Saturday, August 05, 2006

Scope?

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THE EXAMINER/INDEPENDENT Weekend Edition,August 5-6, 2006

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'Islamo-fascists'

“President George W. Bush understands the scope of the worldwide assault on freedom posed by the Islamo-fascists,” according to Karen King, chairwoman of the San Mateo County Republican Party.

And those who call themselves Christians and loudly proclaim their love of God, but then even more loudly beat the drums of war and rain death and destruction on the innocent while at the same time filling the coffers of their masters and cronies with the profits of war, make His name and those who are called by His name to stink in the nostrils of the world.

These do abominable works in His name, and so do more to hamper His cause than those who actively fight. These shall reap the wrath of both man and God for their hypocrisy and wickedness.

That statement is why she is so ignorant about of the rest of the world! And so the U.S. has done much to destroy any peace!

Ted Rudow III,MA

Menlo Park

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Morals

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Morals Must Be Taught

As difficult a decision it was to make to forfeit the season, Sequoia High Principal Morgan Marchbanks said it was necessary to preserve the school’s integrity.



“I think the sports program is integral to high school. But our model of teaching morals is paramount,” Marchbanks said. “While this was a painful action to take, we had to clean our house in order to set an example.”

I went to Menlo-Atherton High School and played basketball from 1967-1970. I also played with Charles Johnson at Cal, who was the best basketball player ever at Sequoia High. I was an academic counselor at San Jose State University in the ’90s.

More than half of the freshman class at San Jose State Unversity took remedial English and math. It was the dumbing down of the academic standards and now any school’s moral integrity.

For students, it has meant wholesale confusion about moral values: learning to question values they have scarcely acquired, unlearning values taught at home, and concluding that questions of right and wrong are always merely
subjective.

It is because the failure of moral education in the schools. In brief, students are being taught by the wrong method — a method that looks more and more like a fad that won’t go away.

It has meant that the development of moral education curriculums has been turned over to theorists who have repeatedly expressed disdain for concepts such as virtue, character and good example; the same theorists have dismissed past culture and history as being irrelevant to the search for values.

Ted Rudow III,MA


Menlo Park

Thursday, February 02, 2006

U.S. pushes for democracy?

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The future of the Middle East entered a new era of uncertainty Thursday, as the militant Palestinian opposition group Hamas snatched power from the ruling old guard and made skeptics of many key players in the peace process. "There was a peaceful process as people went to the polls. And that's positive," Bush said. While he reiterated that the United States will not deal with the organization as long as it seeks Israel's destruction, he called.
U.S. isn't really against terrorists; it's just against terrorists who aren't its friends and allies! After all, if it were against terrorists, it would be against Israel, against the various Israeli governments which have thrown the Palestinians off their land and seized it, bulldozed their houses, torn up their olive trees and orchards, herded the people into virtual concentration camps, shot their children for throwing stones, etc.
So as far as I'm concerned, that is one more nail in both Israel's and the U.S.' coffin! Because the World is going to demand justice for the Palestinians and I don't think it is going to be very far away.

Ted Rudow III,MA
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Saturday, January 28, 2006

Endless war

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President Bush vigorously defended his decision to continue spying on Americans, stating that it had helped in the fight against terrorism.


However, in all actuality, the United States has sponsored terrorist groups in Iraq, Iran, Libya, Cuba, El Salvador, Congo, Nicaragua, Angola, Sudan, and Indonesia. The United States even tried to assassinate Egypt’s president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, eliminate Iran’s Islamic leadership and get rid of that crazy Gadhafi in Libya.


Nearly every one of America’s wars has been either for some kind of trade advantage, for money, for territory or for oil.


Not against terrorism!


America has waged many horrible wars during its existence, and one day it will pay the full price for them. The Lord’s word is true, sure and steadfast — we reap what we sow, whether good or bad.


“The Endless War” — war and glorifying war is a part of the American culture, what the country was built on and thrives on!


War is how the country was won and how it grew from coast to coast, fighting the British, the Indians, the Spanish, the French and others, slaughtering multitudes.


And when the Lord returns to rule in righteousness, He’ll do away with war, and men will beat their swords into plowshares, thank God!


Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park

Americans' support for war

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No matter how bad it gets, nothing seems to change Americans' support for war, which for some reason is stiffest among Christian supporters of the Bush administration. Bush's war is working, do not seek out evidence of the maiming and killing of our troops or of Iraqi civilians, have been immunized against thinking for themselves or doubting the Bush administration with certain Bible verses.


