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I am an Independent and not all that pleased with the GOP these days. I tune in to Rush Limbaugh now and then and I watch Fox News a lot and I also enjoy discovering new conservative books because I am a avid reader and collector of conservative articles and books. I try to read widely across the spectrum in conservative publications, books, and websites. I read Patrick Buchanan and Victor Davis Hanson's blogs, the Gatestone Institute articles, and Breitbart, just to give 4 examples among many.

My most recent good book discovery is Bruce S. Thornton's The Wages Of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, And Obama's America. The first edition was published in 2011 and speaks directly to some of the problems America is now facing. Here are a few thoughts from the flyleaf to give you some idea of what this book is about, and some idea of the kinds of books I enjoy reading:

"The Wages Of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: (1) the Greek city-states of the fourth century B.C., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; (2) England's failure to stop Germany's aggression in the 1920's and 1930's, which resulted in World War II, and (3) the tentative American response to the ongoing Islamic jihad, along with years of timidity in the face of Iran's attacks on the United States."

The author, Bruce Thornton, argues that democracies often fail to pursue long-term interests, rather they go for their short-term interests at the expense of their long-term security. Moreover democracies often give in to idealistic utopian interpretations of human nature "like pacifism or disarmament" and the foolish beliefs that diplomatic solutions can always work successfully and that the so-called "community of nations" such as the United Nations can basically guarantee a peaceful world.

Anyway I am reading heavily in this book at the present time and find it very interesting.

I enjoy classical music such as the Vienna Philharmonic, and I like interesting thought provoking movies such as Avatar and Prometheus.

Once again, its nice to be here with you.
 
Welcome and a happy new year to you.
 
I am an Independent and not all that pleased with the GOP these days. I tune in to Rush Limbaugh now and then and I watch Fox News a lot and I also enjoy discovering new conservative books because I am a avid reader and collector of conservative articles and books. I try to read widely across the spectrum in conservative publications, books, and websites. I read Patrick Buchanan and Victor Davis Hanson's blogs, the Gatestone Institute articles, and Breitbart, just to give 4 examples among many.

My most recent good book discovery is Bruce S. Thornton's The Wages Of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, And Obama's America. The first edition was published in 2011 and speaks directly to some of the problems America is now facing. Here are a few thoughts from the flyleaf to give you some idea of what this book is about, and some idea of the kinds of books I enjoy reading:

"The Wages Of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: (1) the Greek city-states of the fourth century B.C., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; (2) England's failure to stop Germany's aggression in the 1920's and 1930's, which resulted in World War II, and (3) the tentative American response to the ongoing Islamic jihad, along with years of timidity in the face of Iran's attacks on the United States."

The author, Bruce Thornton, argues that democracies often fail to pursue long-term interests, rather they go for their short-term interests at the expense of their long-term security. Moreover democracies often give in to idealistic utopian interpretations of human nature "like pacifism or disarmament" and the foolish beliefs that diplomatic solutions can always work successfully and that the so-called "community of nations" such as the United Nations can basically guarantee a peaceful world.

Anyway I am reading heavily in this book at the present time and find it very interesting.

I enjoy classical music such as the Vienna Philharmonic, and I like interesting thought provoking movies such as Avatar and Prometheus.

Once again, its nice to be here with you.

You sound like a thinker. Welcome aboard. :)
 
Welcome and a happy new year to you.

Thanks for the welcome & for the happy new year wish, JANFU. Hope you have an enjoyable 2016 also.
 
I am an Independent and not all that pleased with the GOP these days. I tune in to Rush Limbaugh now and then and I watch Fox News a lot and I also enjoy discovering new conservative books because I am a avid reader and collector of conservative articles and books. I try to read widely across the spectrum in conservative publications, books, and websites. I read Patrick Buchanan and Victor Davis Hanson's blogs, the Gatestone Institute articles, and Breitbart, just to give 4 examples among many.

My most recent good book discovery is Bruce S. Thornton's The Wages Of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, And Obama's America. The first edition was published in 2011 and speaks directly to some of the problems America is now facing. Here are a few thoughts from the flyleaf to give you some idea of what this book is about, and some idea of the kinds of books I enjoy reading:

"The Wages Of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: (1) the Greek city-states of the fourth century B.C., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; (2) England's failure to stop Germany's aggression in the 1920's and 1930's, which resulted in World War II, and (3) the tentative American response to the ongoing Islamic jihad, along with years of timidity in the face of Iran's attacks on the United States."

