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Monday, June 29, 2009 12:00 AM

Pat Boone goes Birther

The entertainer gets behind the movement that claims -- wrongly -- President Obama isn't eligible for his job

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Monday, June 29, 2009 09:08 PM

Hollywood 3000

Geeze, did that really happen, the thing with Rock Hudson? What a lunatic, as if Rock didn't have it bad enough, he had to have a talentless singer and his insane wife ranting at him.

Monday, June 29, 2009 09:21 PM

stinks still has nothing...

"We have re-energized a global non-proliferation regime to deny the world's most dangerous people access to the world's deadliest weapons."

Weasely, but that is in the context of him specifically hammering away at Iran and its nuclear ambitions. Everyone knows he was talking about Iran. NK already has them.

Actually, if you read the context, it is a very generalized statement. Do you oppose keeping "the world's deadliest weapons" from the "world's most dangerous people? I thought not.

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Continued and expanded under Obama and didn't he vote for the bailouts? Both parties are guilty as sin.

Under Obama, TARP has been expanded to insurance companies.

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Newsflash! It is still happening. No videos or pictures will be permitted.

Making a claim doesn't make it true. Evidence please. ANd I mean evidence. Again, I can't help but laugh at someone that demands a copy of a birth certificate but doesn't require any evidence at all to support some claims.

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Why are we still there at all.

I am not a military planner, but I know it take a while to stage such a pullback. The pullback has been going on for a while under an agreement wtih the Iraqi government. The fact of the matter is we should never have been there at all. Nonetheless, withdrawling also take some strategy.

Who is going to run the oil industry?

I don't know. You tell me, stinks...

What about our embassy? What about our military bases?

This is a meaningless question and shows utter ignorance. The U.S. has embassies and military bases around the world. The continuation thereof is not the same thing as a military occupation in which the U.S. military is the primary source of "security."

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You don't get it, do you. They are playing us for fools. A tribal leader complained that the Taliban and Al Qaeda were working with Mossad and the CIA and taking money and orders from them. Then HE was killed. We are taking out the competition of our clients that are working with us and that IS the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

No, I don't get it because you are full of shit. Just because a tribal leader says the Taliban and al Qaeda are working with the Mossad and the CIA doesn't make it true.

Pak ALert Press? This is someone's personal blog and you are using it as definitive evidence that the Taliban and al Qaeda are working with the Mossad and the CIA.

DUDE! We invaded afghanistan to get the opium crop growing again. It was planned and the coalition was formed by March of 2001.

More unsubstantiated bat-shit insanity from you. I had major issues with the invasion of Afghanistan, but I at least saw the correlation between it and 9/11.

Here's a suggestion DUDE! If you are going to make wild allegations, you have to have supporting evidence. You have none.

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We are strengthening the Taliban and Al Qaeda by killing civilians and eliminating competition for other tribal leaders.

Yes and no. U.S. actions will radicalize some individuals, some of whom may join the ranks of the Taliban and/or al Qaeda. As for "elimating competition" by killing civilians--you are again stretching quite a bit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swat,_Pakistan

This Wikipedia page says absolutely nothing abouting clearing out an entire province. Rather, it discusses how it fell to the Taliban and how the Pakistani military has been fighting to regain it. The resulting conflict has led to a refugee crisis. The article does state (and links to a BBC article) that is has been largely cleared of TALIBAN MILITANTS. This is hardly the same thing as clearing out and erasing an entire province in Pakistan.

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OK when has there been a coup in central America that we were not behind?

Yes. The U.S. also has a long history of intervention in Central America.

We even overthrew Hugo Chavez, which is why we are some angry with him.

Yes, the U.S. did back the failed coup attempt against Hugo Chavez. However, the anger with him was PRIOR to the coup attempt (hence the coup attempt).

DUH!

This is hardly evidence of the U.S involvement in the Honduran coup. Considering that the U.S. has (surprisingly) come out in favor of the deposed government, the evidence of U.S. involvement is non-existent. Produce actual evidence that the U.S. was involved in THIS coup.

You know, Bonnie and Clyde robbed banks. However, not all bank robberies were done by Bonnie and Clyde. Very elementary logic.

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&ei=l4dJSoXwHaG_twfijpCNCg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=400+million+overthrow+iran&spell=1

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=neda+cia+murder&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

The U.S. paid ten of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to demonstrate in the streets?

Sorry posts on Craig's List and the like are hardly legitimate sources of information.

