[Rhodes22-list] plunge - reward - Brooklyn? - Alice (Political Comment - Al do not read)

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

All three of Buckley's books on sailing are excellent reads, I highly
recommend them. Frankly, I don't read much fiction because there's too many
good history and economics books out there and too little time.  However, if
fiction is your thing, start with "Das Kapital".

This is what one reviewer at Amazon had to say about Lynn's book, "and a
little arrogant (don't expect a balanced look at the subject of gun
control)". Arrogance pretty much sums up the whole of leftist views, "we
know better than you how to spend your money, run your life, etc."

You missed another great dinner party this weekend.  One of our Chinese
guests who was born after the Cultural Revolution went off on a tangent with
her liberal observations on the USA and the world.  Another guest was a
Chinese dissident writer with a different experience from a "nanny state".
I didn't have to go dig out my handgun to settle the dispute but it did give
me some peace knowing it was available.

Every Utopian experiment of the 20th Century resorted to violence to
maintain control after the inevitable failure to deliver as promised.  In
every case, allowing only the state to own guns was the first step.  We
never learn!

Brad



On Jan 4, 2008 5:49 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:

>
>
>
> Lynn H,
>
> We need clarification.  We have a Rhodie named Alice W, is this another
> Alice?
>
> John B  noted that he was a NPR listener.  That is consistent with his
> liberal views.  NPR is a socialist rag using a deceptive label of Public
> Radio to lure and mislead the audience.
>
> Now we may have a new Rhodie (he has not taken delivery yet) who appears
> to
> acknowledge that he is also a fellow traveler.  Ugh...
>
> We need readers of the moderate 'Weekly Standard'.  Or more commentators
> representing a real America historical point of view.  Wasn't Bill Buckley
> a
> sailor?  We need a sailor or even better a Rhodes owner as erudite and
> lucid
> as Bill Buckley.  Yea all pray for salvation and honest accurate comment.
>
> "Free speech is a priceless and indispensable attribute of a free society
> because it is a necessary means for deliberating upon public policy.  But
> this deliberation does not extend to everything."  (Harry Jaffa)  Free
> speech is not false when it denies the use of the liberty to those intent
> on
> destroying the free society.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
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