This is one of my favorite movies and one of the final scenes from the movie. The movie is based on the real story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMVCdOX3WRM]
“We need to be very precise then, about what I said wearing my stars and being very conscious of it,” he added. “And that is, very simply, that we should respect those who want to serve the nation but not through the law of the land, condone activity that, in my upbringing, is counter to God’s law.”–General Peter Pace.
I want to know where in God’s law it says that killing your fellow man is moral.
According to the American Friends Service Committee we are currently spending $720 million dollars a day in Iraq.
Powerful video from Pink. No words can describe what you are about to see and hear. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DEh0eSpNvY]
This afternoon as I was getting home from work I received a text message asking me to call my senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to support the Reed-Levin amendment to bring our troops home from Iraq.
Everytime I read about the Holocaust or see pictures of it I am reminded of how brutal men and women can be to their brothers and sisters. This presentation from the New York Times brings that to light once again. Our current misadventures in Iraq and elsewhere provide ample evidence that we Americans too can … Read more
I came across a well written piece tonight on a WordPress blog. I think it speaks for itself and I link it in the hope that some will read and react to it. Read more here..
Suppression can only last so long and then eventually the truth eventually bubbles to the top. In today’s news reading I came across an article about Alan Greenspan’s new book. Click here to read more.
Ohio Congressman and Democratic presidential candidate, Dennis Kucinich, appeared on Tucker today and easily held his ground against the ever-whiny host. Rep. Kucinich just returned from a fact finding visit to Syria and the no ratings loser. I’m a Kucinich supporter and his idea of a Department of Peace. read more | digg story
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953
