tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post7901259784476287743..comments2023-09-15T08:07:28.542-06:00Comments on Western Hero: Sic Semper TyrannisSilverfiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-55492546063242143262011-10-24T13:15:32.963-06:002011-10-24T13:15:32.963-06:00From where I sit, AOW, you are very definitely on ...From where I sit, AOW, you are very definitely on the right track. Not that I'm competent to judge, mind you. <br /><br />All I can say is "Keep up the good work." I'll visit your husband's new blog soon.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-21646120293615516852011-10-24T05:04:15.890-06:002011-10-24T05:04:15.890-06:00FreeThinke,
Thank you for sharing that story about...FreeThinke,<br />Thank you for sharing that story about your father.<br /><br />Mr. AOW is <i>compos mentis</i>, after 18 months of brain healing. But it is clear that his physical disabilities will prevent him from ever returning to work. After his brain surgery in 1993 (acoustic neuroma at age 44), which did affect him cognitively, he had to leave a desk job and return to physical labor.<br /><br />He has been bored out of his mind and very lonely, so, for his birthday, I got him an iPad and set up <a href="http://misteraow.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">a blog</a> for him. He is learning the ropes. I plan to teach him how to do his own postings this coming weekend. At the moment, I am his secretary. I don't mind!<br /><br />You said: <i>From my point of view you certainly are on the right track if you believe it inappropriate to act belligerently or contemptuously when speaking about God and His Son, Jesus.</i><br /><br />I will tell you this: I am inundated with self-righteous Christians in the real world (not the virtual world). They are good people, but they piss me off royally when they "instruct" me "for my own good." Pfffft.<br /><br />I try to follow these instructions: "Let your light shine before me" and "Be ye the salt of the earth." Rewards from behaving that way are rare, but when those rewards become known to me, my soul is uplifted.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-87499044649429905122011-10-24T04:31:59.358-06:002011-10-24T04:31:59.358-06:00"Do not cooperate with the United States. Dig..."Do not cooperate with the United States. Dig in. Murder, maim, threaten and brandish chemical and nuclear weapons."<br /><br />Seems to work for the likes of North Korea, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba etc.<br /><br />I should add the following from what i've seen - if it's a Republican in power, don't mess with him because he will come after you and unleash the true lethality of the west upon you. Leave him alone and make nice when needed and he'll let you be.<br /><br />If it's a democrat, the more dangerous and hateful of liberty you are, the better for you. The more stealthily you attack/undermine America, the more he/she will weasel around and largely do nothing.MathewKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385674205383405783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-64093696531230416952011-10-23T16:18:11.243-06:002011-10-23T16:18:11.243-06:00AOW,
I'm sure I would have liked your father ...AOW,<br /><br />I'm sure I would have liked your father very much.<br /><br />I think Jesus wants us to work at perfecting our own understanding and developing our own character first rather than assume, because we have faith, that we naturally would know what's best for others. <br /><br />From my point of view you certainly are on the right track if you believe it inappropriate to act belligerently or contemptuously when speaking about God and His Son, Jesus. <br /><br />I think it's horrific when people let their different understanding of Truth get competitive and clamorous. It never sheds any light and just gets people irate and ugly, which is, itself, ungodly.<br /><br />I may have told you already, but I understand what you are experiencing with your husband all too well. My father suffered a severe stroke when he was forty-four. I was only twelve. Our lives changed drastically overnight. It was especially hard on my mother. I wish I had been more mature so I could have understood better and not thought so much of myself at the time. <br /><br />Eventually, my father did recover enough to go back to work, but was never the same again. He lived another twenty-five years with slowly diminishing capacities. After thirteen major hospitalizations, he died at the age of sixty-nine. That was thirty-five years ago, but it still seems like only yesterday.<br /><br />Mother took her marriage vows seriously and did the right thing in ever-straitening circumstances, but it took a tremendous toll on her. I wish I had had enough understanding to acknowledge more the beauty -- and the sanctity -- of her sacrifice. Being an old-fashioned person of integrity she would not have had it any other way, but I still wish things had gone differently for my parents.