NPR is a joke and has been for as long as I can remember. Just one of many media outlets I can say that about. 99.9% are Leftist mouthpieces, completely agenda driven.
Schmidt…..according to you : you’re insanely pro-Jews, loathe the murdered-by-Netanyahu sitting-ducks Palestinians and think NPR IS “ a joke “. Do you also eat little succulent children…..?
What is there to redeem you: say something worthwhile about yourself. At present, you appear to be a worthless piece of shit…..and totally inhuman to boot.
I’m surprised that the fact that NPR is a propaganda tool is news to anyone. Has been for decades. Intellectual spin spouting what they want you to believe.
Good subject and article. We are libertarians as a whole. Basically live and let live as long as you don't interfere with the rights of others.
NPR has become a State run propaganda machine that loss its perspective or mission to inform people. We stopped following or watching any reporting or documentary from them decades ago. Their promotion of arts and philanthropy is to be commented but there is always the inserted message of collectivism.
Thanks for the article. Read it first thing this morning.
Live and let live is not a good means to live by, it allows degneracy to persist because it isn't directly causing visible harm. Libertarianism conserves nothing, not even the right of the unborn to live in some cases.
OHHH! The "unborn"... ahhh what a propagandist right wing term. Easy to advocate for that... oh so convenient. They never make demands of you, they are morally uncomplicated like the incarcerate, the addicted or the chronically poor. They don't resent your condescension or complain that you are not "politically correct". Unlike widows, they don't ask you to question the patriarchy, unlike orphans they don't need money, food, education or childcare. Unlike illegal aliens, they don't bring all that racial, cultural and religious baggage along with them. They allow you to feel good about yourself without doing any meaningful work or spending any meaningful amounts of money to feed and clothe them. and when they are born you can forget about them because they cease to be "unborn". It's almost as if by being born they have died to you. You can claim to love the unborn without ever having to substantially challenge your politics your wealth, your privilege or your power without having to reimagine social structures, apologizing or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect "people" to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe.
Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick, the poor? Wiidows, orphans? All the groups that are mentioned specifically in the Bible? Oh, let's not forget homosexuals and trans people... They all get thrown under the bus for the "unborn". What a bunch of MALARKEY!
Theotokos, it's a good thing that in this country we have a little thing called freedom FROM religion! The U.S. is NOT a theocracy, so the Catholic church can teach whatever it wants to, but it doesn't get to make the laws or regulate the rest of us. Also, please speak to all the priests who rape little children and then tell me again how the Catholic church promotes the dignity and fair treatment of all people.
S Schroeder- I will assume you are a product of public education and netflix...? And thus the illogical verbosity must have been cultivated by a terminal degree at a public university? Your talent for non-sequitur is unparalleled, but at the same time there is intelligence and compassion conveyed by your confusion. I would love to help you disentangle the skein of disordered thinking you have made public here, but it may take a bit of time. Are you interested?
Not a chance, pal! Nice shot at trying to insult me, but I am not a product of netflix, whatever that is supposed to mean. I hardly think that advocating for the poor, the LBGTQ, the incarcerated and for women to have bodily autonomy is "disordered thinking". Get lost.
I was just trying to insert a little humor with the "netflix" thing- but just to be accurate, your statements are exponentially more insulting to you than anything I could say. It is true that most people with your mindset don't know what "disordered thinking" is, but I put the offer out there just in case. It is a worthy goal to try to reach across the aisle and initiate honest conversation, so my offer to help you straighten out your thinking is sincere and flows from true logic and true principles- it is clear that you have a decent heart but if you were able to get outside yourself and see clearly you would discover that your promote punishing virtue and rewarding viciousness.
My God! The audacity and haughtiness of your attitude, Steven! LOL! I am actually laughing out loud. You underestimate me, but thanks for the underhanded compliment about my good heart, you are correct about that. Your insults guised as reaching across the aisle are glaringly obvious, but hey, nice try, bud!
