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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 09:45 AM

AIPAC Girl Pelosi selling out the Democrats on the spending bill is new news?

Pelosi's AIPAC connections are nothing new. Pat Buchanan wrote an article about Pelosi caving to AIPAC back in March, and one look at the list of politicians who have taken received the most contributions from AIPAC should further help in clarifying where Establishment Democrats really stand regarding Iran and Israel's "safety". Perhaps if the Democrats weren't so busy going blind on blue pills in their hatred of "Republicans" they would have realized that they were being sold out in much the same way the right was sold out. It doesn't matter whether their mouthpieces are Conservative or Liberal Hawks, The War Party will play whatever side it needs to play to keep the money, weapons, and blood flowing on all sides. After all, war is a racket and the health of the State.

Say one thing and do another, nothing new here. The People made Pelosi Speaker of the House and the Establishment repays them with... excuses, platitudes, and the looming prospect of more war profits.

Israel isn't the only country with influence in the region. I find it quite amusing that we rattle the saber at Iran for interfering in Iraq while we give the Saudis a pass for doing the same thing. It has been confirmed that a lot of Sunni insurgents in Iraq are Saudis (something like ~40% iirc). Wow, like ZOMG, Saudis killing Americans and civilians, who would have thought!

In fact, we "reward" the Saudis (more like bribe them) for their involvement. I mean, we gotta give Billions in weapons to the Saudis since, according to Condoleezza Rice, we have to "give moderation a chance", where Saudi Arabia is considered "moderate". I guess she is talking about a different Saudi Arabia then the one whose religious police let school girls in their classrooms burn to death fires, not allowing them to escape because they were not properly covered. If that isn't the face of moderation then I don't know what else is.

Endless war isn't a bad thing though, at least not if you are an arms dealer. The whole region is getting 60 Billion in new weapons to kill each other with, and I imagine American troops eventually via the black market, from their pals in the Military Industrial Complex and their enablers in Washington. Nothing like promoting peace and democracy by arming all sides of the entire region to the teeth, except for the countries that we are propping up for "regime change" (we can leave that to the Russians).

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:14 AM
Original article: Pit bulls are innocent

Pitbulls suck, but does the state need to get involved?

If a pitbull "breaks into your house" get better locks. I absolutely fail to see how anyone with one lick of common sense would be outsmarted by an idiotic pitbull. If you lack the common sense to prevent something like a pitbull from coming into your house and mauling you, then you are probably stupid enough to let ANYTHING come into your house and maul you. In fact, it probably would have been 100x easier for a human to do the same thing, the pitbull just happened to be the first thing (be it animal OR human) to take advantage of the situation and the person's obvious lack of common sense.

Or just exercise your second amendment right and blast it if it comes inside. Oh wait, we want the state to take our guns and our dogs to protect us from bad guys (and this works since the black market is obviously a myth). How does that make any sense? Oh that's right, ignore the existence of the black market (a favorite thing to do among the "we can do it all" Statist crowd). Well, I hope that nobody ever tries to break into my house since I don't have my dog to scare the intruder away or my gun to protect myself, while he is probably armed to the teeth using weapons he purchased outside of the system.

A hamster bit a kid on the finger in a classroom, should we ban hamsters now too?

I swear, all these people who look to the State for magic solutions while preserving and champion civil rights and liberties are really something else. The more power you give the state the more you take away from yourself. The more decisions you give to the State the less freedom you have to make your own decisions. The more liberty you give up to the state the more you lose. It isn't like State actors have a history of taking more power and giving it back later.

It seems like all of these people want the state to control everything in life except for vaginas. In one country the State forces women to get abortions, and yet here it is considered a right. It just amazes me that these people claim to champion civil rights and liberty but look for every opportunity they can to use the State to regulate behavior unless it regards irresponsibility, sex, and the empowerment and feeling of liberation and gender equality one gets after having an abortion.

Take my guns, take my dogs, take my violent video games, tell me what I can and can't eat/drink/smoke, tax me to death, regulate my behavior, Science of Man me into the perfect citizen of the state. According to our Ivory Tower Elites I cannot be trusted to act responsible. So control me, tell me what to do! Just keep your hands out of the snizz.

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