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#525. To: All (#524)

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, ”These are isolated attacks that are done for symbolic purposes, and they have not regained any territory.”

Less than 1% realize that Australia will be gone by August:

Australia to withdraw troops from Afghanistan earlier than expected ... www.cnn.com/2012/04/16/wo...a/australia.../index.html

1 hour ago – Australian troops could begin pulling out from Afghanistan this year

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   8:43:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#526. To: All (#525)

To present this spring’s increased violence as a last strategic push to win the war – which is how its being presented – is really an embarrassingly transparent attempt at war propaganda.

Khe Sahn and Kham Duc approach.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   8:45:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#527. To: A K A Stone (#0) (Edited)

Israel’s Fear of Three Simple Words: Welcome to Palestine By Joharah Baker

The Palestinians may seem to be in a very unenviable position at present but yesterday proves that popular opinion is moving in the right direction. Let Air France, Lufthansa, Alitalia and Turkish Airways kowtow to Israel and squirm at their own lack of chutzpah. One day they too will tire of Israel’s dictates. In the meantime, our friends will continue to show their solidarity with us, either in Palestine, in airport terminals or their own countries, and the occupation, eventually, will fall. Of this, there is no doubt.

Joharah Baker is a Writer for the Media and Information Department at the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH). She can be contacted at mid@miftah.org.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   9:15:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#528. To: All (#527)

I think there are many people who underestimate just how much d0llar demand is created by 30-40 million hardcore opium/heroin addicts there are worldwide. Try buying your fix using something other than the d0llar for wholesale purchases and just about as difficult for retail on the street purchases. The stormtroopers are protecting a very important d0llar crop. Peace...Tet

Now for what really happened in Kabul, the afghans Sunday:

April 16, 2012

A senior Taliban commander in Kabul boasts to The Daily Beast that Sunday’s strikes against military and diplomatic targets in the Afghan capital and three eastern provinces were just a preview of the fighting season to come. "These are coordinated attacks that went just as we planned," says Qari Talha, "This is only the start of what’s in store this year and next for the Americans and [Afghan President Hamid] Karzai. We will show them our ability."

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   9:36:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#529. To: All (#528) (Edited)

First. It's Insane to think that at least 20 suicide people killed no one in a 24 hr gun battle. Starting at noon-2 pm, in the most crowded part of Kabul.

"According to eye witnesses multiple weapon sounds, gunfire and explosions were being heard through the night spreading fear and panic across Kabul city, while heavy fighting was still ongoing after 4:00 a.m. and patrol helicopters were hovering overhead and several ambulances were rushing to and from the fighting scene. A doctor, on the condition of anonymity said that the local hospitals were packed with the dead and wounded from the fighting."

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   10:08:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#530. To: All (#529)

Second. Note the comp[lete lack of detail from USSAnews....;}

And definitely No Pics...

" The group of 13 martyr attackers of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, almost all at the same time, targeted the so-called ISAF main headquarter, embassies, Parliament house, Presidential Palace, Dar-ul-Aman palace, and other important military and government buildings.

After about 24 hours of extremely lethal fighting with successful onslaughts on these targets involving martyrdom attacks, remote-controlled bomb attacks, direct shooting attacks and other hand grenades attacks killed as many as 93 enemies including US-NATO and their allied troops, local police and soldiers of puppet army, and other foreign diplomats in addition to wounding hundreds of them."

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   10:14:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#531. To: All (#530)

The large-scale operation which simultaneously unleashed at the four provinces of Afghanistan continuing for about 42 nonstop hours, joined by only 30 martyrdom-seeking Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate killed as many as 220 puppets, US-NATO invaders and their allies and wounded numerous of the enemy soldiers.

The funniest thing is the enemy’s blatant lies that brazenly denied their fatalities, as always, by throwing dust in the eyes of the people worldwide and world media, which is typical of the US-NATO invaders. So it may not come as a surprise. The American occupation enemy and its allies are the most famous for understating their fatalities and exaggerating ours, no doubt they are very good at international lies.

However, the Islamic Emirates ask the world and mainstream media to go and just check only the hospitals in these four provinces, the truth will speak for itself.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   10:16:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#532. To: All (#531)

Eminently strange the way the 1:7 KIA to Wounded ratio holds up in urban combat...

#

# Civilian casualty ratio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratioCached - Similar

A substantial number of civilians in this war were also deliberately killed by the Axis Powers ... had been killed, and 16000 wounded—a civilian-combatant fatality rate of 5:1. ... This would give a civilian-combatant fatality ratio of about 7:1. ... "even the most moral army can make mistakes, especially in dense urban warfare".

