- Cyber Attack Hits Pentagon
- Bush under new pressure to explain domestic spying
- Breaking: Senate Judiciary Committee Issues Subpoenas For NSA Domestic Spying Documents
- Twelve U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: military
- Soldiers discover 24 emaciated children in Baghdad orphanage
- U.S.-backed Iraqi police get just 8 days of training.
- Report: Fatah on rampage in West Bank
- Pentagon Spends $78 Billion On "Gay Bomb," Psychic Teleportation, Human Commanded Sharks
- Order nixing habeas rights goes into effect.
- Spying fears lead to Blackberry ban for government workers
- China says cancels debt owed by Iraq
- U.S. nuclear envoy visits North Korea
- Bloomberg a Long Shot at Best
- Lieberman Holds Fundraiser For Republican Collins Tonight
- Missing: Large lake in southern Chile
- Bush vetoes embryonic stem cell funding
- Missing Soldier's Wife Faces Deportation
- Walter Reed Security Officer Arrested for Firing Gun
- Replacements named for indicted SC treasurer, Giuliani camp chair
- Giuliani Skipped ISG Meetings For Motivational Events Featuring ‘Christianity’ And ‘Pumping Music’
- New Orleans 'still a flood risk'
- Crowd kills passenger of car that struck child
- Pentagon Spends $78 Billion On "Gay Bomb," Psychic Teleportation, Human Commanded Sharks
- Reopen the investigation of Abu Ghraib
- Jobless claims rise unexpectedly
- Egypt invites leaders to peace summit
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Comparing Palestinians To Nazi's
ThinkProgress reports that Ben Shapiro on Townhall.Com recently said of the Palestinians:
"The problem runs deeper than a few figureheads. The Palestinian Arab population is rotten to the core."
Orthodox Jew and radically Conservative Shapiro also claimed :
"They are as responsible for their government’s longstanding evil as the Germans were for the Nazis’."
Why doesn't Shapiro just come out and say what he means? Shapiro obviously despises all Palestinian people. It is Shapiro who sounds "rotten to the core." This guy gives me the chills.
By this very same misguided logic every American citizen is also guilty of the torture and sexual violation of inmates in Abu Ghraib. By this logic every American citizen is responsible for the all the atrocities our government ever carried out.
I've heard this logic before.... where was it? Oh yeah, it was Osama bin Laden when he said it was OK to kill American civilians because we elect our leaders so we are responsible for what they do.
Shapiro's animosity and hatred towards all Palestinians is not justified, I don't understand his viciousness. Is this simple transference?
The Germans had contempt for all Jews and hated everything about them, just like Shapiro has contempt for all Palestinians and hates everything about them. So to my ears Shapiro is the one who sounds like the fascist.
Why compare the Palestinians to the Nazi's?
The Nazi's had concentration camps, gas chambers, and modern weaponry.
The Palestinians live in walled cities which they are not allowed to leave from without the permission of the Israeli's. The weapons of the bad guys? Malfunctioning AK-47's and homemade "rockets".
There are so many fundamental differences between the Nazi's and the Palestinians it isn't even funny.
For one, there are not hundreds of thousands of armed Palestinians with tanks and airplanes making line invasions into a neighboring country and throwing a particular ethnic group into ovens.
More importantly, it is the Palestinians who are living in strife and oppression. I see a holocaust of sorts, but it isn't happening to the Jews. I see a destruction of a society, a destruction being pushed from the outside and aided from the inside. I see injustice, which leads to widespread anger and eventual violence.
The German Nazi's invaded neighboring countries in a quest for world domination, the Palestinians want their own country and there has to be a way to work on that, but as long as their are pretentious self serving racist around like Shapiro it will be an uphill battle.
This archetype of people only feed into the militants hostility and anger and only make it easier for them to find recruits.
What do they need propaganda video's for when all they really need is a few articles written by Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager translated into Arabic? Then the militants can say "See how much they hate you? They don't want peace, peace is a lie."
Comparing the Palestinians to the Nazi's is to compare apples and oranges and I think this Shapiro character must have a hideous mind.
