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Welcome to SDA Late Night Radio. Yesterday, on Memorial Day, Americans paid tribute to their fallen soldiers. Steve McCann, who was brought to the US after being orphaned in World War II, believes that citizens of other nations should be thankful as well:

With each new generation, the knowledge and experience of war and survival are replaced with the demands of day-to-day living and an unfortunate tendency to fall prey to the false but fashionable proclivity of blaming the United States for all the world’s ills. But the various countries of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East who have experienced peace and prosperity for years or decades would not have done so without the willingness of the United States to expend the lives and wealth of its citizens.

On Memorial Day, when Americans honor the memory of those who without hesitation paid the ultimate price to defend the United States, it is fitting that the people and their progeny around the world whose lives were so impacted by these same sacrifices pause and express their gratitude.

Indeed. Tonight’s song, George Jones’ heartfelt 50,000 Names, is dedicated to our American friends, including the families of fallen soldiers.
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  1. Portrait of a blowhard:
    Here’s a video of a teleprompter-less Barack Obama answering a question about North Korea.
    By the time the Great Pontificator was halfway through, I was half expecting him to say “Well, North Korea, as I’m sure you’re aware, is south of China and north of South Korea, and South Korea is, in fact, south of North Korea…”

  3. EBD … that video clip of Bam Bam was painful to watch.
    …uhhhh….we will consult with our allies….uhhhhhhh…..on how to move forward on these issues……uhhhhhh…….
    Blah. Blah. Blah.
    Totally ignored the Iran part of the question, too.
    Blowhard is too charitable a term.

  4. Excerpt from a post at BookwormRoom.com:
    “It was the liberal inability to think logically, to recognize the world as it is, not as the theories demand it should be, that slowly but steadily separated me from liberalism. And this separation, although it took way too long to reach fruition (about 20 years too long), started back in 1979, when I hit U.C. Berkeley. I was in the liberal arts programs — history and English — and, consistently, I griped that the classes made no sense. Egotistical to the last, I knew that the problem wasn’t me, but the classes themselves.
    “I suffered through several years of slow drip idiocy and Marxist poison, which I won’t even try to describe here. Why should I? One class sums it all up for me. It was in that class that my professor insisted that Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray was a scathing Marxist indictment of British class structure. Apparently I have some resistance to indoctrination, because I grasped reality enough to know that this was an insanely stupid statement.”

  6. David Warren:
    “To the mainstream media — to that liberal elite generally — the question has not been whether we should have vast intrusive bureaucracies, but rather, what their policies should be, and how to pay for them. That is their playing field, on which they locate some “middle ground” or scrimmage line — itself shifting constantly to the left, toward some vague, Utopian endzone. It comes as an inconceivable shock to them to discover millions of people who are not merely pushing back against this ‘progress’ — which they could understand — but want no part of the game.
    “Their lives are centred on family and church and productive labour, not on politics. They are often poorly informed about things they care little about; poorly researched on current rights and entitlements; real boobs when they stray into debates about such things; and thus, hicks to the politically sophisticated. The latter, in turn, know little enough about family and church and productive labour.
    “The problem arises between these two amorphous groups when the latter take the former to be their milch cows. At least in America, that is the point at which the hicks suddenly become seriously interested in politics, organize themselves into things like Tea Parties, and go out looking for results.
    “This is complicated by the fact that Nanny State has come to the end of her fiscal road….”
    The whole thing here.

  9. On Memorial Day, when Americans honor the memory of those who without hesitation paid the ultimate price to defend the United States…
    While I agree with the sentiment, it should be noted that since the war of 1812 there has never been a credible foreign threat against the United States, per se – two vast oceans meant that Americans didn’t have to fear the invader the way say Englishmen, Frenchmen, or Poles did. Those brave young men and women paid that ultimate price, not to defend America but to defend America’s allies or those who shared values dear to America and Americans. All of us who live in the free west owe an enormous debt of gratitude to a nation so willing to shed blood and treasure to stand with her friends.

  11. “A Michigan lawmaker wants to license reporters to ensure they’re credible and vet them for ‘good moral character.'”
    I will enjoy observing the liberals squirm about that, since it is constitutionally no different than their various and sundry infringements on the 2nd Amendment.

