It was the time of unraveling. Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen?
Opinion piece by that great New York Times Leftie (but I repeat myself) Roger Cohen.
I wonder what would Mr. Cohen do if offered the chance to go back in time seven, eight, nine years, even ten years and allowed to briefly talk to the Roger Cohen of then?
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Two Cohens collide by time travel:
"Lookin' good, young Rog! May I cavil?
Don't act quite so priestly;
The One turns out beastly
And everything starts to unravel."
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Yeats
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I did notice the NYTs did not pin any blame on the current administration for any of this "unraveling."
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Bullshit. When was it not a time of beheadings in the Middle East? And why do we have to police them? Drill here and let them figure it out for themselves.
As for Scotland, they might get kinda hungry without the English keeping them on the dole but they'll just have to figure it out then, won't they? Maybe they'll have to lower their standards a bit, tighten their belts and go to work. It's for them to decide and I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it either way.
What I see unraveling is our own society with its 47 percent, communist politicians, the cesspool known as Hollywood, the open border and the debt. Why doesn't Mr. Cohen wring his hands about that?
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Agreed Ebbang Uluque6305. However, ISIS (headloppers) should be wiped out. They are a cancer on the world. Like Bin Laden did, they will send their minions over to the U.S. or other Western countries to spread death and destruction. 911 should not be forgotten so long as history goes on. Not to slight some of the other vile things perpetrated by such groups.
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Sort of reads like the intro to a tedious book by Faulkner...
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Like Bin Laden did, they will send their minions over to the U.S.
That's why I mentioned the open border. It's also troubling to me that our government is so free and easy issuing visas to young men from cat box countries. That's the threat I see. How can Champ even pretend to be concerned about protecting our country when he won't do squat about the border? I wouldn't give him one red cent for his war against ISIS until he does something about the border. Then if his Soddy friends got nervous enough he might actually do something.
Furthermore, how about some of that terribly politically incorrect profiling at the airports? Little old ladies from Kansas don't carry bombs. Young Arab men do.
It would also help if he'd stop meddling in places like Libya, Egypt and Syria where he hasn't the vaguest clue what he's doing.
I can't support anything Barack Obama does because I don't trust him. Not one bit. He's lied too often and he's done too many things that don't make sense.
I don't trust Mr. Cohen either. Reading his drivel made me gag. If him and guys like him had done their jobs in the first place Obama would have never been elected.
They did. Whether useful idiots, apparatchiks, or Koolaid drinkers, they only work for the Inner Party and power. They achieved their goal. Unfortunately, some have discovered the price of selling one's soul. Better to remain a brain dead dogmatist to the destruction they worked, than to feel the remorse that is eating at them. I hope they enjoy the latter. Well deserved.
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Such dramatic outcasting bores the peoples these days. Have the DC park police bring out a Radio Flyer full of Zip Loc bags of cremains instead.
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09/16/2014 7:20 Comments ||
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Because what's the point of being a blustering bag of gas if just anybody gets a turn at talking.
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09/16/2014 7:42 Comments ||
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Because what's the point of being a blustering bag of gas if just anybody gets a turn at talking.
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Just to play the Captain Obvious role, as is my tendency ...
If you remove the right of people to band together and pool their resources as a group in order to communicate a message, then just the richest individuals will have the funds to pay to broadcast their ideas.
And this is coming from the community-organizing-friendly crowd, right? Seems ... mmmmm ... contradictory, no?
Kinda like how higher level of regulations always benefits the larger, currently-winning corporations over the smaller start-ups. Again, usually pushed by the "we're for the small guy" people.
That's a stealthy little trend there.
I think a lot of good folks simply catch on to the easily-accessible "look at all of the money they have/make and money is bad" message from those pushing these ideas. To hear and understand how things are truly backwards takes some time, good faith, and strength on the part of the listener. It means those arguing on the true behalf of grassroots efforts to make a difference start out way behind in the game.
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If you remove the right of people to band together and pool their resources as a group in order to communicate a message, then just the richest individuals will have the funds to pay to broadcast their ideas.
That's the plan. It's all about incumbent protection.
