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(Instead of) a vain attempt to sustain an unsustainable system, something (else) will happen: Greek riots? Total societal collapse? Best to keep the jetpack fuelled and ready. If you can find somewhere to go.
In economic terms, Im not sure you can even call this Keynesian, since John Maynard of that ilk would surely be surprised at the claims on the public purse in the name of stimulus: $71,623 of said stimulus went to pump monkeys in North Carolina full of cocaine Dont ask me why. Vital work, no doubt, and maybe even socially beneficial, in that every line of coke hoovered up some chimps schnozz is one less going up yours. Nonetheless, its not to be sneezed at. You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. But, for coke-fiend monkeys, you need the best part of 72 grand..
We should all know by now that the Obama administration's plan to spend up to $200 million on civilian trials for terrorists is dangerous. It's also wasteful. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a site perfectly suited to such trials--and detentions. If not there, then Adak, in the middle of the Aleutians would do just fine.
The Washington Post shows us why that $200 million is also a waste of money. The U.S. Coast Guard should play an important role in our homeland security. After all, that was the stated reason for moving the Coast Guard out of the U.S. Transportation Department and into the newly created Department of Homeland Security.
Liberals are forever going on about "first responders." Well, the Coast Guard should certainly be considered first among the first responders. Yet, the Coast Guard has come on hard times. The Post recently reported that of 12 major cutters assigned to Haitian relief earlier this year, ten of them broke down. Three were forced to limp back into port.
The Obama administration plans to cut 1,100 active duty personnel from the Coast Guard, the smallest of our military services. Funds for port security--our first line of defense--will be cut by $100 million.
Even Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) calls the cuts in the Coast Guard's budget "penny-wise and pound foolish."
Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) is the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee. Because of the administration's cuts to the Coast Guard budget, their cutters will not be able to keep pace with the Navy in important combined missions. The average age of a Navy warship is 14 years, while that of a Coast Guard vessel is 41 years. New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans will now be less secure, Rogers charged.
Meanwhile, the Mexican drug war is heating up. Last weekend, two U.S. consular officials were murdered. Congressman Rogers noted that it was foolish to spend money on unnecessary civilian trials for terrorists and for increasing the DHS bureaucracy in Washington, D.C.
The incoming Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Robert Papp, has said he would have to consider cutting homeland security training and operations. This is tantamount to announcing to the terrorists "the coast is clear."
We have an administration that is grossly wasting money. They have doled out hundreds of millions in failed "stimulus" funds. Many of these projects have been shown to be going to ZIP codes and congressional districts that do not exist.
This administration is even spending $900 million on the Palestinians, people who name public squares and schools after suicide bombers. But when it comes to basic homeland security, they are cutting.
Hearing stories about cutting cutters, and ships breaking down for lack of funds for proper maintenance, we cannot help but think of the infamous "hollowed out" military of the days of Jimmy Carter. But why is President Obama still following in Carter's footsteps? He already has his Nobel Peace Prize!
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This is the wrong place to start making budget cuts.
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Due to all the rush to Blame Bush for Katrina and the response, the Coast Guard never got the credit they were due for what they accomplished. They were there before any one even knew there were problems.
The dramatic rescues we saw? The media was quick to show, but never gave credit to the Guardsmen that put their own lives in peril those first 72 hours. The U.S. Coast Guard & Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike the United States. The U.S. Coast Guard played a key role in the planning, response, and recovery efforts in three mission areas: search and rescue, marine pollution response, and the management of maritime commerce. Of the estimated 60,000 people that needed to be rescued from rooftops and flooded homes, Coast Guardsmen saved more than 33,500, including rescuing from peril 24,135 lives and evacuating 9,409 medical patients to safety. The rescue and the response efforts were some of the largest in Coast Guard history, involving units from every district as well as a total of 5,600 Coast Guardsmen.
With a cut of 1,100 folks, how many more lives would have been lost without the numbers of folks available to pull people from those roofs?
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ION WORLD NEWS > OBAMA: IRAN NUKES MAY TRIGGER MIDEAST ARMS RACE.