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   10:18:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#533. To: mcgowanjm (#532)

Hey, you forgot to post all the earthquakes today.

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-17   11:21:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#534. To: mcgowanjm (#532)

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-17   11:36:00 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#535. To: All (#534)

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-17   11:40:05 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#536. To: mcgowanjm, A K A Stone, TooConservative (#521)

"Wikileaks recently released many classified documents that prove that NASA and high-level U.S. official are aware of the three spaceships and are making plans to battle the spaceships. They have been concealing information from the U.S. public for decades. Wikileaks also confirms that the UFO sightings over the last three months prove that the alien invasions (long predicted by SETI) has begun. The three spaceships will mark the official beginning of the alien invasion."

Could not find a good category to post this under so using the mcgowanjm "wire" seemed best:) ALIEN SPACESHIPS TO ATTACK EARTH IN NOVEMBER 2012! Posted on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 By Frank Lake

Three giant alien spaceships are again heading for Earth! Scientists predict the new ships will arrive in November of 2012. UFO encounters continue to increase – as documented on WWN. And today scientists at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), an independent non-commercial organization, made a major announcement:

“Three giant spaceships are heading toward Earth. The largest one of them is 200 miles wide. Two others are slightly smaller. At present, the objects are just moving past Jupiter. Judging by their speed, they should be on Earth by the fall of 2012,” said John Malley, the lead extraterrestrial expert at SETI.

Three similar giant ships landed in China and the Indonesia Sea in November, 2011. They were identified as alien spaceships from Planet Gootan. Three more giant Gootan ships are headed her for November, 2012.

Read two of WWN’s many stories about the three Gootan ships landing in 2011:

THE STORY ABOUT THE LANDING OF THE THREE SHIPS IN NOVEMBER 2011 THE GOOTANS ARE HERE The new Gootan spaceships have been detected by HAARP search system. The system, based in Alaska, was designed to study the phenomenon of northern lights. According to SETI researchers, the objects are extraterrestrial spaceships. They will be visible in optical telescopes as soon as they reach Mars’s orbit – sometime in November of 2012. The US government has been reportedly informed about the event.

SETI researchers have spent fifty years monitoring space. Dr. Malley said that they have conclusively proven that “we are just newcomers in this huge and unexplored world. Many believe that there are many other civilizations in space besides our own civilization.”

Wikileaks recently released many classified documents that prove that NASA and high-level U.S. official are aware of the three spaceships and are making plans to battle the spaceships. They have been concealing information from the U.S. public for decades. Wikileaks also confirms that the UFO sightings over the last three months prove that the alien invasions (long predicted by SETI) has begun. The three spaceships will mark the official beginning of the alien invasion.

Malley said that a Chinese official, Mao Kan, had obtained over than 1,000 secret NASA photographs depicting not only human footprints, but even a human carcass on the surface of the Moon. Some of the bones in the carcass were missing, the official said. The human corpse must have been dropped on the Moon from an alien spaceship, whereas the extraterrestrials kept some tissue samples for research.

Dr. Ken Johnston, former Manager of the Data and Photo Control Department at NASA’s Lunar Receiving Laboratory, said that US astronauts had found and photographed ancient ruins of artificial origin on the Moon. US astronauts had seen large unknown mechanisms on the Moon.

Both Johnston and Mao Kan agree that three more Gootan spaceships are heading for Earth.

Beginning in August of 2012 the U.N. will begin preparing citizens of the world for the second attack of the three Gootan spaceships and a subsequent alien attack, which they predict will be “a large-scale assault.”

As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-17   16:22:40 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#537. To: mcgowanjm, A K A Stone, TooConservative (#536)

Got some killer raccoons in Florida.

KILLER RACCOONS IN FLORIDA! Posted on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 By Frank Lake

MERRITT ISLAND, FL – Wild, vicious raccoons are attacking citizens in Kiwanis Island Park.Brevard County Parks and Recreation closed Kiwanis Island Park on Merritt Island, Florida after hundreds of raccoon attack were reported over the last few weeks. Governor Rick Scott is sending in the National Guard. ”The raccoons are out of control. We’re hoping the Guard can control them… but we’re not taking any chances. We may have to ask the government for help from the NAVY Seals,” said a Florida government insider. Brevard County Animal Services trapped two raccoons, and another trapper contracted by Parks and Recreation trapped two more raccoons at the park Sunday morning. But that didn’t stop the hundreds of other raccoons that are causing mayhem. There are reportedly two casualties from raccoon deaths… so far. Residents are heading out of town – running for their lives.

