[Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza on Kamala Harris
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[Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza is making a comeback.
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[Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza - not a Catholic.
I used to visit the Peter Dias Road residence. We are Socoll Vaddo daijis, through my DSouza mother. The father was the cult leader of a born-again group which met out of his spacious home. That was the only religion Dinesh was exposed to as a young adult. There is an explanation for his capacity for the shameless 'big lie' so consistently a part of his jounalistic output: Bipolar illness is rampant along that stretch of road that runs to Arpora from Mapuca. eric. From: Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca To: GOANET goa...@goanet.org Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:57 PM Subject: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza Denies Affair, Forced to Resign from Kings College Folks, The Tea Party threw Dinesh D'Souza off a cliff today. D'Souza's final insult to his Goan and Catholic upbringing was to inform us that, I had no idea that it is considered wrong in Christian circles to be engaged prior to being divorced, even though in a state of separation and in divorce proceedings. RIP Dinesh. For those who are interested in the details, here is the link to The Christian Post article: http://www.christianpost.com/news/dinesh-dsouza-im-not-having-an-affair-83549/ Mervyn
[Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza Denies Affair, Forced to Resign from Kings College
Folks, The Tea Party threw Dinesh D'Souza off a cliff today. D'Souza's final insult to his Goan and Catholic upbringing was to inform us that, I had no idea that it is considered wrong in Christian circles to be engaged prior to being divorced, even though in a state of separation and in divorce proceedings. RIP Dinesh. For those who are interested in the details, here is the link to The Christian Post article: http://www.christianpost.com/news/dinesh-dsouza-im-not-having-an-affair-83549/ Mervyn
[Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:01:48 -0800 (PST) From: Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca I picked up this article from The Goan Voice, UK. It mentions stuff about the most embarrassing (to me) Goan in the USA. Warning: This is not for the feint of heart. This is also a primer on how far a person can go in the good ol' USA when he is extreme right-wing. http://www.alternet.org/workplace/145181/do_obama_and_geithner_have_the_same_flaw:_accommodation_instead_of_moral_action/ Mario responds: Talk about embarrassing Goans overseas. Whether you agree with Dinesh D'Souza's opinions or political philosophy or not, shown below are some of his accomplishments in America. Keep these accomplishments in mind when you read Mervyn's posted article where the author, Mark Ames, writes, Quote: The Dartmouth Review's editor at that time was Dinesh D'Souza, an Indian immigrant eager to play the suck-up waterboy to the university's white rightwing elite -- even if that meant being their dark-skinned face of elitist white racism. Under D'Souza's editorship, the Review not only attacked the very same affirmative action that helped D'Souza get into Dartmouth,... Unquote. Ooooh! Suck-up waterboy? Dark-skinned face of elitist white racism? affirmative action helped D'Souza get into Dartmouth? Quite a dispassionate and objective observer this Mark Ames, isn't he? Now compare this with what others have said about Dinesh D'Souza: http://www.dineshdsouza.com/more/about.html Excerpt: D'Souza has been called one of the top young public-policy makers in the country by Investor’s Business Daily. The New York Times Magazine named him one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. The World Affairs Council lists him as one of the nation's 500 leading authorities on international issues. Newsweek cited him as one of the country's most prominent Asian Americans. A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D'Souza also served as John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983. [end of excerpt] Dinesh is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Members are elected based on academic excellence. From the society web site, You must be elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa by the chapter where you received your bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. degree. We must receive confirmation from the chapter before you can be registered as a member of the Society. Here is what the ancient Honor Society, Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776, means which includes Bill Clinton among its members: http://www.pbk.org/infoview/PBK_InfoView.aspx?t=id=8 Here is some information about the members of Phi Beta Kappa: http://www.pbk.org/infoview/PBK_InfoView.aspx?t=id=59 Excerpt: Seventeen U.S. Presidents, thirty-eight U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and one hundred and thirty-six Nobel laureates can be counted among the ranks of Phi Beta Kappa members. [end of excerpt] Mervyn is correct. With accomplishments like these, every Goan should be embarrassed that Dinesh D'Souza is a Goan. And Mark Ames says that Dinesh is a Suck-up waterboy, Dark-skinned face of elitist white racism who needed affirmative action to get into Dartmouth. I don't think either Mervyn or Mark Ames like Dinesh, do you? Here is an interesting snippet from Mark Ames biography: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/mark_ames/profile.html Excerpts: A native son of the California suburbs, Mark graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Rhetoric. He quickly discovered that the wretched post-Reagan world was no place to spend a life, so he fled to the chaos of post-Soviet Russia, a culture far freer in all the important ways than pious, cheerless America. After a few failed stints in Russia’s perilous business world, first as a liquor distributor and later as the personal secretary to an Indian beer magnate, Ames moved into journalism. In 1997, he founded The eXile, which CNN described as “brazen, irreverent, immodest, and rude, adding that it lampooned and investigated greed, corruption, cowardice and complacency”. [end of excerpt]
[Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza
Folks, I picked up this article from The Goan Voice, UK. It mentions stuff about the most embarrassing (to me) Goan in the USA. Warning: This is not for the feint of heart. This is also a primer on how far a person can go in the good ol' USA when he is extreme right-wing. http://www.alternet.org/workplace/145181/do_obama_and_geithner_have_the_same_flaw:_accommodation_instead_of_moral_action/ Mervyn1129Lobo __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at this renowned author, would suggest we-goanetters tend to look at issues, at best in a superficial way and at worst by demagoging the facts. On reading the answers given by Dinesh D'Souza to two very reasonable and sober questions posed by TDR, my impression of him is worse than what it was before. He seems to be no better than the we-goanetters referred to above. No serious and thoughtful intellectual who genuinely has profound insights about religion, would have wasted the questioner's time with tired old banalities about the inquisition, crusades, crimes of atheists, Dawkins, Hitchens, Sam Harris and other bugaboos, in response to: What do you believe the proper role of religion in a liberal arts education ought to be? and Whom are you reading these days? D'Souza sounds to me more like a raving radio talk show host hacking a handful of trite ideological talking points and dropping names left and right to elicit emotional approval from his co-ideologues and co-religionists. Cheers, Santosh --- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TDR: What do you believe the proper role of religion in a liberal arts education ought to be? D'Souza: I think this assumption in society that somehow religion should be left out of democratic debate is a ludicrous one. It's based on a wrong view of history that somehow sees religion as inherently dangerous. Now, the reason for this myth is that we've been subjected, in the last hundred years or so, to a form of atheist propaganda, mainly the idea that history shows that religion has been a toxic and dangerous force in Western if not world history. ... TDR: Whom are you reading these days? D'Souza: I see the New Atheists, people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris as Lilliputian front men for the Great Atheists of a hundred years ago. I'm thinking of figures such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, to some degree Marx, Bertrand Russell, and even Jean-Paul Sartre. Ultimately, I think as Christians there's a need to confront those atheists and the arguments that they make.
[Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza
The following is from a review of Goan Dinesh D'Souza with The Dartmouth Review (TDR). The web-link to the interview was recently provided by Goanet news. I thought some abstracts from that interview may be of interest to Goanetters. Looking at this renowned author, would suggest we-goanetters tend to look at issues, at best in a superficial way and at worst by demagoging the facts. The only way a topic / thread stays alive and of interst on Goanet is if it becomes controversial - not intellectual. Regards, GL TDR: What do you believe the proper role of religion in a liberal arts education ought to be? D'Souza: I think this assumption in society that somehow religion should be left out of democratic debate is a ludicrous one. It's based on a wrong view of history that somehow sees religion as inherently dangerous. Now, the reason for this myth is that we've been subjected, in the last hundred years or so, to a form of atheist propaganda, mainly the idea that history shows that religion has been a toxic and dangerous force in Western if not world history. The record doesn't actually bear this out. The greatest crimes of religion are minute compared to the crimes of atheist regimes which are, in fact, far more blood-thirsty and have perpetrated offenses that are far more recent and that still are going on. The greatest offense of religion and the Christian religion would be something like the Inquisition. That's what comes to mind when you think of the crimes of religion. And yet, if you look at the historical scholarship on the Inquisition-I'm thinking here of Henry Kamen's study of the Spanish Inquisition, which was the worst-over about 350 years the Spanish Inquisition killed about 2,000-3,000 people. That would factor to about 6-10 people per year, which is hardly a world historical crime. You have these atheists crying crocodile tears about theses crimes of religion that have occurred three hundred, five hundred, sometimes in the case of the Crusades a thousand years ago. Yet these people ignore the crimes of atheism perpetrated in the 20th century, and I'd say in some cases still continuing. People say that we have to avoid the perils of religious theocracy or religious persecution, but there's been nothing like that in American history. So we are tilting here against imaginary demons. All of this is a way of saying that I think there's an unnatural fear of religion that I think has been implanted in the American psyche. All of this is behind the idea that not only should the government not install an official religion, which I think is not only a sensible idea but a Christian idea, but more than that the idea that if we engage with religion it becomes the prelude to theocracy. The bottom line of it is, I think God and religion should be a vein of open, uninhibited inquiry. There's no reason that this topic should be kept off limits. I would like to see in American intellectual life a revival of the kind of the theological debates that were once commonplace in American universities, and even in American public intellectual life. TDR: Whom are you reading these days? D'Souza: Today, my interests are as much theological as they are political. I'm reading a philosopher, Charles Taylor, and would recommend in particular his book Sources of the Self. I'm also reading the Great Atheists. I see the New Atheists, people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris as Lilliputian front men for the Great Atheists of a hundred years ago. I'm thinking of figures such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, to some degree Marx, Bertrand Russell, and even Jean-Paul Sartre. Ultimately, I think as Christians there's a need to confront those atheists and the arguments that they make. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....to Victor
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled Lion King December 1, 2007 - Hanuman Hall, Mapusa to fundraise for a false ceiling for the school hall upgrading the school playground Headmistress Sr. Namika A.C. / Teacher Mrs. Sonia Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:45:59 -0800 (PST) From: Victor Rangel-Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glory be! The good old times are back. Mario is once again resorting to name-calling. Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, who happily lives quite far from Dinesh D'Souza, but would have welcomed George Pinto for a neighbour. Mario observes: Hey, Victor, there is no pleasing you, is there? There I was, trying to respect and compliment you and raise your profile, and you turn around and accuse me of name-calling. Tsk, tsk, tsk:-)) BTW, as usual, you seem to have overlooked the gist of my post, which was a serious request for you and George Pinto - whom I nominated only because of his proximity to Dinesh - to arrange a head-to-head debate between Santosh and Dinesh. How about it, hanh??? This would clarify the positions and knowledge of both and relieve Gilbert of the strain of dealing single-handedly with Santosh's assertions and opinions:-))
Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled Lion King December 1, 2007 - Hanuman Hall, Mapusa to fundraise for a false ceiling for the school hall upgrading the school playground Headmistress Sr. Namika A.C. / Teacher Mrs. Sonia Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except for the obligatory cheap shot about D'Souza's chauvinism, showing disapproval with his point of view. As if Hitchens was any LESS chauvinistic. But, I digress. I contend that both D'Souza and Hitchens are chauvinists, and I have absolutely no sympathy for either of their main points of view. That they are chauvinists is clear from their own stated convictions. Hitchens' position is that religion is a threat to human survival. He makes claims such as religious faith is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression. D'Souza proudly states the following: Christianity is the main foundation of Western civilization, the root of our most cherished values. The latest discoveries of modern science support the Christian claim that there is a divine being who created the universe. Cheers, Santosh
Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled Lion King December 1, 2007 - Hanuman Hall, Mapusa to fundraise for a false ceiling for the school hall upgrading the school playground Headmistress Sr. Namika A.C. / Teacher Mrs. Sonia Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:15:57 -0800 (PST) From: Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I have said before, the problem with this debate was that there was no clear resolution to be for or against. So both debaters could erect their own straw men and flog them to death with stock phrases and well worn arguments. Mario adds: I think the only way to sort all this out is to hold a head-to-head debate between Santosh and Dinesh, using Santosh's detailed format. I hereby nominate George Pinto, who lives fairly close to Dinesh D'Souza, assisted by Goanet's pot-stirrer extraordinaire, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, who does not, to arrange such a debate, which will then be broadcast across the diaspora. Glory be! The good old times are back. Mario is once again resorting to name-calling. Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, who happily lives quite far from Dinesh D'Souza, but would have welcomed George Pinto for a neighbour
Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....
