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["Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT austincc.edu>]

Zinn is one of my favorite historians, and one cannot take him 
lightly.  In the same vein, here is a quote that has been bandied 
about a great deal, especially since September 11:
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." --Samuel Johnson 
(Boswell's Life of Johnson) http://www.samueljohnson.com/qotw02q2.html#0630

On the other hand, I received a 4th of July e-card from a friend in 
the Canary Islands (go figure) that has Uncle Sam saying, "If it 
weren't for Independence Day, we would all be drinking tea and eating 
crumpets and fish and chips like a bunch of Queen-loving pudding servers."
http://www.yahoo.americangreetings.com/display.pd?path=40925&prodnum=3122340
While it is meant to evoke a smile, it does make a relevant point.

Jerry

At 04:11 PM 7/5/2007, Lynda wrote:
> Ah, Roosevelt said that a true patriot questioned their government and their
> president!
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Melody Oliphant" <melody AT feedngrow.com>
>
> > I've been reading Dean Koontz' _False Memories_ this past week, and it
> > triggered an interesting thought: if an individual swore that another
> > was trying to kill them, were paranoid that they were being watched and
> > planned against, insisted that the enemy had weapons ready to use to
> > kill them, yet it was proved time and again that no such thing was
> > occuring, would they be sent to an insane assylum or to the White House?
> >
> > Sorry.  Not to patriotic I suppose, but it made me wonder.
>
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Jerry W. Shepperd, Ph. D.
Professor and Chair, Behavioral Sciences Department
Austin Community College
1212 Rio Grande Street
Austin, Texas 78701

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"Let your first ethical decision of each day be to show up on time."
                        -- Barbara Jordan

"Not all researchers are good teachers, but all good teachers are 
researchers."

"Silence is not always golden; sometimes it's yellow."