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TooFarGone
smithinjapan:
But smith, I'm the one who supported regime change in Iraq. You wanted how many more decades of the Hussein dictatorship/
If a competent US authority finds these guys guilty then so be it.
I do? Where?
Posted in: Charged Blackwater guards ID'd: All decorated vets
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TooFarGone
Talk like this just causes uncertainty, and markets react badly. Obama's handlers need to be more prudent when his pronouncements affect millions of lives.
Posted in: Obama suggests some auto execs should lose jobs
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TooFarGone
Another advancement for minorities in America made possible by the party of Lincoln.
Posted in: 1st Vietnamese-American elected to U.S. Congress
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TooFarGone
The relatively cheap gas we got in America was always a source of envy to Euros, in their silly little Peugots and their VeeWees.
Fact is, it's your governments taxing you in advance that makes your gas prices so high.
But more to the point, gas is back down to around $40/barrel.
Governments can never respond to such fluctuations the way free markets do.
The little pixie mobiles that Watermelons Opposed to "Global Warming" want to see Americans be forced to drive are not selling:
A bright star just months ago, electric car industry goes into dramatic reverse.
Electric car sales have plummeted this year, plunging the fledgling industry into financial turmoil. Many manufacturers and dealers are cutting back operations; some have shut down entirely. Others are calling for government action to prevent the industry from wholesale collapse.
Many dealers understandably don’t want to discuss declining sales. When asked how well their cars were selling, a spokesman for Electric Vehicles, Inc, in Tampa, tersely replied “no comment”, and hung up. A dealer in Texas didn’t answer the phone at all. Another in California had its number disconnected.
http://www.dailytech.com/Electric+Car+Sales+in+Freefall+Industry+Risks+Collapse/article13601.htm
Posted in: Obama suggests some auto execs should lose jobs
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TooFarGone
"Another free market failure which criminal crony capitalism turns on itself in the search for short term profits and in the process destroys the company itself."
The UAW is one of the most dependable Donk support groups in America.They do report that in Canada, right?
Posted in: Obama suggests some auto execs should lose jobs
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TooFarGone
No one is buying those dorky electric cars.
Governments don't pick winners. Free markets do.
The Big 3's problem is their UAW. Japanese execs joke about the lavish benefits US carmakers provide.
Especially when as a Lefty you basically oppose capitalism and when it is not your money being taken by the gov't.
Posted in: Obama suggests some auto execs should lose jobs
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TooFarGone
It's obvious MCain is doing this on behalf of the incoming administration, which he has pledged to work with.
Gates was one of the architects of the surge. He has been retained by Obama.
And Dem leaders in Congress are reportedly shying away from completely outlawing 'torture' such as waterboarding.
[http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/12/04/feinstein/]
President-elect Obama can only humiliate his Lefty base so much.
Kudos to McCain for showing the Democrats the meaning of 'bipartisan.'
He's a great man.
Posted in: McCain: Afghanistan situation will get harder
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TooFarGone
Some of the major Lefty media have already rushed to exonerate the mass murderers of Mumbai.It won't be long till 'Liberals' are faithfully parroting these ridiculous talking points:
Joshua Kurlantzick, at the New Republic - "After years of moderation, India’s Muslims—including even some middle-class Muslims—finally may be striking back at the discrimination stacked against them."
Even some middle class Muslims? Hmmmm, and just how did they get to be middle class? Does this never occur to such people? Hey - India is full of "brown people." Aren't we constantly told by the post-colonial theorists that discrimination and "oppression" are uniquely "white" sins?
The incorrigible, preachy Lefty moralists at Time Magazine were not to be outdone:
"...the roots of Muslim rage run deep in India, nourished by a long-held sense of injustice...."
If Time says so. It must tbe true. Their partners in crime at Newsweek proved to the world how much Muslim rage is out there when 17 died in Pakistan a few years back rioting over a completely fabricated story about 'Koran abuse' somewhere in an American prison holding Mohammedan combatants taken off battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The above should be remembered when people313 come here denying that the overwhelmingly Leftist mainstream media help enable the kind of barbarism we now face.
Posted in: Report finds prejudice rising against U.S. Muslims
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TooFarGone
Easy to say when you have never worked in the private sector.
Posted in: Obama suggests some auto execs should lose jobs
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TooFarGone
Since nothing has been proven yet the only stain is the one our Leftard media has made.
Try again?
Posted in: Charged Blackwater guards ID'd: All decorated vets
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TooFarGone
Obama knows he was wrong on the surge, as was most of the Left. Good to see him grow up a bit. Wish the rest of the Left would. Obama has retained Gates, one of the architects of the surge. Bringing Shinseki on board seems like a good move.
Posted in: Rumsfeld nemesis Shinseki named Veterans Affairs secretary
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TooFarGone
Just bring the proof.
Posted in: Charged Blackwater guards ID'd: All decorated vets
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TooFarGone
European pols and bureaucrats dream of 6.7 unemployment.
Posted in: Obama promises recovery plan as job losses mount
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TooFarGone
"Obama said he selected Shinseki for the VA post because he “was right” in predicting that the United States would need more troops in Iraq than Rumsfeld believed at the time."
Nice to see that Obama is also admitting that he himself was wrong about the surge.
He used his Lefty fan base like a pro. Amazing act. I'd go as far as saying they should actually be proud of how expertly they were suckered.
Posted in: Rumsfeld nemesis Shinseki named Veterans Affairs secretary
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TooFarGone
As with the bogus charges brought against brave US Marines at Haditha (and later withdrawn) I predict the accused in this case will be cleared of their alleged crimes and the "civilians" they shot in self-defense will be revealed to have been carrying AK-47s and using innocent Iraqi children as shields moments before they were shot.
Posted in: Charged Blackwater guards ID'd: All decorated vets
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TooFarGone
You equate guessing with actual thinking.
I support Bush? I support my country, thank you. If Obama chooses to end Blackwater's role I'll support it.
I doubt he will. Can we have your prediction?
I base mine on information like this -
"I told him of a cable from a State Department employee who literally watched Blackwater heroes die while rescuing her from enemy attack in Baghdad - how she owed her life to them and would never be able to repay them. I then told him that when Blackwater was being dragged before Henry Waxman’s oversight committee back in February in a blatant effort to help a civil lawsuit, the State Department would not allow them to even quote from that diplomat’s message in order to describe what Blackwater is really about.
"I told Broder [of the New York Times] that our uniformed military are not trained to do personnel security missions - that it would be too costly and a waste of their time and talents. I reminded him that for every soldier deployed forward, it takes eleven support personnel behind them. Blackwater can support 50 security professionals with one support employee back in the States. I told him that for all the talk about the high cost of security contractors, the cost of having our soldiers do the job would be three or four times higher to the taxpayer. "
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/02/opinion/main3445252.shtml
Posted in: Charged Blackwater guards ID'd: All decorated vets
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TooFarGone
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/04/blackwater-joins-fight-against-sea-piracy/
Shake them lil fists
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TooFarGone
"Grow up. You cannot pin every screw up by Bush-Cheney on Clinton. Christ! you are just like Bush-Cheney, always avoiding and evading responsibility and blaming others. "
Bush-Cheney gutted the military and made necessary the use of private security firms?
No, that would have been Clinton.
Even Obama won't rule out their continued employment.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/28/jeremy_scahill_despite_anti_war_rhetoric
Posted in: Charged Blackwater guards ID'd: All decorated vets
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TooFarGone
Except that Blackwater got their start and big break in 1994, under Clinton.
Try again?
Posted in: Charged Blackwater guards ID'd: All decorated vets
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TooFarGone
I support Festivus.
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