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- former US Marine, retired police; in other words, professional babysitter. "Ah's jes' th' ign'nt sonuva po' ol' shahcroppah, yas ah is. . ."
20110430
It's begun.
(comment to article at Crooks And Liars) Maddow: Michigan governor thinks democracy is a 'problem' http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/maddow-republican-michigan-governor-thinks-d a few years ago i read a nice little prescient monograph from the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College: "From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age: The Decline of the State and U.S. Strategy", by Dr Phil Williams. https://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=867 i'd thought that there'd be some time before the breakdown of the Westphalian nation-state, resulting in neo-feudalistic fiefdoms. unfortunately, it'd appear that it's already started in this country among some of the state governments. these people don't believe in the Constitution and don't want the Constitution. regardless of their empty pleadings, they want the Articles of Confederation, in which the national government has no power whatsoever and each state is considered a separate nation-state. simultaneously we have the anarchists who call themselves the 'sovereign citizens', who only obey the laws they wish to. they're ultimately more dangerous than virtually any internal or external threat to the country, as they recognize only what they wish to, believing they have no obligations to the state or other citizens. the people have discovered that they can vote bread and circuses in their faux populism. this was the immediate factor leading to the breakdown of the republics of Rome and Weimar Germany, for instance. we're setting ourselves up to destroy this republic, putting a dictatorship in its place, following a period of feudalism or anarchy. that is, if we aren't invaded and conquered first, due to the logistics of neo-feudalistic 'nation-states'. this is exacerbated by corporate influence and rule, and the absurdity that a corporation can be considered a 'person' in the eyes of the law. in this respect, remember the Dred Scott decision and Jim Crow Laws. just because it's legal doesn't mean it's right. it really wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the nukes and military hardware, which make us a threat to every nation on the planet. how is this going to play out? i've no idea. there are a lot of subtle and brazen forces moving about. the world is watching us lose our collective mind, as we spiral into a political psychosis. it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
20110429
AZ Legislature: Kicking a Guy When He's Dead
cool. then we can make a list of the ones who died in response, or had hate crimes committed against them in response, directly after 911; oh, say, a month or two. besides Muslims, this also included Sikhs and Hindus. then we can put up a separate 'hate crimes memorial', stating that these victims were innocent of 911 or any other crime, but were victims of 'honor killings' by Americans who wanted revenge upon the first strange-lo
About September 11
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Donald Trump Was Once Sued By Justice Department For Not Renting To Blacks
i'd like to suggest to HuffPoster
this is who and what Trump associates with, a character assassin of the highest degree.
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Donald Trump Was Once Sued By Justice Department For Not Renting To Blacks
so, now i know who his mentor is: Joe McCarthy's own right-hand 'man'. for the past few weeks i'd been calling his accusation
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20110428
How The Grand Canyon Was Formed: Anomaly Gives New Clues
maybe an extension of the magma pit from the Yosemite supervolca
i'm no scientist and freely admit i know almost nothing, but it always seemed to me that a hot spot was also trying to form near the epicenter of the New Madrid Quakes of 1812-3, in which case a rift valley might also have formed there.
About Science
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20110427
How The Grand Canyon Was Formed: Anomaly Gives New Clues
no. it happened during the third Human-Plod
unfortunat
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Obama's Birth Certificate Through The Eyes Of A Birther (PICTURE)
if i 'name-call
i stand by what i say: he also has shown no proof of the 'amazing' things his so-called 'investiga
as for 'giving in', people cannot make informed decisions if they're not informed. they're not informed when they can be sidetracke
this issue was not going to go away until Obama decided to end it. now that it's over, they'll fall back on other conspiraci
Trump has shown himself to be worthless, a paper tiger.
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Robert Gates' Pentagon Legacy: Unfinished Wars, Unfinished Budget Reform
Gates was called in because little Bush had, as always, screwed up; and although he claimed he obeyed a 'Higher Father', every time he got into trouble he ran back to Daddy.
i'm neither Democrat nor Republican
he has repeatedly tried to make cuts in Defense and get rid of worthless programs. he's been opposed every step of the way by Congress. and it makes sense to make drastic cuts; he's affirmed himself that we spend more on 'defense' than the rest of the world put together, easily confirmed by a little research. that one fact in itself is symptomati
his run may not have been perfect--a
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Sarah Palin On Obama Birth Certificate & Other Reactions
first she said, "I stand with you, Glenn."
he's out of here.
then she said she stood with Trump.
and now this.
the intelligen
About Eric Cantor
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Donald Trump Should Receive The Same Scrutiny He Sought For Barack Obama
I had thought it impossible in this frame of spacetime coordinate
I stand corrected.
