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Mid-western college professor Natalie Abbott is estranged from her dysfunctional family. It happened so slowly she barely noticed... Then it was too late. On the cusp of landing her dream job, Natalie is forced to New Orleans in search of her runaway teenaged brother Joshua. Desperately short of clues, she's grateful that NOPD Detective Adele Lejeune seems to genuinely care.
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We are a pre-medical student honorary dedicated to forging a closer relationship between undergraduate students and their career goals in the medical field. We provide opportunities that includes guest speakers from a variety of fields, medically related service projects, and an opportunity to develop relationships with students that have similar goals.
We have bi-weekly general meetings on campus in the Barbie Tootle Room at the Ohio Union at 6:30PM. Ethics discussions are held on off-weeks in the Barbie Tootle Room on the lower level at the Ohio Union at 6PM. To receive weekly emails about upcoming events, click on the Listserv link and follow the directions to add yourself to the mailing list.
Alpha Epsilon Delta is having the first social event of the quarter. We will be going ice-skating on January 28th from 8:15 p.m. to 10:15 p.m at the OSU Ice Rink located next to St. John's Arena. The cost of admission (with a Buck-ID) and ice-skate rentals is $5.00. While skating, AED will be providing pizza and pop! We hope to see you all there and please feel free to invite your friends to come join the fun! Also, if you are planning on attending the National Convention, remember you must do one social event this quarter!
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Stranger in the Alps
By Lost in the Riots
Firstly, I must say that I had never heard of the Watford lads and after hearing about their presence at the Fox and Newt a couple of weeks ago (which I was meant to go to), I decided that I should review their album. and well I can safely say that they're going straight into my collection.
The opening track, 'Stranger in the Alps', gives off a pop-punk vibe (which they might not like) but in it's own way, its cool. It's inviting, which is helpful, but then discarded to give you a meaty track with twinkles creeping in and out of the power of the riffs. Third track 'Loki' rocks my socks (excuse the pun) with it's ferocity progressing throughout the track - without doubt, my favourite. As the début progresses I do feel it becoming weaker in parts with the heaviness over riding, but I'm grasped by 8th track 'Heartfelt Wolf', as you can just imagine them playing the track live, and for that the heaviness is for a sense of purpose to bring across the rawness of the album - so for that reason I like it.
I like this début because it's gutsy, none of this 'fannying' around with guitar gymnastics which quite frankly sound bloody awful if done wrong.
'Stranger in the Alps' is constructed effortlessly (so hats off to them) with each song interlinking into the next, with an almost quirky edge. Yes, you might say this début sounds like a 'typical post-rock album', but is that meant to be negative? No! Not at all I say. You've got power, force and with the lighter sounds to the album weaving into the underlining sinister aggression, you're onto a winner.
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I have a recording I need to forward via e-mail, which is sitting in a particular mailbox. I tried forwarding the message to another viocemail box, which was setup to e-mail messages -- but it appears only new voicemail messages get e-mailed, not messages forwarded between mailboxes.


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Chapter 6Mature
"That is so wrong," I said.
"Boys and girls weren't allowed to be alone together, let alone touch each other. One day as we walked out to the garden, our favorite spot to hang out, she reached out to hold my hand. I didn't understand what she was doing, and didn't care for it but strangely, it didn't bother me either. Usually I hated anyone touching me like that and would get angry, but she was different. She had some kind of calming effect on me that I wasn't used to. In a way, it scared me, but not to the point of paranoia. To me she was a good friend, that's all. There was never anything sexual between us. We never even kissed. The nature of schizophrenia kept me in the dark about that stuff. I was clueless, but she knew. She was so smart. We grew to be best friends.
"The nurses and staff didn't see it that way. We had to follow the rules and were reprimanded. She was sent to her room alone while I endured another session in the torture chamber, getting the "sins" that I was unaware of about beaten out of me. I learned quick and it would be a few weeks before I talked to her again.
"We were warned that if it happened again we would be separated permanently. We didn't understand why it was bad, but we followed the rules. At least in public. We learned what places we could get away and hold hands. They didn't understand. All we wanted to do was talk. Being naive I thought that all best friends held hands."
"What would you talk about?" I asked.
"I don't remember all of it, but a schizophrenic can talk forever and it wouldn't make sense to you. I had bad social skills, hell we both did, but mine was not by choice. Of course, she listened to every word, being quiet and all. She was the only one that I could let into my psychotic mind and wouldn't be judged or laughed at. No doctor, family or other friend ever did that.
"It's funny, she wanted to be an actress. What an odd fantasy for someone who was controlled by anxiety."
"People do get over their fears and change their lives, so it's possible she is an actress. I will look her up when I leave here," I promised.
He smiled. "I would like that. To think she escaped this place before the massacre would be amazing." We got up and I followed him back to the stairs.
"Why can't you go find Ivy yourself?" I asked. "You're a ghost who can walk through walls. You don't need me."
"I am held captive here and only allowed to roam this hospital, these grounds, but nowhere else."
"Really. What's stopping you?"
