Thursday, August 28, 2008
Fire in the Night by John M. Murtagh, City Journal 30 April 2008:
"Early on the morning of February 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. (Today, of course, we’d call that a car bomb.) A neighbor heard the first two blasts and, with the remains of a snowman I had built a few days earlier, managed to douse the flames beneath the car. That was an act whose courage I fully appreciated only as an adult, an act that doubtless saved multiple lives that night."
Why did Ayers support Obama?
"Early on the morning of February 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. (Today, of course, we’d call that a car bomb.) A neighbor heard the first two blasts and, with the remains of a snowman I had built a few days earlier, managed to douse the flames beneath the car. That was an act whose courage I fully appreciated only as an adult, an act that doubtless saved multiple lives that night."
Why did Ayers support Obama?
Labels: Barack Obama, bill ayers, John Murtagh
Monday, May 19, 2008
AFP: Obama camp spies endgame in Oregon: "'We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,' Obama said."
Not so sure about the last part, but Obama is correct about the first two points. My fear is governement sanctions to get people to conserve. I have no doubt that "burdensome" will be understating what will be jackbooting of personal liberty.
Not so sure about the last part, but Obama is correct about the first two points. My fear is governement sanctions to get people to conserve. I have no doubt that "burdensome" will be understating what will be jackbooting of personal liberty.
Labels: Barack Obama
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Obama victory will prolong US racial divide, says British equality chief - Times Online: "'If Obama can succeed, then maybe they can imagine that [Martin Luther] King's post-racial nirvana has arrived. A vote for Obama is a pain-free negation of their own racism. So long as they don't have to live next door to him; Obama has yet to win convincingly in white districts adjacent to black communities,' he wrote."
Negation of their racism? Maybe. I wonder what would be a valid negation of their racism for Mr. Phillips.
Negation of their racism? Maybe. I wonder what would be a valid negation of their racism for Mr. Phillips.
Labels: Barack Obama, Trevor Phillips
