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Rise of a Master
Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame
By Michael Hirst
Yale, 438 pages, $40
Of all the Old Masters, Leonardo and Caravaggio are the main media darlings, subject to a ceaseless tide of speculative claim and counterclaim. But that grumpy old man-mountain Michelangelo continues to hold his own. Big scholarly tomes and popular biographies tumble with metronomic regularity off the presses, and the latest discoveries and assertions remain newsworthy—Was he a fat cat who embezzled Pope Julius's heirs? Was the "Last Judgment" inspired by visits to steam baths? Is this a lost painting or sculpture?
There are other reasons for the flood of publications besides Michelangelo's celebrity. Authors are benefiting from the publication in reliable editions of vast amounts of documentation. There are around 1,400 surviving letters to and from the artist (Saturday was his letter-writing day), as well as memorandums, contracts, bank-account details, poems—even the odd shopping list. He is easily the best documented Renaissance artist. Most of the letters and memorandums were given to the city of Florence in 1858 by Michelangelo's last descendant, but on condition that they not be copied. It was only in 1964 that this stipulation was lifted. The material has now been published in eight big scholarly volumes, the last of which appeared in 2005. The restoration of the Sistine Chapel from 1980 to 1994, and of many other works, has also furnished masses of new information.
No biography has been so anticipated as that of Michael Hirst, a lifelong student of the artist who must know more about him than anyone. A London-based academic, Mr. Hirst has written the standard work on Michelangelo's drawings (1988) and curated a groundbreaking exhibition of Michelangelo's early work. "Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame" takes the artist up to 1534, when, at the age of 59, he moved permanently to Rome to paint the "Last Judgment."
Mr. Hirst tells this dramatic story with unprecedented precision. This is no easy task. In these years Michelangelo was frequently on the move—whether escaping political turmoil or searching for patronage and high-quality marble. He was motivated in part by a desire to restore the fortunes of his family, which he later falsely claimed had noble origins. The family had been in economic decline for at least half a century, and he was constantly giving handouts to his brothers and father (who had initially opposed his becoming an artist).
Mr. Hirst takes us meticulously from Michelangelo's birth in Florence in 1475 through his training, first in the studio of the painter Ghirlandaio, which he entered at the age of 13, and then in Lorenzo de' Medici's sculpture garden (amazingly, we still don't know who taught him how to carve). Mr. Hirst is particularly good at rescuing Ghirlandaio from Michelangelo's later slur that he had taught him nothing; Michelangelo preferred to think of himself as a self-made genius. The younger artist was hugely indebted to Ghirlandaio's painting methods and his workshop organization, with its careful division of labor. When painting the Sistine Ceiling, Michelangelo initially had six assistants, virtually the same number as Ghirlandaio used for his major fresco cycles.
Michelangelo's rise to artistic supremacy was far from inevitable, thanks in part to the political turmoil that followed the death of Florence's de facto ruler Lorenzo de' Medici in 1492 and the French invasion of Italy in 1494. This led directly to the overthrow of Lorenzo's hapless successor, Piero de' Medici, and a return to republican government, with the religious reformer Savonarola pulling the strings—and burning offending artworks, until he too was burned at the stake in 1498.
Michelangelo left for Rome in 1496 in search of patrons with deeper pockets and more open minds, but his first sculpture, "Bacchus," was rejected by the cardinal who had commissioned it—no doubt because this god of wine really does look very tipsy. It was the St. Peter's Pietà (1498-9), made for the tomb of a French cardinal, that made his name. It is the only work that Michelangelo signed, and he did so with a lover's boldness, on the strap that passes between the Virgin's breasts. From then on, he was never seriously short of commissions or money. His perennial problem was making realistic proposals, completing work and knowing when to say no.
After the success of the Pietà, Michelangelo returned to Florence to carve the "David" (1501-04), a commission from the city. The republican regime was deeply in debt, and Mr. Hirst acutely observes that this giant statue was actually a relatively cheap option. A large piece of marble had been lying around in the cathedral workshops since the 1460s after a previous attempt to carve a statue. The abandoned block was ingeniously recycled by Michelangelo.
