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Fifth Column
Dennis Kucinich, Lefty for Radical Islam
Even though Dennis Kucinich lost the primary, Daniel Pipes exposes Kucinich's cozy and enabling relationship with radical Islam in detail. Read the whole thing.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/09/2012 13:36 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks AK! Of some concern, but nearly as interesting as this:

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Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2012 20:44 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India Express: 90 per cent of Indians are fools
Ted Sturgeon's Law: 90% of anything is crap Clearly it also applies to a dyspeptic Indian elitist who despises those of his countrymen less advantaged than himself.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/09/2012 04:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Clearly, you have never been to India, and know nothing about it.

Posted by: Criper Clolulet4690 || 04/09/2012 12:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Me? No I haven't. Mr. Wife has, though. Nearly died in Bhopal in 1990, in fact, of amebic dysentery. He loves the country, and is very proud off the product he developed for that market. At the time he was there something like 70% of the population was "economically uninvolved", never seeing an actual coin from one end of the year to the other, and living no differently than their distant ancestors...it's better now that the economy has opened somewhat to the outside world. He visited villages where he was the first white person ever seen, and told stories of families passing down as an inheritance a portion of city sidewalk as a living space, and families of beggars deliberately crippling their children so they would be able to make a living at the trade. Not to mention the markets with juvenile prostitutes hung up in cages for the passers-by to look at.

Mr. Wife never took me to Egypt, either. He doesn't think I would deal well with real poverty, as opposed to the American kind, always having been carefully sheltered from such harsh realities.

Is it your contention, Criper Clolulet4690, that the Judge Katju is correct and fair in his assessment? He spends a great deal of space going on about his countrymen caring about astrology, cricket players and Bollywood films instead of deeper concerns, but that could be said about any nation around the world -- and arouses similar rants from elitists in the U.S. and Europe. That India has real and deep-seated problems I do not -- cannot -- disagree: poverty, ignorance, corruption, and all the ills that flow from them. But berating the population for enjoying inexpensive, shallow pleasures does not answer. Nor does berating those with fewer options than Hizzoner Judge Katju, Ret'd for attempting to better their economic situation in ways traditional to the culture.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2012 18:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Is it your contention, Criper Clolulet4690, that the Judge Katju is correct and fair in his assessment?

Yes.

He spends a great deal of space going on about his countrymen caring about astrology, cricket players and Bollywood films instead of deeper concerns,...

He's right on the money, as unpleasant as it may be for you to accept, he has summed up India rather nicely. As for the things Mr. Wife related to you about India, nothing has changed in the intervening years. Well, except there are even more people and more poverty.

There has been some growth of the middle class, and definitely the rich have gotten richer. But there are even more poor, and they are mostly uneducated, illiterate, superstitious with no desire to educate themselves or their children, and they breed like flies.


Posted by: Criper Clolulet4690 || 04/09/2012 18:33 Comments || Top||

#4  If it's only 90%, that's better than most places.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/09/2012 19:04 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Torch mobs for tolerance
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J Street is [trying to] ruining Israeli democracy
Blogger Nathan Hersh wields his scalpel, leaving J Street bleeding and in small pieces. He recently left an IDF combat unit, which may have something to do with the directness of his prose.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  J-Street is one fathom of evil.
Posted by: newc || 04/09/2012 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  This asshat POTUS is making everyone in the world fight with each other. I wonder where that came from.
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