What's our greatest threat?
Imagine two guys at a 4th of July picnic, after imbibing a bit too much, and laughing too much, the conversation gets serious. The guys names are Hector and Dewey, and here's an edited version of their conversation:
Hector asks, "What is the greatest threat facing the United States today? Dewey replies, "As I see it, there are three. One radical Islam, two the Chinese, three those knuckleheads in congress." Hector says, "Wrong, not even close. Here's the answer. The gravest threat facing the United States comes from within, when our best people refuse to get involved. When the men and women we need to fight those threats you mentioned -- radical Islam -- China, stay on the sidelines. That's our greatest threat."
Excerpted from "The Refuge" by Ben Coes.
So...what does the Gulch think? What is the U.S.'s greatest threat?
Hector asks, "What is the greatest threat facing the United States today? Dewey replies, "As I see it, there are three. One radical Islam, two the Chinese, three those knuckleheads in congress." Hector says, "Wrong, not even close. Here's the answer. The gravest threat facing the United States comes from within, when our best people refuse to get involved. When the men and women we need to fight those threats you mentioned -- radical Islam -- China, stay on the sidelines. That's our greatest threat."
Excerpted from "The Refuge" by Ben Coes.
So...what does the Gulch think? What is the U.S.'s greatest threat?
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If only these "brilliant" jurists could read and understand words.... But that would make them "extremist" and "unqualified" to serve on the court.
....After being officially proposed, either by Congress or a national convention of the states, a constitutional amendment must then be ratified by the legislatures of, or by ratifying conventions, in at least three-fourths of the states. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution that have been ratified....,
That is certainly preferable as compared to one judge dictating national policy. What is so great about the present one party system of government?
Answer.
Nothing.
3/4ths or 38 states is infinitely preferable and I don't care what subjects they pursue or discuss.
It ain't over till the fat lady sings. Do the job we're paying you for.
Got any spare time? Write, call, complain, be a gadfly. Join with others who may not be Randoids but have a work ethic.
In my wide and varied career, I was a publisher and a sometimes writer. We published a line of biographical comic books and graphic bios of rock groups, sports stars and notables. It did very well because we were unauthorized, we were able to tell the truth without being told what not to write by the subjects. Got sued, by the managing companies but won in federal court.
of the times. The morals ( or excuses for, or per-
versions of them) of the time, the politics of the
time, come from that. Even so, though a reform
in the college courses might be desirable (I never took a college philosophy class; all my
study of it has been outside of such), this
country was not founded primarily by college
graduates. The people were influenced by the
Enlightenment. And rationality can be promoted
by doing it through the culture in the populace.
Spreading Objectivism through promotion in the
press, for instance. Too bad the "Atlas Shrugged" movie wasn't better.
Also, I think if this country is to be saved, it will be
in large part through the home-schooling movement.
The greatest solution is the truth of reality - backed up by a willingness to defend it from those who are willing to aggress to push their lies.
Only one way to put a stop to "it". We need to go to war, perhaps with (meaning against) each other. i.e.: Black against White, Poor and Ignorant (Baltimore/Ferguson and spreading) against Police, Democrats against Republicans, Russia against US, China against US, Iran against US, etc. The object is you've got to have friends that will stand up and fight with you on your side or you will lose. We are in the process of losing, we've proven to our past friends that we cannot be depended upon. We've proven it in history (i.e. Vietnam), and most recently to the rest of the world by our actions/inaction's. We give them little choice but to turn their backs on us as we have on them. What are we going to do to win? Probably nothing, just more talk, lies, excuses, for not confronting the evil head on. Any society only knows what it grows up with. Perhaps our great grandchildren won't even know what freedom used to be, and just accept whatever they get (whatever we give them). Ask any common ordinary North Korean about how great they live. We know our grandchildren will never learn about any of it in history books, but only learn what their future dictators want them to believe from easily modified digital renderings and devices. Perhaps man just needs to destroy himself and start all over.