Betzee said...

Betzee at 10:35 PM JST - 12th May

When did "liberals" become so terrified of that which they could not sanction and micromanage?

The question you should be addressing is why the Republican Party is so terrified of representing a range of voices. You have to march in lockstep or you are personae non grata.

Colin Powell wouldn't…

Posted in Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell at 10:35 PM JST - 12th May
Betzee at 06:40 PM JST - 12th May

Adverts,

There's a woman in my office who reported a while back, "My uncle is a staff sargeant and he says they're now taking convicts!" I assumed she meant those with criminal records which would have disqualified them during peacetime when the military can be choosier. But perhaps she was…

Posted in American soldier guns down 5 fellow troops at U.S. military base in Iraq at 06:40 PM JST - 12th May
Betzee at 11:06 PM JST - 11th May

No amount of effort to make it about Jeremiah Wright will change the fact trashing Colin Powell, and dismissing his long record of accomplishment as the result of affirmative action, reflects the "better red than expert" mentality of the current Republican Party leadership.

Posted in Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell at 11:06 PM JST - 11th May
Betzee at 10:20 PM JST - 11th May

Many a soldier has said, "I serve so my children can grow up in a better world." By contrast, Dick Cheney was making babies to avoid service. But he and fellow draft dodger El Rushbo now claim to know better than Colin Powell, smeared with the race card after a…

Posted in Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell at 10:20 PM JST - 11th May
Betzee at 10:17 AM JST - 11th May

Your children and grandchildren will be saying this too.

As a Buddhist I believe in reincarnation and therefore expect to be repeating it myself over several lifetimes.

Posted in Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell at 10:17 AM JST - 11th May
Betzee at 09:48 AM JST - 11th May

We win elections when we have good solid conservative principles to run upon.”

Huh? This from #2 in the administration which undertook the biggest expansion of the welfare state since LBJ??? Talk is cheap and successive Republican administrations proved incredibly expensive.

Posted in Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell at 09:48 AM JST - 11th May
Betzee at 08:14 AM JST - 11th May

Noted: the architect of the Bush administration would rather follow an arch-conservative buffoon than entrust the Republican party to a moderate who has spent his life in the service of his country.

SezWho,

Birds of a feather stick together. Both Cheney and Limbaugh are Chicken Hawks.

Posted in Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell at 08:14 AM JST - 11th May
Betzee at 09:44 AM JST - 10th May

An expat in China has written an excellent review which arrived as a different appraisal:

*Preceding the movie’s opening, many jaded expats and foreigners were quick to bemoan the possibility of “yet another” propaganda piece timed to whip up nationalist indignation and fervor, ever so coincidentally timed for the 60th…

Posted in Nanjing massacre movie avoids propaganda, muddles story at 09:44 AM JST - 10th May
Betzee at 01:35 PM JST - 30th April

True, but that's not the point I'm making. How many videos do we see of freeway pile-ups where an accident hoccurs, and then the vehicles behind just steadily plow into the others at 55mph, one after the other after the other?

The odd thing is, Adverts, those this is not…

Posted in Bus crash in California kills 5 French tourists at 01:35 PM JST - 30th April
Betzee at 11:15 PM JST - 29th April

He was Jewish and Republican, in a blue state.

He was the city DA (District Attorney), the police were there to protect him from retribution from the bad guys he was prosecuting. Duh.....

Posted in Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats at 11:15 PM JST - 29th April