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@ Nirvana, if you quote this post you can see the format.

Not yet having googled FTR... "For The Reaming?" "Fighting The Rastafarians?"

Hell, tw, Radar, Piercehawkeye, and you are about all equally attackable. In your particular case it is perhaps the most needful, as your intellect is entirely consumed by hatreds and resentments -- what's left is leftover Soviet propaganda about these United States from which you will not exile yourself. You show us a thoroughly ugly life of the mind -- a way never to be.

Well, if Dazza says something I think is really dumb and poorly thought out, I'd say so. That's as far as I'd go, in the going-far-out.

And he'd be welcome. Not only for the intellectual input, but also because he's with-it enough to have married you. No, I ain't foolin'.

awww...I'm feelng all warm and fuzzy now. Thanks UG. :) Nicest compliment I've had all day!

I'd been wondering who The Third Man was myself.

I have never used the Ignore feature on any BBS I've been in. It was handier on chat.

But to this question: I eyeball a selection of tw to keep an eye on what leftover-Communist, far-left opinion looks like, trying for suitable polarization on the BS filters to compensate for tw's... quirks. Tw's Soviet/Maoist point of view has of course been offensive to me, a freedom person, since first exposure some years ago.

No idea what this guy is going to do with himself when he doesn't have any Bushes to kick around any more. He'll be like the post-Reagan Mary McGrory... that was a sorry display of inability to let go.

{Trying trying trying to get through the whole thread before posting... not doing so hot exc. on the posting part.}

Well there's still GM to beat up. :)

Um... "With courage raaaaare/And resolution ma-anly/For Debt prepaaaare,/Unhappy Morgan Stanley!"

Big business/high finance/big bailouts... that's the free-association...

And if anyone's moved to wonder since when has UG turned Savoyard enough to quote Arthur Sullivan -- since late last year. Now I'm in early rehearsal for The Gondoliers.

"Security and prosperity at home depend on the expansion of liberty abroad." George W. Bush's Farewell Address, 15 January 2009

Practically Holy Writ.

Truer words were never spoken -- and such true words have been severely ignored by certain Cellarites, who put themselves in disgrace thereby. Hey, people, blatant anti-Republican prejudice is practiced only by the second-rate. Or worse.

"As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." Brack Obama Inaugural Address

Practically Holy Writ....we dont have to torture...we dont have to spy on citizens w/o a warrant...we dont have to withhold documents from the public's right to know based on dubious national security claims.

Truer words were never spoken.

Nice if he can, redux. But it was doing things that way that cost us the Beirut Marine Barracks, a hole in the USS Cole, and the WTC in the first place.

The annoying thing about our enemies is they don't have a nation to look out for. This makes targeting difficult -- and nuclear weapons particularly tempting to them. What really got us outgeneraled early in this war was a want of good HUMINT -- it will be the personal kind of scouting and intel that wins us this war.

No, the Democratic Party has refused for long years to actually try and fight this war against the forces of undemocracy and oppression, which is why the Dem Party is so very untrustworthy and not trusted among freedom's disciples. What a pack of myopic morons!

Meanwhile, redux, you don't strike me as irredeemably stupid -- have a look at Thomas P.M. Barnett's works and tell me what you think. Maybe he's only got a corner of what we'll actually need in this new century, but it looks to be a well-done corner. I'm sorry my compliment is so lefthanded -- but there are people here who really seem to want to stay dumb, and these are the people who fight me hardest.

If you think this is going to happen under Obama because of a speech you are sorely mistaken. Who gets to say what is dubious and what is not if you never see them nor know if such a document exists?

Why am I mistaken before even giving the new admistration an opportuunity to demonstrate greater transparency. Executive Orders are a good start

The fact that ouor enemies dont have a nation is a reason why many experts believe that a militry response is not the most effective.


The Rand Corp, a conservative DoD connected think tank, addressed the issue in a recent report:
UG..you might also recall several NIEs over the last few years that concluded that our Iraq invasion/occupation and our actions at GITMO have created a "cause celebre" for terrorism recruitment.

The military is not always the answer in counterting terrorism and forging new democracies.

History works against you.

History does not always repeat itself.