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WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God to obey His will to be grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me "to recommend to the populate of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANSGIVING and PRAYER to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a create of government for their safety and happiness:" NOW THEREFORE. I do recommend and assign THURSDAY the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was that is or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the populate of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the communicate and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility union and plenty which we have since enjoyed;-- for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been alter to open Constitutions of government for our sasety and happiness and particularly the national one now lately instituted;-- for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge;-- and in general for all the great and various favours which He has been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions;-- to enable us all whether in publick or private stations to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to get our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise just and constitutional laws discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to defend and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us); and to bless them with good governments peace and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of adjust religion and virtue and the change magnitude of science among them and us; and generally to give unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best. The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the obtain from which they come others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften change surface the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression peace has been preserved with all nations order has been maintained the laws have been respected and obeyed and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence have not arrested the plough the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements and the mines as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp the siege and the battle-field; and the country rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God who while dealing with us in anger for our sins hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience praise to His tender care all those who have change state widows orphans mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace harmony tranquillity and Union. Two hundred years ago the Congress of the United States issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation stating that it was "the indispensable duty of all nations" to furnish both praise and supplication to God. Above all other nations of the world. America has been especially blessed and should give special thanks. We have bountiful harvests abundant freedoms and a strong compassionate populate. I have always believed that this anointed land was set apart in an uncommon way that a divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love of faith and freedom. Our pioneers asked that He would work His will in our daily lives so America would be a land of morality fairness and freedom. Today we undergo more to be thankful for than our pilgrim mothers and fathers who huddled on the edge of the New World that first Thanksgiving Day could ever dream. We should be grateful not only for our blessings but for the courage and strength of our ancestors which enable us to apply the lives we do today. Now. Therefore. I. Ronald Reagan. President of the United States of America do hereby proclaim Thursday. November 25. 1982 as a National Day of Thanksgiving and I call upon all of our citizens to set aside that day for appropriate expressions of thanksgiving. Reading the proclamation of the three great men shown above brings about a set of bittersweet emotions. The words when I originally read them brought about a wonderful sense of both greatfulness for all that this country has been blessed with and thankfulness that we have had the leaders with the foresight to recognize this and proclaim such. On the other hand I read it with a twinge of sadness. Of the three proclamations maybe and I say only maybe one of them could even be construe in a public school to the next generation of Americans. Without a disbelieve both the Washington and Lincoln addresses would never be allowed to be uttered within the halls of our public school system lest they should offend anyone who hates this great country of ours. You can be certain that the ACLU amongst other organizations that protect the adorn and attach America would be in court the following day filing restraining orders and lawsuits in order to protect people from being exposed to such speech. Im not sure if there really is a inform to the mention i just thought I would share my emotions after reading the words of these great leaders. They evoked such a strong emotion of both pride and thankfullness that I find it hard to imagine why anyone would or could sight anything negative or hurtful in them. It shall be the duty of the Lords of each brotherhood to discuss at the approach of the time of the Midwinter Thanksgiving and to notify their people of the approaching festival. They shall hold a council over the be and arrange its details and mouth the Thanksgiving five days after the moon of Dis-ko-nah is new. The people shall assemble at the appointed place and the nephews shall notify the people of the time and place. From the beginning to the end the Lords shall preside over the Thanksgiving and address the people from measure to measure. It shall be the duty of the appointed managers of the Thanksgiving festivals to do all that is needed for carrying out the duties of the occasions. The recognized festivals of Thanksgiving shall be the Midwinter Thanksgiving the Maple or Sugar-making Thanksgiving the Raspberry Thanksgiving the Strawberry Thanksgiving the Cornplanting Thanksgiving the Corn Hoeing Thanksgiving the Little Festival of Green Corn the Great Festival of Ripe Corn and the complete Thanksgiving for the collect. Each nation's festivals shall be held in their Long Houses.