* SAME > NEW VIDEO SHOWS RADICAL ISLAMIC NETWORK IN NEW ENGLAND.
Iff MAIN STREET/ANYTOWN, USA thought it + CONUS was immune from [budding] MIDLE EAST, ETC. STYLE [budding Violent]Domestic Terror, or that LOGIC TWAS RATIONAL, dey'se were wrong.
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One of the unmentioned but critical Coast Guard missions is to stop foreign cargo ships about 300 miles off the coast, to make sure they aren't carrying any missiles with nuclear weapons.
Since the Democrats have eliminated the airborne laser, and tried to neuter US coastal anti-missile defenses, maybe they should follow up by giving Hutchinson Whampoa its own docks at Bremerton and San Diego.
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This is the wrong place to start making budget cuts.
It's his nature. When it comes to being practical, the guy couldn't find his @$$ with both hands. He just doesn't get it, and he's too conceited to hire someone who knows more than he does about anything.
Watch for him to start giving out "Field Guidance" soon.
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The Coast Guard has had more and more missions dumped on it over the years, with less and less funding for the mandate.
It is not incompetence on the part of the Administration, but rather ideology that keeps denying our military and the Coast Guard their resources to support the mission. People just cannot believe that the Executive would do this, but the evidence shows that it is exactly what they are doing.
Bottom line, we are being set up for more attacks, and the American people will pay with their lives. Voting for these kinds of people in the Executive and the Legislative branches can cost you your life.
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we are being set up for more attacks, and the American people will pay with their lives. Voting for these kinds of people in the Executive and the Legislative branches can cost you your life. The USA will have to lose many more of its citizens before a substantial majority of the electorate wakes up and stays up. When they do, it may be too late.
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Consumer choices not only reflect price and quality preferences but also social and moral values as witnessed in the remarkable growth of the global market for organic and environmentally friendly products. Building on recent research on behavioral priming and moral regulation, we find that mere exposure to green products and the purchase of them lead to markedly different behavioral consequences. In line with the halo associated with green consumerism, people act more altruistically after mere exposure to green than conventional products. However, people act less altruistically and are more likely to cheat and steal after purchasing green products as opposed to conventional products. Together, the studies show that consumption is more tightly connected to our social and ethical behaviors in directions and domains other than previously thought.
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It's the chicken and egg problem. Does buying green make you an untrustworthy self satisfied shit or are you an untrustworthy self satisfied shit buying green to assuage guilt?
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I've noticed long ago that left-wingers are less, lets say, honourable in personal dealings. Of course, the Israeli sub-breed is very special.
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I am far more interested in the question of what prolonged unemployment and a plunge into poverty will do to the substantial chunk of the population now enduring those trials.
I wondered how long it would take after Saudi money was insinuated into Rupert Murdoch's empire before anti-Semitism hit the Fox News airwaves in the form of tug-at-your-heart, pro-Arab, mini-hit pieces against the State of Israel. It didn't take long.
Did anyone notice Shepard Smith's passionate rant against Israel on behalf of the Palestinian Arabs a few days ago? I always thought Smith was just a smarmy, jock-type teeny-bopper. But he obviously knows which side his bread is buttered on, and he is fully capable of getting all lathered up over something about which he is absolutely ignorant.
Today on Fox News, Amy Kellogg did another hit piece on Israel, using a cute little heart-strings-tugger about the peaceful Syrian civilians who picnic on the Golan Heights in nostalgic longing for the times when it belonged to Syria. Of course, there was no mention of the carnage and slaughter inflicted on peaceful Israeli citizens when the Syrians were in charge of the Golan. Apparently, there's no nostalgia in that.
But, what I am wondering is this: since, by its own definition, Fox News is "fair and balanced," where are all the tug-at-your-heart-strings pieces about dispossessed Middle Eastern Jews and innocent Israeli citizens? What's that? Did someone say there aren't any Saudi Princes bankrolling propaganda pieces about non-Arabs in the Middle East? Well, well, who would ever suspect that the power of petro-dollars would turn Fox News into just another anti-Israel propaganda outlet?
