Maybe Linkin Park said this. Abraham Lincoln certainly didn’t. https://t.co/50hk6o2GVr
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 5, 2022
If Leftists were as smart as they think they are, they would not be Leftists.
Burn of the Day
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Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
OT, what in the wide wide world of sports is Sarah Palin doing wearing a Star of David pendant? Did she abandon Christianity or something?
To show her support of Israel. She wore it before in 2011 when she visited Israel.
OK, thanks.
Jesus was a Jew and is called the Son of David. So there is nothing anti-Christian in wearing the Star of David.
Sarah Palin was once a Pentecostal in the Assemblies of God, the same denomination to which my parents belonged and my siblings today belong. I think presently she is just non-denominational Evangelical.
Paraphrases are fine with me as the keep to the intention of the quote.
To many people today the language used more than a century ago is as understandable as a foreign language.
LQC, of course I know Jesus was born a Jew, and didn’t mean to suggest wearing the star is “anti-Christian.” Just not something I am used to seeing Christians wear so prominently. I’m a big fan of Sarah Palin, by the way. If it were me, I might have chosen to wear an Israeli flag pin to show support of Israel. But it’s her choice, not mine. No problem. (FWIW, I believe Ms Palin was baptized a Catholic.)
But she didn’t paraphrase Lincoln. He was talking about the exact opposite situation: not overreaching government, but mob rule. I don’t think Lincoln ever talked about federal overreach. So I’d say Filipkowski was closer to the truth.
In other burn news, reportedly the so-called “The View” made a formal apology and paid $22 million to Kyle Rittenhouse.
It has only just begun.
Wrong Pinky. Lincoln was speaking about the perpetuation of our institutions as established by the Founding Fathers:
“But new reapers will arise, and they, too, will seek a field. It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them. The question then, is, can that gratification be found in supporting and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others? Most certainly it cannot. Many great and good men sufficiently qualified for any task they should undertake, may ever be found, whose ambition would inspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress, a gubernatorial or a presidential chair; but such belong not to the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle.What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon?–Never! Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.–It sees no distinction in adding story to story, upon the monuments of fame, erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves, or enslaving freemen. Is it unreasonable then to expect, that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time, spring up among us? And when such a one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.
Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm; yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.
Here, then, is a probable case, highly dangerous, and such a one as could not have well existed heretofore.”
Palin understands what Lincoln said. I doubt if Filipkowski has read Lincoln’s Lyceum address.
I hope Sarah Palin wins the congressional race in Alaska. The Left and RHINOs tried to destroy her and her children. Late Sen McCain in his book was very hurtful about Palin. She was gracious when asked about it. Have always suspected that Cindy McCain was jealous of young Sarah. Cindy was the Other Women in McCain’s first marriage. The OW s can be insecure.
Re: That Cindy OW. I advise young men [they never listen] to marry a rich, millionaire woman [I’m so old fashioned] whose father owns a liquor store or better all the beer distributorships in the state.
See. McCain wasn’t the biggest dope in the Senate. Biden and Obama were.