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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said Thursday it would take many years for Iran to achieve the capability to produce highly enriched uranium needed for an atomic bomb.
Iranian state television on Thursday quoted Asabollah Sabori, deputy head of Iran's nuclear agency, as saying the Bushehr reactor will become fully operational by end of 2006. "These type of reactors are not very suitable to produce plutonium. It is possible, but it is very difficult," Blix said. "The way to go normally is to build a research reactor. The Iranians have such plans for a 40-megawatt reactor and to use heavy water, which has led to some suspicions. "But these plans are very much in their infancy and the West is not particularly worried and maybe (can) count on being able to talk the Iranians out of it."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #64 Apart from your vociferous cussing, OS, what exactly was the point you were trying to make? Iraqis were liberated? And they are grateful aren't they - let's see, how many of these grateful newly liberated Iraqis have signed up to defend their country - the numbers don't look good. And how's about the numerous tips they give us about the bad guys living in their midst? Nice they're liberated, but about their constitution in the making, I read to my amazement that Iraq has invited some Arab countries( none of them democracies btw) to help the Iraq gov't "tweak" the constitutional details. And do Americans give 2 hoots about their GI's dying to "liberate" Iraqis? No, they were told that GI's were invading Iraq to "protect and defend" America. In fact, GWB was quoted after the 2000 that he would never put American military in a nation building exercise. Fooled us didn't he. Check out the latest polls to see what Americans at large think about "liberating" Iraq - you are wrong about Americans being proud of "liberating" 25 Million people they distrust - only 39% of Americans think the Iraq War was worth it - looks like theresure are a lot of John Birchers out there in America - let's see - would you believe that 61% of Americans are John Birchers? As for China... oh I have no doubt that the famous giant brains in DC are "keeping an eye" on China - riggghhht - the same giant brains are more than likely buying shares in the Unocal before the value soars (UCL for those of you who want to dabble in the stock market) As for your previous service, nice, but what does that have to do with the Iraq War? Are you fighting in Iraq now? Then why do you think you know better the facts on the ground than General Abazaid? |
| Posted by: Thotch Glesing2372 2005-06-24 14:58 |
| #63 OS, you love the selective memory of the left? Oh I've got one better for you - the selective memory of the true believers on the right. Like the trucks that carried away the parts to Russia or was it Syria or maybe it was Baja California or Rodeo Drive??? - Debka says alot of things and even on this board of true believers Debka is mocked 99% of the time for getting it wrong 99% of the time. The only time Debka is quoted is when someone like you in this instance is desperate. Quit talking about what was said but show me what was found - facts on the ground confirm there are no WMD in Iraq and that after Gulf War I, Saddam was so cleaned out of potential materials for WMD by inspectors that he needed to lie to keep from being invaded by Iran or by being toppled by his own people. As for UN sanctions and by-laws Saddam ignored, oh yes, that's really important to a crowd who could care less about the UN 99% of the time except for those selective memory times when it's useful to bring up the UN argument to support a pencil thin argument. If a country deserved to be invaded for the number of times it ignored UN by laws etc, we would have invaded Israel, not Iraq. Wise up. Yes, ship, you got it right, if you're not signed up with the National Guard, you are indeed a big mouth all talk no courage chickenhawk. You take the prize for self-discovery. Today's issue of CS Monitor has an article that painfully details the comments of General Abazaid about the Iraq war to remove the oh-so dangerous thug - you know, the guy who's actually in the thick of battle, not just writing or reading about it on RB - anyways, not that any of you want to believe it -( Abazaid must be a defeatist, what does he know he's Lebanese, he must be getting $ from the DNC or the MSM...the usual predictable defensive comments will come out, no doubt)Anyways, Abazaid says the violence and the chaos in Iraq is as bad as before and getting worse. By September he predicts it will be really bad - but hey, no worries, the thug is gone, how smart we were to go against all opinion to remove that thug and keep America safe tut, tut Better we fight them in their backyard than in Chicago - gasp, when will that absurd mantra die a natural death? None of you care about the GOP - it's quite obvious. You don't care about who wins the WH. You care only that your agenda is supported and from your point of view, it can be the GOP or the DNC - you switched once before, so there will be no problem to switch your loyalties again if you deem it necessary. You're as much conservative as Arlen Spector or John Mccain are. |
