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Posts Made By: david elosser

November 24, 2009 05:21 PM Forum: Politics

Continuing

Posted By david elosser
From the article: "In Tokyo, the new center-left government even pulled out of its participation in a mission which saw the Japanese navy refueling US warships in the Indian Ocean as part of the Afghanistan campaign."

I did not know that was going on. Tokyo is normally a political aly, obviously they are unhappy with Obama-Nobel's peacefull foreign policy.

David E

November 25, 2009 01:30 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

CEI Files Notice of Intent to Sue NASA GISS

Posted By david elosser
I can remember specific cases but over the past five years or so, I've read a number of articles where NASA scientists and officials have made statements contradicting man-made global warming, but were forced to retract their statements a few days later. I wonder what's in NASA's emails? shocked

David E

November 25, 2009 08:36 PM Forum: Politics

SO...

Posted By david elosser
Republican, like Democrat, is a political party. Liberalism and conservatism are political philosophies. It's tough to boil down into brief definitions, but basically liberals believe in extensive government control (and thus limited personal freedom) and conservates believe in limited government control (and thus more personal freedom). All liberal and conservative beliefs are basically rooted in those two concepts. The conservative recognizes that with personal freedoms comes individual responsibilities to one's self, one's family, and society.

David E

November 28, 2009 12:23 PM Forum: Politics

Re: Cash for Appliances!

Posted By david elosser
EXACTLY! This is why the "stimulus" is not working. One man can't target specific spots in the economy, giving money to buy what they think we should buy. The Cash for Clunkers ended up costing us $24,000 a car. The home buyers rebate is not having the desired effect on the construction industry because people are buying existing homes, not new ones. Actually, I would take advantage of the appliance rebate but I'm out of a job. :S Even when the economy is good these targeted government rebates generally have little short term effect, and no long term benefits. My state raised the sales tax by one full percentage point. Then they had two "tax-free" weekends, but they were both targeted at certain sectors of the retail business. We still have depression-era unemployment with little relief in sight.

David E

November 29, 2009 12:07 PM Forum: Politics

How Bin Laden Escaped

Posted By david elosser
From LATimes Dec 2001
http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/Clinton_let_bin_laden.htm
"As an American Muslim and a political supporter of Clinton, I feel now, as I argued with Clinton and Berger then, that their counter-terrorism policies fueled the rise of Bin Laden from an ordinary man to a Hydra-like monster."

From Newsmax.com:
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/binlacdcen.htm
"One of the offers took place during a secret meeting in Washington, the same day Clinton was meeting with Lewinsky in the White House just miles away."

Also from Newsmax.com"
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/10/181819.shtml
"During a February 2002 speech, Clinton explained that he turned down an offer from Sudan for bin Laden's extradition to the U.S., saying, "At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him." But that wasn't exactly true. By 1996, the 9/11 mastermind had already been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing by prosecutors in New York."

etc. etc. etc.

David E


December 10, 2009 04:38 PM Forum: Politics

Evrything old is new again

Posted By david elosser
Jim McSheehy said:

"We can safely say that we are no longer facing the potential collapse of our financial system and we’ve avoided the depression many feared. Our economy is growing for the first time in a year -- and the swing from contraction to expansion since the beginning of the year is the largest in nearly three decades.”
-President Obama 12-8-2009

http://tinyurl.com/lsarp4

The reality of course is that nothing has changed structurally to justify Obama's rosy outlook for the economy from where we were at this time last year. Yes the federal government has borrowed and spent trillions of dollars, but the underlying problems are unchanged. Politicians who supported this charade need to face the polls and/or justice. 8)

That quote is totally absurd. If President Bush had made such a comment today the MSM would be all over his butt with tons of articles refuting that statement.

David E

December 12, 2009 07:40 PM Forum: Politics

Rules of Engagement

Posted By david elosser
Now you know, today we fight wars in a totally different way from, say WWII or Korea. What they were supposed to do was, surround them quickly, arrest them (but make damn sure you don't cut or bruise them), read them their rights and send them back to the US for trial. And if any of them get ruffed up, put the arresting soldiers on court martial for violating torture laws and combat rules of engagement. That's how we fight wars now.

David E

December 14, 2009 01:47 AM Forum: Politics

That's what I love about this administration...

Posted By david elosser
Mike, I learned a long time ago that what this President, or anyone in his administration says, is worthless. One of the latest is Obama making the announcement that he wants to eliminate or reduce the capital gains tax (which everyone knows would spur economic growth if actually enacted). Virtually as soon as the words left his mouth the Democrats in the House began working on doubling the capital gains tax, and even forcing some capital gains to be listed as personal income, which would actually more than double it. :S

David E

December 14, 2009 01:51 AM Forum: Politics

That's what I love about this administration...

Posted By david elosser
Mike Strieber said:

...the consistent message...

The President’s top economic advisor, Larry Summers...: “by spring employment growth will start turning positive....“everybody agrees that the recession is over,...”Mike

Yeah, right Larry. Every one of those 6 million people that lost their jobs since January agree that the recession is over. :C

David E

December 17, 2009 12:42 AM Forum: Politics

Need help on this one...

Posted By david elosser
I don't know Scott, I'm beginning to think it had someting to do with the way the questions were asked and at what point in the poll.

David E

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