tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post1177339099867685982..comments2024-03-29T06:35:11.321-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: The occupation is illegal, the settlements are illegal, the wall is illegal, the hijacking of water resources is illegal, the treatment of Palestinians is criminal, and the insolence of the settlers and their supporters is unspeakableDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78542875886198094232016-05-11T22:29:04.561-04:002016-05-11T22:29:04.561-04:00The architecture doesn’t lie. There never was an E...The architecture doesn’t lie. There never was an East Jerusalem. Israel could announce a far West Jerusalem where Washington DC used to be.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53465262932860740272016-05-11T21:38:11.964-04:002016-05-11T21:38:11.964-04:00Which doesn't at all mean of course that multi...Which doesn't at all mean of course that multi-generational living should be forced on anyone by the miseries of the Obama Economy.Idaho Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16457329096524133992016-05-11T21:36:21.045-04:002016-05-11T21:36:21.045-04:00.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem
.....<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8831908449695074992016-05-11T21:35:28.670-04:002016-05-11T21:35:28.670-04:00.
In 1980, Israel unilaterally declared all of Je....<br /><br /><i><b>In 1980, Israel unilaterally declared all of Jerusalem, both its eastern and western sectors, to be its undivided capital, while formally disavowing that its incorporation constituted annexation.</b> East Jerusalem's status in international law however remains uncertain: the United Nations' Security Council immediately dismissed the resolution of unification as a "violation of international law",[10] and the international community does not recognize Israel's or Palestinian sovereignty there.[11]</i><br /><br />Like I said. Until Israel admits that they annexed East Jerusalem, I'll call it anything I want.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49389526424936938672016-05-11T21:28:54.143-04:002016-05-11T21:28:54.143-04:00Naw.
'Tis a silly, futile request.Naw.<br /><br />'Tis a silly, futile request.Idaho Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39945125614143876072016-05-11T21:25:53.549-04:002016-05-11T21:25:53.549-04:00I am not at all opposed to 'multi-generational...I am not at all opposed to 'multi-generational living'.<br /><br />It has been the habit of the human race for most of its existence.<br /><br />At least in the sense of grandpa and grandma and the aunts and uncles right over there in those other tepees...Joseph Campbell wasn't the first, and won't be the last, to point out the special relationships between gramps and grams and the aunts and uncles and the young uns...<br /><br />Youth like having the elders around.<br /><br />It's a good thing more than a bad, in my view.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAclx7OuuiQ<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awzNHuGqoMc<br /><br />Always be humble and kind<br />When you get where you're goin'<br />Turn around, and help the next one in line....<br />Always be humble and kindIdaho Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13728619919798597342016-05-11T21:17:20.344-04:002016-05-11T21:17:20.344-04:00.
Somehow the UN didn't get the memo.
..<br /><br />Somehow the UN didn't get the memo.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90458230469628092792016-05-11T21:07:59.732-04:002016-05-11T21:07:59.732-04:00Iraq Is On The Way Out, Not ISIS
“Isis is an idea...Iraq Is On The Way Out, Not ISIS<br /><br />“Isis is an idea, not the first of its kind and not the last of its kind,” said a powerful security official when I visited Iraq last month. Indeed, as the international community boasts of Isis’s demise, the jihadists struck a Shia district in Baghdad today, killing at least 63 people and wounding 80 in a series of devastating market bombings.<br /> <br />Officials say that Isis has lost almost half its territory in Iraq and more than 20% in Syria. It is true that Isis leaders are being eliminated and its infrastructure devastated. But while Isis may be losing the territories it governs, today’s attack (and others over the past months) is a reminder that it is still able to commit atrocities across Iraq, and continue to operate as it has done for more than a decade.<br /><br />In other words, a world without Isis is unlikely to come any time soon. Isis thrives off the lack of institutions in weak or failed states. Remedying this requires good governance, institution-building and the reconciliation of divided communities. But rehabilitating Iraq’s cities and people will prove to be far more costly and challenging than defeating Isis itself. Sectarian tensions, dysfunctional governance and regional polarisation have worsened since Isis came on the scene, factors that precipitated the group’s rise in the first place.<br /><br />The timing of today’s attack in the Sadr City district was more than just a coincidence. It comes a week after popular demonstrations were mobilised by the firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters stormed the parliament in protest at the lack of reform in the country, corruption and sectarian politics.