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From Wiki.

As an academic discipline, Western political philosophy has its origins in ancient Greek society, when city-states were experimenting with various forms of political organization including monarchy, tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, and democracy. One of the first, extremely important classical works of political philosophy is Plato’s The Republic, which was followed by Aristotle’s Politics. Roman political philosophy was influenced by the Stoics, and the Roman statesman Cicero wrote on political philosophy.

The early Christian philosophy of Augustine of Hippo was by and large a rewrite of Plato in a Christian context. The main change that Christian thought brought was to moderate the Stoicism and theory of justice of the Roman world, and emphasize the role of the state in applying mercy as a moral example. Augustine also preached that one was not a member of his or her city, but was either a citizen of the City of God (Civitas Dei) or the City of Man (Civitas Terrena). Augustine’s The City of God is an influential work of this period that refuted the thesis, after the First Sack of Rome, that the Christian view could be realized on Earth at all – a view many Christian Romans held.

Other political philosophies that have influenced today’s world include:

Determinism

metaphysics

ontology

And some good music about the epic struggle for freedom during the Boer wars.

As we enter closer to electing a new president I thought this video of Red Skelton from Jan. 4th, 1969 might be interesting. Pay particular attention to his definition of a republic.

I’m going to start trying to do this on a regular basis. In my ramblings while searching for the end of the net I often run across new concepts philosophies and what not that I’ve never heard about before. So I will post these links on a regular basis so all can see.

Clash of Civilizations

Malthusian catastrophe

Strict constructionist

originalism

Original meaning

Textualism

And I stole this idea from another site but I like the idea, so kudos’ jobsanger!

In tribute to those fallen in the defense of freedom.

Few things make me emotional, this did.

 More information located at:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/wreaths.asp

  Arlington at Christmas

I had no idea this was done. I thought you might want to see it.


Rest easy, sleep well my brothers .

Know the line has held, your job is done. Rest easy, sleep well.

Readers may be interested to know that these wreaths — some 5,000 — are donated by the Worcester Wreath Co. of Harrington, Maine. The owner, Merrill Worcester, not only provides the wreaths, but covers the trucking expense as well. He’s done this since 1992. A wonderful guy. Also, most years, groups of Maine school kids combine an educational trip to DC with this event to help out. Making this even more remarkable is the fact that Harrington is in one the poorest parts of the state.

Often solutions to problems can be very simple as shown in the below video. Bill Bennet this morning was discussing the NEA. This teachers union has done more damage to our youth that probably anthing else imaginable. A look at the political historyof the NEA shows a continual slide into the current policies of extreme liberal thought. Thought and monetary support often way out of line with the thinking of many of it’s members.  American children and their schools receive more money than students of any other country in the world, yet as a whole rank far below other 1st world countries and many 2nd world countries.

These are some of the things benefitting from NEA funding, according to the most recent filings, include Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Amnesty International and AIDS Walk Washington

We know of two so called “teachers” at PTS, Spacedark and Lequino that cause me to shudder as I read their posts and imagine what they may be saying to their students.

IMHO there is no profession more important to a nation than that of a teacher. If I had my way they would be among the best paid people in the Nation. And if I had my way teach is what they would do. What we witness today is very little teaching and a whole bunch of social engineering. Social engineering in and of itself is not so bad. If the subject is good citizenry. But what we see more often is liberal garbarge, and as our ranking in the world in science and engineering show very little education.

This cartoon shows a very simple solution to the worst problem facing the worst problem in schools, dicipline.

http://s116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/celtictexan54/?action=view&current=ADHDCure.flv

This is another one of those e-mails that go around. I’ve not checked it all out but just from experience I can believe it.  One thing I really like about this is many things called permits or fee’s are correctly named, i.e. Tax.

 The next time you hear a politician use the word “billion” in a casual manner, think about
 whether you want the “politicians” spending YOUR tax money.

    A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of    putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.
   
    A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
   
    B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
   
    C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
   
    D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
   
    E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

 While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let’s take a look at New Orleans It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division . .
 Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans .  Interesting       number, what does it mean?
   
    A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of  New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you each get $516,528.
   
    B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in  New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
   
    C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.
   
    Washington , D.C .. HELLO!!! … Are all your calculators broken??   
    Tax his land,
    Tax his wage,
    Tax his bed in which he lays.
    Tax his tractor,
    Tax his mule,
    Teach him taxes is the rule.
    Tax his cow,
    Tax his goat,
    Tax his pants,
    Tax his coat.
   
    Tax his ties,
    Tax his shirts,
    Tax his work,
    Tax his dirt.
   
    Tax his tobacco,
    Tax his drink,
    Tax him if he tries to think.
   
    Tax his booze,
    Tax his beers,
    If he cries,
    Tax his tears.
   
    Tax his bills,
    Tax his gas,
    Tax his notes,
    Tax his cash.
   
    Tax him good and let him know
    That after taxes, he has no dough.
   
    If he hollers,
    Tax him more,
    Tax him until he’s good and sore.
   
    Tax his coffin,
    Tax his grave,
    Tax the sod in which he lays.
    Put these words upon his tomb,
    “Taxes drove me to my doom!”
   
    And when he’s gone,
    We won’t relax,
    We’ll still be after the inheritance TAX!!

I went to the sausage festival in Umbarger today and learned alot about the history there.  The food was excellent.

God bless our Veterans and Happy Birthday to the United States Marine Corps

I added a “contact us” page.  You can get to it by clicking “contact us” on the right of the page.  On that page is a form to fill out a name, e-mail address, and whatever comment you want to make.  Feel free to use that for any purpose, compliments, complaints, whatever.

This site is good for keeping count of the illegal immigration issues. It’s the first palce I’ve seen that really attemps to lay out the big picture in one place.

This post is just for you CT. It’s about as crude as it gets but I think you’ll like it and I’ll bet you laugh just a little bit. I was rolling.