So if "as long as it doesn't interfere with the rights of others" is your mantra I hope you are NOT voting for Trump! Women's rights are being trampled by the GOP!
Ugh, your rants are about as nauseating as Rachel Maddow’s bent ideological positions but more hate filled with a side of white privilege- maybe?! And that’s coming from a BIPOC woman.
I don't know how you twisted your brain to squeeze out "white privilege" from my comments, but what is nauseating is a woman who would vote for candidates who would take away women's rights. NOTHING race related whatsoever.
There have been numerous attempts to pass legislation which would cut off all public subsidies ($90 million) for NPR. They all fail because Democrats like it. The only way to rectify this situation is for Republicans and fair-minded Dems to win more elections. Until that happens NPR will continue to do whatever it feels like. It's also interesting that many corporations fund them, such as Allstate Ins, AT&T, Ford, Quaker Oats, Master Card, Espn, Intel, HBO, etc. The list is too long to cite all of them. You might take this into consideration the next time you patronize them.
The answer is yes if you don't like what they are doing. One major difference however is Fox is a private entity, not partially funded by the taxpayers.
Thank you Michael! I was wondering the same thing- I do fear Berliner might be a little more amenable to the Trojan Horse tactics than is healthy for honest journalism, but he is relatively honest compared to the bulk at NPR-
Although they are afloat, they cannot afford to do what there doing no matter what the appearance- the malpractice leads to decline no matter what and one day it will collapse under the weight of its own deceit.
NPR should be free to do and say whatever they wish...BUT, they should not receive one penny from our Government (aka the American taxpayer). It's never been a source of neutral, fair, or unbias news reporting and should stand, or die, on their ability to attract an audience that is willing to support them (like all the other stations). It's simply another example of our Government using taxpayer money to do things outside their stated purpose. Blessings
Excellent article...please recognize that NPR is a small outlet, BUT part of the larger State-Controlled propaganda machine...ALL of the Legacy Media is controlled & used to broadcast their ideals & lead the minds of the masses as they attempt to collapse Our Country (and The World)…
Fascism (forcible suppression of opposition) has now saturated Our Great Nation with Censorship (omnipresent systems of censoring) in order to control their Narratives (ways of presenting or understanding a situation or series of events that promotes a particular point of view)…ALL of the Legacy Media is being used to in order for their Projection (attribution of one's own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people)…
fortunately, the Dogma (points of view put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds) is now recognized by most...
Bravo for Uri Berliner for exposing NPR as the Marxist propaganda organ that it is! And bravo to Mr. Rummelsburg for calling attention to his exposé! Conservatives have been calling for NPR, the National Endowment for the Arts, and unspeakably evil Planned Parenthood to be defunded for as long as I can remember, but even when Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the presidency, it never happens. Why????
I listen to NPR faithfully. find it to be an entirely unbiased excellent source for news and human interest stories. I find them to be fair in covering both sides of the aisle. In the All Sides Media Bias Chart, NPR only leans left, they are not on the far left. It's A+ reporting and news at its finest, unlike the blatant lies spewn out over at Fox and Breitbart!
Hi Jonathan, here in SB I can pick up only several AM stations: two weak ones from San Francisco, three from LA and three from here. One here is the NPR station, which I tune in to regularly. Furthermore, I can identify immediately that station from its world access to the frequent BBC reporting, odd topics and NO commercials (which I like). I listen to their left wing slant, etc. on political topics (like I listen to CNN) because I want to know what they're reporting, too.
The government is run by folks that want to perpetuate government utilizing the blank check of the taxpayers and NPR (BBC, etc.) is no exception. Keep writing!