The author, Bruce Thornton, argues that democracies often fail to pursue long-term interests, rather they go for their short-term interests at the expense of their long-term security. Moreover democracies often give in to idealistic utopian interpretations of human nature "like pacifism or disarmament" and the foolish beliefs that diplomatic solutions can always work successfully and that the so-called "community of nations" such as the United Nations can basically guarantee a peaceful world.

Anyway I am reading heavily in this book at the present time and find it very interesting.

I enjoy classical music such as the Vienna Philharmonic, and I like interesting thought provoking movies such as Avatar and Prometheus.

Once again, its nice to be here with you.

Welcome to the group. Another good book to read is: The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek.
 
You sound like a thinker. Welcome aboard. :)

Thanks for the welcome countryboy. I do think a lot because I read a lot, and I get a kick
out of sharing and discussing what I read, introducing good books to other people, and
even sharing cool quotes with them, for example here is a cool quote I just collected not
long ago:

"Such is the nature of evil. Out there in
the vast ignorance of the world it festers
and spreads. A shadow that grows in the
dark, a sleepless malice as black as the
oncoming wall of night. So it ever was.
So it will always be. In time all fowl
things come forth."__Thranduil

(the Elvinking Thranduil in The Hobbit:
The Desolation Of Smaug .. just minutes
before he cut the evil Ork's head off).

I like that quote a lot.

Cool movie too.
 
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Welcome to the group. Another good book to read is: The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek.

Super great book and thanks for the welcome, ObamacareFail.
 
Thanks for the welcome countryboy. I do think a lot because I read a lot, and I get a kick
out of sharing and discussing what I read, introducing good books to other people, and
even sharing cool quotes with them, for example here is a cool quote I just collected not
long ago:

"Such is the nature of evil. Out there in
the vast ignorance of the world it festers
and spreads. A shadow that grows in the
dark, a sleepless malice as black as the
oncoming wall of night. So it ever was.
So it will always be. In time all fowl
things come forth."__Thranduil

(the Elvinking Thranduil in The Hobbit:
The Desolation Of Smaug .. just minutes
before he cut the evil Ork's head off).

I like that quote a lot.

Cool movie too.

I always liked Kipling.
More than relevant today and his writings on war.

Poems - The Young British Soldier

WHEN the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East
'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast,
An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased
Ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier.
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!

Now all you recruities what's drafted to-day,
You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay,
An' I'll sing you a soldier as far as I may:
A soldier what's fit for a soldier.
Fit, fit, fit for a soldier . . .

First mind you steer clear o' the grog-sellers' huts,
For they sell you Fixed Bay'nets that rots out your guts -
Ay, drink that 'ud eat the live steel from your butts -
An' it's bad for the young British soldier.
Bad, bad, bad for the soldier . . .

When the cholera comes - as it will past a doubt -
Keep out of the wet and don't go on the shout,
For the sickness gets in as the liquor dies out,
An' it crumples the young British soldier.
Crum-, crum-, crumples the soldier . . .

But the worst o' your foes is the sun over'ead:
You must wear your 'elmet for all that is said:
If 'e finds you uncovered 'e'll knock you down dead,
An' you'll die like a fool of a soldier.
Fool, fool, fool of a soldier . . .

If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
Don't grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind;
Be handy and civil, and then you will find
That it's beer for the young British soldier.
Beer, beer, beer for the soldier . . .

Now, if you must marry, take care she is old -
A troop-sergeant's widow's the nicest I'm told,
For beauty won't help if your rations is cold,
Nor love ain't enough for a soldier.
'Nough, 'nough, 'nough for a soldier . . .

If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath
To shoot when you catch 'em - you'll swing, on my oath! -
Make 'im take 'er and keep 'er: that's Hell for them both,
An' you're shut o' the curse of a soldier.
Curse, curse, curse of a soldier . . .

When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,
Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,
Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck
And march to your front like a soldier.
Front, front, front like a soldier . . .

When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch,
Don't call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch;
She's human as you are - you treat her as sich,
An' she'll fight for the young British soldier.
Fight, fight, fight for the soldier . . .

When shakin' their bustles like ladies so fine,
The guns o' the enemy wheel into line,
Shoot low at the limbers an' don't mind the shine,
For noise never startles the soldier.
Start-, start-, startles the soldier . . .

