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		<title>By: Peter</title>
		<link>http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/01/02/do-we-need-a-secretary-of-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1041918</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Christianity as bigotry? Please.....Opposing the deterioration of America and Western Culture is not bigotry. Supporting the decline thereof under the diversity banner is to set the nation adrift in dis-unity. 


Under the &#039;Diversity&#039; banner I am asked, no demanded, too not only accept but to celebrate this culture:

http://www.black-and-right.com/2008/12/05/the-violent-oppression-of-women-in-islam/

and bring it to America!


Under the &#039;Diversity&#039; banner I am asked, no demanded, too not only accept but to celebrate this culture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG05kVNFU9Q&amp;feature=related

and increase it in America!


Under the &#039;Diversity&#039; banner I am asked, no demanded, too not only accept but to celebrate this culture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_hPlXn6Sro

that&#039;s already in America!


Under the &#039;Diversity&#039; banner I am asked, no demanded, too not only accept but to celebrate this culture:

http://goodfight.org/a_p_gay_marriage.html

and make it mainstream in America!


Under the &#039;Diversity&#039; banner I am asked, no demanded, too not only accept but to celebrate this culture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFajpTD9YT0

and think wonderful thoughts of the 60&#039;s counter-culture!


In the end we get what we ask for!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christianity as bigotry? Please&#8230;..Opposing the deterioration of America and Western Culture is not bigotry. Supporting the decline thereof under the diversity banner is to set the nation adrift in dis-unity. </p>
<p>Under the &#8216;Diversity&#8217; banner I am asked, no demanded, too not only accept but to celebrate this culture:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.black-and-right.com/2008/12/05/the-violent-oppression-of-women-in-islam/" rel="nofollow">http://www.black-and-right.com/2008/12/05/the-violent-oppression-of-women-in-islam/</a></p>
<p>and bring it to America!</p>
<p>Under the &#8216;Diversity&#8217; banner I am asked, no demanded, too not only accept but to celebrate this culture:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG05kVNFU9Q&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG05kVNFU9Q&amp;feature=related</a></p>
<p>and increase it in America!</p>
<p>Under the &#8216;Diversity&#8217; banner I am asked, no demanded, too not only accept but to celebrate this culture:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_hPlXn6Sro" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_hPlXn6Sro</a></p>
<p>that&#8217;s already in America!</p>
<p>Under the &#8216;Diversity&#8217; banner I am asked, no demanded, too not only accept but to celebrate this culture:</p>
<p><a href="http://goodfight.org/a_p_gay_marriage.html" rel="nofollow">http://goodfight.org/a_p_gay_marriage.html</a></p>
<p>and make it mainstream in America!</p>
<p>Under the &#8216;Diversity&#8217; banner I am asked, no demanded, too not only accept but to celebrate this culture:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFajpTD9YT0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFajpTD9YT0</a></p>
<p>and think wonderful thoughts of the 60&#8217;s counter-culture!</p>
<p>In the end we get what we ask for!</p>
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		<title>By: JJ Ross</title>
		<link>http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/01/02/do-we-need-a-secretary-of-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1041917</link>
		<dc:creator>JJ Ross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If I need a three-word philosophy of government, I&#039;m sticking with &quot;power of story.&quot;  :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I need a three-word philosophy of government, I&#8217;m sticking with &#8220;power of story.&#8221;  <img src='http://principleddiscovery.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Dana</title>
		<link>http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/01/02/do-we-need-a-secretary-of-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1041906</link>
		<dc:creator>Dana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I haven&#039;t a clue what that is supposed to mean. At least it rhymes, I guess?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t a clue what that is supposed to mean. At least it rhymes, I guess?</p>
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		<title>By: JJ Ross</title>
		<link>http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/01/02/do-we-need-a-secretary-of-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1041661</link>
		<dc:creator>JJ Ross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some kind of cynical Christianity-as-bigotry bumper sticker, or is this meant as your actual philosophy of government? --
&quot;diversity equals perversity&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some kind of cynical Christianity-as-bigotry bumper sticker, or is this meant as your actual philosophy of government? &#8211;<br />
&#8220;diversity equals perversity&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Peter</title>
		<link>http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/01/02/do-we-need-a-secretary-of-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1041622</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let&#039;s create a Department of Culture and consider who will run it.

How about CAIR (The Center for American Islamilization Regardless). Cultural icons such as Shari&#039;a Law, Female imprisonment and circumcision, suicide bombers etc.

Or maybe the Atheists can run it. Think about it, Crucifixes in urine, free for all anarchy, forced labor camps and death mills for the socially unfit..

Just think of the cultural lessons among the myriad of other controllers. We&#039;ll finally realize that diversity equals perversity and the best part is it&#039;ll be too late.

America is self destructing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s create a Department of Culture and consider who will run it.</p>
<p>How about CAIR (The Center for American Islamilization Regardless). Cultural icons such as Shari&#8217;a Law, Female imprisonment and circumcision, suicide bombers etc.</p>
<p>Or maybe the Atheists can run it. Think about it, Crucifixes in urine, free for all anarchy, forced labor camps and death mills for the socially unfit..</p>
<p>Just think of the cultural lessons among the myriad of other controllers. We&#8217;ll finally realize that diversity equals perversity and the best part is it&#8217;ll be too late.</p>
<p>America is self destructing.</p>
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		<title>By: Shane Vander Hart</title>
		<link>http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/01/02/do-we-need-a-secretary-of-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1041599</link>
		<dc:creator>Shane Vander Hart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey just what we need, another government department!  Sweet!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey just what we need, another government department!  Sweet!</p>
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		<title>By: JJ Ross</title>
		<link>http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/01/02/do-we-need-a-secretary-of-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1041211</link>
		<dc:creator>JJ Ross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Something Favorite Daughter wrote for her college humanities final exam and blogged one year ago this week (she was 17.)

