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Aug 26, 2019 00:25:13   #
maximus wrote:
That's a pretty good trick, Trump levying a tax on anything. Presidents are NOT allowed to levy taxes. That job falls to congress.
Why should I not go to Mexico? Surely, it's not because Obama and Eric Holder are stained with American blood from Fast and Furious. Obama enacted executive privilege and sealed his records. Eric Holder was held in contempt by congress for not providing those records . Only after a lawsuit filed by the house republicans did Obama release "some" of the documents requested. But there were none that stated that Obama or Holder knew anything about it...so why did Obama keep the documents hidden? Holder had to resign.

Are you referring to the war in Iraq? About there not being WMDs? Seems to me that there weren't any. And they weren't sneaked away...how do you sneak anything in a desert? That was Bush Jr's baby to get us into the war, IMHO.
Somebody's to blame for B******i! It's factual they they asked for increased security several times but were ignored. To blame a film maker's movie was just redirection to hide the fact that the upper echelon allowed those 4 Americans die and it was Clinton's AND Obama's job to NOT let that happen.


The Patriot Act? While it was demonized heavily, it has in fact saved lives. Newsday reported;

Information-sharing facilitated by the Patriot Act, for example, was

critical to the successful dismantling of terror cells in Lackawanna, Portland,

Ore., and Virginia. Likewise, the information-sharing provisions contained in

the act assisted the prosecution in San Diego of those involved with an

al-Qaida drugs-for-weapons plot involving "Stinger" anti-aircraft missiles.

It also aided in the prosecution of Enaam Arnaout, who had a relationship

with Osama bin Laden and used his charity organization to obtain funds

illicitly from unsuspecting Americans for terrorist groups.

These are not trivial successes. On the contrary, they're part of an

enormous, ongoing effort to protect America from further terrorist attacks.

We cannot, of course, say that the Patriot Act alone can stop terrorism.

But every time we successfully use the new tools to thwart a terrorist

organization, that's a victory


Also;

at a Judiciary Committee hearing on the Patriot

Act, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said: "I have never had a

single abuse of the Patriot Act reported to me. My staff...asked [the ACLU] for

instances of actual abuses. They...said they had none." So the fiction of

abuse can be laid to rest.


It just can't get t***sparent enough for me to see something that isn't there.
That's a pretty good trick, Trump levying a tax on... (show quote)

From:
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/tariff
A tariff is a kind of tax on goods a country imports or exports.
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Aug 26, 2019 00:22:18   #
byronglimish wrote:
No chain at all, you buy into that white privilege jealousy promulgated by the r****t Kenyan.

Ah, as I thought, no logic at all, just a spew of bile.
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Aug 25, 2019 21:08:11   #
GmanTerry wrote:
Suppose you lived in Venezuela. That's what would happen.

Semper Fi

http://www.geo.coop/blog/some-counter-intuitive-effects-government-support-co-ops-venezuela
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/11034
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Aug 25, 2019 20:50:39   #
byronglimish wrote:
So you're another black r****t or a wimp who is embarrassed of being white?

Care to share your chain of logic (?) that led you to that conclusion?
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Aug 25, 2019 18:35:20   #
debeda wrote:
In a cooperative there are a finite number of people who choose to BE in the cooperative and educate themselves as to what is required. Comparing apples and rutabagas

Yes, "Comparing apples and rutabagas".
In one case, there is the owner telling the workers what to do and how much they will get for their labor.
In the other, there are the workers deciding what to do and deciding how much they will get for their labor.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:21:29   #
byronglimish wrote:
So just let anybody and everyone in..got it.

Hey, if it was good enough for Jamestown...
http://www.nancyisenberg.com/white-trash
For a discussion (starting about 4:20):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Gq2qDwFpA
https://www.propublica.org/article/white-trash-the-original-underclass
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Aug 25, 2019 16:59:29   #
debeda wrote:
Chaos.....havent you ever run a business or been in any position of authority? Mostly, the workers want to make the best deal PERSONALLY, and have little to no understanding of the big picture or how to keep things running. Which is why full on socialism grinds productivity and commerce to a halt EVERY TIME

Have you ever worked in a cooperative?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_and_the_Debt_Trap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mond**gon_Corporation
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Aug 25, 2019 16:14:37   #
Mikeyavelli wrote:
I admit that I do have more money than morals.
Morality is personal, and I have no guilt about any of my actions. Morals are just a way to boast that you are better than others. All crap.

Hmm, I think of morals as socially constructed codes of conduct. If one is alone, how can there be any good or bad? Societies need to keep an eye on i***ts who think they alone are the judge of good and evil.
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Aug 25, 2019 16:04:38   #
Fit2BTied wrote:
Something I'll never understand. You complain about how the wealthy are taking advantage of everyone, and about the wealth gap - and yet you demand open borders. Have you missed all the articles published that talk about how, by flooding the labor markets with legal, but more importantly i*****l i*******ts - wages are kept down, thereby increasing profits for the wealthy and forcing the wealth gap even wider? Your arguments might be more palatable if even a little logic was involved.
Something I'll never understand. You complain abou... (show quote)

Some capitalists are happy to have "illegal" immigration, especially around payday when they can call up ICE to haul away the "i******s" before they have to be paid.

In a consumer driven economy like the US, bringing in more consumers would boost the economy.

