Prepping the Masses
Flapjack ·
October 29, 2012 at 12:03am
While I'm a bit nervous about posting (as this is my first), I was just unfortunate enough to land on Thomas Friedman's latest. It appears to me that he's using the abortion issue to explain why citizens should trust the elite (like him) to dictate how to live right and proper lives. He eventually winds up here:
Respect for life has to include respect for how that life is lived, enhanced and protected — not only at the moment of conception but afterward, in the course of that life. That’s why, for me, the most “pro-life” politician in America is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
So, ever-growing restrictions are how to really show one is "pro-life"? Never mind that a life lived as dictated by others is nothing of the sort...
Thoughts?
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May '10
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He's gone totally off the rails.
Apr '11
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What Katie said.
Jan '11
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By that logic we should all be wearing helmets and sumo suits just to check the mail. Bubble Boy, here we come…
Jan '11
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Seriously, is Thomas Friedman well?
Feb '11
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No surprise hearing this from Friedman. He's the one who wanted a PRC-like "dictatorship for a day" so that all the "for our own good" reforms could be shoved down our throats by "wise men" like him.
Mar '11
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Pro-life my foot. Over at NRO, Wesley Smith destroys this article.
In addition to the points he raises there, we note that evidently gun control in American outweighs the cruelty of the entire Chinese regime--which we regularly find hagiographic accounts of in Friedman's writings. Human rights violations, one child policy, sex-selective abortion practice, the massacre of minority populations--nothing to see there. You see, they have high speed rail, which outweighs all of these concerns. How silly of us to forget!
I have never understood why people take Friedman seriously.
Edited on October 28, 2012 at 2:05pmJun '12
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we know we are winning if they have to use us as a means to their end.
Edited on October 28, 2012 at 12:53pmMar '12
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If the removal of Friedman meant less hot air in the world, would that be good?
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My favorite line:
Hey Tom, ovulation means the egg isn't in the ovary when it's fertilized. But, hey, I like to take all my pro-life advice from dudes who don't know how babies are made.
Apr '12
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If Freidman and his ilk are so smart....why is The New York Times slowly assuming room temperature?
Oct '12
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Is anyone surprised that a totalitarian such as Friedman would make such an argmuent?
Jul '10
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Absolutely! Less Global Warming!
May '10
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Crow's Nest:
I have never understood why people take Friedman seriously. · 12 hours ago
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Oh, that's easy. It's typical left-wing award-winning worship. You win a Nobel, and you can do no wrong...even if your Nobel has NOTHING to do with any knowledge about every other subject except the one you received the award for. This is the man who fretted over how much better America would be if only we had a Chinese style dictatorship that could FORCE us to "authorize the right solutions" by government fiat.
He's a delusional tool. The Caligula of Pravda on the Hudson.
Jan '11
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Friedman's description of "pro-life" sounds as slippery and empty as doing something "for the children."
Apr '11
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So Tom thinks people who are pro-life should oppose automatic guns. Is he okay with regular guns? Does it matter to him whether someone was killed by a revolver or a “assault style weapon”. It is really very difficult to follow his argument. He likes the fact that Bloomberg supports “a woman’s right to choose” but then endorses all the other ways Bloomberg takes away people’s rights to choose say soda, fat etc. Really Tom likes people who force people to choose the choices he endorses.
Apr '11
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The scarey thing is the number of people wh0 think this guy is brilliant, agree with him, therefore, believe they are also brilliant and worthy of controlling strangers lives.
Feb '11
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Bloombert likes making rules for other people, but he apparently isn't too big on following rules himself. It seems he has been frequently landing his helicopter on weekends at a heliport which is CLOSED weekends (for noise reasons), despite the fact that this information is clearly shown in the FAA Airport & Facility Guide.
Jul '12
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"You know, Jack Kevorkian really was an excellent pathologist..."
Aug '10
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I heard clips of that "virginity" ad on a couple of podcasts today and was reminded of why their culture demands abortion on demand.
Jun '10
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Excuse me? A danger to all life on the planet?
Forget 99%, can you find me one single climate scientist who predicts that "climate change" will wipe out all life on the planet? Just one. Anyone? Bueller?