&lt;a href=&quot;http://misedjj.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/i-actually-wrote-this-for-a-class/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;I Actually Wrote This for a Class&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:

&lt;blockquote&gt;If our best and brightest – our nation’s seemingly unending supply of college students – never learn to listen to art, how will it speak to them? What kind of people will they be?

The kind of people susceptible to hostile robot takeover. . .
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Something Favorite Daughter wrote for her college humanities final exam and blogged one year ago this week (she was 17.)</p>
<p><a href="http://misedjj.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/i-actually-wrote-this-for-a-class/" rel="nofollow">&#8220;I Actually Wrote This for a Class&#8221;</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>If our best and brightest – our nation’s seemingly unending supply of college students – never learn to listen to art, how will it speak to them? What kind of people will they be?</p>
<p>The kind of people susceptible to hostile robot takeover. . .
</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Sunniemom</title>
		<link>http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/01/02/do-we-need-a-secretary-of-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1041207</link>
		<dc:creator>Sunniemom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What Obama is being urged to do and what he himself believes about it are two different things. I was answering this sentence: &lt;i&gt;&quot;I wasn’t talking about that and I don’t hear Barack Obama talking about that&quot;&lt;/i&gt; because I haven&#039;t made any comments about nor do I know what Obama believes on this topic.

When I say that &quot;Culture is not an essential element to sustain life&quot; I am not denying that humans will always have their cultural and artistic expressions- but that gov&#039;t should not be involved in legislating, defining, or overseeing what is not an essential function of gov&#039;t. Law enforcement, defense, and even overseeing the safe production of foods and drugs are not undefinable in the same way as &#039;culture&#039; is. E.coli is not subject to interpretation, nor is murder, rape, theft etc... 

But when gov&#039;t says &quot;This is/isn&#039;t a form of artistic expression that should be supported and promoted with taxpayer money&quot; they are engaging in defining appropriate artistic and cultural expression. You can play Six Degrees of Separation if you like, but the inspiration for a railroad is not the same as legislating what forms of artistic and cultural expression  my tax dollars will support.

I am now going to go express myself by cleaning the downstairs and doing laundry. :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What Obama is being urged to do and what he himself believes about it are two different things. I was answering this sentence: <i>&#8220;I wasn’t talking about that and I don’t hear Barack Obama talking about that&#8221;</i> because I haven&#8217;t made any comments about nor do I know what Obama believes on this topic.</p>
<p>When I say that &#8220;Culture is not an essential element to sustain life&#8221; I am not denying that humans will always have their cultural and artistic expressions- but that gov&#8217;t should not be involved in legislating, defining, or overseeing what is not an essential function of gov&#8217;t. Law enforcement, defense, and even overseeing the safe production of foods and drugs are not undefinable in the same way as &#8216;culture&#8217; is. E.coli is not subject to interpretation, nor is murder, rape, theft etc&#8230; </p>
<p>But when gov&#8217;t says &#8220;This is/isn&#8217;t a form of artistic expression that should be supported and promoted with taxpayer money&#8221; they are engaging in defining appropriate artistic and cultural expression. You can play Six Degrees of Separation if you like, but the inspiration for a railroad is not the same as legislating what forms of artistic and cultural expression  my tax dollars will support.</p>
<p>I am now going to go express myself by cleaning the downstairs and doing laundry. <img src='http://principleddiscovery.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: JJ Ross</title>
		<link>http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/01/02/do-we-need-a-secretary-of-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1041201</link>
		<dc:creator>JJ Ross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, here&#039;s a news story about Pell that directly links federal &lt;a href=&quot;http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008582087_pellobit02.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;infrastructure support for our arts, humanities and rails!&lt;/a&gt;  :D

&lt;blockquote&gt;The Princeton graduate also was the author of the National Foundation of the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965. That legislation paved the way for the National Endowment for the Arts, which makes federal grants to artists and arts organizations, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, which channels federal money in literature, history, language and philosophy, among other fields.

A lifelong interest in railroads inspired him to draft a bill that became the High Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965. 
Out of this emerged the Amtrak system. . .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, here&#8217;s a news story about Pell that directly links federal <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008582087_pellobit02.html" rel="nofollow">infrastructure support for our arts, humanities and rails!</a>  <img src='http://principleddiscovery.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<blockquote><p>The Princeton graduate also was the author of the National Foundation of the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965. That legislation paved the way for the National Endowment for the Arts, which makes federal grants to artists and arts organizations, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, which channels federal money in literature, history, language and philosophy, among other fields.</p>
<p>A lifelong interest in railroads inspired him to draft a bill that became the High Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965.<br />
Out of this emerged the Amtrak system. . .</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: JJ Ross</title>
		<link>http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/01/02/do-we-need-a-secretary-of-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1041197</link>
		<dc:creator>JJ Ross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sunniemom, the whole post is about Barack Obama being urged to create a Secretary of Culture.  Right?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sunniemom, the whole post is about Barack Obama being urged to create a Secretary of Culture.  Right?</p>
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