tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post529042422790012502..comments2024-03-27T13:13:25.164-04:00Comments on johnshaplin: 'Americans Cannot Stand Criticism'; A Speech By Norman Mailer,johnshaplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-42810669275517854842009-04-08T15:02:00.000-04:002009-04-08T15:02:00.000-04:00Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchil...Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events. - Werner Herzogjohnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-3131568389799894402009-04-07T16:16:00.000-04:002009-04-07T16:16:00.000-04:00Our National Disaster (9/26/01)Dear Fellow America...Our National Disaster (9/26/01)<BR/><BR/>Dear Fellow Americans-<BR/><BR/>I am writing to you in the midst of our nation's darkest hour.. Words fail to describe both the horrible acts of cowardly terrorism and the breathtaking acts of courage we h/.,/a#############ve SEE(*^seen{}{}<BR/>61571?<BR/>>dos prompt<BR/>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = why must itself up every of a park<BR/>anus stick some quote statue unquote to<BR/>prove that a hero equals any jerk<BR/>who was afraid to dare to answer "no"?<BR/><BR/>quote citizens unquote might otherwise<BR/>forget ( to err is human; to forgive<BR/>divine) that if the quote state unquote says<BR/>"kill" killing is an act of christian love.<BR/><BR/>"Nothing" in 1944 A D<BR/>"can stand against the argument of mil<BR/>itary necessity" (generalissimo e)<BR/>and echo answers "there is no appeal<BR/>from reason" (freud)--you pays your money and<BR/>you doesn't take your choice. Ain't freedom grand<BR/><BR/>eecummingsjohnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.com