The work was celebrated even before it was finished. On June 23, 1503, Mr. Hirst has discovered, a public preview of the statue was arranged: The door of the protective structure housing the statue was unlocked. This event recalls the public display of a preparatory sketch (known as a "cartoon") by Leonardo two years earlier, and Mr. Hirst argues that it demonstrates how works of art, made by famous artists, had now become newsworthy in Florence.
After "David," Michelangelo would work almost exclusively for successive popes on vast schemes of sculpture, painting and architecture: first for Pope Julius II in Bologna and Rome, then in Florence for two Medici popes. Mr. Hirst charts Michelangelo's despair and anger when, in 1506, Pope Julius stopped funding the work on his infeasibly massive tomb, with its projected 40 large statues. The pope's decision to rebuild St. Peter's meant that the money was now needed elsewhere.
Michelangelo, for his part, was ordered to redecorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508-12), which had been cracked by an earth tremor. Having only painted a few small panel paintings since leaving Ghirlandaio's workshop, he now had to remember all that he had been taught about fresco there. The exact configuration of the scaffold Michelangelo used had long been a mystery, but during the recent restoration holes were found at the top of the side walls that would have held wooden supports. This meant the floor of the chapel was kept clear and that Michelangelo could stand up and walk around—rather than adopting the cramped recumbent position of myth.
It was still an astonishing feat of physical endurance, about which Michelangelo never ceased to grumble. Mr. Hirst cites a burlesque poem he wrote in 1509, accompanied by the first ever self-portrait caricature, in which Michelangelo complains about his face being covered in paint and about being bent like a bow so that his stomach is close to his chin. Despite this, the second half of the ceiling was completed in a mere 12 months; God separating light from darkness was painted in a single day.
"Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame" is an important but strangely lopsided book. The pursuit of precision and day-to-day detail has been made at the cost of vision and passion. At one point Mr. Hirst notes that Michelangelo's memorandums are "terse" and "minimalist" and "rarely spell out the purposes behind them." He writes in the same restrained, notarial style. He only discusses Michelangelo's artworks, cultural milieu and development in a cursory way. Mr. Hirst would probably say that there are millions of printed words speculating on such matters and that the most important task is to establish the facts. But some important works are not even described, let alone their meaning explained, and key protagonists scarcely introduced: Bramante, the great architect of St. Peter's, suddenly appears and disappears.
Little is said about the personality or cultural interests of that combustible force of nature Pope Julius, who accompanied the papal armies into battle in his 60s. Michelangelo's homosexuality is practically a no-go zone, and we only learn in the notes that his youthful mentor, the writer Poliziano, was a "notorious homosexual." Michelangelo's active interest in poetry, and love of Dante, is nowhere explained or evaluated. Ditto his obsession with the male nude. Anyone who has read Helen Langdon on Caravaggio, or John Richardson on Picasso, will find this pretty dry fare. Mr. Hirst seems to have taken to heart Michelangelo's famous illustrated grocery list, which is reproduced as his frontispiece. Demonstrating Michelangelo's "legendary austerity," it omits red meat.
Mr. Hirst's herculean labor of documentation can be usefully supplemented by the more balanced biographies of the American academic William Wallace and the Italian restorer Antonio Forcellino. Mr. Wallace's "Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times" (2010) gives evocative depictions of people and places and efficient analyses of the artworks. A highlight is the section "A Week in the Life," where Mr. Wallace re-imagines a trip to the quarries that supplied Michelangelo's marble. Mr. Forcellino's "Michelangelo: A Tormented Life" (2009) gets absurdly overexcited about Michelangelo's supposed greed, but Mr. Forcellino is as eloquent talking about tools and techniques (he restored the sculpture of Moses by Michelangelo in Rome's St. Pietro in Vincoli church) as he is about religion and politics. For further illumination beyond these recent accounts, one need only wait; biographers will undoubtedly be redrawing Michelangelo for many centuries to come.
—Mr. Hall is the author of two books on Michelangelo and, most recently, "The Sinister Side: How Left-Right Symbolism Shaped Western Art" (Oxford).