Does anyone else notice all these like-thinking sick writers ( self-pleasurers ) here are male, doing their best to keep repeating the same sick undemocratic ideas? We are a DEMOCRACY , guys. You can move away if you want to scrap all the humanist ideas we fought to live by. Go away…..Russia, or China or maybe help Netanyahu kill more Palestinians.
strictly speaking, the United States is a representative Republic, not a democracy…the distinction has a difference…it was greatly influenced the American Revolution, and arguably saved the future Republic from ruin in its darkest days…
Hello Nancy and I quote "here are male, doing their best to keep repeating the same sick undemocratic ideas?" Let me introduce you to another one of the sick white males you may have heard of .... George Washington (1732-99) was commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) and served two terms as the first U.S. president, from 1789 to 1797. The son of a prosperous planter, Washington was raised in colonial Virginia. As a young man, he worked as a surveyor then fought in the French and Indian War (1754-63)."
Eleven of my family members fougth in WWII, for your rigths to speak whatever you may. Luckily you are speaking English now and not German.
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family (Who are immigrants from Germany)
Exactly! Read the Republic by Plato carefully to see how democracy ends- we are supposed to be a representative republic. As John Adams said "the constitution was made for a religious and moral society, any other would break through its cords like a whale through a net." (from memory maybe not precise) and we should heed D'Tocqueville who warns us of the tyranny of the masses.
I mean I don't care for Republican forms of government either as I don't really think they create moral societies. I'm more of a monarchist myself and unless a Republic is going to do what the Church wants then I don't really care.
We share a heart for sure- but I will take it one step further, I don't think any form of government creates anything- I do think there are forms of government that are better than others- and the US is a hetero-theocracy- 300 million self-proclaimed gods living by their own lights and self-arrogated laws- and the democratic left in concert with RINOS are doing everything they can to legitimize the theocracy of self-worship.
One thing is for sure, there is no government that not religious- the material atheists are the most religious of all- but I do share your mind, Holy Mother Church's Eterna Law through Divine Law and that law written on our hearts are the laws in which we must all abide.
Dear Nancy, your words are terribly uncharitable and I believe untrue. Please give an example of "sick" in the article above. More specifically, please cite a single "sick undemocratic idea" in the article above. Let's start there and if you have the honor to provide evidence for what I believe are baseless allegations, we can proceed from there.
Metanoïa The Greek term μετάνοια is composed of the preposition μετά (that which exceeds, encompasses, puts above) and the verb νοέω (to perceive, to think, to conceive); it means a "change of view", a "transformation of the mind", a "reversal of thought". The corresponding verb, μετανοεῖν, means “to change one's way of seeing things”. That is to say, conceiving ideas by going beyond the limitations of the model of the world, in respect to those limitations induced by mental programming that works mechanically, without having been reviewed or updated.(1)
Howard, you got it just right! A massive metanoia in my first year of teaching in 1991, the scales fell from my eyes and by cooperating with nature and grace, I have become ever more clear sighted over the years. We should have coffee soon!
Your multiple May 4th admonitions to Schmidt and other contributors are "remarkable" coming from someone who was married to a Harvard Professor.
LET'S REPLAY THE TAPES
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Nancy Freeman
Nancy’s Substack
May 4
Schmidt…..according to you : you’re insanely pro-Jews, loathe the murdered-by-Netanyahu sitting-ducks Palestinians and think NPR IS “ a joke “. Do you also eat little succulent children…..?Nancy Freeman
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Nancy’s Substack
May 4
Does anyone else notice all these like-thinking sick writers ( self-pleasurers ) here are male, doing their best to keep repeating the same sick undemocratic ideas? We are a DEMOCRACY , guys. You can move away if you want to scrap all the humanist ideas we fought to live by. Go away…..Russia, or China or maybe help Netanyahu kill more Palestinians.
What is there to redeem you: say something worthwhile about yourself. At present, you appear to be a worthless piece of shit…..and totally inhuman to boot.
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Nancy Freeman
Nancy’s Substack
May 5
Schmidt….Want to bet which of us elicits more negative comments….the point really is to be a critical thinker: consider the issues, look for truth, try to use your brain processes rather than emotions, expose lies, inconsistencies: ultimately, be a humanist, meaning, pro-humanity. We really all want the same thing and that thing is NOT money……once you learn that you’re on your way to being a good person.
