| Author | Message | ||
     Sifo |
The Democrats have literally stolen the wealth of our future generations. Paying Down The Debt Is Now Almost Mathematically Impossible | ||
| Court |
http://nypost.com/2014/12/13/2014-is-the-year-of-t he-lie/ Good reading | ||
| Sifo |
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| Reindog |
Democrats are hypocrites.  | ||
| Aesquire |
Just a quick question... Isn't killing prisoners, aka not taking any, a war crime? | ||
| Aesquire |
http://nypost.com/2014/12/13/2014-is-the-year-of-t he-lie/ ( thank you Court ) If I were rich, I'd see about suing MSNBC etc. for malpractice. Their job is to speak truth to power. Every graduate of Journalism school wants to be the next Woodward & Bernstein and break the next Watergate scandal. Unfortunately, they also absorbed the leftist philosophy that "lies are ok if it advances the Revolution" and thus actually believe that it doesn't matter if they tell lies as long as it supports the agenda of their Masters. ( and this is really pitiful, they don't even realize that they HAVE Masters. ) I missed the news this morning. Did the Senate "shut down the government" ( give Obama the power to screw with the public while paying all the government lackeys anyway.... remember the Park closing with the intention of "causing maximum pain to the public?" ) Or did they screw all of us by making the debt impossible to pay off without actually selling all Americans into slavery to Putin and the Caliphate? ( damn, I wish I was joking about that ) Edit... Sold as slaves. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/1 2/the-democrats-depressing-new-reality/383708/ | ||
| Reindog |
Lois Lerner is getting a hell of a pension, too.  | ||
| Sifo |
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| Ft_bstrd |
This is what a Progressive paradise looks like. | ||
| Sifo |
Sad that when asked why the police might need vehicles obviously designed for a war zone that the answer is that there are a lot of "Constitutionalists". I guess I am the enemy. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
We beat the British. We'll beat the anti-Constitutionalists. MRAPs are bullet magnets. They have to get out some time. | ||
| Hootowl |
Conform or be cast out. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/15/campus-turns- on-muslim-conservative-who-penned-pc-satire/ Fit into the box we've created, damn you. | ||
| Roderick |
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/2 0141215-michael-gerson-easy-for-gruber-to-apologiz e-hard-to-undo-obamacare.ece An excellent explanation on WHAT is Jonathan Gruber and his kind, and WHY they do what they believes. Roderick | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Black Conservative Female Conservative Gay Conservative Muslim Conservative See a pattern here? | ||
| Blake |
Seriously?... http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/u-n-sending-thousands-o f-muslims-to-america/ Can't receive the Christians, cause they're not being persecuted by the govt? | ||
| Reindog |
May Dianne Feinstein and her Democrat collaborators burn in Hell for their Treason against The United States of America.  | ||
| Reindog |
It is the same story with Michael Brown.  | ||
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| Hootowl |
The world hates America, and it's Bush's fault. Unless you're a Kurd. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/12/17/love-ameri can-style-iraq-kurds-fans-all-things-us-bush/ | ||
| Sifo |
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| Reindog |
Mr. Hope and Change has made it possible for all future Presidents to act like dictators. If so, let the pendulum cut ALL Democrats for letting this happen.  | ||
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| Aesquire |
Comrade Obama tossed Castro a lifeline. Every dollar about to go to Cuba goes into Castro's hands to be converted to pesos. This will support the terrorist regime AND Venezuela, where Cuban terrorists support the regime by beatings and intimidation. This will only end well if American tourists walk out of the Cuban Disneyland tourism zone into the real Cuba. Then are smart enough to hide the pictures until they get home. Or they will disappear. | ||
| Fb1 |
^^^ I've been reading everything I can find on this deal. The pResident is Out. Of. Control. No good can come from this, well, of course, unless you lean left. The good people of Cuba certainly won't benefit, although the family business sure will. And we caved to NK yesterday, too, rolled over as pretty as you please and showed them our wet spot. Damn, two more years? It's gonna seem more like two hundred. | ||
| Fb1 |
Source: http://dailysignal.com/2014/12/17/obama-cant-unila terally-lift-economic-freedom-cubans/ | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
If someone assaults you or damages your property and you refuse to press charges, the criminal goes free. Sames goes for Presidents. | ||
| Roderick |