If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
 
I am an Independent and not all that pleased with the GOP these days. I tune in to Rush Limbaugh now and then and I watch Fox News a lot and I also enjoy discovering new conservative books because I am a avid reader and collector of conservative articles and books. I try to read widely across the spectrum in conservative publications, books, and websites. I read Patrick Buchanan and Victor Davis Hanson's blogs, the Gatestone Institute articles, and Breitbart, just to give 4 examples among many.

My most recent good book discovery is Bruce S. Thornton's The Wages Of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, And Obama's America. The first edition was published in 2011 and speaks directly to some of the problems America is now facing. Here are a few thoughts from the flyleaf to give you some idea of what this book is about, and some idea of the kinds of books I enjoy reading:

"The Wages Of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: (1) the Greek city-states of the fourth century B.C., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; (2) England's failure to stop Germany's aggression in the 1920's and 1930's, which resulted in World War II, and (3) the tentative American response to the ongoing Islamic jihad, along with years of timidity in the face of Iran's attacks on the United States."

The author, Bruce Thornton, argues that democracies often fail to pursue long-term interests, rather they go for their short-term interests at the expense of their long-term security. Moreover democracies often give in to idealistic utopian interpretations of human nature "like pacifism or disarmament" and the foolish beliefs that diplomatic solutions can always work successfully and that the so-called "community of nations" such as the United Nations can basically guarantee a peaceful world.

Anyway I am reading heavily in this book at the present time and find it very interesting.

I enjoy classical music such as the Vienna Philharmonic, and I like interesting thought provoking movies such as Avatar and Prometheus.

Once again, its nice to be here with you.

Greetings. No thinking required with a list like that, eh? That may require adjustment.
 
Greetings. No thinking required with a list like that, eh? That may require adjustment.

Thanks for the greeting, DaveFagan.

The wheels are always turning and ready for some adjustment :)
 
I am an Independent and not all that pleased with the GOP these days. I tune in to Rush Limbaugh now and then and I watch Fox News a lot and I also enjoy discovering new conservative books because I am a avid reader and collector of conservative articles and books. I try to read widely across the spectrum in conservative publications, books, and websites. I read Patrick Buchanan and Victor Davis Hanson's blogs, the Gatestone Institute articles, and Breitbart, just to give 4 examples among many.

My most recent good book discovery is Bruce S. Thornton's The Wages Of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, And Obama's America. The first edition was published in 2011 and speaks directly to some of the problems America is now facing. Here are a few thoughts from the flyleaf to give you some idea of what this book is about, and some idea of the kinds of books I enjoy reading:

"The Wages Of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: (1) the Greek city-states of the fourth century B.C., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; (2) England's failure to stop Germany's aggression in the 1920's and 1930's, which resulted in World War II, and (3) the tentative American response to the ongoing Islamic jihad, along with years of timidity in the face of Iran's attacks on the United States."

The author, Bruce Thornton, argues that democracies often fail to pursue long-term interests, rather they go for their short-term interests at the expense of their long-term security. Moreover democracies often give in to idealistic utopian interpretations of human nature "like pacifism or disarmament" and the foolish beliefs that diplomatic solutions can always work successfully and that the so-called "community of nations" such as the United Nations can basically guarantee a peaceful world.

Anyway I am reading heavily in this book at the present time and find it very interesting.

I enjoy classical music such as the Vienna Philharmonic, and I like interesting thought provoking movies such as Avatar and Prometheus.

Once again, its nice to be here with you.

You found 'Avatar' thought-provoking?
I found it to be a tired old plot dressed up and looking gorgeous.
 
You found 'Avatar' thought-provoking?
I found it to be a tired old plot dressed up and looking gorgeous.
Dances With Wolves II: The Revenge
 

Thanks, David_N

You found 'Avatar' thought-provoking?
I found it to be a tired old plot dressed up and looking gorgeous.

It was a tired old plot with regard to making the Na'vi into a typical victim
group being exploited by the greedy capitalists, but this of course is standard
Hollywood liberalism that is going to be themed into most of their movies.
I totally ignore all that standard liberal garbage and focus only upon those
elements of the movie that I like and admire.

I like science fiction, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang as performers
so Avatar got my attention immediately. I thought the special effects were
amazingly magnificent. I was fascinated by Pandora's wildlife and Pandora
itself was quite the eye catcher, as was the Jake and Neytiri avatars.

Pandora's floating mountains (the "Hallelujah Mountains") was off the charts
in my view, as was the Mountain Banshees (the Ikran) that became the
"airplanes" of Jake and Neytiri and the other Na'vi.