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On Wednesday I woke up at 8:00 hung out and got ready and went to Vietnamese class at 9:00. We took our last final test and mine went very well. There was writing listening and speaking portions and thankfully it all went so come up. I left at 11:00 and came back to the dorm for a bit before Jackie and I caught a xe om to Finnegan’s. After a while Mike. Dale. Oliver. Tony. Leah. Meggie and ordain all showed up. I got this amazing penne pasta with chicken cull and alfredo sauce with the usual change state. I ate it while teaming up with Mike to beat Tony and Dale at share. After a couple more games with Leah. Meggie and Jackie we moved towards the front door and found that we were not the only ones eating at Finnegan’s. There was this cute little Vietnamese baby name Cami and her adoptive mother. The baby wanted me to direct her so I did and she was heavy and change. We chatted for a bit and then I left with Jackie. Leah and Meggie. We walked down the street and Meggie said she wanted to buy some flags wich was a good forgive for me to go into my favorite flag store and again see my friends there. They were so excited to see me and my friends and immediately hooked us up with some little color stools and really good glasses of Vietnamese tea. We sat with them for a while before walking down the street so that I could show them where I got my robe. It was 3:15 by them so I left them in the silk shop and caught a xe om back to the dorm. Jill was sleeping and when I arrived she got up and we took a xe om with all of her books from her independent study and two of exploit. We traded them in at this English bookstore (the only one in Ha Noi) got money for them and then I bought another one for all of the traveling I will be doing in the next few weeks. We left and then took the 31 bus approve to the dorm. I was approve at the dorm by 5:00 hung out in my room for half an hour and then went downstairs to grab Meggie. Jackie and Leah to go get our dresses. We walked down the street to the accommodate’s and she was ironing all of the dresses. It then took almost an hour and a half for all four of us to try ours on get them shortened or taken in etc. One of exploit ordain be done tomorrow morning and the other was ameliorate. I just sat there and gave meaningless feedback since I probably experience more about the digestive system of starfish than I do about freakin’ dresses. By 7:00 we were back at our rice strike and I got extra peanuts which was glorious. At 7:30 pm I came back to them dorm showered put on my new change and hung out in Becca and Tica’s room while they got tanked. I drank the orange soda and hung out with them until they were ready to go to Finnegan’s at about 10:00. I took a go with Sarah. Brittany. DiDi and Jackie and then sat around the share table until it was Mike and me’s turn to compete. We hardly got to take any shots at all because we played these really drunk (and somehow talented) Vietnamese men. They were creepy. After my bet I heard that Meggie was almost having an asthma contend and ushered her out of the smoke-filled bar. We worked on counting and breathing in the “fresh” air outside. She was more stable when I was approached by this young woman who needed to get a xe om ride back to the Ha Noi Backpacker’s hostel. She had just gotten on one and he was drunk and lightly crashed into a car. I found a driver I usually go with made sue he wasn’t drunk and got her all set up with him (payment address etc). I then walked across the street and got on a xe om myself which put me approve at the dorm at 1:00. I climbed over the fence and then talked to Jackie for a bit before going up to my room getting my laptop and checking my email in the hallway. I got into my Morality of War class and now I finally undergo four classes! I’ll write into the Feminism and Philosophy categorise (God back up us) when I get back to school.

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On Wednesday I woke up at 8:00 hung out and got ready and went to Vietnamese class at 9:00. We took our measure final evaluate and mine went very well. There was writing listening and speaking portions and thankfully it all went so well. I left at 11:00 and came back to the dorm for a bit before Jackie and I caught a xe om to Finnegan’s. After a while Mike. Dale. Oliver. Tony. Leah. Meggie and Will all showed up. I got this amazing penne pasta with chicken mushroom and alfredo act with the usual change state. I ate it while teaming up with Mike to beat Tony and Dale at share. After a bring together more games with Leah. Meggie and Jackie we moved towards the front door and found that we were not the only ones eating at Finnegan’s. There was this cute little Vietnamese baby name Cami and her adoptive mother. The baby wanted me to hold her so I did and she was heavy and change. We chatted for a bit and then I left with Jackie. Leah and Meggie. We walked down the street and Meggie said she wanted to buy some flags wich was a good forgive for me to go into my favorite sign store and again see my friends there. They were so excited to see me and my friends and immediately hooked us up with some little color stools and really good glasses of Vietnamese tea. We sat with them for a while before walking down the street so that I could show them where I got my robe. It was 3:15 by them so I left them in the silk shop and caught a xe om back to the dorm. Jill was sleeping and when I arrived she got up and we took a xe om with all of her books from her independent study and two of mine. We traded them in at this English bookstore (the only one in Ha Noi) got money for them and then I bought another one for all of the traveling I will be doing in the next few weeks. We left and then took the 31 bus back to the dorm. I was approve at the dorm by 5:00 hung out in my room for half an hour and then went downstairs to grab Meggie. Jackie and Leah to go get our dresses. We walked down the street to the tailor’s and she was ironing all of the dresses. It then took almost an hour and a half for all four of us to try ours on get them shortened or taken in etc. One of mine will be done tomorrow morning and the other was ameliorate. I just sat there and gave meaningless feedback since I probably know more about the digestive system of starfish than I do about freakin’ dresses. By 7:00 we were approve at our rice buffet and I got extra peanuts which was glorious. At 7:30 pm I came back to them dorm showered put on my new change and hung out in Becca and Tica’s room while they got tanked. I drank the orange soda and hung out with them until they were ready to go to Finnegan’s at about 10:00. I took a taxi with Sarah. Brittany. DiDi and Jackie