| Posted by: Thotch Glesing2372 2005-06-24 14:08 |
| #62 TGA, better one thug known and monitored than a bottomless pit of thousands upon thousands of thugs created by our invasion...err, I mean, liberation. Good news though - cheerleading peanut gallery types like what most of you folks are don't have any excuse for staying stateside anymore - the National Guard has raised its age limits, so you too can "do the right thing" instead of just talking about it from afar. I'm waiting for volunteers...I'm waiting... it's easy to talk courage when the weapon of choice is a keyboard. And there's more news emerging - unfortunately our arch enemy China is trying to out bid Chevron and take over a US oil company. He who controls his enemy's resources, controls the enemy. So while we're tied down "as long as it takes" nation building in that shining city on the hill Baghdad, the Chinese are on the move fighting the real war- taking control of resources - China is getting real close with Russia and with Iran and and thanks to our good friend Israel China now has access to valuable defense technology. No worries, just keep cheering. As for the 2004 election, none of you get it. My side, your side the GOP won. We just represent different parties in the big tent - unfortunately your side, the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil about facts on the ground in Iraq is going to cause our party to bleed seats in 2006. We were lucky that Kerry ran in 2004. It wasn't that Bush was so strong. And the "thug" he foolishly choose to remove will cost our party the WH in 2008 unless there's a huge turn around. You represent the tiny group of true believers left re: this Iraq invasion, err I mean, liberation and your group is shrinking day by day, thankfully. Now do the right thing and join the National Guard. |
| Posted by: Thotch Glesing2372 2005-06-24 13:22 |
| #61 I guess I'm missing the point of why posters are knocking Blix. Blix turned out to be right in the main and we were 100% wrong about WMD in Iraq and about Saddam harboring AQ operations, so now 2 years later we've turned the Iraq "invasion" into an Iraq "liberation" and we've spent mega bucks to re-construct a nation we've blown up to smithereens in our search for non-existent WMD (even President Bush made fun of the futility of ever finding WMD in Iraq) and we've lost 1700 soldiers and counting as well as 10,000+ GI's being seriously injured,Raphael posted an article that shows we've lost respect with most of our Western allies(except for Poland whom we've bribed, I mean, supported handsomely) not to mention our Muslim allies think we're nuts (except for Indonesia whom we've showered with tsunami aid money) and let's not forget that all polls, even FOX News, show that the majority of US citizens regret our invading Iraq in the first place and these same Americans are cynical about a happy final outcome and furthermore today "bi-partisan worries in Congress about the Iraq War boiled over" ( to quote a news headline) at a Congressional questioning of Rumsfeld and General Abizaid and yet despite all these obvious setbacks, some of you have the royal nerve to mock Blix??? What's so funny about Hans Blix? The joke is on us about Iraq and we're lurching to a similar situation with Iran. Everything is everyone's fault except what we own. Today I am reading that Rice is once again "warning" Syria about not doing enough to gurad their borders - say what? What about the US gov't sealing shut our porous border with mexico with thousands of illegals crossing 24/7 if Rice thinks it is so easy for any nation to guard its borders. That's one example of many where our gov't officials accuse others of things our country is hopeless at doing any different or better. Perhaps some of you should take your true believer hats off and consider that maybe just maybe the considerable screw up regarding the Iraq War is not a result of biased MSM reporting, or a wobbly US public's Vietnam War insecurity syndrome, or a chicken traitorous Democrat Party. Maybe the reality is that there are jackass civilians in our GOP Admin. who got us into this war and that we have an incompetent intelligence service who couldn't find Easter Eggs at a children's Easter Egg hunt much less ascertain whether a country harbors WMD and we have military leadership whose business it is to fight wars and not to question orders even if the orders for waging war are given by nincompoops on high... So the morale of my story is that before we invade yet another country - this time round with the support of zero allies except for that famously reliable good ally named, Israel, yes dear Israel a country which recently sold at least 60 sensitive weaponry secrets to our arch enemy China ; yes the same Israel that has a very bad habit of spying on us... anyways, just maybe, maybe we should listen to what Blix has to say this time round about Iran before we make yet another impetuous mistake about Iran, which we regret afterwards. Go ahead and flame me with all the predictable swear words and tacky cussing. But you know in your hearts that I speak the truth and that I echo the concerns of most Americans. |
