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Some Hagel Reax

The Hagel hearings are quite the window into the hawkish wing (that is, the largest wing) of the GOP. I think Hagel has done well in recognizing that complex answers would not serve him well here, so he has tried to rope a dope rather than explain. It was eerie in the questioning to see the GOPers attribute, almost literally, holy significance to the strategic triad (subs, ICBMs, and bombers) and act as if it’s almost literally an act of blasphemy to have toyed with (as Hagel seems to have) the idea that maybe ICBMs can be phased out. The trinity may be well holy, but in nuclear weapons delivery, not so much.

Israel, Israel, Israel. Most of the GOPers, plus Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, asked more questions about Israel than all the other nations of the world combined. It’s really a kind of fanaticism–of a sort which could not have been imagined 20 years ago. I would explain this intensity as a reaction to Israel’s decline in moral standing thoughout the Western world; because the special relationship, or the general idea that Israel is a peace-seeking and democratic state is now increasingly doubted, it must be defended with ever growing intensity. Still it’s an embarrassment–that this is presented to all the world as the highest deliberative political body in the United States.

Here some GOPers are trying to subject Hagel to standards of financial and historical disclosure that no one in Washington could ever meet.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/some-h...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/Was...

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DBWriter wrote:
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This is interesting.
Is Obama white, or black?
Inside or outside?

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John Galt wrote:
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True leaders, however, take responsibility when their designated assistants screw up.
How do you know for sure that more people wouldn't have died at Benghazi if it had been handled differently? Even if we had sent a regiment to protect this embassy do you really know for sure what the death count would have been?
Bottom line, suppose it was handled wrong. Only Obama haters and lunatics would expect that the President of the United States of America should have been in charge of security at an embassy.
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Demo KKK Rats wrote:
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One retard is enough.
yep! They gonna need you in 2014 for house cleaning.

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RealDave wrote:
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What lie did Obama tell that caused the attack on Benghazi?
Not too swift, are you?
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We are not seriously concerned about most of the historical inadequacies of the movie, as it is possible to do a fictionalized history and still do justice to the period; Mario Van Peebles' 1995 movie, Panther, is an excellent example.

And, while Tarantino’s movie has stirred much passion among Africans and others, Panther frightened the industry and the capitalist colonialist State, causing theater owners to go to extraordinary lengths, demanding identification from African patrons, and staffing police at many venues.

“Panther frightened the industry and the capitalist colonialist State.”

If absolute historical accuracy were the primary issue, we would have to start by torching most universities and banning the offerings of professors who claim to address the history of Africans and Europeans but instead provide some of the most fictionalized accounts of human events possible.

The main problem with Django is its function as a cover for slavery and capitalism.

Indeed, the movie is really a metaphor for capitalism at work on a foundation of slavery.

That Django, the protagonist, is a killing machine who leaves a gory trail of dead white bodies throughout the movie will give a vicarious thrill to Africans worldwide.

However, while it mocks and criticizes individual slavers, the movie does not have the ability to criticize the institution of slavery.

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Nj raider 1 wrote:
<quoted text> You want people to answer your questions thats already been answered numerous times. Hows about you answer these questions?
1. If Obama is negligent & you want his head for the Benghazi, Libya consulate attack, would it be wrong to assume that you already have George Bush's head hanging on a mantel in your game trophy room giving the fact that 7 embassies & consulates were attacked?
2. Did the republican publicly admit their obstructionism to anything the President tried to accomplish? If so, in light of all that obstruction, would you be honest enuff to admit that all the president has accomplish is nothing short of amazing?
How about you answer some questions for a change!
I recall you dodging these questions.
How about you please take a just one minute of your time to answer these questions. All you need to do is type a simple location to answer the first question, and a simple source of money to answer the second question. It should take you less than one minute to do this.

Where was Obama during the 7-hour battle between Al Qaeda and the stripped-down American embassy security detatchment in Benghazi while the real-time video was being watched in the White House?

And;

Where will the money come from to pay for Obama's government?