I suspect you will be someone joining Buckley’s group; that is, you will, as he said, hold your nose and vote for the fat man with the orange face. May you rest in peace.
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NANCYKAREN...ONE MORE OF OUR PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS
Nancy Freeman
Nancy’s Substack
March 26
J Livingston: tsk, tsk, “ bears repeating? “ what are those animals asking over and over….?
You may mean “ bares….”?
No problem. An innocent mistake unlike your daily rhetoric.
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Dale Lowdermilk
Dale’s Substack
Mar 26
Professor of Verbs and Nouns Nancy Freeman
You are always so quick to correct others.
The most recent example is your "tsk tsk" comment to J. LIVINGSTON ...allows me to quote a famous Cat Lady:
I guess the dyslexic Webster-Merriam needs NancyKarens wordsmithing guidance.
How do you spell bears as in bears repeating?
The verb bare has only one meaning: “to uncover.” All other verb uses are for bear: “bearing children,” “bear south on the expressway,” “it bears repeating.” Bear is the only one of this pair that can also be a noun.
A DOUBLE TSK, TSK again...I guess you missed your Harvard (TRIBE) discussion on what BARES do in the woods.
Not to get biblical, but have you recently perused the topic of judgementalism found in Matthew 7:5 ?
You are such a faux-genius!🦄
Now, go paint 🐈⬛the cats🐈
Dale
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NancyKaren, after perusing about 30 of you "feedbacks" on various other topics, I think it's safe to say that you are the new Alberta Einstein.
An anecdotal survey of SBCurrent readers indicates that you are the unchallenged cerebral giant of cat-food theory and, an unrivaled world-class, abstracted, faux-artist of the crayon-keyboard.
Your powers of persuasion are second only to Hunter Biden's paint brush and a misunderstood, aspiring (albeit untalented) vegetarian painter from Austria. He was rejected (twice--1907 and 1908) by the Academy of Fine Art Vienna. He too slobbered spittle, wrote a book, then went on to bludgeon anyone wearing a star, a MAGA hat, or who dared to challenge his Cat-Lady intellectual prowess.
Let's do lunch and redefine the "bare/bear" facts...🐡
NPR is a joke and has been for as long as I can remember. Just one of many media outlets I can say that about. 99.9% are Leftist mouthpieces, completely agenda driven.
Schmidt…..according to you : you’re insanely pro-Jews, loathe the murdered-by-Netanyahu sitting-ducks Palestinians and think NPR IS “ a joke “. Do you also eat little succulent children…..?
What is there to redeem you: say something worthwhile about yourself. At present, you appear to be a worthless piece of shit…..and totally inhuman to boot.
Have some class, ma’am.
I don’t care for you either.
I’m surprised that the fact that NPR is a propaganda tool is news to anyone. Has been for decades. Intellectual spin spouting what they want you to believe.
Good subject and article. We are libertarians as a whole. Basically live and let live as long as you don't interfere with the rights of others.
NPR has become a State run propaganda machine that loss its perspective or mission to inform people. We stopped following or watching any reporting or documentary from them decades ago. Their promotion of arts and philanthropy is to be commented but there is always the inserted message of collectivism.
Thanks for the article. Read it first thing this morning.
Live and let live is not a good means to live by, it allows degneracy to persist because it isn't directly causing visible harm. Libertarianism conserves nothing, not even the right of the unborn to live in some cases.