"The problem runs deeper than a few figureheads. The Palestinian Arab population is rotten to the core."
Orthodox Jew and radically Conservative Shapiro also claimed :
"They are as responsible for their government’s longstanding evil as the Germans were for the Nazis’."
Why doesn't Shapiro just come out and say what he means? Shapiro obviously despises all Palestinian people. It is Shapiro who sounds "rotten to the core." This guy gives me the chills.
By this very same misguided logic every American citizen is also guilty of the torture and sexual violation of inmates in Abu Ghraib. By this logic every American citizen is responsible for the all the atrocities our government ever carried out.
I've heard this logic before.... where was it? Oh yeah, it was Osama bin Laden when he said it was OK to kill American civilians because we elect our leaders so we are responsible for what they do.
Shapiro's animosity and hatred towards all Palestinians is not justified, I don't understand his viciousness. Is this simple transference?
The Germans had contempt for all Jews and hated everything about them, just like Shapiro has contempt for all Palestinians and hates everything about them. So to my ears Shapiro is the one who sounds like the fascist.
Why compare the Palestinians to the Nazi's?
The Nazi's had concentration camps, gas chambers, and modern weaponry.
The Palestinians live in walled cities which they are not allowed to leave from without the permission of the Israeli's. The weapons of the bad guys? Malfunctioning AK-47's and homemade "rockets".
There are so many fundamental differences between the Nazi's and the Palestinians it isn't even funny.
For one, there are not hundreds of thousands of armed Palestinians with tanks and airplanes making line invasions into a neighboring country and throwing a particular ethnic group into ovens.
More importantly, it is the Palestinians who are living in strife and oppression. I see a holocaust of sorts, but it isn't happening to the Jews. I see a destruction of a society, a destruction being pushed from the outside and aided from the inside. I see injustice, which leads to widespread anger and eventual violence.
The German Nazi's invaded neighboring countries in a quest for world domination, the Palestinians want their own country and there has to be a way to work on that, but as long as their are pretentious self serving racist around like Shapiro it will be an uphill battle.
This archetype of people only feed into the militants hostility and anger and only make it easier for them to find recruits.
What do they need propaganda video's for when all they really need is a few articles written by Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager translated into Arabic? Then the militants can say "See how much they hate you? They don't want peace, peace is a lie."
Comparing the Palestinians to the Nazi's is to compare apples and oranges and I think this Shapiro character must have a hideous mind.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Lazy Links
- Bomb kills 78 in Baghdad, U.S. in big offensive
- Book on Baghdad `Green Zone' Wins $59500 Samuel Johnson Prize
- Israeli tanks rumble into Gaza
- Bush, Olmert Praise Palestinian Leader
- British police break up pedophile ring, 31 children rescued
- Nine 'courageous firefighters' die in warehouse blaze
- Report slams deletion of White House e-mail
- Following Bush Signing Statements, Federal Agencies Ignore 30 Percent Of Laws Passed Last Year
- Democratic rivals trade jabs on Iraq
- Congressmen Back Off Bid That Delayed Energy Bill
- Giuliani Prioritizes Fundraising Over Iraq Strategy
- Woodward questions Thompson role in Watergate.
- Book on Baghdad `Green Zone' Wins $59500 Samuel Johnson Prize
- Israeli tanks rumble into Gaza
- Bush, Olmert Praise Palestinian Leader
- British police break up pedophile ring, 31 children rescued
- Nine 'courageous firefighters' die in warehouse blaze
- Report slams deletion of White House e-mail
- Following Bush Signing Statements, Federal Agencies Ignore 30 Percent Of Laws Passed Last Year
- Democratic rivals trade jabs on Iraq
- Congressmen Back Off Bid That Delayed Energy Bill
- Giuliani Prioritizes Fundraising Over Iraq Strategy
- Woodward questions Thompson role in Watergate.
Monday, June 18, 2007
To The Democrats : Push Has Come To Shove
The Democrats are afraid to use their power against the Bush Administration and the corruption that has engulfed the majority of the Republican party.
