Something tells me this anon coward is a Bush supporter. Ho hum, how very predictable....yet to meet any sovietskis and russkis who've blighted our shores who aren't Bushie Wushies. If you feel any nostalgia for the old Soviet system, thanks for helping to recreate it here, tovarishit!
Guess who hasn't been paying attention to the news the last six years? Could it be non-citizen Woldry? Yup!
There have been reports of people being disappeared - but then, with no court trial - how do we know? Ever heard of a guy named Padilla? Of course not, that would involve cogitation. As one who is fully aware of how the old Soviet system worked, saying that we haven't yet gotten that bad (Rendition) for torture? No, didn't think so. Nope, you sort of agreed with me - but at this point there is no slack for anyone who doesn't recognize fascism when they observe it...Haven't you seen any of the legislation passed this past month, for christ's sake?
A word to the wise, eck011219. No one is this administration cares about business, all that crapola about the growing American economy is just that - crapola! Subtract all the debt taken on both at the corporate levels and personal levels and subtract the debt that remains to be paid for all the borrowed money to pay for the infusion of money into the military-industrial-corporate-prison-complex, and you have a shrinking economy. The infrastructure is crap - everything is regressing in this society (the USA) and moronic clowns go triapsing about repeating the latest Thomas Friedman drivel (you know, that billionaire jackass who wants your job offshored ASAP!):
We just have to out-innovate!
Sgt. Doom: Yeah, but I spent my adult working life out-innovating and all my innovations, and jobs along with them, were offshored!! What total mindless drivel!
While this certainly is concerning, it isn't exactly new, as a passport is already required for circumstances covered under the proposal."
This is ratcheting up the control of the citizenry - and it is exactly like the Soviet system. Anyone who disagrees with this assessment is both ignorant and uneducated - there is no middle ground on this, period!
I am once again struck by the 2004 presidential election. At that time I lived in Seattle, and the young, seemingly educated women I spoke with amazed me in that they were going to vote for Bushski. After extolling them with all the negative legislation he had signed into law (that is, stuff that was negative against American workers' rights, women's rights, unions' right to exist, etc.) they were still adamant to vote for him. Likewise, the incredible stupid number of union workers I spoke with.
This is an especially sore point with me as an ancestor of mine gave his life on behalf of the union movement. When I was back in Seattle for several weeks awhile ago, I did a amateur survey and found that 10 out of 10 union members didn't know jack about the NAFTA Super Highway, nor about the DHS-Maritime Infrastructure Recovery Program, nor about the union-busting regs set forth by the US Labor Relations Board! This populace is truly screwed.....
Hey, is this on the same value level as allowing Osama to escape at Tora Bora, then arranging for the Delta Force team members who witnessed said escape by Pakistani helicopters, after they were ordered to stand down, then return to Ft. Bragg and be the victims of those murder/suicides????
Ha.ha.ha.ha. That's a good one. No doubt they'll forget Mr. Negroponte's real career occupational title: Civil insurgency expert, (that is, one who creates and foments civil insurgencies and follows up with torture and terror. Anything for those fruit and softdrink companies, hey?
9/11 happened because we couldn't get different agencies and intelligence communities to work together.
America is in a battle to embarrass Bush, and the easiest way is to embarrass the military which Bush has helped and promoted.
How dare you declare such absolute nonsense and lies, you draft-dodging, obviously never served in the US military, sack of neocon swine. This outlaw administration has cut back as many veterans' benefits (and I'm speaking of those that most affect the returning wounded combat vets) as possible, with widdle Denny Hastert, the pig boy, and Santorum, leading the list. They have place the American solider in the most duplicitous of positions, in harm's way for absolutely no viable reason with nothing to fight for and to easily die for nothing.
In no way has that AWOLee/cheerleader/coward Bush ever done anything to help nor promote the military - he couldn't even earn an honest honorable discharge from the national guard!
And how in bloody hell does anyone with a functioning human brain embarrass a monkey masquerading as a pathetic human? That drunkard and dopehead couldn't string an entire coherent sentence together extemporaneously. As for embarrassing the military, those pitiful general officers have done a fine and slimey job of that!