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An American woman has been honored for her heroic work against the Nazis in World War II.
Mildred Fish was born in Milwaukee in 1902. She met a German fellow student, Arvin Harnack, at the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison, married him and moved to Germany, where she taught English literature. When Hitler seized power the two helped organize a group of anti-Nazis and became part of a large network of resistance groups, labeled the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) by the Gestapo. Aside from sticker and leaflet actions, they also established radio contact with the allies, including the Soviets.
But the Nazis were able to decode a message, and hundreds were arrested, including the Harnacks. Arvid was hanged within five days of the trial. Mildred, sentenced at first to six years, was retried at the express orders of Hitler and sentenced to death. She was guillotined on February 16, 1943, the first American citizen to suffer that fate. Because of their Communist leanings they were rarely honored in West Germany, but both portrayed on postage stamps in the GDR (socialist East Germany). So it was good to see a government official, the US ambassador and surviving relatives at the ceremony when the stumble stones were placed at their last home in Berlin.
The next story did not begin at a university but ended at one, far less heroically, but for many, they hoped, only temporarily. A new professorial chair was installed at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-University in Bonn, financed by the Foreign Ministry and even more generously by the Defense Ministry, and ceremoniously named the "Henry Kissinger Chair for Foreign Relations and International Law." It had been announced on his 90th birthday in May. Protests have been mounting, by the Green student organization and many others. Honoring a man whose name is connected with the slaughter of tens of thousands and more in Chile, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, East Timor and Bangladesh made this decision by Bonn academics and Berlin politicians seem, in the word of the Bundestag representative of the Linke (Left) party, simply "grotesque".
Also grotesque, though with less of an international dimension, was a scandal plaguing the Roman Catholic Church in Germany in recent months. In the small West German city of Limburg, pop. 33,619, the local bishop, Franz-Peter Tebartz-van-Elst, 54, had delusions of grandeur. Soon after his appointment he decided to indulge his love of architecture by rebuilding the bishop's residence. The cost was set originally at about 3.5 million Euros but the princely design and decoration led to a truly regal -- but secret -- pile of bills. Turning newly-created rooms under the building into luxurious quarters, palatial art works and a beautiful chapel for the very pious bishop, who required it for his undisturbed prayers, helped raise the costs to at least 31 million, not counting repairs for damage on adjoining buildings.
Using an incredible amount of criminal manipulations he and a few buddies, robed and unrobed, kept it very secret until recently, when it came out in line with an inquiry about a long-denied but finally admitted air flight to India -- first class -- to view poverty-stricken areas, and because of angry stirrings in the congregation at this far-right homophobic, islamophobic bishop known for ruthless treatment of all who opposed him. Church collections have decreased alarmingly and the German bishop's council -- and perhaps a pope devoted to modesty -- will soon decide this art-lover's fate in an affair fully deserving the name of the area's most famous product -- Limburger cheese!
New government
But the main news from Germany concerns the formation of a new government after the recent elections. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) together with Bavarian sister party Christian Socialist Union (CSU), ruled by hubris, had expected to win a majority of Bundestag seats and rule the country by themselves. Largely due to Angela they did indeed do amazingly well in East and West but missed their expected goal by a measly five seats and therefore required a new partner. They had thrown their previous, conservative partners, the Free Democrats, to the winds; since it had no seats at all and was thus out of the running, Merkel was forced to choose a new partner - either the Greens or the Social Democrats (SPD).
At one time even the thought of Greens and CDU-CSU "Christians" ruling together would have been laughed out of the room; they seemed total opposites. But the Greens, far milder, now represent less rebellious youth than satisfied professionals, while some of their "right wing", like the minister president of Baden-Wurttemberg, also a wild radical in his youth, now want to look more to "business people". But the polite meetings of the two parties led nowhere, the Greens could not abandon their major issues, ecology and safe energy, so this coalition idea was abandoned.
