I also know Venezuelans who are very unhappy with the dictator, and how it has nothing to do with "when Venezuela refused to do something the US asked them to". You would do well to read the Washington Post article, especially where it quotes the specific Venezuelan law demanding long prison terms merely for insulting the dictator.
"If it ever gets too bad to stay in the US, that might just be a good place to go."
Only if you love an antisemitic dictator (blaming Christ-killing Jews for all the evil in the world) who openly proclaims Castro's police state island as the model Venezuela should follow. And we know how that worked out: people risk dying to flee that, rather than flee to it.
I can see you are operating under a definition of "brainwashed" where the Post is "brainwashed" for daring to report facts you don't like. Particularly the cold hard facts of law that bans criticism of the dictatorship.
Those are antiques! You might just try to re-sell them on eBay. Daedalus Airlines, in particular, had their assets sold of decades ago when the last wax-attached bird features fell off the last airliner. Both airlines declared bankruptcy, and eventually merged with the old Glenn Miller Airlines to form the Oceanic Air we know and love today. You know, the one with the slogan "Getting halfway there is all the fun". They're also the first airline to consider electrified wings in order to keep the gremlins off.
"If Iraq has taught anything, the lesson is to keep a weather eye on the sources."
Aye cap'n, keep a weather-eye out. "The source", the Washington Post, is not near as bad as some claim. Their bullpen of commentators includes strong conservatives as Krauthammer and ol' George Will, and even examples of the rare species known as the moderate (David Broder). The Post also produced a landmark excellent article on the details of Chavez' fascist dictatorship in Venezuela (something a hard-left paper would not do, since the hard-left loves this dictator).
Hopefully, you aren't one of those who holds up the Washington Times as an example of a better paper.
Unfortunately, the investigators who dropped the charges were unable to be reached as they were enjoying their cushy first-class-flight South Pacific vacations.
" If this thing goes like Vietnam in reverse then the step after "military advisors" is handing it over to the French."
It's a perfect plan. The French get a lot out of it too: since it is running backwards, the typical French retreat ends up looking like the French charging into victory. "Cheese-vomiting conquest monkeys" indeed!
"When reading The Washington Post, always consider the diametric opposite position from whatever agenda the WaPo pushes.
Consider http://newsbusters.org/node/6863 [newsbusters.org]"
Reading Newsbusters is as valuable as reading FAIR.org. These so-called "watchdogs" are lapdogs of media that share their own fringe biases, and they bite the media just for not sharing their opinions and political bias.
"Personally I wish we (the US and its allies) would formulate a common long term plan (good or bad) and just stick to it."
Personally, I'd rather they not stick to any bad plan. Why would anyone possibly want that? What has "sticking to the same plan no matter what" brought us for the lasdt 3 or so years?
"Look at the film. You can see another meteor on the grassy knoll."
1963 called. It wants its nutty conspiracy theory back. Fortunately, there are plenty of cranks peddling tales of explosives in WTC buildings to give you plenty of new material.
"Yeah, but last time I did that, my mom^H^H^Hwife got a little upset about the mess in the basement."
Oeddy, is that you??? Man, it's been a long time. Better give Dr. Siggy a call: he says it has been a long time since you've surfed his couch. Too long, I think.
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"Even inside the US, there were massive protests (largely unreported by the media) and people pointing this out."
Inside the US, the massive protests prior to and during the Iraq war have been all over the media. Are you referring to these, or something else?
I also know Venezuelans who are very unhappy with the dictator, and how it has nothing to do with "when Venezuela refused to do something the US asked them to". You would do well to read the Washington Post article, especially where it quotes the specific Venezuelan law demanding long prison terms merely for insulting the dictator.
"If it ever gets too bad to stay in the US, that might just be a good place to go."
Only if you love an antisemitic dictator (blaming Christ-killing Jews for all the evil in the world) who openly proclaims Castro's police state island as the model Venezuela should follow. And we know how that worked out: people risk dying to flee that, rather than flee to it.
I can see you are operating under a definition of "brainwashed" where the Post is "brainwashed" for daring to report facts you don't like. Particularly the cold hard facts of law that bans criticism of the dictatorship.
