Sorry I’ve been so scarce the last day or two. I’ve been trying to make this Saturday online-only opinion page thing happen. As I suspected it would be, it’s WAY harder to make happen than just doing editorial and op-ed pages the old way.
That is, it’s harder for me. It’s lighter on the rest of the staff, which is the point, since it’s a smaller staff than it was.
So I hope you’ll get some use out of it — and offer constructive suggestions. It will evolve.
Anyway, in case you missed me, I replaced the Easter-eggs shot with a new picture — upper left part of the page. Can’t you tell I’m having lots of fun today? (Gary Ward of thestate.com, who shot it, asked me to look "serious." That’s why it looks like I have indigestion or something.)
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Fitna – the Dutch movie
This is the 15 minute movie that has made the radical Muslims so angry. As America, and in particular Europe ignore this problem, this should be shown across the nation.
WARNING: Some material may be graphic to some viewers (but the shot fades out before any scene gets real graphic.)
The link was working today, but the web host may eventually disable it due to, guess
what?…death threats.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8791144316262627631&q=Fitna&total=2031&start=0&num=10&s
o=0&type=search&plindex=1
The link is working. This film is a timely and chilling commentary. Geert Wilders has guts, foresight, and magnanimity to have risked his life to produce it. Our national apathy in allowing Islamic culture to take root in America should be appalling. Apparently, there IS NO theological distinction between moderate and bloodthirsty Islamic factions.
Wouldn’t it be great if our schools, public and private, would show this in every classroom? Now, that would be a miracle in the convoluted secular mess we have gotten ourselves into in the public sector.
I hope we find our collective grit to take a stand for freedom.
I just checked out the Sat. opinion page. Interesting. Hope you’ll use the ‘roominess’ of the web to import some more interesting and varied writings.
I hope y’all don’t mind if I use this ROOMINESS [great analogy] to give you all an…………
***UPDATE ON LEXINGTON, MECCA OF DISORDER***
The new billboards up and running for this “BelieveSC/11:11 Magazine” aren’t the big, proselytizing eyes this go ’round. They are big, gloomy, foreboding “Journey of the Soul” invitations.
Last year, they were gray. This year they are black — NOTHING WRONG WITH BLACK AS A SKIN COLOR OR PALETTE CHOICE — it’s just the tone of the thing. If I am an alarmist, so be it because SOMEBODY needs to sound the gong. Are these propaganda eyesores breeding a motivated [by intimidation] acceptance for Islam/Hate America ideologies?
The billboards are on 378 coming into Lexington near Crouch’s Liquor, and on Highway 1 coming into Lexington by the library — two bastions of American liberty!
Do your own research on the numerical significance of eleven, unless you are too apathetic to CARE. According to Christian traditions [which, last I checked this country was founded on], it is the number of disorder and destruction. I’m going with that one, no matter what it means in Las Vegas.
And another thing…
Those fanatics who talk about Sunday morning being the most segregated time and place in America need a cultural lesson or two.
We have different heritages. And, to be honest, we white people are lazy in our religious liturgies. Episcopalians, the least lazy, in that they sit and stand enough to keep Granpa awake for most of the service. I have been to a black friend’s [Baptist] church — loved it! — but I tell you, it wore me out.
SOOOOO, this Sunday morning temporary separation into different cultural camps is an OK thing — definitely nothing to drive us to find an integrated church, if it is for the wrong, on-the-surface reasons. As long as our hearts are in the right place, the Rev. Wright can stay his *ss out of it.
P.S.
I am fully prepared for a bunker buster to SHATTER my bunker mentality here.
>>>BRING IT ON<<< ...as Willie, or one of his alter-egos likes to challenge on his FitsBlogs. Hard to imagine that Willie would allow someone to share his ego...[?]
OK… whatever that was about. I don’t know about y’all, but I’m going back to watch the Kansas-N.C. game…
I do not like your new format re: the OP EDs and your Editorial Page not being in the paper but only on the web….
The only reason I take the paper is for this section of the paper; and I want it in PRINT in the STATE subscription that I pay dearly for…
If, in fact, you plan to continue this format; please cancel my subscription and refund my money.
Constance Clark Rinehart,
Newberry