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Off topic, but candy is apparently now banned in the UK.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7554912.stm

Scheer is forgetting one extremely important thing: John McCain is in no position to do anything to help Georgia right now. He isn't President, and as a Senator he could maybe urge the President and Congress to act, but that's about all. The US is already fighting one unpopular war - adding another war is unlikely to be popular either. Scheer has also apparently paid no attention to what has been happening in Russia over the last five years or so. Putin wants the Soviet Union again, and many of his countrymen agree with him! Perhaps is was Putin that engineered this conflict. I have no evidence that this is true, which means I have just as much evidence as Scheer does about McCain, but it makes a hell of a lot more sense than John McCain/Republicans/neocons doing it.

I'm surprised Scheer didn't allege that McCain and/or his friends will get rich off of a war with Georgia. Maybe he's saving that for his follow-up piece. And shame on the SF Chronicle for giving garbage like this the time of day. No wonder no one reads the dead-tree media anymore.

So, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili allowed a situation that caused the deaths of hundreds of his people (and who knows how many more will die) because John McCain MIGHT win the election in November and therefore become a powerful friend. Wouldn't it make sense to make such a move IF and AFTER McCain was elected? And even then, the whole idea is ludicrous.

Besides, Georgia is already our ally. We didn't need bribing.

Another crazy conspiracy theory, just like how our government caused the 9/11 attacks so they could start a war for oil. Lefties never cease to amaze.

Another crazy conspiracy theory, just like how our government caused the 9/11 attacks so they could start a war for oil. Lefties never cease to amaze.

Agreed. Just because something sounds like it could be possible doesn't mean that it happened that way. This is a popular tactic with people that like to revise history, as well.

Not surprising given Sheer believes North Korea to be the great wave of the future.

Why does anyone, most especially the editor oa newspaper, pay any attention to this obvious lunatic?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "neocon" just a moonbat codeword for "jew"?

Off topic, but way to good.

This is what happens when Moonbats elect Moonbats, and there are no adults to help clean up after them.

Lets buy and rebuild Detroit

For a few grand, we might be able to turn it around.

Link doesn't seem to working,..

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080813/METRO/808130360/&imw=Y

OT - The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the City of Denver how prisoners will get access to food and water, bathrooms, telephones, plus medical care, and if there will be a place to meet with attorneys.

'Gitmo On The Platte' Set As Holding Cell For DNC

This was a very effective tactic in San FreakShow several years ago when the critical assholes and anti-war crowd got out of hand. The SFPD created a mass holding compound in Pier 30 on the Embarcadero.

In the end, I don’t think Denver liberal leaders will have the stomach to actually arrest a large number of protesters since they will be too worried about getting sued by the ACLU.

Good, that means protesters will do quite a bit of damage at the expense of Denver Taxpayers, who voted for their MoonBat leadership.

If Iran took out Tel Aviv with a nuclear device, people like Scheer would swear it was a neo-con plot.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "neocon" just a moonbat codeword for "jew"?"

No, their codeword for "Jew" is "Zionist." "Neocon" is their codeword for anyone whose political beliefs are classified as conservatives.

OT -

LA – Your largest US Sanctuary City - Home Depot, Others Required To Make Day Laborer Shelters

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Barack Obama may have been a good community organizer in Chicago and may yet have a successful career on the stage, but don't hire him as your financial adviser.

Believe it or not, more moonbattery from Britain...

Government proposes email and internet tracking

I'm curious to see how much more those people are going to take before there's rioting in the streets... by someone besides Muslims, that is....

OT - Jihadis donating $33,000 to Obama from Gaza? Could there be a bigger story?

Obama's Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes

Oh, well, I'm posting another article not directly relevant to the featured article. Sorry.

HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICA PART NINE: RAPPROCHEMENT?Published in August 14th, 2008 | EditPosted by Berlet98 in AMERICAN CULTURE TODAYNo Comments“We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…”

Those stirring words from our Declaration of Independence still give chills to most patriotic Americans since we deeply believe in them and because they are the philosophical foundations of our great country. They have inspired and encouraged freedom-loving people for centuries. All men, and women, are indeed created equal and do have unalienable rights to life, freedom, and happiness.

That said and as witnessed by our legal system, there are caveats, or cautions. Men and women may be deprived of those rights for good cause and may be executed, incarcerated, and otherwise made unhappy should they violate the standards and established morals and laws of our nation.