You just can't imagine people in this supposedly civilized age of intelligent sane people, even many Christians, actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame – A culture that says war is all right, that it's legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children. You just can't imagine civilized people talking calmly about it. War is insanity! They're declaring war in the name of peace.

The government propagandizes people in so many ways to try to make their war justified. It's amazing just how easily the sheep are led astray. It's insanity; it's a power lust. They don't care how many lives they throw away just to get their own way.

We will continue to slide into the kind of moral relativism that causes others to wonder why we are so bloodthirsty. When all they're doing is trying to possess the oil! As Bush even said in one of his first speeches about this crisis, "To preserve our way of life." That's all America's concerned about!

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Friday, January 20, 2006

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It’s not just the issue of abortion. Judge Samuel Alito supports giving unprecedented powers to the executive branch, meaning George W. Bush, with no oversight and no checks on his power. This represents a radical view of presidential authority, extending to the point of overriding Congress’ jurisdiction in passing laws.

The only way that the president can get a dictatorial control on the country is to get control of the Supreme Court. If any two of those can get together, they can control the other. Well, it’s not likely the Supreme Court and Congress are going to make a dictator because there are plenty of both of them. It’s not likely that the president is going to be able to control the Congress too well and become a dictatorship. But if he can get control of five men or women.

He can then tell them what he wants and what he doesn’t want. He can have them declare any law that he doesn’t like unconstitutional, because it’s purely a matter of opinion, judicial opinion. Then the Congress is totally hamstrung.

They are absolutely ineffective because they cannot pass one single law against him. The Supreme Court will throw it out as unconstitutional. He can declare any law unconstitutional he doesn’t like, so that they can’t do anything unless they pass laws to suit him.

Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Preserving?

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But no matter how bad it gets, nothing seems to change Americans’ support for war, which for some reason is stiffest among Christian supporters of the Bush administration. Bush’s war is working, do not seek out evidence of the maiming and killing of our troops or of Iraqi civilians, who have been immunized against thinking for themselves or doubting the Bush administration with certain Bible verses.

You just can’t imagine people in this supposedly civilized age of intelligent, sane people, even many Christians, actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame. A culture that says war is all right, that it’s legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children. You just can’t imagine civilized people talking calmly about it. War is insanity. They’re declaring war in the name of peace.

The government propagandizes people in so many ways to try to make their war justified. It’s amazing just how easily the sheep are led astray. It’s insanity, it’s a power lust. They don’t care how many lives they throw away just to get their own way.

We will continue to slide into the kind of moral relativism that causes others to wonder why we are so bloodthirsty. When all they’re doing is trying to possess the oil. As Bush even said in one of his first speeches about this crisis, “To preserve our way of life.” That’s all America’s concerned about.

Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park

Stealing oil

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To the Editor:

When the British were in charge of Palestine, Menachem Begin was a Jewish terrorist belonging to the Irgun Gang, who shot British in the back just because they had a uniform on. They went around blowing up police barracks and shooting the British as well as the Arabs, and did some of the most dastardly deeds you could possibly imagine, horrible atrocities.

Begin, the past president of the Jewish state, and they will still have nothing to do with any peace settlements which involve those PLO "terrorists" after over 30 years. They will not talk to them or sit at the same table with them.

They grab off a few countries that have oil - first Iraq, then Iran - and they can do it under the excuse of saving Israel. The only thing that'll ever stop them is rationing. However, I have an idea that rather than have their gasoline rationed and their vacations shortened and their big cars cut down, the Americans would much prefer to go to war and steal it. Oil consumption in U.S. has not gone down the slightest bit.

Ted Rudow III, MA

Menlo Park, Calif.

Rejoice!

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There's no debate about what to call this day -- Merry Christmas!

Editor -- Rejoice this Christmas!

There's never been a time in all of history when the world has been in such sin and sorrow as it is now. There's so much talk about the advancement and betterment of mankind -- advanced medicine, modern technology, new inventions, better governments to make it a better world to live in -- so much talk of progress, when in reality things are regressing all the more.

Look around. You can't deny it.

What better way to live Christmas each and every day of the year than to continually give to those around you, to truly live how He taught us, to show His love in all the little ways throughout the day. It's just human nature to sometimes confuse the words you say, but there's no confusion when they see it put into practice.

It's like that poem by Edgar A. Guest, which says: "I'd rather see a sermon, than to hear one any day. I'd rather one would walk with me than merely tell the way. For most people to accept the truth, they not only need to hear the sermon, but they need to see the sample as well.''

Be the living sample of the message, the living proof that it works! This is the real meaning of Christmas.

TED RUDOW III,MA

Menlo Park