Blue Truck, Red State: JUSTICE SERVED: BIN LADEN DEAD

Monday, May 2, 2011

JUSTICE SERVED: BIN LADEN DEAD

Mission finally accomplished. Thank you, Mr. President. Well done, U.S. forces.

Update: Time is coming out this week with a special edition, the cover of which will recall a famous 1945 edition. Fucking brilliant - you go, guys.

4 comments:

DeepBlue said...: Until next time?; May 2, 2011 at 7:26 AM
Russ Manley said...: And your point is . . . ?; May 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM
DeepBlue said...: I feel this is not over!
I see another 9-11!
But i'm playing Cassandra, I know!; May 5, 2011 at 9:44 AM
Russ Manley said...: Well, we in this country have been living with that fear ever since 9/11/2001, ya know? Look at what happened in London and Madrid, and all the other attempted bombings in various places. Which might just as easily have been Toronto or Montreal.

The possibility will always be there. But bullies and thugs respect only one thing, and that is superior force. They have to know that there are severe consequences to severe behavior; take away all consequences, and you simply enable them.

With people like that, no amount of sweet reason and happy talk does half as much good as a swift punch in the nose or a kick in the ass. Then they will leave you alone, not before.; May 5, 2011 at 2:36 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu