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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 02:37 PM
Original article: Obama's early stumbles

Paglia the genius

and guppies have caused the meltdown of the north pole glaciers, blah. blah, blah and the moon gravity causes homely females of Italian ancestry to become lesbians, blah, blah, blah, and Pailin is smart and intelligent, blah, blah, blah and Limbaugh is a thoughtful original voice, blah, blah, blah, and Daniela Mercury is more alive than Elis regina, blah, blah, blah.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 04:11 PM
Original article: Obama's early stumbles

@SailFree

"The default position of liberals who cannot debate a topic is that their opponents are liars."

Geez, let's see...why in the world would liberals ever call conservatives liars? After all, Iraq had WMD, the Iraqi people were going to welcome US troops with flowers, the cosmos is 5000 years old, financial markets regulate themselves and don't need the government to help them when they mess up, the free market is God and government is evil, yes, why in the world would we ever call you liars?!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 04:39 PM

Why Israel does what it does

beyond the tragic reality that the US administration and congress obediently approve, before the fact or retroactively everything Israel does, a fundamental reality underlines Israel's treatment of the people under her booth. The Israeli Jews are incredibly racist. Spend one day, and if you speak Hebrew all you need are a few hours among Israelis, and you'll find out how racist they are and that most of them consider the Palestinians to be sub-humans. Be in the stands of a soccer stadium when the visiting team has Arab players and listen to the racist epitaphs when they touch the ball. Listen to the horrible curses aimed at Arab men on a Tel Aviv street suspected of ogling a Jewish girl, often followed by a thorough thrashing. If you speak Hebrew and have an opportunity to watch a routine day in an Israeli check pint in the West Bank, you'll learn the colloquial Hebrew word:"djukim", meaning cockroaches, by which the Israeli soldiers refer to the Arabs passing through the check point. The Israeli government is as racist as the Israeli public, and everything else follows.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 04:44 PM
Original article: Obama's early stumbles

"We report, the readers can decide."

and we decided that your denial of manmade global warming is as valid as "Iraq has WMD", the age of the cosmos is 5000 years old and humans took joyrides on dinosaurs . Next.

Thursday, January 15, 2009 07:27 AM

Moral nihilism

If elements of the Bush regime, starting with Bush and Cheney aren't investigated and prosecuted, what moral and legal authority allowed us to conduct the Nurnberg trials or pursue Slobodan Milošević and other war criminals?

Thursday, January 15, 2009 08:35 AM

@Chanan

Are you saying claiming that when Israel commits war crimes against defenseless civilians, Israel should be immune from criticism because such criticism can be perceived only as blind hatred for "the only democracy in the middle east"?

Another question:most Gaza residents are not members of Hamas and have no control over what Hamas does. Because of the catastrophic density of the Gaza strip, with 1.5 million civilians living like sardines in a sardine can, any type of military action similar to operation Cast Iron would cause heavy civilian casualties. Why do they deserve to be slaughtered by Israeli missiles and bombs, including white phosphorus bombs?

Last question:8000 Israelis are killed each year in road accidents, a figure much larger than the total number of Israelis killed by Palestinian terror since 1948. Would you advocate sending F-16s to bomb Israel's lawless drivers, since they present a real existential threat to Israel?

Thursday, January 15, 2009 09:07 AM

Shooter bring back old and smelly memories

he reminds me of a boy in my 4th grade class many years ago. The boy was really dumb, mean and ignorant, suffered from chronic flatulence and used to stick his boogers in the meat in his lunch sandwich. His breath was so foul, kids would often gag when he opened his mouth. No one would sit next to him even when ordered to by the teacher and everybody hoped he would disappear one day never to be seen again.

Thursday, January 15, 2009 05:46 PM

Some reflections

A nation that can produce a GWBush is bad enough. A nation that elects him President, or gives him enough votes in defeat to steal 2 elections, might be a nation that doesn't deserve to be one.

Thursday, January 15, 2009 05:57 PM

farragut, let me let you in on a wee secret

the Constitution isn't suspended during war. What the Bush gang has done was precisely what the Framers were afraid of and tried to prevent from ever happening. I realize you are an idiot, but if you read this slowly enough, even you might get it.

Friday, January 16, 2009 07:28 AM

It's amazing

that in the US, the public had no clue that Rich had been pardoned by Clinton after massive and sustained pressure by the likes of Peres, Barak and AIPAC. I was visiting Israel at the time of the pardon and everybody there knew why he was pardoned. Journalists and other informed people in the know were talking openly of how it would've been impossible for any US president to withstand that kind of pressure.

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