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Post by jdredd on Jan 19, 2015 1:18:55 GMT -5
www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2015/01/gov_bobby_jindal_is_right_abou.html"Not everyone is sanguine about the chances any of this will work. Nevertheless, those who believe Islamic Jihad is the core of the religion and that it is thus beyond reform have some history to sort out. For many centuries, the world did not live with this kind of inhuman savagery. Nor do the Muslim extremists have any just cause against the West or modernity, as if they are still avenging the cruel attitude of some obscure papal legate who declared "kill them all" in a crusade 800 years ago. But this lie's life does not depend only on the lack of repeated exposure and the denunciation that Jindal intends. This lie thrives in what another observer not usually associated with Jindal - former President Bill Clinton - called "the world's greatest double standard." Clinton made the absolutely true point that it is unacceptable for Islamic countries to bar and prohibit any freedom of expression or religion, but then demand the full panoply of such rights in Western nations. That creates fertile soil for bad ideas, Clinton rightly warned." I said I would leave the obvious Boomers off this thread, but Bill (b. 1946) opened his big mouth. He was the first of the three sucky Boomer Presidents, and he is still a creep. I almost hope Hillary loses just to keep HIM out of the WH.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 23, 2015 18:49:13 GMT -5
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/23/john-bolton-on-yemen-iran-and-saudi-king-death-thi/"John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, warned that the current violence sweeping through Yemen — that resulted in the Shiite rebel takeover of the government — as well as the death of Saudi King Abdullah is leading the Mideast into certain chaos. “When the United States walks away from the Middle East, it’s a further invitation to chaos, and that’s exactly what we’re getting,” Mr. Bolton said during an interview on “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” on Fox News Channel." Sometimes chaos can be a good thing. But I don't believe John (b.1948) has ever seen American meddling he didn't like.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 23, 2015 20:16:41 GMT -5
So I caught geezer Boomer Bill O'Reilly (b.1949) taking on Vox Millennial Amanda Taub, who was trying to understand the Taliban killing all those school kids. Sorry, Bill, you are the last gasp of the cheesy Boomer past. He's too dumb to comprehend that you can try to understand the thought processes of others without agreeing with them. I try to figure out the bizarre, twisted thought processes of righties all the time.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 20, 2015 17:10:53 GMT -5
Rudy Giuliani, born 1944, is only slightly too old to be a Boomer, but he is still a prick.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 24, 2015 16:40:20 GMT -5
SO our old friend Roger is doing what thousands of Boomers are doing every day, throwing in the towel and heading out to pasture. (Hey, it's nice out here, Roger, just watch out for the cow patties) He had been San Diego's top radio know-it-all for 29 years, but lately he's been overshadowed by an even bigger know-it-all, gun nut/religious fanatic/Libertarian zealot Mike Slater. The difference is that Mike is nuts and Roger's not, but whatever. The question is: has Roger made San Diego, and for that matter, America, a better or worse place with all those years on the air? In the eye of the beholder, I suppose.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 14, 2015 19:36:19 GMT -5
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/12/inside-the-beltway-ted-cruz-bobby-jindal-rick-sant/It’s not all about Iowa and New Hampshire. An event of note Saturday: The daylong South Carolina National Security Action Summit has drawn Republican presidential contenders and wise folk with much institutional knowledge — all with a mission on their minds. They gather to talk of global jihad, a dwindling U.S. military, porous borders and threats to critical infrastructure — and plan “to educate local law enforcement, local and state leaders and citizen activists on steps we can take at the state level to protect ourselves on these issues.” So say the organizers. The speakers roster bristles. Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum,John Bolton, Phyllis Schlafly and Frank Gaffney are among the many at the podium. Also among them: Original Delta Force member and retired Army Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin and Hank Cooper — director of the Strategic Defense Initiative during the George H.W. Bush administration. The aforementioned Mr. Bolton — the man who endorsed 87 “national security” candidates and donated close to $500,000 during the 2014 midterms — is back in action .'
