QUOTE (SpaceCowboy @ Oct 14 2009, 12:02 PM) 
I would think that there is some sort of reciprocal arrangement involved, yet Fox makes no mention of it.
I think LP would think so, as well if he didn't have his blinkers on.
Full Version: US Department of State Renovations
I think LP would think so, as well if he didn't have his blinkers on.
sp
Vladimir Putin and the Russian Inferiority Complex
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/vla..._russian_1.html
American Thinker,
by James Lewis
10/15/2009 1:45:06 AM
Vlad ''the poisoner'' Putin isn't such a tough guy after all. He's a sucker for Russian power and glory. That is why he has just proclaimed that it's OK for Ahmadinejad and the Twelver Suicide Cult of Tehran to have nuclear weapons. Putin is a fool. Like all the Soviet leaders he is going to end up harming his nation to pursue his own grandiosity. (Snip) Putin has called the breakdown of the Soviet Empire
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/vla..._russian_1.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/vla..._russian_1.html
American Thinker,
by James Lewis
10/15/2009 1:45:06 AM
Vlad ''the poisoner'' Putin isn't such a tough guy after all. He's a sucker for Russian power and glory. That is why he has just proclaimed that it's OK for Ahmadinejad and the Twelver Suicide Cult of Tehran to have nuclear weapons. Putin is a fool. Like all the Soviet leaders he is going to end up harming his nation to pursue his own grandiosity. (Snip) Putin has called the breakdown of the Soviet Empire
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/vla..._russian_1.html
QUOTE (SpaceCowboy @ Oct 14 2009, 03:02 PM)
I would think that there is some sort of reciprocal arrangement involved, yet Fox makes no mention of it.
There seems to be no statement from the Ruskies on their intent.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/13...-nuclear-sites/
Friday, October 16, 2009
Debacle in Moscow
by Charles Krauthammer
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrau...oscow?page=full
WASHINGTON -- About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so assured that if only the Norway Five had waited a few years, his Nobel worthiness would have been universally acknowledged.
To believe this, you have to be a dreamy adolescent (preferably Scandinavian and a member of the Socialist International) or an indiscriminate imbiber of White House talking points. After all, this was precisely the spin on the president's various apology tours through Europe and the Middle East: National self-denigration -- excuse me, outreach and understanding -- is not meant to yield immediate results; it simply plants the seeds of good feeling from which foreign policy successes shall come.
Chauncey Gardiner could not have said it better. Well, at nine months, let's review.
What's come from Obama holding his tongue while Iranian demonstrators were being shot and from his recognizing the legitimacy of a thug regime illegitimately returned to power in a fraudulent election? Iran cracks down even more mercilessly on the opposition and races ahead with its nuclear program.
What's come from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton taking human rights off the table on a visit to China and from Obama's shameful refusal to see the Dalai Lama (a postponement, we are told). China hasn't moved an inch on North Korea, Iran or human rights. Indeed it's pushing with Russia to dethrone the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
What's come from the new-respect-for-Muslims Cairo speech and the unprecedented pressure on Israel for a total settlement freeze? "The settlement push backfired," reports The Washington Post, and Arab-Israeli peace prospects have "arguably regressed."
And what's come from Obama's single most dramatic foreign policy stroke -- the sudden abrogation of missile defense arrangements with Poland and the Czech Republic that Russia had virulently opposed? For the East Europeans it was a crushing blow, a gratuitous restoration of Russian influence over a region that thought it had regained independence under American protection.
But maybe not gratuitous. Surely we got something in return for selling out our friends. Some brilliant secret trade-off to get strong Russian support for stopping Iran from going nuclear before it's too late? Just wait and see, said administration officials, who then gleefully played up an oblique statement by President Dmitry Medvedev a week later as vindication of the missile defense betrayal.
The Russian statement was so equivocal that such a claim seemed a ridiculous stretch at the time. Well, Clinton went to Moscow this week to nail down the deal. What did she get?
"Russia Not Budging On Iran Sanctions: Clinton Unable to Sway Counterpart." Such was The Washington Post headline's succinct summary of the debacle.
Note how thoroughly Clinton was rebuffed. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared that "threats, sanctions and threats of pressure" are "counterproductive." Note: It's not just sanctions that are worse than useless, but even the threat of mere pressure.
It gets worse. Having failed to get any movement from the Russians, Clinton herself moved -- to accommodate the Russian position! Sanctions? What sanctions? "We are not at that point yet," she averred. "That is not a conclusion we have reached ... it is our preference that Iran work with the international community."
But wait a minute. Didn't Obama say in July that Iran had to show compliance by the G-20 summit in late September? And when that deadline passed, did he not then warn Iran that it would face "sanctions that have bite" and that it would have to take "a new course or face consequences"?
Gone with the wind. It's the U.S. that's now retreating from its already flimsy position of just three weeks ago. We're not doing sanctions now, you see. We're back to engagement. Just as the Russians suggest.
Henry Kissinger once said that the main job of Anatoly Dobrynin, the perennial Soviet ambassador to Washington, was to tell the Kremlin leadership that whenever they received a proposal from the United States that appeared disadvantageous to the United States, not to assume it was a trick.
No need for a Dobrynin today. The Russian leadership, hardly believing its luck, needs no interpreter to understand that when the Obama team clownishly rushes in bearing gifts and "reset" buttons, there is nothing ulterior, diabolical, clever or even serious behind it. It is amateurishness, wrapped in naivete, inside credulity. In short, the very stuff of Nobels.
Debacle in Moscow
by Charles Krauthammer
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrau...oscow?page=full
WASHINGTON -- About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so assured that if only the Norway Five had waited a few years, his Nobel worthiness would have been universally acknowledged.