<br /><br />This highly symbolic attack by Isis aims to nullify that push for reform while provoking reprisals from a Shia population who have exercised great restraint during the course of the war on Isis – despite repeated sectarian atrocities. The Shia community has plenty of its own men with guns and resources, and is susceptible to the same trap it fell into in 2006, when al-Qaida in Iraq struck a sacred Shia shrine and ignited a sectarian civil war that took the country to the brink.<br /><br />The proliferation of Shia militia groups since 2003, during the course of the war on Isis in particular (with acquiescence from the US), has worsened Iraq’s problems. They are heavily armed, challenge the state and have committed sectarian atrocities against Iraq’s Sunnis. They create the space that allows Isis to flourish, and Iraq cannot survive if power reverts to the patrimonial networks based on sect and tribe that allow unaccountable Shia militias to operate.<br /><br />Iraq can be stabilised, as happened between 2008 and 2011. But that required more than 100,000 US and UK troops acting as a buffer between warring militants, and providing the Iraqi state with the security and intelligence capabilities that it so desperately needs today. Iraq also has on its side the ayatollah Ali Sistani, the leading Shia clergyman in the world who acts as a force for moderation.<br /><br />Sistani, however, may have withdrawn from the campaign for reform out of frustration with Iraq’s ruling elites. As Iraq further descends into sectarian violence and political turmoil, with the continued prominence of Isis and the rise of sub-state actors such as Shia militias, the restoration of the Iraqi state and society will be difficult, if not impossible.<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/11/iraq-isis-atrocity-baghdad-shia-reprisals-sunni-shiaIdaho Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75466473639896686642016-05-11T20:56:41.858-04:002016-05-11T20:56:41.858-04:00Middle class takes hit in most cities...
Incomes h...Middle class takes hit in most cities...<br />Incomes have fallen in four-fifths of all metro areas...<br />New American Home: Multi-Generational Living on Rise... Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14455317865304214142016-05-11T20:54:13.596-04:002016-05-11T20:54:13.596-04:00Will Rufus explain how that employment rate is cal...Will Rufus explain how that employment rate is calculated, and who is included, and who is not?<br /><br />Doubtful.<br /><br />https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=actual%20unemployment%20rate%202016Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83434561615131757192016-05-11T20:47:06.016-04:002016-05-11T20:47:06.016-04:00The Israeli position considers Jerusalem – both we...The Israeli position considers Jerusalem – both western and eastern– the country's eternal, undivided capital based on its historical, religious and political claims to the holy city. Since Israel's reunification of Jerusalem in 1967, following 19 years of division during which Israeli Jews were excluded from the eastern part, the government through successive administrations has vowed never to re-divide the city again. In 1980, the Israeli Knesset passed a Basic Law declaring reunified Jerusalem the eternal capital of Israel, while providing for freedom of access to each religion's holy sites.<br /><br /><br />So there Quirk, never refer to Jerusalem as "occupied: ever again.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2649096333771898012016-05-11T20:44:28.491-04:002016-05-11T20:44:28.491-04:00Quirk do you really believe your nonsense?
Quirk do you really believe your nonsense?<br /><br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13647426337413197602016-05-11T20:18:41.141-04:002016-05-11T20:18:41.141-04:00And you can't put a price tag on this last adv...And you can't put a price tag on this last advantage.Idaho Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90718288691520099512016-05-11T20:16:39.147-04:002016-05-11T20:16:39.147-04:00And even Quirkian bullshit, too.And even Quirkian bullshit, too.Idaho Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11615675625634980272016-05-11T20:09:26.476-04:002016-05-11T20:09:26.476-04:00Sometimes, Quirk, just between us, you are really ...Sometimes, Quirk, just between us, you are really really full of shit.Idaho Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16580271384826351302016-05-11T20:04:20.007-04:002016-05-11T20:04:20.007-04:00My college degree has earned me exactly $0.00 over...My college degree has earned me exactly $0.00 over entire lifetime.<br /><br />But it taught me to appreciate certain things and has been a good friend and so was worth it.<br /><br />It's not all about the money.<br /><br />And, oddly, in my case it seems to have inoculated me from liberal bullshit.Idaho Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60395218108930512722016-05-11T19:58:12.605-04:002016-05-11T19:58:12.605-04:00I still offer you a free one way ticket to 'Is...I still offer you a free one way ticket to 'Israeli occupied' Gaza, but I do the booking, and you follow the protocol.<br /><br />Then we will be rid of you forever.<br /><br />:o) <br /><br />;)Idaho Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88816300656659825692016-05-11T19:43:06.935-04:002016-05-11T19:43:06.935-04:00The Unemployment Rate for College Graduates is 2.4...The Unemployment Rate for College Graduates is <b>2.4%.</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm" rel="nofollow">BLS</a>galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88772489529856175592016-05-11T19:08:41.037-04:002016-05-11T19:08:41.037-04:00.
