What is George Bush reading?

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by Karl K, Nov 23, 2004.

  1. Karl K

    Karl K Member

    Oct 25, 1999
    Suburban Chicago
  2. dreamer

    dreamer Member

    Aug 4, 2004
    The title of your thread put a smile on my face for some reason. :)

    Seriously this could be a great thread. After reading somewhere Clinton's first book after his operation was "No Second Chance," I picked up that book and really enjoyed it.

     
  3. Shurik

    Shurik New Member

    Nov 2, 1999
    Baltimore, MD
    I suspected it wouldn't be Joseph Heller, John Updike or even Jack London, but Natan Sharansky????!!!! The Israeli Ann Coulter? The man who thinks the political left's only goal is to dig up Brezhnev and put him, Sharansky, into Gulag?

    What a surprise!
     
  4. GringoTex

    GringoTex Member

    Aug 22, 2001
    1301 miles de Texas
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    This from Publsiher's Weekly: "Sharansky does not grapple deeply with the current situation in Iraq."
     
  5. Shurik

    Shurik New Member

    Nov 2, 1999
    Baltimore, MD
    "When there is every reason to doubt that freedom will prevail in the Middle East, this book declares unequivocally that the skeptics are wrong." -- Amazon product description.

    Guess, Dubya needed a little reassurance.
     
  6. cleansheetbsc

    cleansheetbsc Member+

    Mar 17, 2004
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    Why the Bible, of course. That's an easy one.

    All the answers are in the bible. How to raise a child? - in the bible. How to bake a souffle? - its in the bible. How to run the world in an orderly, christan way- in the bible?

    I think God had Anton Scalia write the forward.
     
  7. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
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    Customers who bought this item also bought these items:


    Tower of Babble : How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos by DORE GOLD

    An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror by DAVID FRUM

    Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left by David Horowitz

    Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis

    Treachery : How America's Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies by Bill Gertz

    Fear No Evil: The Classic Memoir of One Man's Triumph over a Police State by Anatoly Shcharansky
     
  8. Karl K

    Karl K Member

    Oct 25, 1999
    Suburban Chicago
    Not as unsurprising as THIS knee-jerk and superficial reaction.

    Keep it up. You're carving up more territory in the land of ad hominem attacks, and political marginality. How does it feel?
     
  9. Shurik

    Shurik New Member

    Nov 2, 1999
    Baltimore, MD
    Oh, please...
    I know all I need to know about Soviet emigres, still fighting the good fight against the long-dead Kosygin. Sharansky, Guberman and their less-famous clones in the US have become right-wing extremists by virtue of reasoning that this was as far as they could get from Communism. Their energy and their steadfastness was good and useful 15 years ago, but nowadays Old Natanchik's efforts to find justification for the right's expansionism in his glorious past as a bald-headed Moscow dissident are a bit sad. To the point of being Yakov-Smirnoffish.
     
  10. Matrim55

    Matrim55 Member+

    Aug 14, 2000
    Berkeley
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    Somewhere Ayn Rand is laughing at you.
     
  11. dj43

    dj43 New Member

    Aug 9, 2002
    Nor Cal
    Some excellent reading in this list.
     
  12. Bill Archer

    Bill Archer BigSoccer Supporter

    Mar 19, 2002
    Washington, NC
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    Well, considering that the man has actually BEEN in the Gulag, it's not an entirely irrational fear, IMO.

    Certainly at least as rational as the mindless lefties around here who are sure we're only days away from opening up Auschwitz II somewhere in Wyoming.

    Of course, that's not saying much, is it?

    Still, you're probably right - much, much smarter to listen to Michael Moore's version of reality.
     
  13. Shurik

    Shurik New Member

    Nov 2, 1999
    Baltimore, MD
    Actually, the smartest thing is to have your own.

    BTW, you should appreciate my lack of fears, both rational and irrational, despite the evil elves of Narn who have all but discovered my hiedout and rumor has it they have ammassed the dreaded magical powers of the Wizard of Salador.
     
  14. John Galt

    John Galt Member

    Aug 30, 2001
    Atlanta
    Appropos:
     
  15. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
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    Can you find anyone asserting this?

    Now run along to your playpen where you can make sh** up and get away with it. This is the grownup table.
     
  16. IntheNet

    IntheNet New Member

    Nov 5, 2002
    Northern Virginia
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    If this is the "grownup table," then you, of all people, need to start acting like it and give up the childish tantrums!
     
  17. Dan Loney

    Dan Loney BigSoccer Supporter

    Mar 10, 2000
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    Did he ever finish "My Pet Goat"?

    And how did we get to page two before getting to the "My Pet Goat" joke?
     
  18. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
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    Can't a person dismiss self-serving lunatics from both sides of the political spectrum?
     
  19. minorthreat

    minorthreat Member

    Jan 1, 2001
    NYC
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    Spain
    Also known as "Ayn Rand Disease."

    Edit: Looks like I was beaten to it.
     
  20. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 29, 2000
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    I was surprised it wasn't in the second post.

    Y'all are slipping.
     
  21. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 29, 2000
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    Says the King of Exclamation Marks.
     
  22. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
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    Chicago Fire

    Are you suggesting that ItN is a reincarnation of the late, unlamented Mr. Cam!!!?
     
  23. BenReilly

    BenReilly New Member

    Apr 8, 2002
    You're either confusing Natan Sharansky with Avigdor Lieberman, very drunk, or both.
     
  24. TheSlipperyOne

    TheSlipperyOne Member+

    Feb 29, 2000
    Denver
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    Please read my sig.
     
  25. Revolt

    Revolt Member+

    Jun 16, 1999
    Davis, CA
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    Aside from making up for lost ground, you can reset BS to display 40 posts to a page.
     

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