I suggest you do a little research on all the laws Bushie has signed into existence over the past six years. Of course, that would entail cognitive work on your part. And neocons hate any concept of work, duty and service to country.
...any victory by the Iraqi insurgents will come from demoralizing the American public..
What silly drivel! The insurgents don't have to consider demoralizing the American public as they are demoralizing their fellow Iraqis much more completely, every second of every day. And, with the censorship of forbidding the publication of photos of the American military dead in coffins once stateside, this traitorous and criminal administration is not allowing any true freedom of the press with regard to the mass media.
I don't know if you ever served in any war, but I can surely state that the media did not lose any war in Vietnam, it was the insane, war profiteering policies of Kissinger and company which did......wrong policies, wrong results.
The weak link in your post is that the government of the US has untold number of so-called "professional journalists" on their payroll. Be sure to read David Corn, Isikoff, Olliphant, et al., very closely. There are many more masters of misdirection where those came from.....
While I agree with the gist of what you post, I must correct: Who gives a damn about winning the bloody war.., as there is no war - simply an invasion and bloody occupation - costing over 600,000 Iraqi lives, lives which might have discovered a cure for cancer, developed new technology, written great literature, or simply made a fellow human being's day that much better and more livable.
And an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 women and children are being abducted every month, and thought to end up at various other places in the Middle East and Asia in the sex slave and plain slave trade. The USA, the Bush family and all the rest of that sordid gang have perpetrated the worst crimes imaginable on humanity and also the American citizenry!
Now the Bushies have chosen to not only finance the insurgents (i.e., unlawfully occupied citizenry of a foreign country) - with all those missing billions, but have also armed them with an assortment of weaponry, including RPGs, etc., which they handed out to the thorougly compromised Iraqi police and military - without every inventorying nor tracking said weaponry - un-frigging-believable! What the hell is this volunteer military good for but blindly and zombie-like following Rumsfeldstiltskin's orders!
The most intelligent post to date, betelgeuse68! First they lay off tons and tons of people as they either offshore their jobs or bring in foreign replacement workers (which are running at about 67% Muslim - no doubt a secret corporate-military-industrial-congress-complex strategy to fight the "War on Terror") to take their jobs, next they claim they really aren't doing this, but that there's a "shortage" of workers, and now they claim there's been an "economic recovery" (my ass!).
Exactly so! If you happen to ask the typical bus driver, or truck driver you come in contact with in many West Coast cities what they were doing previously, you'll find they were programmers and software engineers. If they are lucky, they're working at the Post Office.
Or they may have returned to school if they were financially able, etc. You can't just offshore a significant number of jobs (really more like 20% to 30%, not the paltry - and volunteered - number of 5% offered by the Gartner Group (remember - most of those corps that answered - that is, volunteered the information - were only a very minor percentage of those queried) or lay off your American workers and replace them with foreign workers and expect a readily available pool of code cowboys (and girls!).
To suggest otherwise is pure ignorance and stupidity! And regardless of all those planted stories suggesting M$ is hiring locally (i.e., in the US) people with a high degree of linear-sequential intelligence are simply to bright to fall for such nonsense......
You don't get assigned to fly a plane unless you've actually been instructed on and demonstrated that you can fly that plane.
Negative. During my time in the active duty USAF (same time period) I witnessed several similar "political assignments" to air wings where the varmints were not qualified - and never flew.....I've seen the picture of him beside the F-102, but until I've ever heard of read of anyone that can actually vouchsafe for him flying it, I stand by what I posted.
There is simply far too much of a fictional - media creation-type of biographical info - written about him to believe in anything without verification. Same holds true for G. Gordon Liddy and H. Ross Poiret, media creations all....
You wisely make the point at the realistic ignorance of ecobiology and evolutionary biology. Many things transpire in our genomes which we are still unaware of - or only recently becoming aware of. Well said!
But might not the recent inclusion of soy have something to do with such low counts? And the fact that these were, after all, Bostonians, a dandified breed if there ever was one.....
