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Iran: The Ultimate Test of Obama's Manhood
Post Date: 2012-02-15 19:13:45 by Brian S
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The most discouraging headline of the past week? The NYTimes' "Israel Hawks Warm to Obama." Translation: Prime Minister Netanyahu and his extreme right-wing government think President Obama is on board with an airstrike against Iran. Have we learned nothing from nine years of war in Iraq and ten more in Afghanistan? Could this be the year when Barack Obama makes George Bush look smart? Could Obama be somehow maneuvered by Israel into a war with Iran that would make Bush's forays into Iraq and Afghanistan look positively glorious. As Paul Pillar, CIA veteran and former National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia, warned last week, in the context of the ...
The Imperial Way
Post Date: 2012-02-15 19:00:21 by Brian S
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In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time in 500 years, South America has taken successful steps to free itself from western domination, another serious loss. The region has moved towards integration, and has begun to address some of the terrible internal problems of societies ruled by mostly Europeanized elites, tiny islands of extreme wealth in a sea of misery. They have also rid themselves of all U.S. military bases and of IMF controls. A newly formed organization, CELAC, includes all countries of the hemisphere apart from the U.S. and Canada. If it actually functions, that would be ...
RULES FOR LEFTARDS [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-02-15 07:21:22 by A K A Stone
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Rules for Leftards #3). When others say or post something that makes me look foolish, I will change the subject, attack them or just ignore them..
Rules for Leftards #4) Accuse others of doing what you do!!!
Rules for Leftards #5). You people on the Right are the Nazis, not us! (Even though the Nazis political ideology is the same as ours)…..
Rules for Leftards #6). All I have ever been is a hemorrhoid on the ass of this country, and I deserve some of your hard earned money……
Rules for Leftards #7). Try to totally confuse everybody with lies so that maybe they will forget to expose us for beings liars and hypocrites…
Rules for Leftards #8). What I think and what I say ...
20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of America From The Death Of Detroit
Post Date: 2012-02-15 07:02:49 by A K A Stone
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Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like? Just check out what is happening to Detroit. The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the world, but today it is a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole. Nearly half the men are unemployed, nearly half the population is functionally illiterate, more than half of the children are living in poverty and the city government is drowning in debt. As economic conditions have gotten worse, crime has absolutely exploded. Every single night in Detroit there are frightening confrontations between desperate criminals and exasperated homeowners. Unfortunately, the police force in ...
Buchanan: On to Tehran -- or is it Damascus?
Post Date: 2012-02-14 12:58:28 by Brian S
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Our War Party has been temporarily diverted from its clamor for war on Iran by the insurrection against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Estimates of the dead since the Syrian uprising began a year ago approach 6,000. And responsibility for the carnage is being laid at the feet of the president who succeeded his dictator-father Hafez al-Assad, who ruled from 1971 until his death in 2000. Unlike Egypt's Hosni Mubarak who buckled, broke and departed after three weeks of protests, Bashar is not going quietly. And, predictably, with the death toll rising, those champions of world democratic revolution -- John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham -- have begun beating the drums ...
NewsBusted 2/9/12
Post Date: 2012-02-13 09:04:32 by CZ82
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Where the Right Went Wrong
Post Date: 2012-02-12 18:47:53 by Brian S
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Interview With Bruce Bartlett: Where the Right Went Wrong BILL MOYERS: Heather McGhee speaks of how the neoliberal economic experience of the last 30 years – including cutting taxes on the rich and waiting for the wealth and prosperity to trickle down -- has left her generation of Millennials standing under a spigot someone forgot to turn on. After a few drips and drops, it went dry. So did the very notion of equal opportunity for all. And today we’re living in a country deeply divided between winners and losers. Nowhere is that more evident than in our tax system – so distorted by loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions favoring the already rich and powerful that it ...
I'm sick of liberals
Post Date: 2012-02-09 17:02:52 by A K A Stone
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The world would be better off if they weren't here anymore
The dumbest birther conspiracy theory of them all
Post Date: 2012-02-07 18:00:00 by Ferret Mike
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Sarah Palin suggests Obama released his birth certificate to overshadow Ben Bernanke's press conference. But why? Of all the conspiracy theories swarming around the ridiculous question of where President Obama was born, my choice for most incomprehensible arrived this morning: The president, according to an avalanche of tweets, released a copy of his longform birth certificate specifically in order to distract attention from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s first-ever press conference. In inimitable fashion, Sarah Palin led the way, managing in the space of 140 characters to suggest both that Obama had been forced into the release and that it was some kind of insidious ...