OHHH! The "unborn"... ahhh what a propagandist right wing term. Easy to advocate for that... oh so convenient. They never make demands of you, they are morally uncomplicated like the incarcerate, the addicted or the chronically poor. They don't resent your condescension or complain that you are not "politically correct". Unlike widows, they don't ask you to question the patriarchy, unlike orphans they don't need money, food, education or childcare. Unlike illegal aliens, they don't bring all that racial, cultural and religious baggage along with them. They allow you to feel good about yourself without doing any meaningful work or spending any meaningful amounts of money to feed and clothe them. and when they are born you can forget about them because they cease to be "unborn". It's almost as if by being born they have died to you. You can claim to love the unborn without ever having to substantially challenge your politics your wealth, your privilege or your power without having to reimagine social structures, apologizing or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect "people" to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe.
Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick, the poor? Wiidows, orphans? All the groups that are mentioned specifically in the Bible? Oh, let's not forget homosexuals and trans people... They all get thrown under the bus for the "unborn". What a bunch of MALARKEY!
Uh no. The Catholic Church promotes the dignity and fair treatment of all people and calls for all people to be united in Christ.
Theotokos, it's a good thing that in this country we have a little thing called freedom FROM religion! The U.S. is NOT a theocracy, so the Catholic church can teach whatever it wants to, but it doesn't get to make the laws or regulate the rest of us. Also, please speak to all the priests who rape little children and then tell me again how the Catholic church promotes the dignity and fair treatment of all people.
Yeah okay guy, whatever you say.
S Schroeder- I will assume you are a product of public education and netflix...? And thus the illogical verbosity must have been cultivated by a terminal degree at a public university? Your talent for non-sequitur is unparalleled, but at the same time there is intelligence and compassion conveyed by your confusion. I would love to help you disentangle the skein of disordered thinking you have made public here, but it may take a bit of time. Are you interested?
Not a chance, pal! Nice shot at trying to insult me, but I am not a product of netflix, whatever that is supposed to mean. I hardly think that advocating for the poor, the LBGTQ, the incarcerated and for women to have bodily autonomy is "disordered thinking". Get lost.
I was just trying to insert a little humor with the "netflix" thing- but just to be accurate, your statements are exponentially more insulting to you than anything I could say. It is true that most people with your mindset don't know what "disordered thinking" is, but I put the offer out there just in case. It is a worthy goal to try to reach across the aisle and initiate honest conversation, so my offer to help you straighten out your thinking is sincere and flows from true logic and true principles- it is clear that you have a decent heart but if you were able to get outside yourself and see clearly you would discover that your promote punishing virtue and rewarding viciousness.
My God! The audacity and haughtiness of your attitude, Steven! LOL! I am actually laughing out loud. You underestimate me, but thanks for the underhanded compliment about my good heart, you are correct about that. Your insults guised as reaching across the aisle are glaringly obvious, but hey, nice try, bud!
So if "as long as it doesn't interfere with the rights of others" is your mantra I hope you are NOT voting for Trump! Women's rights are being trampled by the GOP!
Ugh, your rants are about as nauseating as Rachel Maddow’s bent ideological positions but more hate filled with a side of white privilege- maybe?! And that’s coming from a BIPOC woman.
I don't know how you twisted your brain to squeeze out "white privilege" from my comments, but what is nauseating is a woman who would vote for candidates who would take away women's rights. NOTHING race related whatsoever.
Remember the lessons from NPR when we have an opportunuty to vote for, or against, Adam Schiff.
I will proudly BE VOTING FOR Adam Schiff. Again and again.
There have been numerous attempts to pass legislation which would cut off all public subsidies ($90 million) for NPR. They all fail because Democrats like it. The only way to rectify this situation is for Republicans and fair-minded Dems to win more elections. Until that happens NPR will continue to do whatever it feels like. It's also interesting that many corporations fund them, such as Allstate Ins, AT&T, Ford, Quaker Oats, Master Card, Espn, Intel, HBO, etc. The list is too long to cite all of them. You might take this into consideration the next time you patronize them.
Lou, do we do the same with Fox and their advertisers?
The answer is yes if you don't like what they are doing. One major difference however is Fox is a private entity, not partially funded by the taxpayers.
Very good point. Thank you.
