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Stan, just for you: "Tolerance, respect for others is key to peace, order and good governance, a high standard of living, the top of the happiness index---in Canada." KB, not just for you. "When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith." Abraham Kuyper Thank God our founding fathers did not believe in tolerance in the way you do. We would never have become a nation of our own. For all your great knowledge and ability to write, King, you have never been able to grasp what we are about. James gets it, he shares it. You never will. SRH
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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One reason King will never get it is because in his mind he's sitting atop a lofty perch in never-never land looking down on the rest of us. Stan, just for you: "Tolerance, respect for others is key to peace, order and good governance, a high standard of living, the top of the happiness index---in Canada." At some point there comes a time for intolerance and it's upon us..
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Actually, the founding fathers did, Stan. None, however, were pacifists who believed in peace at any price. Nor do I. But in the entire American continuum there was no unanimity in how to remove inequality where "all men were created equal." Franklin spent better part of his life in London trying to convince the British of equality of Americans. There's Jefferson, Hamilton and Abigail's advice to husband John Adams to "Look after the ladies."
Your reference to my admired countryman James getting it reminded me of a common humanity shared by Canadians and Americans who put friendship before politics on both sides of the longest undefended border in the world. They abjure ignorance that divides and find better fraternal purposes. They recognize communicating with only those who agree with them politically is to live in sterile orbits of their own.
My correspondents here from Deep South to the Left Coast are the same as Canadian conservatives and liberals who brighten daily my sense of community and love. They accept there's no black hats and white hats, one way or the highway, I'm smart you're dumb. They're seekers in a world of not all darkness but shadow, all tribunes according to their ability to shine merciful light. Like Abraham Kuyper said.
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....My correspondents here from Deep South to the Left Coast are the same as Canadian conservatives and liberals who brighten daily my sense of community and love. They accept there's no black hats and white hats, one way or the highway, I'm smart you're dumb. They're seekers in a world of not all darkness but shadow, all tribunes according to their ability to shine merciful light.... Ah, visions of gumdrops dance in my head. Why don't you correspond with any of the shooters down in chicago? They have an extremely high success rate and it looks like a banner year. Just ask dan davis, who represented and crafted the community that his 'normal' grandson used to live in. If that's the ability for some to shine, I don't think you should be settling for it. If it's in another neighborhood and willfully ignorable, is it racist or righteous to sing kumbaya with an exclusive group of like minded philosophers?
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I was vetting him but everyone rightly or wrongly was disagreeing with me! The anti-2nd Amendment fraud King Brown was vetting his hero Barack Hussein Obama alright. However, his vetting of Obama was totally dishonest. He told us that Obama was "cerebral and eloquent" and that he would certainly be among the top third of all U.S. Presidents. King flat out lied to us when he said the following, knowing full well that Obama had tried mightily to enact sweeping gun control legislation all throughout his political life, and as president in early 2013 after the Newtown school shootings: It's hardly mean-spirited to note that I'm an Obama supporter. I'm proud of it, apparent here as long as he's been around. He's anti-gun but has kept his legislative gun in his holster to position his party for '16. In my opinion, considering the totality of King Brown's past posts and the large volume of his anti-2nd Amendment rhetoric, if Donald Trump was a Liberal Socialist Democrat and an anti-gunner, King Brown would simply love him... even in spite of his past statements. If Donald Trump was a Liberal Left Democrat anti-gunner, King Brown would totally ignore everything that he finds to denigrate him about now. We all know that King won't even reply to any post containing references to the huge amount of institutional racism from within the Democrat Party... all of the Ku Klux Klansman Democrat Senators and Legislators... the Democrats refusal to pass the Civil Rights Amendment... Democrats staunch defense of segregation, etc. We all know how King is all too willing to repeatedly define Trump, Romney, Bush, and most any other Republican as misogynists... while again totally ignoring far more egregious behavior by many Democrats including Bill and Hillary Clinton. He won't acknowledge the fact that it was Republicans who gave women the right to vote either. Would King ever admit that Hillary Clinton paid women who worked for the Clinton Foundation less than men? Not in a million years! If Donald Trump was a Liberal Left anti-gunner, and especially if he was also black, King would be singing his praises. In my time here, King Brown has always supported and defended the most extreme Liberal Left anti-gun politicians while finding fault with those who respect our 2nd Amendment Rights. This is why I have formed the opinion that King is a dishonest anti-2nd Amendment fraud, hypocrite, and a Troll who is not worth expending even one breath to debate. King Brown is the poster child for why it is foolish to think that we should embrace all gun owners in one big tent. People like King are no help to us, and they do immense harm to the cause of gun rights.
A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.
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What's wrong with gumdrops, craig? My children and grandchildren have kept Grampy Boy's cranberry-glass bowl filled with them for decades.
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What's wrong with gumdrops, craig? My children and grandchildren have kept Grampy Boy's cranberry-glass bowl filled with them for decades. Well that settles it then. Obviously, excessive consumption of gumdrops must lead to compulsive lying and hypocrisy, not to mention being anti-2nd Amendment and anti-NRA.
A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.
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Kingsley Please Go for sainthood. Stop embarrassing Canada.
Dumb, but learning...Prof Em, BSc(ME), CAE (FYI)
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Kingsley Please Go for sainthood.... Ouch, what a kick in the jewels. Now soviet lifetime achievement award might be more like it.
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C'mon, oldstarfire, we're all our own selves here. The forum wouldn't let me near beatification, let alone sainthood; keith on the phone to the Vatican in 10 minutes. Closest ever got physically to the sublime was interviewing a dear old man of Italian descent from Lincoln, Nebraska, the father of saint Maria Goretti. I was thrilled a few years back to hear her name mentioned while attending an Easter mass in Italian and Latin in Santa Margharita. Ah, sainthood . . .
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