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Red_Dragon

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Posted: Dec 1, 2016 - 9:21am

Petraeus will have to notify his probation officer if Trump taps him as secretary of state

drainin' that swamp... 
sirdroseph

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Posted: Dec 1, 2016 - 8:56am

 bokey wrote:
 
TY,and again,I have no beef with you.You're a good dude and I wish you the best,honest and decent life that you are deserving of.

 I acknowledge your occasional kindness and wish you no ill will.

It's just that you are so frigging' smart,and you don't use it for good.Geezus,the decent people in the world need people like you to not KNOW without any conviction,that they are right and everything else is wrong.FFS!!!!
Can't you possibly understand that it is possible for a person to be wrong?

And that is you.

See what I did there?I kinda admitted that all people aren't perfect.

A concept that differs from one's own?

NAY!!!!!!!!!

The evildoers shall be slain,and we,the good folks will rule.

Yeah,gotcha.
 

 




I understand what you are saying, bokey. Maybe just say it a little nicer, it will go over better. lol
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Posted: Dec 1, 2016 - 8:20am

 islander wrote:

JFC you are dense. How many times have I chimed in with advice for you. How many times have I reached out when it was clear you were struggling?  Remember the financial tips I gave you that worked out reallr overall goodness.y well?  And how many times have I put up with you calling me stupid, saying I have shit for brains and shit in my eyes so I can't see?  I've given you a lot of rope, and all you've ever done is whip people with it and tie nooses for yourself.

Fine, we're done. have a nice life. 

  
TY,and again,I have no beef with you.You're a good dude and I wish you the best,honest and decent life that you are deserving of.

 I acknowledge your occasional kindness and wish you no ill will.

It's just that you are so frigging' smart,and you don't use it for good.Geezus,the decent people in the world need people like you to not KNOW without any conviction,that they are right and everything else is wrong.FFS!!!!
Can't you possibly understand that it is possible for a person to be wrong?

And that is you.

See what I did there?I kinda admitted that all people aren't perfect.

A concept that differs from one's own?

NAY!!!!!!!!!

The evildoers shall be slain,and we,the good folks will rule.

Yeah,gotcha.
 


islander

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Posted: Dec 1, 2016 - 8:03am

 bokey wrote:

I kind of realize that you do not like me.I'm OK with that.

 I'm sorry BillG. didn't go along with my "ignore button" idea.

I really have no beef with you,dude.

So let's let it go,OK?

Take it down the street.I'm too old for this crap.Wanta meet in an alley?

You gonna whup me good?

Please.

 
JFC you are dense. How many times have I chimed in with advice for you. How many times have I reached out when it was clear you were struggling?  Remember the financial tips I gave you that worked out really well?  And how many times have I put up with you calling me stupid, saying I have shit for brains and shit in my eyes so I can't see?  I've given you a lot of rope, and all you've ever done is whip people with it and tie nooses for yourself.

Fine, we're done. have a nice life. 


bokey

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Posted: Dec 1, 2016 - 7:54am

 islander wrote:

What's wrong in your world dude?  You've clearly got too much energy, shift the channel from anger to just about anything else or you'll lose the last few who will tolerate you.

 
I kind of realize that you do not like me.I'm OK with that.

 I'm sorry BillG. didn't go along with my "ignore button" idea.

I really have no beef with you,dude.

So let's let it go,OK?

Take it down the street.I'm too old for this crap.Wanta meet in an alley?

You gonna whup me good?

Please.


islander

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Posted: Dec 1, 2016 - 7:49am

 bokey wrote:

NRA?No? OK-just a thought.Cause things that make sense,well,we can't have them.Can we?
Or can we? LOL at you silly little critters.Gezuss!

The evil that exudes from Libs is amazing.Just incredible,holier than thou BS.

And again,America and all good things laugh at the idiocy of the children who had no parenting skills in their lives.I'm sorry you(as a generalization,not personal) didn't have parents that weren't dope fiends.


 
What's wrong in your world dude?  You've clearly got too much energy, shift the channel from anger to just about anything else or you'll lose the last few who will tolerate you.
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Posted: Dec 1, 2016 - 7:48am

 Lazy8 wrote:
 bokey wrote:
NRA?No? OK-just a thought.Cause things that make sense,well,we can't have them.Can we?
Or can we? LOL at you silly little critters.Gezuss!

The evil that exudes from Libs is amazing.Just incredible,holier than thou BS.

And again,America and all good things laugh at the idiocy of the children who had no parenting skills in their lives.I'm sorry you didn't have parents that weren't dope fiends.

Haven't given them a dime since they endorsed Trump. Now that the election is over I'll think about it.