| Posted by: Thotch Glesing2372 2005-06-24 03:04 |
| #60 Rafael, maybe that would have been a better way to handle him. I was in a hurry, between meetings, and reading through the thread really came away with the impression that he was determined to stir things up destructively. Hence the TROLL button. I understand the SCOTUS ref. ;-) |
| Posted by: rkb 2005-06-24 21:55 |
| #59 Just to clear things up: the 6.5 is for #37. I'd rate #40 about a 9. |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-06-24 20:44 |
| #58 d wrote: More than OS? Who decides? Then Dave D. stepped up to the plate:
So I guess Dave is deciding. Then OldSpook wrote:
You mean you used bad language? (Scrolls back up... reads...) What you wrote was insulting, but to be honest, while I've never been a DI, I am in the oilfield, so... +-----+ | 6.5 | +-----+ A little constructive criticism: next time you need to work in both references to bodily fluids and asperations on his ancestry. I wouldn't be saying this if I didn't feel strongly that you could do *better* than that. Since he's been banned as a troll, I'm *not* going to tell you to go back and do it *over*... just keep this in mind for next time, OK? (OTOH, maybe there are different standards for oilfield cursing and cursing in the services... Maybe Dave's score is closer to correct). | ||
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-06-24 20:23 |
| #57 Um... as much as I disagree with what TG2372 has to say, and unless there's some technical reason for it, I think his/her comments should not have been deleted. Edited for brevity perhaps, but not deleted. Or....change the wording to "[OFF-TOPIC OR ABUSIVE COMMENTS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO THE SINKTRAP]". Perhaps I'm a bit overly sensitive, but I get nervous when comments get deleted, especially now that SCOTUS decided anyone can take your home away too ;-) |
| Posted by: Rafael 2005-06-24 19:48 |
| #56 Blixie says they won't have nukes for years? Well, all right, that settles it then. They'll have them by the end of the year. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-24 19:19 |
| #55 Mrs. D is still bitter over the "incident" |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-24 18:36 |
| #54 I didn't have any problem with what you wrote, though I thought your Durbin moment unnecessary. Mrs. D, your wicked..GOOD wicked!<:ô) |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-06-24 17:33 |
| #53 *Drat* i missed Thotch's full sh*t kaniption. *sniff* ..and here I went out an bought some whoremoans, laying mash,and scratch feed thinking she might get cheered up by laying real eggs...oh well. thanks OldSpook an everyone else,you guys did good. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-06-24 17:23 |
| #52 I didn't have any problem with what you wrote, though I thought your Durbin moment unnecessary. I thought #7 was OK, but missed the rest. For me, saying the folks who make policy hope to cash in on it is no worse than a lot of stuff said about Clinton. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-06-24 15:39 |
| #51 It was repetitive namecalling. Shouting louder as if that made your argument more persuasive. A judgement call, but by the time he got around to saying that the giant brains creating our China policy mainly were hoping to cash in on Chinese takeover of Unocal, it had lost any useful content as a POV to debate. And d, I or the handful of other people Fred has invited to act as moderators decide. Had Old Spook started this thread, rather than responding to some pretty egregious provocation, I'd be having a conversation with him instead -- but then, he has a track record of NOT starting a pissing contest like this. He just decided to finish the one Thotch began. |
| Posted by: rkb 2005-06-24 15:34 |
| #50 "d" - A bit salty, yeah I know. I wish I could cuss like a Russian, those guys are the masters. You didn't see my apology for my use of old-school Drill Instructor language? Go read it. heh. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-06-24 15:33 |
| #49 I'm only sorry I missed it when TG melted down. Was it really that bad? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-06-24 15:28 |
| #48 I'm rating OS's rants a 9.2, would've been a 9.4 if he'd a typed a bit slower... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-06-24 15:25 |