<br /><br />In many ways I am reaping the harvest that rightfully belonged to them, but I could never say i am not grateful. As i grow older I realize more and more how wonderful they really were.<br /><br />Somehow from the perspective of Eternity I believe everything evens out. I would never want to entertain the belief that God is not just, although He's probably been kinder to me than I properly deserve -- but them, that's not for me to say, it it?<br /><br />I could never claim to have heard His voice as such, but I am certain that when I talk to Him, He listens -- and I'm positive He has guided me through many treacherous passages and kept me whole. I live alone now, but thanks to the faith I have I never feel that I <i>am</i> alone.<br /><br />We have a beautiful library here. As soon as I can get downtown, I'll see if I can check out the talking book version of The Help.<br /><br />I hope you have a good week.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-90883646742350725052011-10-23T13:27:32.580-06:002011-10-23T13:27:32.580-06:00FreeThinke,
The book The Help is available on audi...FreeThinke,<br />The book <i>The Help</i> is available on audio at most public libraries. In fact, I listened to the audio version instead of reading the printed word.<br /><br />-----------<br /><br /><i>I appreciate the way you've expressed your disagreement without acrimony and without attacking me personally.</i><br /><br />I very rarely resort to personal attacks.<br /><br />With regard to discussing theology with someone, I would not reflect Christ if I got nasty.<br /><br />Oh, I can be nasty when discussing other subjects, but never when I discuss matters relating to God.<br /><br />----------<br /><br /><i>After all, if there is only one God -- and I believe that is true -- the Egyptians and the Canaanites were His children too. A wise and loving father may chide his children and occasionally punish them, but he would never want to exterminate them for misbehavior. Instead he would want to teach and persuade them to act more appropriately.</i><br /><br />Well, there was the Great Flood.<br /><br />You do bring up a good matter. Are we His children if we go too far afield from His will and His law?<br /><br />I believe that all human beings are His creation. It remains a mystery that He creates sinners or those who appear to be predisposed to evil (Charles Manson, for example).<br /><br />As to why God didn't send a plague upon the Canaanites, I don't have an answer for that.<br /><br />My father gave me advice that he himself lived by: "I have enough trouble managing my own soul, so I have no business telling others how to manage <b>THEIR</b> soul." Oh, sure, Dad would give his testimony. But he did not sit in judgment over his fellowman with regard to spiritual matters. Furthermore, Dad believed that none of us "have it right" as to theology; he believed that all we could do was walk by the faith we had. He did have clear cut ideas as to how admittance to hell is determined. Again, Dad felt that the matter was God's business -- and not his.<br /><br />Being a seeker is good! All I can say to you is that you should keep both your mind and your heart open. Faith is more a matter of heart than of mind.<br /><br />As I said before, I am at peace. That said, I am struggling some since my husband's stroke. I do need to be in a better spiritual place right now, but I haven't lost my faith. I just find it harder to talk with God these days. I have to trust that He understands.<br /><br />Good to chat with you, FT.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-7659781373165292962011-10-23T08:27:36.490-06:002011-10-23T08:27:36.490-06:00"... not every Christian you hear or read rep...<i>"... not every Christian you hear or read represents all Christians (or true Christianity at ALL)"</i><br /><br />Truer words were never written, Z, but it's obvious that in Jersey's case he neither read nor understood a word I wrote, so he's responding only to his <i>own</i> pre-conceived misconception. <br /><br />That's all right. I'm used to it; it happens all the time.<br /><br />Most of us are so self-absorbed and so intent on putting forth our <i>own</i> beliefs and interpretation of the truth we fail to listen to anyone who does not mirror our views with reassuring consistency.<br /><br />I'm glad you have found "blessed assurance," Z, but assuming that <b>what works for <i>me</i> has to be The Whole Truth, and should, therefore, work for <i>everybody</i> -- and that anybody who doesn't think so is wrong</b> can lead -- as we have seen countless times in history -- to fanaticism, aggression, persecution and wholesale slaughter.<br /><br />In my view there is no sin greater -- <i>or more deadly dangerous</i> -- than the sin of Self-Righteousness. It's a close kin to the sin of Pride, which often deceives us into equating our personal convictions, feelings and opinions with those of Almighty God.<br /><br />Somewhere in the scriptures it says, "The haughty shall be humbled." I pray that it be so.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-23159378650794094972011-10-23T08:04:15.896-06:002011-10-23T08:04:15.896-06:00Jersey,
