Category: Politics

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Why we should leave the Middle East

I have yet to figure out why the rest of the religions of the world are supposed to take insults from Islam but it’s off limits to insult anything Islamic.

Lets see, The Taliban fired mortars at ancient reclining Buddhas carved into a mountain.

By the logic of the Taliban… The Pyramids of Egypt and all Egyptian artifacts should be destroyed because these artifacts represent a pagan infidel polytheistic belief system. (An affront to the Prophet and Allah!) 

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(Of course you and I BOTH know the Taliban wouldn’t do that anymore than the devoutly Islamic Egyptians will… It’s called tourist revenue and having international standing.)

Bibles are commonly confiscated from tourists, and burned or in the case of Saudi Arabia shredded.  

And yet anything, anytime that’s even remotely offensive to Muslims results in rioting in the streets, death and destruction. 

Hey Islam GROW THE FUCK UP! Not everyone is going to agree with you.

Your 15th century values aren’t shared by everyone else on the planet. Be content that the evildoers will have their balls roasting in hell and stop trying to pass judgement that only God, Allah, Jehovah or whatever deity you choose to name is qualified to pass.

I’m really confused by the latest Palestinian / Israeli conflict.

Let me get this straight.

The Palestinians lob rockets into Israel and that’s good and “The Will of Allah”

But when the Israelis fire back… The Israelis are the bad guys?

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What? 

Ya know I’m just a dumb ass backwoods hick but where I come from… If I walk up to a man and punch him in the face I fully expect for him to punch my stupid ass back!

There are those who say the Palestinians are justifiably upset and that Israel doesn’t have the right to exist because the area of land currently called Israel isn’t in the correct place. 

One could also make the case that the area known as Palestine was actually defined and named by the British during their possession of the area when it was their colony.

The Palestinians want Gaza. OK…

The Israelis made massive improvements to Gaza. So they should be compensated for those improvements to the property. OH? Wait… The Palestinians don’t want to pay for the improved property? Uh, Humm

That’s like me buying a shitbox house in Compton improving the hell out of it and being forced to give it to a family in “greater need” of a house than myself  leaving me homeless.

That doesn’t fly and I can tell you…

I’d burn the place down rather than give it away. If i’m going to be homeless because I’m forced to give my hard work to someone who didn’t work for it… Better that WE’RE BOTH homeless.

Hamas is today and has always been  a terrorist organization. That the MORONS in Palestine elected Hamas as their government does not legitimize Hamas or change their past.

Yeah, Yeah, It could be said that our country started out as a bunch of terrorists…Give Hamas 260 years where they’re not taking hostages or firing rockets into Israel NewImageand then we’ll talk.

Then you have people in this country protesting in favor of the Palestinian actions against Israel WTF?

That’s not too different from people protesting in favor of the Taliban or Al Qaeda. 

I’ve always found it ironic that the people protesting in FAVOR of oppressive regimes  in this country are protesting using rights and privileges that are not afforded them under those oppressive regimes.

All of which is why I believe we should get the hell out of the Middle East entirely.

We’re out of our depth, we don’t understand these people and we never will.  

No matter what agreements we make… or belie we’ve made we’re negotiating with peoples that are by our definition insane.

We wouldn’t enter into any binding agreement with someone who was obviously out of their mind here at home.

Why on earth do we attempt it with obviously crazy groups of people and Governments?

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Secession? That’s not the biggest problem.

I’m not concerned about secession petitions appearing on a White House NewImagesponsored site. 

(These petitions have no weight of law, and the secession process is far more involved than signing a petition. I suspect it would require a civil war, the complete collapse of our government. Followed by armed camps staring each other down across a DMZ. None of which is likely.)

Of far more concern are the comments posted after articles reporting on the petitions. 

I have rarely read anything more hatefully venomous than the comments directed at Southern States.

That educated liberal people would actually take the time to spew that kind of vitriol astounds me. I’d have expected it from the rabid fundamentalist fringe but not from liberals.NewImage

I guess it goes to show that given enough time you become what you hate.

I’m deeply saddened that we have, despite all our connectedness lost the ability to discuss controversial issues with our fellow citizens.

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Can we please shut up about the election?

It’s over!

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I’m over it!

I was over it weeks before election day.

I’m doubly over it now… perhaps i’m just doubled over vomiting from all the endless rehashing of the results.

Obama won… NEXT!

Who cares at this point if Romney made this misstep or that mistake? IT’S OVER.

Nothing changed. The politicians are still grandstanding, “scandals” overblown by our media are still serving as distractions and the beat goes on.

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Really, does Feinstein need to know the details of Petraeus affair?

Why the hell is she in any way concerned that her committee didn’t know Petraeus was fucking a woman who was not his wife? If anything it says that he was pretty damn discrete… isn’t that what you want in a CIA director?

I’m not even sure that the Libya attack needs 18 months of investigation by a congressional committee. 

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We all know the “INVESTIGATION” will reveal, warning signs were missed, someone didn’t get the right information to the right agency, people died, lets do better next time.

I don’t mean to trivialize the deaths in Libya but for gods sake, we know there was a tremendous underestimation of the danger.

Once again the idiots in Washington chose to ignore the people actually on the ground in a dangerous foreign country asking for more security. 

The simple solution from here on out is, when someone asks for more security forces… Washington sends more security Rikki fucking tic. Worry about the budget issues after the fact!

The President and the Republicans have continued their fight over taxes, budgets, and will probably continue to do so until the county falls into another recession.

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Even then the Republican and Democratic parties will claw at each other trying to assign blame as they’re falling into the gaping maw of Hell itself.

Merry fucking Christmas to all… YOU’RE BROKE!  It’s that other guys fault!

Can we please end the bullshit?

The best Christmas present I could get this year is a working government.

I’m too much of a cynic to hold my breath.