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dontknockit
I always assumed it came from Columbia.
But Friday night line of coke is a victimless crime. But not even allowing people to have a license for recreational coke use? That is what is not a victimless crime. I grew up hearing about how America was a free country. Seems like an odd thing to say when you have no choice of coke source.
Anyway, its just as likely that marijuana is the cash cow this band of thugs is involved in. And everybody could grow it at home if it was allowed. Instead it seems the anti-pot crowd would rather random teens in Mexico got slaughtered.
Posted in: 13 young students murdered at party in Mexico border city
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dontknockit
Who? You? It never ceases to amaze me how people jump to such conclusions based totally on their own imaginations! I guess it never occurred to you that they may have all been unlicensed teenagers who stole a car for a joy ride and decided to see how fast it would go around a corner?
Posted in: 3 pedestrians killed by car in Nagoya; driver, passengers flee
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dontknockit
A good point. As the boy was wrapped in plastic, it looks like abandonment of a corpse to me. It seems very unlikely the boy was taken there alive and left to die. Whoever left the body could have been anyone, including a yak who has the mother locked up as a forced prostitute/ sex slave. It would certainly explain why no abortion was done if the baby was unwanted.
Posted in: Newborn baby found dead in Fukuoka supermarket toilet
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dontknockit
Could have been anything, including revenge on one or more of the parents. No sense jumping to conclusions. A whole bunch of things seems likely besides a mistake.
Posted in: 13 young students murdered at party in Mexico border city
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dontknockit
How do you know the baby was not dead of natural causes when the mother left him? For that matter, how do you know it was the mother that dumped him? It might have been the father. Or a pimp.
How do you know the mother was not abused?
Posted in: Newborn baby found dead in Fukuoka supermarket toilet
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dontknockit
Gee whiz! What can one really say about this? RIP to the three killed and may the three who fled suffer the rest of their days. There is no debate about this: a car goes through a guardrail and goes onto a sidewalk and kills people, and the driver obviously did not die of a heartattack causing the car to go out of control, its totally, completely and all other ways the fault of the driver. And the two passengers are irresponsible for not making sure that driver never drives again.
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dontknockit
A dead baby every once in a while hardly makes the whole thing sick and rotten.
In fact, the whole reason for this was more than likely because of the father. For the male, preventing pregnancy is a piece of cake. Its a fair bet he caused one he didn't want and then did not stick around to either pay for an abortion or help with pregnancy he caused. I would also be willing the bet the mother was scared, confused and alone and had no desire for the baby to die. The death of the baby might well have been an accident caused by her confused state and a lack of options.
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dontknockit
No. On that score, I would be saying the same thing.
On this one? No. I was not even suggesting that Bush was behind the shoe bomber either. So give us a break. Unlike some people, I look at the whats and the hows, rather that "who's side am I supposed to be on". I am on the side of truth and justice first and always. America's second. And I am not on the side of a political party at all except for one issue at a time. This is an order of things I scarcely think you will ever understand. You seem to run in the reverse order, just like so many Republicans.
Posted in: Republicans hit Obama on terror war
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dontknockit
If she was as cute as the second from the left, me.
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dontknockit
Gee, they have only had 6 years to think about it and Blair has done a lot of talking in that time. You think their minds might be made up?
Well, it was. The only bit properly termed as a war was the invasion. And it was pretty easy. What flopped was the occupation. Very poorly handled. More like a civil war really.
Wrong. The U.K. lost only 139 soldiers as I can see. That is not what the fuss is about and its not from the families of 139 dead soldiers.
The cries of foul happened WAAAAAAAYYYY after the start of the casualties, so its safe to say that theory is crap.
People of all political persuations are dubbing the whole thing a disaster. But not because there was no success. Rather because success cost more and took more time than the leaders said it would, a WHOLE lot more. We watched the goalpost move time and time and time again. Its known as a Pyrrhic victory, and that is synonymous with disaster.
Posted in: Blair fights for his legacy as he defends Iraq war
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dontknockit
No, it reveals what they think about prostitutes and how stupid they are about fixing the problem. All it says about their picture of women is that women should not be prostitutes.
If you are still not convinced, I give up, because you cannot be presented with such convoluted logic three times with any hope of educating anyone.
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dontknockit
Apparently you have no faith in the system. If you did you would be happy to take away a person's rights after the trial, like we do here in the civilized world. See, all it takes to take away a person's rights and jail him or even execute him is a fair trial. I don't know why some of you people can't be bothered with such simple tests...maybe you failed tests a lot in school?