The first attack was reported by a woman who was eating lunch under a park pavilion. She was surrounded by nine killer raccoons. Luckily she was saved by a Park Ranger. She was transported for medical treatment, but the extent of her injuries was unknown.

Just this morning, a mother and child were on the playground when the child was reportedly bitten by a wild raccoon. The police located the raccoon and after an intense fight, the raccoon was taken out.Kiwanis Island Park is located on State Road 520 on Merritt Island, Florida.

As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-17   16:34:36 ET  (3 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#538. To: redleghunter (#537)

Could not find a good category to post this under so using the mcgowanjm "wire" seemed best:) ALIEN SPACESHIPS TO ATTACK EARTH IN NOVEMBER 2012! Posted on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 By Frank Lake

Chuckles.....

If you are not careful you too will fall into Doctor Evil's mcgowanjm kookery abyss.

(posting anything TO Brain Shit is pointless....rather posting derisively AT him makes sense)

e_type_jag  posted on  2012-04-17   16:44:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#539. To: All (#538)

Going back over this thread leads to serious chuckles.

Also telling is that there are 20-25 post long stretches of blanked doltish bozoed "posts".

(posting anything TO Brain Shit is pointless....rather posting derisively AT him makes sense)

e_type_jag  posted on  2012-04-17   16:48:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#540. To: e_type_jag (#538)

The purpose of this thread reminds me of the old joke: how do you keep a blonde busy? Put her in a round room and tell her to sit in the corner . . .

war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.

Rudgear  posted on  2012-04-17   16:54:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#541. To: Rudgear (#540)

how do you keep a blonde busy? Put her in a round room and tell her to sit in the corner . . .

this one i'd not heard but i'll remember:)

and fitting of a soul like jim.

(posting anything TO Brain Shit is pointless....rather posting derisively AT him makes sense)

e_type_jag  posted on  2012-04-17   16:57:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#542. To: A K A Stone (#0)

Twist one. When the Penn State pedophilia scandal emerged, it turned out that Gricar had declined to prosecute Jerry Sandusky in 1998 over very similar allegations. There are still rumors that the scandal is really about a very powerful pedophilia ring, and not just a cover-up of the actions of one bad guy.

xymphora

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   20:40:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#543. To: A K A Stone, redleghunter, All (#533)

If all your yoyo's load all their RAM intensive graphs/pics on 'my' site,

you might need to see to adding memory....;}

Cause it could slow down retrieval.

But maybe that's the point, eh?

Cause there sure ain't no info being added.....8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   20:44:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#544. To: redleghunter (#533)

Thanx, red. I was busy.

Here you go:

17-APR-2012 03:50:14 -32.69 -71.45 6.7 25.9 NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   20:49:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#545. To: e_type_jag (#538)

Doctor Evil's mcgowanjm kookery abyss.

BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 8D

E tu, Brute?

;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   20:51:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#546. To: All (#545)

So. Anyone wondering why not. one. single word. is being put out about the Epic Fail 'Tet Offensive' in the Afghans?

Someone in the Pentagon is burning the mid nite oil.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   20:53:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#547. To: All (#546)

Anyone interested in the PEnn St Pedophile Ring?

Kinda like SpecOps, boys, and the afghans, eh?

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   20:55:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#548. To: All (#547)

Twist two. Deadspin.com recently made a FOIA request to the FBI regarding Gricar (my emphasis in red):

"The documents don't reveal anything about the investigation into Gricar's disappearance, likely because the investigation is ongoing, but they do contain material that will raise eyebrows under all those tinfoil hats. For one, the FBI consulted with the CIA before responding to my request. And the CIA refused to allow certain information to be released because it's classified "in the interest of national defense or foreign policy" and can't be disclosed in order to protect "intelligence sources and methods" as well as the names, titles, etc., of CIA personnel.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   20:55:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#549. To: All (#548)

Wonder if the

Army: 5

Navy: 2

Marines: 2

Air Force: 1

Do any boys with the Secret Service on these Overseas 'missions'....;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   20:57:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#550. To: All (#549)

The Titanicaca:

Meanwhile, the third class passengers are locked up in the hold. The captain has ordered then to suck the water out the ship, the tools assigned to them are soda straws stamped ‘Made in China’. The straws must be bought and paid for before use but the Chinese are willing to extend credit if good collateral is offered.