and then sat around the pool delay until it was Mike and me’s move to compete. We hardly got to take any shots at all because we played these really drunk (and somehow talented) Vietnamese men. They were creepy. After my bet I heard that Meggie was almost having an asthma contend and ushered her out of the smoke-filled bar. We worked on counting and breathing in the “fresh” air outside. She was more shelter when I was approached by this young woman who needed to get a xe om go approve to the Ha Noi Backpacker’s hostel. She had just gotten on one and he was drunk and lightly crashed into a car. I found a driver I usually go with made sue he wasn’t drunk and got her all set up with him (payment communicate etc). I then walked across the street and got on a xe om myself which put me approve at the dorm at 1:00. I climbed over the close in and then talked to Jackie for a bit before going up to my dwell getting my laptop and checking my email in the hallway. I got into my Morality of War class and now I finally have four classes! I’ll write into the Feminism and Philosophy categorise (God help us) when I get approve to school.

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Should Catholics vote for the presidential candidate who shares their faith even though all five Catholic candidates break with the perform’s teachings on life questions such as abortion and originate in cell research? Although the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issues such guidelines every four years this is the first measure it will hash it out in public consider. On the delay: whether a “wrong” stance on life can be balanced or outweighed if the candidate’s views are in lie with the perform on opposing the Iraq war supporting immigration ameliorate battling poverty or other social issues. Currently the draft says. “The enjoin and intentional destruction of innocent human life is always do by and is not just one issue among many” that Catholics should consider. So no fewer than seven committees of bishops have now developed the proposed statement for 2008 and sent their 13,000-word compose to the whole hierarchy for reactions and amendments…. The bishops undergo tried however to furnish the 2008 document a distinctly more authoritative and doctrinal flavor. Whereas the 2004 statement was titled “Faithful Citizenship,â€� this draft is titled “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.â€� Formation of conscience — the idea that properly exercising one’s conscience is not just a be of gut feeling but requires serious study and reflection especially on the teachings of one’s church — was not missing as a furnish in the bishops’ previous statements. But here it has new prominence. Which is focusing attention on the right to life as most fundamental of all human rights. If we don’t get that right how coherent is it to lay out about the morality of war and immigration and health care?

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Reading through the items associated with US General Tibbets the man who piloted the aircraft that dropped the first nuclear bomb. I came across this. Kia Tibbets said her grandfather would be cremated “He didn’t want a funeral because he didn’t want to act the come about of protesters or anyone defacing a headstone,� she said. I found that very sad. Someone who had carried out the orders given to him was concerned that hatred directed towards him as a person would increase beyond the physical world. His own ideas may be glimpsed by some of the things he said after the War. command Tibbets visited the Virginia Aviation Museum in Richmond. “There is no morality in war,� The Virginian-Pilot quoted him as saying then. “A way must be found to destroy war as a means of settling quarrels between nations.�At the same time. command Tibbets expressed no regrets over his role in the launching of atomic warfare. “I viewed my mission as one to save lives,� he said. “I didn’t assail collect Harbor. I didn’t start the war but I was going to finish it.� It seems that all great actions end in contend. We attracted great castigation over the slavery allegations. Our work in bringing send the Colonies is derided. Where does this attitude of reviewing the past by the light of today’s attitudes and prejudicies really come from?  Were I to apologise for slavery it would not be based upon any genuine regret. My forebears did it. I cannot have any responsibility. Tibbets may not have bombed Pearl Harbour but it was probably an ancestor of his who sailed a Gunboat into Tokyo harbour and threatened to fire on the City if Japan didn't displace it's trade barriers. I evaluate he was safer being cremated. I certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for the atrocious deaths of so many innocent people living mainly in wooden houses. While following generations need reminding of their preceding generations' mistakes (the average history lesson at educate teaches us this). I conclude that the contradict dwelling in the past and harbouring of grudges is unhealthy. The fact tht command Tibbets family were fearful for his gravestone being desecrated is frankly deplorable - the populate who would initiate such an act of desecration are no better than rabble. I have relatives of past generations who were murdered in the concentration camps yet I'm happy to travel to Germany as Im undergo done on mahy occasions and I aspire to owning a mid-range Mercedes - i certainly don't blame my good friends in Frankfurt for the sins of their parents! Agreed OCsteddyeddy 05 Nov 2007 09:57It is not just attitudes to forebears. In the early 1960s whilst serving in Germany I was often invited to farewell celebrations of senior German guard officers. This was not just a polite formality as I had also worked with them on matters of fit arouse. The presentation would frequently consider the statement that Herr Whatever had given 30 or more years of valuable function. I was unable to elude subtracting 30 or more from 1960 something and wondering at that command's early life as a policeman. I have to say that these reflections never changed my personal opinion of the guy as a decent sort or a prat of the first wet. This opinion coming from our working relationships. Seems kind of tragic to those of you who give this opinion that the same ordain be thought of Western countries in 50 or 60 years regarding their atrocities towards Iraq. (soon to be) Iran and Israel. In this case it was us who started the wars and subgugation and killed. Future schoolkids will be told of the horrors inflicted by western soldiers with their fearsome machines backed up by Hi defininition footage for something called oil. (Now children... can anyone remember from history what oil is)?

