Its a little late for April Fools Jokes

[Atrocities]

Good enough for me. I am proud to be an American and have the freedom to make those choices. God Bless the United States.

[Xrati]

You guys are both right. In different words you say the same things. It's all in how we digest what we hear or read.

My theory is: "I believe nothing of what I hear, and half of what I see."

When you see reports that tell you something is good for you. It's usually sponsored/funded by the company/business that has the most to gain. That, you can take to the bank!!! The news is no different. It used to be the four W's. Now it's opinionated journalism. I'm sorry, "Alleged" opinionated journalism. Don't want to forget that "A" word that opens the door for opinions!!!

[Atrocities]

The truth be told, the truth is seldom told.

Now if you want to hear the truth that I hold to, visit this LINK. This guy about sums it all up quite nicely.

[GuyOfDoom]

That guy seems to be selectively paying attention to many things, history in particular. But then again most people who are tend to forget Japanese internment or the Red Scare.

[Atrocities]

GuyOfDoom said:
That guy seems to be selectively paying attention to many things, history in particular. But then again most people who are tend to forget Japanese internment or the Red Scare.

Far more immediate seems to be the realization that far to many people have forgotten New York, Washington D.C., and that small field in PA.

[Randallw]

GuyOfDoom said:
That guy seems to be selectively paying attention to many things, history in particular. But then again most people who are tend to forget Japanese internment or the Red Scare.

Or the Armenian genocide, or the systematic elimination of native americans, or the Dresden, or Tokyo, firebombing. Where I live we had a systematic elimination of the native population, either killing them off or shipping them off to an island to die. History is full of such things and they only become controversial should the perpetrators fall afoul of public opinion. One could be principled and equally decry all such things, but bother pointing out the problem to people and I feel they tend to argue they were the enemy at the time, or ask where Armenia is. In the face of such things what's the point. Much of what the majority of the population takes as gospel tends to be otherwise if you bother to look into it. One of my hobbies is studying history, and people ask me why I get depressed .

[Atrocities]

Why do we die? We die so that we never pass on the lessons we have learned to the next generation. Hence we are doomed to repeat them. And don't ever forget, had Japan gained the upper hand in WWII, it would have been our cities being fired bombed and our populations being eradicated. Such is the evil nature of war.

And regardless of how some folks feel, the United States has never produced an Adolf Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pok in its 200 plus year existence. And any one who says that we have is just plain crazy.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Correction: The US has never produced someone as successfull, nor gone that far.

I'm sure there's quite a few people in the KKK who would do as bad, provided they had the opportunity and the capability.

The worse thing one can do for ones' nation is to assume that all is well in it.