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• Pro-Palestinian Author Banned From Jewish Book Festival Over Controversial Views on Israel

  November 15, 2012 at 1:22pm

  In reply to PhilipJames.

  No, that’s someone else. He’s a bit of an ass, and he ignores outright Arab intentions in the region, along with the long history of the battle over Israel/Palestine, but in this he does make a good point. Israel was initially a true democratic state, no special consideration for religion when citizenship was concerned. That has changed, and the constant building is creating stress where he is correct that Palestinians are being driven right into the hands of Hamas.

  For some of the more extreme right wing zionists, this is a positive as it grants Israel a reason to slaughter them, then claim the land, believing God will intervene when a united Muslim front attempts revenge – which I personally do not believe would happen, if anything God would forsake Israel, as the only time he told my people to slaughter in Canaan was to kill off the hedonistic and woefully forsaken Canaanites. For less extreme, it’s troubling and causes a threat that has to be militarily dealt with. For the Moderates and Liberals, it causes stress on their end because they just want an end to it all, and a peaceful state.

• Pro-Palestinian Author Banned From Jewish Book Festival Over Controversial Views on Israel

  November 15, 2012 at 1:12pm

  In reply to BlackCrow.

  Did you even read the article?

• Glenn Beck Lays Out the Startling Similarities Between Present Day America and the Weimar Republic

  November 15, 2012 at 12:59pm

  In reply to louise.

  @DrPhil69, would you then consider yourself a eugenicist?

  Even you have proven yourself to be a diehard and very closed minded individual, buying into the hatred bred by the false paradigm of two ideologies that are different more so in looks than in actual ideology. Little different from the people you so despise. Most of them ordinary people who simply want a better life, but have never been put to task, taught, or shown the value and merit of working hard and the experience gained from moving up the chain, or even changing multiple jobs to find something that fits.

  Are they really deserving of death? In the end, if you were born in that kind of family, and had very clever and openminded progressive teachers, can you not see how you too could become one of those mindless masses?

  Can you not see how you are just as blind and mindless, playing right into the hands of the power elite, because afterall, what would benefit the government and powerful more than fewer people to control? How is there any justification for taking a life to better humanity when that life is simply ignorant, whether willfully or unknowningly, of the economic reality their ideology leads to suffering and death with a constant longing for a better life, and so a need to look up to a leader always promising, never delivering?

  Blind faith and hatred is only part of the illusion…

  @Ghost, great point. Gold is fine, but it’s like one item on a list of hundreds in preparatory.

• U.S. Gov’t Kicks off 2013 Budget Year With $120B Deficit

  November 13, 2012 at 10:17pm

  In reply to Chrono_Sleuth.

  No, just a guy following what tracks he can. If I were to classify my job it’s a freelance networker and aspiring novelist. So I suppose we shouldn’t waste time, though I am curious what your angle would be.

• U.S. Gov’t Kicks off 2013 Budget Year With $120B Deficit

  November 13, 2012 at 9:59pm

  Why do we always talk about the budget? It’s not remotely important or relevant until we know the financial reports, something virtually no reporter ever likes to cover, be it state or federal.

  http://www.gao.gov/financial/fy2011/11frusg.pdf

  Here’s the 2011 annual financial report, the state reports are all called Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFR). I would pay special attention to government investment in the actual market…then wonder who really controls Wallstreet and the largest multinational US corporations.

  That said…great, more debt =P.

  Oh, and Anonymous T. Irrelevant, they haven’t passed a NEW budget. As it is, we’re running on a 5 year old budget from the time of Pelosi, when Bush era deficits nearly tripled, and we’ve seen numerous bills making small changes here and there to the budget. Also…budgets don’t tell you how much you have and do not have. It’s your financial statements and reports that tell you that. Budgets determine the use of said money and whether you borrow and how much, however that’s only if you disclose the full amount of money you actually have in all assets in your budget. Many people don’t because some money isn’t going to be allocated, it will just sit and collect interest, or the value of something will simply retain itself overtime, unsold/used/etc.

• Pot and Amnesty: Rand Paul’s Surprising New Agenda For the GOP

  November 13, 2012 at 9:39pm

  In reply to Chrono_Sleuth.

