[78-L] Bigots^ (Not OT, 78s mentioned within)

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Dec 11 15:03:21 PST 2009


Charlie Christian..him, we like.

Assimilation? You want true horror, listen to Neil Diamond's atrocious mangling 
of "The Little Drummer Boy" (a song whose original version still turns up on 
78). I suggest playing that one full blast in all warring countries.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> From: "Bob Rice" <bobrice at snet.net>
>> Remember immigrants USED to come here to be American . . .
>> They swore allegience on a Bible,
> 
> Not necessarily.  They can affirm their allegiance on a cookbook if they
> desire.  
> 
>>  . . .  well, U.S.A. IS a Christian thinking state?
> 
> Glad you ended with a question mark.  Whenever I hear about this or any
> other nation being "Christian", from historical evidence I start to
> worry.  The Holy Roman Empire was Christian.  15th Century Spain was
> Christian.  Czarist Russia was Christian.  The Austria-Hungarian Empire
> was Christan.  The German Reichs One through Three were Christian.  
> When my grandparents lived there, Poland was devoutly a Christian
> country.  The Christianity of all of these examples are not anything to
> emulate -- and some of the greatest evils in our world today are based
> on one or another religions' domination or attempted domination of
> governments, citizens, or neighbors.  Historically, nothing good comes
> from situations where religion dominate the governing of a country --
> and sometimes the greatest peril is to religion itself!!! 
> 
>> IF you don't like it, the planes, trains and automobiles fly BOTH ways! 
> 
> Not always.  
> 
>> Of course you are getting the Church/State
>> argument nowadaze, big time. ACLU comes to mind.
> 
> Actually the Constitution and Thomas Jefferson come to mind.
> 
>> Christmas trees on Public Property? Big deal, 
> 
> Spoken like a true Christian.  
> 
>> IF ya don't like it, yur free to go! DO!
> 
> If you don't like how the country is run, YOU are ALSO free to go.  Go
> start up your own Christian nation, just not in my neighborhood.
> 
>> ENGLISH is, or SHOULD be our National language, too! Learn it!
> 
> Spoken by the person who spells words "ya", "yur", "nowadaze", "biz" and
> "allegience".  I suggest you learn it first.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
> 



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