I liked the soundtrack too, really good music.

Also the "performance capture" where James Cameron used small cameras
on 6 inch booms attached to the performer's skull caps, in order to capture
every detail of their facial expressions which was then downloaded to computers
and later used in the animation of Jake and Neytiri's animated avatars, was all
very fascinating to me.

"Looking gorgeous." Agreed.
 
I am an Independent and not all that pleased with the GOP these days. I tune in to Rush Limbaugh now and then and I watch Fox News a lot and I also enjoy discovering new conservative books because I am a avid reader and collector of conservative articles and books. I try to read widely across the spectrum in conservative publications, books, and websites. I read Patrick Buchanan and Victor Davis Hanson's blogs, the Gatestone Institute articles, and Breitbart, just to give 4 examples among many.

My most recent good book discovery is Bruce S. Thornton's The Wages Of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, And Obama's America. The first edition was published in 2011 and speaks directly to some of the problems America is now facing. Here are a few thoughts from the flyleaf to give you some idea of what this book is about, and some idea of the kinds of books I enjoy reading:

"The Wages Of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: (1) the Greek city-states of the fourth century B.C., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; (2) England's failure to stop Germany's aggression in the 1920's and 1930's, which resulted in World War II, and (3) the tentative American response to the ongoing Islamic jihad, along with years of timidity in the face of Iran's attacks on the United States."

The author, Bruce Thornton, argues that democracies often fail to pursue long-term interests, rather they go for their short-term interests at the expense of their long-term security. Moreover democracies often give in to idealistic utopian interpretations of human nature "like pacifism or disarmament" and the foolish beliefs that diplomatic solutions can always work successfully and that the so-called "community of nations" such as the United Nations can basically guarantee a peaceful world.

Anyway I am reading heavily in this book at the present time and find it very interesting.

I enjoy classical music such as the Vienna Philharmonic, and I like interesting thought provoking movies such as Avatar and Prometheus.

Once again, its nice to be here with you.

Welcome and hope to see you around these parts.
 
I am an Independent and not all that pleased with the GOP these days. I tune in to Rush Limbaugh now and then and I watch Fox News a lot and I also enjoy discovering new conservative books because I am a avid reader and collector of conservative articles and books. I try to read widely across the spectrum in conservative publications, books, and websites. I read Patrick Buchanan and Victor Davis Hanson's blogs, the Gatestone Institute articles, and Breitbart, just to give 4 examples among many.

My most recent good book discovery is Bruce S. Thornton's The Wages Of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, And Obama's America. The first edition was published in 2011 and speaks directly to some of the problems America is now facing. Here are a few thoughts from the flyleaf to give you some idea of what this book is about, and some idea of the kinds of books I enjoy reading:

"The Wages Of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: (1) the Greek city-states of the fourth century B.C., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; (2) England's failure to stop Germany's aggression in the 1920's and 1930's, which resulted in World War II, and (3) the tentative American response to the ongoing Islamic jihad, along with years of timidity in the face of Iran's attacks on the United States."

The author, Bruce Thornton, argues that democracies often fail to pursue long-term interests, rather they go for their short-term interests at the expense of their long-term security. Moreover democracies often give in to idealistic utopian interpretations of human nature "like pacifism or disarmament" and the foolish beliefs that diplomatic solutions can always work successfully and that the so-called "community of nations" such as the United Nations can basically guarantee a peaceful world.

Anyway I am reading heavily in this book at the present time and find it very interesting.

I enjoy classical music such as the Vienna Philharmonic, and I like interesting thought provoking movies such as Avatar and Prometheus.

Once again, its nice to be here with you.

Welcome!

I wouldn't stick to reading just conservative pieces. There are many good reads from common sense liberals out there as well. When it comes right down to it, most people all looking for the same things out of life. We just get all tangled up with being creatures of our own social environment.
 

Thanks for the welcome, RetiredUSN

I wouldn't stick to reading just conservative pieces.

I try to read widely, its almost impossible not to read widely if one
surfs around on the Internet a lot. One will end up reading liberals,
libertarians, democrats, and various really-scary people :) even if
they didn't intend to do that.

There are many good reads from common sense liberals out there as well.

Do you have one or two in mind you could recommend?

When it comes right down to it, most people all looking for the same things out of life.
We just get all tangled up with being creatures of our own social environment.

That's sounds like the brotherhood of man. Maybe one day we can debate that
in a thread :).
 
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