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I am appalled that this kind of tosh: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/06/seven-miracles-that-saved-america-by-david-forsmark/ - is being not only published but promoted, even by a notoriously narrow-minded website. If the American conservative movement does not want to confirm every bad stereotype attached to them across the world, they ought to take the lead in criticizing and demolishing this sort of irrational (and ignorant) production.

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[shezan.livejournal.com]

C'est pas très sérieux! It's the sort of thing you should tut-tut airily while enjoying a nice glass of red Chimay.

nice non sequitur

[(Anonymous)]

Did you just call a website "narrow minded" then say they should not publish a line of thought you disagree with? Nice.

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

This is interesting, as I just finished reading the book 1421 last week, and I found it interesting and pretty believable. From the description of the book in the OP, it sounds like they're just picking and choosing circumstances instead of doing thorough research. (To me anyway, and I'm just an amateur LOL)

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

there is good reason to believe that illiterate British and Breton fishermen had already discovered the banks of Newfoundland and had kept the discovery secret to their own advantage.
I have a book called Cod(and I'm damned if I can remember the author right now) which devotes a chapter to making this case--the quantity of fish that Breton and Portuguese ships were coming back with pretty much had to have come from the Grand Banks/Georges Bank (which is coincidentally also where The Perfect Storm takes place).

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

I could write a response entitled "Seven Plagues that Proves God Hates America" but nobody would buy it, right?

Let's see - Pearl Harbor, the 9/11 attacks, smallpox, Spanish Flu ... I can think of more.

[affablestranger.livejournal.com]

Wow.

And the laughs just keep on coming, brought on by those who say they really want to be taken seriously.

Eesh.

[sun-stealer.livejournal.com]

I would have found this tolerable, were it not for the shoddy workmanship and especially because it cited that psuedo-historical garbage, 1421.