A Field of White
to a Party
If God
Invited you to a party
And said,
"Everyone
In the ballroom tonight
Will be my special
Guest,"
How would you then treat them
When you
Arrived?
Indeed, indeed!
And Hafiz knows
There is no one in this world
Who
Is not upon
His Jeweled Dance
Floor.
The Gift, Poems by Hafiz, translations by Daniel Ladinsky
Derek Copold at the Houston Review - Old Glory Retired - The red, white, and blue is to be replaced by a plain field of white, so as not to offend anybody. Hehe. [lew]
The only dissenting opinion available at this writing came from Joseph Farah of Worldnetdaily.com, who wrote in an unusually short sixteen-word editorial, "That's it. I give up. Dougherty, be sure to turn the lights out when you leave."
John McCabe at Loony.org - Wednesday, May 9, 2001 - comments on an article at The Onion, Nations Porn Stars Demand to be F**ked Harder, a satirical meeting between insatiable porn queens and a congressional committee. To the article's quote, "According to congressional sources, meeting the porn stars' demands will not be easy," Mr. McCabe says:
Excuse me? This is the federal government, people. The same group of men and women who bring you the IRS, FBI, CIA, and NSA. The same group of people that would readily throw you or me in jail for writing bad checks, taking bribes, driving drunk, or taking drugs, yet happily exempt themselves and their immediate families from those same offenses.
They may be inept and indecisive in many wonderous ways, but the one thing that they HAVE been doing is pounding us in the ass for years.
HARD.
Bevin Chu at AntiWar.com - The Strait Scoop - America faces no political threat from China. The real threat is from our own leaders who would start a war with them over imagined threats. A rambling article with some good points. [lew]
Which government poses the greatest threat to American liberty?Is it more likely you will lose your liberty because China invades and conquers the World's Only Remaining Superpower? Or because "National Greatness Conservatives" who demand "energetic government" impose draconian legal constraints on their fellow Americans in the name of "National Security" and "A Clear and Present Danger?"
Which government poses the greatest threat to American property?
Is more likely you will lose your hard earned wealth because "Red" or "Communist" China overruns the World's Only Remaining Superpower and nationalizes the assets of the Fortune 500 companies? Or because homegrown Warfare Statists tax you into the poorhouse footing the bill for Tomahawk cruise missiles at US $1,500,000 a pop?
If you know the answers to these questions, you already know which government poses the greatest threat to American lives, liberty and property, and therefore which government represents the real "China Threat." As Daniel Webster noted, "There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it ever come at all, will be from another quarter."
Brad Edmonds at LewRockwell.com - Environmentalist Atrocities; What They're Killing in America - more on the environazis misanthropic behavior in the Klamath Basin of Oregon and how they've been fighting the Makah Indians' ceremonial killing of 5 gray whales per year. [lew]
How are the Makah treated? The national government over the last three years has given, and taken away (and rinse and repeat), the right of this tribe to hunt the whales, which many see as guaranteed by an 1855 treaty. The green leftists, for their part, aren't satisfied with fighting in the courts. In May 1999, the tribe suffered one of their whale kills (the only one in 70 years) being shown on national television. As a result, the Makah reservation was inundated with death threats; schools were evacuated for bomb threats; and television and radio stations and newspapers were flooded with anti-Makah and anti-Indian invective.