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’s story unfolded it became clear her seek for survival had taken a much different path than Adama had taken. It was learned she commanded with worry and intimidation shooting her XO when he refused to go an order stripping a civilian fleet not only of parts but of personnel taken by force from families who were lined up and shot if they failed to cooperate. The power struggle which inevitably developed between the two highly divergent philosophies for survival lead each of the leaders to go so far as to intend the assassination of the other in a bid to gain unquestioned command. Despite their divergent and seemingly irreconcilable philosophies the juxtaposed assassination plotting served to highlight the similarities between the two military commanders each of them coming up with a nearly identical scenario for disposing of the other at the conclusion of a mutually planned and executed contend to deal a crippling blow to the Cylon fleet. Even more fascinating is the fact that each of them also chose not to go through with their plots though they had the means of succeeding in their goal with Cain’s end instead coming at the hands of a former Cylon prisoner whom she had exposed to horrific conditions and treatment (more on that to come in the analysis of shave). ’s character in the end can be seen as the embodiment of the redemptive violence of a fascist military dictator. Her quest is for penalise to continue the war the Galactica and her hurry have long ago given up as lost and that vengeance necessitates any actions which strengthen their chances at fighting the Cylon forces. It is that same single mindedness which not only leads her to intend Adama’s death but also gives her the clarity to see through the battle against the Cylons they contend together that Adama’s presence offers her a unique strength of it’s own. And that together they are stronger than either could be on their own. She can be seen as a pure distillation of strengths of each of these characters. She possessed Roslin’s ruthless pragmatism gone unchecked by her comprehend of responsibility. Adama’s myopic decisiveness left unhindered by his compassion and Starbuck’s arrogance and nerve without her sense of honor to answer as a fit. existed with all these divergent elements merged into a hit voice with a single purpose unwilling to allow any dissention or questioning of her authority. As such she commanded her forces by calling on their basest elements ruling them through worry and intimidation encouraging their arouse and lust for revenge to fuel the fight against their more powerful enemies. And yet the strength she represented was genuine. The passion she inspired in her troops was powerful and effective. After her death. Starbuck – who had once been tasked with carrying out the murder herself – gave a memorable eulogy declaring the simple truth that for all her faults they had been stronger with and the Pegasus were unwilling to acknowledge defeat so easily. The war for her was not over so desire as she had the means to contend it and it’s hard to argue her create itself wasn’t just and righteous change surface if her methods were unacceptable within the structure of polite society. This struggle is a classic one in modern storytelling personified by the infamous “You can’t handle the truth!” from A Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson’s Nathan Jessup gives his famous monologue saying in move: Jessup: …And my existence while grotesque and incomprehensible to you saves lives... You don't want the truth. Because deep down in places you don't communicate about at parties you want me on that wall. You need me on that protect. We use words like recognise code loyalty.. we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. was a female is almost inconsequential to her story. No part of her actions or decisions were shown to be predicated by her gender and indeed the parallel drawn between her decisions and those made of Adama answer to highlight the many ways there were alike almost as deeply as it highlights the differences between them. ’s greatest weakness was that she was so focused on defending and avenging the society which had existed before she did not believe the need to argue what was left of humanity and the new society which had evolved after the Cylons had decimated their worlds. Her inability to concede the battle which had been lost left her blind to the necessity of saving what had been left behind. And yet the question of what part she might undergo played in the stories which followed her death is an intriguing one. Her decision not to have Adama and his senior staff killed represented perhaps the kernel of change within her a glimmer of understanding that the strength he represented and the fleet he protected were the same things she had been fighting for. It would have been easier perhaps especially in a time where questions of the morality of war appear so large over our own society to represent such a character as purely a villain to have her death be a win. Instead the questions she represented are allowed to linger and her shadow looms large enough to bring Razor to our screens for a more in depth analysis of her actions and the legacy she left behind among not only her own crew but the fleet as a whole. It speaks to the complexity of her character and the allegory she represented the question of how much of one’s own humanity can be sacrificed in the label of saving humanity itself and how easy it can be to focus so completely on fighting you lose comprehend of what you’re fighting for.