Your remarks clearly demonstrate that ei...Jersey, <br /><br />Your remarks clearly demonstrate that either you have not read my remarks or that you have failed utterly to comprehend them.<br /><br />I'm not against you, personally, at all, but you seem to believe that because I identify more with Conservatism than with Collectivism, everything I say must, therefore, be wrong and deserves to be categorically rejected without examination.<br /><br />Honest curiosity is a great virtue. I wish for your sake you'd cultivate a capacity for exercising it.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-47845873419921346222011-10-23T07:55:51.672-06:002011-10-23T07:55:51.672-06:00Bless your heart, AOW. I appreciate the way you...Bless your heart, AOW. I appreciate the way you've expressed your disagreement without acrimony and without attacking me personally. I was not joking when I said that in earlier times I would very likely have been a candidate for imprisonment, torture, and execution as a heretic. <br /><br />I am glad that you have found faith in Christ, and that your faith sustains you. <br /><br />Certainly God may do whatever He chooses, but since God is perfect, surely He would have found better ways to rid nations of their sinfulness than to use the Israelites to do His dirty work for Him. Ridding the world of vile behavior in one set of tribes by harnessing the equally-sinful, bloodthirsty, licentious, acquisitive nature of another doesn't make any sense.<br /><br />If God had wanted to exterminate the Canaanites, He could have infected them with a plague, and thus avoided encouraging the Israelites to become wantonly self-righteous in their lust to kill, maim, loot, enslave and destroy.<br /><br />After all, there's no way anyone but a lawyer could reasonably interpret "Thou shalt not kill" as anything but <i>exactly</i> what it says. I firmly believe that God is the embodiment and perfect expression of Love among other essential spiritual attributes. If that is true, how could it be possible that God would advocate what-we-would-call "genocide" today?<br /><br />After all, if there is only one God -- and I believe that is true -- the Egyptians and the Canaanites were His children too. A wise and loving father may chide his children and occasionally punish them, but he would never want to <i>exterminate</i> them for misbehavior. Instead he would want to <i>teach</i> and persuade them to act more appropriately.<br /><br />I've been earnestly searching for God since I was a little boy. Like you I believe He is a vital, absolutely necessary part of my life. Without Him I could do nothing of any value. <br /><br />My personal view is that Jesus Christ came to tell the Jews how dreadfully wrong they had been since Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden. God spoke Truth to Moses, indeed, but what happened afterward seems a clear demonstration of intransigence -- a willful determination to do the exact <i>opposite</i> of what God had commanded and to use a considerable store of intelligence and ingenuity to develop an elaborate system of <i>rationalization</i> to justify giving way to passion, lust and inappropriate ambition every step of the way.<br /><br />Jesus what distinctly at odds with the tribal and religious leaders of is time. He openly criticized their ways and expressed contempt for the methods they used in administering temple affairs. <br /><br />His message was exactly what the Jews of that time did <i>not</i> want to hear. Instead of leading them into yet another long series of murderous battles to achieve ultimate victory over their oppressors, He charged them with the responsibility of looking <i>inward</i> to change radically the way <i>they</i> responded to the behavior of others.<br /><br />I believe the essence of Christ's message was to tell not only the Jews, but <i>all</i> people that the only hope of overcoming the harshness, insolence and injustice of the world would be to change <i>oneself</i> inwardly. By living our lives -- <i>as individuals</i> -- in such an exemplary fashion as to attract others and provoke profound curiosity in them as to what our Great Secret might be.<br /><br />You may have done exactly that, AOW. If people notice that you are somehow "different" in a good way, then redemption must have taken place in your heart.<br /><br />I hope we may be able to agree to disagree on matters of theology, but continue to talk with one another. I always enjoy hearing from you.<br /><br />~ FreeThinke<br /><br />PS: I still haven't been able to see The Help, but haven't forgotten your recommendation, and look forward to experiencing it one of these days. As you know, I can't read printed books because of serious eye problems, which also make it difficult for me to get out of the house and explore new territory. I an still drive, but <i>just</i> ... - FTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-32392989995583754192011-10-23T07:41:57.184-06:002011-10-23T07:41:57.184-06:00Jersey: You say "For Christ's sake, I wil...Jersey: You say "For Christ's sake, I will NEVER understand the "conservative Christian."<br />not every Christian you hear or read represents all Christians (or true Christianity at ALL): no more than every Muslim represents all Muslims.<br /><br />AOW: "What happened was not my doing, but rather the Lord's." It's the Holy Spirit which helps us read Scripture with God's meaning in mind; thanks for your comment. And yes, it's always the Lord's doing, never ours. And it's His great Promise which protects the Israelites and reminds us to protect them now.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-35779114278218671512011-10-23T05:15:44.989-06:002011-10-23T05:15:44.989-06:00FreeThinke,
