tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post1375684933640942816..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Secret Uprising: The growing Saudi protest movement that's been hidden from the worldDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59306657131373582302014-10-17T02:02:10.534-04:002014-10-17T02:02:10.534-04:00Bob,
Jack is nothing. He has never written an ori...Bob,<br /><br />Jack is nothing. He has never written an original thought, right or wrong. As a parasite he takes snippets written by others, pastes them in support of his chosen bigotry, and yells, "What a good boy am I!" It has never occurred to him that his foolishness makes him the perfect foil for good. His easily elicited ravings do his beloved caliphate more damage than I could ever hope to do through measured persuasion and thousands of pages of supporting documentation. The man is an endless source of amusement who has not once suspected that he is the village idiot, a dunce in dunce's clothing.<br /><br />The text above contains 105 words. An elementary school child could find the additional 195 words to complete a small essay of 300 words; but not our Jack.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45339856237446690292014-10-17T00:40:02.518-04:002014-10-17T00:40:02.518-04:00Scientifically, What Is the Worst Way to Die?
Octo...Scientifically, What Is the Worst Way to Die?<br />October 15, 2014 // 12:40 PM EST<br />Written by Alexandra Ossola<br /><br />http://motherboard.vice.com/read/scientifically-what-is-the-worst-way-to-die<br /><br />If you don't like the topic, you might like the art work.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15863993311867377722014-10-17T00:23:02.556-04:002014-10-17T00:23:02.556-04:00Alarm after vomiting passenger dies on flight from...Alarm after vomiting passenger dies on flight from Nigeria to JFK...........drudge<br /><br />Under the circumstances prevailing today, I know this would cause me alarm.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60824558553571123652014-10-16T23:56:02.020-04:002014-10-16T23:56:02.020-04:00No Allen, no "delusional" usage for you....No Allen, no "delusional" usage for you...<br /><br />I posted the term.<br /><br />But Jack off, in his "premature eblogatuation" can't tell the Atlanta Jew from the Ohio Jew, I guess all Jews look and sound alike to him...<br /><br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20361502656604331292014-10-16T23:45:53.440-04:002014-10-16T23:45:53.440-04:00WiO,
Did you find "above somewhere" my ...WiO,<br /><br />Did you find "above somewhere" my use of the word "delusional"? Does "above somewhere" reach as far as the cantle of a polo pony?<br /><br />You would think a punctilious cut and paste impostor such as the "Guatemala Guacamole Guano Kid" would know exactly where "above somewhere" is. Of course, we are talking about a guy who lost his unit “somewhere” in Central America.<br /> allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50117615738718497942014-10-16T23:45:05.958-04:002014-10-16T23:45:05.958-04:00Jack is really really fucked up.
A gonner.Jack is really really fucked up.<br /><br />A gonner.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76909948622124480792014-10-16T23:43:28.010-04:002014-10-16T23:43:28.010-04:00We all know Jack is delusional.
The only question...We all know Jack is delusional.<br /><br />The only question is why is Jack delusional.<br /><br />Various theories have been put forward.<br /><br />I have come to the opinion that there is not a single cause, but multiple causes.<br /><br />If I am correct, Jack is a gonner.<br /><br />Not even modern psychiatry at its very best could solve all Jack's problems.<br /><br />I am not saying this to put Jack down.<br /><br />I am saying it because I believe it to be true.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50404312447437792492014-10-16T23:31:10.399-04:002014-10-16T23:31:10.399-04:00http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/...http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/30/isis-bomb-muslim-world-air-strikes-saudi-arabia<br />Why stop at Isis when we could bomb the whole Muslim world?<br />Humanitarian arguments, if consistently applied, could be used to flatten the entire Middle East<br /><br />“Perhaps this is the plan: Barack Obama has now bombed seven largely Muslim countries, in each case citing a moral imperative. The result, as you can see in Libya, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and Syria, has been the eradication of jihadi groups, of conflict, chaos, murder, oppression and torture. Evil has been driven from the face of the Earth by the destroying angels of the west.”<br /><br />“While the bombs fall, our states befriend and defend other networks of death. The US government still refuses – despite Obama’s promise – to release the 28 redacted pages from the joint congressional inquiry into 9/11, which document Saudi Arabian complicity in the US attack. In the UK, in 2004 the Serious Fraud Office began investigating allegations of massive bribes paid by the British weapons company BAE to Saudi ministers and middlemen. Just as crucial evidence was about to be released, Tony Blair intervened to stop the investigation. The biggest alleged beneficiary was Prince Bandar. The SFO was investigating a claim that, with the approval of the British government, he received £1bn in secret payments from BAE.<br /><br />And still it is said to go on. Last week’s Private Eye, drawing on a dossier of recordings and emails, alleges that a British company has paid £300m in bribes to facilitate weapons sales to the Saudi national guard. When a whistleblower in the company reported these payments to the British Ministry of Defence, instead of taking action it alerted his bosses. He had to flee the country to avoid being thrown into a Saudi jail.”<br />allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22089502296006247852014-10-16T23:00:43.466-04:002014-10-16T23:00:43.466-04:00Come on llen, you can admit that you either write ...Come on llen, you can admit that you either write out of your own narcissistic need, or that you write for the reader.<br /><br />You can admit to your own narcissism, or your self-diagnosis of <b><i>'delusion'</i></b><br /><br />Which shall it be?Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32768153846031182212014-10-16T22:54:13.310-04:002014-10-16T22:54:13.310-04:00Why, who cares,, if not to influence the reader.
