Somali Pirates

If I understand the reports our Navy was going to not let the negotiators return to their ship. Those same negotiators had told their people to kill the hostages if they do not return. If true our Navy violated the standard "white flag" of truce for enemies to talk. Whoever made that call should be Court Martialed. While the victims did not deserve what happened to them what did they expect sailing through the area in which pirates are active? Like the two hikers in Iranian jails what did they expect? Americans should stay out of that part of the world.

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Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

Four Reasons the Supreme Court Will Uphold Obama's Health Care

 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/beltway-beast/four-reasons-the-supreme-court-will-uphold-obamas-health-care/?obref=obnetwork

 

1) Congress, of course, has the power to regulate interstate commerce. But people who opt out of purchasing health care are not keeping to themselves. Many of them are taking a free ride on government-run hospital emergency rooms. Taxpayers foot the bill for that kind of care, so it's impossible to make a legal argument that some people can be legally exempt.

2) The Court's decision on Social Security in 1982 is a good litmus test. Justices said, in effect, that it'd be nice to offer the people a chance to opt out of a burly national system, but if you do, the entire system collapses. The same is true with the health care law.

3) If you think Justice Anthony Kennedy is the swing vote, think again. He may sit at the ideological center of the Court, but he's come down on both sides on issues of personal freedoms, like gun rights, and the 14th Amendment for equal protection. But he's never been up in the air on issues that have such substantial economic implications, like health care does.

4) This is the Supreme Court we're talking about, not Congress. The Supremes occasionally appear partisan, but they're not bound by the party of the president who appointed them. Political arguments don't always pan out on strictly partisan lines the way they did in 2000 in Bush v. Gore. In fact, they almost never do.

Iraq Debacle

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi known by the IA as "Curveball" should be charged with murder as well as several other crimes for causing the deaths of thousands of people including our military. He has caused the financial ruin of thousands of people. If he is not going to be executed for his crimes he should be deported to Iran.

The Bush administration should be charged and tried on crimes against humanity and other war crimes. Their lack of diligence caused the death and injury to thousands of people.

Boldly for Extermination

If the problem is the student refused to condemn Hamas I thought the speaker's question was petty. My guess is he was upset that the student said the pamphlet was more interesting than the talk. Nice shot but a bit cheap. Both getting under the other's skin.

Christian's are anti Satan. They would like for God to destroy Satan and if they could they would destroy Satan. Muslims are anti Jew. They would like for Allah to destroy the Jews and if they could would destroy the Jews. They want Palestine to be an Islamic country. They want Allah to make it so. If they can they will.   

Hamas is a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. It considers Palestine an Islamic Holy Possession. Among its goals is the destruction of the State of Israel. Where is the compromise between Israel and Hamas?

Where was the compromise between the Colonies and England? They could not coexist in the status quo. It was a fight to the death. Same with Hamas and Israel one has to destroy the other or one has to change their goals.

For years rhinoceros would not mate in captivity. Zoo folks were stumped. It seems the beginning of the rhinoceros mating ritual includes some pretty violent activity resulting in blood shedding and on occasion injuries. The zoo people not recognizing what was going on would separate the animals to protect them. Then, one day a light went on. With their new knowledge the violence is permitted to continue and there are little rhinos everywhere. Nature is violent and sometimes it is best to stay out of its way. Hamas and Israel cannot co-exist. One has to yell "Uncle!!"  As the Colonies and England had to duke it out until one said "Uncle" so do Hamas and Israel.

Jim Gray 'removed' from Golf Channel coverage after confrontation

No one watches a sporting event because of the play-by-play and analysts. Many times the event is more interesting with them muted. When they become the story they have outgrown their usefulness. They are no different than the all-purpose remotes that operate the equipment.

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Motivation Humans and Animals

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. James A. Froude: English historian (1818 - 1894)

It is thought that some animals do kill for fun at least they do not eat what they kill.

Forcible or Not Forcible

 

I understand the House leadership, I assume Boner et al, want to redefine rape into a couple of categories, forcible and not forcible. Forcible could have access to government sponsored abortions while the not forcible, such as date rate, etc where the female could not prove force would not have access. Should be an interesting two years.

 

I have never understood how the manner in which the fetus was created, fun sex or bad sex, is a valid measurement of whether it should live or die.

 

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Lara Logan's Egyptian Nightmare

No surprise men and women choose their job ahead of the family every day. She is trading her family for her job. Her children need her, CBS can get along just fine without her. It is her decision and she chooses. . . . CBS.

Now for the sexual assault. . . what does she expect? She is very attractive, goes into dangerous situations where ugly women are raped every day. She is a real trophy an American, While they are screwing her they are screwing the United States.

Wild Animals in Captivity

We humans have an odd habit of taking wild, untamed animals into captivity. Animals meant to wander tens if not hundreds of miles in a day are confined to are where minimal exercise is available. We poke and prod them and when the animal does not respond we think "good animal." We think animals are like children and as we know a "good child" is seen and not heard.  
 
This elephant probably did nothing different than they would have done to another elephant they liked or disliked. The problem is the elephant does not know its own strength.  
 