Of course, South Carolina is a good place to have a Looneyfest like this. And I almost feel sorry for Mr. Bolton (b.1948), trying for so long and hard to get us into a big war somewhere, anywhere, please.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 28, 2015 19:56:03 GMT -5
I'm having second thoughts about this thread. Why am I surprised Boomers turned out to be so mediocre and conventional? Heck, way back in 1975 only a minority of Boomers thought like me. So what made me expect more of them to think like me 40 years later? And why should I care?
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Post by jdredd on Apr 17, 2015 12:59:28 GMT -5
www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article18673983.html "Welfare recipients in Kansas will face prohibitions on where benefit money can be spent, as well as stricter requirements for eligibility and a shorter time frame to receive benefits, under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Sam Brownback. (b.1956)Brownback touted the bill as a way to promote self reliance and lift people out of poverty by pushing them back into the workforce. “The primary focus of the bill is to get people back to work,” he said. “Because that’s where the real benefit is. getting people off public assistance and back into the marketplace with the dignity and far more income there than the pittance that government gives them." Just one more day for the right's prime directive: Pamper the rich, stick it to the poor. Heck, you could get EVERYONE off welfare just by eliminating it!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 17:31:09 GMT -5
www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article18673983.html "Welfare recipients in Kansas will face prohibitions on where benefit money can be spent, as well as stricter requirements for eligibility and a shorter time frame to receive benefits, under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Sam Brownback. (b.1956)Brownback touted the bill as a way to promote self reliance and lift people out of poverty by pushing them back into the workforce. “The primary focus of the bill is to get people back to work,” he said. “Because that’s where the real benefit is. getting people off public assistance and back into the marketplace with the dignity and far more income there than the pittance that government gives them." Just one more day for the right's prime directive: Pamper the rich, stick it to the poor. Heck, you could get EVERYONE off welfare just by eliminating it! Bout time the lazy scum bags who want to leach off the system, The Commie Democraps can boo hoo all they want, they never did honest day of work in their life time. Why should tax payer foot the bill for the lazy scums new TV, Booze, and other luxury items?? Hell I work I pay for luxury items, using my laptop as I paid for by working and earning my paycheck, to get the things I wanted. That is a good step of cleaning up the welfare system. This governor is the Boomer hall of Fame!
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Post by jdredd on Apr 23, 2015 1:52:14 GMT -5
www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/04/drone-strikes-and-international-law"High precision sounds nice—and drone strikes are indeed more precise than the bombing technologies they have displaced. But they can still miss their target. An attack near the village of Datta Khel in North Wazirstan in 2010, for example, accidentally killed 42 people. "Body parts were scattered for hundreds of yards, and had to be collected up in sacks," writes Chris Woods, a former BBC Panorama producer and investigative journalist, in his excellent new book, "Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars”. Mr Woods offers plenty of other examples of the innocent victims of drone attacks, and highlights the many ways drone pilots and sensor operators, who control Predator and Reaper drones from bases in the United States, struggle to do their jobs well and ethically." "The students protesting Mr Koh are right to try to hold him to account for the government's actions during his time of government service. The revolving door between elite academia and the higher levels of government is defensible only insofar as the inside knowledge of former bureaucrats is used to better educate students. Mr Koh (b. 1954) ought to be judged by more than the single issue of American drone strikes. However, that issue is an important one. A fuller public accounting of his own role would go a long way towards making the case that the compromises necessitated by government service left him not only more eminent, but also wiser." Ethical assassinations? Isn't that an oxymoron?
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Post by jdredd on Apr 23, 2015 1:56:38 GMT -5
www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article18673983.html "Welfare recipients in Kansas will face prohibitions on where benefit money can be spent, as well as stricter requirements for eligibility and a shorter time frame to receive benefits, under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Sam Brownback. (b.1956)Brownback touted the bill as a way to promote self reliance and lift people out of poverty by pushing them back into the workforce. “The primary focus of the bill is to get people back to work,” he said. “Because that’s where the real benefit is. getting people off public assistance and back into the marketplace with the dignity and far more income there than the pittance that government gives them." Just one more day for the right's prime directive: Pamper the rich, stick it to the poor. Heck, you could get EVERYONE off welfare just by eliminating it! Bout time the lazy scum bags who want to leach off the system, The Commie Democraps can boo hoo all they want, they never did honest day of work in their life time. Why should tax payer foot the bill for the lazy scums new TV, Booze, and other luxury items?? Hell I work I pay for luxury items, using my laptop as I paid for by working and earning my paycheck, to get the things I wanted. That is a good step of cleaning up the welfare system. This governor is the Boomer hall of Fame! You could start a "Boomer Hall of Fame" if you'd like, but it might be kind of a thin thread!