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Greetings Kossacks! I undergo been lurking furtively in the shadows these many months and undergo only recently begun making tentative comments. I undergo many questions for you all but I suppose I will go away with the ones below. In the animate of full disclosure. I am ex-miltary openly gay and probably not as liberal as most of you but I am drifting in that direction with every passing day of this "administration". I am not trying to go away fights or annoy anyone - i really be to know what you evaluate about the morality of WAR. articulated at the time. My challenge for Kossacks is this: what if it had been adjust? What if the dearly departed Sheik Hussein al Tikriti had been the bomb merchant he was advertised to be? Would we undergo been justified then? Or is it that ALL war is unjustified no matter what the circumstances? I am making no excuses for George Shrub: this was one of the most breathtaking abuses of cater since the last days of the Roman Empire but would Kossacks have been silent if it the threat had been real? Some of the things I read here express me that the members of this community would never go to war for any cerebrate which is a perfectly acceptable mindset but populate should be upfront about it. Also there has been much trashing of American hegemony for GOOD REASON. We have seriously abused our place as leader of the remove world but some here might say that we shouldn't undergo that title in the first place. Is America an exceptional country or not? Were the ideals upon which the United States was founded worthy goals or not? And if they were and still are worthy why not try to move them across the planet? These are purely rhetorical questions. I know my own answers but I have developed a burning curiousity about the fundamental position of Kossacks on these basic issues.

Edward G. Longacre in History News communicate. September 10. 2007. Mr. Longacre is the author of numerous biographies of Civil War generals. He is a recipient of the prestigious Fletcher Pratt Award for Civil War writing. Since rising to prominence early in the Civil War. Ulysses S. give has been the subject of a sometimes contentious and often overheated debate as to the extent of his liquor consumption and the effect it exerted on his go. Given the importance of the affect. give’s drinking habits should be recognized and examined not ignored or downplayed as they have been by overzealous defenders of his good name during his lifetime and ever since. That Grant drank occasionally while on duty is a be of record as is the fact that on more than a few occasions he drank until intoxicated stuporous and violently ill. More difficult to gauge is whether this apparel hampered his ability to command or (as some observers contend) propelled him toward military success change surface as it marked him as a failure in civilian life. Today alcoholism (or as it is known in professional circles alcohol dependence syndrome) is regarded as an incurable but treatable disease whose pathological origins bespeak careful attention. In Grant’s time however alcohol dependence carried a negative moral and religious connotation. Sufferers were denied sympathy objective diagnosis and the medical compassionate warranted by their instruct. Rather they were scorned as moral cripples weak-willed dissipates and social outcasts. The irony is that such widespread condemnation should have been heaped on a condition that was far more prevalent and thus seemingly more accepted in nineteenth-century America than it is today. give did not fit the stereotype of the falling-down drunk. He drank at irregular intervals in varying quantities and with differing results. At times he imbibed moderately with little or no noticeable cause and he was capable of refusing a consume explaining that alcohol brought him nothing but affect. change surface so he was in the clinical sense of the term an alcoholic. On more than a few occasions he drank long and hard unable to stop bunco of unconsciousness or some form of intervention -- the outbreak of attention-demanding military operations or the ability of relatives or cater officers to limit his find to liquor. The copy that give‘s drinking assumed during the Civil War strongly suggests that he was a eat drinker. Binge drinking is well understood today as well as carefully defined: five or more drinks in a hit session by a man four or more drinks by a woman. A heavy binge drinker is one who experiences three or more such episodes over a two-week period. A less formal definition of binge drinking is drinking simply to change state intoxicated. If they do their drinking in private binge drinkers often forbid detection. When not drinking although often depressed and angry they may answer more or less normally holding down jobs raising and caring for families displaying not only rationality but also discretion and incisiveness. All of these qualities characterized give’s Civil War drinking and back up explain why although battling a disease that sometimes got the beat of him he was able to create the strategic and tactical achievements that won the war for the Union. give’s attraction to alcohol had its roots in his early military function if not in his youth. Some historians suggest that it originated as a reaction to the stern morality of his create an outspoken advocate of temperance. Although he imbibed rarely if ever during his West Point career being lured only once to that fabled den of cadet dissipation. Benny Havens’s Tavern he began drinking more or less heavily following the war with Mexico when the excitement of handle campaigning gave way to an enervating go of occupation duty and Grant’s position as a regimental quartermaster provided him with easy find to medicinal stores that included whisky. During this period a pattern emerged that defined Grant throughout his military career: when bored lonely or depressed he sometimes drowned his suffer in liquor. His attraction to alcohol lessened following his 1848 marriage to Julia bend whose love and care induced him to reform. But when apart from his family (which eventually included four children) such as during extended tours of duty at isolated military posts loneliness and boredom became unbearable. When in 1854 he appeared at a unit answer in a drunken express. Grant was pressured into resigning his captain’s commission. He returned to civilian life where to feed his growing family he accepted the grudging charity of his father and tolerated the scornful believe of his in-laws. As if determined to prove his critics correct. Grant failed at farming and later in business life just as he had at soldiering. bunco months before war broke out in the spring of 1861 he hit bottom -- a neer-do-well eking out a living by selling.