To believe this, you have to be a dreamy adolescent (preferably Scandinavian and a member of the Socialist International) or an indiscriminate imbiber of White House talking points. After all, this was precisely the spin on the president's various apology tours through Europe and the Middle East: National self-denigration -- excuse me, outreach and understanding -- is not meant to yield immediate results; it simply plants the seeds of good feeling from which foreign policy successes shall come.
Chauncey Gardiner could not have said it better. Well, at nine months, let's review.
What's come from Obama holding his tongue while Iranian demonstrators were being shot and from his recognizing the legitimacy of a thug regime illegitimately returned to power in a fraudulent election? Iran cracks down even more mercilessly on the opposition and races ahead with its nuclear program.
What's come from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton taking human rights off the table on a visit to China and from Obama's shameful refusal to see the Dalai Lama (a postponement, we are told). China hasn't moved an inch on North Korea, Iran or human rights. Indeed it's pushing with Russia to dethrone the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
What's come from the new-respect-for-Muslims Cairo speech and the unprecedented pressure on Israel for a total settlement freeze? "The settlement push backfired," reports The Washington Post, and Arab-Israeli peace prospects have "arguably regressed."
And what's come from Obama's single most dramatic foreign policy stroke -- the sudden abrogation of missile defense arrangements with Poland and the Czech Republic that Russia had virulently opposed? For the East Europeans it was a crushing blow, a gratuitous restoration of Russian influence over a region that thought it had regained independence under American protection.
But maybe not gratuitous. Surely we got something in return for selling out our friends. Some brilliant secret trade-off to get strong Russian support for stopping Iran from going nuclear before it's too late? Just wait and see, said administration officials, who then gleefully played up an oblique statement by President Dmitry Medvedev a week later as vindication of the missile defense betrayal.
The Russian statement was so equivocal that such a claim seemed a ridiculous stretch at the time. Well, Clinton went to Moscow this week to nail down the deal. What did she get?
"Russia Not Budging On Iran Sanctions: Clinton Unable to Sway Counterpart." Such was The Washington Post headline's succinct summary of the debacle.
Note how thoroughly Clinton was rebuffed. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared that "threats, sanctions and threats of pressure" are "counterproductive." Note: It's not just sanctions that are worse than useless, but even the threat of mere pressure.
It gets worse. Having failed to get any movement from the Russians, Clinton herself moved -- to accommodate the Russian position! Sanctions? What sanctions? "We are not at that point yet," she averred. "That is not a conclusion we have reached ... it is our preference that Iran work with the international community."
But wait a minute. Didn't Obama say in July that Iran had to show compliance by the G-20 summit in late September? And when that deadline passed, did he not then warn Iran that it would face "sanctions that have bite" and that it would have to take "a new course or face consequences"?
Gone with the wind. It's the U.S. that's now retreating from its already flimsy position of just three weeks ago. We're not doing sanctions now, you see. We're back to engagement. Just as the Russians suggest.
Henry Kissinger once said that the main job of Anatoly Dobrynin, the perennial Soviet ambassador to Washington, was to tell the Kremlin leadership that whenever they received a proposal from the United States that appeared disadvantageous to the United States, not to assume it was a trick.
No need for a Dobrynin today. The Russian leadership, hardly believing its luck, needs no interpreter to understand that when the Obama team clownishly rushes in bearing gifts and "reset" buttons, there is nothing ulterior, diabolical, clever or even serious behind it. It is amateurishness, wrapped in naivete, inside credulity. In short, the very stuff of Nobels.
From The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle6880006.ece
October 19, 2009
Hillary Clinton suffers ‘mis-speaking’ relapse with Belfast bomb claims
David Sharrock, Ireland Correspondent
Hillary Clinton has been caught out “mis-speaking” again in a manner that suggests that she hasn’t learnt from past experiences of her globe-trotting, “lily-gilding” speeches.
The US Secretary of State was exposed during her battle with Barack Obama to become the Democratic presidential nominee over her claims to have landed in Bosnia under sniper fire.
She was even described as “a wee bit silly” for claiming greater credit than was her due for the Irish peace process, having made several visits to Northern Ireland as First Lady.
She was back in Belfast last week, giving a gentle push to politicians dragging their heels over a final piece in the peace process jigsaw.
But according to the Sunday Life newspaper, during a speech she made to the Stormont parliament she said that Belfast’s landmark Europa Hotel was devastated by an explosion when she first stayed there in 1995.
The Europa, where most journalists covering the decades-long conflict stayed, was famed as Europe’s most bombed hotel, earning the moniker “the Hardboard Hotel”.
However, the last Provisional IRA bomb to damage the Europa was detonated in 1993, two years before President Clinton and his wife checked in for the night........
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle6880006.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle6880006.ece
October 19, 2009
Hillary Clinton suffers ‘mis-speaking’ relapse with Belfast bomb claims
David Sharrock, Ireland Correspondent
Hillary Clinton has been caught out “mis-speaking” again in a manner that suggests that she hasn’t learnt from past experiences of her globe-trotting, “lily-gilding” speeches.
The US Secretary of State was exposed during her battle with Barack Obama to become the Democratic presidential nominee over her claims to have landed in Bosnia under sniper fire.
She was even described as “a wee bit silly” for claiming greater credit than was her due for the Irish peace process, having made several visits to Northern Ireland as First Lady.
She was back in Belfast last week, giving a gentle push to politicians dragging their heels over a final piece in the peace process jigsaw.
But according to the Sunday Life newspaper, during a speech she made to the Stormont parliament she said that Belfast’s landmark Europa Hotel was devastated by an explosion when she first stayed there in 1995.
The Europa, where most journalists covering the decades-long conflict stayed, was famed as Europe’s most bombed hotel, earning the moniker “the Hardboard Hotel”.