--- Frederick [FN] Noron ha * ??? ? ??? ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ? Dinesh D'Souza is talking through his hat ...Christopher HItchins scores in this debate, IMO http://tinyurl.com/3detdy (... inspite of the organisers of the debate trying to skew things by overstating the case Hitchins has to defend) FN Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:15:57 -0800 (PST) From: Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I have said before, the problem with this debate was that there was no clear resolution to be for or against. So both debaters could erect their own straw men and flog them to death with stock phrases and well worn arguments. In my opinion, Dinesh D'Souza proved that he could do this better than Hitchens in front of an audience that was overwhelmingly sympathetic to his chauvinistic point of view. This would have been a genuine debate, and much more interesting and worthwhile, if, for example, these political pundits were asked to debate any of the following resolutions: Mario adds: In contrast with Frederick's generalities, IMNHO, highlighted by numerous question marks to try and impress us, but which tell us NOTHING about what he thinks about any of the specifics of the debate between D'Souza and Hitchens, Santosh has been very specific as well as perceptive. Except for the obligatory cheap shot about D'Souza's chauvinism, showing disapproval with his point of view. As if Hitchens was any LESS chauvinistic. But, I digress. I think the only way to sort all this out is to hold a head-to-head debate between Santosh and Dinesh, using Santosh's detailed format. I hereby nominate George Pinto, who lives fairly close to Dinesh D'Souza, assisted by Goanet's pot-stirrer extraordinaire, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, who does not, to arrange such a debate, which will then be broadcast across the diaspora. The rest of us may even learn something. As for me, I think we will all find out who was right soon enough - without wasting a single breath or unit of energy:-))
Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled Lion King December 1, 2007 - Hanuman Hall, Mapusa to fundraise for a false ceiling for the school hall upgrading the school playground Headmistress Sr. Namika A.C. / Teacher Mrs. Sonia Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On 21/11/2007, Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding Frederick's comments about Dinesh, I will tell Dinesh that he should start worrying about Frederick's opinions once Frederick can command speaking or writing fees for an entire year that comes anywhere close to what Dinesh makes for a single speech:-)) I'll wait for the rupee to appreciate (to something like $50 to the rupee) and then it might happen :-) FN
Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....