  In the ideal Libertarian world, yes, as Paul ascribes to the Austrian School, which is an anarcho capitolist right-wing libertarian position. However, until that point he’s very much a constitutionalist.

  Also, he did advocate to bring the troops home and several times mentioned one of the reasons is due to the escalating conflict on the border, of course the main reason being we shouldn’t be the police of the world. The point of many constitutional libertarians who are also anarcho capitolists, is that until there’s a shift in the world towards true capitolism, and a natural progression towards working together between individuals of various countries, rather than their governments, there has to be some level of sovereignty maintained by the border.

  Also republicorp, I did not know that, I’ll have to look into that and read his reasoning if he ever left one.

• Pot and Amnesty: Rand Paul’s Surprising New Agenda For the GOP

  November 13, 2012 at 6:43pm

  Hold on a second. Wait a minute. Ron Paul was NOT for open borders. He was for making it harder for illegals to come over, but opening the door to legal immigration by bringing the troops back to stand in defense of the homeland (border), reorganize the government and streamline laws and remove beaurocratic red tape so organizing for whatever border plan is faster and easier…all while increasing visa’s, making legal immigration easier, citizenship easier to obtain, and opening the borders of business and making it easier for more businesses to be built in this country by removing all the excess regulations that help no one and streamlining/simplifying the tax code.

  There are two camps in the Libertarian movement who want fully open borders. Left = progressive libertarians, and right = economic anarchism (though this group also toys with the notion of Kings). The rest are mixes and everywhere in between. There are like 12 independent schools of thought, 6 on the left and 6 on the right of the movement.

  Do you ever do research? Or is it that the blaze is too bloody lazy and would rather label a single ideology to a single group where anywhere from 10-40% of it’s membership agrees to one degree or another (hard to say, given many of us shift here and there as we learn…granted we tend to read a LOT). Even then for those who do, it’s not that simple…it just gets more complex depending on who you talk to. I should expect better, but I see no reason to.

• Pot and Amnesty: Rand Paul’s Surprising New Agenda For the GOP

  November 13, 2012 at 6:30pm

  In reply to Eric_The_Red_State.

  Praytell, how is the Republican party not being run by progressives? How is there agenda that much different? Aside from the difference that both are steering us towards the same cliff, only democrats prefer turning on the turbos.

• ‘Flirtatious’ But Not Sexual? Fox Source Details Gen. Allen’s Relationship With Petraeus Whistleblower

  November 13, 2012 at 6:07pm

  In reply to progressiveslayer.

  This is very true. It’s all a distraction, and in the end that’s how the administration wants it to be. Oh, and let’s not forget the media. Afterall, what’s that famous depressing slogan: “We’re all socialists now.”

• ‘Flirtatious’ But Not Sexual? Fox Source Details Gen. Allen’s Relationship With Petraeus Whistleblower

  November 13, 2012 at 4:34pm

  In reply to lefty5005.

  Way to come out of the closet there. Blame the dame. Ya, that’s who is at fault! Sorry, but I couldn’t disagree more.

  Not to mention Patreus himself is as anti-constitutional as you can get. Not to mention he’s fully on board with any and all of Obama’s policies (sorry, I mean the policies of the movement, ideology, and people behind it he is the actor in chief for). You don’t hire a man who is retiring to be your CIA chief in an administration so hell bent on ensuring every single member is on the same page, unless he’s…on the same page. You let him retire.

  Is Patreus an amazing general who changed the direction of two illegal (by US constitutional standards…they are) non properly declared wars? Yes, he is quite an adept military commander. However the only other general charged with changing the direction of two campaigns had far more difficult enemies with better weapons and far larger numbers. So arguably we’re giving credit to a man who helped us win easy wars. Maybe we should rethink how generals are selected in the first place.

  That said, the man is an abomination of freedom, and is fully happy and willing to subjugate and spy on every American citizen. So please, don’t start with the war hero bullcrap, as it does not give any man the right to gleefully run over the US constitution, or continue to support an agenda that is destroying US sovereignty. Then there’s his actions and statements in Benghazi…yep, such an “honorable” man.