| #47 I'm concerned for you This is for you. we love you! |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-06-24 15:14 |
| #46 #43: [OFF-TOPIC OR ABUSIVE COMMENTS DELETED] More than OS? Who decides? |
| Posted by: d 2005-06-24 15:12 |
| #45 Yeah, it was a troll probably. But its good to pop off sometimes and let a full blown rant loose. Thats why I come to this place. (Durbin-Apology) Sorry to any I offended. Sorry that I offended, not sorry that I said it. (/Durbin-Apology) And Karl Rove, I do still have a bite, if I can remember where I put my teeth. (Not really - I'm not THAT old, and still have my own teeth in spite of Army dentists). |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-06-24 15:08 |
| #44 Ratz, I had 'er on the run too. :) Clean kill mod. You an ace yet RKB? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-24 15:04 |
| #43 Howard? Howard Dean? Is that you behind the Thotch puppet? chuckle Nice try. But I think they sussed out your "split the Republicans" plan. Face it Howard, you are never going to be as successful as I am. My using DU to expose the real lunacy at the core of liberalism is still the trump card ol' buddy. They give me fresh material every week to plant into the minds of Durbin and others at the top of your party. You've even bit down hard on the hook recently. But I do give you credit for getting Oldspook riled up. You might not want to do that too often. That old wardog still has a bite. Try again, I will wait. diabolical laughter Mwahahhaha |
| Posted by: Karl Rove 2005-06-24 15:04 |
| #42 Okay - enough. I've TROLLed tg because of comments like his last one about federal officials buying stock in Unocal ahead of the Chinese. And RB buddies - while I understand the frustration trolls like him / her create, take a deep breath if you will. The high blood pressure isn't worth it ... and this war on terror will go on for a long while, as will no doubt attitudes like his. |
| Posted by: rkb 2005-06-24 15:03 |
| #41 darn...I was having such a good time watching her descent into madness. What's that movie, Camille? |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-06-24 15:03 |
| #40 LOL! Here's a floater I missed... You don't care about who wins the WH. You care only that your agenda is supported and from your point of view, it can be the GOP or the DNC Damn! Brilliant! And correct. Now is Pat running this year or not? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-24 15:02 |
| #39 Thotch is either a True Believer Bircher or else a hell of a troll who just got me. Lots of the same tactics the left used: Reference to military service, Iraq is worse off than under Saddam, there wa no trheat in Iraq, etc. Funny that the DU moonbats and this supposedly "conservative Republican" sound so much alike. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-06-24 14:47 |
| #38 Man Ima like into self-discovery TG! Are you deep into cliches? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-24 14:45 |
| #37 Dickhead (Thotch) Its not Debka I am referenceing with regard to those trucks. So you're wrong once again. And again - if you have the reading comprehesion skills of a third grader, read what I wrote. We found PLENTY of documentation that was evidence of a WMD program, one that was prepared to spring into operation as soon as the opportunity arose. I didnt contrue the UN as important, its the fact that the UN was going to provide an escape for Saddam that cuase us to act in Iraq. As for Abazaid - read ALL that he has said, dont jsut cherrypick things that reinforce your incredible bias. He is warning that the terrs are up for their last gasp - and that it will get worse leading up to the approval of the constitutiona nd the free electiosn that follow it. I suggest you go back and read ALL of it, not selectively. Are you capable of that? Are you really so fucked in the head that you cannot comprehend what was written, until your little mental-diosease Birch filters kick in to tilt it for you? And I do care about the GOP - to the point where I will nto let it bceome a party run by morons like you who would drive it into the ground. The GOP is built around integrity - something you seem to lack. You'd rather be concerned about political power, and sell out the military, Liberty and increase the dangers to this neation abroad from terrorists and hostiles. Where does that leave you? IN the same place Hillary Clinton and Dick Durbin are: political opportunits with an axe to grind. Thotch you are a disgrace, and I thank God that there are very few like you in the GOP. IF there were, We'd be nowhere. Goldwater is roilling in his grave when you make bullshit statements liek you do here. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-06-24 14:43 |
| #36 os.. it was a great rant...but you can tell by the tears that she's experiencing PMS or menopause. Isn't that right, tg? |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-06-24 14:36 |