  12. If you have a half hour or so, pour yourself a cup of coffee and read William Voegeli’s superb essay The Meaning of the Tea Party, at Claremont.org. By far the best and most encompassing analysis I’ve read of the larger (and longer term) forces at play under the surface, including the media’s superficial coverage.
    Here’s a brief – and almost arbitrarily selected – excerpt:
    “The Tea Party scorn for the president’s promises that all his transformative plans won’t hurt a bit is about Obama, but also about something bigger. The voters are particularly unreceptive to presidential promises that sound too good to be true, because they have lived to regret listening to other such promises. Those promises were made by leaders of the new meritocracy, the one described by Brooks, in his comic sociology mode, as the ‘valedictocracy,’ populated by ‘Achievatrons’ who ‘got double 800s on their SATs.’
    “Without judging the validity of its complaint, Brooks asserts that the Tea Party movement is made up of people who ‘are against the concentrated power of the educated class. They believe big government, big business, big media and the affluent professionals are merging to form a self-serving oligarchy—with bloated government, unsustainable deficits, high taxes and intrusive regulation.’
    “We can be less impartial. The sociological but not very comic reality is that Brooks’s Achievatrons wound up being distrusted by millions of their countrymen the old-fashioned way—they earned it. Our new meritocratic masters have been more conspicuously smart than wise. They know a lot, but don’t know what they don’t know. Their self-regard as the modern Americans who are the ‘natural aristocrats’ Jefferson looked for has left them with an exaggerated sense of their own noblesse, and a deficient awareness of their corresponding oblige. Their expectation that the rest of us will be deferential to their expertise, like citizens of European nations that are social but not especially political democracies, has triggered the Tea Party backlash, and the resurgence of the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ spirit.
    “As a result, eloquent promises about how government can be expanded to the benefit of all while taxes are increased only for a very few, and how ingenious new programs can make health care simultaneously more extensive and less expensive, are setting off alarms. These assurances—that when common sense tells us that something isn’t possible while expert analysis tells us that it is, our common sense is the thing that needs to be adjusted—sound ominously familiar. Wasn’t it just the other day that brainiacs with MBAs were telling us that, no, it was not dangerous for people with modest incomes to purchase expensive houses with zero-down, adjustable-rate mortgages? Since we didn’t go to Wharton and weren’t conversant with the esoteric innovations in financial derivatives and securitization that had taken the risk out of taking risks, we didn’t know enough to set aside our unfounded fears that all this highly leveraged borrowing would end badly.”
    No excerpt can do it justice; do read the whole thing, if you have the time. It’s well worth it.

  14. According to a South Asian Diplomat, the US did win the Vietnam war. The objective of the war was to stop the communists from taking over all of the area down to Australia. The “Domino Theory” if you want. The US military set this ambition back at least 15 years during which time the area’s free enterprise system grew and flourished.
    Sorry, I can’t seem to find the link.

  15. I will second the opinion of that diplomat, “Gunney99”. The rock that Thailand *was*, I firmly believe, the MAIN reason for the halt of socialist dictatorship in that part of the world – as Thailand had, on its doorstep, not only the 3 former French Indochinese colonies go red, but also the “Socialist Republic of Burma” sharing a looong serpentine western border. We all should thank the King of Thailand (Siam) – ESPECIALLY when his +50-year rule comes to an end – for being an unrecognized “cold warrior”.
    I would be amiss also in neglecting the waves and sheer number of refugees along BOTH Thailand’s borders that were absorbed and accommodated by Thais during and after the Cold War upheavals. Well done Thailand!

  16. The liberal-left Fun-Fair.
    It’s not fair.
    (H/T Liberal Citoyen Dionky)
    “Mr. Cale said the league’s 12-person board of directors is not trying to take the fun out of the game, they are simply trying to make it fair.”
    …-
    “Win a soccer game by more than five points and you lose, Ottawa league says”
    http://urlm.in/erqa

  17. The left-liberal Fun-Fair (cont’d):
    ““When a super-marginalized homeless person is just sitting down because they are not doing well, tremendous harm is created when they are removed,” said Ann Livingston, a volunteer with the Vancouver Area Network Drug Users, which is a co-complainant with Pivot.”
    …-
    “Poverty groups take Vancouver security guards to B.C. Human Rights Tribunal
    The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal will be asked Monday to decide whether a homeless person has a right to sit down on a sidewalk without being harassed by private security guards.
    “Sidewalks are the issue,” said John Richardson, executive director of the Pivot Legal Society, on Sunday. “An important part of security guards’ job is removing the homeless from downtown. There have been hundreds of illegal removals.”
    The two-year-old complaint was brought against the Vancouver Ambassadors, a privately funded security organization, whose mandate is to address “quality of life” issues such as panhandling, littering and illegal vending.”
    http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Poverty+groups+take+Vancouver+security+guards+Rights+Tribunal/3090515/story.html

  18. dcardno @12:28am – yes – except for that little thing that happened when the Japanese attacked the US at Pearl Harbour. I’d classify that as a “credible foreign threat” – no?

