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| The Flag (If only we had taken out Bin Laden when Bill Clinton chickened out. Thank God there is a country that you can become super rich and not oppressed by a socialist government. We are a capitalist country and you are rewarded for your hard work. The housing crisis is part to blame on people who arent fiscal responsible taken on loans they cannot afford and unethical brokers willing to give them. I am surprised you havent blamed the price of gas on the current administration. Most Americans love and respect this country despite its difficulties. We realize there is no better place to be. Go ahead and fly the flag upside down, one of us will come and fix it. -- B. G - Annapolis, MD) |
| Good things happen (One of the number one complaints from service men is that there is a lot of positive stories that media fails to mention. Schools are built, children get educated for the first time, business is growing, and people feel safer. We as Americans always fight for freedom for anyone. Whether it was for Europeans in WWI or WWII, Korean or Vietnamese people, we fight for freedom and against Tyranny. That is part of what makes us great. Appreciate it and look for the good in everything, including war. Dont be closed minded to the possibility that war can bring about positive change.
"For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home."
Franklin D. Roosevelt - June 6, 1944
-- B. G - Annapolis, MD) |
| the flag (Yes, we raised the flag on July 4th as part of honoring our soldiers. But at the same time, we thought about flying it upside down - a symbol of distress. Why? For the 4100+ soldiers who died so far in Iraq in a war based on lies.s And the Iraq war of Bush and his republican locksteppers is also responsible not having enough troops in Afghanistan to capture or kill Bin Ladin several years ago in the Tora Bora mountains where he was almost trapped. And we also see people losing their homes, their pensions, their jobs to outsourcing, which often results in economic pressures that destroy families, while meanwhile this nation has never had more people who are super-rich, e.g those with $50 million and above bank accounts. In many ways we can be proud of America, but it has gone backwards terribly over the past 7 years, and we need a major change and course correction. This is not only a security and economic issue, but a moral issue for all of us. -- Stephen Kay - Severna Park, MD) |
| Maloy's comments (One thing I have learned about conservative religions is that they totally replace a person's humanity and independent thought with what the church presents. This results in people parroting the churches beliefs, and being literally incapable of comprehending different ideas, or questioning the church at all. And the results have been disastrous for humanity. Slavery and segregation were based on religious beliefs. Women voting was a battle against male dominance down from religion, note how the more conservative churches abhor the idea of women priests, etc. Then we had the battle over legalizing inter-racial marriage, which conservative churches deemed not natural, and against nature, and the battle over integrating our armed forces. Now we face the battle over legal equality for our gay citizens, and ending the thousands of gay child suicides from relentless bullying - based on poisonous religious ideas that has seeped into our society.
Mr Maloy has everything backwards, for he is brainwashed and an unrealizing victim of his church. And this cancer of the mind is little different then how the exact same mechanisms - getting people so filled with another religious belief, full of hatred, totally devoid of one's normal humanity and questioning about what a church put out as morality, that they believed they were doing God's work, by driving planes through buildings.
You have my sympathy, Mr. Maloy, but it is the church that totally one sides the issues. Some churches terribly blind people to questioning its true only goal - power over and control of it's people. -- Stephen K. - Severna Park, MD) |
| Condatore (Taylor and Brandon Condatore's Monther lives in Fort Worth, TX .... This woman was not their mother -- C. Freeman - Fort Worth, TX) |
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