I do not consider I am less of a person because I have never seen millions of bison roaming the prairie. I would not be less of a person if I never saw an elephant in captivity. I never saw a dinasaur and it does not bother me. Leave the wild animals in their natural habitat,

Egypt: Emergency Law vs United States: Patriot Act

The Egyptian emergency law sounds familiar:

Egypt under the emergenc law: police powers are extended, constitutional rights suspended and censorship is legalized. The law sharply circumscribes any non-governmental political activity: street demonstrations, non-approved political organizations, and unregistered financial donations are formally banned. Some 17,000 people are detained under the law, and estimates of political prisoners run as high as 30,000. Under that "state of emergency", the government has the right to imprison individuals for any period of time, and for virtually no reason, thus keeping them in prisons without trials for any period.

Just Say "Yes" to Regulations

Allen Greenspan admitted he was wrong thinking the banks could regulate themselves. As long as business pays their officers hundreds of millions of dollars for less than mediocre performance and come to the taxpayers for bail outs the taxpayers must regulate that business. And I expect your support. When businesses fail let them fail.

Egypt Should Not Change Now

In a country of 90 million population Egypt cannot change with less than 100,000 protesters. Mubarak has said he will not run again. If he does DON'T VOTE FOR HIM!!! As with other Middle East countries the citizens of Egypt do not know how to function under a real Democracy or Republic. Look at Russia! They are still trying to figure it out.

Mubarak Can't Leave

Egypt has laws and Mubarak was "elected' according to those laws. An election will be held in a couple of months and Mubarak has said he will not run. When the new president is elected reforms can begin. If a minority of people can force this president out another minority can force the next president to leave. That does not make for a stable country. The should follow our example: declare their independence and start a new country. 

 

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Health Care Rationing

I hear comments concerning how ObamaCare will ration health care. I don't see rationing as a problem. We cannot afford to do everything we technically can do. You have a son who is 45 and needs $400,000 for treatment and you have a 85 year-old grandmother who needs $200,000 to be cured and you have $300,000. What would you do? If you can afford it you can do anything you want otherwise you are sharing a finite amount of money.
 
Technology wise electronic record keeping will make everything more efficient.
 
We have to identify and remove from the system all treatments that are not worth what they cost. That will be step 1. Doctors are going to hate it. But insurance companies will do this with or without Obamacare.

Re: Mubarak Must Stay

Iran was unable to conquer Iraq. Our destruction of order in Iraq has permitted Iran to takeover Iraq today. What their military could not do ours did for them. The leaders of Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and others have kept the Muslim Brotherhood down. If Mubarak leaves Egypt the Brotherhood will take over the government. Something they could not do without our help as we demand Mubarak must get out.  

 

 

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Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue.

 

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Jake Book <jbook40@yahoo.com> wrote:

"What they cannot do on their own the United States gives to the enemy."

Unclear statement; what do you mean by it?

On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:18 AM, John Jenkins <jrjenki@gmail.com> wrote:

What they cannot do on their own the United States gives to the enemy.

Mubarak Must Stay

Lacking a leader and defined government to replace him Mubarak must stay. If he leaves it will be mob rule.Mubarak has maintained order like Saddam Hussein did in Iraq before we sent our military in for a coup. When Mubarak leaves the Muslim Brotherhood will rule as the Shia do in Iran and will soon in Iraq and Syria, and Yemen, and AE and Jordan and the rest of the Middle East. What they cannot do on their own the United States gives to the enemy. Hopefully Obama is smarter than Bush and will stay out of Egypt and get us out of the Middle East..

 

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Right vs Left

The terms "left" and "right" appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president's right and supporters of the revolution to his left. (The seating may have been influenced by the tradition of the United Kingdom Parliament, where the monarch's ministers sit to the speaker's right, while the opposition sit to his or her left.)
 
Those who were loyal to religion and the king took up positions to the right of the chair so as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp". However the Right opposed the seating arrangement because they believed that deputies should support private or general interests but should not form factions or political parties. The contemporary press occasionally used the terms "left" and "right" to refer to the opposing sides.
 
At least this is one cause. . .

50 Shilling

On the subject of immigration: in the beginning of the 17th century the Virginia Company wanting to attract new colonists offered 50 shilling to each person paying their own way to America.  It proved so successful that it was imitated in some form by almost every later English colonial venture, as well as the U.S. government into the 19th century to attract immigrants. Maybe we should recognize it has always been the nature of our country to encourage immigration not to prevent it. What we need to stop are the government gimmees we all enjoy.

Egypt

What we are seeing in the Middle East is the Iran affect. Anytime Iran wants to it can walk into any country in the Middle East take control and no other country can stop them. George gave Iran what Iran could not get for itself when he upset the order of Iraq. With that under their belt the other countries are terrified. I heard a woman from Egypt sees their options as a continuation of the dictatorship, what is going on now is a call for democracy and a the alternative being a theocracy. If it goes to theocracy Iran will have won.

 

 

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ObamaCare

 

Government has no Constitutional authority to require anyone to purchase health care insurance. Government has no Constitutional authority to require health care providers to provide health care to the uninsured. So those without health care insurance do not receive any health care services. Isn't that simple?

 

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Have you considered

Have you considered how the world will align if the Middle East collapses into complete chaos?