"History is on our side." It probably is, and that is why you are doomed to lose.

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The people who say that history is on their side are the people who look back to the recent past and see a direction in it. That is why they are bound to lose: because the future is practically never like the past. It changes, and changes exactly at the point when a tendency has reached its peak and seems established as a law of history - because

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[johncwright]

This is off topic, but I felt compelled to write you.

In times past, you spoke out fiercely and strongly in favor of the British Health Service.

But you have spoken out fiercely and strongly in favor of life, and God's commandments that we choose life, and you reject abortion as murder.

Now it has been discovered that the British Health Service has been burning the corpses of thousands of aborted babies and miscarriages to heat one of their hospitals. It is a nice combination of two ideas, that of recycling, and that of a woman's right to choose.

Whom do you serve? God? Or the baby burners?

If you think the choice is not that stark and simple, think about how you plan to support the British Health Service -- without supporting what the British Health Service does and will continue to do to unborn babies.

[fpb]

Don't be ridiculous. The basic evil is abortion, and abortion is practiced just as happily by your free marketeers. Once you have removed that beam - and several others - from your own eye, you may have something to say about ours.

When was the last time you paid £1000 ($1500) of your own money to a British citizen, because the British health service was murdering him? Me - to an American person I don't even know - last year. And it wasn't even the first time - more like the third or fourth. A CIVILIZED COUNTRY DOES NOT LEAVE ITS OLD AND SICK TO BEG FOR MONEY FROM STRANGERS BECAUSE THEY CAN NO LONGER ENRICH INSURANCE COMPANIES. And I suggest you never touch this subject again, because the way I feel about American health care - both before and after Obama - would make it end-of-friendship stuff.