Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
Proving tax cuts work!
Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
I see, so you agree with this:
The wisest course would have been for President Bush to use his nuclear weapons to slaughter Iraqis until they complied with his demands, or until they were all dead. Then there would be little risk or expense and no American army would be left exposed.
You agree with a genocide. Wow, what a morally corrupt, foul-souled psycho you are.
The long latent catholic school girl in me sometimes feels the urge to cross herself when she reads some of these posts. That is what we were taught to do by the nuns when evil crossed our paths.
Just the profit potential of massive MRE contracts keeps our boys dying.
You're not REALLY whining about being a white person in america are you? I am a white, 41 year old american born male. I am a member of the MOST privileged group of people to EVER have been born on this planet. I got accepted to EVERY law school that I was qualified to apply for. I didn't get into Harvard or Berkely or UVA because my LSAT (156) was not high enough. I did get accepted to Washington and Lee in VA, University of Wisconsin in Madison, University of New Mexico law and Washburn and chose Washburn for economic and teaching philosophy reasons.(Washburn does not encourage nor condone law students being at war with one another for grades. Some schools find that cases get cut out of law books so that other students can't have access to them.) The majority of students at my law school were white. The majority of grads from Law School in this country are white. I find that most of the people that whine so much about the oppression of the white man are people who have barely gotten by, achieved JUST ENOUGH to eek through life and automatically assume that when a non white person gets a job or a position they wanted they were less qualified.
Honestly it is one of the worst vintages of white whine I know.
We sure do, and it's miles above you.
Yes, if my two choices are genocide or our soldiers (some dying are women, but I know you refuse to acknowledge that as it threatens what little shred of masculinity you have) dying daily, I choose our soldiers dying daily. I do not place any higher value on the life of an American or of a white person, than I do on the life of a non-American or a brown person. Now, I do not know if it is racism or nationalism leading you to this clearly psychopathic position, but knowing you it's both. Because I value all human lives, I cannot conclude that it would be better to slaughter millions to save thousands.
My first "preference" of course, since I am smarter than you are, was not to go into Iraq in the first place, thus avoiding the false choice you present. And I reject your false choice at any rate, and choose instead, our withdrawal from Iraq.
Right. You're a brainwashed idiot who allows the elite establishment to dictate your loyalties.
What is a legitimate loyalty? are there any in your view? Or are you only loyal to the other braindead "all loyalties are wrong" brainwash victims.
You too are deeply infected with the nihilist meme.
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