Super post, moe.ron! Donald Rumsfeld, a real man! That's hilarious. From what I heard, the reason he never got above Captain in the Naval Reserve - despite all his many political connections - was that his fitness reports always labeled him a giant pussy (a pejoratively used term which I always felt should be used only in the most positive sense by those of us - heterosexual men - that love it so).
This clown who wrote that essay certainly sounds like he's never been in combat - I know few who have ever revelled in it - and I would be the first to say I was quite scared and could have easily forgone the experience. (And the next idiot who labels the world's biggest wussies, Bush, Rove, Rumsfeld and (small-sized) Dick Cheney to be tough, will personally get a private visit from this American.....
And finally, our President, who happens to have been a qualified fighter pilot,..
Frankly, I haven't seen any information to indicate that. All I'm aware of is that AWOLIE/DESERTER Bush trained on the standard "vomit comet" at Lackland OTS, but never actually flew any jet fighters, period.
This is typical historical revisionism (the entire essay, that is). Reminds me of those times back in the late '60s and early '70s (back in the old 20th century) when I was classified 1A (draftable, that is) and the women in Human Resources told me I should be a man and go enlist to fight in Vietnam. Of course, I waited until I was actually drafted - I'm no imbecile, after all.
Then, upon my return, those same women told me they didn't want to hire any "baby killers."
The essay's author, Kim du Toit, failed to mention what branch of the military she/he served in? I recall from my family history that my ancestors were among the minority who actually participated - and some died - fighting in the Revolutionary War. My, how easy it is for those who are exempt or draft dodgers to judge the rest of us......
Outstanding post, tloh. But the sentence, They noted that neither aging nor certain other health factors, such as smoking or obesity, can fully explain the decline.
leaves much to be desired. Indeed, the rates of obesity have been rising steadily over the past several decades, and there is a correlation between obesity ad lower testosterone rates in males. Also, this outfit that did the research has enjoyed a relationship for a long time with the FDA, and that in and of itself is highly susect.
Yes, it sounds nasty, but I don't support the American invaders in Iraq, and no I don't support more American imperialist and amoral agression against Iran (and yes I am a combat veteran, i.e., a real American to all you Rush Limpbaugh loving scum)....
And for ALL those Bushtards (formerly known as f*cktards) who kept repeating the #1 talking point ("You're not suggestin Bush is a fascist, are you?"),
Hmmm...I see....so you are saying that 19 Arabs, with minimal aviation experience, did a first-class superlative job on 9/11/01? And, no doubt, you would claim it would take thousands had this actually been an inside job??
What am I missing here? Perhaps the absence of critical thinking skills? Perhaps too much time gaming or cable-TV surfing? High school physics, anyone??
Seems obvious - with the demise of habeas corpus, ex post facto law-breaking and mending, and the major power shift now allowing the prez to use national guard elements from different states in other states in the case of a Gardenplot, however contrived (all brought about - and unconstitutional - in the Military Commissions Bill) - that the danger still exists for everyone.
Extremely well articulated, good citizens! Even more telling, given the latest spate of "history" books written over the past few years.
Case in point: "Nixon in China" - by Margaret McMillan - is the most heinous piece of misinformation and incorrect information - I know from personal experience - having been in Vietnam (and later China) - all of this stuff she wrote of was public domain information - yet she either is completely ignorant, or lazy, or too stupid to write anything correctly nor come to the obvious conclusions about anything. Completely atrocious historical writing.....
In America, the overlords...I mean politicians...don't need a firm grasp of technology - all they need is to hold out their hands to accept the big bucks from their lobbyists overseers.....
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Something tells me this anon coward is a Bush supporter. Ho hum, how very predictable....yet to meet any sovietskis and russkis who've blighted our shores who aren't Bushie Wushies. If you feel any nostalgia for the old Soviet system, thanks for helping to recreate it here, tovarishit!
There have been reports of people being disappeared - but then, with no court trial - how do we know? Ever heard of a guy named Padilla? Of course not, that would involve cogitation. As one who is fully aware of how the old Soviet system worked, saying that we haven't yet gotten that bad (Rendition) for torture? No, didn't think so. Nope, you sort of agreed with me - but at this point there is no slack for anyone who doesn't recognize fascism when they observe it...Haven't you seen any of the legislation passed this past month, for christ's sake?