T...Why, who cares,, if not to influence the reader.<br />To do it for any other reason, well llen, that would simply be ...<br /><br />.... <b>delusional</b> on your part.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62207879374837342582014-10-16T22:54:05.875-04:002014-10-16T22:54:05.875-04:00So quick to type and squirt his "mark" o...So quick to type and squirt his "mark" over the blog pages, Jack Hawkins has "premature eblogatuation" again..<br /><br /><br />Jack HawkinsThu Oct 16, 09:13:00 PM EDT<br />Our contributor 'alen' has written, up above somewhere, that to think the are 'readers' and/or to write to or for them is ...<br />in his word ...<br />"delusional"<br /><br /><br /><br />What is "Occupation"Thu Oct 16, 03:04:00 PM EDT<br />The "reader"?<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />You are delusional<br /><br />Delete<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Yep Jack is Delusional.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64574831979355793452014-10-16T22:39:33.339-04:002014-10-16T22:39:33.339-04:00I am sure they are trustworthy; otherwise, the U.N...I am sure they are trustworthy; otherwise, the U.N. would never have chosen them. We should always follow the lead of the U.N. -- that bastion of integrity and defender of freedom across the globe. Why the Israelis balk at this vast reservoir of sagacity is a patent case of the dilatory effect of polluting pig and monkey blood. Israel would do well to take the example of Rwanda, under the watchful eye of the neutral French, as its guide. Up Palestine! Viva Hamass!allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8391471382048466252014-10-16T22:29:08.668-04:002014-10-16T22:29:08.668-04:00"Mexican investment in the United States is l..."Mexican investment in the United States is less than U.S. investment in Mexico, but it is has been growing rapidly in recent years."<br /><br />... numbers for the U.S. but none for Mexico ... Hmm ...allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-65260651253705228562014-10-16T21:46:47.543-04:002014-10-16T21:46:47.543-04:00Allen is not your contributor.
Allen is a Zionis...Allen is not your contributor.<br /><br /> Allen is a Zionist.<br /><br /> Allen has legally hired Mexicans and finds them to be the best manual labor he has known. <br /><br />Allen's favorite ring is the work of a group of Mexican jewelers, who created a piece that repeatedly features the Star of David. <br /><br />Allen does not hit and run: make an argument backed with verifiable facts and I will debate courteously all day; try feed me opinion as fact and I will leave you high and dry.<br /><br /> Allen will call a lying, semi-literate NAZI just that.<br /><br />Allen is a particular about with whom participates in blogging as he is of sex. If you need a shot-card, I don't need you.<br /><br />allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52485890586265142792014-10-16T21:36:58.038-04:002014-10-16T21:36:58.038-04:00What has happened to the Kurds should be an object...What has happened to the Kurds should be an object lesson to those blessed with the wisdom to take it.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80015867825888591582014-10-16T21:16:51.621-04:002014-10-16T21:16:51.621-04:00For the grade?
Or just for the stipend?
