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I believe more the poll that says Obama is ahead by 1%, rather than the one which says that he is ahead by 9%. Even if Obama wins, however, it will only be a bump in the road to establishing world peace through the American-Zionist Alliance. It was disappointing to read the report that GWB was so mesmerized by the pope that he wants to join the RCC. This gives support to Jonah Goldberg's thesis that, for all their disagreement on foreign policy now, they are the same kind of conservative. Goldberg's critique of GWB/PJB does suggest to me that I may have some common ground with PJB. However, reading through his books "Day of Reckoning" and "How the Right Went Wrong", and especially "Unnecessary War," I lose hope. The only commonality I have with PJB is on moral issues, but like any Pope-Defender, his refusal to denounce and leave the RCC over the issue of immoral priests leads me to believe that he will eventually accept the practice of sodomy. Even abortion is defensible on the grounds that if Mary is Queen of the Universe, then our mothers should have absolute right to decide whether their offspring will live. I have begun to declare myself to have been immaculately conceived. It is time to challenge the Augustinian doctrine of original sin. Paul writes: So then death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. NOT: Sin passed to all men because Adam sinned! Concerning "Unnecessary War": PJB's argument appears to be: Britain made a mistake in defending Poland. Hitler wanted peace with Britian, and if Britian would have allowed Germany and Russia to split Poland, we would have had peace, not only "in our time", but indefinitely. GIANT PROBLEM: BJP grants that Hitler wanted to destroy the Jews. Conclusion: Churchill should have let Hitler destroy the Jews. The defense of the Jews was entirely unnecessary! I can imagine PJB responding that saving the Jews was never a goal of Britian, which only would be more evidence how anti-Semitic and crypto-Nazi he is. Who else can imagine a Germany under Hitler living in a peaceful Europe? I fear there are many crypto- Nazi like PJB. Well, there is always the Audacity of Hope!

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PJB quotes Strobe Talbot about his vision of a world without the nation-state. He also alludes to WSJ's Robert Bartlett. What no one seems to observe is that in this New Globalist vision, there will still be geographic regions, and perhaps more subtly, there will be a capital. A capital for the globe, and a capital for each region. Let me first try to establish some common ground between me, the New Globalists, and the Old Globalists (PJB and the like minded): We all look or a day when we will beat our swords into plowshares, and spears into pruning hooks (for those unfamiliar, this phrase occurs 3 times in the Hebrew prophets, Isaiah 2, Micah, and perhaps Joel, though I am uncertain about the third place.), neither shall we learn war any more. Strobe Talbot's mechanism for destroying the nation-state must be the UN; My guess is that for Barlett, somehow we will all end up buying stock on the NYSE! Now , I have claimed that, contrary to appearance, PJB is a globalist: His capital is Vatican City. The idea of the New Globalists is terribly naive. It occurs to me to claim that their biggest shortcoming is how they view the future of sexual mores. They are apparently Lennonists: The fundamental law of sex in the World of Global Peace is: Have it your way. I will designate Karl Menger, son of founder of the Austrian School of Economics Carl Menger, and a mathematician of note as the leading intellectual behind the Sexual Theory of the New Globalists. My reason is the recollection of his short book on ethics wherein he seems to espouse unrestrained eugenics. Probably Peter Singer, the Princeton bioethicist and author of a book about his grandfather's Vienna, would be fully acceptable to Menger. I make this claim: The model for a society where there are no sexual mores except personal desire is Hindustan (India). I will stop here, and await someone's response.

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"A Gestapo is being trained." Yes, this does seem to be a plausible claim. However, who will be the beneficiaries? (I think of this title I see at Barnes and Noble: The Nazi Beneficiaries.) My perhaps suprising answer is those whom the ACLU and The People for the American Way are most inclined to protect! The last time I flew was 12/16/1989 -- my 33rd birthday. I flew from Orlando to Atlanta. The next day, Atlantan are introduced to Judge Robert Vance, a federal judge of the Atlanta circuit livng in Alabama. Robert Leroy Moody was eventually convicted of this action in a federal court in Minnesota. Interestingly, he was also convicted of vandalizing the abortion clinic in my neighborhood (Home Park) on the last weekend of August 1989 -- interesting federal crime! I have good reason to believe that my favorite GIT professor was a lookout (or something) for the vandalism. My reason for being back at Home Park on that anniversary of the BTP, was that Operation Rescue was having a protest at the clinic. (I may have been on TV exchanging gifts with Santa -- I received a condom, Santa received a tea bag.) One of the recollections I have of OR is a man who showed up at the Home Park clinic while there some sidewalk counsellors there. he said that he had been discussed when the news was the bombing of clinics, but thank God for Randy Terry and the non-violent Ghandiesque rescuers. I don't believe I responded; I certainly did not give my immediate reaction: I am much more discussed with the pictures of fully formed fetuses having been salted to death, than news that an empty building used for the Naziesque practice of abortion being reduced to rubble. I have talked with Michael Hirch, one of the 3 pillars of OR1988, and requested that he and his Baby John and Baby jane Does have a reunion in Denver this August. But this time have a Boston Tea Party. I have only two rules: Don't kill anyone and make sure that whatever property you destroy is not productive (eg: do not bomb grocery stores -- admittedly, I do not care if you bomb a liquor store.)