However, the last Provisional IRA bomb to damage the Europa was detonated in 1993, two years before President Clinton and his wife checked in for the night........
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle6880006.ece
Friday, October 16, 2009
PRUDEN: The peacenik gets a lesson
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/1...icle_top10_read
Wesley Pruden
OPINION/ANALYSIS:
A soft answer can sometimes turn away wrath, but not always, and presidents have to be wary of showing timidity and weakness in the face of a bully. This is the expensive lesson the tinhorns of the world are teaching Barack Obama. So far he is not an honors student.
Throwing Poland and the Czech Republic under that celebrated bus, a cramped space already brimming with old friends, pastors, mentors, tutors and even members of his own family who are no longer useful, was costly. It's never easy to be a friend of America, and Mr. Obama is making it impossible to be one.
He got a humiliating reminder of reality this week when the Russians, to whom he had paid such humble obeisance, gave him a hard slap across the face, just to remind him who he is and who is meant to be in charge of the world. Mr. Obama expected to get something when he blew off Poland and the Czech Republic, which had agreed to host NATO missile sites at considerable cost and risk, being close neighbors of the Russians.
What he thought he got was an implicit understanding that Russia recognizes the danger of the Iranian nuclear bomb, that it would change the power equation in the Middle East. Russia would join the West in imposing sanctions tough enough to get the attention of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
But not so fast. It's not as if the Russians really meant it. Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister and an old KGB operative who is obviously still in charge of everything important in Moscow, warned "major powers" - diplomatic softspeak for "the United States" - against trying to intimidate Iran into behaving itself. He said talk of new sanctions against the Islamic republic are "premature." This is diplomatic realspeak for "not now and not ever."
"We need to look for a compromise," Mr. Putin told reporters in Beijing, where he was learning to make the perfect chop suey. "If a compromise is not found, and the discussions end in fiasco, then we will see. And if now, before making any steps [toward holding talks] we start announcing sanctions, then we won't be creating favorable conditions for talks to end positively. This is why it is premature to talk about this now."
All this was while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Moscow, trying to find out just how much help the Russians intend to give to the West. Mrs. Clinton could not even see Mr. Putin, the real head man; there was a conflict of schedules and he had to depart for Beijing. This was a remarkable snub, treating the secretary of state as if she were merely the representative of the PTA, lobbying for more vegetables in the school lunchroom. Maybe there really was a conflict; maybe Mr. Putin had scheduled a haircut at the only hour she was available.
The Russians succeeded in putting Mr. Obama and the Americans in their place. Nikolai Patrushev, the chief of the Presidential Security Council, manufactured an occasion while Mrs. Clinton was in Moscow to warn that Moscow reserves the right to make "a pre-emptive nuclear strike" against both small and large enemies.
In an interview with Izvestia, the important Moscow daily, he said Russian officials are examining "a variety of possibilities for using nuclear force, depending on the situation and the intentions of the possible opponent." In situations critical to national security, he said, "options including a preventative nuclear strike on the aggressor are not excluded." Even regional or "local" wars will be included in the new strategy, expected to be official policy in December.
A willingness to use any or all weapons, if the time and place is right, is nothing new, of course. If the stakes are high enough everybody will use everything, and only fools object. The significance of these remarks, which were certainly calculated for effect while Mrs. Clinton was in town, is what they tell about how the Russians regard the toughness of Barack Obama, the noble peacenik with a prize to prove it, and whether there is any "there" there.
Mrs. Clinton and her acolytes at the State Department, ever eager to seek the softest way to say nothing, tried to put a nice face on her visit to Moscow. The United States, Russia and China are "closer than before" on their policies regarding Iran's nuclear-weapons program, Mrs. Clinton told a radio interviewer. She seemed to be taking care not to say that actual positions are closer, just that everyone understands those positions: Russians tough, Americans soft.
Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.
Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.
That's some recognition, right there. Being editor emeritus of the farking Moonie Times.
That's some recognition, right there. Being editor emeritus of the farking Moonie Times.
QUOTE (Nomarchy @ Oct 20 2009, 05:11 PM)
Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.
That's some recognition, right there. Being editor emeritus of the farking Moonie Times.
That's some recognition, right there. Being editor emeritus of the farking Moonie Times.
Sometimes you appear enlightened and then you come with a statement like that above. I have read the WT for years. The WT is a very factual paper with the news and a conservative paper in the opinion section! Sun Myung Moon has no control over the contents. The Times was founded the year after the Washington Star, the previous "second paper" of D.C., went out of business, after operating for over 100 years. A large percentage of the staff came from the defunct Washington Star. The Capitol City needed a counter to the far left leaning WP and after the WT came in the WP did move a little more to the center.
ANALYSIS - Disappointed Sarkozy shifts gaze from Washington
Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:52pm IST
Crispian Balmer
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, initially dubbed Sarko the American for his pro-U.S. stance, is finding it much tougher to deal with Washington than he had anticipated and is recalibrating his policies accordingly.
Stung by perceived snubs from U.S. President Barack Obama and encouraged by the growing importance of the G20, Sarkozy is increasingly reaching out to non-aligned states in an effort to extend France's international influence.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/id...lBrandChannel=0
Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:52pm IST
Crispian Balmer
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, initially dubbed Sarko the American for his pro-U.S. stance, is finding it much tougher to deal with Washington than he had anticipated and is recalibrating his policies accordingly.