A mercena...For the grade?<br />Or just for the stipend?<br /><br />A mercenary blogger ... is that all allen is?<br /><br />If there are no readers, what other reason is there, to participate?<br />Why are you still here?<br />Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4259966439140653252014-10-16T21:13:06.565-04:002014-10-16T21:13:06.565-04:00Our contributor 'alen' has written, up abo...Our contributor 'alen' has written, up above somewhere, that to think the are 'readers' and/or to write to or for them is ...<br />in his word ...<i><br /><b>"delusional"</b></i><br /><br /><i>delusion definition<br />A false belief held despite strong evidence against it; self-deception. Delusions are common in some forms of psychosis. Because of his delusions, the literary character Don Quixote attacks a windmill, thinking it is a giant. </i><br /><br />Now, amigos, ask yourselves something ...<br /><br />Why would the two Israeli be spending their time, following the edicts of the government of Israel in its attempts to<br /><i><b>"engage international audiences online"</b><br />...<br />Students will be organised into units at each university, with a chief co-ordinator who receives a full scholarship, three desk co-ordinators for language, graphics and research who receive lesser scholarships and students termed “activists” who will receive a “minimal scholarship”, the Independent reported.</i><br /><br /><b>If there were no readers?</b><br /><br />Of course there are readers, over a thousand a day at my Google + account page.<br />Here at the Elephant Bar, a lessor amount, historically, but still a few each day.<br />Some are new, some repeat.<br /><br />One by one they read, we state the case as it is seen from each of our perspectives. About six or eight of us, contribute.<br />More than that visit, read, digest the information provided.<br /><br />I only need to be read by one of them, and strike a chord.<br />One reader, that is more than enough audience.<br /><br />To consider that idea to be delusional, then tell us, allen, why are you and "O"rdure still here?<br />If not to provide that 'balance', the other perspective ...<br /><br />If not for the reader, allen, why do you do it?<br />Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54482470111178995532014-10-16T20:47:35.937-04:002014-10-16T20:47:35.937-04:00Funny thing, the fellow representing the primary l...Funny thing, the fellow representing the primary looter State of US foreign aid, Israel ...<br />Attempts to belittle the contribution of Mexico and its people to the economy of the United States.<br /><br />Typical of a Zionist , trying to incite divisiveness, instigate distrust and disrespect amongst the peoples of America.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80208809014797178772014-10-16T20:37:22.564-04:002014-10-16T20:37:22.564-04:00The groundwork is already laid, and several recent...<b>The groundwork is already laid, and several recent trends are in North America’s favor. </b><br /><br />To begin with, Mexico and the United States are among the most open economies in the world. Through their extensive networks of free trade agreements, the two countries have tariff-free access to more than 50 countries, including the large economies of the European Union and Japan.<br /><br />This presents a tremendous opportunity for jointly produced goods to be exported around the world, something that could create jobs and improve the trade balance of the United States. The key, of course, is getting costs sufficiently low and productivity sufficiently high that North American goods are competitive with their European and Asian competitors.<br /><br />Labor costs in China are rising while oil prices are increasing transportation costs, and new advanced manufacturing techniques are making labor an ever-smaller portion of the total cost of making a product. <br /><br />These factors have led to what the Economist recently called the boomerang effect: Some companies that chased cheap wages in China in the previous two decades have reconsidered their decision to move production offshore. <br /><br />Some are now more interested in either increasing production in Mexico or moving it back to the United States.<br /><br />What is amazing is that North America is recovering its competitiveness without much of a strategy. Imagine how much more could be done if policymakers fully understood and took advantage of this opportunity. Instead of simply enjoying the moderate recovery of the manufacturing sector, the United States, Mexico and Canada should work as partners to develop policies that could lead to a real resurgence of the region.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53323515737037903202014-10-16T20:35:17.207-04:002014-10-16T20:35:17.207-04:00The regional auto industry is a good example of th...The regional auto industry is a good example of this production-sharing phenomenon. <br /><br />The United States, Mexico, and Canada each produce and assemble auto parts, sending them back and forth as they work together to build cars and trucks. Cars built in North America are said to have their parts cross the United States borders eight times as they are being produced, and between 80 and 90% of the U.S. auto industry trade with its North American partners is intra-industry, both of which signal an extremely high level of vertical specialization. <br /><br />As a result, Detroit exports more goods to Mexico than any other U.S. city, and the North American auto industry has proven much more resilient than many expected. Although several of North America’s largest automakers nearly collapsed during the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, a robust recovery is now under way. <br /><br /><b>Mexico and the United States have each experienced the sharpest rise in vehicle production of the world’s top 10 auto producers during the past two years, growing 51 and 72%, respectively, between 2009 and 2011.