A simple location will suffice for the first question.
A simple source of money will suffice for the second question.
It should take less than one minute of your time to write these two simpole answers and post them.
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Death of Tenzing wrote:
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I can smell what comes next.
Did Real Brother get racial reassignment surgery and come back as a racist, white midget?
Peppy had that done, he is now a Vietnamese housewife living in Haiphong. He always had an affinity for the orient ever since his trip to Hong Kong.
Homer 2016

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Death of Tenzing wrote:
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Its amazing how they can take right-wing rumors and reel them off as though they were established facts. Its sort of like their own language.
I see you've met DBWriter.
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Homer 2016 wrote:
<quoted text>Oh I get it, Jamie Foxx is black and the president is black so...wait, no I'm not getting it. Did you have a point or are you in ticket sales?
Three Hours of Caricature
In many ways Django is three hours of caricature.
Here is where the comedy functions as a disservice: the false struggle against “racism”—beloved by liberals of all complexions—is a cover for a struggle against real oppression and against the system of oppression itself.
None of the white slavers was portrayed in the all-American heroic mold of Thomas Jefferson or George Washington, two of the most revered African-owning individuals in the U.S.
All the “bad” white people in the movie are either hilariously stupid or sadistically depraved. The audience is invited to hate these brutal, Erskine Caldwell-like inbreeding-type cretins; because they are obviously cruel and depraved beyond redemption, it is okay to kill them all.
They are bestial, uncivilized deviants from what would now be considered the “American way.”
In a word, they are “racists,” individuals who revel in obvious disdain for and sometimes visceral hatred of African people.
Such hatred is no longer publicly permissible in 2013.
Since slavery is officially over and the word “n****r” proscribed from public usage and convention, demanding a degree of civility by whites towards Africans, those Africans deprived of the “racist” white enemy are generally unable to find their political bearings.
Nor was a connection drawn by the moviemakers between what these southern “miscreants” were doing in the South and the role of banks, insurance companies, stock markets and most industry in the U.S. North and all of Europe.
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sonicfilter wrote:
Continuing a downward spiral that began last September during the Democratic National Convention, Fox News primetime ratings, in the key 25-54 year old demographic, have declined to numbers they haven’t seen since August of 2001. These are numbers that revert Fox back to the George Bush, pre-9/11 era when Fox was struggling for attention.
....Of course, as the ratings race heats up, Fox may decide to stop standing around watching their lead disappear. They will need to take bold steps to keep up with the competition. While O’Reilly is still pulling in decent numbers, Hannity is ratings loser and an embarrassment in terms of credibility. He has to be the first to go. Greta Van Susteren’s claim to fame was as an O.J. Simpson groupie who has never risen out of the tabloid mold in which she was formed. Now that her best pal and frequent guest (55 times), Sarah Palin, has been dumped by Fox, Van Susteren would be wise to update her resume. The most likely candidate to fill one of those vacancies would be Megyn Kelly, who has emerged as Fox’s most stridently biased anchor in the daytime.
There are those at Fox who know that a big part of the explanation for their decline is that the audience at large is no longer interested in the vitriolic smear jobs that Fox has specialized in for most of the past decade. They just watched President Obama get reelected, along with Democratic gains in both houses of Congress, despite their fierce determination to kneecap the Democrats and prop up the flailing GOP. They did the best they could to install a Republican regime with a coordinated campaign of propaganda and hate speech, but they failed miserably even in races they were expected to win. So they are aware that the public has rejected their best arguments and lies.
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/...
They should just replay Karl Rove's election night meltdown 24/7, Homer would pay a monthly subscription for that.

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RealDave wrote:
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F*ck you. I posted them before & you just continue posting this line of crap.
You are truly pathetic. Either you are too stupid to learn or a loud mouth liar.
Why do I need to subsidize your salary???? Can't you make a living on your own?
You never posted any answer. All you did was duck and dodge like some urbanite running away from a house where he was caught breaking into.

Here's the questions again:

Post it again, dufus.

The first link returns the message "illegal operation", and the second link returns a message that really means "website not created yet".

Still, there is no proof Obama ever passed the bar or ever appeared in a courtroom as a lawyer.
Show us the results of Obama passing the bar.

Name the cases where Obama argued in a courtrooom.
Date - location - docket number - client/plantiff

... got a problem there, dont' you?

That's because Obama never passed the bar and has never even seen the inside of a courtroom as a lawyer.

Well, you can tell us about the... how did Obama's handlers call this... "management" lectures to ACORN that was supposedly his "private practice" experience.
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SAMMIE AND QUIMBY Back to the Future

The fact is that white supporters of slavery were not miscreants—they were the norm.

In reality the Civil War that would break out in 1860 resulted in draft riots by whites in New York, massive lynchings of Africans, and threats by New York to secede from the Union.

Anti-abolition riots occurred throughout the northern U.S., including Philadelphia and Illinois.

Tarantino’s whites are caricatures, foils used to cover for slavery as the system that gives birth to the capitalism that is equally appreciated by the white bounty hunter, Django and DiCaprio’s Candie.

