Nonsense. Nothing is going this disarm except for an overwhelming electoral win. These will always be with us. They will trail us into the future kicking and screaming. They will always do what they always do. But there is a middle and they can be moved to vote Trump out. Words do matter. âI have a dreamâ and âask what you can do,â and ânot a read state or a blue state, but the United States etc âŚâ.
Bullshit, if one pulls oneâs head from oneâs rear end, one will see that there is not one damn thing Omar can do to placate the right. I donât agree with the premise that she is a bomb thrower, the bulk of the controversy surrounding her has been manufactured by the right. They are doing their best to destroy a Mulsim woman of color, to the extent of putting her life in real danger. So please spare us the victim blaming.
And of course sheâll need to put a seer on staff to help her predict what words will set off the right wingers. Or maybe not, everything and anything she says will set them off. Unfortunately too many here havenât figured that out yet.
Whatâs an editor going to do? Predict what words may or may not set off the right wing outrage machine? Its about the person using the words NOT THE WORDS being used!
Canât come quick enough!
For most people on the planet her statement was completely correct. I mourn the Notre Dame of Paris fire for the same reason. I would feel the same way about the destruction of temples in Egypt or Greece or the Middle East. Chartres, like most Gothic churches, was the undertaking of many, many decades of work and devotion. It is not the finest example of Gothic architecture but it is the heart of France. One doesnât need to be Christian or Catholic to mourn the destruction to such a beautiful structure and the art work within it.
I mourn the tragic loss of the temples in Greece, particularly the Parthenon which even in its sad broken condition today is still sublime in its proportions and beauty.
I just hope that when replacing the roof beams the architects and builders do not turn to old growth trees which are now few on this earth. Steel is stronger and lighter. Have some concern for the remnants of natural beauty on this planet.
Weâre actually getting there.
I was gonna add, because good people will find ways to be good, no metaphysical excuses are needed, while bad people will find ways to be bad, and no metaphysical excuses should be accepted.
Thatâs been my experience of life. If you do good because youâre scared, I donât think it counts. hahahahaha You should do good because you want to and people do. I agree.
Mine too, in fact when they try to scare people into doing good, they usually do something even worse. The human psyche is a hard thing to figure out, and 6000 years of metaphysical bullshit has only made it harder.
Yeah we just donât do that well with metaphysics. Not since christianity took over so much of the world, anyway. You get a glimpse of the Classical World and how utterly it was destroyed when christianity came in and itâs breathtaking. Everything we had learned was lost.
I remember being so saddened when I first read of the damage that the Islamic State was doing to ancient Iraqi cities âin the name of Islamâ. Wanton destruction of thousands of year old artifacts, now gone forever.
Funny thing is, since I donât wear a hijab or criticize Republican treatment of minorities, nobody seems to want to deliberately lie about what I just wrote, declare me a traitor, or misconstrue what I meant.
Funny thing thatâŚ
I hated it when the Taliban destroyed the Buddhas in the caves. I hated it when ISIS started destroying Palmyra - a place Iâve always wanted to see. it doesnât matter what kind of religion might have been involved, it was a matter of history and humanity.
Looks like I take after Obama. Nice company I keep.
Yes, but she can make it much more difficult â but never impossible â for them to do so by choosing her words carefully â with the help of a wordsmith. Predict what words? Yes, better than she can. Thatâs why politicians have speechwriters. If she doesnât learn this, she will stumble into one ambush after another only to get slapped down --something she does not deserve. .
If you donât get what Iâm talking about, I donât know what to say. Iâm talking PR 101.
ââŚdo not turn to old growth trees which are now few on this earth. Steel is stronger and lighterâŚâ
Iâm no expert of course, but I canât imagine theyâll use any ordinary lumber. Today we have âengineeredâ lumber, aluminum and steel. Iâve got to believe theyâll use this destruction also as an opportunity to repair old structural deterioration.
You may know that the flying buttresses were not on the original cathedral. They were added later to relieve vertical stresses in the stone. I think also that the water on the hot stone causes some sort of deterioration.
Theyâll bring the best brains to the project and computer analysis of stress and strain. The project will be studied for years and years by structural engineers.
â⌠Taliban destroyed the Buddhas in the cavesâŚâ
Second only to genocide, one of the most barbaric acts weâve seen in modern times.
as much as it can âŚ
got to keep on trying, making things better as much as we can
From the NYT.
(1) The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 was âsomething some people did.â
(2) Last monthâs attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, was âsomething someone did.â
(3) The 2015 massacre at a black church in Charleston, S.C., was âsomething someone did.â
Now imagine that a public figure with a history of making racially inflammatory remarks â someone like Representative Steve King of Iowa or, better yet, President Trump â had said any of this. (Neither of them did.) Would you not be appalled?
Of course you would. Youâd be insulted by the evasiveness of the something and someone. Youâd be revolted that a right-wing politician would fail to speak forcefully against the bigotries too often found among his followers and fellow travelers. Youâd be disgusted by the deliberate attempt to conceal the scale of the horror, the identity of the perpetrators, and the racist ideology that motivated them.
I was sickened by the wanton destruction of the temples and artifacts of those ancient civilizations. They were an important part of our heritage. So much is being destroyed by idiots who only care about their transient cause and it is really ugly and stupid when it is deliberate. Religion has created a great many beautiful and impressive structures and art but it is also responsible for the destruction of the same. And so it goesâŚ