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October 27, 2009
Open Thread
Posted by Van Helsing at October 27, 2009 1:20 PM
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Let’s see – 15 Saudis and a few others, living for years in Europe and America, hijacked some airplanes. Next thing, we overthrow the Taliban government since they would not hand over Bin Laden. Then we go after Saddam Hussein to stop a mushroom cloud from engulfing us. Then we go after random bucktooth Pushtun local tribesmen because the Taliban sometimes pass through their mountain valleys. THIS NEVER STOPS! And the “bipartisan” foreign policy establishment has supported this idiotic interventionism all along. Keep in mind that the US was never attacked FROM Afghanistan or Iraq!
Today, a Foreign Service Officer resigned over our Afghanistan policy – claiming that we are FEEDING the insurgency and FIGHTING the insurgency at the same time.
This is a good read for those who give a **** about the people dying over there:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/…/AR2009102603394.html
Tip O’ Neill said “All politics are local” but the Washington geniuses think every village in Afghanistan is just like America.
LBJ thought going into Vietnam was stupid but went in anyway, resulting in 58,000 Americans and 4 million Indochinese dead because otherwise the Republicans would raise political hell for him! That’s the OINKVILLE political mentality.
Posted by: Gabriel at October 27, 2009 1:23 PM
All That Glisters Is Not Gold
Having barbarized the English language, we now prefer to say that, “All that glitters isn’t gold,” instead of using Shakespeare’s “glisters.”
The meaning is about the same: Gold and the pursuit thereof, whether for investment, speculation, jewelry, or its sheer gut attraction has its pitfalls and the benefits of its attraction may not always be what they seem to be.
The same goes for “the poor man’s gold,” silver, which today seems ubiquitous in cheap baubles.
Unlike real estate which Will Rogers said we should buy since they’re not making any more of it, they’re still “making,” as in mining, gold although gold deposits are becoming harder and harder to find even as competition heats up and as the price soars.
Gold, that most precious of all precious metals, has from time immemorial been the one true sure bet. However, not that it would ever be worthless, but gold could lose significant value and lose investors/speculators big money. For the hoarders, it also presents the problem of storage.
Under Grandma’s bed is not recommended, especially if she tends to wander with her purse stuffed.
Of course, land, real estate, tends to periodically crash and burn as millions of Americans witnessed from the government-caused burst housing bubble.
In today’s very uncertain times, buying–and hoarding–gold has become an enticing hedge against wildly-inflated paper currencies, such the Obama dollar. The inflationary effect of Obama’s fascination with printing far more greenbacks than we should has yet to hit America’s fan.
Just give it time, until after the elections.
Gold is considered the safest hedge . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1288)
Posted by: Berlet98 at October 27, 2009 1:25 PM
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at October 27, 2009 1:27 PM
Somebody else is getting touched by Fox News, too. CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks
Posted by: Rob Banks at October 27, 2009 1:37 PM
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at October 27, 2009 1:52 PM
Obama fears the truth like dracula fears the sunlight it,ll crumble them to dust under the truth
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 27, 2009 2:35 PM
Excellent picture and so accurate. I'm boing to borrow it and link it back to you. Its sad but true.
Posted by: Scotty Starnes at October 27, 2009 2:52 PM
We used to deride grown men who cry. Now we elect them to be president. I can't wait to wake up from this horribly surreal nightmare.
Posted by: Mockazine at October 27, 2009 3:28 PM
Global Warming Cultists: If You Want To Save the Environment, Kill Your Dog
Ah, yes, the latest from the "Kill all hoo-mans" crowd. These folks despise humans and all domesticated animals (presumably as species traitors?) and want nothing more than for the planet to go back to it's "pristine" state before the advent of human sentience.
Presumably, somewhere along the line the dwarves and elves will emerge from their long slumber and reclaim their rightful places along side the rapidly dwindling human race while magic replaces hateful planet killing science as the dominant force!
Well, it makes as much sense as anything else these fools put out. Somewhere, a padded room is missing it's occupant...