Thank you for writing this piece.
Perhaps a bright note is that Uri Berliner might join a real news outlet and help to bridle the Trojan horse.
Would NPR be able to support itself without government assistance unlike other news corporations?
Thank you Michael! I was wondering the same thing- I do fear Berliner might be a little more amenable to the Trojan Horse tactics than is healthy for honest journalism, but he is relatively honest compared to the bulk at NPR-
Although they are afloat, they cannot afford to do what there doing no matter what the appearance- the malpractice leads to decline no matter what and one day it will collapse under the weight of its own deceit.
A very good article by Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg; an alternative
Title is "Inside The SB Trojan Horse" and I quote Mr. Rummelsburg
"It is long past time to expel (or at least defund) the Trojan Horse of
NPR before more damage is done."
The Greek Trojan Horse comes from the Windy Walls of Troy and is one of the first use
of a major deception in a the war between Greece and Troy. See PBS Link below>
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/real-trojan-horse-preview/2273/
"The Trojan Horse... It was the ultimate sneak attack, bringing a city that would withstood
nine years of battle to its knees."
DOLOS-Male and Apate-Female was the personified spirits (daimon) of trickery, cunning deception, craftiness, treachery and guile.
Beware of SB So-Called-Leaders Trojan Horse
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
NPR should be free to do and say whatever they wish...BUT, they should not receive one penny from our Government (aka the American taxpayer). It's never been a source of neutral, fair, or unbias news reporting and should stand, or die, on their ability to attract an audience that is willing to support them (like all the other stations). It's simply another example of our Government using taxpayer money to do things outside their stated purpose. Blessings
Excellent article...please recognize that NPR is a small outlet, BUT part of the larger State-Controlled propaganda machine...ALL of the Legacy Media is controlled & used to broadcast their ideals & lead the minds of the masses as they attempt to collapse Our Country (and The World)…
Fascism (forcible suppression of opposition) has now saturated Our Great Nation with Censorship (omnipresent systems of censoring) in order to control their Narratives (ways of presenting or understanding a situation or series of events that promotes a particular point of view)…ALL of the Legacy Media is being used to in order for their Projection (attribution of one's own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people)…
fortunately, the Dogma (points of view put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds) is now recognized by most...
?WHO benefits?
Actions of [FAKE NEWS]:
-Aggression (Projection)
-Suppression (Fascism)
-Censorship (Narrative-Dogma)
Actions of [TWITTER, FB, GOOG, YT, REDDIT, +++]:
-Aggression (Projection)
-Suppression (Fascism)
-Censorship (Narrative-Dogma)
Actions of [ANTIFA, BLM, +++]
-Aggression (Projection)
-Suppression (Fascism)
-Censorship (Narrative-Dogma)
PS…Fight 4 Trump…Field General (mouthpiece with laser pointer) leading the counter insurgency…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2qIXXafxCQ
You have no doubt NEVER listened to even a second of NPR.
yes, I do listen to NPR…as well as CNN, MSNBC, FOX, +++…my method is to look to all points of view…good to know all the narratives put forth…
Your previous comment indicates that you do not, in fact, listen to NPR at all. I do not believe you.
believe what you want, it’s a free country (kinda, sort of)…
DLDawson, What a CROCK! BAHAHAHA!
Bravo for Uri Berliner for exposing NPR as the Marxist propaganda organ that it is! And bravo to Mr. Rummelsburg for calling attention to his exposé! Conservatives have been calling for NPR, the National Endowment for the Arts, and unspeakably evil Planned Parenthood to be defunded for as long as I can remember, but even when Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the presidency, it never happens. Why????
I listen to NPR faithfully. find it to be an entirely unbiased excellent source for news and human interest stories. I find them to be fair in covering both sides of the aisle. In the All Sides Media Bias Chart, NPR only leans left, they are not on the far left. It's A+ reporting and news at its finest, unlike the blatant lies spewn out over at Fox and Breitbart!
