Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
03/20/2013 9:44 Comments ||
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It is because we still have hostages troops in country engaged in military welfare for first world countries.
If the Admirals had their way, we'd still be based in the Philippines. Thankfully, a severe bout of nationalism struck the country along with a major volcanic event and we left. The world did not end.
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China needs to be contained now more than ever. Sure, we pulled out of the Philippines and now the Chinese are sniffing around some of their islands. They threaten all of their neighbors; Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, Korea, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and India. They gave Pakistan the bomb and now they laugh at us while Pudgy builds his own bomb. They've gotten by without a big navy for centuries but now all of a sudden they want one. What for?
Probably because they too can read Alfred Thayer Mahan's work on sea power. A nation predicated upon commerce and specifically world trade has to keep the sea lanes open.
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..and to continue the thought, for centuries the Heavenly Kingdom thought they were the center of the universe. They pretty much were up there till around the beginning of the 18th Century. They had no need to involve themselves, being the big boys in the region, with 'worldly' affairs because everything else were just barbarians [see also the US attitude in the late 19th Century in the American hemisphere]. Then the Europeans via technology showed up to demonstrate that they weren't the center of the universe. The Japanese experienced the same process. However,unlike the Chinese who blamed failure to follow the 'old ways', the Japanese figured it was the technology, capitalism, and methodologies that gave the West the edge and went about copying them, making the West painfully aware from 1941-45. The Chinese wouldn't get that act together till the 1980s, a hundred years later. Now they're picking up on those Western concepts. Like the Japanese who went on an imperialist period themselves first in China then Korea [following the model set by the Europeans in the region], you can expect the Chinese to follow the pattern of neo-colonialism as well.
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Sure, let's pull out But then we have no business telling Japan and South Korea a) that they cannot develop nuclear weapons to replace the nuclear umbrella we promised would always be there, and b) that they cannot go to war against North Korea when they feel the need, as we have stopped them after every North Korean porovocation in the past.
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The world is far better off not having East Asia in an arms race the last half century (something that is likely to chagne in the near future). South Korea and the Phillipines were a big part of that.
The US will never get credit we deserve for that because it was also in our interests and thus is seen as selfish.
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Think of a billion nuclear armed NAZIs running amok all over Asia and from there all over the world. Then think of American presidents like Obama bowing down to them because we owe them so much money and because they've bought up so many businesses and so much land in our country.
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China does NOT want any Western-style, anti-China democratic countries on the Korean peninsula - SOUTH KOREA HAS A "CORE INTEREST" IN MAKING SURE COMMUNIST CHINA DOES N-O-T TAKE OVER NORTH KOREA FOR ANY REASON, BE IT WARFARE OR INTERNAL STATE IMPLOSION + COLLAPSE.
North Korea + South Korea per se are all that remains of their once-extensive ancient homeland.
More, to be a TRUE GLOBAL SUPERPOWER = SPACE POWER? Rising China has to be able to project power-n-influence overseas, i.e. I.E. CANNOT BE ISOLATIONIST OR JUST A MAJOR ASIAN OR EURASIAN LAND POWER.
"AS ONE RISES IN POWER, ANOTHER MUST DECLINE OR BE REMOVED FROM POWER" - WHICH WOULD AMERICA + AMERICANS WANT TO BE???
Lest we fergit ...
- 1990's NET > CHINA = wants 1/2 or more of CONUS-NORAM for "living space".
- 2013 NET > CHINA = desires to see the US rolled back + limited to EASTPAC in the Pacific.
AGAIN, WHAT DOES AMERICA + AMERICANS WANT TO BE???
A lengthy -- 3,500 word -- anguished expose on the front page of Sunday's Washington Post, "Hungering for a new month to begin," about how people in Woonsocket, Rhode Island race to the grocery stores on the first of the month to spend their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payment, yet run out of food long before the month ends, didn't offer a word about President Obama's responsibility for the poor economy.