Stung by perceived snubs from U.S. President Barack Obama and encouraged by the growing importance of the G20, Sarkozy is increasingly reaching out to non-aligned states in an effort to extend France's international influence.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/id...lBrandChannel=0
US drone strikes may
break international law: UN
Agence France-Presse,
by Staff
10/28/2009 2:20:40 PM
United Nations - US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN's top investigator of such crimes said. (Snip) ''My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law,'' he said. US strikes with remote-controlled aircraft against Al-Qaeda and Taliban targets in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan have often resulted in civilian
break international law: UN
Agence France-Presse,
by Staff
10/28/2009 2:20:40 PM
United Nations - US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN's top investigator of such crimes said. (Snip) ''My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law,'' he said. US strikes with remote-controlled aircraft against Al-Qaeda and Taliban targets in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan have often resulted in civilian
Vice President George H. W. Bush confided in Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that he believed Ronald Reagan was an "extreme conservative" supported by "blockheads and dummies"
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/gorbachev-bush-reagan-extreme/
"Reagan is a conservative. An extreme conservative. All the blockheads and dummies are for him, and when he says that something is necessary, they trust him. But if some Democrat had proposed what Reagan did..."
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/gorbachev-bush-reagan-extreme/
"Reagan is a conservative. An extreme conservative. All the blockheads and dummies are for him, and when he says that something is necessary, they trust him. But if some Democrat had proposed what Reagan did..."
Clinton offers U.$. aid to help boost Muslim ties
Tue Nov 3, 2009 6:15pm
By Andrew Quinn
MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered aid on Tuesday to boost ties with the Muslim world and urged Israel, the Palestinians and Arab countries to move beyond recrimination in the search for peace.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/id...-43641220091103
When will the liberal democrats learn that PEACE come only with VICTORY AGAINST TERRORISTS!
Tue Nov 3, 2009 6:15pm
By Andrew Quinn
MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered aid on Tuesday to boost ties with the Muslim world and urged Israel, the Palestinians and Arab countries to move beyond recrimination in the search for peace.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/id...-43641220091103
When will the liberal democrats learn that PEACE come only with VICTORY AGAINST TERRORISTS!
know Jesus?
that aint what He said
that aint what He said
Friday, November 20, 2009
http://pryce-jones.nationalreview.com/post...zM2YjkxZDE2OTU=
'The Great EU Stitch-Up'
Surprise greeted the morning's news that one Herman van Rompuy, a Belgian unknown until a few days ago, had become first president of the newly ratified European Union, and one Catherine Ashton, a British peeress every bit as unknown, had become what is modestly called High Representative, in other words in charge of the EU's foreign policy. Surprise almost immediately turned into a belly laugh that rumbles far and wide. British papers of opposing political outlook have carried the same headline: “The Great EU Stitch-Up.”
These two dim figures have emerged through an invisible process of horse-dealing between the 27 heads of state within the EU. Former prime minister Blair had always let it be known that he expected to be the European president, and I thought that he is such a master of charm and smarm that he would achieve this ambition. The return of an unpopular and retired prime minister as a superior president would have been felt as an insult throughout England, and presumably the 27 horse-dealers took note of that.
If only it was all just farce! Step by step, the precedent of replacing democracy with absolute monarchy is becoming a reality.
http://pryce-jones.nationalreview.com/post...zM2YjkxZDE2OTU=
'The Great EU Stitch-Up'
Surprise greeted the morning's news that one Herman van Rompuy, a Belgian unknown until a few days ago, had become first president of the newly ratified European Union, and one Catherine Ashton, a British peeress every bit as unknown, had become what is modestly called High Representative, in other words in charge of the EU's foreign policy. Surprise almost immediately turned into a belly laugh that rumbles far and wide. British papers of opposing political outlook have carried the same headline: “The Great EU Stitch-Up.”
These two dim figures have emerged through an invisible process of horse-dealing between the 27 heads of state within the EU. Former prime minister Blair had always let it be known that he expected to be the European president, and I thought that he is such a master of charm and smarm that he would achieve this ambition. The return of an unpopular and retired prime minister as a superior president would have been felt as an insult throughout England, and presumably the 27 horse-dealers took note of that.
Party politics in Belgium has been the sum total of Mr. Van Rompuy's experience in life. To his credit, he immediately said he hadn't asked for this post. Lady Ashton's career is even smaller and duller. She has never been elected to anything,but always risen by appointment and party affiliation. Your standard 20th-century leftie, she is unable to think anything that has not been thought and approved by others. Of course she worked for the Campaign of Nuclear Disarmament that, during the Cold War, did what it could to give the Soviet Union victory. The peak of her career was to head Hertfordshire Health Authority, a local body with the true socialist purpose of exercising state control over the health of others. By chance, I heard her speak — drone, actually — in the House of Lords as the treaty under which she is now promoted was being debated. She was reading a brief in so muffled and unintelligible a way that I doubt she could have understood the words. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is said to have lobbied for her. Praising her promotion, he launched another whole round of belly laughs by referring to her repeatedly as Lady Ashdown. So even he can't be quite sure who she is.
If only it was all just farce! Step by step, the precedent of replacing democracy with absolute monarchy is becoming a reality.
EU president wants Copenhagen to give us “global management”
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Andrew Bolt
Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 12:05am
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewb...anagement#63675
Sure, this talk of the warmists at Copenhagen planning a new “world government” is crazy. I just wish the warmists wouldn’t talk of it themselves. Take the new and first president of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy:
The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is another step forward towards the global management of our planet…
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Andrew Bolt
Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 12:05am
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewb...anagement#63675
Sure, this talk of the warmists at Copenhagen planning a new “world government” is crazy. I just wish the warmists wouldn’t talk of it themselves. Take the new and first president of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy:
The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is another step forward towards the global management of our planet…
It's rare for me to find an editorial from the American Thinker with which I agree, but this one is right on the mark. When I read the NYT article on the "heartbreaking plight" of the illegal immigrants, the first thing that came to my mind was "Where the hell is Mexico in all this?"