Hi Jonathan, here in SB I can pick up only several AM stations: two weak ones from San Francisco, three from LA and three from here. One here is the NPR station, which I tune in to regularly. Furthermore, I can identify immediately that station from its world access to the frequent BBC reporting, odd topics and NO commercials (which I like). I listen to their left wing slant, etc. on political topics (like I listen to CNN) because I want to know what they're reporting, too.
The government is run by folks that want to perpetuate government utilizing the blank check of the taxpayers and NPR (BBC, etc.) is no exception. Keep writing!
I am very similar to you- I even listen to MSNBC because I want to know the mind of the enemy-
The ice pick in the eye is that the American Taxpayer pays to be brainwashed!
Thank you Michael!
Does anyone else notice all these like-thinking sick writers ( self-pleasurers ) here are male, doing their best to keep repeating the same sick undemocratic ideas? We are a DEMOCRACY , guys. You can move away if you want to scrap all the humanist ideas we fought to live by. Go away…..Russia, or China or maybe help Netanyahu kill more Palestinians.
strictly speaking, the United States is a representative Republic, not a democracy…the distinction has a difference…it was greatly influenced the American Revolution, and arguably saved the future Republic from ruin in its darkest days…
Hello Nancy and I quote "here are male, doing their best to keep repeating the same sick undemocratic ideas?" Let me introduce you to another one of the sick white males you may have heard of .... George Washington (1732-99) was commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) and served two terms as the first U.S. president, from 1789 to 1797. The son of a prosperous planter, Washington was raised in colonial Virginia. As a young man, he worked as a surveyor then fought in the French and Indian War (1754-63)."
Eleven of my family members fougth in WWII, for your rigths to speak whatever you may. Luckily you are speaking English now and not German.
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family (Who are immigrants from Germany)
Why is democracy a good thing?
Exactly! Read the Republic by Plato carefully to see how democracy ends- we are supposed to be a representative republic. As John Adams said "the constitution was made for a religious and moral society, any other would break through its cords like a whale through a net." (from memory maybe not precise) and we should heed D'Tocqueville who warns us of the tyranny of the masses.
I mean I don't care for Republican forms of government either as I don't really think they create moral societies. I'm more of a monarchist myself and unless a Republic is going to do what the Church wants then I don't really care.
We share a heart for sure- but I will take it one step further, I don't think any form of government creates anything- I do think there are forms of government that are better than others- and the US is a hetero-theocracy- 300 million self-proclaimed gods living by their own lights and self-arrogated laws- and the democratic left in concert with RINOS are doing everything they can to legitimize the theocracy of self-worship.
One thing is for sure, there is no government that not religious- the material atheists are the most religious of all- but I do share your mind, Holy Mother Church's Eterna Law through Divine Law and that law written on our hearts are the laws in which we must all abide.
I am glad you are here Theotokos!!!
Dear Nancy, your words are terribly uncharitable and I believe untrue. Please give an example of "sick" in the article above. More specifically, please cite a single "sick undemocratic idea" in the article above. Let's start there and if you have the honor to provide evidence for what I believe are baseless allegations, we can proceed from there.
Now I understand, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg, a transformed
teacher of μετάνοια.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6IvyprqRJI&list=PLl1_qIxiP-R5qJT161_zQawQDerAZXhLe&index=32
Howard, member of a Military Family
Metanoïa The Greek term μετάνοια is composed of the preposition μετά (that which exceeds, encompasses, puts above) and the verb νοέω (to perceive, to think, to conceive); it means a "change of view", a "transformation of the mind", a "reversal of thought". The corresponding verb, μετανοεῖν, means “to change one's way of seeing things”. That is to say, conceiving ideas by going beyond the limitations of the model of the world, in respect to those limitations induced by mental programming that works mechanically, without having been reviewed or updated.(1)
Its seems we have an independent thinker posting.
