[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] [Peace] PDA Press Release on HJ Res 30

[Debra Schrishuhn]

Carl,
Your question as posed contains several premises, and I would suggest
that a person of free will can accept or reject those premises in part
or in total. Each citizen ultimately bears the personal responsibility
to make up her or his mind based on a reading of the text involved
rather than taking the intellectual shortcut of accepting another
person's interpretation of its meaning. I would further suggest that
there is not an absolute dichotomy involved.

The answer to your question, however, is pretty straightforward: Read
the bill. If you agree with it, call Rodney David and ask him to vote
for it. If you disagree with it, call Rodney Davis and ask him to vote
against it. If you choose not to read the bill or choose not to make
your own decision but rely on another person's interpretation or
summary of the text, that is also your prerogative as a citizen. In
that sense I reiterate that one's opinion and understanding of HJ Res
30 remains  "a question for each person to decide for herself or
himself," and it has nothing to do with vanilla or chocolate.

For the future,
Debra

On 2/13/15, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
> A real wang ba, sure an' begorrah...
>
> On Feb 13, 2015, at 8:26 AM, E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>> When we first arrived in Urbana in 2001 with my mother-in-law and
>> father-in-law,
>> who are Chinese from southwest of Beiijing and were in their late 80's at
>> the time,
>> my father-in-law was having some trouble with his eyes so we took him to
>> see
>> an opthalmologist in Champaign who happened to be Irish and it happened to
>> be
>> on St. Patrick's day.
>>
>> So here we took my father-in-law into see the eye doctor who worked in a
>> darkened office
>> and the guy is wearing a surreal-looking gigantic kelly-green trifoliate
>> shamrock hat about a foot and a half
>> wide and a foot and half tall.  The hat looked like it had been designed
>> by Dr. Seuss
>> and the eye guy was wearing it very seriously.
>>
>> You could imagine it as an old-time illustration in some book---
>> maybe something drawn by Tenniel or maybe Ted Geisel himself -
>> a caption:
>>
>> "Mr. Qiao was taken quite aback by the eye doctor's shamrock hat."
>>
>> It would have been natural for him to conclude that the all
>> ophthalmologists
>> are adorned with such verdant headdress in this strange foreign land.
>>
>> On 02/13/2015 08:24 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>>> [From the indispensable urbandictionary.com, on Wayne's Chinese pun]
>>>
>>> wang ba dan = Chinese for a egg (son) of a turtle; similar to SOB but
>>> with a slightly longer history. Origins vary, but the most popular theory
>>> is that comes from wang ba duan (忘八端), which means forgetting filial
>>> piety, 'brotherly respect', loyalty, trustworthiness, politeness,
>>> justice, honesty and shame. (Being ashamed means you know you did
>>> something wrong. Calling someone shameless can be highly offensive.)
>>> Incidentally, apart from turtle, wang ba also means someone who wears a
>>> green hat.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:02 PM, E. Wayne Johnson via Peace-discuss
>>> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am sure that the constitution is extremely confusing to those folk who
>>>> favour rule by a monarchy.
>>>>
>>>> But what it says is that only Congress has the power to declare war.
>>>> the intent was to keep some kingly wang ba dan from conscripting the
>>>> people and squandering their livelihood and resources for various wars
>>>> of ambition.
>>>
>>
>>
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