At their weekend congress, reflecting their meager 8.4 percent election returns, they dropped some older leaders and proclaimed that they would no longer remain inseparable allies of the Social Democrats. How could they decide otherwise, with the SPD in the government and they in opposition? A few brave Green souls even broached the possibility of someday working with the Linke -- till now a virtually total taboo. They will almost be forced to cooperate in some ways; even together these two opposition parties will have only about 20 percent of the seats, while a Grand Coalition of Christian and Social Democrats will have about 80 percent.
Of course, anyone with half a political brain could predict that the SPD and the CDU-CSU would again form another Grand Coalition, as between 2005-2009, even though that solution proved disastrous for the SPD. But those warm, soft cabinet chairs are far more tempting than the cold seats on the opposition side, and the SPD, after trying to sound a bit tough, reached the expected agreement in the end. Indeed, the head of Merkel's Bavarian sister party CSU, even further to the right than her CDU, noted after the last meeting with the SPD that "the atmosphere was good, there was even some laughter".
Evidently the SPD won out with its long overdue 8.5 Euro minimum wage demand, always opposed by right-wingers in Merkel's band but otherwise largely accepted. But it will sacrifice its second main campaign demand: raising taxes on super-wealthy companies and individuals. "You just can't win them all!" they indicated, though the money is sorely needed for education, infrastructure, and anti-poverty efforts. Yet the special congress of the SPD this evening will almost give its approval, if grudgingly for some. As for the planned mail-in vote of all their members, possibly less willing to join their traditional CDU foes, this seems at the moment to have been quietly "forgotten".
This new willingness by SPD leaders was easier since "Mutti" Merkel still maintains - most of the time -- that pleasant look and tone (in Mutti - for mommy - the "u" is not pronounced like a canine "mutt" in German, but much like the "oo" in "crook"). But, ach! - When you peek just a little behind the scenes, you wonder about the smiles, the "good atmosphere" - and the laughter.
Last week German representatives succeeded in forcing environmental ministers of the other European Union countries to put off enforcement on lower CO-2 emissions by heavy European-made cars. As the magazine Der Spiegel put it, "There were threats, lobbying and even a call from Chancellor Merkel to the Irish prime minister (the present chairperson). In the end, Germany got its way and managed to delay an EU decision." The atmosphere, also politically, will surely suffer.
At almost the same time the interested German public learned that the Quandt family, major shareholders in the company making BMW cars, had just given the CDU a friendly present of 690,000 Euros. This was just pocket money for the family, but was a great help to the CDU which, like the Quandts, quickly denied any connection between the two items - although BMW (and Mercedes) are the worst offenders with their heavy cars. And they don't want to change.
The family is fascinating. Johanna, its head, one of the wealthiest women in the world, was married to one of the two Quandt brothers, who with their father Günther were among Hitler's major industrialists, producing batteries for submarines and V-2 rocket launchers, Mauser guns and other friendly products, using more than 50,000 Polish female forced laborers, POWs and concentration camp slaves to build their fortune, which they carried over into their post-1945 business -- including BMW.
The other Quandt son, a half-brother, after the divorce and remarriage of his mother, became the loving stepson of none other than Hitler's propaganda minister Goebbels. In the last days of the war, Goebbels, before poisoning himself, wife and daughters, sent his stepson a farewell note: "It's likely that you'll be the only one to remain who can continue the tradition of the family." He did his best. When he received the letter, he was a POW of British troops in -- of all places -- Benghazi! There's something for Sen. Rand Paul to really dig into!
And here is another sector of Merkel's program, which the SPD will almost certainly be supporting, as it has with similar scenarios in the past. The event ran parallel to its jolly coalition conferences:
"As German military sources report, between September 30 and October 10 there were major maneuvers in the Lüneburger Heath area near Bergen and Munster (not far from the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, VG). The so-called Informational Training Operation, involving 3500 soldiers and 700 land and air vehicles, was viewed by future general staff and admiral staff officers at the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy and other officers in training. As one of the participants stated, "You need to smell the powder and hear the noise". The basic scenario for the maneuvers was based on the landing of German troops in a fictive country of "Obsidia" with the aim of putting down active rebellions there." (German Foreign Policy, October 17, 2013)
Perhaps such plans help explain why the Linke party -- despite occasional disagreement -- has insisted in its program on "no use of German troops abroad for any purpose". Even if labeled humanitarian aid, any such use helps to strengthen such eager elements and train their armed assailant units. This issue has been a major stumbling block for any possible coalitions on a national basis between the SPD and Greens with the Linke. We must wait to see who sticks to his guns -- or who rejects them!
