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Criticisms, political pressure and Barack Obama The president-elect's advisors respond to the firestorm created by Sunday's remarks on Guantanamo, illustrating the value of criticizing Obama when he deserves it.
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  • @Derbig Mooser

    "Doesn't like Jews, likes Britney! Go figure!"

    Here comes the slander. Here comes the lies. Like clockwork.

    I never said I did not like Jews.

  • @Steele the First

    I never said I did not like Jews.

    Yeah, but there's no denying you said you like Britney! Massive fail, game over, bye bye.

  • Season to Taste

    IMO, Derbig Mooser is best taken with a generous pinch of kosher salt.

  • naphini I was wondering the same thing...

    How do they know what these guys are doing? Amazing ain't it? Dozens of detainees, scattered to the winds, the four corners and all that, yet somehow, "they" know that they have rejoined the revolution.

    If that's the case why didn't they arrest them, or shoot them, or something?

    Maybe Total Information Awareness never really got canceled.

    I worked for Corrections Canada for over 10 years at their NHQ. Do you have any idea what one of the hardest to generate stats was? Yup, recidivism. Where are they, and what are they doing now, is really an impossible question to answer. We knew that. Why doesn't Homeland Security or the CIA?

  • Steele

    Here comes the slander. Here comes the lies. Like clockwork.

    I never said I did not like Jews.

    No, worse (from yesterday):

    I don't hate Jews. I hate ass-holes. And if ass-holes defend their ass-ness with Judaism, then it looks like I hate Jews.

    It seems to me that a consistently held belief/opinion (notwithstanding hobgoblins and all that) probably remains constant from, at least, one day to the next.

  • Steele

    I think I noted that you often have some good contributions to make. Its an observable pity that what gets remembered is your indulgent stereotyping of Jewish people.

  • Tell you what, Steelechik

    Below your name there it says, in a shade of blue "Read Steele the First's other letters" and anyone is free to do that, all the way back to your stunning and courageous defense of Ms. Spears.

    Why don't you try it? Everybody else can.

  • "I never said I did not like Jews."

    I would hate to see what you would have to say about them if you truly disliked them.

    "Maybe this is a distraction from what is happening in Gaza? Oh, I forgot, Jews are victims. Israel is a sanctuary of innocent victims. That explains old Jewish men throwing rocks at schoolchildren. Or making Palestinian woman give stillbirths in taxis.

    Yeah, her father was a monster. Well, there's a hell of a lot of monsters right now in Israel.

    Why don't you go there and see? And while you are there, stop by one of their many brothels, and enjoy one of the world's largest white-slavery sex rings. It's all there for you, in the beautiful land of Israel."

    Steele The First

  • thelastnamechosen

    Good points, all. I won't hold my breath, however. IT expenses for new comment thread system during economic melt down? Not likely.

  • Easy democracy

    "What are we doing over here besides complaining and huffing and puffing: Oh, it's so horrible what's happening to the Palestinians..what's on TV tonight?"

    www.senate.gov

    www.house.gov

    Finde your state. Give 'em a call.

  • Steele

    the anti-semetism (or your analysis of current socio-political conditions which we mistake for anti-semetism. There, feel better?) I could take. I'm not fussy, I can take, as Anatole so famously said on the roof "A few smooths with the roughs",

    but the Spears thing? Sorry, pal, some things are just beyond the pale.

  • @Che Pasa

    tragique à la Piaf

    (I think there are sufficient cognates in there for everyone to get it.) Once, I owned a 2 CD collection of the best of Edith, and along the line moving and what not lost them -- and it cost $50 back in the day. Anyone have a collection they wanna sell?

  • Here comes the crucifixion

    Now, what if instead of "Jew" I said "Muslim" or "Christian?" Would all of you be as upset with me as you are right now?

    "Oh, I forgot, Jews are victims. Israel is a sanctuary of innocent victims. That explains old Jewish men throwing rocks at schoolchildren. Or making Palestinian woman give stillbirths in taxis."

    So what? I was mocking Israeli Apologists. I find it interesting how self-identifying as a Jew is fine, but if anybody else identifies someone as a Jew, then they are a Jew-hater.

    Are you defending the white-slavery sex trade in Tel Aviv? Are you defending Jewish Zionists throwing rocks at children?

    "Its an observable pity that what gets remembered is your indulgent stereotyping of Jewish people."

    Then maybe you should read my unsavory posts more carefully. ... But it's perfectly fine for us to indulgently stereotype Muslims and Arabs and Christians? I don't stereotype. I make moral judgements, like I have with Jewish Zionists. Oh, and Christian Zionists. I think they are immoral, racist, and bigoted. Does that make me a Jew-hater? Does that make me a Christian-hater? but thank you for the compliment.

    And yes, I chose my subject line as a joke.

  • @ Omooex

    Not to get too far off tangent, and really nothing personal against either you or Be bop, but I'm really surprised at the attitude some of the posters have here toward Be bop. Almost as if he were a child not responsible for his own actions.

    No one here has excused what happened here. If you heard someone say that then you should be able to provide a link.

    You have had a thing for Bebop from the beginning, Omooex and, yes, it does appear personal to me. That's fine. I can respect that. What I cannot respect is the fact that you seem to literally leap at every opportunity to jump on the anti-Bebop bandwagon.

    What you have seen here tonight is nothing more than a recognition of one person's contributions here over the course of time. There has come a parting of the ways, and that has been accepted and acknowledged. Why are you surprised that some of us rue that? Were you not paying attention before things changed?

    As I said before, I have not been privy to the whole exchange and Glenn must do what he feels is best to to keep the comment section viable. I don't fault you for not 'getting' what Bebop had to tell us - many don't - but the fact that you want to value a contributor....no, this contributor, based solely on these last exchanges, nothing before...I find strangely lacking in compassion, at the very least.

    Yes, there are some of us who mourn this parting. We don't really care how surprised you are by that. Just stop rubbing sand in the wound.

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