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Obama's Birth Certificate Through The Eyes Of A Birther (PICTURE)
the sad thing is that some people will actually, seriously raise some of those questions, and a few might even be brave enough to ask whether he was really born on a 'plantatio
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Obama White House, Pentagon At Odds Over Libya Policy
i'm sorry, but i'm with the military on this one. Obama should have never joined the move to get rid of Khaddafi unless he was willing to go whole hog. that means ground troops, because air power does not win wars. he's still depending on air power, which will only drag out the inevitable
Obama's yet to realize it, but he's painted us into a corner.
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Fidel Castro Resigns: Brother Raul Named Cuba Communist Party Head (VIDEO)
i see you've never read anything of history, let alone strategic studies. you believe in a mythically 'pure' United States which has never done wrong and never can. here's a newsflash, bubba: we're no better than anyone else, and the rest of the world knows it, even if the sheep here refuse to.
you are unable to think geostrateg
i said nothing bad about our having helped the Soviets beat the Third Reich (documente
the same thing happened after the end of the Cold War. we needed a new demon, a new Satan. terrorism filled the bill. military force has only stopped about 7-8% of terrorist groups since 1968; police work and political action are most effective. the RAND Corporatio
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you won't read it, either; you'll just whine some more.
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Fidel Castro Resigns: Brother Raul Named Cuba Communist Party Head (VIDEO)
we wanted Cuba as a possession
in 1945 the great Nazi demon was gone; to maintain the military-i
when Castro decided to side with the USSR in protection against us, it dashed a lot of dreams, especially dreams of money and empire. Cuba was therefore singled out among all other Communist states for its 'betrayal' to the United States.
About Cuba
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Fidel Castro Resigns: Brother Raul Named Cuba Communist Party Head (VIDEO)
and we had missiles in Turkey aimed at the Soviets, before they ever put anything in Cuba.
Castro sided with the Soviets to protect Cuba against the United States. He saw what had happened in Puerto Rico and elsewhere. Batista had been our puppet dictator there, until he fell out of favor, like Saddam Hussein, Khadaffi and so many others.
siding with the Soviets made sure we didn't do to Cuba what had happened elsewhere in Latin America, repeatedly invading, occupying and setting up dictators, making the countries subservien
i have no love for Castro, but this is a sign that things are changing. it's not 1962 any more.
in case you think we're that lily-white
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you can get the details behind some of these incidents at 'Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy' at
http://mtw
it's all documented history, available on the net and in print. several of the books in my library confirm some of the stories. fortunatel
About Cuba
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Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks Suspect, Being Moved Out Of Quantico
oh, i've no doubt he'll survive, because he's a hero, unlike the pretend cowboy, afraid of horses, who got us into this mess in the first place, along with his cyborg assistant.
the criminals who should be there would never survive it. they'll have bought their way out of it, of course, and their sheep (harrumph harrumph) will continue to believe in them.
so take your soma and go to the feelies like a good Gamma. as Huxley usedta say; 'Ford's in his flivver and all's right with the world. . .'
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Fidel Castro Resigns: Brother Raul Named Cuba Communist Party Head (VIDEO)
An era has passed, whether the mass of the American people remember it or not.
I remember when Castro was as big a bugaboo as Khruschev. I remember the Bay of Pigs, a failed invasion of Cuba. I remember veiled hints of assassinat
I remember November 1962, when we came as close to total nuclear war than we ever have since. What was not known for some forty years after was that some of the Soviet submarines near Cuba had nuclear missiles, which would have been fired upon the United States had hostilitie
That holocaust was averted. Khruschev removed his missiles from Cuba, we removed ours from Turkey.
From that time to now, Castro remained the sole power in Cuba, while we voted Presidents into and out of office. Regardless of party, they maintained a hard line against Cuba.
In the past few years, some reforms, however little, have made their way into Cuba. Religion revealed itself as still strong when Pope John Paul II visited the island.
Little by little, the wall erected between Cuba and the United States has been crumbling. This is the biggest crack in that wall yet.
Change is coming to Cuba, however slowly. We must assist and help with that change, where possible, without being heavy-hand
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Harry Reid: 'I'm Not Confident' Afghanistan Is Going To Work (VIDEO)
and we need to get out of Afghanista
years and years ago.
About Harry Reid
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