We just have to out-innovate!
Sgt. Doom: Yeah, but I spent my adult working life out-innovating and all my innovations, and jobs along with them, were offshored!! What total mindless drivel!
While this certainly is concerning, it isn't exactly new, as a passport is already required for circumstances covered under the proposal."
This is ratcheting up the control of the citizenry - and it is exactly like the Soviet system. Anyone who disagrees with this assessment is both ignorant and uneducated - there is no middle ground on this, period!
I am once again struck by the 2004 presidential election. At that time I lived in Seattle, and the young, seemingly educated women I spoke with amazed me in that they were going to vote for Bushski. After extolling them with all the negative legislation he had signed into law (that is, stuff that was negative against American workers' rights, women's rights, unions' right to exist, etc.) they were still adamant to vote for him. Likewise, the incredible stupid number of union workers I spoke with.
This is an especially sore point with me as an ancestor of mine gave his life on behalf of the union movement. When I was back in Seattle for several weeks awhile ago, I did a amateur survey and found that 10 out of 10 union members didn't know jack about the NAFTA Super Highway, nor about the DHS-Maritime Infrastructure Recovery Program, nor about the union-busting regs set forth by the US Labor Relations Board! This populace is truly screwed.....
With people like you around there is always hope for humanity....
Hey, is this on the same value level as allowing Osama to escape at Tora Bora, then arranging for the Delta Force team members who witnessed said escape by Pakistani helicopters, after they were ordered to stand down, then return to Ft. Bragg and be the victims of those murder/suicides????
9/11 happened because we couldn't get different agencies and intelligence communities to work together.
You bet.....ha.ha.ha.
How dare you declare such absolute nonsense and lies, you draft-dodging, obviously never served in the US military, sack of neocon swine. This outlaw administration has cut back as many veterans' benefits (and I'm speaking of those that most affect the returning wounded combat vets) as possible, with widdle Denny Hastert, the pig boy, and Santorum, leading the list. They have place the American solider in the most duplicitous of positions, in harm's way for absolutely no viable reason with nothing to fight for and to easily die for nothing.
In no way has that AWOLee/cheerleader/coward Bush ever done anything to help nor promote the military - he couldn't even earn an honest honorable discharge from the national guard!
And how in bloody hell does anyone with a functioning human brain embarrass a monkey masquerading as a pathetic human? That drunkard and dopehead couldn't string an entire coherent sentence together extemporaneously. As for embarrassing the military, those pitiful general officers have done a fine and slimey job of that!
I suggest you do a little research on all the laws Bushie has signed into existence over the past six years. Of course, that would entail cognitive work on your part. And neocons hate any concept of work, duty and service to country.
What silly drivel! The insurgents don't have to consider demoralizing the American public as they are demoralizing their fellow Iraqis much more completely, every second of every day. And, with the censorship of forbidding the publication of photos of the American military dead in coffins once stateside, this traitorous and criminal administration is not allowing any true freedom of the press with regard to the mass media.
I don't know if you ever served in any war, but I can surely state that the media did not lose any war in Vietnam, it was the insane, war profiteering policies of Kissinger and company which did......wrong policies, wrong results.
The weak link in your post is that the government of the US has untold number of so-called "professional journalists" on their payroll. Be sure to read David Corn, Isikoff, Olliphant, et al., very closely. There are many more masters of misdirection where those came from.....
And an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 women and children are being abducted every month, and thought to end up at various other places in the Middle East and Asia in the sex slave and plain slave trade. The USA, the Bush family and all the rest of that sordid gang have perpetrated the worst crimes imaginable on humanity and also the American citizenry!
Now the Bushies have chosen to not only finance the insurgents (i.e., unlawfully occupied citizenry of a foreign country) - with all those missing billions, but have also armed them with an assortment of weaponry, including RPGs, etc., which they handed out to the thorougly compromised Iraqi police and military - without every inventorying nor tracking said weaponry - un-frigging-believable! What the hell is this volunteer military good for but blindly and zombie-like following Rumsfeldstiltskin's orders!