  20. Here’s an excellent outline of Obama’s incompetence.
    http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/05/31/the-secret-ingredient-in-the-obama-formula-for-success/2/
    Kimball describes Obama within four adjectives: incompetence, arrogance, left-wingery, laziness.
    These are all good terms to use but they miss what I feel is the basic ‘format’ that has structured Obama so that these behaviours are the result: pathological narcissism.
    Obama retreated into this psychological state as a young boy; it enabled him to feel that he, not the whims of his absent parents and caretaker grandmother, was in charge. To achieve this, Obama moved out of contact with the real world and into a virtual world where he controls, at least in his mind, what happens.
    To achieve control, Obama is a pathological liar; remember, he has no contact with reality for he can’t let the real world be the boss of him. He has to control reality. So he lies. Then, he emotionally manipulates you to do what he wants – tales of fear, hope. And if you reject or try to assert your own will, there’s the ultimate accusation of your being biased. Obama uses race like a winning card.
    If something or someone tries to move into this world that he can’t control – he pretends it doesn’t exist. That includes terrorism. It also includes work!
    It’s easy for Obama to say that ‘I’m in charge of the oil spill’. That’s his virtual world. In the real world, the oil continues to gush and nothing is done to clean up the contamination on the beaches. In Obama’s world..all that matters are His Words. Not the reality of the actual oil well, not the reality of the actual pollution. Since they don’t exist – all that exists are his words.
    I don’t think we are aware how much Obama lives solely within his Virtual World of Words. He’s retreated even further into this realm since becoming president because he is incapable of action in the real world.

  21. …except for that little thing that happened when the Japanese attacked the US at Pearl Harbour.
    I blame patriarchical hegemonic Euro-centrism…
    😉
    You’re right, I had overlooked that, although I am not sure that the Japanese were that great a threat to the continental US, or even to Alaska.

  22. “Anti-Socialist Realism”
    “Robert Conquest, author of the pathfinding history of the Terror Famine, The Harvest of Sorrow, has repeatedly referred to the following passage for its subtextual resonance with the Shoah:
    They convinced themselves that the kulaks
    were evil, that it was best not to even touch them…
    The kulaks’ towels were unclean, their children were
    disgusting, their young women were worse than lice.
    The activists looked on those who were being
    dispossessed as if they were cattle, or swine… They
    were not even human beings; goodness knows what
    they were—some kind of beasts, I suppose.”
    http://www.tnr.com/book/review/actually-existing-social-realism

  23. Here’s the legal background on the legitimacy of Israel’s halting the convoy’s attempt to violate the sea blockade on Gaza. Israel had the legal right to stop the ships. Here’s the data and a few points from the web site.
    http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Law/Legal+Issues+and+Rulings/Gaza_flotilla_maritime_blockade_Gaza-Legal_background_31-May-2010.htm
    8. A state may take action to enforce a blockade. Any vessel that violates or attempts to violate a maritime blockade may be captured or even attacked under international law. The US Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations sets forth that a vessel is considered to be in attempt to breach a blockade from the time the vessel leaves its port with the intention of evading the blockade.
    9. Here we should note that the protesters indicated their clear intention to violate the blockade by means of written and oral statements. Moreover, the route of these vessels indicated their clear intention to violate the blockade in violation of international law.
    10. Given the protesters explicit intention to violate the naval blockade, Israel exercised its right under international law to enforce the blockade. It should be noted that prior to undertaking enforcement measures, explicit warnings were relayed directly to the captains of the vessels, expressing Israel’s intent to exercise its right to enforce the blockade.
    11. Israel had attempted to take control of the vessels participating in the flotilla by peaceful means and in an orderly fashion in order to enforce the blockade. Given the large number of vessels participating in the flotilla, an operational decision was made to undertake measures to enforce the blockade a certain distance from the area of the blockade.
    12. Israeli personnel attempting to enforce the blockade were met with violence by the protesters and acted in self defense to fend off such attacks.
    As was clear, the convoy was open in its intention of breaching the blockade. Therefore its agenda was not about aid but about a violation of Israel’s self-defense.

