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"I sincerely apologize, and I meant in no way to denigrate the tragic plight of America's barefoot and pregnant white trash women," said Heinz-Kerry. "They are the real heroes, facing the daily living hell of raising their ugly and unwanted children, and many must make do without access to the most basic childcare staff or personal Esalen trainers."
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Posted by: Frank G ||
10/23/2004 17:02 Comments ||
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From the November 1 / November 8, 2004 issue:
This is the first presidential election since September 11, 2001, and it will define America's response: On the one hand, we can attempt to return to the 1990s; on the other hand, we can face our challenges, and carry out our duties.
"We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance."
--John Kerry, New York Times Magazine, October 10, 2004
"What American would not trade the economy we had in the 1990s, the fact that we were not at war and young Americans were not deployed?"
--John Kerry, on Larry King Live, July 8, 2004
"During the decade of the 1990s, our times often seemed peaceful on the surface.Yet beneath the surface were currents of danger. Terrorists were training and planning in distant camps. . . . America's response to terrorism was generally piecemeal and symbolic. The terrorists concluded this was a sign of weakness, and their plans became more ambitious, and their attacks more deadly. Most Americans still felt that terrorism was something distant, and something that would not strike on a large scale in America. That is the time my opponent wants to go back to. A time when danger was real and growing, but we didn't know it. . . . September 11, 2001 changed all that. We realized that the apparent security of the 1990s was an illusion. . . . Will we make decisions in the light of September 11, or continue to live in the mirage of safety that was actually a time of gathering threats?"
--George W. Bush, October 18, 2004
THIS IS THE FIRST presidential election since September 11, 2001. Its central issue is the meaning of September 11. The events of that day did not really "change everything," as Bush sometimes says in a defensible shorthand. But they did reveal, as columnist Paul Greenberg put it, that "everything we had thought/assumed/expected in the Golden '90s hadn't been so." The surface peace of the 1990s had been bought at a great price. On 9/11 a failure of American leadership was revealed, a failure to look ahead and act forcefully to forestall threats--to do what Bush has called "the hard work of fighting terror and spreading freedom."
This is what President Bush thinks. John Kerry really doesn't agree. That's why it is so fitting that Bill Clinton will reemerge to campaign for Kerry this week. The choice will then be clearly posed: On the one hand, we can attempt to return to the 1990s. This is not, of course, an unattractive prospect, but it is surely an unachievable one. To pretend we can go back to the 1990s raises false hopes that will prove dangerous to the country. On the other hand, we can face our challenges, and carry out our duties--as President Bush has tried, with considerable success, to lead us to do.
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10/23/2004 9:39:06 AM ||
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William Kristol is a Jew.
Sock Puppet of Doom, is William Kristol another one of those self hating jews? If so, is that all we need to know about him?
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Posted by: Mike Sylwester ||
10/23/2004 10:37 Comments ||
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Mike S - In the same vein as your gratuitous "comment":
Hmmm. I see no mention of "self-hate" here. Why, SPo'D hasn't even commented on this thread! You must be psychic - or something.
As for Kristol being a Jew, how do you know Mikey? How do you really know with absolute certainty? How can you ambush SPo'D without certainty?
*slaps forehead*
Duh, of course! Sorry - it's obvious, now:
You checked Kristol's foreskin!
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Skip the ethnic comments and consider the substance. Bill Kristol is absolutely correct. This election is very much a decision on our post-9/11 approach to terrorism. Are we going to play 'cops-and-robbers' like the '90's or are we going to remain on offense. For me the choice is obvious: on defense you have to be 100% right all the time (an impossibility); whereas on offense, we chase them into caves.
Posted by: Capt America ||
10/23/2004 12:14 Comments ||
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The vote so far:
Is William Kristol a self hating Jew?
.com = no
Frank G = yes
PBMcL = undecided
Capt America = maybe, but substantially correct
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Posted by: Mike Sylwester ||
10/23/2004 13:36 Comments ||
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Been doing troll dust, Mike?
Posted by: Tom ||
10/23/2004 13:41 Comments ||
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I thought Democrat Jews were the self-hating type, i.e. voting against their interests.
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Mikey - you dumbfuck. I was mocking you (as usual)
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/23/2004 14:22 Comments ||
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Sylwester - Quit worrying about who hates what. I am not Jewish, but to use this as an issue is as gratiuitous as the ambulance chasing appeasers using the Veep's daughter for poliical hay.
Kristol, though I sometimes disagree with him, is right on point here! Anyone who doesn't realize that is like the ostrich in the new Bush-Cheney Ad.
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I misspoke. The Ostrich was in a Kerry ad, but the idea of an ostrich with head in sand is a perfect metaphor for the vast majority of Kerry supporters...
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BTW - Kedwards staff unveiled their stupid ostrich ad, but after comparisons to the Wolves ad by W's staff, they haven't used the Ostrich anywhere. A cheap PR release is all...
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/23/2004 16:22 Comments ||
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Voting update
Is William Kristol a self hating jew?
Tom = Needs more info to decide.
