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Destor, you're neither all

Verified Atheist — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:29:44 +0000

In reply to Destor, you're neither all

Destor, you're neither all wet, nor not all wet.

Sounds like he's been drinking with Schrödinger's cat.

Destor, you're neither all

Peter Schwartz — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:06:30 +0000

In reply to Feeling Suspicious About The Iran Plot?

Destor, you're neither all wet, nor not all wet.

There are reasons to be skeptical and there are reasons to believe the account.

Without knowing the truth, what else can one really say?

DESTOR!! Rotwang's

bwakfat — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:54:14 +0000

In reply to Feeling Suspicious About The Iran Plot?

DESTOR!!

Rotwang's back!!

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/16/the_lean_years/

(yay!)

xoxo

Bwakkie

Acanuck well stated. You

NCD — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:33:34 +0000

In reply to Yeah, you're all wet, Destor.

Acanuck well stated. You could add the post 9/11 anthrax attacks to the list with WMD and Tonkin. Not a peep from any of the dagbloggers on the Frontline report last week, which poked holes in the FBI case big enough to fly crop dusters and drones of death. Would one expect the guy who wrote a 2004 piece 'The Saddam Shuffle' for Forbes to question the validity of the final report on the Bush era anthrax attacks, a remarkable and deadly episode in homeland hysteria? He seems to specialize in criticizing Obama, either for action in aiding NATO in the Libya campaign, or too little or too much pre-election chest thumping on Iran. One thing I am sure of, Obama will not start another war based on this incident, a GOP President..?

it's a setup for sure.

jollyroger — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:10:55 +0000

In reply to Yeah, you're all wet, Destor.

it's a setup for sure. but Iran is only collateral damage. the real target is mexico. we already have drones flying over Juarez. Como se dice "hellfire" en espanol?

Yeah, you're all wet, Destor.

acanuck — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:34:52 +0000

In reply to I dunno, guys... am I all wet

Yeah, you're all wet, Destor. I read your first three paragraphs and I think, "OK, here's someone else who understands exactly how the Homeland Security industry functions, how paid informants with indictments they need quashed are routinely turned into agents provocateurs to feed public fears and keep the department's coffers bulging."

Then I read your last three paragraphs, and I despair. Someone mentions the magic word "Iran" and suddenly, all the preposterous links and coincidences that would normally set off your bullshit detector are swept aside. Suddenly it's a serious threat.

Destor, let me suggest that the fact this scenario brings in a country that large numbers of people in this country and abroad are jonesing for an attack on is NOT a reason to turn off or even dial down your bullshit detector; it is a reason to set it at the most sensitive level possible.

I hear the official manufactured outrage over this unproven "plot" -- accompanied by the threats to "punish" Iran -- and I think of the Tonkin Gulf incident and Saddam's WMDs. Why do Americans seem so totally incapable of looking skeptically at their own imperial history and drawing the conclusion that their leaders routinely treat them as gullible sheep? It continues to amaze me.

..well, yeah, we got all

NCD — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:55:56 +0000

In reply to there is not yet any Iran Use

..well, yeah, we got all those troops who thought 5 tours in Iraq meant they could come home, the job isn't finished! And to think the FBI were the guys who asked for 'yellow cake' not chocolate. Promote that agent!

there is not yet any Iran Use

Resistance — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:11:57 +0000

In reply to It's just pre-election

there is not yet any Iran Use of Force Resolution.

The investigation is still ongoing.

Someone will find an email or a document that says" The yellow cake you ordered for Joses party, will be delivered to the address you provided "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_(prisoner)

The thing is, most people

Resistance — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:56:47 +0000

In reply to Despite the lack of an

The thing is, most people weren't concerned about the immigrants, who would work on the farms. We knew we didn't want to.

At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution many Americans wanted no part of Farm Work any longer.

It's when the illegal immigrants coveted the more lucrative jobs in the Construction trades, then we said "Whoa vato! we didn't mind, that you took jobs Americans won't or didn't want to do (Working on the Farms) but you illegals, weren't satisfied with farm work either, so you took the jobs of Americans, who couldn't go to college, causing us problems such as depressing the wages and working without benefits. Kissing up to the boss in an effort to steal our jobs. But the boss he don't care, you work real cheap.

How do we get back to telling them "get back on the farm or go home. You're not going to take away the jobs of non- college educated, American workers. Were already faced with income disparity issues, we don't need any more problems"

We need FARM WORKERS, COMPRENDE? if you don't want to work on the farms; go home. Comprende

Despite the lack of an

NCD — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:08:05 +0000

In reply to Has Obama trotted out Janet,

Despite the lack of an alligator filled moat at the border, there are jobs available in itinerant farm labor in Alabama, if you are interested.