Be careful what you do with that Kirsch:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/
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However, as the psalm tells us: "...the idols of all the nations are silver and gold, the handiwork of men..."
I am afraid that this country is abandoning its reliance on God.
You probably mean "Kirche" (church), instead of "Kirsch" (cherry). Then again, to a nation nourished on proverbs like "as American as apple pie," perhaps "For cherries and the fatherland!" could be workable rhetoric....
(Happily avoiding the real issues, on which I agree with you.)
d'oh! Fixed it.
Ich bin ein Berliner!
Yeah, but maybe cherry brandy and Fatherland wasn't so bad a slogan. Less bellicose, more relaxed. Schwejk would have approved.
Heh. Actually, there's a Chesterton Father Brown story, "The Quick One" where the priest investigates the murder of man who really does adovcate freedom through cherry brandy and a return to Old England.
"Kumbaya"?? What does that mean? What does it bring to "idiot" to say a "kumbaya idiot"?
(I absolutly what to know if I'm a Kumbaya idiot 
)
Once upon a time conservatives were ones to proclaim the limits of political instruments. Now the new conservatives are in the business of fashioning the new man.
I see your point.
I think Huckabee for one has been emboldened by Ron Paul to speak up a bit; particularly on torture and Mid East policy.
BTW that is one CREEPY picture!
The way Mark keeps repeating the mantra that Ron Paul cannot win it appears he must have received the memo too.
http://www.libertymaven.com/2007...cking-ron-paul/
Ron Paul's kookiness is hardly minor & it may seem romantic on a certain level but it's not useful in actually getting anything done.
Politics is results orientated. Give me what I want. Protect my country from Mr. I Hate America, end Abortion, slash taxes & secure the boarders or get used to the words President Obama, President Guilani or worst President Clinton.
Mark,
It's seams that your vote for Ron Paul is a sort of a protest vote (You state that: "I don't, I repeat, think Paul has a ghost of a chance. ... he is ... the one guy through whom a significant portion of the base can say to the party elders, "Repent or face destruction.")
Protest votes are not the best way for christans to constructively discharge their duties as citizens.
Ron Paul is damaged goods. News has come down the wire about who Ron has been accepting donations from--and they are very bad people.
You don't want to be associated with Ron Paul.
You have been suckered Mark. Ron Paul is a piece of trash.
As a Catholic I find Ron Paul the only one in Republican or Democratic party I could vote for. He is the only candidate who is consistent on the life issues (war and abortion). He is also the only one who understands the fiscal and monetary crisis this country faces. His respect for limited government is also in line with the catholic social principle of subsidiarity. As his views become better known and his popularity increases expect the usual attacks from the vested interests and powers that be. Bring it on! Lets have a real debate!
Protest votes are an effective way if we are stuck with two candidates we cannot vote for. I guarantee you if Clinton and the G schmuck are the two nominees from the "only parties that matter, so say the powers that be" (never mind that one of which isn't the same that was around at the start of our country)...
then I will by conscience have to vote for a pro-life candidate, regardless of if they "don't have a chance". Pragmatism is not an excuse to discharge your Catholic civic duties either.
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