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@KMH, going in as a covert Palinista. That's funny, keep sowing discord among them.
Rosa Parks was actually the 2nd. Unfortunately the woman who did it a few weeks before is unknown to most of us.
A Journalist's Gamble with Indonesia's Special Forces
by Damien Kingsbury
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/30-2
American journalist Allan Nairn's game of cat and mouse with the Indonesian military is a brave attempt to show that it continues to represent the greatest challenge to Indonesia's process of reform and democratisation. It is also one that could well see him spending time - potentially up to six years - in an Indonesian prison.
Nairn recently detailed how the Indonesian military's special forces, Kopassus, continued to be involved in illegal activities, including murdering civilians. His report comes at a time when the US is considering renewing direct support for Kopassus, after having banned working with it more than 10 years ago.
US President Barak Obama says that the US military should resume full military to military co-operation with the Indonesian armed forces, the TNI, as a result of their reform. Military contact was broken off in 1996, following the 1991 Dili Massacre in which 300 or more people were murdered by the Indonesian military. Nairn was in Dili during the massacre and was himself seriously beaten by TNI members.
LOL! guess what I just did! I became a fan of Sarah Palin on Facebook and I typed this into her post today asking us how we all are:
Woah, the progressive radio shows are really after Sarah- Here are links to listening online. Call in and give them hell! http://www.progressiveradio.blogspot.com/
@Rick, sorry, missed that one. Wrought steam iron for sale.
Harry,
Just 'iron-working'.. irony etc..
Cheers,
Rick
@Rick. i don't understand the blacksmith reference?
Seditious conspiracy is a serious charge. You do not have to commit an attack against the American government to be considered a terrorist. You can plan an attack to be considered a terrorist. It seems to me the Teabag Movement is a terrorist organization that can do great harm to our country.
A mortal sin is similar. You do not actually have to kill a person to commit a mortal sin. You can plan or desire great harm to another person or persons to commit a mortal sin.
We can learn a great deal from evil and terrorist organizations, like the Teabag Movement, the Republican Politicians, and the Radical Christian Fundamentalists.
Here is my prediction. Unless there are re-regulations in controlling the banksters and the crooks and thieves on Wall Street and higher tariffs on incoming products and drastic tax increases levied on the rich, we will experience a deep and massive depression that will take three or four generations to resolve. The reason why I believe our depression will linger for sixty to eighty years is that we do not have good-paying manufacturing to help bring relief from a long-lasting depression. Is Max Baucus reinventing him as the saint who saved health care reform? The corruption in our country is making me continuously nauseous.
@Rick..hear the one about the misguided protester who laid down in front of a think tank?
Me neither.
"Abraham Lincoln went to school for less than a year. He taught himself to read and write. " -that'swierd.net
Hootery? Is that the Republican group that meets at the strip clubs?
Rick
Head start on April 1st?
Sad part is it will become Fox-Gospel..
http://www.thefoxnation.com/global-warming/2010/03/29/global-warming-act...
Check Snopes; it was crap three years ago..
Feh,
Rick
(Hear about the climate change denier posing for a picture, crushed by a calving glacier? Irony.. thayats whut a blacksmith does, right?)
re: Thom's Coffee Party or Shotgun which is the better way for citizen activism?
Well all I know is that violence is an answer.... a bad answer that generally devolves into a distorted perverse mockery of a solution to the problem that spawned it.
On Language (with a bow to the author of natering nabobs...)
The Hutaree do appear to be alleged terrorists, however improvised explosive devices, even shaped charges are not WMD...
Term: Weapons of Mass Destruction
Definition:
Weapons of mass destruction are weapons capable of inflicting massive destruction to property and/or population, using chemical, biological or radioactive material. Weapons of Mass Destruction are also known by the abbreviation WMD.
http://www.army-technology.com/glossary/weapons-of-mass-destruction.html
Never agreed with Mr. Safire, but I learned alot about the use of language from him.
Anybody have a link or reference for that breakdown on the little girl's debt apportioned to the various presidents?
Thanks,
Rick
oops..accidental multiple submissions.
ooops! accidental multiple submissions!
@Zero G. At least Rove left the Tonight Show to go to a more wholesome place..
Oh, the horrors of war: " Eighth Army Push Bottles Up Germans" - headline from leftwingwacko.com
@Zero G. At least Rove left the Tonight Show to go to a more wholesome place..
@Zero G. At least Rove left the Tonight Show to go to a more wholesome place..
Jay Leno invites Karl Rove to bondage club
By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 -- 11:48 am
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0330/leno-invites-rove-bondage-club/
Rove had a busy night...
Woman tries to make citizen's arrest of Karl Rove at book signing
By WIRE SERVICES
Story Published: Mar 30, 2010 at 1:03 AM PDT
BEVERLY HILLS -- Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove left a book signing in Beverly Hills early Monday night because of disruptions by opponents of U.S. involvement in the Iraq War.
Jodie Evans, a co-founder of Code Pink, tried to make a citizen's arrest of Rove, and advanced toward him with a pair of handcuffs at the Saban Theatre.
@DRichards re: Socialism vs Privatization, I agree with your point. Perhaps bank fees, and health insurance costs should be simply renamed so people understand that essentially they're paying regardless. So I propose instead of paying bank fees, you're paying the bank a tax, instead of paying your health insurance bill, your paying your health insurance tax.
I know this may not be so well thought out. But my point being, too many people think if they're not paying a tax, they're getting to choose to pay or not pay, but they're not. Simpletons need simple language, I guess.
Whenever Boehner takes a leak, all Syracuse graduates salute!
I think Boehners healthy orange glow comes from carotene overdose.
Boehner eats 80 - 90 carrots a day. :D "Bugs" Boehner"