I know I am going to be alone about this, but I believe it is time for US to have normal relation with Cuba. It does not mean overnight I became an Obama supporter over this. I still believe Obama is an embarrassment for the US due mainly to his man-child mentality, relative inexperience in politics, let alone in other areas that constitute an executive, and his general arrogance. Every time I talk about Obama, I step away from my US citizenship and speak as an astonished immigrant at the foolishness of the Americans. To start off...I am Vietnamese. We fled South Viet Nam in April 1975, two weeks before Sai Gon got captured. We fled with as much US dollars as we can get and with a few suitcases of clothes. We first went to Clark AFB in the Philippines, then finally settled in Hawaii. I was 12 yrs old at that time. Old enough to take in the events but still too young to understand and put everything into proper context. Our family lost two sons, my uncles, in the war, in Pleiku. One as a medic in the ARVN and one as a civilian agricultural engineer. The agricultural engineer was captured by the VC and tortured to death. When we fled, all I knew and understood was that we were running away from something intrinsically evil. It was a fear from emotions, not (yet) a fear from the intellect, which came gradually later as I matured into adulthood. My grandparents chose to stay because they believed their old age and retirement from service for the South Vietanamese government would convince the communists to leave them alone as they have nothing of value. They were wrong. Our family name were in a black list the communists have as orders for capture alive, or less desirably proven dead. The communists turned the boarding school I grew up in into a 're-education' camp and my grandparents died in the prison their grandchildren once learned their alphabets and numbers. As time passed, many oversea Viets briefly returned to Viet Nam and tried to find their relatives, dead or alive. We gave up trying to give my grandparents proper Catholic burials because we found out often the communists would give animal bones to desperate families. These people do not know any better and were eager for any signs of kindness from the communists. Try to imagine ancestor worship is the family religion and families burns incense and prays in front of bones of cattle, dog, and who knows what else, believing their forebears watches over them. So with great sorrow we decided to leave my grandparents rests wherever they are. So it is from this perspective that I can sympathize with the Cubans a little bit of what they have been living under all these decades. And why I believe it is time for US to have normal relation with Cuba. The criticisms from both left and right are already plentiful and strident. As a participant of the Cold War, doing my part in the USAF, I understand where these critics came from. I know what Checkpoint Charlie looked like when it was a working structure marking the line between communism and democracy back then instead of the museum piece it is today. When I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford, an F-111E base, I debated hardcore British communists, members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament movement, or CND-ers as we called them, on the virtues of Marxism and capitalism. I know what it is like to quick turn a jet in full chem gear. Vision through the gas mask sucks. I walked both old and new Adana, Turkey. In the new Adana, I picked up French speaking miniskirted Turkish girls. In the old Adana, an old woman in a burqa limped up to me hand outstretched begging for money. And I remember my feelings at MacDill AFB when the Soviet Union collapsed in Dec 1991: 'We won'. I left the Air Force in Dec 1992 after 10 yrs of service, of which, other than Basic Training at Lackland AFB in Texas, I do NOT have one day of regret. Anyone who enjoyed Basic needs serious psychiatric help. To the critics I ask: 'What has the two decades of embargo on Cuba after the Soviet Union collapsed, ignobly and spectacularly, gotten US ?' Answer: Nothing. Nothing but the 'feel good' feeling that we are the righteous one. Yes, I believe the US is a righteous country. We may not be perfect, but just as we are far from perfection, we are equally far ahead of the many hellholes on this planet. People like me who want to come here, either as willing immigrant or as political refugee, picked the US not because the country and her people are perfect but because as a whole they are better. We were right in keeping Cuba under watch and threat during the Cold War. Because the Cuban government chose lot with the Soviet Union, I have no problems with keeping the Cubans in poverty if it mean security and prosperity for me and my family. But since the Soviet Union is no more and Russia is barely a shadow of what Putin want again, now is the best time to secure Cuba as the unofficial 54th US state. Puerto Rico is 51st. Canada is 52nd. Mexico is 53rd. So why not Cuba ? The US is a unique continental power and this uniqueness escaped most Americans: That the US and her people never faced any serious threats on their own continent, not even when their country was young and not yet from sea to sea. The same cannot be said for the other two powers: Russia and China. The North American