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Post by dex on Jan 23, 2016 16:57:43 GMT -5
It's your call ...but just say'n a lot of us like red or orange. You gotta keep up with fashion changes.
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Post by dex on Dec 27, 2016 9:31:00 GMT -5
On a more serious note....Nero watching Rome burn had nothing on this friggin crew...didn't the community organizer ponder at his last presser what he could have done differently to save lives in Syria...really? "a bystander to genocide"
by SHMULEY BOTEACH 25 Dec 2016
All our Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is missing is a fiddle. For the duration of the seemingly endless Syrian civil war, she has figuratively fiddled while that country burns. Now, with one foot out the door from a tenure that has all but obliterated her once formidable reputation as an anti-genocide activist, she’s decided to kick Israel in the teeth. What most amazes me about this past Friday’s anti-Israel resolution that was cooked up by Barack Obama, John Kerry, Susan Rice, and Power is not that it took place. We have long known that the quartet had this in the works, and my organization, The World Values Network, even took out a full page ad against the proposed UN resolution a few months back.
Rather, the truly shocking part is that the most senior members of the American foreign policy team were pushing this resolution through while Aleppo burned.
Just imagine — there is a genocide going on for years in the Middle East in general and Syria in particular. It involves ISIS targeting Yazidis and Christians for extermination, and, in Syria, Shia Muslims joining Alawites to exterminate Sunnis. This is the classic definition of genocide where an ethnic group is target for annihilation.
The genocide reaches fever pitch in December 2016, just as the Obama administration, which hasn’t lifted a finger to protect 500,000 Arabs from being slaughtered, is winding down. Aleppo is in the news daily, as the world watches the horrors of bombings of civilians amid incalculable loss of life.
And what was Samantha Power, the great anti-genocide campaigner, doing while Aleppo and its residents were being reduced to rubble? Why, scheming against Israel, of course!
Power should have resigned over Syria long ago. She decided instead to embrace the hypocrisy of having written a Pulitzer-prize winning book condemning previous American administrations who were bystanders to genocide, while becoming one herself.
That was bad enough. What we know now is far worse. She ignored Aleppo as she focused instead on the condemning the Jewish state.
Earth to Samantha: 500,000 Arabs died in Syria. Do you really think the problem in the Middle East is Jews building extra bedrooms in communities in Beit-El?
You couldn’t pass even one United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning Russia, Syria, and Iran for the slaughter in Syria. But you passed this motion condemning peace-loving Jews who live in the ancient Biblical lands of Judea and Samaria?
As someone who has dedicated much of his public life to fighting genocide, I was once honored to support Samantha’s nomination to the UN post, even while others were outraged, because she was one of the world’s foremost voices against mass murder. That was prior to entering the Obama administration, and adopting a policy of humiliating silence as Iran threatened genocide against Israel and actual genocides were carried out in parts of Africa and the Middle East.
Power holds her unique position for speaking truth to the world’s powers, but once in power herself, she held her tongue while people are being murdered every day in the Middle East and North Africa. Shiites and Sunnis kill each other on a daily basis throughout the Middle East while thousands die in Sudan, Nigeria, Libya and Yemen. Under Samantha’s watchful eye, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have died and become refugees.
Let’s not forget the carnage in Syria is largely a result of Obama’s disastrous foreign policy. When he precipitously pulled American troops out of Iraq, he created a vacuum that has been filled by Iran, ISIS, al-Qaeda and other radical Islamic groups. Rather than work to bring down the brutal Assad regime and support Syrians who reject his totalitarian rule and the proposed Sharia law of the Muslim extremists, Power stood by while Iran and its Hezbollah terrorist puppets rushed in to bolster the tottering Assad regime.
Given that Syria is Iran’s only ally in the region, removing Assad would have had the twin benefits of eliminating one of the region’s last dictators and leaving Iran without a friend in the region. Acting early on would have saved tens of thousands of lives. It also would have prevented the devastating immigration problem that threatens to bring down Jordan’s pro-American regime and seed Europe, and perhaps the United States, with radical Islamists trained by ISIS and al-Qaeda to infiltrate Western societies for the purpose of committing terror and mayhem.
By failing to act swiftly and surely, Obama also opened the door to Russian intervention. After keeping Russia contained in the region for more than 40 years, Obama’s inaction woke the sleeping bear and Vladimir Putin’s forces are now bombing civilian areas and doing everything possible to maintain their own foothold in the region. Putin has also extended his tentacles into nations that had been staunch U.S. allies before Obama turned on them.