Buchanan: Who Wants War With Iran?
Post Date: 2012-02-07 14:02:50 by Brian S
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Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran: "We don't believe they've actually made the decision to go ahead with a nuclear weapon." Before the hearing, as James Fallows of The Atlantic reports, Clapper released his "Worldwide Threat Assessment." It read, "We do not know ... if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons." Clapper thus reaffirmed the assessment of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies in 2007, reportedly repeated in 2011, that the U.S. does not believe that Iran has decided to become a nuclear weapons ...
US Iran Policy in 'Lockstep' with Israel?: President Obama Risks Becoming a Major-League War Criminal
Post Date: 2012-02-06 19:19:24 by Brian S
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It’s a relief to know that President Obama’s “preferred” solution to dealing with disagreements with Iran is diplomacy, as he said yesterday in an interview on NBC TV, but at the same time, it’s profoundly disturbing that he is simultaneously saying that, as an AP report on the interview put it: he would “not take options off the table to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.” Equally disturbing are the president’s mutually contradictory statements that, on the one hand, he feels that “Any kind of additional military activity inside the Gulf is disruptive and has a big effect on us,” and that on the other, he will “make sure that we ...
Spotting Wiccans: This information could save a Christian life!
Post Date: 2012-02-06 06:53:09 by A K A Stone
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Wiccans are generally overweight and of pale complexion. If they are not pale, they use powder or makeup (even male Wiccans!) to generate the illusion of paleness or death. Wiccans are given to the piercing of skin as a sign of submission to their master, Satan. Look for multiple piercing and piercing in peculiar places like the nose, cheeks, eyebrows, lips, fingertips, chin, forehead, tongue, and on the shocking devil’s tip of the ear! Some Wiccans pierce their genitals as well. If you happen to peek over into the stall next to you and see a urination stream spraying in three directions (to mock the Trinity), it is likely the person is a Wiccan who just had the tip of his penis ...
It is official: Elections in America are a complete hoax
Post Date: 2012-02-05 23:45:44 by A K A Stone
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It is now almost 24 hours after voters in Nevada went to their caucuses to try to cast their votes and we still mysteriously only have results for 71.1% of the caucuses . The remaining caucuses that are still not reported actually make up the most populated caucuses in the entire state. We were told late last night that all the votes cast in Clark County had to be recounted to ensure accuracy before they would release any of the numbers to the press. Excuse me? Where does one even begin to voice their outrage regarding this complete joke of a corrupt system we are all witnessing? If you believe the results finally coming out of Nevada, you must be living on Fantasy Island. How can caucuses ...
How the Komen Decision Had Race and Class Written All Over It
Post Date: 2012-02-05 10:21:30 by lucysmom
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snip The political game over abortion, however, is really not much more than a subtext of the bigger clashes over race and class. What was missed during this entire week of debate is that the Komen flap had all kinds of race and class written all over it. But, no one really wanted to step into that. Gatekeepers of partisan talking points struggled with every last breath on talk shows to stay away from either conversation, pretty much using abortion as the perfect cover. Untouched was the fact that this was pretty much a decision made by pink-ribbon wearing affluent White women comfortably detached from the reality of what Planned Parenthood is doing and who benefits from those services. ...
Buchanan: Ron Paul, Reactionary or Visionary
Post Date: 2012-02-03 14:23:15 by Brian S
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After his fourth-place showing in Florida, Ron Paul, by then in Nevada, told supporters he had been advised by friends that he would do better if only he dumped his foreign policy views, which have been derided as isolationism. Not going to do it, said Dr. Paul to cheers. And why should he? Observing developments in U.S. foreign and defense policy, Paul's views seem as far out in front of where America is heading as John McCain's seem to belong to yesterday's Bush-era bellicosity. Consider. In December, the last U.S. troops left Iraq. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta now says that all U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan will end in 18 months. The strategic outposts of empire are ...
The Empty Contrarianism of Tea Party 'Leaders'
Post Date: 2012-02-02 12:16:31 by Brian S
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There were two really impressive facts about the Tea Party. One was the way it managed to convince tens of thousands of Americans to care about the very dry matters of budget policy. That didn't always mean that the level of discourse was on par with the Krugmans and Mankiws of the world, but it was fundamentally a movement that had a real policy goal: lowering taxes, slashing the budget and lowering the deficit. Its second great strength was its leaderlessness. Yes, groups like FreedomWorks and benefactors like the Koch brothers gave it monetary and organizational muscle, but the movement's behavior -- feuding over who was really a Tea Party candidate, or managing to nominate ...