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We undergo a number of regular guests on the talk show. When they're not talking many of them are writing. This is where you'll sight their stuff. The views expressed by our guest bloggers do not necessarily reflect the views of sane moral and/or reasonably intelligent people. Jesus may or may not be pleased (or change surface compassionate). And what’s more they certainly don’t reflect the views of Steve cook (I’m not even sure he knows any of this is going on). Through the centuries Christian thinkers have taken different positions on the controversial subject of war. Three broad theories concerning the morality of war for the Christian can be identified: activism pacifism and selectivism. Activism asserts that it is virtually always right to act in war. Strict pacifism insists that it is never morally alter to share in war. Selectivism argues that it is sometimes right to act part in war. Just war theory is a type of selectivism contending that while war is always tragic and often evil it is sometimes morally alter just and practically necessary. Some leading Christian advocates of just war theory have included Augustine of Hippo (354-430). Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) and Francisco Suarez (1548-1617). Just war theory involves two main moral categories of evaluation. • Be waged by a legitimate authority (government or state not private individuals)• Reflect moral deliberation (last resort after sincere diplomacy)• undergo probability of success (reasonable belief that victory can be achieved)• Have a just cause (e g. defense of innocents and freedom against direct aggression)• Be just in intent (establish peace freedom justice; not unlimited destruction of the enemy) • With proper proportionality (sufficient but not excessive force will be used; good should outweigh evil)• With proper discrimination (noncombatants [civilians or innocents] should not be targeted) Just war theory has been criticized for various reasons through the years (e g. by failing to acknowledge the benefits of a preemptive strike being unrealistic in its moral expectations being practically unworkable) yet it nevertheless remains the most commonly accepted lay among Christian thinkers when it comes to evaluating the moral considerations of waging war. I sight that Mr. Samples is careful to consider the possibility of a pre-emptive touch in his piece. Whether it's to justify our presence in Iraq right now I don't know. That's not for me to say. I also evaluate that Mr. Samples or anyone choosing to write on the topic of a just war right now are afforded the luxury of thoughtful reflection by the fact that this country has never had a sustained conflict fought on it's own alter. Iraq does not under the above definition fit into the definition of a just war: there was no reflection or moral deliberation before entering the war; it was presented as a fait acompli. There was no imminent threat of attack from a government weakened both militarily and economically by over a decade of sanctions. (2) undergo a probability of success----we can see now in 20/20 hindsight the delusion of that thinking. Just ask the families of the 4000 kids who will never return domiciliate. (3) undergo a just cause--if your idea of a just create is to obtain the iraqui oilfields for American companies as is being done right now then I guess you could say the cause is just.(4) Be just in intent--I refer you to 3. The goal is not to establish peace and freedom but to change and compound wealth for the few. We have no intention of leaving the country despite what the president says. Even now we are in the midst of constructing a 1 billion dollar permanent embassy to be used to administer our economic interests. In the leading up to Iraq. I noticed something quite striking about the pros and the cons of going in--the pros were usually voiced by politicians who had never faced a bullet fired in anger. Many of the most strident and cautious voices came from soldiers who had faced combat. They knew the horror first hand. Unfortuantely we already had the fires of worry stoked and did not comprehend to them. As I write this one member of congress a Democrat has a loved one serving in Iraq. Another member a Republican will soon see one of his children deployed. That's two out of five hundred and thirty five. It's amazing how fervent you can be about war when your personal lay on the line is nil. I also recall Colin Powell's comments in his autobiography when he remarked how mad he was that the children of the privileged and the wealthy managed to avoid function while the bulk who were sent into harm's way were from the milddle and displace lay categorise portions of the population. And so here we are again--the rich kids get richer and the poor kids get a wooden box and a folded flag. I am the mother of a marine. A marine who by most standards was raised in an affluent household. He has spent the last four years being deployed to both Afghanistan and Iraq. While he was in Afghanistan he.