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I read the article. Am I missing something? How can Congress pass (try to) a law that is unconstitutional--Once such a law is passed it is, by definition, unconstitutional? However, if such a law were passed, there would most likely be lawsuits that would take the issue to SCOTUS. SCOTUS would decide the issue. And if SCOTUS' membership were "stacked" towards liberals, would they protect the Constitution? The culprits are on the record for those who vote (if they understand or care).
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....you missed that this was a vote on an amendment to the Constitution. Once passed, it would be the "Constitutional". Didn't get the 2/3rds needed in the Senate let alone the House (and 3/4 of the states), but it does show the hand of totalitarianism.
#9
If you remove the right of people to band together and pool their resources as a group in order to communicate a message, then just the richest individuals will have the funds to pay to broadcast their ideas.
More exactly: only your betters. The leftists then will persuade the rich (speciallay those who inherited their richness) funding them is being cool and tolerant and smart.
#10
I called Pelosi's office once to complain about her stand on an issue. A couple of hours later the capital police called my number. I told them to rot in hell.
For the first time in American statistical history, the majority of American adults are single. 124 million or 50.2% of Americans are single. Some will get married, but increasing numbers never will.
Demographically a population of single adults means the death of the Republican Party. It eliminates the possibility of libertarian and fiscally conservative policies. It leads inevitably to the welfare state.
Single people are less likely to have a support system that keeps them from becoming a public charge. Children born to single parents perform poorly in school and are more likely to engage in criminal behavior. A nation of single people will inevitably become a welfare state and a police state.
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Not sure how he derives his conclusions. But it would be interesting to see the numbers and percentages based on race. I would not be surprised to see the percentage of whites at about the same while the growth in numbers of what was once minorities has grown to skew the total population percentages.
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09/16/2014 16:22 Comments ||
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#1 We need a two state solution.
Blue States and Red States? Or left coast and right coast versus interior states?
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09/16/2014 00:00 ||
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“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
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Glenmore, that was only the first lie of his Presidency, the lies started a long time ago, makes you wonder about who this Manchurian Candidate President might really be, N'EST-CE PAS?
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There’s a lot of competition for Barack Obama’s biggest lie.
Got that right. However, there is an easy way to tell whether or not Obama is telling the truth. He says so. In a recent interview, he actually said: "I'm really telling the truth this time."
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Oh, the other way to determine his serial lying is to ask: "Are his lips moving?"
His serial lying as well as Hillary's is a significant problem for the U.S. The rest of the world does not believe any of these friggin liars. You can't trust him or those around him. You can't trust Hillary (She seems to be just awaiting her coronation by the Donks). Why would other countries want to ally with someone who can't be relied upon or trusted? Hell, those at Benghazi couldn't trust them and ended up being killed by terrorists. Now, we hear that State Dept. documents were being selectively "culled" by Hillary's top people in a basement an early Sunday morning to cleanse the record of incriminating documents. How the hell did we come to this point in time?
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You would think there would be more suspicion when he college transcripts, birth records, and other biographical information was sealed under court order.
I truly believe he is not who he says he is, he is a manufactured person and the center piece of the aging far left to do what they said they would do in the 60s. Everyone that knows him well is a 60s radical.
Definitely someone should dig deeper once he is out of office...if he doesn't cook up some disaster to declare martial law and stage a coup.
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
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He is a poison pill; a Trojan Horse; a Manchurian Candidate who became President.
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He's just a puppet on a string. He looks good, he's black, he's articulate (with a teleprompter), he's black, he seems sincere to the low-or-now information voter, he's black, he's smooth as silk. Oh and did I mention he's black?
The real power is what is behind the throne. ValJar and who know who else. Reverend Wright probably fits in there (secretly of course) - he said "God Damn America" and Obama is trying his best to make it so. Very nasty people.
[DAWN] In certain national security circles, the renunciation of violence inside Pakistain by the leader of the TTP Punjab aka the Punjabi Taliban, Asmatullah Muawiya, will be greeted with satisfaction, even glee.
Luring the Punjabi Taliban back towards the mainstream of society and politics has been a long-term goal of a section of the Pak security establishment; the thinking being that the former allies of the security establishment are merely misguided and can be persuaded to lay down their arms and lead peaceful existences again.