Obama’s most devastating decision was his failure to follow up his 2012 threat to take action against Syria if Assad used chemical weapons. Instead, he patted himself on the back for a brilliant diplomatic coup (as he did with his disastrous nuclear deal with Iran) in reaching a deal with Russia to remove and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile. Just as Iran has cheated on the nuclear deal while Obama and Power have buried their heads in the sand, Syria also ignored the toothless warnings of the president and kept enough weapons to continue to slaughter civilians and rebels alike.
But heck — at least Obama and Power finally socked it to Bibi and Israel. That’ll teach ‘em.
Then again, by this point no one should be surprised by Samantha’s cowardice in the face of slaughter. On the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide, she could not bring herself to speak the truth, even after promising to do so during the presidential campaign. Taking the moral low ground, Power continued to repeat, robotically, the politically convenient and historically inaccurate line that Turkey did not wage a genocidal war against the Armenians.
Her silence about Syria’s genocide emboldened Assad, her tolerance of Iranian threats of genocide against the Jews encouraged Tehran, and her willingness to go along with Turkey’s rewriting of history has reassured the Turks that America will do nothing to stop the potential genocide directed at the Kurds.
Samantha could have followed the demands she made of members of earlier Administrations that were bystanders to genocide and resigned from this morally bankrupt administration long ago, and perhaps escaped with some semblance of her reputation intact. Alas, it is far too late now. As a former administration official, she will reap the financial benefits as a lecturer, pontificator and perhaps academic.
But no serious person will take Samantha Power seriously again when she speaks about human rights. Her conduct has disqualified her from any such discussion, unless it is to explain how someone can be a bystander to genocide.
Shmuley Boteach, “America’s Rabbi,” whom the Washington Post calls “the most famous Rabbi in America,” has just published “The Israel Warrior: Standing Up for the Jewish State from Campus to Street Corner.” Follow him on Twitter @rabbishmuley.
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Post by dex on Dec 28, 2016 17:53:00 GMT -5
The fop John Ketchup Kerry claimed to be the Prince of Peace today on behalf of his boss the King Of Peace.
Hey fop...if you aren't too busy howsabout sending over a few more of those lost emails to Trey Gowdy...it's only been 3 years since you began the task you son-of-a gun
I wonder if the Community Organizer will pardon the video guy who caused Benghazi?
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Post by friar82 on Dec 29, 2016 12:51:30 GMT -5
Elizabeth Warren...speculation has it that her move to join the Armed Services Committee is an attempt to bolster her resume for a planned, presidential run in 2020. Yet another fabricator of lies (native American, my butt) who is perpetually angry. Just what this country needs - NOT
The Entire Kardashian Clan...media whores who will do anything to make sensational headlines that keep them in the spotlight. In all honesty, what have any one of them actually accomplished in their lives to warrant such attention?
Kim Jong-un...not sure why someone in his inner circle hasn't taken him out by now? The guy banned the celebration of Christmas among Christians in Korea, and is making folks commemorate and worship his grandmother. The way I see it, grandma delivered and raised a real jerk, who subsequently fathered and raised a bigger jerk. Not sure what the basis is for honoring the source of such disfunction (?) Kim Jong-un needs a new hairdo, and a ticket out of town
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Post by dex on Dec 29, 2016 13:31:53 GMT -5
Not much to differentiate Sen Hiawatha from Kim Jong-un my friend friar82
Both have a flare for Marxism and both present torturous speeches...albeit Hiawatha's with her arms flailing is far more repulsive. BTW that witch ill be 71 in 2020...just a kid compared to Biden who will be 78.
Cripes Hillary will be like 74 too...guess that means a run by the glamorous Michele Obama OR maybe even Chelsea Clinton if she's our of prison for Tax fraud associated with the Clinton Foundation.
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Post by pcdad on Dec 29, 2016 16:38:34 GMT -5
Heard a Ralph Nader interview on radio yesterday or day before when asked who would replace Progressive Bernie S as he doesn't have another Presidential run in him, St Ralph replied that Senator Warren is the one that needs to step up.
Seems she'll have to take up the cause going forward.
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Something completely different but in light of today's Sanctions by Executive Order:
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Post by dex on Dec 29, 2016 18:02:10 GMT -5
If the economy is growing at say 3.5 - 4.0 % then Hiawatha's socialistic approach fails.
