Where is Augustine's "City on the Hill" and who lives there?
And perhaps more importantly: How do they live - with each other?
不知彼，不知己，每戰必殆 (孫子)
(If you don't know yourself and if you don't know your enemy,
then you are in for a world of hurt!)
γνῶθι σεαυτόν (Δελφοί)
“I couldn’t imagine this ... world.
Hell is so big and dark and heaven is so small." HJM "the U.S. has a little manifest destiny over here,
and a little more manifest destiny over there..."
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How About a Bill of Responsibilities Rather Than A Bill of Rights
What if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we'd just make God madder and madder.
1 comment:
ya know, I do share the view of some Republicans and Blue Dogs that we shouldn't dive in too fast, that we start just by implementing some regulations in the private sector of the health care industry and see what happens first. with all this bad publicity alone changes are bound to happen anyway.
what i think would have worked really well is if Obama instead had these "town hall meetings" with just the doctors, nurses, hospital management, medical technicians and pharmacists as well as managements and experts from all the major insurance companies. the sad truth is that the average citizen (in any country really) isn't fully educated or informed enough of the issue at hand to give any insightful input. All he did was stir up a hornets' nest by asking every American to give their two cents. Though noble in aim, that's got to be the most inefficient way to get things done in Washington.
I'm with Bob Dole in that Obama would have had a much better chance had he personally drafted a specific legislative bill himself 3 months ago. The issue has gotten to be way too philosophical and drawn out of proportion.
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