| #35 tg...go get some progesterone now. Rub it on your abdomen or the fleshy part of your hands, for a week or two. Only then will the tears stop. Better yet, in your case, I suggest competent medical help. You need to stop shaking your finger and squawking like a loon. |
| Posted by: Drb 2005-06-24 14:35 |
| #34 Honestly, I dont know who is worse - the loonie left, or the John Bircher type assholes who deny reality just as stringently. Since this is Rantburg, its time I left a real rant fly... (Begin Rant) Thotch - kiss my ass. You are wrong in so many ways - and offensively so. This old man would demand personal justice were you not so craven as never show your face anyplace where I would be. I've served in the army, went over there the first time. And as a civilian I've been over in the stans a couple times recently too. So here's a nice cup of "shut the fuck up" for you to drink with your "no excuse for not going". You're probably one of those cheesedicks who never did anything except bitch, never served, never sacrificed, never put it on the line. You talk just like them. And indeed, your cowardly spewing from "behind the keyboard" marks you as exactly what you accuse others of being: chickenshit. Its called "projection" - I suggest you look it up, since you are obviously too ignorant to have learned it on your own. Also, you ignorant fuckwit, there are people keeping an eye on things and plans being laid with regards to China. But you are not privy to such conversations. The people involved in doing usually ignore braying ingornat assholes like you who only talk, never walk the walk. And your talk reveals a great chasm of ignorance of the real world and issues at hand. Now on to your references about "sides" in the GOP. You are so full of shit its surprising you are not bursting at the seams. You are as bad as the Dems who pander to Moveon and Michael moore - you are willing to sell out the military and the cause of Liberty in order to retain political power. What a political piece of crap you are. We dont need your kind in the GOP - go form a splinter party with the other half dozen GOP'ers who would go with you and fellate Pat Buchannon as you seem to do with your posts. There is NOT an "see no evil" here - there is only your abrasive and willingly ignorant diatribes by some armchair pussy like you against those who do or have done what is needed. We emphasize the positive here because its not getting out in the MSM. Your own posts are indicative of that - you distort the situation in Iraq massively - Ask the warriors who are doing the work, not backstabbing chumps like you who are making themselves tools for the Terrorists. "You represent the tiny group of true believers left re: this Iraq invasion, err I mean, liberation and your group is shrinking day by day, thankfully." Dead wrong buddy. A majority of the population doe nto support a "cut and run" strategy. SO thats hradly "tiny". Then again self-deluded paleolithic morons liek you have always had difficutly with fats - your on the wrong side of the so often and yet you amazingly never seem to realize it. Such brilliant idiocy. And this statement of yours shows you to be totally misinformed - or else so stupid as to not be believed: Iraq was LIBERATED. Gaining civil rights, freedom of speech, self government, self determination, and sovereignty prettymuch spells LIBERATION. OK? Capiche? Comprende? Vershtehen Sie? Even someone as obviolusy as stupid as you can recognize that truth. The question now is, "Thotch the biotch", will you contiinue to lie, slander and damage the US in your political axe-grinding, or will you admit the truth and apologize? "Now do the right thing and join the National Guard." Been there, done that, threw away the Tshirt long ago. Where's your service to the nation, hmmm pussyboy? Typical Bircher or Lefty: talks shit, but not man enough to do anything. Sad thing for you, my son is going to love having your kids serve him at the drive thru. Now beat feet before I (verbally) kick your fucking head in again, you traitorous, spineless slug. (end of rant) |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-06-24 14:32 |
| #33 "None of you care about the GOP - it's quite obvious." Then why the hell do you keep coming back here, Dipshit? |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-06-24 14:18 |
| #32 Old Spook, stop muddling up TG with facts, remember she works on feelings. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2005-06-24 13:43 |
| #31 Actually, TGA, your analogy isn't quite strong enough. The cop says the thug had a machine gun hidden in his coat. Just before he was shot, the thug turned away hugged an accomplice, who then hurried away. No one searched the accomplice. It turns out the thug has some plans, some parts of machine guns, a revolver, and a shutter gun. Now the ACLU comes by and says that since he didn't have the fully operational machine gun, he was "unarmed." |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-06-24 13:39 |
