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If you get a Keyshound excited, he/she will revert to wolf. He/she will bare her teeth, get real low and start spinning. It is hard to get hold of a fast spinning animal with big teeth and several layers of thick hair to protect it, and it knows when to stop spinning and get after you.
We humans have instincts too. Self preservation will bring out things we would rather forget.
Israel is 51. She was born fighting against prohibitive odds and she won. She had to fight two subsequent wars, and against all odds, she won them too. There have been ongoing skirmishes and terrors and Israel is still there. It is hard for moderate and realistic Arabs to have any say in this because they are denounced and even murdered if they do not jump up and down when the obligatory destroy Israel slogans are shouted. Palestinian kids have a curriculum of hatred in their schools. Now Iran is swaggering into town.
Isn't it time for even left wing Americans to insist on a sensible peace before we spin into an unpredictable dance of massive death?
Would he be forced to shout "I am a Jew," like Daniel Pearl, right before they started slicing it off?
And, If he had a few moments of consciousness left after his head was removed from his torso, would his brain suddenly think, "00000 KAY, now I get it, these buggers just killed me!"
The Persian Gulf coast is beautiful. The people are very nice and friendly.
Ohhhhhhh, I forgot, the government of Iran has said that there are no gay people there.
There are no gay people in Iran.
Whoops, Glennn and the Ipanema Dude might have a little trouble getting a visa!
Well, how about Yemen? Now there's a lovely place for two newly weds to start a new life. The Red Sea Coast is a wonderful place to snorkel and swim.
No? They got problems with the gay, lesbian and transexual community too?
Ok, well, there's Syria, with lovely Roman ruins and pistachio nuts to die for.
What about Syria, with a beautiful Mediterranean coast, Syria, where the past meets the present?
No? Syria is uptight about that too?
OK OK!
Glennn IS Jewish, right?
He could make Aliya with Ipanema, right? They'd take them in.
But Glennn would rather go to Iran, if you don't mind, OK?
Are you proud?
One could easily say that the bailout has been more about bailing out Goldman Sachs than anything.
The following were principals at Goldman: Jim Cramer, Gov. Corzine. Robert Rubin, Christopher Cox, Hank Paulson.
Guess what?
All but one of them is a Democrat.
Goldman's clients must deposit $10,000,000.00 and have at least $10,000,000.00 with Goldman under management to be a Goldman client.
It's like a club of rich liberals.
So, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the stimulus/bailout has been all about stimulating and bailing out rich liberals. In bailing out AIG, our gov was also taking care of Goldman.
This might lead to somethings they did not expect.
0bama will jettison the rich liberals in a flash if they suddenly become problematic. With his rhetoric he might try to ignite a firestorm of resentment which extends to his own erstwhile bankers at GS.
0bama is all about 0bama. He is not about capitalism. He is about 0bama. He is not about socialism. He is about 0bama. Goldman Sachs and her clients probably funded a significant portion of his campaign, somewhere between 20 and 50%.
Liberalz, especially rich ones, may have gotten far more than they expected this time.
What happens to the rich liberals when 0bama must turn on them?
But somethink tells me the Iranian Mullahs will not want floats with buff boyz and girlz in bikinis and huge jars of vaselene cream parading down the streets of Tehran.
So why is Glennn so joyful at this "opening up to Iran?" Are some of these Mullahs just dying for some excuse to come out?
And, I too wonder at Christ Canard or whatever he calls himself. He's got his panties in a knot allright. Cynical Israeli humor aside, what is he so outraged about?
Isn't it the typical selective, targeted outrage of the left?
They lerve these Moslems, don't they?
Moslems really respect women and gays, right?
No?
You mean because Moslems hate Jews as much as Christ Cannard and "0hhhhh Nooooo, It's My EX!!!", it's OK for them to oppress gays and women?
The enemy of my enemy is my frem?
Is this the kind of mental gymnasics they must do?
So, Israel could have carpet bombed Gaza, and, instead, maybe 1400 Gazans died in this operation which they started. They instigated it, right?
And, so, Glennn and his fellow progressives here fret about whether 700 or 2200 Gazans died in a fight they started, right?
And, they see no disconnect regarding their kinda oblivious semi confused attitude about Darfur where Arab Moslems have killed close to 400,000 of their slightly darker kin, who started no fight with them?
400,000 people have died in Darfur.
Not a peep from Glennn or Christ Cannard.
Maybe they don't matter?
Iran has executed 26 children under the age of 18 since 2005.
There are are currently 134 minors on death row in Iran.
Unfortunately, this Glennn's does not have an Iran drawer in his head.
So it must not matter.
Why does this not matter?
It does not matter because if you hate Jews, you must lerve Iran.
That is the cynical calculus of the left.
As Komrad Stalin said, "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
The good, humanitarian folks at stalin.com are very idealistik.
Yes they are.
They want a better world 4 us.
They do.
Sometimes, we just must understand that ends justify the means.
If that means ignoring hundreds of thousands of people dead in Darfur and dozens of executed children in Iran, well, as comrad Stalin said, if you wanna make an omelette, you gotta break some eggs.