Whoo = yes, if William Kristol is a Democrat
Big Ed = incoherent (ballot discarded as invalid)
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Posted by: Mike Sylwester ||
10/23/2004 18:13 Comments ||
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Mike, what the hell is wrong with you?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
10/23/2004 18:29 Comments ||
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If someone is a self hating jew, then that's all we need to know about him. That would apply to William Kristol too, wouldn't it?
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Posted by: Mike Sylwester ||
10/23/2004 18:38 Comments ||
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mike you need help - I'd suggest cuddly therapy in a EU country. They'd understand and affirm you
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/23/2004 18:50 Comments ||
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No, Michael. You need to look at the words in the posted article. Read them. Then you evaluate the article on its merits. You were taught to do this in 3rd or 4th grade, if you went to a halfway decent public school. If this is beyond you, please go back to lurking until you have seen enough examples to discern the principles of the excercise, at which point you may try again.
How do you know that Mike is not in the 2nd grade? If he hasn't reached the 4th grade yet then you can't blame him. Maybe he got left behind on the underfunded "No Child Left Behind".
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:-) Ship - Kristol is indeed Jewish, as for the self-hate, I don't think so. Typically he and the other "evil Neocon Joooooish Cabalâ¢" are accused of using America's strengths for Israel's security, nevermind that our interests are intertwined... It's a red herring
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10/24/2004 9:45 Comments ||
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Enlightened moderates are out, Madrassahs are in. In 1947, Pakistan had some 20 dozen madrassahs. The half of Pakistan left now, according to interior ministry's rather conservative estimate, has 20,000 with 3 million students and they churn out 40,000 graduates every year. Pakistan's primary schools are not far behind. The Economic Survey 2003-04 says 17.4 million Pakistani children are attending primary schools (according to UNICEF, an additional 13 million school-age Pakistanis will never see the inside of a classroom). Here is a sample of what the fortunate 17.4 million primary school Pakistani children are being taught: The official Curriculum Document, Primary Education, Class K-V specifically prescribes "simple stories to urge jihad ." Under 'Activity 4', the specific prescription for three- and eight-year-old Pakistanis is: "To make speeches on jihad and shahadat." The Ministry of Education..formally endorses the following 'Learning Outcome': "Recognize the importance of jihad in every sphere of life." The officially certified direction for five- and ten-year-old Pakistanis is: "To make speeches on Jihad ." The "Affective Objective" for Classes I-V is: "Concepts of Ideology of Pakistan, Muslim Ummah and Jihad."
Of the 17.4 million primary schoolers only 4 million enter the Middle School (the rest drop out). The lucky 4 million are given further tutoring in jihad. Pakistani textbook writers are obliged under explicit instructions from the Ministry of Education, the National Bureau of Curriculum and Textbooks, to "create a feeling among students that they are the members of a Muslim nation. Therefore, in accordance with the Islamic tradition, they have to be truthful, honest, patriotic and life-sacrificing mujahids." The National Bureau of Curriculum and Textbooks, Social Studies Curriculum for Classes VI-VIII under the National Curriculum Committee, has similar recommendations for jihad, Tableegh [proselytize], Shahdat, sacrifice and the rest. Of the 4 million middle schoolers only 1.6 million enter the High School. The lucky 1.6 million then receive advance jihad tutoring. Urdu Curriculum (Compulsory, optional and Easy course), Classes IX and X, National Bureau of Curriculum and Textbooks, Ministry of Education sanctions the following 'Learning Outcome': "Must be aware of the blessings of jihad ." The Curriculum Wing of the Ministry of Education, more often than not, equates jihad with guerilla warfare. Our education ministry continues to 'inspire' our children to become guerrilla fighters. Punjab Textbook Board continues to make our children "aware of the blessings of jihad " to "make speeches on jihad " to "create a yearning for jihad" to "love and aspire for jihad ."
As a consequence of it all, our madrasas manage to add 40,000 real jihadis every year to our existing reservoir of jihadis. Then there are 1.6 million wanna-be jihadis who graduate from our 16,059 high schools every year. Does our education ministry know that right after the Battle of Khyber our Holy Prophet (PBUH) had stated that jihad-e-asghar (smaller jihad) is over and that jihad-e-akbar (greater jihad) had begun? Doesn't that mean the end of armed jihad (jihad-e-asghar) and the beginning of jihad against poverty and illiteracy? To be certain, we are going to need all the jihadis we can produce and then some more. At least four major jihads are coming up. Make no mistake: the first jihad is against all the 'enlightened moderate Pakistanis'; the second is against the 293 million inhabitants of the 'Great Satan'; the third, against the more than 6 million residents of Israel ; and then there are a billion Hindus to be taken care of. An 'enlightened moderate Pakistani' is now an endangered species. While the WWF is overly busy saving sperm whales, pandas, Iberian ibexes, Monk seals, Blue-fin tuna, one-horned rhinoceroses, seahorses and Lady's Slipper orchids there is no one to save enlightened moderate Pakistanis.
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10/23/2004 1:57:54 AM ||
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