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dontknockit
Abandoned kids are also known as "orphans". Hello?
Unless these kids were lined up to be sacrifices in voodoo rituals, its difficult to imagine that where they were going could be any worse than where they left. I wonder how many hundreds of kids are going to die in the effort to make sure that a handful are not trafficked? There is no way the group could document these kids properly any time soon. So where will they end up now? Anyone really think reunions are likely for them?
Posted in: Haiti detains 10 U.S. Baptists for taking 33 kids across border
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dontknockit
I was describing the situation, not the solution.
Why do you assume I support the fighting? All I am saying is that I understand why they keep fighting.
I don't want them. But there are reasons why it keeps going that way.
Yeah. It worked for Jews for 2000 years. Then they got back Israel with non-violent resistance! Uh-huh.
On the other hand, if they just sat down and shut up, they would be forgotten.
You know, its interesting that you have so many suggestions for the Palestinians, but nothing to say about the Israelis. Surely any solution is going require both parties to change? What you don't seem to realize is that the Israelis are not interested in giving the Palestinians any sort of autonomy unless the Israelis can control it, which is not autonomy at all! Both sides suck. The first major difference is that the Palestinians have excuses. The second is that the Palestinians have crap for weapons.
Posted in: At U.N., Israel defends Gaza actions
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dontknockit
You guys are such a headache. A border has two sides, and Israel controls all exits and entrances from the Gazan side...except when tunnels are dug to Egypt. Then the Palestinians can get potato chips.
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dontknockit
What old business was the invasion of Iraq supposed to be settling?
What was the job the UN failed to do with regards to Iraq? Did the UN ask the U.S. and Britain to do this job?
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dontknockit
Not sure what you mean. The only prevention opportunity the U.S. had here was for the people at the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria to deny this dude a visa. The only warning they had was when the man's own father went to the embassy to warn them. The father's warnings were not heeded. The only people who messed up were the people at the embassy, although I must point out there is no proceedure for such a thing at this time. Expecting Obama's administration to have prevented this is akin to expecting Obama to have a crystal ball in the Oval Office.
By contrast, the 9/11 terrorists were actually being investigated by the FBI before the fact. Its a world of difference.
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dontknockit
Israel controls both West Bank and Gaza strip. Whatever control has been given to Gaza Strip is an illusion, same as the teachers setting up a student council. They have no power.
If you wish to call it cesspool, that is fine with me. Its fine because it shows just what sort of person you are Sarge. You are the same kind as the Israelis. Rather than ask a people what they want to be called, you imperiously name them. I wish this board would let me imperiously name you, because then I know you would do what so many expect the Palestinians to do: just sit there and take it. Yeah, right!
Posted in: At U.N., Israel defends Gaza actions
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dontknockit
This is so typical coming from an American. The Israelis did to the Palestinians the same as the Americans did to the Native Americans, and ask themselves stupid questions and make up stupid crap to make the Native Americans look like the ones who are wrong.
I cannot tell you how much I would love to drag you from your home and throw you on a patch of ground in Arizona, throw you a few dollars every month and see how you go. I will have armed guards making sure you stay there, and if you so much as throw a rock my brute squad will smash your face. And every time I visit I will remind you how lucky you are for my handouts and to have your patch of dusty ground. Then I will admonish you and ask what you have been doing all this time and why you don't have a garden full of lush vegetable and why you insist on living in a shack!
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dontknockit
This is like saying the U.S. war of Independence was completely unnecessary and all the colonists had to do was take whatever deal the British offered to have peace. They did not actually need independence! What is confusing you about this situation? The Israelis quite literally have these people walled in. They took their lands, including rich farmland and orchards, and packed them into Gaza strip. The people there have no real passports. They cannot exit the Israeli blockade except to work in Israel for a lucky few prisoners but then they have to go back at night, just like many prisons have worked. Sometimes (like once a month if they have the money) they can go to Egypt but they also have to go back from there. Usually if they want potato chips, they have to dig a tunnel out to Egypt. I am not joking. The place is a friggen prison. Its a concentration camp. Not a death camp mind you, but a concentration camp. What peace do you suggest? Maybe the kind of peace like the American south had in the early 1800s, where the Palestinians become the black slaves to Israeli white plantation owner? Because that might actually be a step up from the situation they are in now!
You really just don't get it. You don't seem to want to get it. Those rockets are all they have to hit back with. They are a small hope, and a small token of self-respect. And you expect them to given them up and have no hope and no self-respect? I don't know if you are more ignorant of the situation in Gaza or just of human psychology!
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