</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80036634155206755882014-10-16T20:33:45.483-04:002014-10-16T20:33:45.483-04:00The massive volume of commerce and investment is i...The massive volume of commerce and investment is important, but the depth of regional integration is the primary reason why Mexico contributes to U.S. competitiveness. Mexico and the United States do not just trade products, they build them together.<br /><br /> In fact, to understand regional trade, it is necessary to view imports and exports in a different light. <br /><br />Whereas imports from most of the world are what they appear to be—foreign products—the same cannot be said of imports from Mexico. During production, materials and parts often cross the southwest border numerous times while U.S. and Mexican factories each perform the parts of the manufacturing process they can do most competitively.<br /><br /> Because of the complementary nature of the two economies, close geographic proximity, and NAFTA, which eliminated most tariff barriers to regional trade, the U.S. and Mexican manufacturing sectors are deeply integrated.<br /><br />Demonstrating this integration is the fact that 40% of the value of U.S. imports from Mexico comes from materials and parts produced in the United States. This means that 40 cents of every dollar the United States spends on Mexican goods actually supports U.S. firms. <br /><br />The only other major trading partner that comes close to this amount is Canada, the United States’ other NAFTA partner, with 25% U.S. content. Chinese imports, on the other hand, have an average of only 4% U.S. content, meaning that the purchase of imports from China does not have the same positive impact on U.S. manufacturers.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45777087824091039732014-10-16T20:32:16.153-04:002014-10-16T20:32:16.153-04:00Regional integration between the United States and...Regional integration between the United States and Mexico is already vast and deep. <br />As the United States’ second largest export market and third largest trading partner, Mexico is clearly important to the U.S. economy. <br /><br />Merchandise ade has more than quintupled since NAFTA went into effect in 1994, and in 2011, bilateral goods and services trade reached approximately a half-trillion dollars for the first time. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has calculated that the jobs of six million American workers depend on U.S.-Mexico trade. <br /><br />Many of those jobs are in border states, which have especially close ties to Mexico, but Mexico is also the top buyer of exports from states as far away as New Hampshire (mostly computers and electronics). In fact, 20 states, from Michigan to Florida, sell more than a billion dollars’ worth of goods to Mexico each year, and Mexico is the first or second most important export market for 21 states.<br /><br />The United States and Mexico are also major investors in one another. In fact, combined foreign direct investment holdings now total more than $100 billion. According to the most recent count by the Department of Commerce, U.S.-owned companies operating in Mexico created $25 billion in value added and employed nearly a million workers. <br /><br />Mexican investment in the United States is less than U.S. investment in Mexico, but it is has been growing rapidly in recent years. Several of Mexico’s top companies, which are increasingly global operations, have made significant investments in the United States. Mexico’s Cemex, for example, is North America’s largest maker of cement and concrete products. <br />Grupo Bimbo, which owns well-known brands such as Entenmanns’s, Thomas’s English Muffins, and Sara Lee, is the largest baked goods company in the Americas. <br />Even Saks Fifth Avenue and the New York Times Company are supported by significant Mexican investment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49717364807256008082014-10-16T20:31:27.593-04:002014-10-16T20:31:27.593-04:00And Venezuela picked up a seat. So the net bozo c...And Venezuela picked up a seat. So the net bozo count remains the same.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05294240310371429923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6116249677029788962014-10-16T20:28:51.819-04:002014-10-16T20:28:51.819-04:00Just doing a little 'fact checking', Rober...Just doing a little<i><b> 'fact checking'</b></i>, Robert "Draft Dodger" Peterson.<br />With you and your Zionist friend, it is easy to do. Neither of you adhere to them.<br /><br /><b><i>Peaceful Atom</i></b> - Energy for <b>FREE</b><br /><br />They call it solar, now. "Draft Dodger", installation costs have dropped like a rock. And their useful life ... decades. With no 20,000 year radioactive half-life storage hassles.<br />Nuclear fusion, in the sky.<br /><br />Like <i><b>"Lucy"</b></i>..., with diamonds.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83607128821605577742014-10-16T20:21:42.289-04:002014-10-16T20:21:42.289-04:00http://www.newsweek.com/venezuela-malaysia-angola-...http://www.newsweek.com/venezuela-malaysia-angola-new-zealand-win-un-council-seats-277962<br />Turkey Loses U.N. Security Council Seat in Huge Upset<br /><br />Expect a grandiose speech from Erdogan, a real podium pounder.<br /><br />Play silly games, win silly prizesallenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.com