Photo: Mildred Fish Harnack, circa 1943. Wikimedia CC 3.0.


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The latest issue of DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing), a thematic journal devoted to residential design edited by members of TU Delft's Dwelling Chair, focuses on 'Global Housing: Affordable Dwellings for Growing Cities'. With "massive urbanisation" occurring across emerging economies worldwide, there is "an acute need for affordable housing" – the scale of which goes far beyond conventional building production, "requiring complex, politically- and economically-oriented solutions."
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In OASE's 91st edition, Building Atmospheres, the elusive craft of creating, capturing and understanding 'atmosphere' in architecture is explored in a carefully chosen collection of themed essays by Peter Zumthor, Juhani Pallasmaa and philosopher Gernot Böhme. Zumthor, famous for his 1996 text Atmospheres, identifies and discusses "a series of themes that play a role in his work in achieving architectonic atmosphere". Alongside this, the OASE team have visited his studio and interviewed him about the current relevance of his writing and how he captures 'atmosphere' in his design process.
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I got a kick out of Baroni getting a mention. For some reason i always want to see Phil Baroni do well. He is just a crackup and seems really down to earth in recent interviews.
AND DAMN!!! I completely forgot about David Terrell. He had such hype behind him and you could tell Dana was banking on him because every time he was asked back then about possible title challengers he would throw David Terrells name out but David Terrell just kept pulling out of fights and never came back to the UFC as far as i know. Damn its been a long time since iv heard that name. Time to shitdog him to see if he has any type of win streak going.
Edit: Nope it seems his last fight was still his win over Scott Smith at UFC 59. Man that is a bummer. The guy had potential.
Lindland's main offense in the third was a guillotine that wasn't fully sunk in, that he held for about a minute. Rampage's strikes were quite a bit stronger and that's likely what earned him the nod from two of the judges.
It is a good fight, so you should see if you can find it.
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I think the entire MMA world forgot Dave Terrell...good to see him get a mention. But thanks for posting all that :) was an interesting read. Surprised he wasn't more bitter on the Belfort and Lawler losses.
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Shit quality, but the full fight.
Overall that was a good read.
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Right now, I have my user profile loaded up, and it happens to be the same name as my operating system log-on, and it's the only one available to me right now. If I wanted to create a new user profile, I would just click on Create User Profile and only in this default. And the reason for that is that if I ever need to go back to the Media Composer Default factory settings, I can do that easily. However, I do want to use my own user settings because user settings are customizable.
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We'll go into customizing user settings in another movie. One other option within this dropdown is Import User or User Profile. I would choose this if I had already created a user profile and had them stored somewhere. This allows editors to travel from system to system and bring their user profile with them. In the middle of the screen are three radio buttons that tell me where my project is located: Private, Shared, and External. The Private location refers to a folder in my user's Document folder.
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Posted on 07/13/2004 6:50:48 AM PDT by Area Freeper
"What's next?" Braves pitcher John Smoltz said, when asked his opinion about gay marriage. "Marrying an animal?"
It's fascinating how often that happens. Time and time again, when opponents of gay marriage and gay unions are asked to explain their position, their real underlying concern turns out to be a rather odd fear of bestiality.
That same obsession seems to have afflicted Timothy Dailey, a stern opponent of gay marriage and a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, a national conservative group. In an FRC brochure titled "The Slippery Slope of Same-Sex Marriage," Dailey brings up an obscure case that came to light five years ago about a deluded soul in Missouri named Mark. It seems that Mark fell in love with his pony, named Pixel, and in 1993 actually "married" her in a private ceremony.
"She's gorgeous. She's sweet. She's loving," Mark was quoted as saying in unbridled affection. "I'm very proud of her ... . Deep down, way down, I'd love to have children with her."
