Wednesday February 15, 2012

SuperLib's past comments

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    SuperLib

    From the LA Times.com:

    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-burleigh-knox-20111004,0,2921659.story?track=lat-pick

    I'm one of those "I haven't paid much attention because it probably won't ever be sorted out" but the case is pretty interesting....now that it's over.

    Posted in: Kercher family perplexed by verdict freeing Knox in Italy

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    SuperLib

    It's like the world is reversing itself.

    Posted in: Dalai Lama calls off South Africa visit

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    SuperLib

    I don't think Knox was organizing a lot of press conferences from prison. The European media outlets chose to make her a star. Check out what some of the British and Italian newspapers did while this was going on....pretty creepy stuff....all to make money selling papers.

    Posted in: Kercher family perplexed by verdict freeing Knox in Italy

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    SuperLib

    Yabits: This is the game that has been being played out for many decades now. 9/11 was just a part of that cycle.

    Given your extensive work with the military and the CIA for decades, perhaps you can share with us some of your feelings on being part of the machine that created Islamic terrorism?

    Posted in: U.S. strike kills American al-Qaida cleric in Yemen

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    SuperLib

    Just let them kill each other.

    Posted in: Barak: Israel, Palestinians must resume talks

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    SuperLib

    Mr. Bill: Of course I could bring up Waco Texas and Ruby Ridge, or even Sherrif Judd Grady and his corpse with 68 bullet holes, but that would just lead to a haggling over details. I suppose I could also bring up a slew of suspicious deaths, but of course you would just deny U.S. government involvement, citing the lack of a paper trail, even though we both know allegations would be enough for you if it were any body else, just as allegations are good enough for you to support extra-judicial murder by remote control in this instance.

    I doubt madverts, or anyone for that matter, would doubt your obsession with the issue. It sounds like you've spent quite a bit of time researching and surrounding yourself with this point of view, probably to the point where you've lost all context.

    Yabits: We have to look to our Constitution -- which says that a person's life can't be taken away by a government except through due process.

    And the government also has a military and police powers that give it the authority to use what's called deadly force in certain circumstances. The problem isn't that we're refusing to accept the Constitution, the problem is that you're pretending it's the only thing that exists.

    Yabits: ...a cycle that makes the fringe elements like Alwaki a direct consequence.

    Fringe elements like Alwaki are a direct consequence of fringe elements like Alwaki. His job was to recruit men to engage in jihad. People are targeted and trained. They have such people because becoming a terrorist isn't just some kind of natural reaction to foreign policy, no matter how much you want it to be.

    Posted in: U.S. strike kills American al-Qaida cleric in Yemen

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    SuperLib

    Yabits: So, the government can just call it hostile and then start blowing people away? You really feel totally comfortable with a government taking on that kind of power for itself?

    That's probably the point of all of the discussions here. Some people are obviously petrified of the government and their minds wander to absurd situations as if this is just the beginning to their worst nightmare. I'm sorry, but people just don't have the same level of fear that you do and as a result your fantasy scenarios just aren't touching any nerves, excepts the ones that tell us we're hearing something utterly silly. You're afraid. We get it.

    Posted in: U.S. strike kills American al-Qaida cleric in Yemen

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    SuperLib

    Sorry, the above comment should have been attributed to Mr. Bill.

    NeverSubmit: Don't forget that the British deemed the American founding fathers to be terrorists.

    OK, it's been logged in my notebook.

    Posted in: U.S. strike kills American al-Qaida cleric in Yemen

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    SuperLib

    Madverts is now a conservative. NICE! hehehe

    Never Submit: Tomorrow, it will be a citizen on American soil. Soon, trials will be done away if anyone is suspected of terrorism (and idiots don't know what the word "suspected" means you know.). And the idiots will cheer and declare trials inconvenient and expensive anyway. And they will think the president, pentagon and CIA incapable of using this extra-judicial power for ill, right up until their neighbors get predator droned to death for being a whistle blower.

    Well it's not really fair to tell everyone else that we should be making policy based off of irrational fears that happen only in your imagination. Remember that we are a group of people who cry bloody murder when someone asks us to take our shoes off at the airport. I don't think we'll be throwing away the trial system anytime soon.

    Posted in: U.S. strike kills American al-Qaida cleric in Yemen

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    SuperLib

    Mr. Bill: having kids make their own meals.

    Now that's a smart idea.

    pamelot: Welcome to the Nanny state.

    Not if the money actually goes towards paying for the increased health care costs of a lifelong bad diet. Seems pretty smart to me.

    Posted in: Denmark levies world's first fat tax

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    SuperLib

    Never Submit: Everybody deserves a trial and everybody is innocent until proven guilty.

    You can agree with that yet have no problem with what happened to this guy. There are actually plenty of examples where police or the military are authorized to use deadly force without a trial. Even regular people can use it for self defense. Your position is not a black and white absolute by any means. Obviously there have to be some logistics and common sense applied otherwise your position could easily be counterproductive, especially if this guy continues to live and kill more.

    People are going to weigh the freedom/security trade-off and I think most understand the truly unique nature of this situation. Exceptions have been accepted and applied in other situations as well.

    Posted in: U.S. strike kills American al-Qaida cleric in Yemen

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    SuperLib

    Nice work by the Feds. It's a thankless job.

    Posted in: Man arrested over plot to blow up Pentagon using remote-controlled aircraft

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    SuperLib

    Pretty crazy stuff.

    Posted in: Saudi king revokes woman driver's lashing sentence

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    SuperLib

    Pretty candid conversation. Interesting.

    Posted in: Australia to investigate risks, rewards of Asia boom

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    SuperLib

    So it looks like Netanyahu thinks there will never be peace with the Palestinians. Maybe he's right, maybe he's not.

    Either way I don't see what Obama or any US president can do. Might as well let them have it their way and fight it out forever. There's no need for us to be the lightening rod for criticism. We've paid out the nose to Israel, Palestine, and Egypt, and our Presidents have spent enormous amounts of time on the issue that could be spent on domestic issues instead. At this point neither side is doing anything to work towards a comprehensive peace deal. Until there is a major shift by one or both parties we should just sit on the sidelines and let them blow each other up. Sooner or later one of them will need help.

    Posted in: U.S. calls Israeli settlements 'counterproductive'

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    SuperLib

    Last we saw of Trump he was siding with the birther nutters, then was humiliated by Obama for several minutes at the press banquet. I have no idea why anyone running for office would want to associate themselves with him.

    Obama must be defeated

    Ah, now i get it. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Even if he's batshiat crazy.

    Posted in: Republican candidates seek Trump stamp of approval

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    SuperLib

    Europeans don't like to be criticized by Americans. Drives 'em nuts.

    Posted in: Obama: European financial crisis scaring world

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    SuperLib

    Republicans are just interested in the White House. They'll cripple the economy as long as it helps them accomplish that goal, but if/when they do get the White House back you're going to see quite a few broken campaign promises. Right now they're just interested in dragging the country down because Obama is President of it.

    Posted in: Obama says Republicans would 'cripple' U.S.

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    SuperLib

    I think everyone understood that. They were just making fun of you for trying so hard.

    Posted in: Palestinians submit U.N. statehood bid

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    SuperLib

    It seems impossible to "build towards" time travel. If the result is a success then we would already know about it since someone would have already arrived from the future. Or if it happens so far in the future that no one has traveled back far enough to our time or doesn't think we should know then the result is the same of not discovering it anyway.

    Posted in: Physicists wary of junking light speed limit yet

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