Thursday February 16, 2012

Triumvere's past comments

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    Triumvere

    A sad end. Rest in peace, Wang Yue. At the very least, you will be remembered.

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    Triumvere

    And now the extremists take over the country.

    I doubt it.

    Posted in: Pulled from drain pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy

  • 0

    Triumvere

    NetNinja,

    I imagine it matters quite a lot to the Lybians.

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  • -3

    Triumvere

    tmarie,

    How about celebrating your emancipation?

    Posted in: Pulled from drain pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy

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    Triumvere

    Wonders if the new government will be any better?

    That's a pretty low bar...

    Posted in: Pulled from drain pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy

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    Triumvere

    It's done, then.

    Here is hoping to a brighter future for the Lybian people.

    Posted in: Pulled from drain pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy

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    Triumvere

    You don't ban a relationship because it "might" be abusive.

    We do this a lot, actually. WIth minors. With polygamy. We erect barriers between student/teacher and boss/employee relationships. It's a power-imbalance thing.

    Posted in: 19-year-old man stabs 44-year-old lover in 'mercy killing'

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    Triumvere

    However, Israel does have a clear history of attempting to negotiate for his release. This is hardly a surprising position for the Israeli government to take. In fact, they've had the same position all along.

    Israel was the one who reject the initial request for ~1000 and the second reqest for ~1300 prisoners. Hamas later rejected exchanges during the blockade of Gaza when an attempt was made to tie the opening of the Egyptian crossings to the release of Shalit. As I said, Shalit was captured expressly to try to get a deal of this sort. I have a lot of trouble believing that Israel couldn't have gotten it done earlier if it has been willing to pay the price asked, which makes me very suspicious of the timing.

    There have been protests against Hamas on the streets of Gaza? When exactly? I do agree Hamas stifles any political competition. However, that is not what I am talking about. I am talking about public demonstrations.

    Were you not paying attention during the "Arab Spring"?

    Since Hamas does not want unity, there is no unity to prevent. What you are saying does not make sense.

    The problem were are having is that you see Hamas as a permanent fixture in Gaza, where I see it as being on the way out (or at least it was before this deal). If Hamas loses power, then the PA moves to unify 'palestine" under a more moderate banner. This is why this deal is so infuriating.

    To be sure, there are other factors as well: The Israeli election, the recent Israeli economic difficulties, the revolution in Egypt potentially losing Israel and "ally" and negociating partner... the weakness of Hamas certainly made the deal much easier to make, But Israel still agreed to free more or less the number of hostages asked, including ~280 terrorists. That doesn't sound like someone negociating from a position of strength to me. Its pretty obvious to everyone that the move strengthens Hamas and weakens the PA. There is no way Bibi wouldn't be aware of this. The timing of this whole thing is too perfect to be coincidental. Plus it suits his purpose.

    Posted in: Happiness, tears as Palestinians greet hundreds of freed prisoners

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    Triumvere

    Well, If true that explains the stiff resistance in Sirte.

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    Triumvere

    "her", not "here". It was a typo.

    Posted in: Lindsay Lohan in custody after judge finds probation issue

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    Triumvere

    There certainly are not protests against them in Gaza.

    There certainly were. Hamas stifled them.

    Anyway, you have not pointed to anything leading anyone to see Hamas wanting unity with Fatah

    Of course Hamas doesn't want unity with Fatah. Why would I site evidence for something I never claimed? I said empowering Hamas prevents Palestinian unity.

    Israel is the good guy this time and Hamas has been shown to be exactly what many already knew they were. This time it is clearer and yet there are still people who will ignore this in favor of blaming Israel.

    Hamas is a cancer. And to be clear, I'm not blaming "Israel," I'm blaming Bibi. Just because I don't agree with Bibi does not somehow make me pro-Hamas.

    Posted in: Happiness, tears as Palestinians greet hundreds of freed prisoners

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    Triumvere

    That would largely depend on whether he decides on the day that he is for the issue that he was vehemently against yesterday.

    Psah. Everybody already knows Romney is a phoney. We've had plenty of time to get over that.

    But I know that by "respectable opponent", you mean that Romney has Presidential Hair, and I would agree with you on that. :-)

    But of course!

    Posted in: Public unsettled on who should challenge Obama

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    Triumvere

    Fatah certainly has not had much of a 'resurgance' and Hamas was certainly not 'crumbling', especially in Gaza

    Your facts are dead wrong.

    Hamas' support in Gaza was at an all time low. Polls show they would have been kicked out of if the last election cycle would have been held, so Hamas simply didn't allow the election. Meanwhile, a non-violent moderate movement has been building in the west bank and Fatah's push to get recognition in the UN has made it very popular with Palestinians in both territories.

    Hamas has been looking for a prisioner exchange for years. It's why they captured Shalit in the first place.

    I'll ask again, why now?

    Posted in: Happiness, tears as Palestinians greet hundreds of freed prisoners

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    Triumvere

    This is horrible.

    Posted in: Ohio police shoot escaped lions, tigers, bears dead after owner frees them, then kills himself

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    Triumvere

    Molenir,

    Bibi could have easily conducted this deal years ago. Ask yourself, why now? Why now after years of "we will not negociate with terrorists" rhetoric does Bibi turn around and hand over 1000 detainees - including personages accused of murder and terrorism? Could it possibly have anything to do with the resurgance of Fatah and the non-violent push for recognition of statehood in the UN? Hamas was crumbling and the moderates (such as they are) were winning. Bibi's just given Hamas a huge shot in the arm. Why? Bibi is many things, but stupid is not one of them.

    Posted in: Happiness, tears as Palestinians greet hundreds of freed prisoners

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    Triumvere

    The most incompetent president in US history, who has mismanaged the economy so badly even his own party members are starting to wake up from their kool-aid induced stupor.

    How many times do you have to repeat things like this to yourself before you can pretend you believe them?

    Posted in: Republican contenders tear into each other at Las Vegas debate

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    Triumvere

    This is stupid. Lock her up, she's earned it.

    Posted in: Lindsay Lohan in custody after judge finds probation issue

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    Triumvere

    DS & Yabits,

    You are both wrong. Romney is doing great against the other Republicans, and would make a respectable opponent for Obama - who is no push-over. I, for one, would like to see those debates.

    Posted in: Public unsettled on who should challenge Obama

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    Triumvere

    Israel, the only loser here has gone soft kow-towing to the terrorists. They should have located Shalit and bombed the hide-out to oblivion to make a point about kidnapping.

    Oh, no. The biggest immediate loser is Fatah - Bibi has very cleverly undermined the less extremist wing of the Palestinians inorder to prevent any sort of unity.

    Of course, both Israelis and Palestinians will lose out in the long run. But all Bibi cares about is annexing the West Bank. The stronger the extremists get on both sides, the closer he gets to his goal.

    Posted in: Happiness, tears as Palestinians greet hundreds of freed prisoners

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    Triumvere

    Romney is the only Republican with any real chance of getting elected; if the Republican base can't see that they are even crazier than they appear (which is pretty crazy...)

    Posted in: Republican contenders tear into each other at Las Vegas debate

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