  24. “An Inconvenient Truth” Al & Tipper to separate after 40 years. Even Tipper got tired of Al’s “hotair”. Wonder what the really truth will be….
    via CTV British Columbia

  26. First step of a collapse – wife leaves. She knows first hand her guy is a fraud and bails.

  27. Allah-oop for da Muslims.
    Who are these “Gazans”, anyway?
    Were they not Willy Clinton’s/Arfafat’s sheep?
    …-
    “Thousands of Gazans rush for Egyptian border
    Several thousand Gazans are making a furious rush to the Egyptian border, hoping to take advantage of a rare chance to escape the blockaded territory.
    Egypt announced Tuesday it was temporarily opening the border, a day after an Israeli naval raid killed nine pro-Palestinian activists sailing to Gaza.
    Cars with suitcases piled on their roofs are streaming to the border, while many others are lugging overstaffed bags on foot. Dozens of Hamas police with automatic weapons are patrolling the area to maintain order…
    (Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2525339/posts

  28. Regarding the Gore fiasco, go to the CBC and read the comments. Some of them are quite humerous, actually! Rumor has it Al’s come out and will be shacking up with Suzuki.

  29. Of course, the Americans pretty well goaded the Japanese into attacking them by being in Pearl Harbour in the first place ( in the Japanese sphere of influence)and continually opposing the Japanese having a blue water navy.

  30. …except for that little thing that happened when the Japanese attacked the US at Pearl Harbour.
    …and German subs on the east coast (just off New York) and Japanese subs on the west coast (just of San Diego)

  31. Thanks EBD, God Bless our Military.
    My one bright point on Memorial Day is Barry’s speech got rained out.
    USN 71 – 77
    USS Foresstal CVA59

  32. Ill believe it when I see it.
    Canada reconsidering health-care model in face of soaring costs
    American fans of single-payer health care have long held Canada as an example of success in both providing health care and controlling costs. Canadians have more reason to question both, however, especially the latter. The provinces, which bear a significant portion of those costs, may end some services and curtail others as ballooning costs have exposed the cradle-to-grave system as unsustainable:
    http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/01/canada-reconsidering-health-care-model-in-face-of-soaring-costs/

  33. O’to Helenback’s “Massacre”. Scratch left-liberal Helenback’s back and find an anti-semite.
    *O’narcissist:
    “*This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    …-
    “Helen Thomas Rails At White House Over Stance On Israeli “Flotilla Massacre”
    Since yesterday’s Israeli military attack on a flotilla heading to Gaza, the White House has been walking a tightrope trying to keep their comments about it as neutral as possible. Even their neutrality, however, was questioned today by none other than Helen Thomas, who put Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in a tough spot by railing against the Obama administration for not calling the event a “deliberate massacre” and more concretely confronting the Israeli government.
    Thomas, clearly fuming, gave Gibbs a bit of a lesson in Loaded Questions 101:
    “The initial reaction to the flotilla massacre, deliberate massacre, an international crime, was pitiful. What do you mean you regret something that should be so strongly condemned, and if any other nation in the world had done it, we would have been up in arms? What is this ironclad relationship where a country that deliberately kills people and boycotts every aid and abet… the boycott?””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2525538/posts
    …-
    *O’narcissist:
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  34. In the “Really Important Things To Protest” Department, the fine folks of Hamilton’s Sexual Abuse Centre are busy patrolling the men’s lavatories of local drinking establishments in order to get outraged.
    It seems as having a urnal shaped like a pair of lips (facial) will cause males of the species to run amok with uncontrolable urges. A year long campaign with petitions, has finally rid the washroom of said offensive porcelain.
    All this wasted time and energy but they still can’t explain the three shells.
    http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/778848

  35. Re Al and Tipper Gore’s marital woes: I’m never happy when I hear that someone’s marriage is kaput, but I can only imagine what/who Tipper’s had to put up with for the past few years as Al’s ego, carbon footprint, and waistline has ballooned.
    I think what would bother me the most is the way his eyes seem to have changed. They used to be quite nice but now they’re hooded and snake-like, which is what happens when your life’s become a fraud. Something tells me that Tipper’s on to her husband’s moonlighting as a Green Crusader and that she doesn’t buy it. (And who wants to wake up to a Rosemary’s Baby hybrid next to you in bed?)