Posted by: SK at October 27, 2009 3:44 PM
Uh, Gabe, the 15 Saudi's and a "few others" were trained first in A-stan. They were controlled, directed and financed from A-stan. So, when the directors and financiers were requested to be turned over and the Taliban refused, they were dealt with.
If you want a different take on the FSO's resignation, go read:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/10/state-dept-official-resigns-over-afghanistan-policy.html#comments
Try getting your head out of the WaPo, NYT and LAT for a while.
Posted by: UpNorth at October 27, 2009 4:31 PM
More proof that the Liberal Media DOES just make stuff up:
http://www.examiner.com/x-7812-DC-SCOTUS-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Liberal-reporter-smears-Justice-Scalia-falsely-claiming-he-would-have-upheld-segregation
The "retraction" would be funny if it were not so sad...
Posted by: TonyD95B at October 27, 2009 5:37 PM
Looks like BHO needs to be changed...
Posted by: MSM+SEIU+ACORN = JOKER! at October 27, 2009 5:42 PM
LOL!!
Posted by: OBAMANATION at NOTRE DAME at October 27, 2009 5:47 PM
Hey all, just had to share this... maybe even the trolls will get a laugh out of this one.
If WW2 Was Fought By Gamers
This is simply hilarious. I’m a gamer so this hit home for me. heh heh heh…I could just see the war being played out in my head. Awesome.
*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*
Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0JO: lol
Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever
Stalin: cool
deGaulle: **** Hitler rushed some1 help
Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy
Roosevelt: i dont got crap to help, sry
Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me
Roosevelt: get antiair guns
Churchill: i cant afford them
benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is?
paTTon: stfu
Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys
deGaulle: eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the fock up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
deGaulle: this is fockin weak u guys suck
*deGaulle has left the game.*
Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k?
benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair?
benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head?
Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO
T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bull**** u ***s im gunna kick ur asses
T0JO: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little biotch ill get u
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bull**** u hacker
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: u arsshoel! WE HAD A FoCKIN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1
T0J0: o **** i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Roosevelt: yah thats right biznitch im comin for ya
Stalin: church help me
Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here
Stalin: dont be an arss
Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late
Eisenhower: LOL
benny-tow: hahahh oh **** help
Hitler: o man ur focked
paTTon: oh what now biotch
Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol
*benny-tow has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: lame
Roosevelt: gj patton
paTTon: thnx
Hitler[AoE]: eisenhower hax hes killing all my ****
Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record
Eisenhower: Nuts!
benny-tow: wtf that mean?
Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped
paTTon: coming to get u hitler u paper hanging hun ****socker
Stalin: rofl
T0J0: HAHAHHAA
Hitler[AoE]: u guys are fockin gay
Hitler[AoE]: ur never getting in my city
*Hitler[AoE] has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: OMG u noob you killed yourself
Eisenhower: ROFLOLOLOL
Stalin: OMG LMAO!
Hitler[AoE]: i didnt click there omg this game blows
*Hitler[AoE] has left the game*
paTTon: hahahhah
T0J0: my teammates are n00bs
benny-tow: shut up noob
Roosevelt: haha wut a moron
paTTon: wtf am i gunna do now?
Eisenhower: yah me too
T0J0: why dont u attack me o thats right u dont got no ships lololol
Eisenhower: fock u
paTTon: lemme go thru ur base commie
Stalin: go to hell lol
paTTon: fock this **** im goin afk
Eisenhower: yah this is gay
*Roosevelt has left the game.*
Hitler[AoE]: wtf?
Eisenhower: **** now we need some1 to join
*tru_m4n has joined the game.*
tru_m4n: hi all
T0J0: hey
Stalin: sup
Churchill: hi
tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff!
tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY **** I GOT NUKES
Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz
tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple
Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets
T0J0: wtf is nukes?
T0J0: holy ****holy****hoylshti!!!111
*T0J0 has been eliminated.*
*The Allied team has won the game!*
Eisenhower: awesome!
