had and have been going on since the beginning of time. My evidence was this:[color color=rgb(51, 68, 102)]WHAT IS GENOCIDE?[/color] The description of the origin of the term from the USHM website. They don't even deny that the term was coined in an atmosphere of politics and emotion. How else can you characterize the Jewish search for justice for the perpetrators of the Holocaust than one of politics and emotion? It was politics that made the prosecution possible and the term genocide is inherently emotional as it evokes images of death. One fed on the other. I have never denied that the holocaust happened and I resent the implication that my rejection of a term implies that I do. I cannot control what you think, but contrariwise neither can you control what I think. I stand by my original assertion that Genocide is an artificial term coined in the wake of WWII to justify prosecuting Nazis. The history of the word itself shows that. From my reference:
"The term "genocide" did not exist before 1944. ... In 1944, a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) sought to describe Nazi policies of systematic murder, including the destruction of the European Jews. He formed the word "genocide" by combining geno-, from the Greek word for race or tribe, with -cide, from the Latin word for killing."
Can it be any clearer that I am correct in my assertions? I am starting to think I am not the one with the problem here.
Believe it or not guys Brazil is going to be a major player in the new global economy in the coming years. They are clearing the Amazon rain forest at an amazing pace which will greatly increase their industrial output. Brazil is also rich in natural resources and their political situation seems to be stable. Brazil is planning on taking on a greater role in world politics and this is good news for the United States since we cannot shoulder the burden alone anymore.
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You don't know what you're talking about.
And why not? I was at Srebenica and drove down trails with skeletons scattered to either side and on the trail itself. I was also at several the mass grave sites in the Former Yugoslavia. I also have personal experience of what Genocide is claimed to be yet still reject the term.