I just read that Americans tilt 8 to 1 toward Israel vs. the Palestinians, something like 57% to 7%. Fox News may have made a mistake in placating an investor by irritating viewers.
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Its not entirely clear to me that SHAS Party Rants and spinning regarding American journalism from the author of this article knows who The American media is or cares ... Sound to me that the author have very narrow theological interests that don't conform to the theological interests of the American Peoples and American Jews. The high-tech entrepreneurs of Tel Aviv relate to the SHAS Party about as well as the Jews of the Upper West Side relate to the Tea Party. The SHAS Party is not overly attuned to the American-Israel relationship or the peace process and now is clearly sipping in the American media using garbage like this article to divide; sorry brother but we throw the garbage on the bin cause smell.
There is little doubt that once mizrahi jewry emigrated to Israel, they abandoned many of the religious traditions that were held so sacred at home, taking upon themselves haredi Ashkenazi Judaism. The most readily identifiable trait is dress, but even worse its scholastic. Just last week i was in Israel and attended numerous synagogues, all of which had many copies of the Mishne Berurah and books of Nachman Uman, but not one of Maimonides Mishne Torah or his philosophical works. Sephardic Rabbis in Israel have been heavily influenced by Shas, which in turn was influenced by Agudath, and has replaced the Sephardic library with the works of 16-18th century eastern European halakha/philosophy.
It was Maimonides works that ruled supreme in the Middle East, and is even acknowledged by the Shulkhan Arukh as a more supreme text to his own rendition of halakha. Chauvinism in this case would be defined as the unquestionable belief in national superiority. We should also note that meaning of the word orthodox, is one who has the right opinion. So when Ashkenazi leaders like Eliezer Shach threaten the career of Sephardi Rabbis over the Shmita issue, burn our books and prohibit Mizrahi Jews from registering in schools (bet yaakob), its hard to make a case that haredi Ashkenazi Judaism is not a racist hate-mongering entity that seeks to monopolize Judaism and bring us back to the insular ghetto style ways of Galacia.
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So when Ashkenazi leaders like Eliezer Shach threaten the career of Sephardi Rabbis over the Shmita issue, burn our books and prohibit Mizrahi Jews from registering in schools (bet yaakob), it's hard to make a case that haredi Ashkenazi Judaism is not a racist hate-mongering entity
Replace any Jewish term with a Islamic sect and you have a cogent description of the cause of 90 percent of the problems in the Middle East.
Modern pan Arab Socialism is the brainchild of the Russian Bolsheviks of the 1920s. It kept Arab sympathizers in line and provided a carrot to keep pesky Arab mobocracies from wandering too far into religion.
Because Arab socialism has retained the nastiest parts of this sorry alliance doesn't make any part of it a legitimate ideology. It's just hatred.
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Glenn Beck: "I have read the Koran and can tell you that I unequivocally believe that Islam is a religion of peace". What Qur'an did he read? He's either lying or seriously deranged. Nobody could read the Koran and come away thinking that.
The last time I watched him when he read an e-mail from a woman who complained he was not hard enough on islam. He told her on air "I've done my homework and I can tell you that islam is a religion of peace. If you don't like hearing that on my show, then don't watch it".
I like Glenn Beck but he is an Idiot went it comes to Islam. He may have read the Quran but I doubt if he knows that it is NOT in chronological order and also does does NOT know about the Islamic Law of ABROGATION where the "peaceful" verses are NULL and VOID
I haven't watched it since that day.
What about Glenn Beck's calling Geert Wilders a facist? Fox pulled the video from all over the web imediately with copywrite claims. Fox never never does that.
rrrrrrrrring!
Hello? Rupert this is Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. You know I'm really not liking this Wilders fellow. He's beginning to lead a movement against the Islamization of Europe. In fact he might be successful. Not good, Rupert. Maybe you could have a talk with Apocalypto and some of your All Stars......
Then there is Charles Krauthammer's spew on Wilders. "What he says is extreme, radical, and wrong. He basically is arguing that Islam is the same as Islamism. Islamism is an ideology of a small minority which holds that the essence of Islam is jihad, conquest, forcing people into accepting a certain very narrow interpretation [of Islam]".