I clearly do not share your theologica...FreeThinke,<br />I clearly do not share your theological views.<br /><br />When I was a teenager and studied the Old Testament, I got all hot under the collar about God's orders to exterminate the Canaanite tribes. Back then, BTW, we didn't discuss all the vile practices of the Canaanite religions, particularly in groups with mixed genders. It was only much later that I did any research on the Canaanite religions <i>per se</i>.<br /><br />Anyway, the Bible study leader at the time pointed out that we are God's creation and He has the right to do as He pleases. It is only by His grace that we have any chance at all not to be sent straight to hell as hell is what we <b>DESERVE</b> (because of our sinful natures and our committing of sin).<br /><br />Also part of my belief system: the purpose of the Old Testament is to show us our need for Christ, Who redeems us.<br /><br />I don't believe that the Old Testament exists to justify the doings of the Semitic tribe referred to as the Israelites. Nor do I believe that the Old Testament is an invention of a murderous tribe.<br /><br />Just as all human beings, the Israelites were flawed. The beauty of God's plan of salvation is that He loved us -- and the Israelites, a "stiff-necked people," enough to offer redemption. Furthermore, God used the Israelites and their generations to bring to us God Incarnate in the form of Jesus Christ.<br /><br />Based on what you've written in your comments above, I see that we disagree on this topic. I am at peace on a spiritual level; that state of peace convinces me that I have found the truth -- and the Truth. <br /><br />Simplistic? Maybe. But I've been through my spiritual struggles. Those struggles were put to rest back in 1981 in one clockable moment -- long after I accepted Christ as my Savior at the altar of a local church. I was justified in that moment, but sanctified to a great extent in that moment in 1981. What happened to me that day was so powerful that I don't have the words that will adequately describe the moment: I called out to God in despair, and He silently answered me with the still, small Voice that is inaudible to human ears. I know that the moment was genuine because, some time later, several people said to me, "What happened to you? You're different now than you were in September." Only years later did I tell a few people what had transpired. Now I've said so in a public forum, but I'm not bragging in the least. What happened was not my doing, but rather the Lord's.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-72874483272626926882011-10-22T21:59:44.573-06:002011-10-22T21:59:44.573-06:00FT, are you really a "Judeo-Christian?"
...FT, are you really a "Judeo-Christian?"<br /><br />What is a Judeo-Christian?<br /><br />You don't ask that. You simply assert that you are.<br /><br />Well, what the $#@! is a "Judeo-Christian?" <br /><br />What exactly is your religion?<br /><br />Jesus has nothing to say about tribal correctness, he doesn't demand anything of anyone but to try to get along and try to do right. Not much to ask of a CIVILIZED person. That's why we love Him. He loved us back. <br /><br />Get it?<br /><br />(For Christ's sake, I will NEVER understand the "conservative Christian.")<br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-66587887821945229032011-10-22T17:54:09.044-06:002011-10-22T17:54:09.044-06:00PART TWO
I’m sorry, AOW, I know this point of vie...PART TWO<br /><br />I’m sorry, AOW, I know this point of view is offensive to Jews and Evangelical Christians, but Mr. Albright in his eagerness to defend “the one true faith” conveniently forgets to acknowledge in his fulminations against all those myriad “ites” who fell victim to the murderous tactics of the Israelites, that the vile behavior Mr. Albright catalogues in the Canaanites is mirrored almost exactly in the equally vile behavior of the Israelites. In fact very little is said about how and it what ways the targets for annihilation deserve to be slaughtered. “God said said so,” is about all we’re given to go on in the Old Testament.