"A strong force you wouldn't understand about."
"Try me. Today I've already experienced things I may never fully comprehend. But I have learned a great deal more in a short amount of time than in my entire life. I still don't understand how I am able to see and talk to you, but I have accepted it to be true and not my mind playing tricks on me."
"There are forces more powerful than I."
"A they are holding you hostage here?"
"You could say that."
"Where are they?" I searched the corridor with the flashlight. "I don't see them or it."
"You can't. You're not allowed."
"Why not?"
He sighed. "All that goes on in the afterlife is for the afterlife. You must be there to grasp it for it is too much for any mortal to comprehend. Even I still don't know everything, but trust that one day we all will."
"So when will they let you go?"
"I don't know."
We had made it back to the lobby, where once again I walked the obstacle course of tossed chairs and tables.
"There are massive holes in the walls, furniture has been thrown around, there's blood everywhere." I pointed to the shattered part of the glass partition in the reception area. "Somehow this ties into why you can't leave yet, right?"
"I can't tell you."
"Was this a result of a virus?" I had forgotten about my shirt filtering the minute particles floating in the air, and slapped my hand over my mouth and nose. I whispered, "Aliens?"
"Even worse. Evil."
"Demons?" I lowered my hand and laughed. "Is this another one of your hocus-pocus beliefs?"
He didn't flinch.
"This is ridiculous." I shook my head and paced the floor, footsteps echoing on the linoleum floor. "This isn't real. No, this isn't real, it's all in my head, I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming." I raised my voice. "You're not here, this blood isn't here, this place is all in my head, I need to wake up."
"No, Ian, this is reality."
I fell to my knees, crouched forward, closed my eyes, grabbed a fistful of hair, and pulled hard. "Why can't you just get out of my head?" My voice mocked my cry against the walls of the room. My breath became ragged, sputtering, and tears welled in my eyes.
A hand pulled my chin up, and I knew who it was before my eyes opened. Corey had squatted next to me, his sapphire eyes were moist jewels, compassionate.
"Shit," I whispered. I was losing my mind.
"Ian," he said, in a soft voice. "You have to come to grips with this. There is no other way but to accept it."
"I have no other choice?"
"No, you don't. If you doubt this long enough, you will end up in a psychiatric hospital, I can promise that."
"Okay." I got up on shaky legs.
"I do have one suggestion, Ian. You should leave and never come back. For your sanity."
"I'll be fine." I sighed. "Maybe you're right. I should finish my vacation as planned, relaxing at the beach."
"Take care, Ian."
I shook his hand. "Thank you for the amazing tour."
I left the building, walked halfway across the lot and looked back. Corey stood at the entrance, emotionless. He looked so frail and innocent against the backdrop of the filthy beast that imprisoned him. We both raised a hand as our final goodbye.
As I walked to my vehicle, a question ran through my head over and over. What was the point of meeting Corey today? I turned and ran back to the hospital. I couldn't let a mystery go unsolved.


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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Al Gore, the world's pre-eminent environmentalist, has embarked on his toughest recycling challenge: his own cable channel.
For much of the past year, Current TV has been quietly undergoing an overhaul that will change just about everything but the struggling channel's name. Current declined comment for this story.
It's a revitalization project Gore & Co. embarked on after exhausting a more lucrative possibility: selling the channel. Current's founding partner, Joel Hyatt, spent much of 2009 shopping the network with a price tag that wildly overestimated the company's worth, confirmed sources at several media firms. Current even had extensive sale talks as far back as 2007 with Google, where Gore serves as a senior advisor.
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William Ashton's Sculpture
The owner of a hideous sculpture passed down from generation to generation learns the truth behind it, but it's already too late.
Passed down from generation to generation, no one would have ever guessed that the late Mr. William Ashton would be the one to unlock the final, nethermost secret surrounding that unique sculpture, chiselled into a great block of singularly black basalt in 1776 by William's direct ancestor, Jeremiah Ashton.
That sculpture, the focus of intense debate amongst townsfolk, fishwives and acid tongued gossips, certainly earned it's reputation as an evil thing. Showing the image of some perverse caricature of the human form, only in strong light could one discern the unnaturally slender, bent, twisted form; the rugose flesh that simultaneously clung to the anorexic and vaguely boneless form and in great, veined folds; the head, pulled into an unnatural shape with a visage seemingly writhing in agony and pure malignity, the all too human teeth bared in a demoniac, hateful rictus grin; the nose and ears almost absent and the eyes sightless, staring, dull black orbs of darkness. The overall impression one got of this abomination was one of revulsion and horror, but not just from the look of the thing, but from some deeper, indefinable morbid hate. It was the eidolon of all that was unwholesome, sane and natural – it was harmony given to discord and health given to disease. It's shape shouldn't exist, yet it was there, entombed in stone, looking like a mummy recently uncovered from an age old crypt. It hugged its own vile form, the long thin fingers reaching back and gripping its shoulder blades as it bent out of the surrounding un-chiselled rock, looking as if it were ready step out and roam the world.
