Comments on: Another Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for Team Obama

By: Google

Google — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:31:39 +0000

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By: Handyortung

Handyortung — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 04:54:35 +0000

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By: sbm1

sbm1 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:27:02 +0000

literature reference….

By: Melody Warbington (rwm52)

Melody Warbington (rwm52) — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:21:35 +0000

wasn’t Iraq, it was the spending/stimulus which he now admits didn’t work. I’m thankful beyond words he was POTUS after 9/11 rather than the lying, self-serving Gore.

By: Dave_A

Dave_A — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 20:09:54 +0000

1) No problem with this step

2) Most Middle East nations can knock down drones like they’re swatting flies. Afghanistan isn’t the ME, and Yemen is the poorest & most defenseless of the nations that are. The only reason UAVs worked in Iraq was because we invaded first, and took away all their air defenses.

3) It’s not our business how they govern their people, so long as they isolate Iran. If we want to protect middle eastern minorities, let them immigrate here.

4) Unless your massive retaliation is invasion & occupation, the ME tyrants don’t care. You can bomb them as many times as you’d like, but if they’re still in power when the planes leave, they’re fine with it….

By: acat

acat — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:44:34 +0000

China more resembles a coup or a free-for-all brawl.

I’m predicting the military comes out on top .. for a time. Perhaps long enough to, as you say, manage the economic decline/bootstrapping uneventfully.

If so, then yes, the ME will be the area to watch .. and we’re past due for another hot war. Think it’ll take a little while longer for the brotherhood to decide they’ve got the stones, though.

Mew

By: JSobieski

JSobieski — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:19:13 +0000

However the frequency and magnitude of the bad news is going to increase. I am sure a regression analysis would support my contention.

By: acat

acat — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:08:46 +0000

start showing the cost of gaia-ist programs to the voters.

Low-flow toilets require San Francisco to hire extra sewer workers because their old drains need a certain volume…. show the cost.

Plastic bag ban in Seattle means everyone’s shopping with paper or reusable. Show how much paper costs, show some of the “international waters” floating sawmills, show jobs lost to those mills… then show germs on the re-usable bags.

Show the road salt ban in Seattle .. and then show the increase in winter accident claims before the ban and after… and how many were fatal.

Show the studies on how highway auto safety decreases as fuel efficiency increases .. simply because heavier vehicles are safer in wrecks…. then show the increase in lives lost.

Yes, it’s good to hit them on petroleum, but we can’t “just” hit them there. We need the average citizen to understand how much gold and blood we’re spending satiating the green gods…..

Mew

By: cactusjack

cactusjack — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:44:48 +0000

all you need to know about the Middle East and Bush presidency (i dont normally use that tone in the presence of such great contributors, but here goes)
1. Because of its size, population and longevity in the Middle East, Iran (Persia) is the 400 pound gorilla in the room. Nixon knew that. Kissinger knew that.They fashioned a military alliance between Iran, the US and Israel (hard to believe but true!)
2. The Middle East has been in constant turmoil and destabilization,ever since that fateful act of Carter not supporting the Shah when he asked for help in 1979.. ALL our present woes in the region , trace back to, or through, that watershed foreign policy catastrophe. That includes the terrorism we are dealing with today. Yes, even the Taliban, Hamas, Al Qaeda. The terrorists we are fighting today in AF and Iraq are being supported from the regime in Iran.
3. Theefore there has been a power vacuum of sorts in the Middle East, ever since Shah Reza Pahlavi, a friend of the United States and Israel, was exiled from Iran. Which one way or the other, the United States was going to get pulled into. Think of it as foreign policy Kharma.
4. Thus we were going to be back over there someday, somehow. It manifested in recent history as our wars against/in Iraq and Afghanistan.
5. We won in Iraq, it will pay dividends down the road and is now. Iraq was quiet and stable during the “Arab Spring” upheavals.
SUMMARY: Bush did well with what he was handed by history. Carter really did screw things up and worse than we realized. But Bush was still a big spender domestic program wise, and that was not good.

By: checkmate2012

checkmate2012 — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 03:39:08 +0000

states impose a gas tax and then the fed tacks on their tax fee.So if the states weren’t beholden to the feds for a matching fund, they would deal with their own problems as needed.