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All I know is that, if this is how they're going to play it, the 2010 Peace Prize should go to Neda.
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10-11-2009, 09:12 AM
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They should split the award into political and human development awards.
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why not, it would give them another award to give out..lol
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10-11-2009, 12:11 PM
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All I know is that, if this is how they're going to play it, the 2010 Peace Prize should go to Neda.
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Good idea, but Nobel prizes can't be given posthumously. Give it to the founders of Twitter for their role in helping the Iranian dissidents?
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10-11-2009, 05:37 PM
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How have we picked a fight with Israel or sucked up to Iran? Telling Israel to stop the settlements in the West Bank has been going on since they've been building settlements there(its official policy). I don't see where we've done anything with Iran that wasn't policy already in place.
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Then what has Obama done that is so revolutionary then?
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The bet I made with cutter over whether or not JC will become our franchise QB. If anybody knows where Cutter is, I clearly owe him a steak dinner.
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10-11-2009, 05:46 PM
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Then what has Obama done that is so revolutionary then?
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On both the Iran/israel front, effectively nothing yet(except telling twitter to stay online during the Iranian protests). I just didn't agree with your commentary on those subjects.
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10-11-2009, 05:52 PM
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On both the Iran/israel front, effectively nothing yet(except telling twitter to stay online during the Iranian protests). I just didn't agree with your commentary on those subjects.
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My point wasn't whether or not he's picked a fight with Israel. The writer's point that is he DID pick a fight with Israel and my question is why would that be so great? Why is picking a fight with our greatest ally in the region such a good thing? Because it makes us popular?
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The bet I made with cutter over whether or not JC will become our franchise QB. If anybody knows where Cutter is, I clearly owe him a steak dinner.
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10-11-2009, 06:11 PM
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My point wasn't whether or not he's picked a fight with Israel. The writer's point that is he DID pick a fight with Israel and my question is why would that be so great? Why is picking a fight with our greatest ally in the region such a good thing? Because it makes us popular?
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Ignatius is overstating things, but Israel has to reign in the settlements if they ever want to have peace. Obama really didn't pick a fight with Bibi, but if the Europeans want to think he did, so be it.
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10-16-2009, 07:32 PM
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Israel will never have peace. The Muslims have adopted the Brusnev doctrine, they will not be happy until Israel, as a self-governing entity, doesn't exist.
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The bet I made with cutter over whether or not JC will become our franchise QB. If anybody knows where Cutter is, I clearly owe him a steak dinner.
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10-16-2009, 07:52 PM
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Israel will never have peace. The Muslims have adopted the Brusnev doctrine, they will not be happy until Israel, as a self-governing entity, doesn't exist.
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Thats not true at all. Syria and Israel are in advanced talks about handing back the Golan Heights(both sides would like us to occupy the heights until the formal handover, we have cold feet about it for obvious reasons). The Saudis do a lot of business with Israel(they obviously don't publicize it), as do most Arab countries. If Israel would just stop the settlements in the west bank, they probably could get a peace deal on very favorable terms with Fatah and Hamas(they could probably keep East Jerusalem). Fatah has shown that they can keep the West Bank quiet without Israel needing to clamp down on it. Hezbollah probably won't go for any deal until Syria cuts them off, but they won't attack Israel on their own hook(especially since their war with Israel cost them a lot of support in Lebanon). The issue no one is talking about is a law suit worming its way through the Israeli courts about the legality of the funds that started the settlements in the first place. If the Israeli Supreme Court finds that the funds were illegal, all Israeli businesses have to stop all business with the settlements, which makes everything interesting.
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10-29-2009, 12:54 PM
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Kudos to Barry for greeting the heroes at Dover last night.
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11-06-2009, 02:16 PM
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Unemployment Jumps to 10.2%
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More than one in 10 members of the American workforce were unable to get a job in October, the Labor Department said Friday, the first time in nearly three decades that the unemployment rate has soared into double digits.
The unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent, department said, up from 9.8 percent in September, the highest level since 1983. Employers also continued slashing jobs, though at a slower rate than September, showing that even though the economy is expanding, the job market remains dismal.
The crossing of that symbolic 10 percent barrier is likely to weigh on both the psychology of American consumers and the urgency of efforts in Washington to prop up the job market.
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11-06-2009, 03:50 PM
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More proof that all that money spent was for naught. At least Barry was smart enough to extend the tax credit for home purchases.
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11-07-2009, 01:27 PM
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I can't wait until these same morons control my health care. I understand libs who want to have the government run our lives but the moderates better vote this piece of ish down.
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11-09-2009, 08:23 AM
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I can't wait until these same morons control my health care. I understand libs who want to have the government run our lives but the moderates better vote this piece of ish down.
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Last time the CBO did a check on this, something like 98% of people would be able to keep their current coverage. So all the Republican talk of a "takeover" is pure nonsense.
And let's not pretend Republicans (conservatives) are fundamentally opposed to controlling people between the Terry Schaivo incident, the Patriot act, spending a trillion dollars on Iraq (ironic that the cost of Iraq costs the same as healthcare, main difference being healthcare actually provides a benefit to Americans), banning beef, lumber, and medicine/generic drugs from perfectly safe countries like Canada, injecting religion into Government and schools, promoting only abstinance only programs, etc.
More importantly though, it is the Republicans (and about 60 house Dems)who want to control the types of coverages people receive even if they are purchasing insurance with their own money through an exchange.
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11-09-2009, 06:43 PM
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The gov't demanding people get health insurance is absurd. These people have no foresight. Eligible workers with dependents will have trouble finding work if companies are required to offer health insurance. They are begging for out of work parents, good policy.
Not to mention they didn't index the income limits for inflation. I'm never voting for an incumbent ever again.
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