Some of this apprehension may stem from the fact that the Bush Administration has spent the past 6 years routinely abusing power.
Perhaps this makes the Democrats fear they could be perceived in the same partisan and powerhungry way if they became too zealous in going after the Bush Administration and their corrupted lackey's for their overt crimes.
So the result is this : The Republicans refuse to carry out the will of the majority of the American people and the Democrats are still afraid to.
I don't care if I anger or offend my Democratic friends, the time has come that we put all the energy that we put into exposing the Bush Administration and Republicans into pressuring the Democrats into taking action on it.
Why? Because the future of our country depends on it. It's really that simple.
We as Democrats are constantly accused of being "weak" by the other side. I believe it is high time the Democrats start asserting themselves and reclaiming the power of Congress. This horse and pony show that has been going on for the last six years has got to end.
The Democrats seem afraid to push back at the Bush Administration and the Republican minority for their blatant abuse and disrespect of our laws and our system of checks and balances.
I shouldn't need to remind anyone about the battering the image of the United States has suffered under the leadership of George W. Bush and his Republican enablers.
This is not normal. This is not even close to how things are supposed to be, the policies of our nation have drifted far beyond the realm of the norm. This is not just another war and this is not just another bad President, this is an utter breakdown of civility and accountability in the highest office of the land.
The American people are not content with the current state of affairs and the Democrats need to establish themselves as those who bring justice to the American people by making genuine efforts to end the war in Iraq and hold the Bush Administration accountable for it's questionable acts and decisions.
The Democrats should not relent in their pursuit of the truth regarding the Attorney General scandal and the politicization of the Justice Department.
We are now just receiving new information about the horrors that were committed at Abu Ghraib, including a recording of the forced sodomization of a female inmate and a man who was sexually humiliated in front of his son.
It is time for the real Democrats to shove back, not only against the Bush Administration and the GOP, but also against the people within the party who are preventing them from making progress in these areas.
If the Democrats fail to hold the Bush Administration accountable for their actions they will damage not only the Democratic Party but the next phase of this country.
There is much work to be done and many balances to correct, I don't think enough people realize how close we were to something I could only describe as a silent coup that used 9/11 and the "War on Terror" as a pretext for control.
The Democrats should not be afraid of using the power that the voters gave them.
The American voters did not vote for Democrats to see the war grow larger and the Bush Administration grow bolder.
No, the American people gave Democrats the power of Congress because they wanted to see the War in Iraq come to an end and they no longer trusted the Republicans to hold the Bush Administration accountable.
The Democrats seemed to realize this in the early hours after they were elected, but something has made them back down from the stance which we all assumed would be much more aggressive.
Of course the Republicans and the Bush Administration is going to attack every move you make and try to make it sound as disastrous as possible, that is something the Democrats are going to need to learn to deal with.
It's quite natural the Republicans attack the Democrats if the Democrats are trying to hold them responsible for their actions, but it doesn't make them right.
Push has come to shove, and if you ask me it's time to fight, not play nice with the people who have nearly destroyed our image and the checks and balances of the our nation.
Some of this apprehension may stem from the fact that the Bush Administration has spent the past 6 years routinely abusing power.
Perhaps this makes the Democrats fear they could be perceived in the same partisan and powerhungry way if they became too zealous in going after the Bush Administration and their corrupted lackey's for their overt crimes.
So the result is this : The Republicans refuse to carry out the will of the majority of the American people and the Democrats are still afraid to.
I don't care if I anger or offend my Democratic friends, the time has come that we put all the energy that we put into exposing the Bush Administration and Republicans into pressuring the Democrats into taking action on it.
Why? Because the future of our country depends on it. It's really that simple.
We as Democrats are constantly accused of being "weak" by the other side. I believe it is high time the Democrats start asserting themselves and reclaiming the power of Congress. This horse and pony show that has been going on for the last six years has got to end.
The Democrats seem afraid to push back at the Bush Administration and the Republican minority for their blatant abuse and disrespect of our laws and our system of checks and balances.