What to do?

economic-undertow.com

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   21:13:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#551. To: A K A Stone (#0)

What to do?

Are the lower class passengers ready to mutiny and put the officers off the ship or do they desire to take the first-class passengers’ place, so as to better rearrange the deck chairs? Since they are the only ones able to fix the ship’s problems it is really up to them to decide what to do. If they behave as the first class has done the ship will sink. If they attempt to make things right the ship might sink but they also might succeed. If they do nothing there is certain failure. Here is a dilemma that the passengers are ill-equipped to cope with. The passengers must not only act outside their narrow personal interests but also against how class interests as these are ordinarily defined as gains excluded from others. It is also outside decades of ‘television training’ which demands that individuals serve the system in order to be rewarded for their efforts at some unspecified point in the future (never).

When an ocean liner starts taking on water, what governs whether it’s “women and children first” or “every man for himself”? According to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences lead author Benno Torgler, men’s altruistic versus self-serving behavior depends on how quickly the ship sinks.

How quickly the ship sinks, indeed …

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   21:34:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#552. To: All (#551) (Edited)

And speaking of ships sinking,

Spain's Repsol's YPF unit just got nationalized in Argentine.

Argentine thinks it owns the MAldives, btw.

This Englishman thinks they're called the Falklands....;}

April 17, 2012 REPSOL: Everything is a weapon, #3,012

Will the Falkland Islanders soon be learning Chinese?

With the proposed nationalisation of Repsol by Argentina yesterday, the group’s shares fell 7% to 16.31 euros.

hat4uk.wordpress.com/

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-17   21:41:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#553. To: mcgowanjm (#546)

So. Anyone wondering why not. one. single word. is being put out about the Epic Fail 'Tet Offensive' in the Afghans?

Someone in the Pentagon is burning the mid nite oil.

You mean, what you get from the Taliban when you shift from being terrain focused to enemy focused? But you do have a good point...Tet was never intended to oust the US by force, but to create a media nightmare for US forces, thus losing American support for the war. Americans from all political walks have already indicated loudly we need to send home our Troops. And that will happen soon enough. Then we will all watch on cable how Karzi and his tribal chiefs go running to the Taliban for support, and will watch the smuggled videos months later of Karzi and his gang getting their throats slit.

Afghanistan is no Iraq.

As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-18   11:12:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#554. To: A K A Stone (#0)

Thursday, 27 Jamadil Awal 1433 Thursday, 19 April 2012 11:46 LOGAR, Apr. 19 – Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate confronted the invaders military-secured supply convoy of some 5 supply tucks and fuel tankers in the capital of Logar province on Wednesday. A Mujahideen’s official said on Tuesday that 6 security guards were killed and 7 more got wounded with five the enemy vehicles destroyed including 4 oil tankers and 3 trucks filled with supplies of US-NATO invaders, adding that two Mujahideen became martyrs.

As the USSA....wait for it....announces it's Last Offensive... to retake Kabul.....LMFAO....8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-19   8:42:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#555. To: redleghunter (#553)

You mean, what you get from the Taliban when you shift from being terrain focused to enemy focused?

Explain this, please.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-19   8:43:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#556. To: redleghunter (#553)

Americans from all political walks have already indicated loudly we need to send home our Troops. And that will happen soon enough.

Excuse me?

Limping Out of Afghanistan by Immanuel Wallerstein

The two candidates for the U.S. presidency seem to be trying to outshout each other concerning Iran, Syria, and Israel/Palestine. Each is claiming he is doing more to support the same objectives. Isn't it therefore strange that no similar verbal contest is going on at the moment concerning Afghanistan? [ Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse/Getty] In February 2012, some Korans were burned by U.S. soldiers, which led to violent public protests in Afghanistan. (Photo: Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse/Getty

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-19   8:44:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#557. To: redleghunter (#553)

And that will happen soon enough. Then we will all watch on cable how Karzi and his tribal chiefs go running to the Taliban for support, and will watch the smuggled videos months later of Karzi and his gang getting their throats slit.

Afghanistan is no Iraq.

First, the Pashtun prefer to hand their puppets...;}

Second, you're correct. The Afghans have no oil and Iraq has no opium.

