46 Sprint Out

Belfry 28

Sheldon Clark 0

Williamsburg 42

Campbellsville 38

Corbin 44

Middlesboro 27

Much of me wants to say Bardstown, but I'll go with the Ads in this one

Danville 34

Bardstown 28

St X 28

Manual 13

Trinity 42

Ballard 14

I'll agree with SLINK on this one.

Johnson Central 42

Montomery County 24

Breathitt Co. 42

Estill Co. 14

Boyle spoils Catholic's Thanksgiving plans.

Boyle Co. 29

Catholic 28

I'll go with Pulaski County in an upset here 33-28

North Bullitt must have been clicking on all cylinders last week. That being said, I'll go with North Bullitt 28, Marion 14

Clay Co. 38-31

I'll go with Boone Co. 20-14.

LCA 38-21

I'll go with Madison Central 42-28

Hazard 49

Cumberland 27

I predict a hard fought game that Hazard pulls out late for the district championship.

Lee lost to Powell Valley 20-6 last night, which is pretty impressive for Lee if Powell Valley is as good as usual. Lee beat Cawood on the last play of the game last year. It should be another good game.

 

Even though it's in Lee County, they go by just Lee High School.

I was under the assumption that Powell Valley was to be very solid this year. If this is the case, Lee High must be greatly improved.

Congrats to the Wildcats. Great to see them start the season on a winning note.

Is this scrimmage on a Friday or Saturday?

I think Michael will be a great fit for the team. I'm thrilled to see he decided to get into coaching.

By definition, I guess it could be said that they were, though I don't think I'm going to get any argument that their logic was absurd and that Himmler himself was a mental dissaster. However, we did not fight Germany in WWII to defend democracy or stop the Holocaust. In fact, we allied with a Russia that was purging their own people on a similar scale. What I am saying is that in a war between two countries (take the current war for example), our occupation in Iraq carries the same negative impact for Islamic followers as 9/11 has for American citizens.

Personally, I believe that our retalliation versus the terrorists responsible for the September 11th attack is justified. I do belive, however, that with the current war in Iraq, that we have overstepped our boundries in acting as "world's policemen for democracy" and are stretching our boundries far too thin, ignoring the non-interventionist policies that have kept our country stable throughout its history.

Okay let me do what I can to shed some light on the comments I made.

 

 

From a moral standpoint in a time of peace, which is something that in my opinion is suspect to speak of where conflict concerned, killing someone (taking the life of another) is oft considered the height of immorality. Ergo the worst thing that someone can do is to take the life of another. War consists, at its most basic level, as a semi-organized (at best) state of being in which life is being taken relatively often. Thus war is the height of immorality as well. All sides in a conflict engage in such activity during said conflict and as such there are no "good guys" in that regard. That is my point.

This is why I am amused at the concept of moral high ground when discussing war. We like to cloak it in a veil of morality to try and make it look like we are doing something other than what we are doing.

In reference to the WWII veterans and those men storming the beaches, fighting the Japanese and spending hours in sub-zero temperatures to destroy enemy industries; I admire and respect them for what they did. Yes they killed the enemy (and killing is not a good thing, even though it is sometimes necessary, no matter how you cloak it) and I am forever grateful for the sacrifices they made on behalf of their country and their fellow citizens. If not for them and what they did, then the world would likely have been worse of than it was. At the same time those who died on the opposing side felt they were fighting for as "just" a cause as we did. The majority of the German soldiers were not fighting for Hitler, they were fighting for Germany. They were fighting for their families and for their homes. The majority were no more evil than our own G.I.’s over there.

Although when looking at our “noble” and “moral” actions in Europe we can’t forget the leveling of the cities of Würzburg, Dresden and the monastery of Monte Cassino. Also the fact that we allied ourselves with a man who was as bad as Hitler should also say something for the “moral” high ground we took. That said while I agree with those who say the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were necessary, I think to call them “moral” is somewhat off base. From a simple numbers perspective it was a wise move and the correct course of action. More would have died on both sides had we invaded Japan than died on account of those bombs. It was a choice that had to be made to end the conflict as quickly as possible. I have no problem with that choice.

I have spent nearly 20 years of my life studying weapons, war, conflict, its causes, effects and the overall impact on the development of the world. In all the time I have studied these are my conclusions. That said I am not anti-war and am far from a pacifist. I just dislike it when we try to take a "moral" stand when we are perpetuating death. The American obsession and idealism of the “good guys” and “bad guys” is irritating to me. The guys on the other side say the same thing, both can’t be right obviously, but can both be wrong? Of course from our own perspective we are right but at the same time they look at themselves the way we look at ourselves. Don’t try and disguise what it is, be honest about it.

Don’t take it for more than what it is. I am merely stating that the idea of calling someone the “good guys” in a war is suspect at best.

 

 

Do my comments make any more sense now?

You have things figured out. There are no "good guys" or "bad guys" in a war when you take off the American sunglasses. One man's radical terrorist is another man's martyr.

It is a shame that true conservative policy is being underminded by neo-conservative thought. And, to beat it all, neo-conservatives were mostly liberals before seeing our president's lack of knowledge in foreign policy and taking advantage of him. Current American foreign policy is shaped by neo-conservatives and Zionist Christians who have enflicted generations of foreign-relations damage in the Middle East. Until we realize the importance of non-intervention, Americans will be fighting a war against terrorism that has never been won throughout history. In the same process, we will be slipping from the tight grip of world superpower and into a economic and military dogfight with the Chinese.

Wow......is NG smoking a cigarette in his lab?