For Dailey, this was a call to arms. Like Smoltz, he worries that if gay marriage or gay unions are allowed, there would also be nothing in the law to stop couples such as Mark and Pixel from also getting hitched.
"Once marriage is no longer confined to a man and a woman," Dailey warned, "it is impossible to exclude virtually any relationship between two or more partners of either sex -- even nonhuman 'partners.' "
Imagine, if you will, the possible implications of such a thing. For example, it could mean that animals who enter this country illegally might be able to marry U.S. citizens and then demand the right to vote, for goodness' sake.
To avert such calamities, Dailey and others are pushing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, thus removing any possibility that individual states could decide for themselves to sanction bestiality or gay unions. The proposed amendment is scheduled to be debated and voted on this week in the U.S. Senate, and it's expected to be a bitter and divisive fight.
So I have a proposal: If the real, underlying issue in this debate is the fear that human beings will someday be allowed to marry animals -- if Smoltz, Dailey and others are honestly and truly worried by that prospect -- then let's address that issue head on. Let's pass a Federal Animals, Relationships and Marriage amendment to the U.S. Constitution that outlaws all interspecies marriages, period.
The FARM act would have two other important advantages over the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment. First, this is a deeply divided nation, and the last thing we need is something to get us even angrier at one another.
What we need instead is something that will unite us, a cause that all of us can rally behind. And surely all Americans -- with the notable exception of one very lonely guy out in Missouri -- can get behind the FARM act and thus protect human-to-human marriage from this dire threat.
By championing the FARM act, President Bush could finally make good on his promise to be a uniter, not a divider. And John Kerry could use the amendment to demonstrate yet again that there are some issues too important to compromise on. As far as I know, he is now and has always been opposed to human-animal sex, even during the '60s.
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"I'm very proud of her ... . Deep down, way down, I'd love to have children with her."
and that's how John Kerry was born.
There's just something inherently funny about a homosexual marriage article by Cox News Service.
I recived an email from my big brother last night. He is on the mailing list for moooooveon and he forwarded it to everyone on his email list. The email stated that "we need to stop this amendment" My brother (whom I always thought was more intellegent than this) added his 2 cents, stating that he cannot "for the life of me" understand why this is such an issue when the war in Iraq, and the economy are more important.... my reply...
I love you, but I'm sorry, I do not agree with you here. Marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN, the whole thing comes down to anatomy, and the definition of marriage as it states in the dictionary, and what marriage has been for all of civilization. A dog is a dog, a boat is a boat, and a book is a book. Should we change the definition of any of these because a small minority wants something that isn't real? Before you go off on me here, do you remember my friend *? As gay as a 3 dollar bill, one of my best friends, and I loved him and I was heartbroken when he died. I would give him the same argument. I dont buy the crap with this being compared to black rights or the right for women to vote. Gays CHOOSE to be gay, and I have known quite a few gays and lesbians who all say this. Blacks do not CHOOSE their skin color, nor do women CHOOSE the fact they dont have a penis.
I am grateful that both senators from my state are voting for this amendment, one of who is Zell Miller, a democrat, so this proves that this in not a "vast right wing conspiracy" theory. I am happy that they are voting with the majority of this country, which all polls show more than 50% of this country dont want gay marriage.
Please, *, I love you, but dont ever sent me anything else from moveon.org. I think it is a communist, fascist site, and I am disappointed that you believe the garbage that they spew. They still have the Bush/Hiter ad running? Did our parents not teach us respect for the office of the president? I learned that lesson, I am surprised that you didn't. No, I have not turned into a "nazi-warmonger" as I am sure I am called on sites like moveon and the democratic underground. I have always considered myself an independent voter, never ever have I voted straight down a party line, but who I felt best was able to do the task at hand.
I will never vote for Kerry. I feel, as Zell Miller does, so disappointed with the democratic party, that there is no way I will leave my security, or the security of my children to someone as indecisive as John Kerry. He is a man who when he comes home from Vietnam throws his medals (or were they someone else's?) over a fence, testifies to atrocities committed, and is now running on the fact that he was a war hero. He isn't even legally able to hold office according to the constitution. Joe Leiberman was the best choice for the party. Do you support Hillary Clinton when she said recently that the tax breaks were nice, but we are going to "take it away from you for the common good"? Yes, we live in America, not communist Russia, and taxing the "rich" to support people too lazy to get out and work is absolutely ridiculous, and I cannot believe that you would agree with this!