<br /><br />I consider myself a Christian. I am not, however, a JUDAEO-Christian. With the exception of the Ten Commandments, which I believe to be a requisite for the establishment of any decent, just, healthy, productive and humane society, most of what I’ve heard all my life in Church and recently gleaned from a sustained, concentrated reading of the first twelve book of the Old Testament could be nothing but a primitive peoples’ yearning to explain and understand Reality -- and the clever, often ruthless attempts of their leaders to gain and hold power and control over these unruly mobs of barbarians. <br /><br />As such the ancient stories that most of us have been conditioned from birth to accept as “true” -- without really knowing anything about them -- are in fact preposterous inventions of a nomadic nation of Semites who were just like all the other competing groups in that arid vicinity desperately struggling to find meaning in existence and to find ways to survive in a hostile environment.<br /><br />I think the Israelites were for the most part innocent victims of circumstances beyond their control -- <i>just like everyone else</i>. That what-appears-to-be their innate tribal temperament led them to rationalize the wholesale slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent men women and children -- and the destruction or theft of their property -- as obedience to the will of “God,” makes them singularly ignoble in my view.<br /><br />I have been aware of Pelagius for at least twenty years, and find myself in total sympathy with his benign, enlightened view. I am morally certain Pelagius was the victim of a political power play led by Augustine whose austere, life-denying doctrines have been directly responsible for perpetuating a tragic misunderstanding of Christ’s Truth for many centuries.<br /><br />So YES. I certainly qualify as a heretic, and I’m very glad of it. There is no doubt that I would have been burned at the stake if I had lived in Mediaeval times and my beliefs had been made known. The history of the Church is largely a history of a fatal misunderstanding of Christ’s mission.<br /><br />Despite all that I am the antithesis of an atheist. The God I worship, however, is a nurturer, a healer and the inspiration for all that is noble, honest, patient, kindhearted, loving, constructive, generous, gracious, beautiful, brilliant -- and sane. <br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-6526568832742392152011-10-22T17:53:20.390-06:002011-10-22T17:53:20.390-06:00PART ONE
Hi, AOW,
Thanks you for the reference ...PART ONE <br /><br />Hi, AOW,<br /><br />Thanks you for the reference from Quartz Hill School of Theology on the religious beliefs and practices of the Canaanites by Mr. Albright.<br /><br />The article, of course, is scholarly, but I see it as an elaborate <i>rationale</i> determined to vindicate or exonerate the vicious aggressiveness and highly acquisitive nature of the ancient Israelites. Mr. Albright writes from an assumption that, <i>of course</i>, the “God” constantly referenced in the Old Testament is in fact the one, the true and the <i>only</i> God, and that the Jews truly were “Chosen” by “Him” to be the recipients of His” absolute, unquestionable, unimpeachable, eternal and everlasting truth. <br /><br />Accepting that dubious assumption as <i>fact</i> Mr. Albright then goes on to defame the religious practices of the Canaanites and more other “ites” than I can remember -- the Jebusites, the Jezreelites, the Midianites, the Amonites, the Hittites, the Gebushites, and on and on and on. If we believe the Old Testament account of Semitic history, the Israelites were the <i>only</i> tribal nation that could be considered in any way worthy. <br />Everyone <i>else</i> was supposedly so vile, so wicked, so utterly depraved that they displeased “God” so much that “He” commanded the leaders of the Israelites to kill them in the most gruesome ways imaginable -- ways that very closely resemble the barbaric cruelty of Islamic fundamentalist methods of punishment today. The resemblance is so close as to be downright <i>eerie</i>.<br /><br />~ FreeThinke<br /><br />(CONTINUED)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-52978396440345655962011-10-22T16:51:32.802-06:002011-10-22T16:51:32.802-06:00AOW...I'm in in-depth study (2 months) of Josh...AOW...I'm in in-depth study (2 months) of Joshua/ your link is exactly right.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-26213315032721515382011-10-22T16:48:43.782-06:002011-10-22T16:48:43.782-06:00Finn, I guess I see killing people as 'combat ...Finn, I guess I see killing people as 'combat operations'...<br /><br />Your comment about Gladys Knight and the Pips has me laughing..good one. (if this was Iran we were talking about, I'd say 'that's close to Georgia, but not THEIR Georgia'...:-)Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-45318553907202852252011-10-22T16:36:49.045-06:002011-10-22T16:36:49.045-06:00Ducky, I don't care if it was primarily an ope...Ducky, I don't care if it was primarily an operation run by Gladys Knight and the Pips. The point is, the predator drone shouldn't have been there and shooting.Finntannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234170229108668040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-28246668136611623992011-10-22T14:49:18.252-06:002011-10-22T14:49:18.252-06:00I'll say it again Finntann, when it all comes ...I'll say it again Finntann, when it all comes out we will discover this was a covert French operation primarily.