tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2917172667295204008..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Afghanistan - Why apologize when the strategy is wrong?Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23010527011153410852012-03-02T03:41:03.959-05:002012-03-02T03:41:03.959-05:00The BBC has a remarkably detailed piece about whet...The BBC has a remarkably detailed piece about whether Israel has the military capacity to cripple the Iranian nuclear program.<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17115643<br /><br />It's well worth reading in full to fully understand just how much the odds are stacked against success. But here are the conclusions:<br /><br />The Israelis would be operating at the very limits of their capabilities. "If they pulled it off," says Douglas Barrie, "it would be an impressive display of power projection against a difficult and dispersed set of targets."<br /><br />Only a small number of air forces in the world, he notes, could mount such an operation. But, Mr Barrie stresses: "Even if successful, it would only delay Iran's nuclear programme."<br /><br />It is a point echoed by IHS Jane's Robert Hewson.<br /><br />"Israel does not have the mass of forces and will not be given the operational freedom [by Iran] required to destroy Iran's nuclear complex," he says. "If you bury enough stuff deep enough, enough of it will survive. Any Israeli attack can only damage and possibly not even slow the Iranian effort.<br /><br />"The consequences of such an attack would be dire and global. It is impossible to see any up-side to this venture."<br /><br />That's a view shared for now by Israel's most important ally.<br /><br />Only a few days ago, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of staff, Gen Martin Dempsey, said that an Israeli attack would not be prudent.<br /><br />Such a strike, he said, "would be destabilising and would not achieve their long-term objectives".<br /><br />Every other assessment we have seen out of the Pentagon or the Israeli security establishment reaches the same conclusions. So on any rational view there is no good military option.logosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54752147380157019232012-03-02T03:08:17.461-05:002012-03-02T03:08:17.461-05:00Killing babies no different from abortion, experts...<i>Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say</i><br /><br /><br /><br />Killing experts no different from abortion, wheat farmer mumbles.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40490752808580753572012-03-02T02:56:14.945-05:002012-03-02T02:56:14.945-05:00Correct me if I am wrong. I never registered with ...Correct me if I am wrong. I never registered with the draft because I was only 17 when I joined. At that time everyone, citizen or non-citizen, had to sign up and they were also drafted regardless of citizenship.<br /><br />I don't know. That wasn't my quote, I forgot to mark it.<br /><br />I can't understand how a non citizen could be required to sign up for the draft, though.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39906371371780039272012-03-02T02:53:57.612-05:002012-03-02T02:53:57.612-05:00Correct me if I am wrong. I never registered with ...Correct me if I am wrong. I never registered with the draft because I was only 17 when I joined. At that time everyone, citizen or non-citizen, had to sign up and they were also drafted regardless of citizenship.<br /><br />I don't know. That wasn't my quote, I forgot to mark it.<br /><br />I can't understand how a non citizen could be required to sign up for the draft, though.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35131263136654093532012-03-02T01:47:09.898-05:002012-03-02T01:47:09.898-05:00.
holy crap wtf
Woman admits to burning down 3....<br /><br />holy crap wtf<br /><br /> <br /><b>Woman admits to burning down 3,500-year-old tree while smoking meth</b><br /><br /><br /><i>Why is it that so many of nature's most awe-inspiring specimens seem to meet their end under such stupid circumstances? Some of you may recall reading about The Senator in recent weeks. The massive tree — which stood for over 3,500 years in what is now Longwood, Florida — was the oldest pond cypress tree in the world, and was believed to be the fifth-oldest tree on the planet. And on January 16th of this year, after smoldering unnoticed for over a week, The Senator became engulfed in flames and fell to Earth, utterly destroyed...</i><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://io9.com/5889161/woman-admits-to-burning-down-3500+year+old-tree-while-smoking-meth" rel="nofollow">So how was I to Know?</a><br /><br /><br />So I see this story on NBC and it looked like there was some kind of fence around the tree. So if I understand it right, she goes around the fence, goes into a hole in the tree with a friend, lights a fire to see what she is doing, gets high smoking meth, leaves the fire burning, and walks away. The tree smolders for six days and then ignites totally and she comes back and takes a picture of the burning tree to show to her friends. As I recall, the story said she was an aspiring model. No doubt a blond.<br /><br />.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35625025058388002882012-03-02T01:28:33.282-05:002012-03-02T01:28:33.282-05:00.
