Any attempt to relate US involvement during the Soviet Invasion and today's US actions is, at best, futile and, at worst, misleading.

That is the Obama Slogan: Let us look forward only, never look back.

where are the 'Romans' ? -

I would love to meet them! -

Come stai! Il mio attuale preferito scherzo, è la storia di una coppia sposata su una Domenica

a piedi Via Veneto e Berlusconi va con la sua ragazza e la donna ha uno sguardo critico e dice a suo marito: il nostro è molto più sexy!

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Eh! --- Eh!!?

Scuzza you are lying there are no "Romans" here - they would have laughed!!

on a sunday a couple sees Berlusconi with his girlfriend walking by on the Via Veneto -

Says the wife to her husband: OUR is much more sexy!

???

You don't get it? - Yes - her husbands girlfriend - That's the joke - that she says 'our' as if

it is their girlfriend together -

Got it?

Good (or soo bad!)

Well, wasn't that conversation just special.

We get a lot of "facts" which are accusations spread by biased politicians, war lords, and the like; and then filtered though the "news reporters" that Glenn has pointed out are not always as reliable as our resident typing expert and NYT board member would have you believe.

Poppies? The Empire has declared war on a flower? Flower Power is a slogan from my youth. Have any of you thought about how the world would change if the USA just surrendered in the drug war and let human adults ingest any weed or flower that we want to?

Do any of you big-government lovers ever get to the root causes of anything? Mexico would not be disintegrating before our eyes except for the huge profit in the supply of illegal drugs.

What we have is the vision of many that the awesome force of government should be used to create a world where people do exactly as they should do --- according to "experts". If they don't, we will lock them up like animals, or kill them.

It will not work folks; man does not like the boot on his neck. Write that down in your notebook.

Last night on the O'Reilly show he brought up to Laura Ingram that there was a man released from Guantanamo in 2007 to Afghanistan who was now leading the Al Qaeda effort in that country. It sounded like they were talking about Wakil. His name was never mentioned but he was used as an example of why the most dangerous men in the world are there. Laura went on to say this is why Gitmo should not be closed. (The next sequence was to be on a breast feeding mother who was drunk. I skipped that ot get a drink myself. What's with Fox news and its viewers that they always need some type of prurient stimulus? Is this causing the Republican senators to fall into sin?)

The point is, you don't need to even mention names anymore to gin up the audiences. Remember, we dealing with a nation of people who have become more and more fearful. They all just want to be safe. Rational discussions will always be trumped by fear.

This is for rmp:

Another entry from the weather is not climate department, this time courtesy of Tom Skilling, WGN-TV meteorologist.

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/genearoundtheworld/chicago.jpg

Chicago has its coolest July 8 in 118 years

By Tom Skilling

July 9, 2009

For the 12th time this meteorological summer (since June 1), daytime highs failed to reach 70 degrees Wednesday. Only one other year in the past half century has hosted so many sub-70-degree days up to this point in a summer season — 1969, when 14 such days occurred.

Wednesday’s paltry 65-degree high at O’Hare International Airport (an early-May-level temperature and a reading 18 degrees below normal) was also the city’s coolest July 8 high in 118 years — since a 61-degree high on the date in 1891.

rpm, I, literally, got a million of them.

=:-)

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Note: Glenn I recommend you put "man caused global warming" in the same category as 9-11 until it snows in Orlando since it is the interventionist's favored myth of this era. As for me, I'll just rib rpm once in a blue moon. (old saying, and please don't write back and tell me the moon is not blue cheese)

Have any of you thought about how the world would change if the USA just surrendered in the drug war and let human adults ingest any weed or flower that we want to?

It has been tried in the past, in fact in the opposite direction. With not good results, either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_wars

Thanks for the nuanced observations. I too see some residual value in NYT as well as McClatchy, even Wapoo still has some good reporting.

All are corrupt to the core at the senior management level, of course.

when will the information reach your part of the world, that the coolest June there -

the wettest here - and the hottest over there - are results of extreme changing weather patterns?

And - Duuh!! 'Global warming' doesn't mean - that it gets warmer in YOUR living room!

But I understand - There are people if they don't see it with their own eyes --- or feel it with their own bud - you have will have to send the once a years to Interlaken an measure the glacier

or they stay - Duuuh - It's so cold today!

"For the 12th time this meteorological summer (since June 1), daytime highs failed to reach 70 degrees Wednesday. Only one other year in the past half century has hosted so many sub-70-degree days up to this point in a summer season — 1969, when 14 such days occurred."

I've always said the summer of '69 was the coolest ever.

I just want to go swimming in June - and not in November or February - so fix it Heru!

I really have no idea what you're on about.

You made a statement that was factually wrong (Taliban always involved in heroin trade). I called you out on it. You could have admitted you wrote that in haste, amended your statement and gone on to make whatever point it is you're making. But instead, you went off on another tangent, made another factually wrong statement (7 mos vs. 1.5 years) and were called out on that. And now, you repeat that factually wrong statement and spread more obfuscatory arguments.

I know you enjoy spinning arguments out over pages and pages of these comment threads, but I find them tedious...and in this case, certainly, tangential to the point I'm making, and thus, a waste of time.

Just admit you were wrong and start again. Not so hard, really.