[Rhodes22-list] Was- Stan and Brad,now for Art, scooters

Mon Mar 31 16:10:44 EDT 2008

What does any of this stuff have to due with a Rhodes 22 or sailing??
igal, Delmar NY
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: cjlowe at sssnet.com<mailto:cjlowe at sssnet.com> 
  To: The Rhodes 22 mail list<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> 
  Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 6:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Was- Stan and Brad,now for Art, scooters

  I think I remember you mentioning you had a scooter,a while back. What
  have you got and what kind of mpg do you get.
  I wore out a Honda Helix 250 (1999) last June,and replaced it with a 
  Suzuki Bergman 400. The helix got about 56 mpg at wot.I took it easy for
  a tankfull one time,and got 62 mpg,just wasn't worth poking around for
  180 miles. The Burgy gets 54 mpg when I romp on it,and will get over 60
  mpg all day long at 70mph,highway.
  Anybody else have a plan to starve the middle east?

  Jerry Lowe

  On 3/28/2008, "Arthur H. Czerwonky" <czerwonky at earthlink.net<mailto:czerwonky at earthlink.net>> wrote:

  >Guys,
  >We're slipping badly on the subject line, normally a gripe of Ed except when he is in the thick of it.  We shouldn't hide our 'Political' label on the subject line behind other 'topics' that creep in front.
  >Art
  >
  >-----Original Message-----
  >>From: Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net<mailto:ekroposki at charter.net>>
  >>Sent: Mar 27, 2008 7:48 PM
  >>To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
  >>Subject: [Rhodes22-list]  Stan and Brad
  >>
  >>
  >>Stan,
  >>
  >>I will respond to your post next week...
  >>
  >>Brad,
  >>       Chris said, "we need a break from the political sniping and dogmatic
  >>suicide bombers of the political scene."  For Chris's request for a break, I
  >>will comply for a few days.  However, before I depart for a place without a
  >>computer, I will post the following educational piece:
  >>
  >>Black Liberation Is Marxist Liberation
  >>By Anthony B. Bradley
  >>
  >>One of the pillars of Obama's home church, Trinity United Church of Christ,
  >>is "economic parity." On the website, Trinity claims that God is not pleased
  >>with "America's economic mal-distribution." Among all of controversial
  >>comments by Jeremiah Wright the idea of massive wealth redistribution is the
  >>most alarming. The code language "economic parity" and references to
  >>"mal-distribution" is nothing more than channeling the twisted economic
  >>views of Karl Marx. Black liberation theologians have explicitly stated a
  >>preference for Marxism as an ethical framework for the black church because
  >>Marxist thought is predicated on a system of oppressor class (whites) versus
  >>victim class (blacks).
  >>
  >>Black Liberation theologians James Cone and Cornel West have worked
  >>diligently to embed Marxist thought into the black church since the 1970s.
  >>For Cone, Marxism best addressed remedies to the condition of Blacks as
  >>victims of White oppression. In For My People, Cone explains that "the
  >>Christian faith does not possess in its nature the means for analyzing the
  >>structure of capitalism. Marxism as a tool of social analysis can disclose
  >>the gap between appearance and reality, and thereby help Christians to see
  >>how things really are."
  >>
  >>In God of the Oppressed, Cone said that Marx's chief contribution is "his
  >>disclosure of the ideological character of bourgeois thought, indicating the
  >>connections between the 'ruling material force of society' and the 'ruling
  >>intellectual' force." Marx's thought is useful and attractive to Cone
  >>because it allows Black theologians to critique racism in America on the
  >>basis of power and revolution.
  >>
  >>For Cone, integrating Marx into Black theology helps theologians see just
  >>how much social perceptions determine theological questions and conclusions.
  >>Moreover, these questions and answers are "largely a reflection of the
  >>material condition of a given society."
  >>
  >>In 1979, Cornel West offered a critical integration of Marxism and Black
  >>theology in his essay, "Black Theology and Marxist Thought" because of the
  >>shared human experience of oppressed peoples as victims. West sees a strong
  >>correlation between Black theology and Marxist thought because "both focus
  >>on the plight of the exploited, oppressed and degraded peoples of the world,
  >>their relative powerlessness and possible empowerment." This common focus
  >>prompts West to call for "a serious dialogue between Black theologians and
  >>Marxist thinkers"--a dialogue that centers on the possibility of "mutually
  >>arrived-at political action."
  >>
  >>In his book Prophesy Deliverance, West believes that by working together,
  >>Marxists and Black theologians can spearhead much-needed social change for
  >>those who are victims of oppression. He appreciates Marxism for its "notions
  >>of class struggle, social contradictions, historical specificity, and
  >>dialectical developments in history" that explain the role of power and
  >>wealth in bourgeois capitalist societies. A common perspective among Marxist
  >>thinkers is that bourgeois capitalism creates and perpetuates ruling-class
  >>domination--which, for Black theologians in America, means the domination
  >>and victimization of Blacks by Whites. American has been over run by "White
  >>racism within mainstream establishment churches and religious agencies,"
  >>writes West.
  >>
  >>Perhaps it is the Marxism imbedded in Obama's attending Trinity Church that
  >>should raise red flags. "Economic parity" and "distribution" language
  >>implies things like government-coerced wealth redistribution, perpetual
  >>minimum wage increases, government subsidized health care for all, and the
  >>like. One of the priorities listed on Obama's campaign website reads, "Obama
  >>will protect tax cuts for poor and middle class families, but he will
  >>reverse most of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers."
  >>
  >>Black Liberation Theology, originally intended to help the black community,
  >>may have actually hurt many blacks by promoting racial tension, victimology,
  >>and Marxism which ultimately leads to more oppression. As the failed "War on
  >>Poverty" has exposed, the best way to keep the blacks perpetually enslaved
  >>to government as "daddy" is to preach victimology, Marxism, and seduce
  >>blacks into thinking that upward mobility is someone else's responsibility
  >>in a free society.
  >>
  >>Anthony B. Bradley is a research fellow at the Acton Institute, and
  >>assistant professor of theology at Covenant Theological Seminary in St.
  >>Louis. His PhD dissertation is titled, "Victimology in Black Liberation
  >>Theology."
  >>
  >>See ya all next week...
  >>
  >>Ed K
  >>Greenville, SC, USA
  >>And Good night...
  >>
  >>
  >>
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