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/1..._is_the_he.html
QUOTE
Whose responsibility is the health care of illegal immigrants?
David Paulin
Fifty-one people -- nearly all illegal immigrants -- are facing a "life-or-death limbo" after a cash-strapped Atlanta charity hospital decided it must stop providing them free kidney dialysis treatments that were costing the hospital (or rather taxpayers) $50,000 per year.
That's according to a heart-rending article in Saturday's New York Times about the “excruciating choices” faced by Atlanta's Grady hospital upon closing its outpatient dialysis unit. Over the years, the unit has been overrun by illegal immigrants, and it has thus become a major financial drain on the “taxpayer-supported safety-net hospital,” the Times explained in its lengthy article: "The Breaking Point: Hospital Falters as Refuge for Illegal Immigrants."
Who is to blame for this heart breaking situation?
Not surprisingly, the Times blames America's heartless polices on health care and immigration. Or as the paper explains, the moral dilemma Grady has faced is “a stark reflection of what happens when the country’s inadequate health care system confronts its defective immigration policy.”
Interestingly, though, the Times' mentions nothing about the responsibility of Mexico's government toward its own citizens, whom it all but encourages to immigrate illegally to this country. (Most of the illegal immigrants at Grady appear to have been from Mexico.)
Nor is there any suggestion that Mexico's richest taxpayers, men like Carlos Slim – the world's richest man and a major Times shareholder) -- ought to part with a tiny fraction of their fortunes (Slim's worth $59 billion) to help with the dialysis treatments of their fellow Mexicans. Couldn't some of Mexico's vast oil revenues also help pay for the dialysis treatments?
Grady, for its part, has been in quite a moral quandary over its responsibility to the illegal immigrants. Upon closing its dialysis unit, it has gone onto spend tens of thousands of dollars per patient to pay for their dialysis elsewhere -- and to even cover travel expenses to Mexico. However, hospital spokesmen all but acknowledge that at some point in the near future the funds will not be available to pay for dialysis. What's more, it seems unlikely that these patients will be getting free dialysis back in Mexico.
That Mexico's own government (and its richest citizens) are apparently unwilling to chip in to provide such care is interesting in one respect. In the past, Mexican officials have been full of outrage when one of their citizens in America has been sentenced to death -- following a murder trial in which local authorities failed to notify Mexico's consular officials that a Mexican citizen was arrested for murder.
In fact, Mexico appears to have used all its resources available -- even going to international courts -- to obtain justice for these criminals. Yet when it comes to poor Mexicans needing health care, neither Mexico's government – nor its richest citizens – are anywhere to be found. The Times makes no effort to find them for comment, either.
Could it all be a reflection of Carlo Slim's influence at the self-described “paper of record”? While an intriguing possibility, these omissions probably have more to do with the particular worldview embraced by the Times -- one that blames America for the world's problems, including a lack of free dialysis clinics for illegal immigrants.
David Paulin
Fifty-one people -- nearly all illegal immigrants -- are facing a "life-or-death limbo" after a cash-strapped Atlanta charity hospital decided it must stop providing them free kidney dialysis treatments that were costing the hospital (or rather taxpayers) $50,000 per year.
That's according to a heart-rending article in Saturday's New York Times about the “excruciating choices” faced by Atlanta's Grady hospital upon closing its outpatient dialysis unit. Over the years, the unit has been overrun by illegal immigrants, and it has thus become a major financial drain on the “taxpayer-supported safety-net hospital,” the Times explained in its lengthy article: "The Breaking Point: Hospital Falters as Refuge for Illegal Immigrants."
Who is to blame for this heart breaking situation?
Not surprisingly, the Times blames America's heartless polices on health care and immigration. Or as the paper explains, the moral dilemma Grady has faced is “a stark reflection of what happens when the country’s inadequate health care system confronts its defective immigration policy.”
Interestingly, though, the Times' mentions nothing about the responsibility of Mexico's government toward its own citizens, whom it all but encourages to immigrate illegally to this country. (Most of the illegal immigrants at Grady appear to have been from Mexico.)
Nor is there any suggestion that Mexico's richest taxpayers, men like Carlos Slim – the world's richest man and a major Times shareholder) -- ought to part with a tiny fraction of their fortunes (Slim's worth $59 billion) to help with the dialysis treatments of their fellow Mexicans. Couldn't some of Mexico's vast oil revenues also help pay for the dialysis treatments?
Grady, for its part, has been in quite a moral quandary over its responsibility to the illegal immigrants. Upon closing its dialysis unit, it has gone onto spend tens of thousands of dollars per patient to pay for their dialysis elsewhere -- and to even cover travel expenses to Mexico. However, hospital spokesmen all but acknowledge that at some point in the near future the funds will not be available to pay for dialysis. What's more, it seems unlikely that these patients will be getting free dialysis back in Mexico.
That Mexico's own government (and its richest citizens) are apparently unwilling to chip in to provide such care is interesting in one respect. In the past, Mexican officials have been full of outrage when one of their citizens in America has been sentenced to death -- following a murder trial in which local authorities failed to notify Mexico's consular officials that a Mexican citizen was arrested for murder.
In fact, Mexico appears to have used all its resources available -- even going to international courts -- to obtain justice for these criminals. Yet when it comes to poor Mexicans needing health care, neither Mexico's government – nor its richest citizens – are anywhere to be found. The Times makes no effort to find them for comment, either.
Could it all be a reflection of Carlo Slim's influence at the self-described “paper of record”? While an intriguing possibility, these omissions probably have more to do with the particular worldview embraced by the Times -- one that blames America for the world's problems, including a lack of free dialysis clinics for illegal immigrants.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/1..._is_the_he.html
QUOTE (SpaceCowboy @ Nov 22 2009, 12:04 PM)
It's rare for me to find an editorial from the American Thinker with which I agree, but this one is right on the mark. When I read the NYT article on the "heartbreaking plight" of the illegal immigrants, the first thing that came to my mind was "Where the hell is Mexico in all this?"