If the republicans are dividing this great nation of ours, why is a democrat speaking at the republican convention? I see that as unity, not division. Oh yes, the democrats have Ron Reagan speaking, but just on the stem cell issue, he has never been a republican, so it cant be stated that he is the "republican" at the democratic convention.
I am truly surprised that you are a member of moveon, and I must say, I am disappointed by this. I thought you were more intelligent then that.
I love you
I havent heard back from him yet, truth hurts I guess....
That is not what Hillary said. What Hillary said is far worse. Here is what Hillary actually said...
"We are going to take things from you for the common good."
Reducing her comment to we are going to take "tax breaks" away from you is a nothing ball statement that is said by virtually every democrat politician in America.
No pun intended, of course.
Let me guess. With very little fear of being wrong, I'd say there's a good chance that Jay Bookman and John Smoltz don't bat for the same team..
I stopped right there. It is not "fear", it's disgust, and it's certainly not "odd", except, perhaps, in the mind of this cretin.
How am I harmed by gay marriage?
1. Societal approval to an unnatural, disease-laden and disease-exchanging behavior.
2. Unfair status affecting my taxes for those who receive benefits that they are not sufficiently procreative enough to warrant.
3. Slippery slope that threatens further tax burdens when polygamy and other unnatural unions enter the picture.
The question of whether gays choose to be gay or not is beside the point. A person doesn't CHOOSE to be a schizophrenic, but that doesn't make it any less a disorder. Likewise, even if someone doesn't CHOOSE homosexual tendencies, it doesn't mean it is therefore healthy and normal.
No, the reason the black civil rights analogy doesn't wash is because blacks were standing up and demanding rights to which they were already entitled but were being denied. We didn't have to rewrite "All men are created equal." We simply had to demand that Americans extend those rights to ALL MEN. There was no new right or new idenity created. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said:
"In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.American blacks came for what was already rightfully theirs. Clearly, homosexuals are demanding a new right, a new social contract, a new promissory note, one not in the Constitution, but foisted on America by the courts. That is why the analogy breaks down. Not because of what choice one has in their homosexual tendencies. But because no one ever promised homosexuals the right to be married. It's really that simple. At least, to this hetero white male.
"It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
From "I have a dream", August 28, 1963
Let me leave you with my own joke about gay marriage, which has a lot of truth in it:
I support equal marriage rights for ALL people, including homosexual people. I believe that no matter if you are a straight man or a homosexual man, you have the right to marry a woman. And if you are straight or homosexual woman, you have the right to marry a man. Someone explain to me how that's not equality under the law?
That's really odd. I know lots of gays and lesbians and I'm pretty sure all of them would disagree with this. I can't imagine a single one saying they chose to be gay.
Could you explain this? That's the first of heard of that.
Perhaps she should start by taking Bill's "thing" from him for the common good!
No. It's the liberal system of wierdos declaring themselves as a minority/victims so they can get special privileges enacted into law by un-elected judges.
Really, reasoning from the same context as the pro-gay marriage folks, their is no reason not to allow bestiality. That was Justice Scalia's entire point.
You have just defined emotional and mental bondage. It requires some effort and therapy but healing is possible.
Huh, is this where the Missouri mule came from?
Hold the presses; we've found someone who has been living on Mars for the past twenty-five years or so, and has never heard of Michael Jackson.
please see this...
and this...
They are victims of their sexuality from birth, right?
If any of you have not listened to Michael Medved, you should do yourselves a favor and tune in.....he's the BEST!
I think Jay Bookman could be a "catcher".
As a public servant, doesn't he have the "right" to grope or rape whomever he chooses? [sarcasm off]
Thanks for that opinion.
