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>As Gail Collins wrote in the NY Times the other day, I am not going to mention his name so as to avoid encouraging him further. For a pastor of a nothing congregation in Florida he sure has generated a whirlwind of public attention. Virtually every U.S. political and military leader has weighed in. Muslims have certainly take notice. I guess you can be a nobody, shout "I have a bomb!", and then you're somebody. He lit the fuse for sure.
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>The ones I am really disappointed in are the news media. There are crazies and publicity seekers everywhere, all the time. That doesn't mean you have to put them in the news and stoke the fire. He didn't need to be paid any attention.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/opinion/09collins.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=gail%20collins%205%%20doctrine%20article&st=cse>
>I really am trying to stay out of the political threads but please allow me this one comment re the Quran burning debate. Imagine it the other way around. What if some imam said he was going to burn a bible or wipe his a** with it? Would you not be incensed at him and possibly his entire country?
We are on *exactly* the same page on this one.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
