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POPSVintage Moonbattery: Copenhagen's A Battle To Humble And "Redefine Humanity" So this isn't the place for rationality. It's the place to reverse the Industrial Revolution. You do have to read this entire self-caricature, though, because there's just so much I couldn't include. There's an entire section on how the people who disagree with him - the bullies who call him bad names - are angry because he's just too decent. Then there was a part about how we have to reign in "adventurers," which a cynical person might read as a pointed version of banal Blue State nannyism. "I'm too priggish to have fun so you're not allowed to have any either." The Guardian (http://bit.ly/691nUu)
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POPSYawn - Dinesh's Same Tired Dogma This guy never adds anything new to the conversation. The same tired arguments, over and over again. For those of you unfamiliar with this defender of the faith, he is a frequent columnist on the World Net Daily. The WND is notorious for such rational positions as backing the Birthers, Creationists, and Christian Nationalists. Dinesh's mainstays are straw men, claiming atheists are a dangerous "movement", and bashing liberals. One could compare him to Glenn Beck without a TV show.
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POPS "dumb" Well, they’re falling down on that score in Afghanistan. Hang on, Gates gets it. USA Today: ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY JET (AP) " The Obama administration needs to decide on a war strategy for Afghanistan without waiting for a government there to be widely accepted as legitimate, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday. Gates’ comments put him at odds with top White House and NATO officials who are balking at ordering more troops and other resources to Afghanistan until the disputed election crisis there is resolved. The Pentagon chief called the Afghan elections " and the larger issues of curbing corruption in its government " “an evolving process.” “We’re not just going to sit on our hands, waiting for the outcome of this election and for the emergence of a government in Kabul,” he told reporters en route to Tokyo. That part of the O admin doesn’t sound as dumb as the other part.
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POPSThe UN Loves Barack Obama Because He Is Weak
Not convinced about that last “seething with anti-Americanism” line, though. I think the world actually loves America. That’s why the world is all trying to get here. The world just has a bit of an adolescent attitude toward America’s dad-like role in the world. . . I’d say it’s more the United Nations General Assembly that is seething with anti-Americanism. Get back on topic, Nile! OK, here we go: It is natural that much of the UN will embrace an American president who declines to offer strong American leadership. A president who engages dictators like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez will naturally gain respect from the leaders of the more than 100 members of the United Nations who are currently designated as “partly free” or “not free” by respected watchdog Freedom House. The UN is not a club of democracies - who still remain a minority within its membership " it is a vast melting pot of free societies, socialist regimes and outright tyrannies.
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POPSControl-freaks: It Must Be in Their Genes At the heart of Obama's action plan to deal with every problem is the principle of government control over individual action. Consider the first problem: the economy. Obama's first action was to infuse failing financial institutions with borrowed money, with government strings attached. In exchange for the money, government gained veto power over the management of private corporations. Had the people in power not been infected with the "control" gene, financial institutions that had made bad business decisions would have paid the consequences, and the self-correcting free-market financial system would, ultimately, have been stronger. But alas, the poisoned tentacles of government now permeate the financial system.
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POPSFouad Ajami strikes again Ajami is one of the "truth-tellers," as he calls the authors of the UNDP Arab Human Development Reports. He pulls no punches. Must read if you're interested in US policy i the Arab world.
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POPSLeft in Dark Times, Bernard-Henri Lévy Maybe the most important book of our time! I think I will move this to the top of my list MORE: The neoprogressives believe "liberalism is the source all the planet's evils," Lévy writes (p. 90), so they must declare innocent those Third World despots who "meddle with their citizens and treat them like cattle," because in the neoprogressive dogma "the System, and the System alone, bears full responsibility." They reject that the great revolutions, including the British and the American, were explicitly liberal, and used liberal thought in their struggle against absolutism (p. 92). The liberal market-based republics can more easily be portrayed as Evil, when liberty, which might be thought their finest aspect, disappears from view.
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POPS Obama Is The Anti-Reagan What kind of leader is it who talks down his own country on foreign soil? America's performance in the Cold War was hardly flawless. But does anyone deny that we were on the right side, that the Soviet Empire and Mao's China and communist Vietnam and Castro's Cuba were on the side of tyranny -- and that the neutrals were by and large irrelevant or worse in that great cause? A nation is an extended family. While families fight and quarrel, often bitterly, you do not take the family quarrel outside the family. You don't hang the family's dirty linen on the communal clothesline. Obama, however -- like some Hollywood actress seeking sympathy and public approbation with her tell-all biography detailing how she was abused by her father -- trolls for popularity with America's adversaries by reciting for the benefit of the world all the sins his country has allegedly committed. When did this become the duty of the president of the United States?
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POPSObama Offers Security at the Expense of Liberty of paying federal income tax and eligible for occasional rebates. As CNN reporter Susan Roesgen said, "Don't you realize that you're eligible for a $400 tax cut?" In other words, take the money and shut up. Which brings to mind Tocqueville's warning: "Every measure which establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives to it an administrative form creates thereby a class unproductive and idle, living at the expense of the class which is industrious and given to work." The Obama administration is assiduous in the protection of this administrative class. It offers $6,800,000,000 to the state of California on one hand, and then threatens to take it back because the state cut the pay of public employee union members by $74,000,000. The government gives JPMorgan Chase $25,000,000,000, and then insists that it give up in the Chrysler deal what it would ordinarily receive in bankruptcy proceedings and turn it over to fund the health care benefits of United Auto Worker retirees.
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POPSObama Ignores Jack Bauer's Warning At His Peril! Jack Bauer Does Not Go Around Apologizing for America Or bowing to Saudi Kings, or acting all Euro-smart while referring to the “Austrian language.” But here we are, spending a quiet hour where the Mrs. Madame President and her horrible daughter characters make us more comfortable than the actual world, with it’s despots and missiles and U.N. B.S. Dammit. Dammit there isn’t time!
