War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
(John Stuart Mill, 1806 - 1873)..
I'd like to meet:
President G. W. Bush, SARAH PALIN, FRED THOMPSON , NEWT GINGRICH (Thompson/Gingrich 2008!), ANNE APPLEBAUM , J. R. DUNN ,
MARK STEYN ,
MICHELLE
MALKIN , JOSHUA MURAVCHIK,CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER , Victor Davis Hanson,... Newt Gingrich for GOP Chairman!
and Sarah Palin for President 2012!!
Music:
Everything, depends on the song... Glenn Frey and Eagles, Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Uriah Heep, A. Bocelli.. Italian music..
One of the Top 10 songs ever written! It's a perfect song when you drive or walk at night.. Reminds me of Miami Vice. I was a kid and I really liked it.
The 80s was probably the last great era of music. I wish I could live through it again..
Movies:
The Patriot, Glory, Gangs of New York, Saving Private Ryan, Bravo Two Zero, Utterly Alone, Amistad, The Pianist, Behind Enemy Lines, Schindler's List; Dragonfly, In Hell, Somewhere in Time, Monty Python movies, The Graduate..
ANY AND ALL with Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson; Jodie Foster, Liv Ullmann, Linda Fiorentino, Jane Seymour, Catherine Deneuve (she is one of the most beautiful and most elegant women in the world!..).
Anything by F.Coppola, I. Bergman, S. Spielberg..
Books:
John Irving, Milan Kundera, J. Kerouac, W. B. Yeats, E. Hemingway, G. Orwell, S. Mercier,..
Jack Kerouac was neither a hippie nor politically liberal. He was pro-American and pro-Vietnam, he was a devoted conservative follower of William Buckley..
J. K.: "I’m pro-American and the radical political involvements seem to tend elsewhere . . . The country gave my Canadian family a good break, more or less, and we see no reason to demean said country."
Heroes:
John Irving, United States Armed Forces servicemen and servicewomen, 9/11 Heroes, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, President G.W.Bush, Pope John Paul II, Vytautas Landsbergis..
William Tecumseh Sherman