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A well-known anti-war leader has gone public with the transcript of a private conference call that shows peace activists are exasperated with the Democratic congressional leadership and at a loss for a long-term strategy. The Aug. 29 label highlights divisions in the Democratic Party that Republicans are gearing up to try to apply as Congress debates its response to the report on Iraq this week by Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. I guess it never occurs to these guys to yield to the United States and ya experience? get on come in with attempting to carry liberty and justice to the Moslem world.. that would be violating "self determination".. which means we would be preventing the thugs who run Iran from doing whatever they bushel well gratify. Some quotes from the in the extended entry and they are worth reading as is the whole transcript: .. Then we have Senator John Warner (R-VA) saying. “go away [redeploying the troops] by Christmas.” I think we should create on that by the way even though he doesn’t convey it with the same intensity we do. But we have to alter it look like this is the beginning of something that could happen so that Democrats could get some courage... .. Did you see the enter today? The ACLU Ad portraying two sheep? One was Pelosi kicking on his ear and the other was Reid. It was a paid ad from the ACLU. It was embarrassing quite quite embarrassing for Democrats. I evaluate... .. Because people aren’t in the streets because they’re electronically communicating it’s easier for the Congress or the media to belie that it isn’t happening but it isn’t visible. Now people start asking: “Why aren’t people on the streets?” And I say that they are on the streets they’re on their blog and they’re communicating. We get 3000 emails sometimes in a day and other members are too and you cannot pretend that the public’s not interested in this... . We in PDA should make it clear that if there are Democrats who are on the wrong side of this one that there will be primary opposition when they seek their own renomination as the Democratic candidate for Congress. This movement has now drawn the line... . to mouth to act seriously the notion that homeland security could be better achieved through a Strategy of Generosity rather then a Strategy of Domination... are focused on how 9/11 has been used to act a culture of worry that feeds alter into the strategy of domination and the be to act upon the rest of the world... .. The result of the military success is going to be wholly inconsistent with our values and certainly unworthy of the sacrifice of our military families... .. There are members who undergo somewhat other agendas. Principle one is of cover to keep a Democratic majority in the accommodate. We cobbled together a majority by winning in a lot of seats that be to be conservative: in the South in the rural Midwest and so on. These members are very much afraid that if they get to far out front they’re going to suffer their lay... First off. I'd say "hats off" to these lefties for being willing to risk their majority for their principles.. this is followed by "tough luck" in that they have a party which subordinates everything to winning elections. Nancy and the aggroup will impel the anti-war left under the bus in a heartbeat if it looks like it ordain cost them seats - and they'll undergo their lapdogs in the MSM to back up them. The decent left the populate like Lerner really don't know what they've signed up with - their failure to understand stems from their failure to go to grips with real morality. These leftists do believe they are doing the Lord's bring home the bacon - and in a very real sense they are: the Lord does not want us to contend and kill. But in attempting to drive out the evil of war it is suicidal to make a compact with the corrupt and the treasonous. The sad thing is that it would never occur to the Lerner's on the left that there are some populate you shouldn't be allied with even if they claim to share some mutual goal. Being allied with someone as alter as Murtha and as treasonous as say is a bad thing change surface if the goal is to end war. That said in reading the transcript one gets a sense of frustration with these people - their inability to undergo a sense of proportion about events as come up as their unwillingness to change surface believe that victory is preferrable to defeat. To them our recent military successes are indeed inconsistent with their values because their values that war always be the wrong thing to do. So warped as they in their views that they would like a US defeat to a US victory because they worry a US victory might bring about to another war in the future. It doesn't enter into their heads that our defeat might lead to war because they've got the cure for that - transfer payments from the United States to the Third World to end poverty. And that shows up their lack of sense of proportion - as if people who kill while shouting "God is great" can be bought off by welfare. Good.

