The Goat Pen

And it also bothers me greatly that we are killing civilians who are fighting for their own right of self determination.

GBJs wrote: Rat, I'm a little remiss. I haven't been able to keep up with the Syrian issues to form a decent opinion. Working 10-12 hours a day will do that. ...plus the 9:1 media only tells us what O-shit wants us to hear... OK, I couldn't resist...

Professor Tiger wrote:Of course, by "civilians who are fighting for their own right of self determination" you mean people who fly airplanes into US buildings to kill thousands of your countrymen, shoot women in soccer stadiums for wanting to learn to read or flying kites, don't want women to drive cars or to leave the house without their father's or husband's permission, routinely practice female genital mutilation, have no problem with "marriage" of girls before they turn 10, execute people for converting from Islam to any other religion, burn down churches, preach hatred against everybody except Muslims, don't allow the testimony of non-Muslims in their courts, blow themselves and as many others as possible up to receive 72 virgins in paradise, people who - if they had their way - would execute an infidel like you in a minute, etc. I'll never understand why you are so fond of people like that and so eager to denigrate your own country.

Professor Tiger wrote:

And it also bothers me greatly that we are killing civilians who are fighting for their own right of self determination.

Of course, by "civilians who are fighting for their own right of self determination" you mean people who fly airplanes into US buildings to kill thousands of your countrymen, shoot women in soccer stadiums for wanting to learn to read or flying kites, don't want women to drive cars or to leave the house without their father's or husband's permission, routinely practice female genital mutilation, have no problem with "marriage" of girls before they turn 10, execute people for converting from Islam to any other religion, burn down churches, preach hatred against everybody except Muslims, don't allow the testimony of non-Muslims in their courts, blow themselves and as many others as possible up to receive 72 virgins in paradise, people who - if they had their way - would execute an infidel like you in a minute, etc. I'll never understand why you are so fond of people like that and so eager to denigrate your own country.

GBJs wrote:Nope. Those are the sumbiches who cause stuff to get blown up and create collateral damage.

Op Ed wrote:

GBJs wrote:Nope. Those are the sumbiches who cause stuff to get blown up and create collateral damage.

The dumb fuck makes no sense, he treats exceptions as the majority.

Jungle Rat wrote:Crap. I hit my quota an hour ago

Toemeesleather wrote:

Jungle Rat wrote:Crap. I hit my quota an hour ago

Op Ed wrote:

GBJs wrote:Nope. Those are the sumbiches who cause stuff to get blown up and create collateral damage.

The dumb fuck makes no sense, he treats exceptions as the majority.

President Barack Obama has had a terrible few weeks, and it could get worse.

Especially if the Supreme Court accepts the ancient premise in that old, forgotten document called the Constitution that the federal leviathan cannot force Americans to purchase a thing, let alone health care.

But I still believe that the guy from Chicago will win re-election in November, despite all the anguish around him, because the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, isn't exactly inspiring either.

Romney is no conservative alternative, he's merely the un-Obama corporatist, eerily similar to the big-government Illinois Republicans who partnered with Democrats to spend the state into crippling debt, those white-shoe Republicans whom Obama dealt with and learned from during his brief political apprenticeship here. He knows the type.

So if the 2012 presidential race is on Obama's ground, if it's about government subsidies for business versus government subsidies for select demographic voting constituencies, and if all of us in America keep our hands extended, waiting for government plums, then Obama wins. It's Chicago machine politics writ large.

Meanwhile, the Operation Fast and Furious scandal gets hotter, the Middle East is roiling, Europe trembles, the Greek welfare state is at the verge of political and social collapse. So Obama's media mouthpieces were sent out to beat the bushes that the U.S. is not Greece, and that we should boldly pin our ears back and spend, spend, spend our way back to paradise.