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I wouldn't worry too much. Soon, say in 20 years, the Arabs (inc. Chavez and his ilk) will be as penniless as oil dives in value. Sure it will still be an important raw commodity but the publics mass dependency that we currently see will wane quite significantly.
Have a look at the Honda FCX Clarity, this uses hydrogen to power it. Using no petrol in our vehicles will produce a massive and significant financial shift in the world oil markets. Some of me questions why the Arabs needed Dubai, possibly the realisation that in a few years they would otherwise be forgotten?
I would also keep an eye on Bolivia, not in a bad way, just they hold the worlds Lithium stock which is important in battery vehicles. I hope the Bolivians can exploit this opportunity for their own good.
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Shep and Amy Kellog are both Arabists and have been for years. This is nothing new.
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It's not entirely clear to me that SHAS Party Rants and spinning regarding American journalism from the author of this article knows who The American media is or cares ...
Either hunterkiller is copy-pasting today, or he was doing so yesterday. I mean, really -- yesterday he wrote
#21 Talk is cheap.........if you Rantburghers, as American citizens, have a problem with the Apartheid regime of Israel; A let your money do the talking. Boycott all Israeli products and services immediately like many of us. And if you are aware of businesses that engage in commerce (or support) Israel in any way, boycott them as well. It's pretty simple, and it worked with South Africa. Boycott Israel now!
We should also demand an immediate cessation of all US aid to Israel, particularly military aid. We must not be part of these crimes against humanity B if you do not have problems with Israeli your cause is domed anyway .....Jews in the USA are only 1.4%
And only a small percentage of them support Israel "at oltranza" Regarding the Christian yahoos ... well they are irrelevant, and AIPAC? Well AIPAC and is members are already branded traitors of the America peoples and is political and military interests
So in the end is a non winning situation for the racist Israel and is morons Anti-American supporters, Real Conservatives do not happily embrace that little shity state at all.
and today he posts an erudite little piece on haredi Jews and the Maimonides writings he didn't see last week while making a tour of the orthodox synagogues of Israel? Mr. hunterkiller, please write something to persuade me that you are not a particularly bad example of a pseudo-clever troll, whose cleverness is limited to choosing whose posts from which websites you steal and claim as your very own original thoughts that came out of that oh-so-gigantic hydrocephalic braincase.
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Whoops -- somehow I didn't close the italics. Pretend that last paragraph above was in a plain font, indicating it was my thought, not dear Mr. hunterkiller's. My apologies.
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- a lot of the eclipse of the sephardi religious influence is due to the behavior of Ovadia Yosef, who, while greatly revered for his learning (his halacka decisions have been published and run to about 6000 pages and are studied by every Ashkenazi institution) has at times gotten far too close to Shimon Peres and at other times too close to other politicos and has made Shas a sock puppet to whoever he was close to at the time. This has done damage to the religious worldview of Sephardi. Notwithstanding this, the sephardi cultural influence is very strong; Ashkenazi kids are forming bands playing sephardi songs and most of the 'kool' hangouts are sephardi (these last two obs are according to my daughter who lives in Israel).
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I haven't watched it since that day .What about Glenn Beck's calling Geert Wilders a facist?
Icerigger, WADR, its ironic that the two above statements from your comments are back to back. If you you know actually did watch the Beck episode you are referring to you would know Beck called Wilders far right not a fascist. In that same segment he also referred to Sarkozy as far left. I suspect there are other folks out there (who also didnt watch his show) who are upset because somebody told them Beck called him a communist. Both examples were used in the context of the dangers of expanded government powers. Look, Im not defending Beck. Hell, he might actually think Wilders is a fascist. I don't know and frankly don't care. Thats not my point. Before repeating something, especially when taking a pot shot, its not a bad idea to know what youre talking about. Nuthin personal Id say the same thing to Anita Dunn.
As far as the above article its a typical seminar op/ed. The author searches for an issue applicable to his cause. Then inserts random examples, regardless of relevancy, in hopes of bolstering a narrative. This one is actually a pretty lame attempt.
