As Aunti has not been keeping up on this thread, I will not make comments, yet, on the forum.

Fastwalker, why oh why do you keep creating such hospitality food issues? Perhaps the potatoes could include your gifted onions, peppers (of various colors), and mushrooms. I could find a vegan substitute for the country ham on your biscuit. Is it your perception I have nothing better to do then continuously adapt to your food edicts. I was taught to find a socially acceptable way to consume my hostesses food choices. Is it not enough that my new feline baby feels she can only eat if I sit on a chair and rub her while she has a midnight snack? :hunf:

While this is not happening today, Native Americans were pushed off their lands in the past and put onto reservations. Treaties were hammered out and signed, ceremonies took place, and both sides heralded a new era of co-operation. Then people in Washington decided that they needed mineral rights to get the oil underground, or gold, or wh**ever. Bottom line: the feds got pretty much what they wanted. While the government doesn't encroach onto tribal lands today, this has happened repeatedly in the past.
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Z*****ts thought they were going to get oil and other resources from the Palestinian land, but when they found out there was none they proceeded to engage in their land-grabbing activities by occupying the territories they defeated in the 1967 war against the Palestinians. Now, they are engaging America in their wars of expansion into the lands they know do have oil as per their stated goal of "Eretz Yisrael" (Greater Israel, which see), which is the occupation of all the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf so they will have a monopoly (something they revere) on M.E. oil, thereby strengthening their control of America.


We (the USA) took parts of Mexico when we thought we needed to, and parts of Canada too. The area from California to Texas was once the northern half of Mexico. In 1845 Washington pressured Mexico into selling us what is now the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico, at the price we dictated. This doesn't happen anymore either, but the passage of time doesn't necessarily make it right.
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Nor is the taking by violence of the Palestinians' land right, either. Or the waging war by proxy through the U.S. to install Israel-first regimes in Iraq (which is a prelude to Israel's occupation), Afghanistan, Iran, or any other M.E. nations, either. Two wrongs do not make a right.



My point is that after such things happen, there are no easy solutions that satisfy all those concerned.
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The Mexicans seem to have found their solution with conquest by i*****l i*********n, which Israel is deathly afraid will happen to them if the "right of return" is allowed. All the pieces fit, all one has to do is connect the dots.


As time passes, the possessors of lands taken from others become more entrenched, and it becomes more difficult to dislodge them. The only workable solution for the Israelis and Palestineans is to compromise, stop attacking each other, stick to past agreements, and learn to live in peace with each other. It doesn't make the past any less painful, and it's not completely fair, but holding on to old resentments only makes the pain last longer. It also guarantees that future generations of Israelis and Palestineans will keep on bleeding each other.
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Or the Z*****ts could allow i*****l i*********n as we in the U.S. are doing, and put the Palestinian immigrants on all sorts of benefits like schools, food stamps, free medical care, drivers' licenses, welfare money, right to v**e, etc. Does that sound allright to you?

As it is either late at night or very early morning, I am allowed to be silly.

Unless you have had an appropriate background check, your weapon does not have scary looking attachments, your magazine is ten or less bullets, there will be no shooting. :roll:

I agree "apathy" is appalling as well as cretinous. I sometimes have a phrase, "What were they thinking?" My usual mental response is, "They were not!" These two phrases would apply to those who pay no attention to governance of our Republic.

As a side note, your breakfast will include no home fries because you failed to respond as to whether you wished onions with them. I do not have hours to hang around the stove waiting on your decision. :-o

"We" aren't sending rockets into the Indians' reservations and bulldozing their homes and farmlands, nor are we building 40 foot walls to keep them from accessing their land. We are not making them use license plates that identify them as being Indians, we are not holding them at checkpoints which cause some of them to miscarry their babies, we are not constantly encroaching on their reservations with "settlements," and we don't have a plan to extend our borders into Canada or Mexico.

I am pretty sure I am the old guy who pigs fly refers to as "what's his ass". You don't like straights like me either, do you.

I once saw a video from YouTube about the goings on during a gay parade and afterward in San Francisco and one poor should was sitting there on the street and others of the same mind were walking by and pissing on him. I can't handle things like that although some of my best friends in this life have been of your mind but wouldn't have sat still for things like that.

there are difficult times to comment with voice sentitive formats .it seems i hit a wrong something and have confused a few people. in my long and in mmy wonderful years on this earth i have lived in many cities of this world, most with great acceptance of all people ,and that ability to accept is not based on closed minds ,just minds that have the ability to seek and to find the finest in others. this ability to seek and find the best in others, being it thoughts from that great chef paula dean or whomever. allows the grace of god to shine through to the minds damaged through early years of on going kindergarten classes ,never seeing a graduation from kindergarten .how you equate the termoil of sane sex dreation through wanting to love and raise children ,unless the captive mind is ,indeed ,captive inside the walls of linitless meanderings?