Deep in it, however, reporter Eli Saslow undermined his case when he sympathetically cited "a series of exhausting, fractional decisions" a couple with two toddlers face over having to choose between food "or the $75 they owed the tattoo parlor."
Except for the tattoo parlor, this is the very definition of poverty. Poverty is not fun. But it must be remembered that the SNAP program is intended to be a supplement, helping the poor eke out their limited funds, not complete support. It sounds like it is doing exactly that.
Saslow failed to explain why the couple, supposedly forced to consider a trip across town to pay 70 cents less for a gallon of milk, decided to get a tattoo (or pay for cell phones) when they can't afford to feed their kids from the presumably inadequate $518 a month SNAP giveaway:
For the past three years, the Ortizes' lives had unfolded in a series of exhausting, fractional decisions. Was it better to eat the string cheese now or to save it? To buy milk for $3.80 nearby or for $3.10 across town? Was it better to pay down the $600 they owed the landlord, or the $110 they owed for their cellphones, or the $75 they owed the tattoo parlor, or the $840 they owed the electric company
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To their (small) credit both have jobs. I would advise buying more rice and potatoes at the start of the month, with 7 bean soup mix, loose the cell phones, pay what you can on the rent and electricity and let them repo the tats.
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$518? that is more than enough to feed your family...$125 a week if budgeted out.well more than what I spend and enough to feed a family of 4...but you do need to spend wisely
i remember going to the store when i had small kids in the house seeing these big fat black woman with nails and hair all done up, dirty little kids and a basket brimming with food..being paid with food stamps...while i bought what i could with my wage knowing i did not qualify and was helping pay this bill....$518 should be cut to $318 which is still enough to buy smart
Posted by: dan ||
03/20/2013 8:15 Comments ||
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Update: Saw the same lady the other day Dan. You'll be happy to know that her two younger kids are on a 'free-ride' and in their junior years at the University of Illinois. Her two oldest are still living at home taking care of the their infant children. All were very active in the recent Obama reelection campaign. Grandma is staying busy and enjoys her new Escalade.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
03/20/2013 9:48 Comments ||
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I'd not give food, or vouchers.
I'd just deliver the food to those who requested it, however they also must not make the situation worse by kidnapping more of their own kids (pay up or the kids get harmed).
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Fear notteth, Rhode Island, under the OWG NAU 2015, etc. that no American = Amerikan has voted for nor been asked to, MEXICO + CANADA + GREENLAND, ... ...@ETC. WILL HAPPY TO PAYOUT + CONTRIBUTE TO THE US NATIONAL-NOW-REGIONAL-NOW GLOBAL WELFARE-NANNY STATE.
OH WAIT - OOOOOOPPPPSSSS, MY BAD, HISTOIRE' SAYS ITS THE OPPOSITE! WE WILL CONTINUE TO PAYOUT FOR THEIRS. Well, I'm embarrassed.
- OWG-NWO + akin to SPACE GOVT-ORDER = by extnes SPACE CAPITALISM? + SPACE CONSUMERISM = organizing the Planet, i.e. Govts, Nations, + Resources, for deep space exploration + colonization.
- OWG/GG + "GLOBAL FEDERAL UNION" E.G. NAU, TRANS-PACIFIC UNION, TRANS-ATLANTIC UNION, ETC. = ONE WAY TO ACHIEVE TO SUCH IS FOSTER SUCH PERVASIVE OR INTENSIVE CHAOS + ANACHIES THAT REGIONAL NATIONAS WILL BE FORCED TO BECOME INTERDEPENDENT FOR THE SAKE OF SIMPLE NATIONAL, ECON, + GEOPOL, ETC. SURVIVAL.
- As per the above, POTUS Bammer = is believed by many to be an ANARCHIST or MARXIST/COMMIE-ANARCHIST, not just a MARXIST/COMMIE-GLOBALIST.