  36. So, who’s Al Gore been sleeping with, and how long will it take that information to break through the protective firewall the MSM will put around him?

  37. What is the latest Obama attempt to deal with the Gulf Oil spill – which he insists his administration has taken complete charge of..and which, despite his messianic powers, is not only still gushing oil over a month later but nothing has been done to deal with the pollution of the wetlands and coast – as Bobby Jindal, the Gov. Of LA, outlines.
    The latest Obama attempt? He is actually calling in James Cameron, the film director of Abyss, to talk with oil sector experts. Unbelievable.
    “Filmmaker James Cameron and another Canadian who built submersibles for the director’s 1989 thriller “The Abyss” joined talks on Tuesday in Washington on innovative ways of capping the Gulf oil spill.
    Cameron and Phil Nuytten, head of North Vancouver-based Nuytco Research, were to join several deepwater and oil sector experts meeting with Environmental Protection Agency officials, a spokeswoman for Nuytco told AFP.”
    “Two things. One: Is the world’s submersibles industry so bereft of talent that James Cameron is the go-to guy when a national crisis in the deep sea erupts? This is like NASA announcing that they’ve detected a killer asteroid on course for Earth and Obama immediately dialing up Michael Bay. Two: Even if, for whatever insane reason, Cameron’s worth talking to about this, wouldn’t you want to keep it hush-hush if you’re the feds? The One’s wilting from the perception that he’s both powerless to deal with the spill and clueless about what to do even if he wasn’t”
    So, Obama claims that he’s ‘in control’ of BP and yet hasn’t a clue what to do, and, does zilch about clean-up.
    http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/01/feds-now-looking-for-help-on-oil-spill-from-james-cameron/
    I said that Obama is unable to live in the real world; that he lives in a virtual world of his own words, but this is bizarre. The President of the USA has literally moved out of reality and into a totally fictional world.

  38. ET:
    Thanks for the points that validate Israel’s legal right to stop the convoy. I read a small bit of Doug Saunders in the G&M (free copy at my accoundtant’s office this morning) wherein he referred to Erdogan as a “former islamist”. Now that’s disinformation. Turkey is clearly becoming an islamist nation and Erdogan IS indisputably an islamist.
    Elsewhere, you said:
    Kimball describes Obama within four adjectives: incompetence, arrogance, left-wingery, laziness.
    These are all good terms to use … .
    If left-wingery is a “good term to use” does this mean some kind of non-ideological leftwingery, for you’ve told me numerous times that Obama is a non-ideological narcissist? While there are obviously degrees of socialism, isn’t it generally true that leftwingery=socialism? Is there any such thing as leftwing capitalism? Can you be a non-ideological leftist?
    These damn labels, eh? Noam Chomsky, for example, describes himself as a “libertarian socialist” which strikes me as sucking and blowing at the same time.
    Finally, then, if Obama is a left-winger, is it not true that he is somewhat ideological and a teenie weenie bit socialistic in his world view?

  39. Obama and the Abyss, The Prequel;
    “This is like NASA announcing that they’ve detected a killer asteroid on course for Earth and Obama immediately dialing up Michael Bay…”
    Err, actually, I think you would call on Bruce Willis for the astroid. Clint, Tommy Lee and Jim Rockford can also lend some advice.

  40. me no dhimmi – you simply don’t give up, do you? Those are Kimball’s terms. Not mine.
    And as I said, Obama is politically – got that, politically – embedded within the left socialist camp. Why? Because its structure sets up an elite class of Rulers and deprives everyone else of the power to rule over themselves. That’s perfect, politically, for a pathological narcissist like Obama who MUST control how others interact with him.
    But, as I’ve said a zillion times, Obama is not an intellectual, not someone who, intellectually, believes in socialism as a political structure for the good of the people. He believes in the RESULTS of the socialist two-class structure that moves HIM into the elite Ruler Class and deprives all others of any power. That’s why he’s embedded with the socialist political group. There’s no intellectual reason for his alliance with them; it’s a psychological reason.
    Whew. How about letting me be me, and so, you can be you…and such is the way of life.
    Meanwhile, I think that Obama is moving farther and further out of touch with any hard reality and more into that virtual world of words where he alone rules and governs. He’s almost unhinged; he says the most bizarre things, such as insisting that he’s in charge of the oil spill, but doesn’t do a thing about the coastline pollution. This is going to increase – that gap between reality and Obama’s virtual world of words.