You forget the big difference, WiO, the U.S. ha....<br /><br />You forget the big difference, WiO, the U.S. had the balls to admit what we were doing. <br /><br />Israel didn't. They still refuse to say that they have effectively annexed the West Bank, Gaza, parts of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Until they admit it, under international law, they are an occupying force.<br /><br />Simple.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42524717551662309722016-05-11T18:42:11.093-04:002016-05-11T18:42:11.093-04:00Maybe you could set your balls on fire to atone fo...Maybe you could set your balls on fire to atone for our sins.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22333009652929570232016-05-11T18:41:25.091-04:002016-05-11T18:41:25.091-04:00Good Morning, Sunshine!
https://www.youtube.com/r...Good Morning, Sunshine!<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=woman+sets+boyfriend%27s+balls+on+fire+Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35608895240047622852016-05-11T18:25:22.529-04:002016-05-11T18:25:22.529-04:00What MORE US "Occupation"????
The Chamo...What MORE US "Occupation"????<br /><br />The Chamorros, Guam's indigenous people, settled the island approximately 4,000 years ago. <br /><br />The United States took control of the island in the 1898 Spanish–American War, as part of the Treaty of Paris. Guam was transferred to U.S. Navy control on 23 December 1898 by Executive Order 108-A. Guam came to serve as a station for American ships traveling to and from the Philippines, while the Northern Mariana Islands passed to Germany, and then to Japan.[10] A U.S. Navy yard was established at Piti in 1899, and a marine barracks at Sumay in 1901.[13]:13 Following the Philippine–American War, Emilio Aguinaldo and Apolinario Mabini were exiled on Guam in 1901.[14]:vi<br /><br /><br /><br />Oh my, military occupation!!!!!<br /><br />America I have never been so ashamed...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36085677768337797092016-05-11T18:23:02.937-04:002016-05-11T18:23:02.937-04:00Puerto Rico does not have a vote in the U.S. Congr...Puerto Rico does not have a vote in the U.S. Congress, which governs the territory with full jurisdiction under the Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950. As a U.S. territory, American citizens residing on the island are "disenfranchised at the national level" and may not vote for the President and Vice President of the United States.[16] However, Congress approved a local constitution, allowing US citizens on the territory to elect a governor.<br /><br />What no real voting rights????What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6802515271035795812016-05-11T18:22:26.100-04:002016-05-11T18:22:26.100-04:00The Occupation is ILLEGAL
Originally populated by...The Occupation is ILLEGAL<br /><br />Originally populated by the aboriginal Taíno people, the island was claimed in 1493 by Christopher Columbus for the Kingdom of Spain, enduring several invasion attempts by the French, Dutch, and British. During the four centuries of Spanish rule, the island's cultural and physical landscapes were transformed, with European knowledge, customs, and traditions being introduced, especially Roman Catholicism and the Spanish language. In 1898, following the Spanish–American War, Spain ceded the island to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Paris.<br /><br /><br />Have you no shame America?What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60992394446572053112016-05-11T18:20:59.993-04:002016-05-11T18:20:59.993-04:00The Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown in 1893 and t...The Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown in 1893 and the United States annexed the islands in 1898.[1] The U.S. state of Hawaii now occupies the archipelago almost in its entirety<br /><br />STOP THE OCCUPATIONWhat is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.com