- WWII combat fatigue. antiwar.com’s Kelley Vlahos has written about the hobos who lived by the railroad tracks when she was growing up; her dad explained that they were soldiers who never really came home from the war. A reminder of the evil of war. Regular readers know my line: anti-war, pro-military, not pacifist, and non-interventionist, America First revisionist about the war.
- You don’t need to change your oil every 3,000 miles.
- From Cracked: medical treatments, believe it or not.
- The case against flags in the sanctuary.
- Drone watch: killing US citizens. Again I’m anti-war, pro-military. Like any weapon, rightly used, drones sound like a great idea. During WWII Hap Arnold liked the idea of crashing remote-controlled worn-out planes into targets. I think the mission that killed Joe Kennedy Jr. was trying that: the pilots were taking an explosives-laden B-24 over the English Channel, then were supposed to bail, after which the plane was to be flown remotely to the target. It blew up before they got out.
- From RR:
- How much will your health insurance cost?
- The global economic meltdown that began in 2007 has brought suffering to countless millions. We have all witnessed -- and in many cases experienced — the devastation. But it didn’t have to be this way. This kind of financial devastation has been predicted again and again — decade after decade — by proponents of the Austrian School of economics.
- Reducing income inequality at the expense of the poor.
- Another near-space camera adventure. Hello Kitty’s flight. 19 miles up looks impressive: darkness and seeing the earth’s curve. The border with space is 62 miles.
Some jottings about the news
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Wednesday, February 06, 2013
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I don't oppose a flag in Church with the provision it is not in the sanctuary and that someone or some Church or parish board is not playing politics with it. Same with no flag in Church unless of course it is a political statement (anti-war and anti-U.S.). I don't mean this as anti-war in your Libertarian sense of the word but as anti-everything including those in the military as happened during the Vn War and the protesting of same.
ReplyDeleteIn pre-Vatican II and pre-Vn War days there was an American flag in our
DeleteChurch outside the sanctuary opposite the Vatican flag that was on the other side of the Church also outside the sanctuary. Nobody thought anything about it and it was not a controversy. Perhaps it meant that this was a Church in the United States with Americans principally as congregants. There isn't a flag--even a Vatican flag!--at my parish Church here in Albuquerque, NM today.
No national flags should be on display in a parish church -- for a Catholic parish, the appropriate flag would be that of the Vatican. As St. Paul put it, our citizenship is in heaven. We can be good Americans because of that fact, also good Canadians, good Mexicans, good Russians, good Bulgarians, good Nigerians, etc. But to reinforce where our primary citizenship is, national flags should be excluded.
ReplyDeleteAs for vets coming back shattered, I grew up in the Puget Sound area of Washington State back in the 1970's and 1980's, and we used to go on vacation over to the Olympic Penninsula quite a bit. My dad (a WWII & Korea vet, and a cop when he came back into civilian life) warned me one when we went into the Olympic Nat'l Forest to not go off the marked Forest Service trails. Why? Because of the Vietnam vets who basically never left the jungle and they were out living in the triple-canopy forest on the Olympic Penninsula.