An amazing thing, perspective...
QUOTE (SpaceCowboy @ Nov 22 2009, 12:04 PM)
It's rare for me to find an editorial from the American Thinker with which I agree, but this one is right on the mark. When I read the NYT article on the "heartbreaking plight" of the illegal immigrants, the first thing that came to my mind was "Where the hell is Mexico in all this?"
Praying harder than all get out that they don't come back, or that someone, somewhere else, in these United States picks up the tab, such that they stay here and continue to send $$ back to Mexico.
But if they don't, it will still be the heartless "Norte-Americanos" fault.
QUOTE (SpaceCowboy @ Nov 22 2009, 12:04 PM)
It's rare for me to find an editorial from the American Thinker with which I agree, but this one is right on the mark. When I read the NYT article on the "heartbreaking plight" of the illegal immigrants, the first thing that came to my mind was "Where the hell is Mexico in all this?"
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/1..._is_the_he.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/1..._is_the_he.html
They don't give care to illegals in their country, so we should send them a bill every time one of their citizens needs help. Sure, they probably can't pay, but maybe we could hold it over their heads when it's time to negotiate trade. There aren't many politicians willing to do anything concrete for cash. IOUs would be better than nothing.
what's better than tuberculosis on the subways?
QUOTE (inyerface @ Nov 22 2009, 09:44 PM)
what's better than tuberculosis on the subways?
Living by yourself in northern Idaho?
OPINION
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...3095440312.html
EUROPE
NOVEMBER 26, 2009, 7:04 P.M. ET
Prosecuting American 'War Crimes'
The International Criminal Court claims jurisdiction over U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed "great regret" in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could lead to the trial of Americans for war crimes in The Hague........
..........Mr. Ocampo—who has a photo of himself with the head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, on his windowsill—could have pointed out to his Arab interlocutors that the real double standard was their own complaining about alleged Western aggression against Muslims while they protect Sudan's Bashir, the greatest butcher of Muslims in modern history. The fact that Mr. Ocampo mentioned the Sudanese perpetrator of genocide in the same breath with alleged crimes of NATO soldiers shed light on what the International Criminal Court may have in store for the U.S. in the future.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...3095440312.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...3095440312.html
EUROPE
NOVEMBER 26, 2009, 7:04 P.M. ET
Prosecuting American 'War Crimes'
The International Criminal Court claims jurisdiction over U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed "great regret" in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could lead to the trial of Americans for war crimes in The Hague........
..........Mr. Ocampo—who has a photo of himself with the head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, on his windowsill—could have pointed out to his Arab interlocutors that the real double standard was their own complaining about alleged Western aggression against Muslims while they protect Sudan's Bashir, the greatest butcher of Muslims in modern history. The fact that Mr. Ocampo mentioned the Sudanese perpetrator of genocide in the same breath with alleged crimes of NATO soldiers shed light on what the International Criminal Court may have in store for the U.S. in the future.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...3095440312.html
Now you axholes are going to hide behind the troops AGAIN. You people are lower than whale sheit.
It'll never happen. W won't EVER face the Hague. He should. Cheney should hang right next to him. Along with Rumsfeld and any of the other torturers.
What gives you the right to exclude anyone from the laws the United States helped write?
It'll never happen. W won't EVER face the Hague. He should. Cheney should hang right next to him. Along with Rumsfeld and any of the other torturers.
What gives you the right to exclude anyone from the laws the United States helped write?
2'nd that
What gives you the right to exclude anyone from the laws the United States helped write
What gives you the right to exclude anyone from the laws the United States helped write
Dec 29, 2009 6:05 am US/Eastern
FBI: Man Flew Into LaGuardia With Firecracker
Passenger Taken Into Custody After Device Found Wedged
Between Seats On Piedmont Airlines Flight Into LaGuardia
The latest incident comes on the heels of the alleged Christmas day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane headed for Detroit from Amsterdam.
The federal court in Detroit says a hearing scheduled for Monday has been delayed until Jan. 8. No reason was given.
Prosecutors want a DNA sample from Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He's charged with attempting to destroy Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it approached Detroit on Friday. Courageous passengers pounced on him.
Meanwhile, CBS News has learned the State Department system designed to keep track of active U.S. visas twice failed to reveal Abdulmutallab had been issued an active visa allowing him multiple entries into the United States.
According to a law enforcement source, the first failure came on Nov. 19, 2009, the very same day Abdulmutallab father's, Dr. Umaru Mutallab, a prominent banking official in Nigeria, expressed deep concern to officials at the U.S. Embassy in Abjua, Nigeria, that his 23-year-old son had fallen under the influence of "religious extremists" in Yemen.
http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/lagua....2.1393663.html
FBI: Man Flew Into LaGuardia With Firecracker
Passenger Taken Into Custody After Device Found Wedged
Between Seats On Piedmont Airlines Flight Into LaGuardia
The latest incident comes on the heels of the alleged Christmas day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane headed for Detroit from Amsterdam.
The federal court in Detroit says a hearing scheduled for Monday has been delayed until Jan. 8. No reason was given.
Prosecutors want a DNA sample from Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He's charged with attempting to destroy Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it approached Detroit on Friday. Courageous passengers pounced on him.
Meanwhile, CBS News has learned the State Department system designed to keep track of active U.S. visas twice failed to reveal Abdulmutallab had been issued an active visa allowing him multiple entries into the United States.
