Posts Made By: Dave Snope

The history on this is not vague or complicated. The steps that took it through the 20th century are well documented. It shouldn't even be a controversial issue, but an alternate version of history created by the arabs has become widely believed. If you say if often enough, it becomes true. And politicians generally go along with it so as not to inflame people and impede the "peace process". But once in a while a politician has the integrity to tell it like it is. Especially one that is a history professor.

The West-Bankers are generally of recent Jordanian Arab origins, and the Gazans are generally of recent Egyptian Arab origins. There has never been a country called Palestine, you won't find it on any maps, it's just a modern nickname for a general region of vague proportions. And there are no people called Palestinians, they did not exist before the 1960's. That's just a modern political creation to pretend like these people are original inhabitants of the region and therefore it must be their homeland. So they call themselves the Palestinians now. Fine. Let them be called that.

It's going to be pretty hard for anybody with a Wisconsin accent to get a cup of coffee in Athens, TX anytime soon.

Except that those efforts are currently costing one trillion dollars per year and have accomplished nothing but killing jobs, and the cartoon's theme has nothing to do with what the Durban climate conference is about. Professor Motl explains what it is about in his review of the Durban summary document:

The whole document is a kind of a hardcore Marxist rant. Everything that is important in this document is about the class struggle. The whole world is being divided to the rich and the poor. These two groups are treated totally differently: CO2 is a different chemical compound in different parts of the world. The word "developed" appears 236 times (!) in the document. You also find four references to the "climate debt". What a theoretical construct! You may also learn about the "rights of Mother Earth", "rights of Nature", and especially "rights of indigenous people" (five times in the text). The human rights are "especially" the rights of women, children, migrants, and indigenous people. Sorry, men!

Wow. We can't even use the word "religion" within the context of a multi-part discussion on taxation of charitable donations?

Except that those same sunzab#$hes are the one who have to vote for the constitutional amendment.

I see the official government statement says that he died of "overwork".

Very nice way to get your point accross, Rod. Three slurs and one anal penetration reference for people whose political positions you disagree with. You must be a member the Daily KOS writer's guild.

Report on this again when the January jobs report comes out...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon in 1957. They met on Capitol Hill for a discussion of ways to overcome Democrat opposition to the Republican civil rights agenda.

I think that they'll fix it so it focuses on big-time piracy operations, like foreign sites that stream current movies. They'll take out the broad language that allows them to go after any old web site that has occasional fair use IP shown on their site through 3rd party entries.