See, when you complain about Likud using the charge of anti semitism to suppress dissent and then go and say that jews are as responsible for their holocaust as the Nazis you don't do much to advance your credibility. I thought you might not be serious, but I guess you are.

what is going to happen.

and 9-11 didn't force bush to invade iraq, ignore climate change, etc. etc. I'll give Bush one mitigating factor though, almost half the country is as stupid, incompetent and malevolent as he is, so he can't take all the blame.

Never? They are particularly stable now? Why

and with competent sane governance it wouldn't have. Of course with competent sane governanace it wouldn't have happened in the first place. Funny how the small attacks that didn't wreck the country because they were responded to sanely are somehow supposed to absolve bush of responsiblity for allowing the big one that due to his insane response did. More faith based logic at work.

of course we can never know for sure.

not everyone believes the right wing bullshit.

so maybe (narrowly defined) stupidity isn't the issue, or at least not the only issue.

is it really THAT difficult to distinguish between the weather and the clean up afterwards?

this provides 3 huge benefits:

it provides a lot of immediate economic stimulus, especially things like weatherization both for the people paid to do it and because the second it is in place somebody has more money to spend on something else due to energy savings

it addresses global warming

it saves tons of money over the long run

it really is odd. It is true that lots of people have to take worse but nobody does it by choice.

is secure

I wouldn't object to erect penisies (or wet pussies) in advertising but lets not go completely insane and make absurd comparisons between things that aren't in any way comparable, like for example comparing an exposed nipple to an erect penis. On a somewhat related note the fact is that there is less variation in dick size when all are erect than when not, so for some men being exposed flacid would be MORE embarassing.

and you yourself illustrate that women are more picky and less easily appealed to. In spite of your own demonstration that there is absolutely no evidence that male insecurity/homophobia has ANYTHING to do with the absence of men in advertising you just can't help yourself, can you?

Unlike your average politician, especially your average democrat (Obama is an exception) Franken knows how to communicate with an audience. I think they are concerned that he can sell a message.

if you intend to argue that Israel is obligated to accept a certain amount of rocket fire without responding you need to say so. It's going to be pretty difficult to get an idea accepted by an audience with any degree of skepticism if the idea being promoted can't even be stated. SPECIFICALLY what do you want done.

you seem to be saying this, but it isn't quite clear.

the only exception is if they believe that responding will make their situation worse. Even if you know nothing will change it is easier to fight back than to do nothing if there is nothing you can do to stop the attack. Yes, I know the logic could in theory apply to both sides. Whether is does in fact or not is obviously the subject of debate.

or they would have ended them

could leave if they choose for the US or Europe and if they did the country would collapse economically and eventually politically and militarily as well. So if Hamas or anyone else can make life miserable enough for Israelis they can destroy the state of Israel. So the rockets ARE potentially a real threat.

No they do not, if a country shoots rockets at it's neighbor it will be attacked, and unless Hamas is stopped the rockets they are getting WILL pose such a threat.

i.e. allowing one side to believe that it can win everything in the end if it is willing to live with the fighting long enough.

will anything change politically.

If a fall does come they are taking a lot of others down with them this time. They won't let history repeat itself.

then these things won't matter. The interesting question is how long the lie that these things are due to a desire to oppress women can be maintained as the only socially permitted way to conceptualize or discuss the issue.

because when a woman is standing you can't see anything. the equivalent to a man standing naked with his dick hanging out is a woman lying with her legs spread and her pussy visibly open. The equivalent to a man naked with a hard dick is a woman with her legs spread and a visibly wet open pussy. These equivalencies are actually extremely biologically obvious and therefore so is the fact that the refusal/inability to see them can only be due to pure ideological affectation. If you wonder why feminist hand wringing is so often ignored and dismissed this is an excellent example of the sort of thing that causes people to do this.

and so they call anyone who is not a dominionist fascist imperialist lunatic a "leftist" then if/when their first choice doesn't get in, they have a "centrist". Hard to tell how many of them are conscious of the strategy and how many are "just following orders" to say and do and think only that which is politically expedient to republicans and it may not matter much for most purposes most of the time.

would have been a desirable or superior outcome. Obviously asking this does not imply that what was done was well done.

Israel is the most incompetent depopulater in the history of the universe given the massive expansion of the palestinian population that has taken place under it's occupation.