 
It's a tough call.Good to see that you're (perhaps sarcastically) being open minded.That's a good thing.
Lazy8

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Posted: Dec 1, 2016 - 7:45am

 bokey wrote:
NRA?No? OK-just a thought.Cause things that make sense,well,we can't have them.Can we?
Or can we? LOL at you silly little critters.Gezuss!

The evil that exudes from Libs is amazing.Just incredible,holier than thou BS.

And again,America and all good things laugh at the idiocy of the children who had no parenting skills in their lives.I'm sorry you didn't have parents that weren't dope fiends.

Haven't given them a dime since they endorsed Trump. Now that the election is over I'll think about it.
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Posted: Dec 1, 2016 - 7:39am

 Lazy8 wrote:
I am not content to just complain online. I'm going to take some positive action. Part of that is funding charities to counter some of Trump's more obnoxious agendas.

We're putting together our end-of-the-year charity list. So far we have:

ACLU
Institute for Justice
American Friends Service Committee
Planned Parenthood (going to donate to the national as well as local branch this year)

Interested in any suggestions for other organizations that will need a boost this year.

 
NRA?No? OK-just a thought.Cause things that make sense,well,we can't have them.Can we?
Or can we? LOL at you silly little critters.Gezuss!

The evil that exudes from Libs is amazing.Just incredible,holier than thou BS.

And again,America and all good things laugh at the idiocy of the children who had no parenting skills in their lives.I'm sorry you(as a generalization,not personal) didn't have parents that weren't dope fiends.



Red_Dragon

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Posted: Dec 1, 2016 - 4:39am


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Posted: Nov 30, 2016 - 11:43pm


kurtster, you have a point about Obama's relative lack of experience when taking office in early 2009. However, Obama's positions on major foreign policy issues were well known and fleshed out. He had a fleet of experienced advisors guiding him. His cautious nature and willingness to change his opinions based on new information gave American allies good reason to trust that American foreign policy would not drastically and unpredictably change course.  

We have no such reason to trust Trump. He is not nearly as well briefed as Obama when he took office. Trump forms opinions based on what he sees on TV or what someone tells him during an informal conversation. He has no strategic vision or general plan for dealing with international issues. I don't believe the man is capable of sustained focus on a few important issues at a time. If you thought that Trump would stop tweeting frenetically and bouncing from one topic to the next once he won the election, guess again.

This guy is worse than George W. Bush. Dubya at least knew that the job was a big deal, that the gaps in his knowledge were so big that he needed to rely on his advisors, and that he shouldn't always say what he was thinking. You can't say the same things about Trump. He changes his mind on all sorts of matters from one day to the next, even on major policy issues. 

You wanted someone to blow Washington up? You got him. I sure hope you weren't expecting him to be sane, competent or constructive as well. 

Enjoy this NYT article...if you can hold off from automatically dismissing it because it's from the Times. Please, try actually reading it if only to get a sense that Trump is now largely in power but he's still All. Over. The Map.
 
Trump, a Free-Form Leader, Experiments and Invites Drama
While Mr. Trump’s focus appeared to careen unpredictably from hour to hour, the larger pattern he followed was a familiar one. As a candidate, Mr. Trump operated largely on gut instinct, with publicity-seeking provocation as his chief tactic. Trusting few people outside a circle of intimates, Mr. Trump thrived in a daily cycle of controversy and cultivated an atmosphere of often-public drama and division within his campaign.

...

Mr. Trump’s method, friends and allies say, matches the reputation he built first in New York and then on reality television — less as a traditional corporate executive, like Mr. Romney, than as an eager impresario who experimented freely, welcomed conflict and flopped repeatedly. 

...

It would be difficult to overstate the extremity of Mr. Trump’s departure from recent presidential practice. His immediate predecessors prided themselves on orderly, fastidious deliberations: George W. Bush as the first president with a business degree, Mr. Obama as a candidate branded by aides as “no drama Obama.”

Even Republicans concede that it is not clear how Mr. Trump’s roller-coaster approach to the transition will carry over to governing. Mr. Gingrich predicted during the Republican primary contests that a Trump administration would function as a kind of daily adventure. “If Trump does end up winning, you will have no idea each morning what’s going to happen,” he said in a January interview, “because he will have no idea.”

 But enacting sweeping changes or passing even modest legislation requires intensive, sustained attention from presidents and their teams, of a kind Mr. Trump has never dedicated to matters of policy.
 
haresfur wrote:

The Soviet Union is being partially reconstituted exactly as you say, under the guise of "traditional territorial interests". If you consider effectively taking over half of Ukraine as merely defending traditional interests, then you are saying the traditional interests are the SU.

 
Umm...half? This map from this Wikipedia page indicates otherwise. Putin may want to rebuild something like the USSR through economic and military intimidation but that dream is well out his grasp.