Churchill: gg noobs no re
T0J0: thats bull**** u fockin suck
*T0J0 has left the game.*
*Eisenhower has left the game.*
Stalin: next game im not going to be on ur team, u guys didnt help me for ****
Churchill: wutever, we didnt need ur help neway dumbarss
tru_m4n: l8r all
benny-tow: bye
Churchill: l8r
Stalin: fock u all
tru_m4n: shut up commie lol
*tru_m4n has left the game.*
benny-tow: lololol u commie
Churchill: ROFL
Churchill: bye commie
*Churchill has left the game.*
*benny-tow has left the game.*
Stalin: i hate u all ***s
*Stalin has left the game.*
paTTon: lol no1 is left
paTTon: weeeee i got a jeep
*paTTon has been eliminated.*
paTTon: o ****!
*paTTon has left the game.*
Posted by: hiram at October 27, 2009 6:07 PM
Hiram, that's hilarious!
Posted by: Henry at October 27, 2009 6:24 PM
Posted by: SK at October 27, 2009 3:44 PM
Yea I read about this earlier.
I think I'll sick my dog, The Chopper, on those ecofucks ass.
He needs the exercise.
Posted by: Dave at October 27, 2009 6:27 PM
Politico finally notices the bleeding obvious..
Even more strangely, so does WaPo:
Posted by: mandible claw at October 27, 2009 6:54 PM
Anyone here up for some Halloween photoshop fun?
Posted by: Mr. Right at October 27, 2009 7:01 PM
Governator sends a coded message to obnoxious gay activist: f**k off!
He may be a Rino but his sense of humour is in working order.
Posted by: mandible claw at October 27, 2009 7:14 PM
Its so much fun.
Posted by: Fred Dawes at October 27, 2009 7:31 PM
http://www.jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com
Posted by: Potter at October 27, 2009 8:09 PM
Jesse Dirkhising Should Be 23
For those not familiar with the name Jesse Dirkhising, that’s no surprise. He was never a media favorite like Matthew Shepard even though the two met similar fates.
The chief differences are that Jesse was a child of 13. Matthew was a young man of 21. Jesse’s vicious murder was committed by two pedophiles, sadistic animals who also tortured and repeatedly raped him. Matthew was killed by 2 drugged up drunks in a robbery.
Oh, there was another difference: Jesse was a totally innocent, heterosexual victim and Matthew, a homosexual, was picked up in a Wyoming tavern before he was robbed, beaten, and left to die tied to a frozen fencepost.
Both were horrendous crimes but for some inexplicable reason, we now have a hate crime law commemorating the life of Matthew Shepard, a man, and only a tombstone to remember Jesse Dirkhising, a child.
Why the disparity in recognition?
Ask the mainstream media which chose either to treat Jesse’s horrific murder as a mere random aberration–which it wasn’t–or chose to ignore it altogether, and to honor Matthew as a cause celebre’ because he is some kind of hero–which he wasn’t.
Rumor has it that the hate crime law passed in his name was passed because in our increasingly gay-dominated culture Matthew was honored simply because he was gay.
We all know that homosexuals on the prowl in bars are far more sympathetic figures than defenseless children, right? . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1290)
Posted by: Berlet98 at October 27, 2009 11:24 PM
LBJ thought going into Vietnam was stupid but went in anyway, resulting in 58,000 Americans and 4 million Indochinese dead because otherwise the Republicans would raise political hell for him! That’s the OINKVILLE political mentality. - Gabriel
If the USA hadn't intervened in Vietnam, many more would have died to Stalin/Mao/Pol Pot style 'social shuffling'. And I would be a communist, dirt poor rice scavenger today.
Btw, Bush saved 750,000 Iraqi lives - Clinton's embargo killed baby Iraqis SEVEN TIMES faster than Bushcheneyhalliburton.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at October 27, 2009 11:44 PM
@ Hiram: LMAO! Nice!
Posted by: Murff at October 28, 2009 3:45 AM
Posted by: TED at October 28, 2009 4:33 AM
I think it's important to note that JFK got us into Vietnam in the first place and the war was not fought to be won. Kind of reminds you of what obooboo is doing in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Farmer Ted at October 28, 2009 4:46 AM
Hiram, thanks for that, that was so funny. LOL WTF OMG!!!!1111
Posted by: Karin at October 28, 2009 5:55 AM
