The Road to Serfdom
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-D.../dp/0226320553
http://www.amazon.com/Full-Black-Thr...2378743&sr=8-1
A thriller featuring a former SEAL Team 6 member...
An awesome "fictional" account of the inner workings of the government and covert ops. Definitely worth the read.
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
The Road to Serfdom
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-D.../dp/0226320553
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/blog.php?u=237
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Respect a believers right to believe, but they should damn well repect our right to challenge such utterly illogical notions.
For goodness sake think before you react.
Look at the context and then understand that 'profit' is not confined to money but includes any advantage. 'to profit from every minute of their manipulative lives' focuses on manipulation.
Surely there is no point in my labouring of this point. Just go back and read it again.
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/blog.php?u=237
If you feel so inclined a comment would be appreciated.
Respect a believers right to believe, but they should damn well repect our right to challenge such utterly illogical notions.
I would wholeheartedly recommend this book if you want to get a real flavour for how the US has behaved in the post war years.
Review
A fine stylist, a canny controversialist and a serious journalist of modern history. One never tangles with him over historical or economic facts. He has turned this into a book... well-written, an easy read and formidably-argued. I think it is an important subject, not just as 20th-century history, but as commentary on the modern US mindset. --Matthew Parris
Product Description
American incomprehension of the outside world has been the chief problem in international affairs since the end of World War II. In America and the Imperialism of Ignorance, veteran political journalist Andrew Alexander constructs a meticulous case, including evidence gleaned from the steady opening up of Soviet archives, demonstrating why this is so. From starting the Cold War to revisiting unlearned lessons upon Cuba and Vietnam, the Middle East has latterly become the arena in which the American foreign policy approach proved wretchedly consistent. This has created six decades in which war was not the last resort of diplomacy but an early option, and where peace and order breaking out was thought to be the natural conclusion of military intervention. Alexander traces this shoot-first tendency from 1945, arguing that on a grand scale the Cold War was a red herring in which the US and her proxies set out to counter a Soviet expansionism that never truly existed, and that by the time of the George W Bush era, the Industrial-Military-Complex was in office offering little hope of a change in approach.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/America-Impe...2444059&sr=8-1
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/blog.php?u=237
If you feel so inclined a comment would be appreciated.
Respect a believers right to believe, but they should damn well repect our right to challenge such utterly illogical notions.
cancel2 2022 (08-04-2011)
This made me laugh because it is mostly true about the average American's knowledge about the world. Save the Wales.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...0023519AAw84Wd
Tom, America was named after Amerigo Vespucci who created the first maps of the continents, not after some Welshman.
This guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
It's fricking hilarious that the Brit got the history wrong on his mocking answer about how Americans don't know their history.The expeditions became widely known in Europe after two accounts attributed to Vespucci were published between 1502 and 1504. In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map on which he named the new continent America after Vespucci's first name, Amerigo. In an accompanying book, Waldseemüller published one of the Vespucci accounts, which led to criticism that Vespucci was trying to upset Christopher Columbus' glory. However, the rediscovery in the 18th century of other letters by Vespucci, primarily the Soderini Letter, has led to the view that the early published accounts could be fabrications, not by Vespucci, but by others.
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
There is a school of thought that says that Richard Amerik gave his name to America, I personally don't know one way or another and I doubt you do either.
http://www.britannia.com/history/naremphist2.html
Actually I do. You can actually read the book, and the argument in stuff from the time period arguing that Amerigo was trying to "usurp" Columbus. They spoke of 'Amerigo's" maps' and then later when the newest world map was printed, the guy simply named the new continent after the dude who gave him the mapping...
It's pretty well documented and everything. This is the first I've heard a Brit try to claim the continent in the name of some Welshman, and it was funny to read.
And my question would be... If you nation is so riddled with free dentistry, why do you hate to take advantage of it? Are there orthodontists? What about teeth whitening with lasers?
(and yes, we are making jokes based on dudes we see on tv and stereotypes just to get your goat.)
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
So you say, you already admitted that you've never heard of Richard Amerik yet you can claim without any doubt the providence of the name. As for the teeth, do you really want to be associated with the likes of Topspin, Damn Skanky and others who are incapable of original humour so fall back on stereotypes dating back to WW2. Seeing as you care so much, here is a list of 215 dentists in the Sheffield area. It isn't the full number but it gives you some idea.
http://www.accessplace.com/dentist/s.../sheffield.htm
Last edited by cancel2 2022; 08-04-2011 at 01:16 PM.
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
At least 4 of these are within two miles of where I live, both my sons went to Orthoscene which is not only brilliant it is free for under 18s.
http://www.yell.com/s/orthodontists-...yorkshire.html
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