From here, it would hardly be a surprise to see Muawiya being propped up for a political role, the route of former jihadis into politics being a well-trodden one now, including the likes of Fazlur Rehman Khalil, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed Continued on Page 49
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[DAWN] As the country awaits some kind of good news, some kind of an exit strategy from a national political crisis with seemingly no end, the chief protagonists themselves appear strangely comfortable with the impasse continuing.
Instead of the focus being on urgently moving forwards in talks between the two sides, both the government and its opponents, the PTI and PAT, seem more interested in taking aim at each other.
[ARABNEWS] A few months ago, not many Americans, in fact Europeans as well, knew that a Yezidi community in fact existed in northwest Iraq. Even in the Middle East itself, the Yezidis and their way of life have been an enigma, shrouded by mystery and mostly grasped through stereotypes and fictitious evidence. Yet in no time, the fate of the Yezidis became a rally cry for another US-led Iraq military campaign.
It was not a surprise that the small Iraqi minority found itself a target for fanatical Islamic State (IS) bully boys, who had reportedly carried out unspeakable crimes against Yezidis, driving them to Dohuk, Irbil and other northern Iraqi regions. According to UN and other groups, 40,000 Yezidis had been stranded on Mount Sinjar, awaiting imminent "genocide" if the US and other powers didn't take action to save them.
The rest of the story was spun from that point on. The logic for intervention that preceded the latest US bombing campaign of IS targets, which started in the middle of June, is similar to what took place in Libya over three years ago. Early 2011, imminent "genocide" awaiting Libya's eastern city of Benghazi at the hands of Muammar Qadaffy
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They [from USA to SA] just can't write an article, be it about Iraq or Ukraine without mentioning Israel? And then people wonder, why we think we're the center of the Universe.
[DAWN] THE world has woken up to the threat the Islamic State (previously, the Islamic State of Syria and al-Sham) poses to countries in the Middle East and beyond. The response, a military one, is under way. But the experience of the last 13 years tells us that this will end up providing little more than tactical respite. Irrespective of the outcome of this intervention, the next IS-type outfit will be ready to raise its head sooner or later.
Why? Because the assortment of Sunni Islamist Lion of Islams, for all their internal differences, have managed to hold their own in the narrative war they are fighting against the Westphalian system. Their narrative has not come out on top -- but they don't need it to. As long as they can keep the space confused and average Moslem country citizens mildly sympathetic, ambivalent or indifferent, or reluctant to reject them outright, the Islamists keep their currency.
Not only have they managed this -- pick up any poll in the Moslem world and look at the numbers that 'do not oppose' one of these outfits (even if they say they oppose their actions) and it'll add up to millions -- but the Westphalian states they are challenging seem incapable of finding a counter.
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But the experience of the last 13 years tells us that this will end up providing little more than tactical respite... Why?
Because we are not fighting total war in the way Sherman, Caesar, and Genghis knew how.
[DAWN] AS propagandists of the so-called Islamic State continued to revel in the beheadings of helpless men this week -- a British aid worker in their custody being the latest casualty -- it was equally alarming to hear a reference to Aafia Siddiqui ...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her... by the masked killer of Steven Sotloff, the second American journalist to be decapitated.
Through Sotloff's killer on Sept 2, the terrorist group told the US to release Aafia among its other demands. The suspected Al Qaeda member is currently serving an 86-year prison sentence in Texas for the attempted murder of US officials in Afghanistan.
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Too bad there's no such thing as GenPop at an ADX. She'd last 5 minutes.
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My first thought, is What do we care what Zawahiri wants? Zawahiri ought to be in our sights because of 911. If ISIS is destroyed as well as Jihad John, it won't matter what they say.
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[DAWN] In certain national security circles, the renunciation of violence inside Pakistain by the leader of the TTP Punjab aka the Punjabi Taliban, Asmatullah Muawiya, will be greeted with satisfaction, even glee.
[DAWN] THE world has woken up to the threat the Islamic State (previously, the Islamic State of Syria and al-Sham) poses to countries in the Middle East and beyond. The response, a military one, is under way. But the experience of the last 13 years tells us that this will end up providing little more than tactical respite. Irrespective of the outcome of this intervention, the next IS-type outfit will be ready to raise its head sooner or later.
Aafia Siddiqui