I shouldn't need to remind anyone about the battering the image of the United States has suffered under the leadership of George W. Bush and his Republican enablers.
This is not normal. This is not even close to how things are supposed to be, the policies of our nation have drifted far beyond the realm of the norm. This is not just another war and this is not just another bad President, this is an utter breakdown of civility and accountability in the highest office of the land.
The American people are not content with the current state of affairs and the Democrats need to establish themselves as those who bring justice to the American people by making genuine efforts to end the war in Iraq and hold the Bush Administration accountable for it's questionable acts and decisions.
The Democrats should not relent in their pursuit of the truth regarding the Attorney General scandal and the politicization of the Justice Department.
We are now just receiving new information about the horrors that were committed at Abu Ghraib, including a recording of the forced sodomization of a female inmate and a man who was sexually humiliated in front of his son.
It is time for the real Democrats to shove back, not only against the Bush Administration and the GOP, but also against the people within the party who are preventing them from making progress in these areas.
If the Democrats fail to hold the Bush Administration accountable for their actions they will damage not only the Democratic Party but the next phase of this country.
There is much work to be done and many balances to correct, I don't think enough people realize how close we were to something I could only describe as a silent coup that used 9/11 and the "War on Terror" as a pretext for control.
The Democrats should not be afraid of using the power that the voters gave them.
The American voters did not vote for Democrats to see the war grow larger and the Bush Administration grow bolder.
No, the American people gave Democrats the power of Congress because they wanted to see the War in Iraq come to an end and they no longer trusted the Republicans to hold the Bush Administration accountable.
The Democrats seemed to realize this in the early hours after they were elected, but something has made them back down from the stance which we all assumed would be much more aggressive.
Of course the Republicans and the Bush Administration is going to attack every move you make and try to make it sound as disastrous as possible, that is something the Democrats are going to need to learn to deal with.
It's quite natural the Republicans attack the Democrats if the Democrats are trying to hold them responsible for their actions, but it doesn't make them right.
Push has come to shove, and if you ask me it's time to fight, not play nice with the people who have nearly destroyed our image and the checks and balances of the our nation.
Lazy Links
- Abbas wins Western pledges, vows to control Gaza
- Investigation Uncovers ‘Extensive Destruction’ Of RNC Emails, Violations Of Records Act
- Federal Prosecution Cases Undermined By US Attorney Scandal
- Voters Upset With Democrats : Want End To Iraq War
- Palestinian cabinet meets, seeks plan to end anarchy (2nd Roundup)
- Iraq now ranked second among world's failed states
- Four Years Later: US, Britain Propose Official End To Hunt For WMDs
- Internet porn sting snares 700
- U.S.-led air raid kills seven Afghan children
- Kabul bus bomb kills 35 in worst attack since ousting of Taliban
- Lebanon Militants Fire Rockets At Israel
- China slave scandal brings resignation calls
- Italy CIA kidnap trial adjourned
- Clinton leads Obama by double digits in new poll
- Applebee's Serves 2 Year Old Margaritta In Sippy Cup
- Abu Ghraib Investigator Details Pentagon Cover-Up: ‘I Thought I Was In The Mafia’
- Investigation Uncovers ‘Extensive Destruction’ Of RNC Emails, Violations Of Records Act
- Federal Prosecution Cases Undermined By US Attorney Scandal
- Voters Upset With Democrats : Want End To Iraq War
- Palestinian cabinet meets, seeks plan to end anarchy (2nd Roundup)
- Iraq now ranked second among world's failed states
- Four Years Later: US, Britain Propose Official End To Hunt For WMDs
- Internet porn sting snares 700
- U.S.-led air raid kills seven Afghan children
- Kabul bus bomb kills 35 in worst attack since ousting of Taliban
- Lebanon Militants Fire Rockets At Israel
- China slave scandal brings resignation calls
- Italy CIA kidnap trial adjourned
- Clinton leads Obama by double digits in new poll
- Applebee's Serves 2 Year Old Margaritta In Sippy Cup
- Abu Ghraib Investigator Details Pentagon Cover-Up: ‘I Thought I Was In The Mafia’
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