robaus Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 "If Israelis could learn to live and let live the entire Middle East ..." The whole Arab world has agreed to recognise Israel in return basically for a few acres of land swaps equal in area to land occupied by Israel illegally since 1967 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Arab_League_summit and reindorsed in 2007 in Riyadh Israel’s reply is to greedily hold onto stolen land and grab even more. How can peace exist when someone occupies your land? Hamas was not created from a vacuum. I hope Obama can knock a few heads together to create a peace agreement in his second term. Without a just peace , violence will escalate and it might come to the shores of Israel’s chief backer the USA, same as the IRA did with the UK...$300 car bombs that cause $2b worth of damage in every major US city. With spoilt brat friends like Israel, who needs enemies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 "built on the spot where tradition holds the tree from which Jesus' cross was made," risibly tenuous What about a monastery built on the spot where woodcutters habitually took a leak, when cutting down the tree from which Jesus' cross was made, or the hovel in which a blind and crippled peasant passed his days, whilst being totally ignorant of the spot where woodcutters habitually took a leak, when cutting down the tree from which Jesus' cross was made. Surely that'd make a good spot for a monastery... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Maybe this belongs in sports but I've always heard that elite athletes have a sort of fraternity. They are in a special club that only another elite, world class understand can understant the drive, ambition, pressure, etc. It cuts across cultural, ethnic and racial lines. I recall hearing that Mario Lemieux and Michael Jordan were friends and that what may seem like an odd couple was actually an easy friendship because they understood each other right away. Same with Beckham and others such as Jordan and even Tom Cruise to use an elite actor instead of athlete. Swimmer Michael Phelps and football player Ray Lewis have a friendship based on what I described above. http://sports.yahoo.com/video/phelps-came-back-because-ray-030000235.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 For all of you that think Obama is so great and voted for him... 37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Obama Have Wrecked The U.S. Economy http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/37-statistics-which-show-how-four-years-of-obama-have-wrecked-the-u-s-economy 1. During Obama’s first term, the number of Americans on food stamps increased by an average of about 11,000 per day. 2. At the beginning of the Obama era, 32 million Americans were on food stamps. Today, more than 47 million Americans are on food stamps. 3. According to one calculation, the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of “Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.†4. The number of Americans receiving money directly from the federal government each month has grown from 94 million in the year 2000 tomore than 128 million today. 5. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 146 million Americans are either “poor†or “low income†at this point. 6. The unemployment rate in the United States is exactly where it was (7.8 percent) when Barack Obama first entered the White House in January 2009... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Nobody is perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Texas has some neat concealed carry laws. "Updated 3:01 PM ET HOUSTON A college campus in Texas is on lockdown amid reports of a shooter on campus. Lone Star College System issued an alert on its website Tuesday telling students and faculty on its Houston-area campus in north Harris County to take immediate shelter or avoid the campus. Spokesman Jed Young says there are reports of a shooter. CBS affiliate KHOU Houston reports of witnesses saying that two men were arguing when one of them took out a gun and fired. Three people, including the man involved in the argument, were wounded. One male was brought out of the library and handcuffed to a stretcher, according to eyewitnesses. A law enforcement official in Washington says Texas authorities have at least one person in custody in connection to the shooting in, and local authorities think there could potentially be a second shooter." LINK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 For all of you that think Obama is so great and voted for him... 37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Obama Have Wrecked The U.S. Economy http://theeconomicco...the-u-s-economy 1. During Obama’s first term, the number of Americans on food stamps increased by an average of about 11,000 per day. 2. At the beginning of the Obama era, 32 million Americans were on food stamps. Today, more than 47 million Americans are on food stamps. 3. According to one calculation, the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of “Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.†4. The number of Americans receiving money directly from the federal government each month has grown from 94 million in the year 2000 tomore than 128 million today. 5. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 146 million Americans are either “poor†or “low income†at this point. 6. The unemployment rate in the United States is exactly where it was (7.8 percent) when Barack Obama first entered the White House in January 2009... Why don't these people just go out and get a job? Oh, wait, the unemployment rate is 7.8 with the real rate near 18. There are no jobs. Well, anyway, take them all off food stamps and let them dumptser dive. We all got by before the advent of food stamps. Didn't we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acockasian Posted January 23, 2013 Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 "Without a just peace , violence will escalate and it might come to the shores of Israel’s chief backer the USA, same as the IRA did with the UK...$300 car bombs that cause $2b worth of damage in every major US city." ...or something that "looks" like Iranian, or Syrian, or (insert Muslim country name here), backed terrorists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robaus Posted January 23, 2013 Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 For all of you that think Obama is so great and voted for him... 37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Obama Have Wrecked The U.S. Economy I think you'll find that many of the above problems were created by the GFC and the recession...and we all know who caused that! You can't wave a magic wand and cure the mother of all economic fuckups instantly. Obama is getting there as the DJI chart below shows I think this chart of the Dow Jones Index speaks volumes. It’s the net worth of the top US companies. It represents a nation’s prosperity, and your life savings in pension funds. On the left is Dubya’s term in office where he recklessly encouraged a market bubble deliberately unregulated by his cowboy financial advisers Greenspan, Rubin and Summers (recommended viewing “The Warning†http://www.pbs.org/w...e/warning/view/) If Mc Cain had won the 2008 election that trough would have continued down because Republican policy was “let the banks and car industries etc go bankrupt†along with your life savings. We would have had a decade long depression. Fortunately Obama won and the market clearly reversed from the moment he took office in 2008 and is still rising today, despite obstructionist Republican politics who put their self interest and hatred of Obama before the welfare of their country. If Americans united on economic recovery, (plus peace in the Middle East..no more futile costly wars!)...we could all have a new golden age of prosperity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 23, 2013 Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 ...and MORE people on food stamps means what? ...how much stock do the people on food stamps own?? ...and the rise of more people at the poverty level??? ...my investment is a house is where now??? waaaaaaaaaaaaay DOWN!!! the DOW numbers mean jack shit to the majority of the US people! ...US company net worth up...helps the people on food stamps, how??? The "trickle down economy" is all bullshit. Yes, yes and yes, stop the stupid wars!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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