Howard, you got it just right! A massive metanoia in my first year of teaching in 1991, the scales fell from my eyes and by cooperating with nature and grace, I have become ever more clear sighted over the years. We should have coffee soon!
Nancy, Karen and anyone else living in there.
Your multiple May 4th admonitions to Schmidt and other contributors are "remarkable" coming from someone who was married to a Harvard Professor.
LET'S REPLAY THE TAPES
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Nancy Freeman
Nancy’s Substack
May 4
Schmidt…..according to you : you’re insanely pro-Jews, loathe the murdered-by-Netanyahu sitting-ducks Palestinians and think NPR IS “ a joke “. Do you also eat little succulent children…..?Nancy Freeman
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Nancy’s Substack
May 4
Does anyone else notice all these like-thinking sick writers ( self-pleasurers ) here are male, doing their best to keep repeating the same sick undemocratic ideas? We are a DEMOCRACY , guys. You can move away if you want to scrap all the humanist ideas we fought to live by. Go away…..Russia, or China or maybe help Netanyahu kill more Palestinians.
What is there to redeem you: say something worthwhile about yourself. At present, you appear to be a worthless piece of shit…..and totally inhuman to boot.
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Nancy Freeman
Nancy’s Substack
May 5
Schmidt….Want to bet which of us elicits more negative comments….the point really is to be a critical thinker: consider the issues, look for truth, try to use your brain processes rather than emotions, expose lies, inconsistencies: ultimately, be a humanist, meaning, pro-humanity. We really all want the same thing and that thing is NOT money……once you learn that you’re on your way to being a good person.
I suspect you will be someone joining Buckley’s group; that is, you will, as he said, hold your nose and vote for the fat man with the orange face. May you rest in peace.
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NANCYKAREN...ONE MORE OF OUR PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS
Nancy Freeman
Nancy’s Substack
March 26
J Livingston: tsk, tsk, “ bears repeating? “ what are those animals asking over and over….?
You may mean “ bares….”?
No problem. An innocent mistake unlike your daily rhetoric.
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Dale Lowdermilk
Dale’s Substack
Mar 26
Professor of Verbs and Nouns Nancy Freeman
You are always so quick to correct others.
The most recent example is your "tsk tsk" comment to J. LIVINGSTON ...allows me to quote a famous Cat Lady:
I guess the dyslexic Webster-Merriam needs NancyKarens wordsmithing guidance.
How do you spell bears as in bears repeating?
The verb bare has only one meaning: “to uncover.” All other verb uses are for bear: “bearing children,” “bear south on the expressway,” “it bears repeating.” Bear is the only one of this pair that can also be a noun.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/bare-vs-bear#:~:text=The%20verb%20bare%20has%20only,can%20also%20be%20a%20noun.
A DOUBLE TSK, TSK again...I guess you missed your Harvard (TRIBE) discussion on what BARES do in the woods.
Not to get biblical, but have you recently perused the topic of judgementalism found in Matthew 7:5 ?
You are such a faux-genius!🦄
Now, go paint 🐈⬛the cats🐈
Dale
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NancyKaren, after perusing about 30 of you "feedbacks" on various other topics, I think it's safe to say that you are the new Alberta Einstein.
An anecdotal survey of SBCurrent readers indicates that you are the unchallenged cerebral giant of cat-food theory and, an unrivaled world-class, abstracted, faux-artist of the crayon-keyboard.
Your powers of persuasion are second only to Hunter Biden's paint brush and a misunderstood, aspiring (albeit untalented) vegetarian painter from Austria. He was rejected (twice--1907 and 1908) by the Academy of Fine Art Vienna. He too slobbered spittle, wrote a book, then went on to bludgeon anyone wearing a star, a MAGA hat, or who dared to challenge his Cat-Lady intellectual prowess.
Let's do lunch and redefine the "bare/bear" facts...🐡
Small portion of funding comes from Federal gov. But still cutting it would make a statement.