Big difference.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-19   9:01:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#558. To: A K A Stone (#0)

See Israel's Military just got slapped on the nose as India took $70 million in 'guarantee money' for bribery of Indian Generals....

and

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... ndhati-roy

There's no escape from the corporations that run India | Arundhati Roy www.guardian.co.uk/.../2012/mar/.../cor ... o...Cached You +1'd this publicly. Undo Mar 19, 2012 – Arundhati Roy: Domestic mega-corporations' tentacles extend into every ... do you have any idea how vast Tata and Reliance are? did you ...

Great read.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-19   10:19:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#559. To: All (#558)

"Rome had its imperial myth, as did Spain, Britain, and just about any other empire you care to think of—but the American version of it deserves close attention, because it obscures factors that need to be understood as the American empire hurtles down the curve of its decline.

The mythology runs more or less like this: in the aftermath of the First World War, America withdrew from the international responsibilities it had briefly taken up during that war, refusing to join the League of Nations and distancing itself from global politics. In the vacuum thus formed, the coming of the Great Depression sent the conflicts that drove the world to war in 1914 spinning out of control again. As Japan invaded China and Germany prepared for war, the United States faced a sharp political conflict between isolationists, who more or less wanted to build a wall around the country and shut the rest of the world out, and those who recognized America’s responsibility to the rest of the world. That struggle only came to an end with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; thereafter the American people united to win the war. Once it was won, in turn, they refused to repeat the mistake of 1919, and took up the burden of global leadership that America retains to this day.

Thus the mythology. The reality was considerably more complex.

thearchdruidreport.blogsp...a-price-of-supremacy.html

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-19   10:26:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#560. To: All (#559)

As I have said right from the start, debt forgiveness on a massive scale is the only answer: it is too late in the day now for anything else. There is no such thing as ‘austere simulation’: it is just another mad oxymoron invented by the Brussels morons.

Yesterday, The Slog told everyone that the necrophilia will continue until more sane voices are allowed to be heard. As usual, you read it here first.

From the Archives: Either forgive debt, or face disaster.

Disaster, coming right up.... :twisted: :? 8-)

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-19   10:36:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#561. To: mcgowanjm (#555)

You mean, what you get from the Taliban when you shift from being terrain focused to enemy focused? Explain this, please.

You are seeing more bombings in the East now because the outposts/fire bases were turned over to Afghans, and the US BDEs started more mobile operations in the vallies. It has helped the rural towns fend off the Taliban, but risk is increased by allowing a few "leakers" to get to Kabul.

As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-19   12:54:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#562. To: mcgowanjm (#556)

Excuse me?

Limping Out of Afghanistan by Immanuel Wallerstein

The two candidates for the U.S. presidency seem to be trying to outshout each other concerning Iran, Syria, and Israel/Palestine. Each is claiming he is doing more to support the same objectives. Isn't it therefore strange that no similar verbal contest is going on at the moment concerning Afghanistan? [ Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse/Getty] In February 2012, some Korans were burned by U.S. soldiers, which led to violent public protests in Afghanistan. (Photo: Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse/Getty

Yep, gun boat diplomacy at its worst.

As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-19   12:57:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#563. To: mcgowanjm (#557)

Second, you're correct. The Afghans have no oil and Iraq has no opium.

If we could just figure out how to run cars and trucks on opium:)

As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-19   12:58:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#564. To: mcgowanjm (#560)

As I have said right from the start, debt forgiveness on a massive scale is the only answer: it is too late in the day now for anything else. There is no such thing as ‘austere simulation’: it is just another mad oxymoron invented by the Brussels morons.

Yesterday, The Slog told everyone that the necrophilia will continue until more sane voices are allowed to be heard. As usual, you read it here first.

From the Archives: Either forgive debt, or face disaster.

Disaster, coming right up.... :twisted: :? 8-)

It will be disaster mac. Man cannot heal the pain and suffering of the world no matter how hard "man" tries.

As you have probably realized I am an Army officer with multiple tours to very inhospitable locations over the past 20+ years. I was asked by a fellow officer, a few years ahead of me on his way to 'stars', about what I thought the solution was for a peaceful Iraq. I chuckled and asked him when was the last time Iraq was peaceful. I then told him something that shocked him...Jesus Christ is the only answer, and we should be encouraging missionaries in the region instead of handing despots our American dough, which ends up in radical cleric's pockets, who then fashion explosives to kill our youngsters serving on the line. I then told him even evangelizing the Islamic regions will not bring peace to the earth. Only the Second Coming of Christ when He reigns will bring true peace.

Needless to say, I have not been asked for advice since that day.

As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-19   15:23:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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