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I just started reading The Morality of Everday Life by Thomas Fleming.
Fleming is one of the leading thinkers in the paleoconservative movement in the US.
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Some woman's biography that was born into polygamy and then fled it after she was married and had 8 kids blah blah, interesting book, its one sided but eh gotta find something new to read.
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I'm currently re-reading "The Journey Home" by Edward Abbey.
This passage caught my eye:
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On a pleasant evening in May 1966 you could have seen in the comfort
and convenience of your living room (on channel 13 WNET, educational
TV) a guerrilla soldier being slowly choked to death with water filled
rags, while American officers stood by watching, and heard when it was
over (the prisoner refused to talk) one of the officers mutter
sheepishly near Bernard Fall's tape recorder .... "Well that's the way
it goes"
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Looks like water boarding was the torture of choice during the Viet Nam
war too.
vos estis tam sancti sicut vultis
*NOTE: My use of the words Jews or Blacks should not be interpreted as referring to
all Jews or all Blacks, it in fact only refers to those Jews or Blacks that I am referring to.
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I'm currently reading The Great Betrayal by Pat Buchanan.
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I am Reading March of the Titans, History of the White Race by Arthur Kemp
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Homer - "Iliad", just finished thirteen chapter. I came to the episode of battle before ships of Achaeans.
Also I re-read now "Beyond Good and Evil", again found there alots of brilliant thoughts which sparkles when you dug them out of the lines...
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I'm reading multiple books too! I try not to but as I spent my time split between two houses it just sort of happens, and then there's the "toilet" books
The Failure of race relations in America, (got my flatmate to read this one too)
My Family and other animals Gerald Durrel (Light reading)
The Vikings, Julian Richards (interesting but pretty much just a list of finds)
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recently finished re-reading Ken Follett's absolutely wonderful historical novel, Pillars of the Earth, which basically is the story of Tom Builder and his family - Tom was a mason and master-builder who always dreamed of building a beautiful church or cathedral during the time of King Robert/Queen Maud and later King Henry - in the 1100's. Nowadays I have the habit of doing my reading 1n the "THRONE-ROOM", aka "toilet," hence a thick book like that does take a long time to get through. Now I'm into Harlan Coben's "THE WOODS," a great "whodunnit" - also a long novel.
I still buy the occasional Reader's Digest, and then an excellent weekly mag, Vrouekeur, which is a good family mag. I also occasionally buy Puzzle Corner Special, a British publication, just to make a break from reading and the internet, especially the latter, as I do translation work for a publishing firm to supplement our pension, but it does tend to make one become word-weary, and that's when I take a break, solving puzzles, either in printed form or on-line (www.puzzler.co.uk) or playing light computer games.
My heavy reading days are a thing of the past...
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at the west point of the south
and many other military academies and installations
this "torture" was a common initiation-technique
used to welcome new-comers
in to the ranks.
perhaps, the modern video-game military
has stopped this.
it is difficult to feel any sympathy
for terrorists or guerillas
subjected to the same unpleasantness
my father used
to teach my younger brother
not to cry (as an infant).
my father - as do many parents, over a half-century later -
acted on the antiquated notion
that pain was utile
in driving the evil spirits from a child's body.
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