Deranged Internet Poster: Ron Paul should be taken to GITMO and used for water board training.
Post Date: 2012-02-01 23:44:35 by A K A Stone
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Dr Ron Paul should be taken to GITMO and used for water board training. WhiteSands posted on 2012-02-01 21:48:54 ET
6 Shocking Ways Capitalism Is Failing Working America
Post Date: 2012-02-01 12:56:34 by Brian S
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Capitalism is coming apart at the seams and the middle-class is paying the price. This week’s news alone bombards us with examples of how, absent a dramatic rethink, our "free-enterprise" system may never again provide enough decent jobs for those who need and want them. 1. iSlavery Apple is arguably the world’s most successful company. Yet most of the 700,000 jobs needed to produce its cherished products are located abroad, especially in China. Why doesn’t Apple manufacture in the United States? Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher writing for the New York Times reveal that Apple is looking for a cheap, “flexible” workforce that can be put to work whenever ...
Alinsky And Gingrich—Separated At Birth? Alinsky's Son Speaks
Post Date: 2012-01-30 15:18:41 by Brian S
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When Newt Gingrich fulminates, the name of Saul Alinsky springs easily to his lips. President Obama is, you know, a "Saul Alinsky radical." The race for president is "American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky." Just about everybody who knows anything about Alinsky has weighed in on Gingrich's zany offensive, often with a guess-it-takes-one-to-know-one air of amused irony. For instance, here's how the Tribune's Eric Zorn began his remarks: "I suspect Saul Alinsky would nod with grudging admiration at the way GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich repeatedly injects his name into speeches and interviews." And here's Philip ...
Buchanan: Who Commissioned Us To Remake The World?
Post Date: 2012-01-27 13:16:21 by Brian S
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U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama's man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so. In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is to promote democracy abroad. The NDI has been tied to color-coded or Orange revolutions such as those that dethroned regimes in Serbia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Lebanon. The project miscarried in Belarus. The NDI is one of several agencies, dating to the 1980s, that were set up to subvert communist regimes. With the end of the Cold War, however, these agencies were not decommissioned, but recommissioned to ...
The Economic Shift in the World Economy
Post Date: 2012-01-27 10:25:04 by A K A Stone
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I have started this post without a title, as I'm still trying to sort out which might be the best subject for a post. The slow motion car crash of the Euro is always tempting. Then there is the current state of China, which increasingly appears to be in trouble. Then there is the US 'recovery' or the latest discussions at Davos. For the last point, an interesting perspective was aired at the forum in Davos, and it may be that it can tie together some of the many stories that are being discussed. This from Jeremy Warner of the Telegraph: The contrast between Western gloom and Eastern optimism is again striking this year, and it is something that goes beyond the immediate ...
Dear President Obama,
Post Date: 2012-01-27 10:11:21 by A K A Stone
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Dear President Obama, Yesterday you told us to eat our peas. You even told us to pull off the bandaid in the context of raising the debt ceiling, and spending more money we will never have on “Obamacare.” I cannot fathom a President in my memory speaking in a manner that you have chosen to. I guess it is just a barometer of how bad our standards have fallen. I see it all around me, cars can’t be fixed because children have been taught that fixing them is beneath them. Adults like you act like infants at microphones. Then there is The Forgotten Man, people like me, who just want everything to get back to normal without having to take the next historical step to get to that ...
Trust in business and politics reaches critical point
Post Date: 2012-01-24 13:14:06 by lucysmom
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Edelman is one of the world’s most respected public relations firm. Every year they do a big global survey in order to report on that most elusive of subjects — trust. For this year’s edition they asked 1,000 members of the general public in each of 25 countries to respond to their online survey, but also at least 200 members of the “informed public” in each country — richer, older, college-educated and eager consumers of news and public policy. So, who do they trust, what do they want and what does that mean for you and me? Well, Edelman — the clean-up crew of the corporate world — wouldn’t quite put it this way but I will: they want, in large ...
GRANIA THE MORON: Bachman most qualified
Post Date: 2012-01-22 11:20:49 by A K A Stone
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I supported Bachmann. It almost seemed like a setup with the bad advisors she had. I wish she'd stayed in, as she's the most qualified. Interesting how the media and ptb marginalized and ignored her after the straw-poll victory in Iowa. One would assume that they, too, knew that she would be a real good candidate to articulate conservative values and match up well against Obama.
Immigration Debate
Post Date: 2012-01-21 18:46:10 by CZ82
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