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Post 40

Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 9:43am

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Ted - I just read from the site some of his novel exerpts on religion - fantastic stuff!

Post 41

Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 12:50pm

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Have you read god is not Great? It's a very entertaining read. I would buy it as a Christmas present.

Ted

Post 42

Monday, December 17, 2007 - 9:16pm

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"I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is."

Post 43

Sunday, April 20 - 7:03pm

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Hitchens Speaks at Stanford 30 Minute Podcast

Here is the full broadcast.

Here is an excerpt:

Post 44

Saturday, May 10 - 5:36pm

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Hitchens on McCain's "Anger Problem"

"One reason that I try never to wear a tie is the advantage that it so easily confers on anyone who goes berserk on you. There you are, with a ready-made noose already fastened around your neck." - Hitchens

Post 45

Monday, May 12 - 2:33pm

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An Excerpt from Can Israel Survive for Another 60 Years?

Israel is now incredibly dependent upon non-Jews for its own defense and, moreover, rules over millions of other non-Jews who loathe and detest it from the bottom of their hearts. How long do you think the first set of non-Jews will go on defending Israel from the second lot and from their very wealthy and numerous kinsmen?

Post 46

Monday, May 19 - 6:29pm

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Hitchens Makes the Case for a More Professional Presidency

"Nobody can become prime minister, or continue as prime minister, who cannot stand up to it."

Post 47

Monday, May 26 - 11:30am

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"The other night, I was having dinner with some friends in a fairly decent restaurant and was at the very peak of my form as a wit and raconteur. But just as, with infinite and exquisite tantalizations, I was approaching my punch line, the most incredible thing happened. A waiter appeared from nowhere, leaned right over my shoulder and into the middle of the conversation, seized my knife and fork, and started to cut up my food for me. Not content with this bizarre behavior, and without so much as a by-your-leave, he proceeded to distribute pieces of my entree onto the plates of the other diners."

Continued here.

Post 48

Tuesday, June 17 - 8:20pm

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Hitchens cites Feith debunking Kucinich's absurd allegations on the Iraq war.

Post 49

Saturday, July 19 - 8:15pm

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Hitchens on god is not Great at Google. 1 Hour.

Post 50

Saturday, July 19 - 9:38pm

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The Hitchens video on God is not Great was great! His talk was only about 25 minutes - the rest of the hour took the form of answers to questions from the audience. I stayed with it up to the last second - entranced by his command of the subject, brilliant wit and wonderful presence. I sat here in front of my computer screen (touching the mouse every now an then to frustrate the screen-saver) and laughed out loud again and again with delight.

I'm off to watch another Hitchens....

Post 51

Saturday, July 19 - 10:10pm

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Ted recommended a Hitchens article in post #42. I've retrieved a couple of quotes from the article titled: This Is Not a Test - It's perfectly reasonable to reject a candidate because of his religious views.

To fully appreciate these quotes it helps to read the short article - In the mean time, take these in as appetisers, enjoy and see if they don't whet your appetite.

Isn't it amazing how self-pitying and self-aggrandizing the religious freaks in this country are? It's not enough that they can make straight-faced professions of "faith" at election times and impose their language on everything from the Pledge of Allegiance to the currency. It's not enough that they can claim tax exemption and even subsidy for anything "faith-based." It's that when they are even slightly criticized for their absurd opinions, they can squeal as if being martyred and act as if they are truly being persecuted.

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One of the ways the propaganda trick is pulled is to insinuate, and to keep on insinuating, that it is the enemies of religious intolerance who are themselves the intolerant ones. That's the way to undermine, and eventually to demolish, the wall of separation.

Post 52

Saturday, July 19 - 10:37pm

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Steve, I assume you have caught on to the fact that I cull these articles from the two sites mentioned here. Everyone should bookmark them.

Post 53

Monday, August 11 - 12:38am

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Got War?

"So, yes, major combat operations appear to be over, and to that extent one can belatedly say, "Mission accomplished." If there is any Iraqi nostalgia for the old party and the old army, it is remarkably well-concealed. Iraq no longer plays deceptive games with weapons of mass destruction or plays host to international terrorist groups. It is no longer subject to sanctions that punish its people and enrich its rulers. Its religious and ethnic minorities�together a majority�are no longer treated like disposable trash. Its most bitter internal argument is about the timing of the next provincial and national elections. Surely it is those who opposed every step of this emancipation, rather than those who advocated it, who should be asked to explain and justify themselves."

Post 54

Wednesday, August 13 - 4:56pm

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Hitchens & Hanson Dismantle Buchanan's Nazi Revisionism

From Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler & the Unnecessary War

"What made a European War inevitable was not Hitler's occupation of Prague, but Britain's guarantee to Poland."

(Edited by Ted Keer on 8/13, 5:05pm)

Post 55

Sunday, August 17 - 3:02pm

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25 Journeys with Christopher Hitchens

(Edited by Ted Keer on 8/17, 3:03pm)

Post 56

Tuesday, August 19 - 7:07pm

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From Hitchens on Georgia

"...The fans of moral equivalence may or may not have noticed this, but the obviously long-meditated and coordinated Russian military intervention in Georgia comes in the same month as explicit threats to the sovereignty of Poland and Ukraine, and hard on the heels of a Russian obstruction of any U.N. action in the case of Zimbabwe. Those who like to describe Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev as reacting to an "encirclement" of Russia may wish to spill some geopolitical ink on explaining how Kosovo forms part of this menacing ring of steel—or how the repression of the people of Zimbabwe can assist in Moscow's breakout strategy from it...."

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