AS I recall, it was only within the last couple....<br /><br />AS I recall, it was only within the last couple of weeks that one of the anonymous anonymi was arguing that decisions on abortion, birth control, etc. should be left up to the scientists because they were the only ones qualified to make those sort of decisions.<br /><br /><br /><b>Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say</b><br /><br /><i>Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued...</i><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9113394/Killing-babies-no-different-from-abortion-experts-say.html" rel="nofollow">Hey, if it was good enough for the ancient Greeks what the heck</a><br /><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60631988185414798832012-03-02T01:22:28.930-05:002012-03-02T01:22:28.930-05:00Conclusion: When Obama was 18 he didn't need t...<i>Conclusion: When Obama was 18 he didn't need to register for the draft because when he was 18, he wasn't an American citizen.But in 2008, in order to work in the WH, he needed to have registered.</i><br /><br />Correct me if I am wrong. I never registered with the draft because I was only 17 when I joined. At that time everyone, citizen or non-citizen, had to sign up and they were also drafted regardless of citizenship.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51859854797588602512012-03-02T01:14:25.120-05:002012-03-02T01:14:25.120-05:00I really don’t know why everyone is talking birth ...<i>I really don’t know why everyone is talking birth certificates, Marxist proclamations, and anti-American claptrap.<br /><br />There is only one issue that would be worth releasing now- that would have sustaining impact. There is only one issue that is too much of a risk- that would take cojones as stainless as Andrew’s to hold on to.<br /><br />They have tape of Barry and his male lover.<br /><br />M240H on March 1, 2012 at 11:20 PM</i><br /><br />hehBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28173746507551430292012-03-02T01:13:53.545-05:002012-03-02T01:13:53.545-05:00I really don’t know why everyone is talking birth ...<i>I really don’t know why everyone is talking birth certificates, Marxist proclamations, and anti-American claptrap.<br /><br />There is only one issue that would be worth releasing now- that would have sustaining impact. There is only one issue that is too much of a risk- that would take cojones as stainless as Andrew’s to hold on to.<br /><br />They have tape of Barry and his male lover.<br /><br />M240H on March 1, 2012 at 11:20 PM</i><br /><br />hehBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-128325359476846522012-03-01T23:43:45.538-05:002012-03-01T23:43:45.538-05:00Watch the 5th video. The answer is there. It's...Watch the 5th video. The answer is there. It's physical evidence. Quite compelling.<br /><br />Conclusion: When Obama was 18 he didn't need to register for the draft because when he was 18, he wasn't an American citizen.But in 2008, in order to work in the WH, he needed to have registered.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6808089022063559822012-03-01T22:57:51.415-05:002012-03-01T22:57:51.415-05:00Washington’s entrepreneurial climate has made it t...<i>Washington’s entrepreneurial climate has made it the leading state for both startup and gazelles, or fast growing young companies.</i><br /><br />There was a startup company actually called Gazelle, made a DOS <a href="http://hothardware.com/cs/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.02.47.05/QDOS_2D00_2.jpg" rel="nofollow">file manager</a> that I liked, but Y2K got 'em, kilt 'em dead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42944741006628098392012-03-01T22:31:38.253-05:002012-03-01T22:31:38.253-05:00Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door ...Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife. Tearfully she explained,<br />"It's the druggist. He insulted me terribly this morning on the phone. I had to call multiple times before he would even answer the phone." Immediately, the husband drove downtown to confront the druggist and demand an apology. <br /> <br /> Before he could say more than a word or two, the druggist told him, "Now, just a minute, listen to my side of it. This morning the alarm failed to go off, so I was late getting up. I went without breakfast and hurried out to the car, just to realize that I'd locked the house with both house and car keys inside and had to break a window to get my keys."<br /><br />"Then, driving a little too fast, I got a speeding ticket. Later, when I was about three blocks from the store, I had a flat tire."<br /> <br /> "When I finally got to the store a bunch of people were waiting for meto open up. I got the store opened and started waiting on these people, all the time the darn phone was ringing off the hook."