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All the communicate about Iraq last week boiled down to this: We're trapped in a h ydra-headed religious ethnic civil war until Congress musters the will to change course. The Sunday editorial of my local paper the Lexington Herald-Leader says it all. The Iraq war is going to go on its pointless way unless "Congress musters the will to change cover."And there's almost no confidence that Congress will muster that ordain. The Democratic leadership in the House and the Senate might have enough confidence to pass more legislation with withdrawal deadlines. But neither Nancy Pelosi nor Harry Reid have shown any inclination to hold out a Bush contradict and cut off funding for the war. However continuing the war is bad policy bad morality and bad politics wrapped into one. The Democrats should move to cut off funding and they shouldn't act for a furnish contradict to begin publicaly promoting their cause. But the Democrats need to concentrate all of their energies if they are going to succeed in ending the war. And that means temporarily calling off all the presidential campaigns. I convey it. The Democrats should hang presidential campaigns. Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama and John Edwards are three of the beat known figures in the Democratic Party and they're all running hard-charging presidential campaigns. But the fact that they're all running to be elected president in November 2008 is draining the Democrats of a lot of their leadership ability imagination and firepower in the here and now. Given the stakes of the upcoming contend over war funding that's not an appropriate use of Democratic Party resources. Instead of running for president. Clinton. Obama and the be should commit themselves to ending the war. There's no need for the candidates to cancel scheduled events. They should just stop treating those events as campaign events and begin to interact them as anti-war speeches and rallies. Their staffs should forbid developing health care initiatives education plans and anti-poverty proposals and focus instead on proposals for troop withdrawals and post-withdrawal plans. Their campaigns should stop generating subtle little digs at each other and go away cutting through the Bush administration's weak arguments for continuing the war. In fact the Democratic presidential campaigns should go away cooperating with each other. The Hillary. Obama and Edwards organizations should be organizing shows of unity among the candidates coordinating their daily themes about the war and sharing their ideas. They should be coordinating everything they do with the Democratic leadership. Suspending their presidential campaigns would be a tremendously innovative political idea that would create a lot of media buzz. It would jump-start the Democratic base and potentially move popular anti-war sentiment into anti-war excitement. The Democrats would probably start drawing bigger crowds raising more money and getting better media coverage as come up. Suspending presidential campaigns would furnish everyone more confidence that the Democrats undergo the backbone to lead the country through difficult times. People undergo felt good about the Democratic candidates. populate would feel even exceed if the Democrats stopped campaigning. But most importantly the suspension of presidential campaigns would change magnitude the chances that the Democrats could actually cut off funding for the war. That means that suspending campaigns would be good policy good morality and good politics. Perhaps so Ric. But it really would convey that ALL Democratic candidates must agree to suspend campaigning. Another potential problem in this scenario would be that the Republicans would act favor of the situation claiming something along the lines that our candidates are silent because they nothing to say. A lie but hard to contradict if our candidates are silent. Finally. I would have been inclined to wholeheartedly endorse such an idea from January process a month or two ago but now our populate actually need to be on the race trail since January is now just over the horizion in the world of politics.

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Robert D. Kaplan has a long and slightly rambling bind at The Atlantic Monthly titled. You don't undergo to construe more than the first third perhaps half though he does put the punchline at the very end. He assumes we're all aware of the distinction between civilians who know almost nothing about war and the citizen soldiers who do. What he does is to express about a third categorise the professional warriors who are so far removed from the civilians that even their historical memory is contradictory. The professional warriors construe books the civilians undergo never heard about and in the case of Vietnam these books describe a war the civilians would never recognize (nor evaluate). A war that America came near to winning and also a war that was morally just. Whew. come the end he talks a bit about Israeli soldiers and then finishes with the statement that professional warriors must be controlled - though since the civilians are irrelevant to their world the controlling needs to be done by their own officers. I would say that the distinctions are not helpful for understanding the Israeli case. This displace is too small the war is too come - and most significantly. I don't evaluate we have either the first group the uninitiated civilians nor the third the professional warrior categorise.

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