As with the old saw about First Amendment rights to freedom of speech, namely that that freedom does not extend to screaming, Fire! in a crowded movie theater when there is no fire, our rights and freedoms are not unrestricted. When any action constitutes a serious threat to public order that action must and should be proscribed.

We accept that homosexuality has existed in mankind probably for as long as there has been mankind and see no point in attempting to punish or restrict that behavior, again with clear, defined, and reasonable limitations. However, we also believe that there is a rising antipathy in some quarters concerning that behavior and this is an attempt to mitigate those feelings.

I am not empowered to condemn nor to offer a rapprochement to homosexuals but I will do so anyway, because I can. This is not intended as a Heterosexual Manifesto but rather it is aimed at clearing the fetid air that exists between two conflicting communities and beliefs.

This then is my proffer of conciliation, rapprochement, to the gay community:

TO HOMOSEXUALS:

No one denies that you are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, should the exercise of those rights ever infringe on the equal rights of the majority community, you should be denied them just as we should be denied any attack on the rights of any minority. This does not posit a tyranny of the majority but rather an assertion of the majority prerogative.

You are free to engage in homosexual practices beyond our sight and hearing, but you may never deprive us of our rights to ignore them. Exhibitionistic parades and other demonstrations which seek to offend, or which give offense to, established moral senses are unacceptable.

You may never seduce, or attempt to seduce, or in any other way bring harm to our children. That would...

(For the rest of this great article, please see http://genelalor.com/)

"'Neocon' is their codeword for anyone whose political beliefs are classified as conservatives."

Yep... even if we aren't really neocons. But they seem to think that we should take offense to that label. I only take offense in that "neocon" is a little bit left of what I actually am. But anything right of center is better than a moonbat.

@Rob Banks: Actually even if there was rioting on the streets you probably wouldn't hear about it, now, at least not for a while. There was a huge thing down in Oxford abut a year and a half ago but it didn't even make the news. After the Oldham riots, it seems to have become the media consensus that any large protest against immigration or islam simply shouldn't exist. For all we know they could be burning down Birmingham but it wouldn't get reported, the better to avoid the risk of people elsewhere joining in.

People still trust the BBC, the BBC still dominates the news media in this country. All the others pick up crumbs from its table. If the beeb denied something was happening... I don't know what would happen, but for now they simply report it in as anodyne terms as possible to minimise the reality of what's happening.

We have all the Kostards and Huffinglueposters supporting Russia's warlike crushing of Georgian independence. Apparently war is wrong only if it's waged by the U.S. of A. or Israel.

Not anti-war. Definitely on the other side.

@Archonix

After the Oldham riots, it seems to have become the media consensus that any large protest against immigration or islam simply shouldn't exist.

Apparently, that's also the Council of Europe's opinion.

Sort-of-related-to-the-topic: Barack Obambi responds to the invasion:

Dear (Former) President Putin:

I felt it imperative that I express my deep concern about Russia's invasion of the tiny, democratically elected sovereign nation of Georgia. It would appear that you are not familiar with my platform for change and hope. War does not fit into this template and I am quite frankly at a loss for words to express my deep, deep distress.

Please picture me looking very serious when I say that I respectfully request you to calm down.

If my Kenyan father and my Kansan mother and my multinational upbringing taught me anything, it is that we are all One. That said, I am The One the world has been waiting for -- and you are, quite frankly, blocking my chi.

Yours in Global Harmony,

Acting President Barack Obama

It appears that China's Ministry of Truth messed one up. Nine months ago, He Kexan was only 13, but today she's 16.

Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government's news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week

China's Ministry of Truth has flushed it down the memory hole, and no doubt someone is en route to Room 101 for a little reeducation.

...the Web site was still working but the page was no longer accessible. Sports editors at the state-run news agency would not comment for publication.

I look forward to a coming Unites State of Obamanation in which we they can declare by fiat what is true, what is false, and what needs no further discussion.

"We have all the Kostards and Huffinglueposters supporting Russia's warlike crushing of Georgian independence. Apparently war is wrong only if it's waged by the U.S. of A. or Israel."

Conservigilante, can you show me some examples of this? I am certainly by the definition of most of you here a libtard moonbat, and I don't support Russia's actions at all. Nor, in my moonbat daily readings have I found anyone else who does. The closest thing I can find to that is that there are some, including many Georgans, who feel that it may have been instigated by Georgia, but that Russia's response was totally over the top.

Bear in mind, even John (don't make me come over there) McCain stated today that he isn't sure whose "to blame" for this.