<br /><br />He continued, "Then I had to break a roll of nickels against the cash register drawer to make change, and they spilled all over the floor. I had to get down on my hands and knees to pick up the nickels and the phone was still ringing. When I came up I cracked my head on the open cash drawer, which made me stagger back against a showcase with a bunch of perfume bottles on it. Half of them hit the floor and broke."<br /><br />"Meanwhile, the phone is still ringing with no let up, and I finally got back to answer it. It was your wife. She wanted to know how to use a rectal thermometer. And believe me mister, as God is my witness, all I did was tell her."samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32270573349296306202012-03-01T22:27:24.744-05:002012-03-01T22:27:24.744-05:00Washington State fact #14:
Washington’s entrepren...Washington State fact #14:<br /><br />Washington’s entrepreneurial climate has made it the leading state for both startup and gazelles, or fast growing young companies.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5979606133044847962012-03-01T22:24:57.546-05:002012-03-01T22:24:57.546-05:00The last time I saw him was at the 2011 CPAC confe...<i>The last time I saw him was at the 2011 CPAC conference. I was meeting a friend for an afternoon coffee upstairs at the Marriott Wardman Park and Andrew was in a corner of the restaurant, in animated discussion with probably a dozen people.<br /><br />I didn’t stop over to say hello—there’s a lesson. But I smiled as I watched him holding court, and remembered what he had said at our first lunch together.<br /><br />And I’m smiling today at my luck to have met him that first time, as he stuck his head out of the secret passage in the Bat Cave.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/meeting-breitbart-bat-cave_633038.html" rel="nofollow">Bat Cave</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48652341976105046872012-03-01T22:17:06.286-05:002012-03-01T22:17:06.286-05:00Make the checks out to 'Bob' - on the enve...Make the checks out to 'Bob' - on the envelopes, mark Att: Sandbox FundBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46009209284426059732012-03-01T22:16:35.598-05:002012-03-01T22:16:35.598-05:00Make the checks out to 'Bob' - on the enve...Make the checks out to 'Bob' - on the envelopes, mark Att: Sandbox FundBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66773753170214128562012-03-01T22:16:28.815-05:002012-03-01T22:16:28.815-05:00Wasp said...
Talk about English prose, 15th centur...Wasp said...<br />Talk about English prose, 15th century underwear and anything your heart desires but to try to have an intelligent conversation with you? It's like peeing in the wind...<br /><br />This from the guy who's only reply to objections of Israeli warmongering is to mention so-and-so is no longer a lesbian.<br /><br /><br />Hardy Ms Anti-Semite.<br /><br />But you are a proven piece of lying shit.<br /><br />No sense in discussing anything about Jews, Israel, Zionism with you. <br /><br />You lie, distort, misrepresent all the time all things Jewish, Israel et al.<br /><br />You are just a loser and not worthy of real discussion.<br /><br />However you were the one that played the entire place for years with yes about your fake lesbian statusWhat is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/08237879055691019968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56032540874976535952012-03-01T21:52:41.733-05:002012-03-01T21:52:41.733-05:00Talk about English prose, 15th century underwear a...<i>Talk about English prose, 15th century underwear and anything your heart desires but to try to have an intelligent conversation with you? It's like peeing in the wind...</i><br /><br />This from the guy who's only reply to objections of Israeli warmongering is to mention so-and-so is no longer a lesbian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50986475156425029252012-03-01T21:51:26.786-05:002012-03-01T21:51:26.786-05:00Send you donations for Quirk's new sandbox to ...Send you donations for Quirk's new sandbox to P.O. Box 2239, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83563Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25084215701703065802012-03-01T21:50:54.800-05:002012-03-01T21:50:54.800-05:00Send you donations for Quirk's new sandbox to ...Send you donations for Quirk's new sandbox to P.O. Box 2239, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83563Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58592182603042955372012-03-01T21:42:32.836-05:002012-03-01T21:42:32.836-05:00Get Your Free Sherrif Joe Obama Birth Certificate ...<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/sheriff-joes-posse-probable-cause-obama-certificate-a-fraud/" rel="nofollow">Get Your Free Sherrif Joe Obama Birth Certificate Fraud Report Here</a>Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56528914856176196822012-03-01T21:42:17.472-05:002012-03-01T21:42:17.472-05:00.
