JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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zurcronium wrote:
The party was founded in 1854, and one of its basic platforms was opposition to slavery.
Bizarre. You, smithinjapan and susisake3 obsess about America (and Republicans in particular) but you seem to know nothing about the object of your endless fascination.
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President Obama condemns the Iranian gov't shooting its won citizens, then goes for ice cream.
http://patterico.com/2009/06/20/contrast-iranian-protestors-shot-as-obama-goes-for-ice-cream/
Last week, President Obama caught and killed a fly, with his bare hands!
Man on the TV, he said we in America gots a real live ninja for a president.
And you know what? I believe it.
In fact, I believe everthing the mainstream media tell me.
Iran had better watch out.
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Posted in: Iran tense after police, protesters clash
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How traumatic.
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denden - Great Britain has already pulled out.
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pawatan
Not at all. I was merely pointing out what everyone - other than sentimental Lefties - who reads up on the regime in Iran soon understands: they present the appearance of offering democratic elections but the mullahs handpick the candidates. Hence my earlier characterization - before the elections, I might add - of these elections in terms that people like yabits immediately objected to but still can't disprove or deny:
Yabits and or good Donkey (can't always tell em apart) also took immediate offense to the skepticism I offered on a thread about Obama's silly Cairo speech:
Now that the "elections" are over the mullahs are saying dialogue is out, bloodshed will follow if the people persist in their demands for more representation and though Lebanon retains a slim, ostensibly "pro-western" majority in its gov't Hezbollah and Hamas have bused hundreds of their Iranian-trained thugs into Teheran to help the regime crack as many skulls as it takes.
The silence and then waffling from our rookie president is shameful.
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Of course, awarding them the World Cup will change all that.
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USAFdude13:
Right on! Nobody pullin the wool over your eyes.
NBC anchor Brian Williams bowing to Obama? Never happened!
[http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2009/06/03/brian-williams-bows-before-obama-tcot-gop-hhrs/]
ABC to broadcast from the White House and give Obama 2 hours to pitch nationalized health care. No rebuttals or equal airtime will be allowed.
The media, quite literally, in Obama's house. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/06/17/during-healthcare-special-abc-refuses-paid-ads-oppose-obamacare]
It a coincidence!
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zurcronium wrote:
Dude, what are you talking aboat?
The party was founded by the man Americans of both parties credit with launching the war that ended slavery.
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skip - I agree. It isn't Left vs. Right so much as it is degree of governmental interference in people's lives. In addition to being morally indefensible Jim Crow laws were a prime example of too much government intervention in people's lives. Imagine the degree of central planning (so beloved to certain political parties...) it took to erect and oversee use of separate drinking fountains for the different "races" in any given state, county, city and ward.
Free markets and minimal gov't do way, way more to end racism and sexism
Statists,collectivists and utopians have so much to learn...
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The mullahs, like totalitarians everywhere, play Western Lefties so often and so easily it's as if they know fooling them is as easy as waiting one generation...
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It did. Chuck Schumer was so terrified of Steele winning the Senate seat in Maryland that he basically sent a couple of his flunkies dumpster-diving for credit card receipts or anything they could use against Steele.
Black activists demanded Schumer apologize.
"This unauthorized access into Michael Steele's credit report provides evidence that liberals seem to believe there should be a special hell for conservative blacks, and that anything goes when engaging in the politics of personal destruction," said Project 21 member Mark Jordan.
check [http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PRCreditReport306.html]
or google "Chuckaquiddick" or "Schumergate"
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A right "not to be criticized"?
The right to criticize what people say is central to the idea of free speech that the 1st Amendment was created to foster and protect.
Only a "liberal" could believe a snarky, pervy old Lefty like Letterman should be able to wish rape upon the 14 y.o. daughter of politician he dislikes and not face consequences for his actions.
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The whole fraudulent,odious theocracy - and Little Big Man A'jad in particular - claims its legitimacy comes from its dedication to the Mahdi, the Hiddden Imam, who been in occultation these last, oh, 1200 years or so but will come out of hiding to redeem the Shia and make Persia first among the nations of this world.
If so, why does he tarry?
Khomeini's Islamic revolution is only 30 years old and it is faltering.
Twitter has them on their heels.
"Hahahahahahaha - too funny ! "
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I'm just glad that old Senator Robert Byrd (Democrat, W Virginia) could live to a ripe old age where he could help make some small amends on behalf of the millions of Southern Democrats who left this world before him without making apology to southern blacks for laws that kept them down.
Good Work, Democrats.
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smithinjapan, as uninformed as ever:
Obama admitted in his unwarranted autobiography that Dems seek to keep blacks "on the plantation."
His words. [http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2009/06/03/obama-and-plantation-politics/]
You know the routine by now : Read, weep, gnash teeth, change subject, wave hands in other guy's face...
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A'jad is looking more and more like Iran's Kruschev. The mullahs thought they had a rube they could use as a mouthpiece but he has them second-guessing themselves.
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The Democrat-then-Republican argument doesn't work.
Ultimately, in the old South and in the Jim Crow South the institution of slavery and the enforcement of the segregation laws we are talking about - all of them degrading, to both sides in the tragedy - needed strong governmental power to keep them effective and enduring. It isn't a question of right versus left so much as it is the degree of government control over the lives of individual citizens and communities. Jim Crow was a clear cut case of too much government in people's lives. Any conservative or libertarian understands that, even if only intuitively.
We all know which party wants small government and which one has always wanted as great a concentration of power as possible to be held by the government.
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Norks laugh at Obama.
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Right on, sailwaind.
I agree. Truman was a great president. (Like JFK though he'd be reviled today as a "neo-con" and "a cowboy"; his poll numbers or favorability ratings or whatever were dragged down by the Korean War, and were even lower than Dubya's...) .
But as regards the desegregation of the armed forces he was undoing the work of the "progressive" Woodrow Wilson, who had ordered all federal employees be segregated.
Our first army,the Continental Army, the one that defeated the British, then the most powerful empire on earth, was at any given time between 6 to 10 percent black.
Think the Senate will ever get around to official recognition of and pronouncements about things like that?
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We have slavery and segregation to this day. Those perpetuating it and exploiting their fellow human beings don't do so by forcing blacks into the sun to perform back-breaking labor and deny them the wages that would accrue to them if they were free citizens and able to capitalize on the benefits of free markets. No, in the modern scheme blacks (and not just blacks) are denied true freedom and dignity by a class of thieves and brutes who, in their lust for political power, steal from one group (taxpayers) to buy off the votes and loyalty of another, who are indeed, "kept on the plantation."
The most powerful Democrat in America has publicly admitted as much.
In his book Dreams From My Father Barack Obama described what he and his fellow Democrats do to poor blacks as "plantation politics."
Here is the quote, from page 147:
"A plantation. Black people in the worst jobs. The worst housing. Police brutality rampant. But when the so-called black committeemen came around election time, we’d all line up and vote the straight Democratic ticket. Sell our soul for a Christmas turkey."
The recent "stimulus" bill, rammed through Congress and in sessions which Republicans were locked out and the public, contrary to BHO's campaign promises, were denied the chance to view the policy-in-making, had provisions which effectively roll back the very commendable welfare reform achieved under Clinton.
The Democrats are not done apologizing. They have only just begun.
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