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September 22, 2014 06:14 AM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

–Edmund Burke

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    1. The march in Manhattan is not the only place people are on the march.

      70,000 Kurds have fled ISIS into Turkey in the last 2 days.  Apparently the doctors and pharmacists boots on the ground strategy is not working so well.  Here are some folks who think Obama's War in Iraq and Syria are not going so well.  Wonder why the military told Obama we shoud keep a force in Iraq when we left and we should have acted earlier.  Maybe Obama was not present when that was taught in community organizing class.

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      Hope your march in NY is more pleasant than theirs.

        1. Fact: There have never been refugees in Iraq before Obama.  Ever.  Anywhere actually.  Because history in the region began on January 20, 2009.  An it is never the job of the chickenhawk P.O.S. to pay any wage for war-cheer-leading.  

           

        2. Nah, that wide yellow streak down his back and those continuously soiled underpants keep AChickenhawk safely at home and away from ever serving his country. Running his cowardly, fat, lying, feces-filled mouth, on the other hand…

        3. exactly. These friggin' cowards never met a war they didn't want to send someone else to fight. 

          Watching the FDR documentary on PBS I learned that when the draft was instituted for WWII that FDR's son, Teddy Roosevelt's son and several of the grandchildrean all volunteered to take up the fight.

          1. Watching the same documentary Zapp, and it is excellent.  TR even tried to make sure each of his four sons that were enlisted went to places where there was combat.  Quentin ended up being killed in action.

            And TR himself complained that he didn't get nastier wounds in Cuba while the charge up Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill.  He was a pretty crazy man.

          1. A WIF who also appears to be a psychopath.  I'm sure he was really up in arms back in the Bush days when hundreds of thousands were being raped and slaughtered in Darfur by the Janjaweed (they killed an estimate 400,000 Darfurans between 2005-2007 and were funded primarily by the Chinese) because those souls weren't smart enough to know that you don't build your village over pools of oil that the Chinese government wants. 

            What did the American government do about it?  We looked the other way.  China was funding a significant portion of the Bush deficit at the time; if we wanted their money to fund the Iraq War and the Bush tax cuts we had no other choice to let them continue with their slaughter-for-oil program. 

            If you have Netflix and want to watch one of the best documentaries on the subject, watch "The Devil Came on Horseback". 

            The tally of death-for-oil under the Bush-Cheney regime is a balck mark on this country's soul – and I'm sure the WIF has conveniently forgotten that then-Senator Obama voted against the Iraq War. 

            Speaking of the old days and Darfur, do any of you remember when then-Speaker of the House Romanoff led the charge in Colorado on the divestiture movement for public companies operating in Darfur?  The combined vote in the two chambers in favor of not supporting the genocide was 99-1.  The long dissenter?  My watermelon-farmin', I-am-a-solid-pro-life-except-when-businesses-have-to-kill-for-profit state senator.  The lone. dissenting. vote.  His reason:  "it isn't governments business to tell businesses how to operate."  

            Something tells me the WIF and my old senator would find a lot of policy positions to agree upon.

            So yes, WIF, yesterday's march is important for a lot of reasons.  Not the least-of-which It's time to dry up these petro-dollars that seem to only serve as a death machine while destroy the only atmosphere we have.  

            Take your useless, sophmoric posts and choke on them. 

      1. You may, being the impertinent fool you are, continue to try to mislead someone (anyone?) by doing this…

         

         Here are some folks who think Obama's War in Iraq and Syria are not going so well. 

        No one I know believes this is Obamas' war.  Bushco, Inc., along with Halliburton, and the Carlyle group, and countless other disaster capiltalists, opened a Pandoras' box of death and destruction for millions of people…and trillions in profits for them. We, the American taxpayer and the soldiers we send to war, in addition to millions of innocent people in the Mideast will be a very long time escaping the ravages of George Bushs' war…

        You are an idiot.

          1. I was in Bucharest this summer and drove right by a Carlyle group office right next to the airport.  At the time I explained to my brother in law what they do and it blew his mind.

            1. Crony Capitalism: Carlyle Group have links with the Bush family, and bin Laden family. Carlyle Group was part of consortium which bought Freescale Semiconductor in 2006, which had 20 of their employees on Flight MH370, 12 from Malaysia, 8 from China.

               

              from: Singapore Hardware Zone.com

               

        1. You know who should be billed for all of that shit?

          The oil companies. And freeze/seize all their assets until they decide that the war isn't going to be worth any damn thing in their investment.

          And start diverting all the war machine funds into alternate energy, including solar, wind, and hydro. Hell, invest billions into making hemp gas which is finite, unlike the sweet crude oil. 

           

  1. There's a push to find a new name for the Pig-Sh*t-Eaters led by a Messianic megalomaniac in the Middle East.

    For some reason, their feelings are bruised if you don't call them by the name they chose for themselves.

    The Islamic State Is Upset With The French Government's New Name For Them

    The French foreign ministry released a statement earlier this week referencing the Islamic State group as "Daesh." The new moniker is a transliteration of an acronym of the group's Arabic name "al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham. It is also similar to the arabic word that means "to trample."

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/19/isis-daesh-france_n_5850280.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

  2. Speaker BoenHead has his own "47%" moment — this should play well with the voters in Kentucky:

    Last week John Boehner, the speaker of the House, explained to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute what’s holding back employment in America: laziness. People, he said, have “this idea” that “I really don’t have to work. I don’t really want to do this. I think I’d rather just sit around.” Holy 47 percent, Batman!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/opinion/paul-krugman-those-lazy-jobless.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0
     

    1. Yeah DP, I saw 

      I saw that piece. How many time do these slow-wits have to try "let's not tax the people who earn the most money"? It's not new. 20 years ago when we endured a brief sojourn to Alabama they were stuck in what they called "proration". The state's economy was in the tank, they'd cut income taxes to the bone and were trying to run the whole state on sales and use taxes. The whole state looked like Colorado Springs. Dead parks, scant street lights, parents having to chip in on basic school building supplies. We were very glad to get back home. Then came TABOR… Oh, well…

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