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Post by jdredd on May 22, 2015 13:33:12 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/us/politics/american-crossroads-facing-challenges-to-its-political-power.html?_r=0"WASHINGTON — For three election cycles, American Crossroads, the brainchild of Karl Rove and other leading Republican strategists, has been among the most powerful forces in national politics, a shadow party that has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising, data and opposition research to help elect candidates. But in the early days of the 2016 presidential campaign, Crossroads — among the first outside groups to fully exploit the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision unleashing wealthy donors and corporations — has been buffeted by a rapidly changing political landscape that is testing its pre-eminence, and potentially its survival." SO Republican con man Karl Rove (b.1950) is fading as a big cheese on the right. 'Bout time. Sorry, Turdblossom. Of course, Hannity still calls him "The Architect" (what did he design? A hyper-polarized America?). What an insult to architects.
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Post by jdredd on May 25, 2015 23:08:41 GMT -5
www.wsj.com/articles/illinois-governor-spends-big-in-fight-with-legislative-democrats-1432584170"CHICAGO—Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner is dropping thousands of dollars into the campaign accounts of every GOP lawmaker in Illinois as the state’s fiscal crisis grows and deadlines near. The $400,000 dispersed in recent weeks appears to be just a start for the former private-equity executive. Since the November election, Mr. Rauner and a few prominent donors—including hedge-fund chief executive Kenneth Griffin of Citadel LLC and real-estate investor Sam Zell—have poured more than $25 million into political committees that are expected to help the governor in his growing battle with Democrats, who control the state legislature." Wall Street insiders trying to buy the Illinois legislature at the behest of predictably anti-Union Gov. Rauner (b. 1957). So what else is new? Class warfare at its most blatant. Not that anyone wants to hear about class war.
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Post by jdredd on May 30, 2015 13:55:43 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32940385"Then, in April, Baltimore erupted in racial unrest following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. Practically overnight what had been a bullet point on Mr O'Malley's resume - his successful crackdown on violent crime while the city's mayor - became a possible liability. Up until then Mr O'Malley had touted his "zero tolerance" policy of prosecuting smaller violations of the law in order to prevent larger ones. In recent days, however, critics have said that this policy encouraged overly aggressive law-enforcement tactics that helped contribute to the toxic distrust between the police and Baltimore's black community. "O'Malley fashions himself as a no-nonsense crime fighter, but his city has not only become a national monument to urban devastation, but it is experiencing one of its worst murder sprees in years," writes McClatchy's David Lightman. A Baltimore civil rights group called Baltimore Bloc has said that it will demonstrate during Mr O'Malley's Saturday announcement in a park overlooking the city's downtown."
This is actually a smart move on O'Malley's (b. 1963) part. If Hillary self-destructs (very possible), this jerk will be ready to step in. Not that I would ever vote for someone who calls himself a "no-nonsense crime fighter", which is of course Class War.
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Post by jdredd on May 31, 2015 13:38:00 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/30/clock-is-ticking-to-renew-nsa-surveillance-program.html"Sections of the Patriot Act governing the NSA’s mass surveillance program, including the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records, are set to expire on June 1, at the stroke of midnight. The White House and its allies in the Senate are pushing to reauthorize the program before then, setting the stage for a major floor battle on Sunday afternoon. On Saturday GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a presidential candidate, vowed to force the bulk phone collection program to expire — and Senate rules allow him to do just that, at least temporarily. "I will force the expiration of the NSA illegal spy program," Paul said in a statement. "Sometimes when the problem is big enough, you just have to start over." I'm putting this in this thread because the Patriot Act was the Boomer's hysterical over-reaction to 9/11, along with taking on the Taliban (So how is that going after 14 years?). Rand Paul is looking better and better. I might be willing to overlook his Libertarian economic loonie tunes to get someone with some sense on national security.
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