Thoughtfulness and wisdom from a wonderful lady on another site:
Per the times in which we live, it may seem syncretic to use the term 'divine intervention,'....but the eight shots missing as large a target as Trump seem to call for it.....but nor do the terms 'accident' and 'coincidence.'
Some may find the term 'plausible deniability' fitting the explanation of the whole episonde as well. Democrats.
The chapters begin here:
1. Alexis de Tocqueville first wrote of America as "exceptional" in 1835.
2. The French Philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy noted in a 2006 interview with the WSJ: In France, with the nation based on roots, on the idea of the soil, of a common memorythe very existence of America is a mystery and a scandalThe ghost that has haunted Europe for two centuries is Americas coming together as an act of will, of creed. It shows that there is an alternative to organic nations. [A society that took shape through conscious decisions and willful sculpting by its various founders and builders. Medved]
3. "In most countries in the world your fate and your identity are handed to you; in America, you determine them for yourself. America is a country where you get to writh the script of your own life. Your life is like a blank sheet of paper, and you are the artist. This notion of being the architect of your own destiny is the incredibly powerful idea that is behind the worldwide appeal of America. Dinesh DSouza, born in India.
4. "The United States is comically bad at making its own case, Maddox writes in the books opening pages. This observation will ring true to those Americans who wonder how their countrywhich welcomes more immigrants than any other, is more generous in its foreign aid than any other, and whose culture is so popularcould be loathed by so many. It will sound even more spot-on to those non-Americans, like Maddox, who consider themselves friends of the United States. For years, overseas admirers of the U.S. have had to endure witless editorials and boorish dinner companions ranting about how Uncle Sam is the root of all evil. Unfortunately, the government of the United States has failed miserably at defending itself in the court of world opinion.
Maddox makes the case for American indispensability. American values are Western values, she titles her third chapter. She stresses to her non-American readers that whatever differences they might have with America, they would do well to understand that the United States ultimately stands for individual rights, political freedom, and the free exchange of goodsall distinctly Western ideas.
CJ Mobile
5. In the speech that JFK had prepared for delivery on the day that he was assassinated:
"We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on earth, good will toward men." That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: "except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
Selected Speeches of John F. Kennedy - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
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Petty snark from MeganC:
"Flesh is mostly water", as if that added anything remotely informative or thoughtful.
"No. I posted a flatly factual comment and you got all dramatic about it. What I said is a sound hypothesis for why the bullet contrail was so visible." - MeganC doubling down
Your childish pretense of trying to say something scientifically meaningful to a chemical engineer, regarding biochemistry, was rude and wrong. The owner of this site agrees with your childish snark. You had no "hypothesis," so it could not possibly be "sound." But in view of the widespread ignorance of so many readers with sympathy for a poor little female, some were sympathetic to your inane remark.
Surely I have better things to do with my time than to bother any longer with such nonsense as you spout, and such people who nod their heads to your nonsense.