Russia's interest in and control of Ukraine began well before the creation of the USSR. Russia has long regarded the Ukrainian area as the cultural cradle of the Russian people. Ukraine largely gave up its sovereignty in the mid-1600s to the czar of Moscovy in return for protection from Polish encroachment and "the Ukrainian state was eventually absorbed into the Russian Empire." 

Ukraine today is strategically valuable to Russia. 

Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry

A more recent US State Department-sponsored report notes that "Ukraine's strategic location between the main energy producers (Russia and the Caspian Sea area) and consumers in the Eurasian region, its large transit network, and its available underground gas storage capacities", make the country "a potentially crucial player in European energy transit" - a position that will "grow as Western European demands for Russian and Caspian gas and oil continue to increase."

Ukraine's overwhelming dependence on Russian energy imports, however, has had "negative implications for US strategy in the region," in particular the strategy of:


"... supporting multiple pipeline routes on the East–West axis as a way of helping promote a more pluralistic system in the region as an alternative to continued Russian hegemony."


 Russia felt that its regional interests were threatened by impending Western competition against Russia's natural gas pipelines running through Ukraine, drafted negotiations between Ukraine and the EU towards a free trade agreement, increased Ukrainian cooperation with NATO and the expiration in 2017 of the Russian Black Sea Naval Base lease in Sevastapol, Crimea. The 2014 protests in Kiev were popular anger at Ukrainian president Yanukovich's attempts to push the country back into cooperation with Russia.

We cannot simply abandon Ukraine to the whim of Putin. It is a partner with NATO and is still moving towards greater economic integration with the EU. That said, there's a limited amount of options available to its Western allies, even if NATO had a clear mission and greater military might. I have very little faith that Trump will be able to grasp the nuances of the situation and improve matters. 



BlueHeronDruid

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Posted: Nov 30, 2016 - 11:39pm

 islander wrote:
 Lazy8 wrote:
I am not content to just complain online. I'm going to take some positive action. Part of that is funding charities to counter some of Trump's more obnoxious agendas.

We're putting together our end-of-the-year charity list. So far we have:

ACLU
Institute for Justice
American Friends Service Committee
Planned Parenthood (going to donate to the national as well as local branch this year)

Interested in any suggestions for other organizations that will need a boost this year.

 
We also support the Southern Poverty Law Center. I'm looming for some environmental options as well.
 
 
Yes. And as my high-powered attorney friend says, NAACP legal defense fund.
islander

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Posted: Nov 30, 2016 - 10:29pm

 Lazy8 wrote:
I am not content to just complain online. I'm going to take some positive action. Part of that is funding charities to counter some of Trump's more obnoxious agendas.

We're putting together our end-of-the-year charity list. So far we have:

ACLU
Institute for Justice
American Friends Service Committee
Planned Parenthood (going to donate to the national as well as local branch this year)

Interested in any suggestions for other organizations that will need a boost this year.

 
We also support the Southern Poverty Law Center. I'm looming for some environmental options as well.
 
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Nov 30, 2016 - 9:59pm

 Lazy8 wrote:
I am not content to just complain online. I'm going to take some positive action. Part of that is funding charities to counter some of Trump's more obnoxious agendas.

We're putting together our end-of-the-year charity list. So far we have:

ACLU
Institute for Justice
American Friends Service Committee
Planned Parenthood (going to donate to the national as well as local branch this year)

Interested in any suggestions for other organizations that will need a boost this year.

 
I couldn't immediately place two of those so I fixed up some linkage. I think you have things pretty well covered, at least until we see what random-ass fires he starts.
Lazy8

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Posted: Nov 30, 2016 - 9:48pm

I am not content to just complain online. I'm going to take some positive action. Part of that is funding charities to counter some of Trump's more obnoxious agendas.

We're putting together our end-of-the-year charity list. So far we have:

ACLU
Institute for Justice
American Friends Service Committee
Planned Parenthood (going to donate to the national as well as local branch this year)

Interested in any suggestions for other organizations that will need a boost this year.
KurtfromLaQuinta

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Posted: Nov 30, 2016 - 9:04pm

Interesting.
oldviolin

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Posted: Nov 30, 2016 - 8:45pm

 steeler wrote:
Here is a thought: maybe there is no swamp to drain.

 
Just a farm pond full of scum, turtles, pan fish and an occasional previously missing automobile complete with various and sundry speculation...


steeler

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Posted: Nov 30, 2016 - 7:38pm

Here is a thought: maybe there is no swamp to drain.
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Posted: Nov 30, 2016 - 7:24pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

It's been a couple of decades or so since I read it but Don DeLillo's "Underworld" has Russia accepting nuclear waste, which they bury deep under Siberia someplace, along with an old warhead. They set off the warhead, which incinerates the nuclear waste too. I think that was what they were doing. Something with nukes that nobody else wanted to touch but were willing to pay them to do.

 
Interesting ...
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Nov 30, 2016 - 7:19pm

appropriate
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