As I have said before, the problem with this debate was that there was no clear resolution to be for or against. So both debaters could erect their own straw men and flog them to death with stock phrases and well worn arguments. In my opinion, Dinesh D'Souza proved that he could do this better than Hitchens in front of an audience that was overwhelmingly sympathetic to his chauvinistic point of view. This would have been a genuine debate, and much more interesting and worthwhile, if, for example, these political pundits were asked to debate any of the following resolutions: 1. Resolved: Belief in God, or especially my God, is essential to human progress and/or survival of the human civilization. 2. Resolved: A lack of belief in God will be essential to continued human progress and/or the ultimate survival of the human civilization. 3. Resolved: Faith is essential to human progress and/or survival of the human civilization. 4. Resolved: Morality is derived entirely from religious teachings and revelation. 5. Resolved: Christianity is responsible for originating the principles of equality, democracy and brotherly love. 6. Resolved: Belief in God(s) or in a particular type of God(s) is irrational. 7. Resolved: A lack of belief in God(s) is irrational. 8. Resolved: Religious thinking in general, or Christian theology, in particular, led to scientific discoveries and progress. 9. Resolved: Eradication of religion, or a particular religion, would lead to a peaceful society and to human progress. 10. Resolved: Religion (or especially, my religion) and Science are not in conflict. 11. Resolved: Explanations and justifications derived from religion (or especially, my religion) should play an important role in science, public education, political decisions and legislation. 12. Resolved: Modern scientific knowledge is a recapitulation of the wisdom contained in sacred revealed texts of my religion. Cheers, Santosh --- Frederick [FN] Noron ha * फà¥à¤°à¥à¤¡ रिठन à¥à¤°à¥à¤à¤¯à¤¾ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dinesh D'Souza is talking through his hat ...Christopher HItchins scores in this debate, IMO http://tinyurl.com/3detdy (... inspite of the organisers of the debate trying to skew things by overstating the case Hitchins has to defend) FN
Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:45:18 -0800 (PST) From: Victor Rangel-Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Frederick, Oh dear! You accuse Dinesh D'Souza of talking through his hat? You're going to get our Mario all worked up, and we'll never hear the end of this. He's already locked in a battle with Mervyn, and now you've gone and opened a second front... Mario clarifies: Dear Victor, I see you are still engaged in trying to stir up the pot without adding anything to the general debate:-)) There is no battle with Mervyn going on. Only a minor dispute about a choice of terms. I understand his figures and how he uses them perhaps better than he does. After all, I have an MBA, as Gabe reminded everyone, and everyone knows that MBA's are taught this stuff and then some, and don't just pick it up from their friends and neighbors:-)) Actually, I would recommend a hurdle rate higher than the puny 5.1% and also recommend different hurdle rates depending on the perceived risk in an investment. See, that expensive MBA did teach me some tricks of the trade:-)) But Mervyn knows all this, too, and says he makes a lot of money with it. Good for him. Where I took issue was when he a) described a private expectation as an official statistic, and b) thought he could take a cheap shot at the US by claiming that the US routinely excludes the cost of food and gasoline in calculating inflation, which is plainly false. Regarding Frederick's comments about Dinesh, I will tell Dinesh that he should start worrying about Frederick's opinions once Frederick can command speaking or writing fees for an entire year that comes anywhere close to what Dinesh makes for a single speech:-)) Until then, Dinesh has little to worry about:-))
Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....//to FN
--- Frederick [FN] Noron ha * फà¥à¤°à¥à¤¡ रिठन à¥à¤°à¥à¤à¤¯à¤¾ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dinesh D'Souza is talking through his hat ...Christopher HItchins scores in this debate, IMO http://tinyurl.com/3detdy (... inspite of the organisers of the debate trying to skew things by overstating the case Hitchins has to defend) FN -- Dear FN, Were you trapped in one of those Mandovi restrooms when this debate was raging on Goanet? :-) selma Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
[Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....
Dinesh D'Souza is talking through his hat ...Christopher HItchins scores in this debate, IMO http://tinyurl.com/3detdy (... inspite of the organisers of the debate trying to skew things by overstating the case Hitchins has to defend) FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 12000+ downloadable, sharable hi-res photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/
Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....
--- Frederick [FN] Noron ha * फà¥à¤°à¥à¤¡ रिठन à¥à¤°à¥à¤à¤¯à¤¾ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dinesh D'Souza is talking through his hat ...Christopher HItchins scores in this debate, IMO http://tinyurl.com/3detdy (... inspite of the organisers of the debate trying to skew things by overstating the case Hitchins has to defend) FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Dear Frederick, Oh dear! You accuse Dinesh D'Souza of talking through his hat? You're going to get our Mario all worked up, and we'll never hear the end of this. He's already locked in a battle with Mervyn, and now you've gone and opened a second front... Regards, Victor
