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Re: Articles: Christianity or Thoughtcrime?

USinKorea — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:40:48 -0000

It's clear the lesbian and gay watchdog group is feelings its oats -- which means the society has been conditioned enough for it to exercise power -- that it has been empowered.

If you want to see hatred, watch these people, or many a dedicated liberal, talk about Christians and Christianity.

I guarantee you will easily find exponentially more hate and anger directed at a Kurt Cameron who says politely but firmly that he believes homosexuality is immoral than a Kurt Cameron targets at homosexuals.

What I mean is - following the reasoning of these people - that opinions of dislike like Cameron's are dangerous because they encourage violence against the target of the hate - then Cameron and Christians would have far more to fear from gays and liberals.

I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility for the use of the Bible to be censured and restricted in Europe -- that preachers who give sermons on certain parts of the Bible will be fined and/or arrested.

The biggest thing holding back there, ironically, might be fear of offending minorities: the Muslim community and those immigrants of other faiths whose sacred texts also condemn homosexuality and teach punishment of other specified sins.

Re: Blog: Here comes the push to nationalize education

USinKorea — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:25:13 -0000

Why have so many of the professionals telling us how the schools should run spent so little time in them?

Rhee's background is very similar to all of the profs in the MA-Teaching program I went through: She spent only a few short years actually teaching in a public school. At the same time, her attention was divided as she continued her graduate school studies to further her career.

She, like my profs, got out of public school teaching as fast as she could.

Re: Useful Idiot: Joshua Key

USinKorea — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:34:35 -0000

It was slick willie writing - the kind of thing you'd teach in a dubious rhetoric 101 course.

The page will have to be monitored -- checked every month or two -- due to the nature of Wikipedia.

I'm a Wiki fan. At least it offers ground you can contest, but, you have to go back to entries you might care about to see what has been done with it over time.

That Controversy section on Key needs the work. I don't know enough about the military or about his case to offer much.

Re: Useful Idiot: Joshua Key

USinKorea — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:22:12 -0000

Either GI Korea or another reader might want to go over to the Joshua Key Wikipedia entry - to the Controversy - section and do some editing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

It's a very slick writing job. It attacks this blog post in particular - taking one minor fact stated in GI Korea's post (whether or not Key was the first deserter since the Vietnam War) and disproves it but uses it as a "smoking gun" to discredit everything else.

It also fails to mention any other sources that have attacked Key's credibility. The Amazon.com reader review section is overwhelmingly negative with insights from soldiers and people familiar with the army - pointing out issues with Key's statements - much like GI Korea did. It even claims that many in Key's unit have verified his account but uses GI Korea's blog entry as a footnote.

Re: Russo-Japanese War News - Feb 1905

USinKorea — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:01:51 -0000

Try looking at the page meter.

Have you ever noticed how quickly it is to scroll down a main page - like when you see stuff you don't want to read?

But thanks for the input. I'm sure you're just trying to be helpful...

-oh -- Also, it doesn't take much time. I enjoy the news archives and reading about Korean history, and the writing it little more than cut&pasting.

Re: Jimmy Carter: Enemy of the State

USinKorea — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:31:17 -0000

To me, this isn't a partisan issue: I strongly favor the tradition of ex-presidents not using their former status to try to influence policy. If they want to continue to be a player, then they should run for Congress or some other democratically elected post. Better yet, just shut up. One man's voice lost on the latest major foreign policy issue will not be much of one.

Re: ROK Drop Site Updates

USinKorea — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:22:34 -0000

Just me, but I liked the old banner image - with the Big Homonid icon - better....

Re: Jimmy Carter: Enemy of the State

USinKorea — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:33:47 -0000

I've been told more than once that my head is rather stubborn, but I have never bought the idea that Clinton had his finger on the trigger with Pyongyang and was about to pull it. No way...

....The man who ordered missile and air strikes after a series of terrorist attacks -- and was so tepid with the military response in Bosnia and Kosovo -- who yanked troops out of Somalia -- who wouldn't back up a rebellion by the Kurds or OK an assassination of Bin Laden ---- was going to war with a likely nuclear armed (even at that time) North Korea - (who had loads of other WMDs if not nukes) ----

--- I just can't buy it.

I understand why he and those in his administration talk like that. I understand why he put up the show like that. It is part of effective diplomacy - especially with a nation like North Korea: to make the regime think America is capable of pulling the trigger.

But I can't bring myself to believe President Clinton had the guts (or insanity) to do it.

Anyway, it wouldn't matter to me if Carter had been a good president. If Reagan had been spouting off about contemporary policy issues, I'd have railed against him. I even said I didn't want to hear anything from Bush Sr. about what he thought of Bush Jr.'s policies while in office. And if Bush Jr. pipes in during Obama's time in office, I'll say the same to him: Shut up!!

But -- Carter is the only president I can think of in modern times who has run around spouting off -- again and again -- on major policy issues.

It is a disgrace. I wish we could kick him out of Georgia, my home state....