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Michael Harold

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  • I've been like Charlie Brown with Lucy and the Little Green Football where our resident "conservatives" are concerned

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    But I think I've learned my lesson.

    You "compassionate conservatives" bring up some argument in response to a post, usually a one-liner. I go to all the trouble to provide a counter-argument with corresponding facts and references. You don't respond. You totally ignore it. All you ever do when faced with evidence is just move on the next "talking point."

    Every few days you circle back around and repeat yourselves with the same tired adages and illogic.

    It's just a waste of time. You have no interest whatsoever in any kind of rational discussion. You're just like the sex bots that occupy chat rooms of every type, even chess sites, literary sites and MySpace: "Hi, I'm Alisa", "Talk to me at www.sexygirl.com", "I'm Alisa, what's your name?", "Hi", "That was funny, I'm Alisa", etc., except in your case it's "I believe in freedom. Why don't you?" or "Why do you love the terrorists?" or "Clinton did it."

    Recently, it's been the occasional "If only people would be nice to me, then I would talk to them the way I can talk with you (new person), because you are making an effort to understand me" mask you wear with newcomers, combined with comments of more than 100 words, that has taken me in.

    Like I said, I've learned my lesson.

    Your being here makes about as much sense as me hanging out on the comment section at LGF (not a good place for a person whose mind has not been carefully prepared from birth).

    I'm not upset with you. I don't even know you. I'm just coming to a conclusion based on the available evidence.

  • Glenn and Helen

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    Awesome, Glenn! I can't wait to hear (i.e., read) what she has to say.

  • thanks to tiberius we are in for a treat

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    Helen and Glenn

    What a great answer to Hannity and Colmes. You both agree that the bad guys are only bad because we made them that way.

    Please start an internet show together. -- Tiberius

  • @sajwan -- We may eventually have to nuke ourselves

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    This brings up a another point. We can't just bomb Iran to be "safe". We'd have to bomb Iran AND Russia AND Pakistan too. And who knows maybe most every country with a nuclear arsenal. It's the old armageddon can be good theory, which I guess is still popular in some circles.

    Since North Korea got some of its nuclear missile technology from China via Israel via the U.S. and since, on at least one occasion, Hughes Aerospace had to send its technicians directly to North Korea to fix the (Hughes's) missile guidance systems that North Korea had acquired from China, it may eventually be necessary for us to nuke ourselves if we're going to get to the bottom of this whole illegal nuclear weapons thing.

    Gen. Cao did not work his way up to Minister of Defense by leading troops in the field. He came up through China=s rapidly expanding military-industrial complex. Prior to his promotion to Minister of Defense, Cao was director of the General Armament Department, having moved from heading the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND) when the departments were reorganized. He had taken over COSTIND after a series of satellite rocket failures, and since then every space launch has been a success. This improvement has been due in large part to the illegal aid given the Chinese missile program by American corporations Hughes Aerospace and Loral, who along with Lockheed-Martin, have provided Beijing with communications satellites and associated technology. Cao has also been a key link between the PLA and Russian industry, which has sold China an array of advanced weapons in recent years, as well as space-related technology. In these posts, Cao continued the work of his COSTIND predecessor, General Ding Henggao, who expressed the central Chinese view that,"World competition is essentially about comprehensive national power, and the key is the competition in science and technology.

    http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/view_art.asp?Prod_ID=909

    There's no doubt about it.

    We're definitely going to have to nuke China for buying weapons technology from us. And we're going to have to nuke Iran for acquiring nuclear technology from Pakistan who got its nuclear technology from China who got satellite and missile technology from us.

  • Another reason to nuke ourselves for threatening ourselves with nukes

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    Old news, but since it was never really reported by the MSM:

    The State Department has accused two leading U.S. aerospace firms of illegally providing China with technology that improved the People's Liberation Army's intercontinental ballistic missile force.
    The government says Hughes Electronics Corp. and Boeing Satellite Systems allegedly committed 123 violations of U.S. export laws, reports said today, in connection with transfers of satellite and rocket data to China.
    "The number and substance of charges reflect the seriousness of the violations," State Department spokesman Lou Fintor said yesterday. "There are many similarities between a space launch vehicle and an intercontinental ballistic missile."
    Included in the technology transfers, some analysts believe, was the know-how for Beijing to develop multiple independent warheads for its ICBM force.

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30294

    In other words, it looks like we taught them how to make long-range missiles, how to put MIRVs on them and how to target us with great precision.

    Once again, since Iran gets their technology from Pakistan and Pakistan gets their technology from China and China gets their technology from us . . .

  • Fun facts: Ward Churchill is named after

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    His grandfather, WINSTON CHURCHILL.

    If you remember, it was Winston Churchill who kept the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann quiet so that he wouldn't expose undercover anti-communist efforts in West Germany after the war. Oh wait, that was the CIA who did that. Nevermind.

  • re: Better trolls please . . .

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    Well, if that's what you want, you're just going to have to try harder.

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