""/// DEADULUS & EARHART AIRLINE CUSTOM FIRMWARE VERSION 1.22"/// . "
Those are antiques! You might just try to re-sell them on eBay. Daedalus Airlines, in particular, had their assets sold of decades ago when the last wax-attached bird features fell off the last airliner. Both airlines declared bankruptcy, and eventually merged with the old Glenn Miller Airlines to form the Oceanic Air we know and love today. You know, the one with the slogan "Getting halfway there is all the fun". They're also the first airline to consider electrified wings in order to keep the gremlins off.
If it is Microsoft involved, then the "poor plan aggressively executed" to patch one OS hole ends up introducing two new OS holes.
Thanks for the clarification. "Surrender" sounds so much better than "retreat" !
There's a certain large amount of overlap between the concept of a "poor plan" and a "counterproductive" one.
"If Iraq has taught anything, the lesson is to keep a weather eye on the sources."
Aye cap'n, keep a weather-eye out. "The source", the Washington Post, is not near as bad as some claim. Their bullpen of commentators includes strong conservatives as Krauthammer and ol' George Will, and even examples of the rare species known as the moderate (David Broder). The Post also produced a landmark excellent article on the details of Chavez' fascist dictatorship in Venezuela (something a hard-left paper would not do, since the hard-left loves this dictator).
Hopefully, you aren't one of those who holds up the Washington Times as an example of a better paper.
"Mainly because you lack the relevant experience"
What sort of experience would validate doing the wrong thing as long as you do it "with gusto"?
Unfortunately, the investigators who dropped the charges were unable to be reached as they were enjoying their cushy first-class-flight South Pacific vacations.
The letter is old, and not about this particular news item.
" If this thing goes like Vietnam in reverse then the step after "military advisors" is handing it over to the French."
It's a perfect plan. The French get a lot out of it too: since it is running backwards, the typical French retreat ends up looking like the French charging into victory. "Cheese-vomiting conquest monkeys" indeed!
"A poor plan aggresively executed is better than a great plan poorly executed"
I can't disagree more.
"When reading The Washington Post, always consider the diametric opposite position from whatever agenda the WaPo pushes. Consider http://newsbusters.org/node/6863 [newsbusters.org]"
Reading Newsbusters is as valuable as reading FAIR.org. These so-called "watchdogs" are lapdogs of media that share their own fringe biases, and they bite the media just for not sharing their opinions and political bias.
"Was produced a few years ago by Al-Jazeera, well, technically it's not about Iraq but Lebanon"
Which makes all the difference in the world.
"Personally I wish we (the US and its allies) would formulate a common long term plan (good or bad) and just stick to it."
Personally, I'd rather they not stick to any bad plan. Why would anyone possibly want that? What has "sticking to the same plan no matter what" brought us for the lasdt 3 or so years?
"shifting the U.S. role from combat to support and advising"
That's how we got into Vietnam.
The joker is Jon Stewart. I can't figure out the other two, however.
Shotz.
"Look at the film. You can see another meteor on the grassy knoll."
1963 called. It wants its nutty conspiracy theory back. Fortunately, there are plenty of cranks peddling tales of explosives in WTC buildings to give you plenty of new material.
"Yeah, but last time I did that, my mom^H^H^Hwife got a little upset about the mess in the basement."
Oeddy, is that you??? Man, it's been a long time. Better give Dr. Siggy a call: he says it has been a long time since you've surfed his couch. Too long, I think.
"I for one welcome our levitating ant overlords."
Come on, it wasn't that good of a movie! You also aren't going to have any levitating without that little Putin elf guy, anyway.
"Attempts at levitating large creatures such as whales using this method have so far proved unsuccessful."
Oh? Quite successful, considering the large amount of airborne blubber that resulted. At least for a few seconds, anyway.
"It's even easier to get fish to levitate in water if you never feed them."
One stick of dynamite does the job a lot quicker.
I always suspected that Adam Ant had no sense of hearing.
Something's loose with those conspiracy lunatics, but you'd better check the screws and not the change.
"Lets see, is it three goats and a berry for an iTunes song, or is it four?"
Make that three goatse and a Blackberry, and you're on!