tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post6196928558974621720..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Kenny MacAskill, an astonishing fool and stooge of the left.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79201699984898320652009-08-21T21:14:57.709-04:002009-08-21T21:14:57.709-04:00On June of 1967 the USS Liberty left control of th...On June of 1967 the USS Liberty left control of the USA Navy and under illegal orders from the NSA entered a war zone and started to spy on our ally Israel.<br /><br />Israel, after attempts to get the Liberty to LEAVE and stop transmitting a war map of the israel war effect to the british (who inturn via cyprus transmitted such data to egypt) disabled the ships intelligence equipment rather than simply sinking the craft...<br /><br />all other cover stories are crap...<br /><br />war is hell...<br /><br />and the USA aint always on the side of the israelis...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/08237879055691019968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27584762978749259352009-08-21T20:33:48.831-04:002009-08-21T20:33:48.831-04:00Except Jonathan Pollard. Who will never see the li...Except Jonathan Pollard. Who will never see the light of day.<br /><br />And rightfully so.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36323036553103567152009-08-21T20:11:34.146-04:002009-08-21T20:11:34.146-04:00The Israeli did say the were sorry.
Redemption - t...The Israeli did say the were sorry.<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yXRGdZdonM&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Redemption - the song of Freedom</a>.<br /><br />Everyone, anyone can be redeemed, if they just say sorry. Pay the fees<br />Even Libyians.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85607011549136461202009-08-21T19:20:21.098-04:002009-08-21T19:20:21.098-04:00On June 8, 1967,
34 American servicemen were kill...<i>On June 8, 1967, <br /><b>34 American servicemen were killed and 174 were wounded during an Israeli attack on the USS Liberty</b>. According to former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas Moorer, <b>“Those men were then betrayed and left to die by our own government.”</b></i>.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85948503584110277222009-08-21T19:19:18.975-04:002009-08-21T19:19:18.975-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42435259658953624952009-08-21T18:39:47.134-04:002009-08-21T18:39:47.134-04:00So the Israeli did not ask for US lives, they just...So the Israeli did not ask for US lives, they just took them.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72856747815448496672009-08-21T18:36:14.089-04:002009-08-21T18:36:14.089-04:00As for the Israeli not asking for a single US life...As for the Israeli not asking for a single US life, that is only true in some seperate reality, one that does not extend beyond 42 years int the past.<br /><br />Because the Israeli certainly took US lives, back then. In an engagement in which the actions of the US commander were worthy of being awarded the Medel of Honor.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-65468788919230223772009-08-21T18:35:10.368-04:002009-08-21T18:35:10.368-04:00"If there's a better word for that attitu..."If there's a better word for that attitude than cynicism, or selective cynicism, I leave it to you to inform me."<br /><br />I've been thinking about it. <br /><br />Have a nice weekend, linear.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73504327701914415922009-08-21T18:30:48.483-04:002009-08-21T18:30:48.483-04:00Nor cynicism. (You know who you are).
;-)
I rema...<em>Nor cynicism. (You know who you are)</em>.<br /><br />;-)<br /><br />I remain selectively skeptical, scornful, and pessimistic toward the motives and integrity of certain others, most notably Obama, his administration, and his party. If there's a better word for that attitude than cynicism, or selective cynicism, I leave it to you to inform me.<br /><br />The last word in an argument is often best heard over your shoulder.<br /><br />Enjoy happy hour, Trish. Have a nice weekend.linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78002709385785522682009-08-21T18:02:12.454-04:002009-08-21T18:02:12.454-04:00WiO; 12:19. Amen, Brother!
Allen and WiO: Good Sha...WiO; 12:19. Amen, Brother!<br />Allen and WiO: Good Shabbat!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47973635767916376832009-08-21T17:43:38.853-04:002009-08-21T17:43:38.853-04:00Shabbat Shalom, allShabbat Shalom, allallenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798524644256471907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49535210713220407112009-08-21T17:42:56.028-04:002009-08-21T17:42:56.028-04:00Gonna redraw that border, allen.
If the Palestini...Gonna redraw that border, allen.<br /><br />If the Palestinians aren't cursing Arafat, they're a whole lot dumber than most people thought.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85706605567341402912009-08-21T17:39:23.626-04:002009-08-21T17:39:23.626-04:00The Israeli confirming the conclusions of the Mitc...The Israeli confirming the conclusions of the Mitchell Report of Apr 2001.<br /><br />It is a Jim Crow culture.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54795444560512903702009-08-21T16:10:16.640-04:002009-08-21T16:10:16.640-04:00ash,
Those poor Palestinian sounding individuals ...ash,<br /><br />Those poor Palestinian sounding individuals will just have to try harder. Apparently, murdering 270 innocents gets you a free ride...busy...busy...busyallenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798524644256471907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11232748351860250212009-08-21T15:04:52.898-04:002009-08-21T15:04:52.898-04:00Describing Team Bush and how they tried to manipul...Describing Team Bush and how they tried to manipulate the Masses, aye, trish.<br /><br />Cynics to the core?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082003993.html" rel="nofollow">Ridge Cites Pressure Before 2004 Election</a>.<br /><br /><br /><i>Former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, the first director of the Department of Homeland Security, says that he was pressured by other agency heads to raise the terrorism threat level on the eve of the 2004 presidential election -- a move he rejected as having political undertones. <br /><br />The disclosure comes in promotional materials for Ridge's new book, due out Sept. 1, in which he writes that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Attorney General John D. Ashcroft tried to pressure him to raise the threat level. <br /><br />"<b>After that episode, I knew I had to follow through with my plans to leave the federal government for the private sector," Ridge writes in the book, "The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege . . . and How We Can Be Safe Again</b></i>," <br /><br />Comes down to trust.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-92005201000256151782009-08-21T14:55:50.704-04:002009-08-21T14:55:50.704-04:00Cynicism