continental expanse, the protection of the seas, the psychological freedom from threats, and the optimism of the people that came from those other factors created a country none expected in terms of wealth and power. Geopolitically speaking, Cuba would be the US version of the 'unsinkable carrier' Taiwan off the Chinese coast. Many analysts believes the world is heading towards Cold War v2, with a wiser, more independent, and wealthier China as the next challenger to US dominance. Just like the Soviets before her, China is already in presence in the Americas, meting out money instead of arms. A continuing embargo on Cuba does not guarantee that China will not make contact with Cuba. If Taiwan is our 'unsinkable carrier' to China, how about Cuba as the Chinese 'unsinkable carrier' to US ? Militarily speaking, especially from an Air Force guy perspective, even though the PLAAF may not be on par with the USAF, ninety miles off US coast lies a few squadrons of PLAAF fighters is a lot more potential than missiles, nuclear or not. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the first and real threat the US and her citizens faced in their history. Back in 1962, the Soviets gave US a taste of what Russians always knew in their history. Is it so implausible that the Chinese want to give US a repeat, especially when we have Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Australia encircling China ? As far as the Cuban people is concerned, the critics pointed out that during those two decades, other countries have had their tourists and businesses in Cuba and that had not relaxed the Castros' grip on the people, and that because so much of the foreign currency Cuba earned in trade is taken by the government, the Cubans heavily relied on tips, essentially the kindness of strangers, to make any little improvement to their lives. Then I would ask: 'Have we learned anything from the Vietnamese ?' Many Viet Kieus, like myself, often send money back to Viet Nam. Yes, we know that corruption takes a large block of whatever amount we sent. But whatever that made it to our friends and families, they made the best of it in terms of BETTER medicines, clothes, and food. During the Cold War, we turned the citizens of the Warsaw Pact against their governments by way of information dissemination of what ordinary lives are like in the free West. How many read 'Mig Pilot' by Viktor Belenko ? At one point, the man was convinced the entire New York City was a CIA front just for him. The idea that a package of beef have an expiration date to warn consumers of potential food poisoning was inconceivable to him. The Cubans and the Vietnamese of today are more learned of the free countries, led by the US, than the East Germans and the Russians know of US back during the Cold War, and still plenty of East Germans tried, and died, to escape to the West. When I was stationed at MacDill, we rejoiced whenever a few Cubans made it to the US in their homemade rafts. Now we have a chance to actually meet the Cubans on their home soil and prosyletize, all the while smoking those famous Cuban cigars. In Viet Nam, over half of the people are borned after the war. They have no memory and emotional ties to it. No doubt a similar demographic situation in Cuba. The Cubans of today may know of the Bay of Pigs fiasco from the textbooks, but how many of them really remember that event, let alone have any emotional ties to it ? The Castros and their thugs are not going to go away or even change their colors soon. But just like the 'old guards' in Viet Nam, they are dying and no one is there to replace them. So from now until the Castros are gone, there are plenty we can do to help subvert the Castros via their oppressed citizens simply by making their lives a little bit by little bit better. We were shortsighted in Viet Nam when we stood aside while our Asian allies entered that market. Same shortsightedness for Cuba when the Soviet Union collapsed. But we still have a chance. No Central/South American state can help Cuba with the current global economic condition. China is stretched in Asia, Africa, and South America. If we are entering Cold War v2, and I believe we are, then now is the time to figuratively take over Cuba. Instead of troops of soldiers, let it be troops of tourists and businessmen. Instead of a top down regime change a la Iraq, let it be a bottom up and an inside out revolution like how it is happening in Viet Nam today. In Viet Nam, only party hacks calls Ho Chi Minh City by that name. To everyone else, it is Sai Gon and I believe that it will be in my lifetime that Sai Gon will have its name again. The Cuban community can do much to help Cuba change. They have been insistent on a top down regime change all this time, so why not be a bit more patient for a grass roots slow revolution ? They were never unified in the first place and I saw that fissure in the Tampa Cuban community when I was active duty in the late 1980s at MacDill. Cold War v2 does not mean we have to use all the tools and tactics of Cold War v1. If Russia and China are wiser, so should we. Cuba is an unclaimed prize and they know it. Roderick |