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POPSGitmo is not so bad, after all And of course, a Democrat could never, ever have anything to do with economic disaster. And Bush and his administration never warned congress about Fannie and Freddie and this sort of stuff, or asked for some revisions to a ruinous policy. You believe that, right? Of course you do. Such disorientation. Everything “unacceptable” about the last 8 years is now “acceptable.” Except, of course, the “wiser countries” led by tyrants and despots are our new friends, and our old friends are either being sacrificed or left to precede us to implosion. Oh, and human rights - an issue for which Bush’s commitment was never much discussed in his own country Ah, well, these days human rights are less important than money, honey. Up is down. War is Peace. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Such disorientation.
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POPSComing Show Trials Reports that coming Show Trials of the Bush Administration will deflect criticism from Obama for failing to live up to his campaign promises, and a crumbling economy. It's what despots do.
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POPS Congratulations! This could be part of the problem. Obama, in his chats with nine world leaders, told SK President Lee the US-ROK relationship is a “cornerstone” of Asian stability. Good thing he noticed. Medvedev rounded on the United States for ills ranging from the global financial crisis to the recent war in Georgia, in a state-of-the-nation speech that was watched intently by his mentor Vladimir Putin, and omitted mentioning Obama by name. http://news.theage.com.au/world/russias-medvedev-hits-out-at-us-20081105-5ilq.html
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POPSU.N. prays for Obama win Isn't it odd that all of our enemies fervently hope that Obama wins the election? (al Qaeda is using reverse psychology in their support of Obama). The U.N. basically exists to give third world despots a global platform and an attempt at influencing the superpowers. In essence they all feel Obama would be weak and compliant.. and that's what the world and our enemies want - a weakened U.S. Vote for Obama at your peril.
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POPSACORN the GOP's October Surprise? But it's just another AYERS-ING attempt by the right-wing. I sure hope this Rovian tactic fails. Flopping so hard that a lead balloon will seem flimsy. Driving even more democrats, thinking republicans and independents to the polls to vote for Obama. If the dirty tricks still win, kiss your American arse goodbye, there is no hope for us or US.
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POPSNot so funny comedians The Yanks have fallen on their own sword. Had they seen George Brand's so-called act, they would have know that he definitely is not a comedian, just a self opinionated weirdo. When he talks of retards he talks from a position of strength, until he attacks the President so vehemently. He should be attacking a process that allow an individual to illegally claim the position. As for Black Presidents? Notareargunner has lived under several, Mugabe, Kaunda just to name two. The two despots were even unfit for Britain's Nu Lieber Party. Now there's a statement.
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POPSSBS, SAS get more tasks in Afghanistan While the Civvy Shits who run the MoD on behalf of this effete Government get more brazen with their false assertions of victory, more soldiers are dying. When the nation has the courage to tell these self opinionated ignoramuses that everything they touch turns to SH&T, and when those sheeples who swallow whole the bunkum and disinformation coming from Downing Street like overpaid prostitutes sucking on the sperm of middle eastern despots, when the nations says enough, we Brits will regain our self respect and national morality. Until then Bless the troops being tasked with impossible missions and may they get home safe and well.
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POPSHabitat For Hamas Please support us in our efforts to legitimize Hamas, they are much more than just a terrorist organization. Habitat for Hamas will help with Hamas families housing problem, despite the group’s stated commitment to the violent destruction of the state of Israel, because you can’t always get prerequisites adopted by other people before you even grovel and beg.
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POPSGaither Stewart: Left or Right - The great social-political divide Continuation: Before the French Revolution society was divided vertically. Power was at the top, and filtered down, down, down through the hierarchy to the voiceless peasant-slave, thus facilitating the rise of history’s despots. Though weaker from Power’s point of view, the horizontal Left-Right division was more democratic, intended to limit and control Power. Peter Kropotkin notes in his The Great French Revolution that the whole of France was then divided into two hostile camps: on one side those who possessed property, on the other, those who possessed nothing -- the rich and the poor. Just as property holders and the landless, Left and Right are by definition mutually exclusive.
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POPSBlowback "If we should go to war with Iran over nuclear weapons, we will have Pakistan—and ourselves—to thank for that as well."
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POPSPakistan On The Brink I won't be long before most people in referring to Muharraf will join that long and inglorious line of petty despots as one of "our bastards". There is a pattern that has evolved over the years that highlights our countries ability to choose the most expedient solution to complicated socio-governmental issues and end up with ineffectual and corrupt swindlers in place as heads of failed governments. The people of Pakistan appear to be screaming for a democratic rule of law in their country to the deaf ears of Musharraf and his military regime. It will be to our advantage to pay close attention to where this all leads.
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POPSNaomi Wolf on Blackwater: "Are you scared yet?" Naomi Wolf points out that historically, every fascist regime has required a nongovennmental paramilitary force in order to set aside basic civil rights and the rule of law. Could Blackwater be that force? They were recently awarded $15 billion as part of a consortium to conduct counter-narcotics operations, including operations on US soil. Will a private army with no obligation to uphold the Constitution be policing your town soon?
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POPS United Nations Gallery Of Despots And Dictators Why are we funding the U.N.'s "human rights" nonsense? When President Bush told the United Nations General Assembly this week "the American people are disappointed by the failures of the Human Rights Council," his words could not have been more timely or deserved. He pointed out "This body has been silent on repression by regimes from Havana to Caracas to Pyongyang and Tehran - while focusing its criticism excessively on Israel." On Friday, the Council piled the dung heap higher. It wrapped up another session in Geneva by adopting two more resolutions against Israel and no resolutions critical of the human-rights record of any of the other 191 U.N. member states.
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