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-58543843806911845862011-10-22T14:48:01.389-06:002011-10-22T14:48:01.389-06:00Why it is okay to parade Gadaffi's body, but w...Why it is okay to parade Gadaffi's body, but we can't release photos of Osama because it will offend Muslims?<br /><br />---------<br />Tristan, you don't go out of your way to trash talk and create more of a martyr.<br /><br />Did we have control over the Qadaffi video? No.<br /><br />Still, he's a trivial player and one who hadn't been involved in much but making life miserable for Africans trying to establish his pan African union.<br /><br />Best photo was the cover of the NY Daily News owned by that commie Rupert Murdoch.<br /><br /> Big head shot of dead Qadaffi<br /> Insert photo of kid with Yankees cap: Qadaffi killer - Yankees fan<br /> Headline - Gets more hits than A-Rod.<br /><br /> Have to admit I got a chuckle. But pitch till you win.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-23875320203891840302011-10-22T13:35:35.707-06:002011-10-22T13:35:35.707-06:00Z: Obama's argument is that the War Powers Act...Z: Obama's argument is that the War Powers Act does not apply since the US is not involved in combat operations in Libya.<br /><br />The White House said that, given the limited nature of the U.S. operation in Libya, congressional authorization wasn’t needed. Mr. Obama told Congress that he directed U.S. air strikes pursuant to his constitutional authority to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as commander in chief.Finntannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234170229108668040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-36485889572301355182011-10-22T13:34:12.809-06:002011-10-22T13:34:12.809-06:00Great job on that post, SF well done.Great job on that post, SF well done.tha malcontenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16422498810430959070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-87236131088534883332011-10-22T12:34:33.523-06:002011-10-22T12:34:33.523-06:00FreeThinke,
I noted your comment above about wheth...FreeThinke,<br />I noted your comment above about whether or not God commanded the Israelites to exterminate the Canaanites (not sure that you worded it the way I just have) and think you might want to read <a href="http://www.theology.edu/canaan.htm" rel="nofollow">THIS</a>. At the least, the article is interesting, particularly as you are presently reading through the Bible as narrative.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-33040701074187263952011-10-22T12:19:58.448-06:002011-10-22T12:19:58.448-06:00Z said...
"the argument that remotely operati...<i>Z said...<br />"the argument that remotely operating predator drones do not constitute combat operations is specious."</i><br /><br />Specious, at best. A similar argument could be made, and I believe has been made, that by doing so, the President is engaging in political assasinations that have been strictly forbidden, since the mid-70's have they not?98ZJUSMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00835592067007059336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-15236858996318191032011-10-22T11:23:43.457-06:002011-10-22T11:23:43.457-06:00"the argument that remotely operating predato..."the argument that remotely operating predator drones do not constitute combat operations is specious."<br /><br />I hadn't seen that comment and don't know who made it but I don't see how ANYBODY can think Finn's wrong about that one.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-18852245792888994952011-10-22T10:39:08.706-06:002011-10-22T10:39:08.706-06:00"Finn and all, Obama acted within the War Pow..."Finn and all, Obama acted within the War Powers Act (you do know that, right?), he moved us over into NATO, perfectly legal and constitutional as the law is today"<br /><br />Okay Einstein, first, the argument that remotely operating predator drones do not constitute combat operations is specious.<br /><br />If an American officer at Nellis remotely operating a drone does not constitute combat or an act of war then by the same logic an American officer at Minot remotely operating an ICBM does not constitute combat or an act of war and the President can thus legally and unilaterally nuke someone and not be in violation of the War Powers Resolution.<br /><br />Furthermore, what do you believe is in the North Atlantic Treaty authorizes this action? Please cite the appropriate article.<br /><br />Put up or shut up.Finntannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234170229108668040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-78034445215415038522011-10-22T09:27:26.990-06:002011-10-22T09:27:26.990-06:00Trestin's comment is fascinating and I've ...Trestin's comment is fascinating and I've added it to the post I had up about the assassination of Gadhafi.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.com