- Lest we fergit, 1990's CLINTONISM > "RIGHTISM' = merely THE "NEW LEFTISM", "CONSERVATISM = merely the "NEW LIBERALISM", "FASCISM" = merely "LIMITED COMMUNISM", "NATIONALISM" = merely "LIMITED GLOBALISM" .... ....etc.
Sniff, sniff, I'm so proud, RUSSIA + VLADVEDEV came up wid this all by themselves did they - AND TO THINK IT ONLY TOOK 15-20 YEARS TO DO SO!
The assumption that developed nations will get richer under Washington's defense welfare has been the central tenet of the American era. So now the wealthiest countries in history cannot defend their own borders, while economic basket cases of one degree of derangement or another are nuclear powers.
Perhaps this improbable division will hold. Perhaps the Axis of Crazy will be content just to jostle among itself leaving the Axis of Torpor to fret about lowering the retirement age to 48 and mandatory transgendered bathrooms and other pressing public-policy priorities. But, even under such an inherently unstable truce, the American position and the wider global economy would deteriorate.
As the CPAC crowd suggested, there are takers on the right for the Rand Paul position. There are many on the left for Obama's drone-alone definition of great power. But there are ever fewer takers for a money-no-object global hegemon that spends 46 percent of the world's military budget and can't impress its will on a bunch of inbred goatherds. A broker America needs to learn to do more with less, and to rediscover the cold calculation of national interest rather than waging war as the world's largest NGO. In dismissing Paul as a "wacko bird," John McCain and Lindsey Graham assume that the too-big-to-fail status quo is forever. It's not; it's already over.
[Dawn] BEHIND the colourful names and daring exploits of the characters associated with the Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... 'gang war' there lies a dark reality which manifests itself through murder and mayhem. The grisly death of notorious gangster Arshad Pappu is perhaps a prime example of the sheer brutality with which criminals operate in Lyari -- one of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's most rundown neighbourhoods. Pappu met an ignominious end on Sunday, with his body left on a junk heap. Reports indicate that the gangster's body, along with that of his brother, was mutilated and burned. It is said Pappu meted out similar treatment to the body of a rival criminal's father after kidnapp-ing and killing him. The incident also indicates the helplessness of law-enforcement agencies when it comes to Lyari: police were prevented from recovering Pappu's body, which was allegedly taken away by gangland rivals. This illustrates who really calls the shots in Lyari. The death of Arshad Pappu was celebrated in parts of the neighbourhood with song, dance and distribution of sweetmeats.
By all accounts the gangster led a violent, crime-filled life and perhaps such an unsavoury end was the natural conclusion to such an existence. Yet the death and gruesome treatment of his body reflects the savagery criminals are capable of, and the state's inability to crack down on the gangsters that have held Lyari hostage. The state's actions in the area are reactionary: once in a while police and Rangers will storm into Lyari to conduct operations that produce few lasting results. Alleged political patronage of criminals further complicates matters. Until the state seriously addresses Lyari's issues such as law and order, socio-economic uplift and infrastructure development, criminals will continue to prey on the locality's people and such atrocities will continue.
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#1
The job of American schools, as enforced by the bureaucracy, is not really education. It's censorship.
Same for the MSM. You are not entitled to know if the corrupt politician is (D), only (R). You are not to be informed of the color, race or creed of perps. The Memory Hole(c) is deep and operational. And that doesn't even include 'touching up' photos and editing sound tracks to make the event fit the narrative.
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I have seen the movie, have not read the graphic novels. The movie is definately adult themed, but as far as the language and subject matter it is tame compared to Catcher in the Rye which IIRC I read for school at about this time (7th grade).
But I also do not know what a Chicago 7th grade level translates to. Pretty sure these 3rd year MMO shooter games city folk are not hinged by the occasional and appropriate bad word. To put it simply, its hunky-dory to want to teach Kindergarteners about homosexual, or any sexual, relations but a 13-14 year old can't handle a comic book?
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[Dawn] BEHIND the colourful names and daring exploits of the characters associated with the 