I can't believe you think moveon.org is a communist/fascist site, and yet Freerepublic is somehow balanced. I am scared at where political discourse in this country is going.....people ONLY want media that espouses their own beliefs, media that doesn't challenge their beliefs. A clear majority of the news on FreeRepublic, a misnomer if I ever heard one, support only its views.
As for gays who claim to make a choice.......you clearly don't understand sexuality, and are eager to lap up only those answers that support the way you view things. Many so-called gay and lesbian people are really bisexual.....bisexuality is common in a majority of people...few people are either totally straight or totally gay, most people have, at one time or another, had feelings for the same sex. In this sense, I suppose it would be easy for someone to say they CHOOSE to be gay or straight, because they really do have a choice. There are MANY gay people though who are NOT attracted to the opposite sex at all, and for these people, there is no choice. You can't choose who you are attracted to.....I'm suprised that someone who seems as intelligent as you could actually believe this.
I agree. He's been very clear, convincing, and consistent in his argument against gay marriage. Any time a caller challenges him on the issue, he just drags out the same old proven arguments and lets us listen to them try to dodge, change the argument, name-call, etc. Anything to avoid answering the question. Beyond that, his show in general is the best out there, I think. I can't imagine Limbaugh, (though I like his show), having "disagreement day" where he only allows callers who disagree with him to call in and challenge him.
Most glad I don't live in your neighborhood.
I don't think the founding fathers would have taken such a thing so lightly. I think when they wrote it, they meant it.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3......
P.S. One shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition.
How old are you Jay?
End what with?
An addendum to my earlier message on the direction of political discourse in this country: I said earlier that people in this country seem to only desire media that says what they wants to hear, that supports their own beliefs and doesn't challenge them. The people I'm referring to are both liberal and conservative. There is no desire to really hear and understand both sides of an issue, there's just a desire to have someone else, a news media or web site, justify their position. This is sad. What's even sadder is that both liberals and conservatives will read this and say they've already heard the other side and they don't want any part of it, and this sort of degradation of political discussion will continue....continue into the 3rd-grade playground kind of name calling direction its been headed for several years. I, for one, don't want to watch a great nation such as ours decline in this manner.
Actually, the only time Medved takes a call that agrees with him, is when he has on a guest from the left. He makes mincemeat out of every caller. He's much tougher than Rush.
There's an additional, even more direct, harm as well. Last week, a county in Oregon stopped issuing ANY marriage licenses, including to heterosexual couples, because they were prevented from issuing them to homosexual couples. This could ultimately destroy the legal institution of marriage, which in turn has the potential of destroying our society!
I noticed that no one has been able to get the pony's opinion in all of this...
A person doesn't CHOOSE to be a schizophrenic, but that doesn't make it any less a disorder. Likewise, even if someone doesn't CHOOSE homosexual tendencies, it doesn't mean it is therefore healthy and normal.
Why do you ask about my age?
You're simply reflecting the experience of your provincial set of friends. In fact, most people never are attracted to those of their own gender.
I read a psychiatrist's account of a man who fell in love with a polar bear in a circus.. He would try to get close to it and was almost killed by the bear ...the psychiatrist worked with him till he finally got over his obsession with the bear, but he was never happy after that....(true story)
Bad analogy! If you're going to go the route of modern psychology, the establishment does not view homosexuality as a disorder.......so I guess I don't understand where you are going with this argument.
--.you clearly don't understand sexuality, and are eager to lap up only those answers that support the way you view things--
Please understand this, I have friends who are gay, and had a very close relative who is gay. this relative has told me, that he chooses who to be with, which was a woman (he has passed away) We all make choices everyday. I am all for a civil union, but as I stated in the email, the definition of marrage is between a man and a woman. Why must we change the definition of something because a small portion of people want it? One of my best gay friends, love to say, when he was drunk, he loved boobies, but when sober his choice was men.
I am not homophobic, please dont think that.
This has nothing to do with religion, but with what the word "marriage" is, a man and a woman. I chose the man I married 18 years ago, this was our choice.
This is what I mean by choice.
Actually, I think you are just reflecting the experience of your own set of friends. All studies that I have seen doen on sexuality point to the fact that most people have, at one time or another, been attracted to members of the same sex.
I don't get your point.
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