Geez Louise!
Or they may have returned to school if they were financially able, etc. You can't just offshore a significant number of jobs (really more like 20% to 30%, not the paltry - and volunteered - number of 5% offered by the Gartner Group (remember - most of those corps that answered - that is, volunteered the information - were only a very minor percentage of those queried) or lay off your American workers and replace them with foreign workers and expect a readily available pool of code cowboys (and girls!).
To suggest otherwise is pure ignorance and stupidity! And regardless of all those planted stories suggesting M$ is hiring locally (i.e., in the US) people with a high degree of linear-sequential intelligence are simply to bright to fall for such nonsense......
Negative. During my time in the active duty USAF (same time period) I witnessed several similar "political assignments" to air wings where the varmints were not qualified - and never flew.....I've seen the picture of him beside the F-102, but until I've ever heard of read of anyone that can actually vouchsafe for him flying it, I stand by what I posted.
There is simply far too much of a fictional - media creation-type of biographical info - written about him to believe in anything without verification. Same holds true for G. Gordon Liddy and H. Ross Poiret, media creations all....
These were typical responses to my last 50 or so posts....
But might not the recent inclusion of soy have something to do with such low counts? And the fact that these were, after all, Bostonians, a dandified breed if there ever was one.....
This clown who wrote that essay certainly sounds like he's never been in combat - I know few who have ever revelled in it - and I would be the first to say I was quite scared and could have easily forgone the experience. (And the next idiot who labels the world's biggest wussies, Bush, Rove, Rumsfeld and (small-sized) Dick Cheney to be tough, will personally get a private visit from this American.....
Frankly, I haven't seen any information to indicate that. All I'm aware of is that AWOLIE/DESERTER Bush trained on the standard "vomit comet" at Lackland OTS, but never actually flew any jet fighters, period.
This is typical historical revisionism (the entire essay, that is). Reminds me of those times back in the late '60s and early '70s (back in the old 20th century) when I was classified 1A (draftable, that is) and the women in Human Resources told me I should be a man and go enlist to fight in Vietnam. Of course, I waited until I was actually drafted - I'm no imbecile, after all.
Then, upon my return, those same women told me they didn't want to hire any "baby killers."
The essay's author, Kim du Toit, failed to mention what branch of the military she/he served in? I recall from my family history that my ancestors were among the minority who actually participated - and some died - fighting in the Revolutionary War. My, how easy it is for those who are exempt or draft dodgers to judge the rest of us......
leaves much to be desired. Indeed, the rates of obesity have been rising steadily over the past several decades, and there is a correlation between obesity ad lower testosterone rates in males. Also, this outfit that did the research has enjoyed a relationship for a long time with the FDA, and that in and of itself is highly susect.
Yes, it sounds nasty, but I don't support the American invaders in Iraq, and no I don't support more American imperialist and amoral agression against Iran (and yes I am a combat veteran, i.e., a real American to all you Rush Limpbaugh loving scum)....
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What am I missing here? Perhaps the absence of critical thinking skills? Perhaps too much time gaming or cable-TV surfing? High school physics, anyone??
Seems obvious - with the demise of habeas corpus, ex post facto law-breaking and mending, and the major power shift now allowing the prez to use national guard elements from different states in other states in the case of a Gardenplot, however contrived (all brought about - and unconstitutional - in the Military Commissions Bill) - that the danger still exists for everyone.
Case in point: "Nixon in China" - by Margaret McMillan - is the most heinous piece of misinformation and incorrect information - I know from personal experience - having been in Vietnam (and later China) - all of this stuff she wrote of was public domain information - yet she either is completely ignorant, or lazy, or too stupid to write anything correctly nor come to the obvious conclusions about anything. Completely atrocious historical writing.....
Wikipedia rocks and rules...
In America, the overlords...I mean politicians...don't need a firm grasp of technology - all they need is to hold out their hands to accept the big bucks from their lobbyists overseers.....
And by the least read authors, too....