According to a law enforcement source, the first failure came on Nov. 19, 2009, the very same day Abdulmutallab father's, Dr. Umaru Mutallab, a prominent banking official in Nigeria, expressed deep concern to officials at the U.S. Embassy in Abjua, Nigeria, that his 23-year-old son had fallen under the influence of "religious extremists" in Yemen.
http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/lagua....2.1393663.html
So with all the programs put in place how can these idiots possibly get on planes? I thought we had that sheit worked out just after 9/11.
Russia needs to develop "offensive strike systems" to preserve strategic balance with the United States, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said today.
QUOTE (Davis 2.0 @ Dec 29 2009, 09:16 AM)
So with all the programs put in place how can these idiots possibly get on planes? I thought we had that sheit worked out just after 9/11.
Have you forgotten how, when BHO went over seas and told how the USA had done everything hateful and wrong and he was going to just love everybody and undo all those terrible thing the USA had done in the past. I suspect that just opened the gates for all the crazies to begin doing their thing what ever it may be and that includes returning to blowing up Americans on planes or anywhere they may be. Remember BHO just blasted the "security precaution stuff" we had done before he became the savior of the world and shepherd for all crazies and radical terrorists muzzies!
Sure LP, whatever.
don't you know he loves America more than you or I?
you need to love it blindly
you need to love it blindly
Isle radio station leases airtime to Chinese
By Laura Elder
The Daily News
Published January 5, 2010
GALVESTON — Unable to dial in enough financial support from advertisers, owners of KGBC radio have leased all the station’s airtime to one of China’s state-owned media companies, ending a yearlong effort at local programming.
The sudden format switch killed local shows and surprised and disappointed loyal listeners and a few advertisers.
People who tuned into 1540 AM on Jan. 1 expecting classic rock and local talk instead got Asian music and political forums, along with an array of unfamiliar programming...........
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?...e313341cbf9d47c
By Laura Elder
The Daily News
Published January 5, 2010
GALVESTON — Unable to dial in enough financial support from advertisers, owners of KGBC radio have leased all the station’s airtime to one of China’s state-owned media companies, ending a yearlong effort at local programming.
The sudden format switch killed local shows and surprised and disappointed loyal listeners and a few advertisers.
People who tuned into 1540 AM on Jan. 1 expecting classic rock and local talk instead got Asian music and political forums, along with an array of unfamiliar programming...........
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?...e313341cbf9d47c
fly the friendly skies
State Department Using 'Diversity
Visas' to Encourage Immigration
to U.S. from Terror-Ridden Yemen
Cybercast News Service,
by Matt Cover
1/5/2010 12:59:23 PM
The State Department has awarded 1,011 special “diversity visas” allowing Yemeni nationals to immigrate to the United States since 2000, the year 17 U.S. sailors were killed when the USS Cole was attacked by terrorists in the Yemeni port of Aden. The "diversity visas" are designed to encourage immigration from countries that do not otherwise send significant numbers of immigrants to the United States.......
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/59270
What an idiotic move - liberals and PCitis are slowly destroying the nation we have built upon Western European, Jewish and Christian cultures. They want the foundation destroyed for their rebuilding.
Visas' to Encourage Immigration
to U.S. from Terror-Ridden Yemen
Cybercast News Service,
by Matt Cover
1/5/2010 12:59:23 PM
The State Department has awarded 1,011 special “diversity visas” allowing Yemeni nationals to immigrate to the United States since 2000, the year 17 U.S. sailors were killed when the USS Cole was attacked by terrorists in the Yemeni port of Aden. The "diversity visas" are designed to encourage immigration from countries that do not otherwise send significant numbers of immigrants to the United States.......
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/59270
What an idiotic move - liberals and PCitis are slowly destroying the nation we have built upon Western European, Jewish and Christian cultures. They want the foundation destroyed for their rebuilding.
QUOTE (Lord_Proprietor @ Jan 5 2010, 08:33 PM)
State Department Using 'Diversity
Visas' to Encourage Immigration
to U.S. from Terror-Ridden Yemen
Cybercast News Service,
by Matt Cover
1/5/2010 12:59:23 PM
The State Department has awarded 1,011 special "diversity visas" allowing Yemeni nationals to immigrate to the United States since 2000, the year 17 U.S. sailors were killed when the USS Cole was attacked by terrorists in the Yemeni port of Aden. The "diversity visas" are designed to encourage immigration from countries that do not otherwise send significant numbers of immigrants to the United States.......
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/59270
What an idiotic move - liberals and PCitis are slowly destroying the nation we have built upon Western European, Jewish and Christian cultures. They want the foundation destroyed for their rebuilding.
Visas' to Encourage Immigration
to U.S. from Terror-Ridden Yemen
Cybercast News Service,
by Matt Cover
1/5/2010 12:59:23 PM
The State Department has awarded 1,011 special "diversity visas" allowing Yemeni nationals to immigrate to the United States since 2000, the year 17 U.S. sailors were killed when the USS Cole was attacked by terrorists in the Yemeni port of Aden. The "diversity visas" are designed to encourage immigration from countries that do not otherwise send significant numbers of immigrants to the United States.......
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/59270
What an idiotic move - liberals and PCitis are slowly destroying the nation we have built upon Western European, Jewish and Christian cultures. They want the foundation destroyed for their rebuilding.
Maybe they could extend those diversity visas to the Somali pirates.
