en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/957045 Comments by shotgunwildatheart http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/08/romney-picks-ryan.html#IDComment486353951 This is wonderful news. Be sure to inform VA that if she needs someone's knees busted up with a baseball bat, she only need post a name. Or, you know, we can also offer prayers. Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:50:41 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/08/romney-picks-ryan.html#IDComment486353951 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/08/romney-picks-ryan.html#IDComment484636603 I say we form a committee of interested folk to meet on a private venue (perhaps Skype) at an allotted time, to figure it out one way or the other. And when we have all the relevant facts, as good Christian men, we can make an informed decision as to how to proceed. Will we really let shyness or a hint of impropriety keep us from discovering the truth about a dear friend and guiding light? What if she's in trouble? Plus, I always like an adventure. I'll be in Richmond tomorrow and will drive past the house, even though we're reasonably sure it's not a plausible lead. I'll report on what I find. If anyone is interested in my "conference of confidants" idea, contact me through my blog, and we'll try to set something up. Thanks Canadian for all you've done. Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:29:06 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/08/romney-picks-ryan.html#IDComment484636603 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/08/romney-picks-ryan.html#IDComment478277225 Canadian, I'm very close to that Richmond address (I get through Richmond frequently)... if need be, I can do some snooping, just to eliminate this as an avenue of inquiry once and for all. I hope Cabbage Role is right. If so, I hope VA knows she's got some loyal fans. Fri, 2 Nov 2012 01:45:15 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/08/romney-picks-ryan.html#IDComment478277225 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/08/romney-picks-ryan.html#IDComment471075569 That is very alarming if true, Canadian. I'd appreciate whatever you might do to find out for sure. Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:17:11 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/08/romney-picks-ryan.html#IDComment471075569 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/08/romney-picks-ryan.html#IDComment462735766 I say ... we form a posse' and go right whatever wrong is keeping VA from posting! Who's with me?? Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:21:41 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/08/romney-picks-ryan.html#IDComment462735766 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/07/amazon-athletes.html#IDComment410166227 One thing I've learned from my 30 years of being a man, is that women are going to enfatuate and befuddle us, no matter their body type. Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:19:33 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/07/amazon-athletes.html#IDComment410166227 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/05/one-more-time.html#IDComment359784174 I think I'd have words with anyone that said a cross thing to Vanishing American. Sun, 13 May 2012 17:53:32 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/05/one-more-time.html#IDComment359784174 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/05/lost-colony-found.html#IDComment355996604 Thank you for bringing this article to my attention. I'm writing this reply from Roanoke Island. I've grown up in this area and the legend has taken on a magical quality for some of us. I'm absolutely in love with this place and hope to establish permanent roots here. Interestingly enough, the patch on that map, where the possible outpost may have been located, is very close to where I currently live. Matter of fact, I was just in a fishing tournament in that very location and, as we drove around the inland water ways, I was imagining what it must have been like for the early settlers. I'm intrigued to know the area may have been the final resting place of the Lost Colony. If you look on Google maps, you'll see an area near that location known as "bacelor's bay" -- it's a small housing development on the far-western end of the Albemarle Sound. Were I to build a fort, I'd start in that general area (judging from the lay of the land). When I get a chance, I'd like to drive the boat back down to that area and poke around some. Mon, 7 May 2012 19:33:10 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.ca/2012/05/lost-colony-found.html#IDComment355996604 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/opinions-needed.html#IDComment346438029 I love the blog. Please don't change. By the way: I would have posted sooner, but I couldn't (for the life of me) figure out how to leave comments. ;) Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:32:29 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/opinions-needed.html#IDComment346438029 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-family.html#IDComment301263290 Here's a question: Is it worth the money to pay for a monthly subscription to ancestry.com ? Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:00:06 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-family.html#IDComment301263290 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2012/01/paging-english-americans.html#IDComment271615863 Despite confident assertions on historical matters, it's been my experience that terms like "race" and "ethnicity" are very ambiguous and emotionally-laden and are in desperate need of analytical treatment from sympathetic, Christian philosophers. I consider myself an "ethnic-nationalist" so these sorts of issues are an important part of my political-theory. At what point do we stop claiming English-Americans are vanishing, and instead, claim that a new American ethnos (of European stock) is emerging? I ask that question rhetorically because I'm sure we all have opinions on the matter. I've been reading a lot of Wendell Berry (as well as some Romantic Nationalists like John Ruskin) and they have a high regard of "place" and how God uses it to grow, not just individuals, but entire classes of people. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:38:35 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2012/01/paging-english-americans.html#IDComment271615863 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2012/01/where-it-started.html#IDComment263078221 I first heard the "ethnic / divide" thesis from the Kennedy Brothers book "The South Was Right." It's popped up again and again in works of popular literature on the South, including that text-book "The War Between the States" put out by American Vision. Seems like an important meta-narrative for those egalitarian liberals who are, nevertheless, concerned with exonerating the South. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:37:22 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2012/01/where-it-started.html#IDComment263078221 http://tv.breitbart.com/paul-claims-victory-for-the-cause-of-liberty/#IDComment260978369 I wonder how much Romney pays to have people log into websites like this and spew anti-Ron Paul nonsense? The rhetoric (against Paul) doesn't even make sense in most cases. Come on folks: participate in democracy by skillfully presenting a coherent case for your position. Ron Paul 2012 (and beyond!) Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:55:52 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/paul-claims-victory-for-the-cause-of-liberty/#IDComment260978369 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-commenting-woes.html#IDComment259148354 Try changing the name of your blog to "Re-appearing American" and maybe your Intense Debate account will also reappear? (hahaha, sorry. I couldn't resist. I wish I had something of substance to offer. From the reader's perspective, we're just glad you're still able to post.) Mon, 9 Jan 2012 04:07:29 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-commenting-woes.html#IDComment259148354 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2012/01/emma-west-latest.html#IDComment255170729 She's got one chance, but in involves a knight, brave enough to lead a team of hero vigilantes against an evil empire. Are there any such left? Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:22:01 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2012/01/emma-west-latest.html#IDComment255170729 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2011/12/hate-and-honesty.html#IDComment244337240 I thought for awhile that Santorum would be a good second-choice for me, if Paul doesn't make it (God-forbid), especially given his pro-family rhetoric. But, after thinking about it, I've started writing an article comparing Santorum to Boromir of Gondor. He's a man who would take the reigns of the great, industrial evil and attempt to use it for good, while ultimately trampling the community and spiritual life of the populace...and likely getting us embroiled in yet more unethical foreign aggression. As for Paul and the libertarians, I'm inclined to agree with Scotsman. I was listening to a lecture the other day by libertarian Walter Block and he mentions Michael Levin (associate of American Renaissance and author of "Why Race Matters") in a positive light, and commiserated with him and the trials he's faced in academia as a result of his race-realism. That combined with Rothbard's book of essays against Egalitarianism, and I have some hope that there may be latent racial-sanity lurking in Ron Paul's network of ideologies. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:17:30 +0000 http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2011/12/hate-and-honesty.html#IDComment244337240 http://americanvision.org/3323/proposition-8-a-morally-bankrupt-decision-from-an-economically-bankrupt-state/#IDComment91987271 Mr. DeMar must demonstrate that a mixed-marriage do...es NOT necessarily IMPLY propositional nationhood. If he cannot, then he MUST demonstrate that propositional nations are normative. He cannot do either, and therefore, must resort to vague generalizations and emotional rhetoric (calling the position "absurd" etc.) Mixed-Marriages necessarily imply that the State is sovereign over the family, property, and the tribe, NOT God! This is a strange position for professing "theonomists" to hold. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:23:49 +0000 http://americanvision.org/3323/proposition-8-a-morally-bankrupt-decision-from-an-economically-bankrupt-state/#IDComment91987271 http://americanvision.org/2641/a-plan-that-misfired/#IDComment91449763 A god trying to create itself, Mgranny, is the only arbitrary act we have in this context. I'll illustrate my point this way: If you had a baby, would you mind if the child was swapped out with another of equal age and health? You would, presumably, be appalled at that sort of act, and so your child's blood relation to you is not an arbitrary relationship by any means. And of course, the same follows for any coherent definition of the term "race." The family group and blood bonds of individuals bind them together in non-arbitrary ways. Of course, today, people do not like that idea and argue that the ONLY legitimate "nation" is that body of individuals who associate among themselves based on their mutual assent to some creed or ideal, in America's case: a set of laws. This is, ultimately, the arbitrary position. Man tries to dictate for himself what a nation is. As Rushdoony has taught us, all laws are based on some religious principle and a nation that forms itself is a nation that demands worship of its most ultimate authority. And since it created itself by arbitrary fiat...then it necessarily demands worship of itself. Who benefits from such arbitrary power? It's not God OR God's people. Sat, 7 Aug 2010 20:13:23 +0000 http://americanvision.org/2641/a-plan-that-misfired/#IDComment91449763 http://americanvision.org/2641/a-plan-that-misfired/#IDComment91301139 I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you saying that Mr. DeMar's claim that Hitler had some self-conscious goal to "showcase the superiority of the Aryan people to all the world," is substantiated by the (alleged) fact that Germany only let whites represent her in the Olympics? By the way...which nation participating in the Olympics that year did not wish to showcase their nation's superiority to all the world? The fact that you guys don't like, is that the German people had a different idea of what a "nation" is than you do. Perhaps we should investigate a Biblical doctrine of "nationality" and maybe that would scratch our mutual itch? Sat, 7 Aug 2010 00:08:54 +0000 http://americanvision.org/2641/a-plan-that-misfired/#IDComment91301139 http://americanvision.org/2641/a-plan-that-misfired/#IDComment91300416 You see, the message of this clip is basically: "Ha ha Hitler! Aryans are not physically better than blacks after all, so take THEM APPLES!" So, are blacks physically superior to blond-haired, blue-eyed Aryans then? If Mr. DeMar says "yes" then he's being hypocritical. Why is it wrong for Hitler to think Aryans are superior physically to blacks, but alright for blacks to think they're superior to Aryans? If Mr. DeMar says "no" then he is agreeing with his caricature of Hitler. If he says the two are equal physically, then he has to explain why one won and the other lost. Sat, 7 Aug 2010 00:03:21 +0000 http://americanvision.org/2641/a-plan-that-misfired/#IDComment91300416