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I wouldn't worry too much. Soon, say in 20 years, the Arabs (inc. Chavez and his ilk) will be as penniless as oil dives in value. Sure it will still be an important raw commodity but the publics mass dependency that we currently see will wane quite significantly.
Hence the push by the Islamists to get their hooks into this country and force an Islamic conversion. Islam has NEVER produced anything except hate, death and misery. It has parasitized every Society it could just to stay alive.
We are going to have to finish the Left and their accomplices Islam if we are to survive. Fox is becoming just another propaganda outlet, only they are spewing Islamic propaganda now. People, there is no place to run to, you are going to have to stand and fight...to Hell with the PC nonsense.
At this rate, there will not be an America as you have known it 20 years from now. We are being overrun; illegal aliens, Leftists and Islamists. The barbarians are not at the gate, they are in the compound.
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If you don't like hearing that on my show, then don't watch it.
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Dear Trailing wife when your family reside in this wonderful social experiment of our for almost 170 years (we do not eat our gefilte fish sweet ) so I assume Im eastern by origin not westerner , all my life trepid ,and by association I have see hordes of humanity jews and false ones, converging to Israel and not a speck of democratic national secular integration well .
Long time ago David Ben-Gurion, quote: We will know we have become a normal country when Jewish thieves and Jewish prostitutes conduct their business in Hebrew. At the moment that place will Be my friend in the Middle East this vision of normalcy will be my goal. Not this undemocratic multi Judaic
12 head beast that I still visit because of necessity
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As I've was taught, always keep your bullshit filters on when someone freely hands you their opinion.
Prolly help you the most sub-type-(wo)man. Geesh, yesterday it was cookies and a used vaccuum cleaner, and today encyclopedias. Kick the goat out your hot tub time machine and go answer me some questions:
1. How do the Islamists plan on dealing with the Liberals -If- the alliance is successful? That is most are going to have to be killed off but those who convert will be even more hard core than the originals and despise the racism of being non-original raceotype idea.
II. What happens -If- Islam does conquor the world? I mean, if the Chinese or Indian or whoever if not the USA than at least said cultures are self-starters, there is still hope for space travel, ocean exploration, and medical experiments outside of the realm of sheep piss cures AIDS. Well, that is, what happens after Islam has its big civil war, then what huh? I mean fuckssake, cannot even get the elevators working in the premier construction project in the middle east working.
C. Since the leading export after oil seems to be lifestyle, a lifestyle which really doesn't sell itself, I gotta ask - is sheep really the next best thing, or what to obtain inofitself? Cousins, are they good to marry because you grew up together or is it just safer emotionally than drawing lots with a stranger in a hood? In your opinion: lack of impulse control - liberating or enslaving?
for what it is worth I'm told that the prostitutes in Israel are mostly multilingual, many speak Russian and Hebrew, some speak Arabic and Hebrew, others speak French and Hebrew and a few speak only Hebrew
Tel aviv has the most prostitutes
and there are semi obscene nicknames for each of these
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Hunterkiller - your stupid rants have already placed you on my "Fuck em - skip the trash" list. Pretty quick. Is that you, Boris?
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I imagine Steve Centanni has a somewhat different viewpoint.
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Dear Trailing wife when your family reside in this wonderful social experiment of our for almost 170 years (we do not eat our gefilte fish sweet )
*shrug* My father was part of the founding generation of Israel, hunterkiller. He served in the 1940s with the British Army at the request of the Haganah or someone, later accidentally blew up part of the Wiezmann institute after hours when a batch of explosives he was mixing turned out to be a bit more unstable than planned, and I've seen his name on some lists of UN science committees back in the 1950s... when Israel was still considered a member of good standing in the world -- at the time he was an expert on fertilizers and pesticides, and rather a pet of Golda Meir's for some reason. He came to America some years later on sabbatical.
We never ate gefilte fish -- my German mother cooks in the French style, so I'm afraid I rather miss that final reference. Is it an insult of some sort?
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1. II. C.
Cute, swksvolFF. The rest of your comment is certainly thought-provoking. You're good at that, when you want to be. :-)
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