There is nothing so naive as cynicism. A...Cynicism<br /><br />There is nothing so naive as cynicism. A cynic is one who believes that men are innately depraved, that irrationality and cowardice are their basic characteristics, that fear is the most potent of human incentives—and, therefore, that the most practical method of dealing with men is to count on their stupidity, appeal to their knavery, and keep them in constant terror.<br /><br />In private life, this belief creates a criminal; in politics, it creates a statist. But, contrary to the cynic’s belief, crime and statism do not pay.<br /><br />A criminal might thrive on human vices, but is reduced to impotence when he comes up against the fact that “you can’t cheat an honest man.” A statist might ride to power by dispensing promises, threats and handouts to the seekers of the unearned—but he finds himself impotent in a national emergency, because the language, methods and policies which were successful with parasites, do not work when the country needs producers.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74003650478744283082009-08-21T14:41:17.327-04:002009-08-21T14:41:17.327-04:00re Health Care, this guy makes some sense:
"...re Health Care, this guy makes some sense:<br /><br />"Who Needs the Public Option?<br />By Uwe E. Reinhardt<br /><br /><br /> Citizens in the rest of the industrialized world have long had easy-to-understand, reliable, life-cycle health insurance. They do not wake up at night worrying that their health insurance might be rescinded over some willful or inadvertent omission on health status during the application for insurance. Nor do they worry that they and their families will lose their health insurance coverage when the family’s breadwinner loses a job or switches jobs or location of residence. It would be very rare, indeed, in those countries to see a middle-class family lose all of its savings and perhaps even its home over unpaid medical bills.<br /><br /> It is truly remarkable that the United States, one of the richest countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has never been able to offer its citizens that kind of stable financial security. Instead, Medicare aside, our health insurance system leaves most Americans basically “unsured”: Private, job-based health insurance purchased in the large-group market is stable and reliable only as long as an employee keeps that job. It is not permanent, nor portable. It leaves Americans exposed to considerable financial risk over their life cycle. It is not “insurance,” but “unsurance.”<br /><br /> Private health insurance purchased by individuals or small firms in the small- or non-group market hardly can claim to offer the insured permanent, stable and reliable insurance coverage either. Premiums for such plans can shoot up substantially and seemingly capriciously from year to year, as many small business firms and families know only too well. The tragic stories Americans read about the shortcomings of that insurance coverage originate mainly in that market. This is “unsurance” as well.<br /><br /> One would have hoped that the overarching goal of health reform would have been to put in place a reformed health insurance system that can offer Americans the same reliable, permanent, portable and life-cycle health insurance enjoyed by, say, Germans or Canadians or the people of Japan and Taiwan. "<br /><br /> That's just an excerpt.<br /><br /> http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/who-needs-the-public-option/Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71114037793442199912009-08-21T14:37:58.429-04:002009-08-21T14:37:58.429-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48850293210418192462009-08-21T14:27:59.430-04:002009-08-21T14:27:59.430-04:00hmmm, I thought that this was interesting re. the ...hmmm, I thought that this was interesting re. the "Is Isreal Racist?" debates here:<br /><br />"Border guards at Israel's Ben Gurion airport have been barring entry to arriving Canadian and American citizens with Palestinian-sounding names. They are told they must make a long detour and enter via the Allenby Bridge land-border crossing that connects the West Bank with Jordan. On arrival there, their passports are stamped “Palestinian Authority only” – preventing them from entering Israel, including the annexed parts of East Jerusalem."<br /><br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/israel-targets-palestinian-canadians/article1259311/Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66252569064341853302009-08-21T14:27:04.576-04:002009-08-21T14:27:04.576-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16147558232342140092009-08-21T14:26:17.695-04:002009-08-21T14:26:17.695-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43174937515657199262009-08-21T13:52:19.224-04:002009-08-21T13:52:19.224-04:00The combined aid package funding, around $18 bn US...The combined aid package funding, around $18 bn USD, could be reinvested in tax subsidies to sweet sorghum or switch grass based ethonal production.<br /><br />The US taxpayer money reallocated to a higher and better use. US energy independence from sources not in the Americas.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77009727009715308632009-08-21T13:14:30.966-04:002009-08-21T13:14:30.966-04:00Abe Lincoln and the Homestead Act of 1862 a good p...Abe Lincoln and the Homestead Act of 1862 a good place to begin.<br /><br />The premier Republican payoff to its' constituency, providing the GOP with over 60 years of political domination on the Federal level.<br />From Lincoln almost uniterrupted, until FDR. Mr Wilson the exception, being elected in a three way race that split the Republicans. Mr Wilson winning with just 42% of the popular vote.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19624877218974386422009-08-21T13:08:41.437-04:002009-08-21T13:08:41.437-04:00I would also cut the US funding to the Egyptians a...I would also cut the US funding to the Egyptians and the Jordanians.<br /><br />If Regional Security demands those folks be funded, I'd let the Sauds to it.<br /><br />If Israel really does represent Jewery in world, then they could easily self finance that US government aid. <br />Just the scale of the money that Bernie Madoff stole, north of $50 billion, would have funded $3.5 bn per annum in interest, at 7%.<br />Enough to supplement US aid, without any restrictions on its' use.<br /><br />No reason for Israel to be a US tax and debt eater. <br /><br />Those other Programs you mentioned, even Acorn, are domestic. If that is what stimulates our economy, and it is the Government's business to be stimulating ...<br /><br />It's called political patronage.<br />Which has a long and glorious tradition in the United States of America.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35036436634382944322009-08-21T12:55:15.481-04:002009-08-21T12:55:15.481-04:00And that is a "Good Thing".And that is a "Good Thing".desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.com