This is a huge deal for my home state, folks! How cool though, I wonder if he'll be staying overnight in a tent at S T Morrison Park in Coralville, Iowa?
We've got "Superman Returns" opening tomorrow night with Brandon Routh (from Des Moines) and know Lance is comin' to town...pretty cool!
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Another letter from a Socialist, apeaser who thinks we can "reason" with terrorists.
My reply is below the letter.
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Do better than just ideology
Ideologies are belief systems that do not rely upon objective reality for their validation. They are often like small boxes that fill quickly with simplistic ideas and do not allow new ideas to come in. Objective reality and "the facts" become secondary. People are very slow to change perceptions that are based on ideology. A recent poll showed that some 40 percent of Americans still think the Iraq war was a good idea.
Radical Muslims hate western ideologies. They believe our obsessive sexuality, competition, self indulgence and lack of reverence are satanical. To them, we represent evil. They do not accept our ideas of "freedom," "democracy" and "liberation" the way they so easily roll out of President Bush's mouth. He speaks as if there were some shared sense of objective reality to these concepts.
Ideologies are important to everyone. Ideologies create social order and culture. We cannot live sane lives without them. However, when it comes to political action, we need to place our ideologies on hold and not make them our default setting. They just get in the way of finding useful compromises to difficult social issues and international problems.
By definition, ideologies, if forced upon others with different beliefs, can only result in conflicts that continue as long as any one ideology believes it must prevail. If it does prevail, we then have a social order in which freedom, constitutional democracy and personal liberty mean nothing.
We can do better. We can expand tolerance. We can address the real problems that will shape the lives of our children and grandchildren. These problems and issues are more numerous, dangerous and difficult than at any time in our history.
Don Van HulzenIowa City
Ideologies are belief systems that do not rely upon objective reality for their validation. They are often like small boxes that fill quickly with simplistic ideas and do not allow new ideas to come in. Objective reality and "the facts" become secondary. People are very slow to change perceptions that are based on ideology. A recent poll showed that some 40 percent of Americans still think the Iraq war was a good idea.
Radical Muslims hate western ideologies. They believe our obsessive sexuality, competition, self indulgence and lack of reverence are satanical. To them, we represent evil. They do not accept our ideas of "freedom," "democracy" and "liberation" the way they so easily roll out of President Bush's mouth. He speaks as if there were some shared sense of objective reality to these concepts.
Ideologies are important to everyone. Ideologies create social order and culture. We cannot live sane lives without them. However, when it comes to political action, we need to place our ideologies on hold and not make them our default setting. They just get in the way of finding useful compromises to difficult social issues and international problems.
By definition, ideologies, if forced upon others with different beliefs, can only result in conflicts that continue as long as any one ideology believes it must prevail. If it does prevail, we then have a social order in which freedom, constitutional democracy and personal liberty mean nothing.
We can do better. We can expand tolerance. We can address the real problems that will shape the lives of our children and grandchildren. These problems and issues are more numerous, dangerous and difficult than at any time in our history.
Don Van HulzenIowa City
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TSK TSK TSK.......Don, Don, Don......
I like the way you throw around the word "compromises" and "tolerance"
Do you understand you wouldn't be able to write stuff like this if the Radical Muslims win?
There will be no "tolerance" and there will be no "compromise" you do it their way, or you will be killed, period.
Are you paying attention, Don? For a former Administrator of a hospital, you're not to bright are ya there Donny boy?
Let me list off a few reasons here for you Don as to why these people know no such thing as "compromise" or "tolerance"
1. Dead marines in Beruit
2. Khobar Towers
3.U S S Cole
4.WTC bombing part 1
5. WTC bombing part 2 (airplanes flown into buildings)
I could go on, but I think you get the picture don't you Don? hello? Don? Earth to Don!!
Thi sguy is the reason the terrorists think they can win. They think we're week, and would rather "negotiate" than fight them. I guess they're finding out different aren't they, Don!
Buh-Bye now!
Idiot.
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Okay, that's all I have time for today. (sorry) busy busy busy.
Hope your tuesday went well!!
TTFN!
D C
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