| #30 Wheeeeeeeeee Chicken Hawk Card dibs! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-24 13:34 |
| #29 I love the selective memory of the left. 1) there were a LOT of trucks that went from Iraq into the the Bekka. Still unaccounted for, and the ones I am talking about came from the suspected WMD development areas. 2) Remember that there is still a large amount of antrhax that Iraq ADMITTED having that is unaccounted for. IT could be sealed into approximately 40 55 gallong drums and look like any other cargo, as it left Iraq. 3) Recall that the issue was not posession of the WMD so much as it was they were developing the capacity to produce them. And that was found to be true after the invasion. 4) Also remember that Saddam refused to give inspectors ANY access to some areas, and it was these areas that many of the trucks in (1) above came from. 5) Remember also the findings that there was substantial evidence of Saddams intent to resume WMD production after the sanctions were lifted - and the UN was crumbling on those even as the war was looming. 6) Also you seem to have forgotten that 9/11 happened. Remember the people jumping from the buildings? Remember the gleee in the middle east, remember the intent of the terrorists? Saddam had previously supported terror in many guises. And Saddam hated the US for throwing him out of Kuwait. The decision to take Saddam out was based on the nexus of probabl WMDs, terrorists and a hostile despot. IN pre-9/11 they woudl be cause enough for action, but in the post 9/11 world, quick ation was needed, and that was what was taken. The problem was that it was not quick enough, and gave Saddam time to ship the stuff out, and cover his tracks. Search your mind, use your reason, you KNOW I'm right, just liek most Americans do when they get ALL the facts. Most informed Americans do not accept your Bush-Hatred no matter how you try to mask it, nor the one-sided misrepresentations from the MSM. Like Turban Durbin and Michael "Hate America" Moore, Apologists for terror like you should be ashamed of yourselves for taking crap like yours and peddling it to the ignorant, to the detriment of the country. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-06-24 13:31 |
| #28 TGA - you've still got troll on the sole of your shoe....here's a stick to clean the rest off heh heh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-06-24 13:17 |
| #27 I had wondered what happened to Blixxy |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2005-06-24 11:25 |
| #26 You forgot the part where the thug kills and tortures people in back alleys while telling the cop his weapons are not dangerous. For 12 years. And the part where the thug gives his stolen money to encourage other thugs. For 20+ years. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-06-24 10:56 |
| #25 come on now, the poor woman is distraught! Her world is crashing in on her. People all around you and yet she feels so alone! The darkness, the darkness surrounds her.. she's falling deeper and deeper....into the a bottomless well. There is help, you know in your heart you need help poor dear. |
| Posted by: dr.b 2005-06-24 10:48 |
| #24 Hans Blix? That boy couldn't find lumps in a lump factory. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2005-06-24 10:10 |
| #23 "But you know in your hearts that I speak the truth and that I echo the concerns of most Americans." Ya know, TG, I understand how you might have convinced yourself of that last October, but in November, most Americans did not vote for your candidate. Since then, your friends in the opposition party have done nothing but oppose, seemingly unable to come up with a cogent alternative for anything they complain about. I know in my heart that you and your friends will be more marginalized by the next election, and I expect you will only grow more shrill as that day approaches. Good bye. Have a nice day. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-06-24 10:07 |
| #22 Well, Herro Hans |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-06-24 09:54 |
| #21 Never forget that Han's personal favorite sex playing is: Do you know anybody into scripted kinky S&M sex... (oh hit me some more...) If you do do you trust them? Nuff said. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-06-24 09:45 |
| #20 Dr. Steve don't think Gawd has a sadistic streak, but you may trust in its hugeness of irony. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-24 08:57 |
| #19 Ok, since we haven't described Blixie's role in the story: He's the guy who makes the thug take his hat off, makes him believe that the cop would be satisfied with that and walk away because... Since the thug had nothing under his hat he couldn't possibly hide a weapon under his coat. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2005-06-24 08:37 |