If the health of an economy can be seen as the rate of flow of "money" through it, then it might be healthy to evaporate big pools and let it rain on the parched.
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Aug 25, 2019 15:46:59   #
byronglimish wrote:
So to you the constitution gives the U.S. to any foreigner.

The US Constitution puts no limits on immigration.
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Aug 25, 2019 15:09:08   #
debeda wrote:
I was talking about your brush off of the lefty mass shooter in Dayton

I didn't brush the Dayton shooter off.

See:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/16/mass-shooting-motives-what-if-we-never-learn-why/2000720001/
Wherein:
The alleged gunman who opened fire in an El Paso Walmart, Patrick Crusius, posted a h**eful manifesto decrying what he called a “Hispanic invasion of Texas’’ and ranting against immigrants, so his motives, while contemptible, appear pretty clear.

So far that stands in contrast with Connor Betts, the shooting suspect in Dayton who was k**led by police. There have been reports of misogynistic tendencies in his past and police said he had “a history of obsession with violent ideations,’’ but no specific reason for his assault has been pinpointed.

Similarly, attacks like last November’s shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, where 12 died; the shooting spree at Santa Fe (Texas) High School in May 2018 that cost 10 lives; and, most notoriously, the Las Vegas rampage of October 2017 in which 58 were k**led, have rendered investigators unable to specify a motive.
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Those of you who think CNN ignored Dayton shooting haven't been watching CNN. For a sample see:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/us/connor-betts-dayton-shooting-profile/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10/us/dayton-shooting-victims-funerals/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/14/us/dayton-shooter-sister-obituaries/index.html
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Aug 25, 2019 14:21:24   #
debeda wrote:
Ummm.....so if someone who supports a right wing person or ideal commits an atrocity it is domestic terror. And if someone who supports a left wing person or ideal commits an atrocity it's just "someone doing something ". Are you Ilhan Omar?

Did you not understand my example?

Trump (a right-wing person?) k*****g Jared Kushner (another right-wing person?) would be just "someone doing something ".
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Aug 25, 2019 13:58:10   #
Barracuda2020 wrote:
Fifth Avenue needs to remain Fifth Avenue, just saying. It doesn't make sense, they should go name a new highway, space shuttle, aircraft carrier /destroyer, a bridge, or wh**ever, but Fith Avenue is Historic and classic and should remain, JMO.

It's just the block where Trump Tower is located. Suggestion started as a joke.
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Aug 25, 2019 13:51:57   #
GmanTerry wrote:
The government owning everything and giving everyone a portion of the money it makes is socialism. The biggest problem this creates is the loss of incentive to do anything more than the minimum required. I have worked as an Engineer at an electric utility. The union guys have no incentive to work because every electrician makes the same salary. There are union guys who do put forth extra effort but they are bullied by the rank and file. Socialism removes 100% of the drive to do more and requires everyone to do the minimum. That is not a healthy society.
The government owning everything and giving everyo... (show quote)

GmanTerry wrote:
The Utilities, I worked for two, were Arizona Public Service and the United States Department of Energy. APS is an investor owned utility and the DOE is owned by you, the taxpayers.

Semper Fi

Suppose the workers "owned" APS. Suppose APS income was distributed by the workers.
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Aug 25, 2019 12:53:41   #
Blade_Runner wrote:
FDR was also an anti-Semite, he refused to allow Jews escaping the Holocaust to come ashore in NY. And, he ordered the incarceration of 130,000 Japanese-Americans (Nisei) in concentration camps.

From:
https://www.npr.org/2013/03/18/174125891/fdr-and-the-jews-puts-roosevelts-compromises-in-context

In summing up FDR's record, Breitman and Lichtman write that "his compromises might seem flawed in the light of what later generations have learned about the depth and significance of the Holocaust." But, they add, "Roosevelt reacted more decisively to N**i crimes against Jews than did any other world leader of his time."

"In some ways, that's a statement about Roosevelt's world and the inadequacies of other world leaders at the time," Breitman tells NPR's Robert Siegel. "But that comparison tells us something: that the world of the 1930s and the 1940s was a very different place, and that Roosevelt had both political constraints and international constraints that we don't often think about today."

In this way, Breitman says, FDR's track record was markedly different from that of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

"I think Churchill has the reputation of being philo-Semitic [or appreciative of Jews and Jewish culture] but didn't often back it up with actions. And Roosevelt has the reputation for being unsympathetic but in fact did a number of things behind the scenes which show at least some concern," Breitman observes.

FDR's father raised him to not be anti-Semitic at a time when anti-Semitism was common to their class. During his presidency, however, Roosevelt feared that expressions of his concern for the Jews of Europe would inflame anti-Semitism in the U.S. According to Lichtman, that fear affected how FDR and other leaders of the era dealt with the Jewish question.

"The 1930s and '40s were a time in America when there was a considerable amount of anti-Jewish, anti-black and even anti-Catholic sentiment and people were worried about upsetting the social order in America," Lichtman says. "But, let me say, this is the poison of anti-Semitism; that the fear of anti-Semitism is often greater than the reality of anti-Semitism. And it was more fear that tended to paralyze key players in the '30s and '40s than necessarily the reality of anti-Semitism."

But it wasn't just FDR who was afraid. American Jews were also nervous about rocking the boat and bringing a wave of anti-Semitism upon themselves. According to Breitman, "The American Jewish community was divided both over how much they could accomplish politically and how they should go about it."
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