The open letter from the 47 constitutes neither a treaty nor an abrogation of one. Furthermore, as it comes not from formal legislation, it cannot be considered a formal inter-state communication. It is simply an informal reminder that all administrations end, and that new administrations may have new policies. This is a constitutional fact, and it is not wished away because you don't like the results.
You're putting "maintaining its Jewish character" in quotes like it comes from somewhere other than your own bias. It's a straw man. The original mandate called for a two-state solution with lines drawn exactly where the Jews and Arabs at the time lived. That mandate was unilaterally abrogated by the Arabs of the entire region who thought dirty Jews shouldn't have a country at all. Tit for tat for tit for tat. But don't pretend that the Palestinians are blameless. They had a state, it wasn't good enough, so they gambled everything on a holy war and lost.
More importantly: don't start wars you can't win (a universal and timely maxim). And when, having chosen to decide the contest on the field of battle, do not expect a redo in the courts of law. The biggest mistake the Palestinians every made was letting their regional neighbors (that hate them anyway, btw) egg them into starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. They lost their land, and the Jewish population swelled from expulsion from Arab countries. They had a two-state solution already and they fucked it up.
I'm not the GP, but I think I can help. Israel is a secular liberal democracy, in the literal sense (I think most American Israel supporters would be surprised at how much Israel does not match their own political and social views). Palestinians have more say in the Israeli government than most of your average Arabs do in their own. Israel is one of the only nations in the middle east where things like blasphemy, homosexuality, and being a woman in public aren't a mortal danger. Now, it was not always thus; the Arab world has significantly regressed since the 1960's, and largely due to American and British corporate interventionism, but Israel really has no part in that.
Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton are fast friends and have been for quite a while. Jeb Bush's American Patriotic Buzzword Institute awarded her the Platitudinous Freedom Award while he was the head of it. Also, Hillary is just slightly to the right or Jeb Bush (or is Jeb to the left of her? Depends on who you ask). These guys are bosom buddies and the fact that both have been "anointed" by their respective party establishments should tell you the fix is in. Democrats don't need to do any oppo research on Walker; the GOP will happily do it for them.
I always get halfway through a Nerval's Lobster summary before my anger/indignation/smug validation gives way to the sad realization that Dice has trolled me yet again.
I don't know about anyone else on the list; I'd never heard it, but in this instance, a hacker broke into her personal email looking for dirt and found absolutely nothing. If anything, the hack as completely exculpatory. So this makes me doubt the rest of your list, as well.
IIS with a good config will beat *nix with a terrible config. It's not the tool that the the problem here; it's that the people using it had no clue how.
"It looks like you're behind a router; I can't tell which computer on your internal network is the culprit. Let's hit them all just to make sure, ok? If we leave even one, the whole thing could get reinfected!"
You literally had no reason for including the second half of your response except to "show" that Republicans really aren't that bad, honest, because their opponents did something fifty years ago when the Democrats were the socially conservative party that the GOP is guilty of now.
The only thing I am "literally" doing is wondering what in the world you are ranting about, or what you mean by "guilty". Guilty of what? Did you reply to the wrong post?
Depends on what kind of conservative you mean. Barry Goldwater, Ayn rand, and other fiscal conservatives had no use for religious moralism, while blue-collar social conservatives were traditionally more at home in the labor-friendly democratic party until the 60's and 70's.
The conservative bias is "don't regulate what you don't have to," and House Republicans are trying to argue that the regs are unnecessary, first because they ban practices not actually in practice, second that when they do come in practice (Netflix vs Comcast, for instance), they are resolved between the actors in the existing legal framework with no deleterious effects to the consumer.
I, for one, will always be grateful to Sun for StarOffice and its spiritual successor in LibreOffice. At the time I was in college, and even a student license of MS Office was more than I could afford. I've been using SO, OO.o, and LO exclusively ever since Sun first released it for free. I have had minimal if any trouble with interoperability.
The problem there is critiquing old art with modern social mores. By that token, we ought to dismiss every classic odalisque ever painted as blatant sexual objectification. It is unfair to unmoor art from its context and judge it from an alien one.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't pick out any 5 contiguous words in this post that do not have a false assumption. Maybe "middle-east, apparently. Face it"?
composed mostly of non-religious Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Jews to religious fanaticism.
Yes, yes, but do they have any Jews?
The open letter from the 47 constitutes neither a treaty nor an abrogation of one. Furthermore, as it comes not from formal legislation, it cannot be considered a formal inter-state communication. It is simply an informal reminder that all administrations end, and that new administrations may have new policies. This is a constitutional fact, and it is not wished away because you don't like the results.
