From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V7 #20 Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org Sender: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk good-noise-digest Friday, July 23 2004 Volume 07 : Number 020 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Politics [John Hawkridge ] Re: Politics ["Gina" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:11:44 -0700 From: John Hawkridge Subject: Re: Politics > There is a rumbin going on, wouldn't surprise me if he was adding that > beautiful baritone to it. I say, let him speak his piece, though it > is quite doubtful the term Nazi was used. I believe someone said he > called Bush our Fuhrer. And while the word does carry a negative > connotation, it simply means leader in German. I just went to the message board, and noticed that "jimmy" (who accused JG of using the "H" word, had posted a quote from G.K. Chesterson, identifying him as "a great man of God." I did a little research, and (as usual) the quote "jimmy" stated did not give the full picture of his "great man of God" 's philosophy. "jimmy" choose not to use many quotes such as these- "The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea." - G.K. Chesterton 1910 "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." - G.K. Chesterton "What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism." - G.K. Chesterton "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - - G.K. Chesterton, 1925 "Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." - - G.K. Chesterton, 1925 "War is not 'the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you." "The only defensible war is a war of defense." "I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel." "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." http://www.chesterton.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:39:37 -0700 From: "Gina" Subject: Re: Politics Wow, thanks John. This is pretty interesting stuff. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hawkridge" To: Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:11 AM Subject: Re: Politics > > There is a rumbin going on, wouldn't surprise me if he was adding that > > beautiful baritone to it. I say, let him speak his piece, though it > > is quite doubtful the term Nazi was used. I believe someone said he > > called Bush our Fuhrer. And while the word does carry a negative > > connotation, it simply means leader in German. > > I just went to the message board, and noticed that "jimmy" (who accused > JG of using the "H" word, had posted a quote from G.K. Chesterson, > identifying him as "a great man of God." > > I did a little research, and (as usual) the quote "jimmy" stated did > not give the full picture of his "great man of God" 's philosophy. > > "jimmy" choose not to use many quotes such as these- > > "The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, > should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. > But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, > should sound unceasingly, like the sea." - G.K. Chesterton 1910 > > "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of > saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk > or sober." - G.K. Chesterton > > "What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of > self-criticism." - G.K. Chesterton > > "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go > against it." - - G.K. Chesterton, 1925 > > "Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by > accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give > themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be > smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." > - G.K. Chesterton, 1925 > > "War is not 'the best way of settling differences; it is the only way > of preventing their being settled for you." > > "The only defensible war is a war of defense." > > "I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally > found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to > hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I > have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel." > > "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and > Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. > The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being > corrected." > > http://www.chesterton.org ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V7 #20 *******************************