We'll take your boat
set your ass afloat
Somalian pirates we
Guy on the radio today says the elephant in the room on this latest bombing attempt is that we are letting these folks in the US. They aren't sneaking in, they're invited.
set your ass afloat
Somalian pirates we
Guy on the radio today says the elephant in the room on this latest bombing attempt is that we are letting these folks in the US. They aren't sneaking in, they're invited.
sell you some scanners
QUOTE (Arturo_Vandelay @ Jan 6 2010, 01:16 AM)
We'll take your boat
set your ass afloat
Somalian pirates we
Guy on the radio today says the elephant in the room on this latest bombing attempt is that we are letting these folks in the US. They aren't sneaking in, they're invited.
set your ass afloat
Somalian pirates we
Guy on the radio today says the elephant in the room on this latest bombing attempt is that we are letting these folks in the US. They aren't sneaking in, they're invited.
Yes, DOS is a radical group of liberals who wish to undo our culture. They don't like successful business people who have made it big time here in a free enterprise system
You have more loyalty to Chinese corporate communists than you do you to your own fellow citizens who are working men.
OPINION EUROPE
JANUARY 17, 2010, 7:41 P.M. ET.
Ukraine Is Headed for National Bankruptcy
Russia would be the natural partner to step in and help, but at considerable cost to Kiev's independence.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...0183229012.html
By CHRISTOPHER GRANVILLE
Ukraine's presidential election yesterday—which appears headed to a second round run-off on Feb. 7 between the two leading candidates, Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko—unfolds against the background of financial ruin.
It has long been obvious that the defeat of the incumbent, Viktor Yushchenko, who has painted himself into the anti-Russian nationalist corner, would produce a political rapprochement between Ukraine and Russia. Mr. Yanukovych is committed to non-alignment (meaning no application for NATO membership) while Ms. Tymoshenko promises to submit to popular referendum any decision to join a military alliance (in practice ruling out NATO membership, which, as revealed by a long series of opinion polls, is opposed by a solid majority of Ukrainians). What seems much less widely appreciated is the prospect of this geopolitical shift being magnified by Ukraine's imminent national bankruptcy—casting Russia in the role of "Abu Dhabi" to Ukraine's "Dubai" in the sense of easing the financial distress of a closely related neighbor.......
Oops!
QUOTE (Lord_Proprietor @ Jan 18 2010, 03:39 PM)
What seems much less widely appreciated is the prospect of this geopolitical shift being magnified by Ukraine's imminent national bankruptcy—
Bankruptcy?
WTF?
I thought the Knee-o-cons had that place all fixed up with the Orange Revolution?
QUOTE (Lord_Proprietor @ Jan 7 2010, 09:25 AM)
Yes, DOS is a radical group of liberals who wish to undo our culture. They don't like successful business people who have made it big time here in a free enterprise system
What "free enterprise system" is that?
QUOTE (Nomarchy @ Jan 19 2010, 09:08 PM)
What "free enterprise system" is that?
QUOTE (Nomarchy @ Jan 19 2010, 07:08 PM)
What "free enterprise system" is that?
Just freer than some, for now. I don't think anyone expects a free for all, buyer beware with no laws. On the other hand central planning doesn't work, and less so with idiots like Obama sitting where the buck stops.
QUOTE (beasty @ Jan 21 2010, 02:12 PM)
Just freer than some, for now. I don't think anyone expects a free for all, buyer beware with no laws.
Bullsheit. That's exactly what they want. To run amok with -0- accountability.
QUOTE
On the other hand central planning doesn't work, and less so with idiots like Obama sitting where the buck stops.
Right. Like the GOP has done ANYTHING to help the working man in this country. Except bone him repeatedly.
QUOTE (Davis 2.0 @ Jan 21 2010, 05:58 PM)
Bullsheit. That's exactly what they want. To run amok with -0- accountability.
Right. Like the GOP has done ANYTHING to help the working man in this country. Except bone him repeatedly.
Right. Like the GOP has done ANYTHING to help the working man in this country. Except bone him repeatedly.
What you THINK is helping the working man is probably just killing jobs and driving up prices. Not that some people wouldn't prefer unemployment checks, or better yet a general strike.
You're an idiot. pubes won't be happy until they can drive a stake through the heart of all unions in this country and eliminate the middle class completely. They hate, they hate they HATE any working man who makes a decent living.... because that means the corporation that employs said worker is paying too much in wages, benefits and they cannot have that at all.
Agence France-Presse,
by Staff
1/23/2010 1:23:52 AM
LA PAZ — Bolivian President Evo Morales was sworn in for a second, five-year term on Friday in a ceremony attended by fellow Latin American leftist leaders including his role model, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Morales, 50, was taking up the new mandate with almost unlimited power after last year changing Bolivia's constitution to get rid of a one-term presidential limit.
The Bolan Amendment and the left's opposition in curtailing the commies in Latin America, had its effect, didn't it? Socialists Liberals have opened the gates to the commies in our hemisphere; they still love Castro and Che. Ever ponder why so many young people in the US wear Ernest "Che" Guevara "T" Shirts? Who is teaching his philosophy to our youths? Could it be the lefties in our schools and universities?
by Staff
1/23/2010 1:23:52 AM
LA PAZ — Bolivian President Evo Morales was sworn in for a second, five-year term on Friday in a ceremony attended by fellow Latin American leftist leaders including his role model, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Morales, 50, was taking up the new mandate with almost unlimited power after last year changing Bolivia's constitution to get rid of a one-term presidential limit.
The Bolan Amendment and the left's opposition in curtailing the commies in Latin America, had its effect, didn't it? Socialists Liberals have opened the gates to the commies in our hemisphere; they still love Castro and Che. Ever ponder why so many young people in the US wear Ernest "Che" Guevara "T" Shirts? Who is teaching his philosophy to our youths? Could it be the lefties in our schools and universities?
And THAT is exactly why we are now a nation which tortures people. You ass holes tried to hang Clinton for lying abot sex but when it's YOU FREAKS IN OFFICE it's anything goes. Checks and balances are tossed out he window. You aren't even close to US traditions and ideals. You have no sense of proportion
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