You're putting "maintaining its Jewish character" in quotes like it comes from somewhere other than your own bias. It's a straw man. The original mandate called for a two-state solution with lines drawn exactly where the Jews and Arabs at the time lived. That mandate was unilaterally abrogated by the Arabs of the entire region who thought dirty Jews shouldn't have a country at all. Tit for tat for tit for tat. But don't pretend that the Palestinians are blameless. They had a state, it wasn't good enough, so they gambled everything on a holy war and lost.
More importantly: don't start wars you can't win (a universal and timely maxim). And when, having chosen to decide the contest on the field of battle, do not expect a redo in the courts of law. The biggest mistake the Palestinians every made was letting their regional neighbors (that hate them anyway, btw) egg them into starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. They lost their land, and the Jewish population swelled from expulsion from Arab countries. They had a two-state solution already and they fucked it up.
I'm not the GP, but I think I can help. Israel is a secular liberal democracy, in the literal sense (I think most American Israel supporters would be surprised at how much Israel does not match their own political and social views). Palestinians have more say in the Israeli government than most of your average Arabs do in their own. Israel is one of the only nations in the middle east where things like blasphemy, homosexuality, and being a woman in public aren't a mortal danger. Now, it was not always thus; the Arab world has significantly regressed since the 1960's, and largely due to American and British corporate interventionism, but Israel really has no part in that.
Step 1: Don't be a theistic monarchy.
I'd say you're closer to solving the riddle than your your regional... uh... "friends".
Is Netanyahu a yahoo or not an yahoo?
Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton are fast friends and have been for quite a while. Jeb Bush's American Patriotic Buzzword Institute awarded her the Platitudinous Freedom Award while he was the head of it. Also, Hillary is just slightly to the right or Jeb Bush (or is Jeb to the left of her? Depends on who you ask). These guys are bosom buddies and the fact that both have been "anointed" by their respective party establishments should tell you the fix is in. Democrats don't need to do any oppo research on Walker; the GOP will happily do it for them.
They went to jail for that. Do you still want an equal response?
I always get halfway through a Nerval's Lobster summary before my anger/indignation/smug validation gives way to the sad realization that Dice has trolled me yet again.
I chose not to opine on the legality of the thing; only the competence of its execution.
Sarah Palin
I don't know about anyone else on the list; I'd never heard it, but in this instance, a hacker broke into her personal email looking for dirt and found absolutely nothing. If anything, the hack as completely exculpatory. So this makes me doubt the rest of your list, as well.
I'd say leaving office apparently broke and then making shitloads-times-fuckloads of money later, is a sign of a successful president.
Well, then President Clinton neatly skirts any accusation of being successful by that metric: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
They left office not just with millions, but also with the White House dinnerware: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...
IIS with a good config will beat *nix with a terrible config. It's not the tool that the the problem here; it's that the people using it had no clue how.
Uh, yeah, I know, I was k... err... it was a j... umm... I gotta go.
Considering the Scots had yet to invade England when Caeser wrote his commentaries, I'm afraid your straw man is no true Scotsman.
"It looks like you're behind a router; I can't tell which computer on your internal network is the culprit. Let's hit them all just to make sure, ok? If we leave even one, the whole thing could get reinfected!"
You literally had no reason for including the second half of your response except to "show" that Republicans really aren't that bad, honest, because their opponents did something fifty years ago when the Democrats were the socially conservative party that the GOP is guilty of now.
The only thing I am "literally" doing is wondering what in the world you are ranting about, or what you mean by "guilty". Guilty of what? Did you reply to the wrong post?
Depends on what kind of conservative you mean. Barry Goldwater, Ayn rand, and other fiscal conservatives had no use for religious moralism, while blue-collar social conservatives were traditionally more at home in the labor-friendly democratic party until the 60's and 70's.
It still doesn't have a decent architecture for scheme plugins and a robust text editor.
The conservative bias is "don't regulate what you don't have to," and House Republicans are trying to argue that the regs are unnecessary, first because they ban practices not actually in practice, second that when they do come in practice (Netflix vs Comcast, for instance), they are resolved between the actors in the existing legal framework with no deleterious effects to the consumer.
I, for one, will always be grateful to Sun for StarOffice and its spiritual successor in LibreOffice. At the time I was in college, and even a student license of MS Office was more than I could afford. I've been using SO, OO.o, and LO exclusively ever since Sun first released it for free. I have had minimal if any trouble with interoperability.
He chose to make his support public
To be fair, while all donations are public, he didn't really publicize it, per se, but rather had it publicized for him by our new puritans.
The problem there is critiquing old art with modern social mores. By that token, we ought to dismiss every classic odalisque ever painted as blatant sexual objectification. It is unfair to unmoor art from its context and judge it from an alien one.