Yes, though, the U.S. has funded dissident groups in Iran--for YEARS. This is nothing new. This is not the same as claiming that the hundreds of thousands of individuals that rose up to have their voices heard in Iran are all influenced by this.

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Monday, June 29, 2009 09:38 PM

Okay, so I don't have my original birth certificate, either

In fact, I would be hard pressed to tell you where the latest certified copy is. So, since I don't have my original birth certificate, and all I would ever be able to produce is a certified copy from the state of New York, according to the Birthers and somethingstinks...that means that I'm probably not a citizen of the United States, either? Good to know.

I think you guys should just stick with the line that he's the Anti-Christ. You'll have a better chance proving that.

Monday, June 29, 2009 10:01 PM

Well, this isn't the first time Pat Boone lost his head.

Submitted for your entertainment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9aBeRVToGk

Monday, June 29, 2009 10:08 PM

My dear sitka0230,

Craigslist?

What a weak troll you are.

Jane's Intelligence Review reported on the coalition to invade Afghanistan in March of 2001.

Go to the LOC and look it up.

I am an intelligence specialist.

What's your shoe size?

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

You will note that the military works with our CIA and they are the ones who removed the President from office.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/29/18604644.php

But why trust these dangerous radicals?

http://military.einnews.com/news/cia/honduras

Betcha can't log in, but you can read the article titles, can't you? You know that SOA is the School of the Americas where we taught them how to torture and stuff, the leader of the coup was a product of the SOA.

How about that?

Fool.

I am an intelligence specialist. I know a fool when I encounter one.

Ewige Blumenkraft!

FNORD.

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squidly.

Pull my finger.

Monday, June 29, 2009 10:16 PM

Why the Honduran President HAD TO GO!!!!

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/10/14/president-of-honduras-calls-for-drug-legalization/

"President of Honduras Calls for Drug Legalization

Posted by Juan Carlos Hidalgo

It seems that there is a growing trend in Latin America to openly challenge Washington’s war on drugs. Yesterday, Manuel Zelaya, president of Honduras, openly called for the legalization of drugs as a way to tackle drug-trafficking violence. The venue for Zelaya’s plea couldn’t be less welcoming: a ministerial summit of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime.

However, Zelaya is not alone in Latin America. In Argentina, the current government of Cristina Fernández is promoting the decriminalization of drug consumption. In Mexico, where drug related violence is tearing the country apart, the PRD, the biggest opposition party, has also openly called to legalize drugs. And this is not just a left-leaning phenomenon. Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s conservative president, has recently proposed decriminalizing small amounts of some drugs, including cocaine and marijuana.

There are several factors that explain why Latin American leaders are now calling for a different approach to the U.S. international war on drugs. First, the left-leaning governments that don’t enjoy good relations with Washington are less concerned with upsetting it. Second, drug-related violence and corruption are reaching highly disturbing levels, especially in Mexico and Central America and are overwhelming law enforcement authorities. In Guatemala the local army recently admitted that there are portions of the country’s territory under the control of local cartels. Washington’s war on drugs is threatening the stability of these democracies.

However, another important factor is that many Latin American countries are now less susceptible to punishment from the United States, thanks in part to free trade agreements. A decade ago, all Latin American countries but Mexico depended on unilateral trade preferences to export to the U.S. market. Upsetting Washington could represent losing these preferences. Today, 11 Latin American countries have implemented (or are in the process of implementing) permanent trade agreements with the United States that ironically gives them more stability in their relationship with Washington.

As Ted Galen Carpenter recently explained in an op-ed, the stakes are too high for stability and security not only for Latin American countries but also for the U.S. Let’s hope that more leaders in the region raise their voices against the failed international war on drugs, and call for sensible policies such as drug legalization."

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THAT IS BAD FOR BUSINESS!

CIA BUSINESS!

HONDURAN MILITARY BUSINESS!

NO MORE PAYOFFS?

NO MORE PROTECTION?

NO MORE CUTS?

NO WAY!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:50 AM

I Don't Get It

How come when Dubya's popularity polling numbers were in the 20s last year that we never read any criticism of his act but now with Obama the MSM is dragging out anyone with a gripe, even Pat Boone? "The entertainer" When was that--1957?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 01:01 AM

Where's the beef?

If Pat Boone has produced some verifiable evidence that Obama was born in some other place than Hawaii, he should present it. Then Congress could start the impeachment process.

Evidence is all that matters with a claim like Boone's.

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