| #18 "So the morale of my story..." So typical of your breed, Thotch. Lots of morale but a bit weak in the moral department. Nice going, TGA. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-06-24 08:05 |
| #17 TG gave it his best shot, and a good one it was, no chimpy Bushitler nonsense, but TGA topped it with the truth well told. A mugger in the streets, a bear in the woods, same thing, time after time. The same fifth column leftist backbiters who are satisfied with nothing when not in power.There's nothing new under the sun. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-06-24 07:58 |
| #16 not to mention our Muslim allies TG, do you honestly think that we have any? What we have are relationships of convienance, not "alliances". I wouldn't expect you to know the difference. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2005-06-24 07:11 |
| #15 Sorry ;-) You get the next one, Darth! |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2005-06-24 06:20 |
| #14 LOL Aw, gee, TGA! You went and flattened a perfectly good troll before anyone else got a chance! |
| Posted by: Darth VAda 2005-06-24 06:07 |
| #13 To put it another way, you're a natural storyteller - with remarkable stories to tell. That strikes me as a winning combination. 8-) |
| Posted by: .com 2005-06-24 05:22 |
| #12 LOL Well if the White House wants to borrow those lines... go ahead. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2005-06-24 05:04 |
| #11 ROFL, TGA!!! You MUST write a book. You could do it effortlessly. *applause* |
| Posted by: .com 2005-06-24 04:59 |
| #10 Well Thotch, let's see: There is a man in a dark street. He is pointing something at another man, threatening him. You can't see what it is because he has it under his coat but it looks like a gun. A cop arrives, asking the thug to reveal what he has under his coat. The thug refuses. The cop checks his database. The thug has a record. He has owned lots of guns in the past, he has used them, killed people, he's out on probation under the condition that he destroys or delivers all his weapons. The cop finds out that there is no record of that ordered destruction. The cop points his gun at the thug, ordering him to open his coat. The guy refuses, says that's no gun but continues the menacing pose. The cop asks the thug to prove that he destroyed all weapons in his posession. The thug produces a cinema ticket and a laundry note, says that must be good enough. The cop tells the thug to open his coat or he will disarm the thug by force. The thug refuses again. So how long do you think this charade will go on? 5 minutes? A day? A week? No, it went on for 12 years. So, if the thug is overwhelmed by force and he did not carry a gun but a banana... Do you blame the cop? Or the thug? |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2005-06-24 04:38 |
| #9 Authority without accountability is a wonderfull thing. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2005-06-24 04:25 |
| #8 "But you know in your hearts that I speak the truth..." So solemn. So pompous. So, um, remarkably conceited, lol! Did it ever occur to you that we know far better what's "in our hearts" than you? I think clearly not. Such an amazing melodramatic overwrought blithely blind pile of poopery, puffery, and self-fluffery. Kudos, you're approaching utter self-absorption. I wonder... when one totally absorbs oneself, does one disappear? *poof* Or become a black hole? Or go super nova? I look forward, with great eagerness, to that moment. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-06-24 04:08 |
| #7 Suggestion: take your hot flashes over to DU or some such similar ilk spots. OTOH maybe it's discipline yr after Thotch? There's a multitude of groups for that out there on the internets. [disclaimer: my comment is in no way a dis towards some of my favorite wimins who are 'pausing or past 'pausin.] |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-06-24 03:43 |
| #6 Hans Brix? Hoh No! |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2005-06-24 02:13 |
| #5 i'm 4 years away from putting away enough absolute disposable income to pay for the necessary travel and hardware to hunt down and eradicate the Plague Blix. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2005-06-24 01:26 |
| #4 I don't see any Iranian Nuclear Weapons... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-06-24 01:10 |
| #3 Funny. Hans has a way of saying lots of things. It's the Howard Cosell strategy. Predict every possible outcome, then announce what a freakin' genius you are when you're proved correct. |
| Posted by: Darth VAda 2005-06-24 00:22 |
| #2 That's great Blix. Keep up the good work and remember this statement when a ME city is turned into radioactive rubble when the Mad Mullahs nuke it. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-06-24 00:18 |
| #1 And if Iran exploded a nuke sometime this year or next, somehow, WE will be blamed for it. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-24 00:04 |