In the movie, slavery provides the income for all the free people.

Certainly, slavery is the means of employment for the merchants and exploiters of captured African flesh, but it also establishes the context for enriching both the German bounty hunter and his new protégé, Django.

The bounty hunter, Shultz, purchases Django to use him to identify men to be killed for reward money.
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Eman wrote:
<quoted text>You actually read dem's posts? You're further gone than I thought.
Translation; gunner isn't here to help his bitch contrive a semi-educated argument about climate change.

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DBWriter wrote:
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You seem to be delusional. I'll bring you back to reality. Here's the post again, just for your reference:
It seems even you can't even deduce a simple source of money from that article. All that is required to answer the question is a simple source of money. Who is going to pay?
Where will the money come from to pay for Obama's government?
It's a simple question. A simple source of money will suffice for the answer. What is the source of money stated in your reference?
If it's too complicated for you to understand, then why would you realistically expect the average person in the population to understand?
Where will the money come from to pay for Obama's government?
Meanwhile, in the real world ... the Republican House has increased spending by more than $350 billion since taking over in Jan. 2011. The strange thing is the government's been funded by continuing resolution since then. So, there has to be active legislation to spend money. In the GOP House the Hastert Rule says that no bill can be put up for a vote without support from the "majority of the majority". In other words, all that spending has to be approved by a majority of Republicans before it is even brought up for a vote.

With all this chest thumping from the right about how much Democrats suck, keep in mind that its lies like this make the Republicans suck even worse.
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DemiCLOWNS wrote:
<quoted text> And you voted twice for the incompetent Obama? Bwhahahahahahahaha...
you've got that right, now deal with it 4 MORE YEARS.
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flack wrote:
<quoted text>It didn't say. Probably both.
See if that midget dk can help you come up with a climate change theory.
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An Instrument Of Liberal History-telling

What is it that contextualizes the reality of Tarantino and the entire world?

What is it about today’s world that makes Django necessary as an instrument of liberal history-telling and social direction?

First of all, Django is set in the context of southern U.S. slavery, and slavery is the foundation of world capitalism.

German philosopher, Karl Marx, concluded that,“Cause slavery to disappear and you will have wiped America off the map of nations.”

Though crucial to the development of capitalism, slavery is only one of the factors that Marx characterized as having the significance to political economy as “original sin” in theology.

Called “primitive accumulation” by Marx, this explanation of the beginning of capitalism included the theft of the lands of the indigenous peoples and the subjugation of most of the world by Europe and Europeans.

Today most of the peoples of the world are in struggle to take back their resources, sovereignty and history.

Wars abound in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

China and other countries that were once vassals of Europe are now competing with the U.S. and Europe for global preeminence.

The people of South America are also engaged in stripping the U.S. of its historically hegemonic role.

The demographics of the world are also changing quickly; except in Iceland, European women are no longer having enough children to reproduce their white populations.
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The “ex” Slave as Savior Of the System

It is obvious that the system is broken beyond repair. The way of life that whites have come to accept as their just due is severely threatened by the hordes at the gate.

What to do?

In the U.S., the center of the capitalist world, the latest strategy of the liberal elite to protect their system has been to elevate the “exceptional” African, the “ex”-slave, as the savior of the system.

In theory this negro has control of the deadliest and most prolific arsenal in the world and has used it to wreak havoc in the lives of those who would challenge the imperialist/capitalist status quo.

As bloody as Django Unchained is, the movie is no match for the violence being imposed on the world by Obama unchained; Obama, too, is employed to kill the caricaturized bad guys without concern for their relationship to the existing capitalist social system.

As uncomfortable as some whites were with the fictionalized, gun-wielding, horseback-riding Django, liberals in the U.S. are able to rest comfortably with the knowledge that the black terror is “on their side,” in the form of a tame negro: the new template of how civilized Africans should act.

Like the slavery of the 1858 Django setting, the white power system of today is broken, and the masses are on the rise, threatening to tear the whole system down.

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RealDave wrote:
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/09/world/afric...
I keep answering & you keep running away.
Just use your keyboard and type in a location. And, use your keyboard and type in a source of money. It takes longer to type what you posted than to type a location and a source of money.

... unless even you can't understand what's in that link. If you can't understand what's there, how the hell can anyone else?

Where was Obama during the 7-hour battle between Al Qaeda and the stripped-down American embassy security detatchment in Benghazi while the real-time video was being watched in the White House?
__________location)

Where will the money come from to pay for Obama's government?
__________source of money)

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