Even if it was Putin, which I don't believe he was the only one, he needs to be punished. He is now laughing his arse off with the sanctions/actions OB took today.
In a way Putin did us a big favor...why you ask? Let me tell you.
1. Clinton, OB, Brazille, Podesta and Debbie Blabber-Mouth Schultz were shown to be guilty of federal election fraud for the way they screwed Bernie The Fraud Sanders. Ergo...who would want Clinton as a President with her deviate character. Hopefully Jeff Sessions prosecutes them all.
2. Putin exposed the fact that the empty suit Prez OB has done absolutely nothing to secure our country from cyber attacks. He is such a jerk that he claims to have known all this stuff many months ago but said nothing. Why? Because he thought Clinton would win and nobody would ever find out how he betrayed the country by NOT protecting us from cyber destruction much more serious than nobody would ever believe.
I have spoken
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Post by friar82 on Dec 29, 2016 18:33:04 GMT -5
Amen!
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Post by friar82 on Dec 29, 2016 18:44:12 GMT -5
The last post deserved the brevity of one word - Amen.
That said, it amazes me that the Democrats continue to be worked up into a froth over the strong possibility (has it been proven? Asand would say "no") that Russia is responsible for the leaks. Don't get me wrong, it's concerning that any nation would attempt to disrupt our election...but the fact of the matter is, that HRC and the DNC authored the dirt that was leaked... and not a one of them are accepting responsibility for their actions - some of which were criminal!
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Post by dex on Dec 29, 2016 20:11:39 GMT -5
If there was equal justice in this country the congressional hearings into the leaks and the CONTENTS of the leaks would bring criminal prosecution against a lot of Dems.
Also the hearings will flip the focus from a few leaks about a criminal conspiracy by Dems to the ineptness of the OB admin in protecting our country while they have been dismatling our military.
Can you imagine what this idiot has done to NASA? We have zero rockets...nada Sooo we have to catch rides from Russia to get to the international space station. What an absolute scumbag...JFK, our brilliant scientists and our brave astronauts are sickened.
The Air Force is down a thousand needed pilots and 4,000 needed mechanics not to mention that we are flying airplanes that are nearly as old as me.
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Post by friar82 on Dec 29, 2016 21:37:21 GMT -5
The soon to be - prior Administration was all about the globalization of our government, economy, and way of life. The were embarrassed and apologetic about our nationalistic orientation and sense of pride...characteristics that had positioned America to be the beacon that people around the world looked to for hope.
The past 8-years have been nothing more than a deliberate march to mediocrity...bringing our society so close to the edge that 2 terms of HRC would have been catastrophic for future generations. It isn't going to be easy with Dems and peons like Michael Moore attempting to "activate" special interest groups, in order to reek havoc and civil unrest in every community...but if the GOP can galvanize its ranks, we can stop the bleeding and start to turn the ship away from the iceberg which is O'Bama's legacy of failed agendas.
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Post by dex on Dec 29, 2016 22:01:13 GMT -5
Well we should have the SCOTUS with us and now the Joint Chiefs too in case we have to initiate martial law to maintain peace.
I don't recommend that our troops actually go into Chicago because a guy could get killed there....40 shootings and 11 murders Xmas weekend
Imagine draif trying to say it isn't that bad in his old windycity
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Post by pcdad on Dec 30, 2016 11:47:23 GMT -5
...and now for a counter argument from the Nobel prize winning economist....( I know you despise him dex) nyti.ms/2iLivWW
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Post by friar82 on Dec 30, 2016 14:43:16 GMT -5
...and now for a counter argument from the Nobel prize winning economist....( I know you despise him dex) nyti.ms/2iLivWWWHOA! I've worked my entire career in and in support of the health provider and payer industries, and I honestly don't know where to begin with this tome, pcdad! That said, I'll leave it alone, in order to add another name to this thread's theme: Colin Kaepernick
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Post by friar82 on Dec 30, 2016 17:33:45 GMT -5
Interesting question, Dad. Here's my opinion:
This generation's Ali"... that's an unfair comparison. Ali was the GOAT in boxing and a true humanitarian with the presence and personality to transcend personal beliefs over time , while Kaepernick is a benchwarmer who (to my knowledge) hasn't done anything (other than protest) to suggest that he's a humanitarian, and lacks the charisma necessary to demand the attention of those with opposing views.
Respect for Ali crossed generations, borders and cultures, while Kaepernick is a "flash in the pan"
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