"I always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "O Lord, make our enemies quite ridiculous!" God granted it." Voltaire,
Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville (16 May 1767).

To be sure, some have mainlined the koolaid to the point that they have lost all references to reality. Will sometimes turn the Alinsky model on it's head just to mess with them after bringing up Rules for Radicals methodology ( which they unconsciously follow without having read), Manufactured Consent, Freeze, Polarize, Personalize etc:
" Did you know they're renaming the San Andreas Fault?
They're going to rename it Bush's Fault since he knew about it and did nothing to stop it"

" Gosh, liberals are the most TOLERANT people I know- tolerant of other liberals who agree with them 100% Party Line without one iota of deviation! All bets are off, to anyone else"

In talking with Global Warmists I point out that the entire solar system is experiencing " climate change" due to variations in solar output. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is shrinking, etc. Surely THAT was Bush's fault!

Also, during the Viking era, GREENLAND was named that because- guess what? It was GREEN!

I like the quotes. For many years, I have followed the approach of "planting seeds" with my liberal colleagues. Perhaps I will continue, but I am very weary of their non-thinking regurgitation of Dem talking points from liberal la-la land. I would like to think they are not a hopeless cause, but empirical evidence seems to indicate otherwise...

typo correction- can't seem to go back and edit: "Education is not the LEARNING of facts, but the training of the mind to think." Albert Einstein

The only thing that's going to change this nation is a return to the principles it was founded on:
- A moral and upright population
- Limited Government (because people are imperfect, ***and imperfectable***)

I'm glad to have allies that may not share my Christian faith, but I have no faith that they will remain faithful to these same principles. Heck, I have no faith that a fellow Christian will remain faithful to these principles. HECK... I have no faith that even I can remain faithful to them. We're all human. We're so corrupt it's disgusting.

The only thing I suppose that will ever make a real change in the grand scheme of things is when Christ returns. But, I have no say in when that happens, so, until then, I do what I'm supposed to :)

Not announced yet. You'll be the first to know. ;)

I saw it yesterday. It blew me away. Great movie!

I would opine that it is not only worth it, but it is essential if the civilization is to be salvaged, to make an effort to educate those who do not get it- or at least put things out there for them to grapple with. It is also an educational experience in learning how to communicate with people. Sure, some will get it, others won't- but go out of your comfort zone a bit; gain new skills! The seeds you plant today may become trees, though it takes time and your input may connect at some other time with other experiences in their life. Johnny Appleseed model.
Learning is in part developing new neural pathways. Oversimplifying here, but the receptors have to have input to come to critical mass and make a cognitive leap.
Plato got people to come to their own conclusions- "Which one of these things is not like the other?" Part of the problem is that the elites who want us to think they run this game have a DIVIDE AND CONQUER strategy going- if neither group talks to the other, more unreal stereotypes balloon while others preach to the choir so to speak and we play into that dead end. Don your hip boots; sharpen skills of artful playful delivery, learn how to reach people from where they are, you may be surprised that they unconsciously are seeking answers but are trapped in their own bubble.Humor is a key- if people can laugh at the ridiculous without being overwhelmed with shame at their ignorance, then bit by bit they are capable of waking up. Get familiar with the stages: from denial, rage, shame, reflection, etc.
"Critical Thinking... The Other National Deficit."

"Education is not the earning of facts, but the training of the mind to think." Albert Einstein

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - - Greek Philosopher, Plato 429-347 BC

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, 1984

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." Albert Einstein

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." — C.S. Lewis

"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." -Samuel Adams

"The lost cannot be recovered; but let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use, in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."
Thomas Jefferson, February 18, 1791

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw

Remember: The more playful you are about it, then the easier it all is. So before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. - Abraham / Esther Hicks

If anyone's looking for a solution to the problem, Ayn Rand had it.

What would happen if America were to go on strike?

I'm ready, just let me know when. But then again I'm retired and would hardly effect the results.

My wife and I went yesterday to an 11:40 AM showing of America in Redmond WA. The ASP3 trailer was there and everyone watched in respect. There were only 8 of us in the audience. About half clapped at the end of the movie. The restroom got posted with Post-It Note.

Can you tell me exactly what theater that was Tim? Name and town? Thanks.

I just saw the movie "America" today and highly recommend it. It was an intellectually and emotionally powerful defense of America. It first discussed the indictments against America by liberals who believe America is an evil country and should be ashamed of itself. It then annihilated those arguments by the Left and put American history in proper context with the rest of the world.

If you go to the theatre to see an additional movie to ASP3 this year, "America" is that movie. Encourage likeminded patriots to see it as well, along with any independent-minded American with at least rudimentary thinking skills.

Do not waste your time telling liberals to see the movie. They are a hopeless group of non-thinkers and not worth wasting your time on.

Enjoy your Independence Day watching "America", in theatres now...

Saw it yesterday afternoon. My theatre did not run the AS3 trailer. This is fine conservative propaganda, but won't have any effect on liberals. Frankly, I'm bemused that I actually paid money to see it.

I just saw America in an AMC Theatre in Highlands Ranch CO and the ASPIII trailer was not shown.