David,
You seem so petty in your constant bashing of all things President Bush. I wonder what really happened in your departure from the White House grounds?
You go after these ex-fellow Republicans with fanatic zeal and never issue one word of condemenation for the degenerates of the other party. Remember, the Democrats have sitting in the Senate a man continually re-elected that killed a woman and got away with it. You have the other guys wanting to implement socialism and marxism as civil rights issues.
If you can, please look up the fact that the President before Mr. G.W. Bush, was found guilty of perjury.
The other party has far more things to view in disgust than men who are just egotists.

Before we go popping off on Democrats, let’s talk about priest sexual abuse. Let’s talk about unnecessary wars of choice. Let’s talk about politicization of the “Justice Department.” Let’s talk about Kartina and a caring president.

This country is in good shape under President Bush.
The economy is good and Muslims are not killing us in America.
I don’t believe in black helicopters. But I do believe that the socialism driven by democrats is godless and marxist derived, That is just an inconvenient truth. Progressives no longer hide behind tenured teaching positions anymore.
Taxing good people, and in fact always attacking good people, to pay for the criminal life chosen by so many of the poor seems to literally define the Democrats.
See what “Reverend” Jackson is up to. He wants to outlaw guns but refuses to do anyting about bastard unfathered children growing up to be violent people. Of course he knows all about children out of wedlock. But another fact remians that fatherless – unmarried to their children’s mothers – men, breed children that suffer and cause others to suffer.
When comparing the Bush political spectrum to what any Democrat represents, his is a far, far, better way to lead this country and live a good life.

Hi Donny,
I don’t know if you know this, but Muslims did kill us here in America under President Bush. It happened on September 11th, 2001. We now refer to this event as 9/11. Nearly 3,000 America’s died that day. It was by far the worst terrorist attack the world has ever seen. It occurred one month and five days after President Bush was warned that a man called Osama Bin Laden was “Determined to Strike in United States.” That briefing followed many other warnings from the CIA that something was going to happen. President Bush took no action. In fact, he told the man who told him Bin Laden was determined to strike within the United States, “All right. You’ve covered your %@$ (a vulgar word to mean a person’s bottom).” This man, Bin Laden, is still around today.

I know we cannot argue with the black helicopter and tin hat types (thanks for the great description Tracy), but to say that the priest sex abuse scandal is about homosexualtiy is to get it ALL wrong. It is about the Catholic Church protecting perverts and pedofiles at the expense of children. It is about still more corruption in the church. It is not about homosexuality – as shown in part by the fact that some of the abuse victims were girls. (Moreover, most sex abuse cases involving children is hetrosexual in nature.) To try and minimize the significance of the problem by saying it is a homosexualtiy issue is, it’s just very tin hat and black helicopters.

You know, Mr. Kuo, over on the Crunchy Con board, Mr. Dreher is able to view all comments before they’re posted. Do you think yours would be able ot do that so as to weed out the unnecessary diatribe of certain commenters who have an oddly questionable obsession with homosexuals, Democrats, and Marxists?

Isn’t it a bit unseemly to be carrying this personal contretemps/animus here onto J-Walking?

First – let us go back to baseball – truly the metaphor for whatever is happening in this country. The last ten years in this country have been years where faking it – with steroids – with credit cards – journalism that carefully inflates one side and demonizes the other – education is judged by test scores instead of accumulted wisdom – and with political speeches no longer have any meaning whatsoever. A record is broken by Barry Bonds and deep down – we all know there is something wrong. We see silly programs ( I recall a very weird program called “Crossfire” where debate and discussion supposed to be present – and in fact it was a schoolyard adolescent fight. We have a President who fakes a war, ignores the poor and calls it compassionate conservatism. There is a current stock market mess – because – once again – no boundaries were set for an industry that needs boundaries (the sub prime mortgage industry). We see it in education – where points matter more than knowledge And we can see it all in what has happened to baseball. Steroids, baseballs tweaked so tht there will be more homeruns, small markets (ie Milwaukee, Kansas City) destroyed by those who just want to win and lose the meaning of the game.
I had the privilege of meeting Buck O’Neill – the great authentic voice of baseball (watch Ken Burns series on baseball ) and what we saw and loved in him was authenticity. It is what we long for in presidential speeches, in our religious leaders, in political candidates – and it is hard to find. But, Buck O’Neill was rejected by the Hall of Fame , Hank Aaron is still the greatest hitter ever, Billy Graham understands and projects authentic faith in a loving God and Fred Rogers – well – he was the guy who had no enemies – if you met him, apparently you met the real thing. Authenticity is what we long for and that – for some reason – reminds me of St. Augustine. He was able to speak of our holy longing for the real – the holy – the authentic.
Second – we all are fatigued by posts that are one note drones about homosexuality, evil ol liberals etc. Such posts are like little hangnails – irritating and inflammatory – but, such a voice has a right to be heard. I disagree with such posts and am sometimes horrified by the rhetoric that I find myself joining regarding such posts. However, we must learn to be in authentic dialog with one another. Otherwise we are just a couple of people on a stupid show like “Crossfire”. I believe Jon Stewart spoke with authenticity to that show – “you’re hurting America. You’re hurting us” And my goodness – his statement took all the air out of that inflated and dishonest show and it was cancelled.
Baseball has been on a steroidal ride these past 10 years. So has the presidency. And it is imploding rather rapidly.
The difference between speeches written in this White House and speeches written by great souls like Lincoln or Martin Luther King – is authenticity.

Does everything have to be so shrill here? What happened to Thinker?

Hey Doug – been computerless for awhile. Will try not to be shrill.

Also, apparently, my Thinker moniker didn’t show up. Sorry.
Hysteria is a contagious thing. Our current cultural hysteria’s include child molesters (yeah they’re not good, but two nights a week when news is slow – some reporter stands in a culdesac somewhere and asks us if we know there is a pediophile in our midst.), George Bush (hysteria used to center around Bill Clinton’s sex life – now it centers around Bush’s incompetence), global warming – true or false, – you get the point. Hysteria creates mobs that do not need truth – just want something to feed their hysteria. Truth always gets lost in the nasty little vortex that needs enemies. Now, there are posters who live in such a vortex and who are without reason when it comes to several issues. But, seemingly reasonable people would create such posters as an enemy – one who would destroy our nice little blog. The hysteria over another not like ourselves is what destroys us all. Whether you a a little town that gathers to make sure no illegal aliens live there, a group of Christians who gather to count the cuss words in a piece of literature and thus try to remove it from a public curriculum (in our town we have a whole group of counters of such things), or a cocktail party of very smart people who center all conversation on the incompentency of George Bush, the immorality of the right wing, and which Ivy League school their children will attend – it is still all about gathering the mob and celebrating the death of the enemy. I believe that was the scenario on Good Friday.
Once you’ve fallen into the vortex of hysteria and violence – you can’t get out – you spin and turn and things happen (like Kotsivo (sp) or the Third Reich or Rwanda).
I find myself starting to fall into it occasionally, but the grace of God somehow never lets me fall into it completely. Somehow – all the things I have learned and experienced about faith keeps me from the mob. It certainly has to be the grace of God, because it is so very easy to feel righteous and join into the chatter that is hysteria. Hysteria cannot solve problems, cannot compromise or come to the table with others. Hysteria is pure mob action. It is never from God.

Spoken like a convinced Girardian. Thinker, I’m very happy to see you back here. I hope you’ve been camping.