Might I suggest you play in a different sand bo....<br /><br /><i>Might I suggest you play in a different sand box from that topic...</i><br /><br /><br />Sure you can suggest it.<br /><br />But to suggest that I would leave the field to someone whose idea of settling the problems of the ME is to bomb the black rock of the Kaaba, that argues the US has been deliberately setting out to screw Israel for the last 60 years, that insists that the US hasn't abided by its 'treaty obligations' to Israel over that time, that states we are selfish if we don't support the idea of bombing Iran or supporting Israel if they do it, that...well you get the idea...and no, that's not very likely to happen.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72931731704602948232012-03-01T21:42:05.041-05:002012-03-01T21:42:05.041-05:00Get Your Free Sheriff Joe Obama Birth Certificate ...<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/sheriff-joes-posse-probable-cause-obama-certificate-a-fraud/" rel="nofollow">Get Your Free Sheriff Joe Obama Birth Certificate Fraud Report Here</a>Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74482203719718713222012-03-01T21:26:58.915-05:002012-03-01T21:26:58.915-05:00quirk writes a novel:
If you stuck to giving us y...quirk writes a novel: <br />If you stuck to giving us your opinions that would be fine; but you go beyond that. You tell us what these guys say and also how to interpret it. You tell us what Ahmadinejad means, yet many including he in a clarifying statement said that was wrong. You may be right but why should I take you seriously? You tell me what Abbas said but I've seen what he actually said. You tell me the US hasn't lived up to it's treaty obligations but when I ask for examples you come up empty. Then you tell me I don't know anything about history and I need to read up and learn ab out this stuff then turn around and tell me we should close Iran's embassy here in the US. You talk about all the benefits Iran gets from signing the NPT and ignore the fact that due to US pressure the Iranians have recieved no benefits from the treaty sence the Iranian revolution. I would have to say it is you that knows little of the details but merely what you read in those articles that support your position.<br /><br />If you want to offer your opinion, do it. If you've got facts you want to offer, fine. Post them. If you want to prance and scream and call anyone that disagrees with any of your positions names, knock yourself out. It you want to throw up a bunch of bullshit, expect to be called on it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Once again you spin words like an indian serves slurpies...<br /><br />lots of words, little meaning, gloss over facts....<br /><br />same ole quirk...<br /><br />I have explained many things, you just dont accept what anyone else says...<br /><br />but the good news?<br /><br />your opinions about what the arabs and persians say and mean? worthless....<br /><br />it aint bullshit that i just dont take the time to address your nonsense line by line, that would be a complete waste of effort.<br /><br />suffice to say your knowledge of the iranians, the arabs and their intentions is shallow to say the least.<br /><br />Might I suggest you play in a different sand box from that topic...<br /><br />Talk about English prose, 15th century underwear and anything your heart desires but to try to have an intelligent conversation with you? It's like peeing in the wind...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/08237879055691019968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90547858535626199262012-03-01T20:45:56.801-05:002012-03-01T20:45:56.801-05:00News flash: Sheriff Joe Arpaio confirms Apollo Moo...News flash: Sheriff Joe Arpaio confirms Apollo Moon missions were fake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com