Mark Steyn, "The columnist to the world" has a great piece about what the Brits need to do following the recent attacks that they have experienced.
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Yes, great commentary. Apparently what the Brits should do is reject the Live 8 concent, and especially, Bob Geldorf. What a brilliant writer.
What a hack — a 2 bit POS who takes a tragedy and uses it for his own pathetic little culture war.
“Takes a tragedy and uses it for his own pathetic culture war”? That is precisely what they accuse Pres. Bush of…using 9/11. The culture war is there all the time. I couldn’t even enjoy watching “Pearl Harbor” tonight without feeling like Alec Baldwin completely cheapens it. And FDR? Well, another time.
I didn’t think you were the angry type, HH.
Not only that, Mark Steyn is by far one of the best columnists in the world today and you totally disregard what he is saying. HH, you bias is showing…
My bias is showing? Hard not to be biased against someone who is so FAR right-wing. A warmonger. A poisonous writer. A hack who does his best to cause controversy for the sake of making money.
Lets see, he writes for the Washington Times, The Jerusalem Post, the Chicago Sun, all right-wing publications. I do not see any balance there at all. And I am the one who is biased? Wayne, for you to call him “by far one of the best columnists in the world today” shows YOUR bias.
And for him to say the Live 8 concert could have contributed to the tragedy in London (because police forces were diverted) is another example of his venomous bite.
Mark Steyn: “…it’s true US newspapers are not exactly beating my door down….when they do beat my door down, my loyal retainer sets the dogs on them and peppers their retreating posteriors with buckshot. I’ll explain that second part first. I appear in newspapers in a lot of different countries, and the sad fact is that, mainly as a consequence of local newspaper monopolies, US syndication fees represent some of the lowest publication rates in the world – that’s to say, to take one recent example, you’d earn more from a single reprint in a Fijian newspaper than one certain prominent US statewide daily was proposing to pay for my column for an entire year. The US syndication business is the publishing equivalent of vaudeville, and I don’t particularly see why it’s in my interests to fill up Gannett’s newspapers for free. If I’m going to give it away, I’d rather folks had to come to the website to see it, where there’s a chance they’ll hang around long enough to buy a book. So I’ve no interest in US syndication as a business model.”
He is just another hack.
Of course I am biased, and I am not ashamed to admit it. I am a conservative Bible believing Christian. Of course that affects that way I look at the world.
The problem is, Liberals will not make that same confession.
They belong to the church of secular humanism and the adherence to the faith taints all of their thought.
Ah, the old shibboleth ‘secular humanism’. Funny, you turn this into a crusades, a religious war, and of course, God is on your side. So your bias does not matter — God is on your side, and your side only. Your bias is in fact the truth. The genesis of terrorism runs in your blood. Your thinking smacks of religious fanaticism.
And your thinking is pure and perfect? You are the knower of all truth and of course you are never wrong. Give me a break Harold!
Would you agree that WWII was a religious war?
Nazis that called themselves Christians but were in fact a twisted brand of of self made religion against those that generally stood for Jewdeo-Christian truths.
and
Japanese shintoists that made the emporer God, against first local powers then against the generally Christian US.
Yes, it is true that God plays into wars but remember, like as in WWII the US is not the antagonist again. (Im guessing you will disagree with this, we are the mean imperialist but I totally disagree see this post for reasons why… are we at war yet?)
I dont see this was as any different.
I do not think WWII was a religious war. Apparently you do. Whoa. That’s a new one on me.
Now that you have a new thought Harold, analyze the facts and come to an open minded conclusion.
Let me answer that with honesty:
My last name is “historian”.
If I wanted it to be “evangelical”, I would have done that.
Excuse me for butting in, So If you are a historian the question should be easy to answer from a historical context.
Were the Nazis claiming to be Christian? Yes
Were the Nazis actual Christians? Certainly not by their actions; their actions are more akin to some kind of devil worship. They hated and killed first Jews and then Christians that dared to stand up to them.
Were the Japanese Shinto? Yes, of course.
Did they belief the emperor was God? Yes
They then came to the conclusion; God is all powerful and should rightly take over the world.
This has nothing to do with you wanting to be an evangelical. It is fact.
Excuse me. Who is Bob Geldorf? We have a Bob Geldof over here.
And does anyone know what a Live 8 concent is?
I would love to join in this debate with Mr Historian but would first need to know what language he is writing in.
By the way, everyone has a bias, a prejudice. There is nothing wrong with that. The difference is that Mr Steyn and myself admit that we are a little to the right of Attila the Hun. Mr Historian, being apparently of the Leftwing Vitriol Let’s Throw Stones And Shout A Good Deal Party does not seem to appreciate that vitriol does not equate with argument.
And one other thing that liberal lefties ought to remember when engaging in debate with rabid righties like us .. which side has all the guns.
Yeah okay, you bet.