  41. “…Obama is not an intellectual…” qualifies for the understatement of the year IMHO. People are putting in way too much as to what he is thinking. Truth be told, I think his elevator doesn’t go all the way up and he keeps on pressing the Penthouse button hoping that the result might change.

  42. ET:
    You summarize Kimball:
    Kimball describes Obama within four adjectives: incompetence, arrogance, left-wingery, laziness.
    You said (your words):
    These are all good terms to use but they miss what I feel is the basic ‘format’ that has structured Obama so that these behaviours are the result: pathological narcissism.
    SO, you DO say leftwingery is a good term to use WRT Obama. And thank you. Agreed.
    AGAIN, I certainly agree with your personality profile of Obama, and like you was gobsmacked to hear that he is seeking the advice of a Hollywood film maker — which I had read shortly before your mention of it here. I remain puzzled over this little debate. I’ve tentatively concluded that you think of Marxists/Socialists as “intellectuals”, scholarly types with grand plans “for the people” etc. etc. etc. but that’s a false view of socialist political operators.
    He is clearly a socialist and of course as you say a narcissist living in a fictional world.
    BUT considering all the evidence from that bloody 20th century, to be a socialist is to live in a fantasy world like Obama’s.

  43. “Filmmaker James Cameron and another Canadian who built submersibles for the directors 1989 thriller “The Abyss” joined talks on Tuesday in Washington on innovative ways of capping the Gulf oil spill.
    Cameron and Phil Nuytten
    I remember this scenario from South Parks: Imagination Land. The big brass couldn’t figure out what to do so they went to Hollywood. Life imitates satire.
    Patrick Swayze was raped by Satanic woodland Christmas critters.
    Now they do it for real. Nothing is now beyond these LSD riddled mentalities.

  44. Nah, that was Kurt Russell who got raped by the Woodland Christmas Critters. 🙂

  45. Me No Dhimmi, wrt ET’s insistence that BamBam isn’t a socialist, I interpret her as saying that he isn’t a socialist because he believes in that “politico-economic” system, but rather he’s hitched his wagon to socialism because it fits his narcisism.
    If being a Druid fit his narcisism better, he’d be a Druid. He’s not a socialist for socialisms sake, he’s a socialist for his own sake.

  46. “Hope and change? Hope and pray.”
    …-
    “The Consolations of Philosophy”
    […]
    “115. wretchard
    Washington let this one get out of hand. They played the ‘let us beat up on Israel card’ thinking they could swerve away before things went too far. Now the law of unexpected consequences has taken a hand. By some terrible cascade of events, the US may wind up losing Turkey as Carter lost Iran. Obama’s legacy whether he meant it or not, may be the loss of Israel and the loss of Turkey.
    We’re not there yet, but the competence this crew has displayed so far in economic management, the oil spill, North Korea, the Middle East and just about anything else, I wouldn’t count disaster out. Hope and change? Hope and pray.”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/05/31/the-consolations-of-philosophy/#comments
    …-
    “Israel defiant as more ships head for Gaza”
    ABC Online

  48. I clicked the link thinking it was something from George JONAS. Talk about cognitive dissonance when the music began.

  49. Re: Al Gore divorce. Is there any truth to the rumour that it happened because Al caught Tipper lusting over photos of Christopher Monckton?

  50. Good point Eyeore, but for whatever sake, he’s still a socialist: it’s socialist values he promotes for power and control. There’s no real POWER in true capitalism (free markets), except of course “consumer power”. .
    I met a very amusing Cuban exile in WA state a while back, and I’ll never forget what he told me; he said, “Castro doesn’t believe all that communism stuff — he’s just an opportunist.” WOW.
    Now, I actually believe this to be true. But he’s still a commie, just as a Catholic priest who loses his faith, is still a priest if he remains in the cloth.
    Perhaps I’m being silly and this is just semantics. I do think tho, that it’s good to challenge ET who, as you well know, isn’t to be corrected! (I mean that affectionately, btw).

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