Rick Staggenborg Interviews Shawn Hamilton, (click hyperlink)
who discusses his father, Ralph Hamilton, a P-51 Mustang pilot during WW2. Shot down over Crailsheim, Germany in 1944, the elder Hamilton became a prisoner of Germany and subsequently an artist and Soldier for Peace.
Ralph Hamilton’s P-51 Mustang at Duxford,, tail # 44-15650, 1944.
Ralph Hamilton, Duxford, England, 1944
I always like watching the antics of professional blowhard William (Narcissus) F. Buckley, Jr, In this clip he tries to intellectually overmaster brilliant social reformer Saul Alinksky who finally tells Buckley he’ll answer a question if Buckley will quit yapping for a couple of minutes. Alinksy also busts Buckley for his deceiving, shifty eyes. It’s too good! Alinksy is on it!
Thanks to the reactionary female host of the Dennis Prager radio show (11/15/2017), who mentioned Alinsky, deprecatingly, on the air. She reminded me of this great American thinker and reformer–along with accidental comedian William F. Buckley Jr. who’s always good for a laugh if one can see through his arrogant intellectual posturing!.
To the lady talk show host: I request that you specifically cite examples of what Alinksy said that you disagree with. Not in the clip above necessarily but from any verifiable source. Careful though. It won’t be easy answering while not sounding like a fascist.
Shawn Hamilton
Many people today may not know that a “Jefferson Airplane” was also the name of a cannabis smoking aid back in The Day–a paper match split, the joint inserted giving a general impression of a fuselage and wings. Cheers!
by Shawn Hamilton, Foreign Policy Journal
The terms “conspiracy theorist†and “conspiracy nut†are used frequently to discredit a perceived adversary using emotional rather than logical appeals. It’s important for the sake of true argument that we define the term “conspiracy†and use it appropriately, not as an ad hominem attack on someone whose point of view we don’t share.
According to my Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, the word “conspiracy†derives from the Latin “conspirare,†which means literally “to breathe together†in the sense of agreeing to commit a crime. The primary definition is “planning and acting together secretly, especially for a harmful or unlawful purpose, such as murder or treason.â€
It was in this sense that Mark Twain astutely observed, “A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public.â€
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That 75% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and 57% of Americans could not come up with $500 in the case of an emergency. Rich country, poor citizens.