The sculpture occupied a great main room in Mr. Ashton's spacious yet sparse home in the country about Dunbannig, the house in which Jeremiah Ashton and several successive generations afterwards had lived. His wife, Jennifer, loathed the thing, and rightly so – yet his two children, twins James and Maria, were fascinated by the menacing, silent fiend. And it is was with them that the true horror began.
But let us go back to the first incident involving William Ashton's sculpture. What is generally regarded as the first noticeable incident involving the thing (in Ashton's possession) was the day it was brought into his home. Three workmen had been hired from the town to help move it in, as it was far too large for William to move on his own. None of them liked the aspect of the monstrous figure, but the men kept their comments to themselves – they were being paid handsomely for their troubles, after all. It was when they attempted to scale the great central staircase in the house that one of the men slipped as the thing's great weight fell onto him during a slight mishap. The worker came out of it okay, save for a small gash on his back obtained in a meeting with the bannister, but the entombed figure had been seemingly jostled out of place during the calamity, and stayed that way – the back slightly visible – until little James Ashton's accident.
The sculpture was kept in front of a disused fireplace in an upstairs sitting room, in close proximity to the children's bedrooms. James and Maria would often be found studying the grotesque shape of the creature in stone, and it was when neither parent was watching, did the sculpture claim it's first victim. James had, it appeared, clambered onto the side of the surrounding stone and was been focusing his attention on its back, wondering how it stooped out like that without falling over. A scream was heard and the mother Jennifer ran to her sons aid, but it was her screams that sent William running even faster. When he got there, in the middle of room, James lay cradled in his hysterical mother's arms, his left arm torn to ribbons, blood pooling very quickly about the two. Maria sobbed in a corner. James was conscious, but shaken. He made no sound and was turned away from his mother – and the sculpture. Indeed, William could see small drops of red staining the ground at the side of the un-chiselled basalt. The demon in the stone grinned its malicious rictus grin and stared sightlessly with shiny black orbs.
Around this time, William began to take interest in the various portraits of his family around the house. They reached as far back as 1612 and lasted until 1928 and were strikingly faithful depictions, and one could discern a definite resemblance in William to the rest. The only portraits that differed from the rather uniform style and composition were the three portraits of Zadok Ashton, Jeremiah Ashton and Sebastian Ashton - grandfather, father and son. Each portrait was the full mid-length of the person, but featured them in irregular and unwholesome interiors. Jeremiah's was the worst by far. It depicted him amidst a crumbling dungeon interior, a finely chiselled slab of granite serving as a work table, covered in various glass cylinders and spheres to his left and a wall of ill defined symbols to his right. Behind him was a rough hewn wall of darker stone, evidently not part of the dungeon's design, but an unfinished or unworked-on surface that the workers must have hit upon during construction. William had taken especial interest in this one because of it's relation to the sculpture that was also made personally by Jeremiah. He believed that the back wall was nothing less than the very rock used to create the demon sculpture. William had carried out, not extensive, but well researched genealogical studies and had dug up some interesting bits of information on Jeremiah Ashton, which has been, since the final cataclysm, lost.
It was also around this time that Jennifer took to laying flowers beside the sculpture. Alas, little James did not survive his accident with the sculpture, and died not long after his arm was injured. Maria also became somewhat reclusive and stopped spending time at the sculpture, and only approached the thing when her mother would lay flowers by it. The memory, it seemed, of James' traumatic death had deeply and profoundly disturbed the poor girl. She came to barely speak in the intervening months. William, however, became wrapped up in his study of the sculpture now, finding it the only relief to a sombre, silent family, even though it brought him within such close proximity to the object of his son's demise. He tirelessly worked at solving the shift in the figure, which he believed had been chiselled in place, but now thought perhaps was made somewhere else and set into the surround. He had worried about it before but because nothing else had happened to it, he let it be most of the time.
Flowers had piled up beside the unmoving, skeletal fiend. Many at the bottom were wilted, grey and wholly devoid of the life that once caused them to bloom in beautiful arrays of colour. In fact, they were all seemingly, at least near the bottom (for this process was hastening by the day and consuming quickly the remainder of the pile) a rotten, ashen grey. The petals became dust from the simplest touch and the stems hardened into stiff, yet shrivelled, sticks. A curious odour arose from that collection, which just about encircled the flowers. It didn't smell even faintly of rotting vegetation or of smells a flower should have. It smelled quite dead, but more akin to the stench of a rotting corpse than a plant. Jennifer had absently placed scented candles about the sculpture, many of which were knocked down by William in his roving about the stooped figure. In time, the whole thing, in the bare room whose only features were an unused fireplace and it, started to look like some perverse shrine, like a holy grotto invaded by some infernal horror conjured through the eyes of a madman. But still, Jennifer's flowers and candles grew, and William stepped on them and knocked them over.
The next spring heralded Jennifer's inevitable descent into madness. It was Maria that, in what had become a rare event of communication, told with bleary eyes to her father that her mother had been acting strangely, that she had been 'hugging the man in the stone'. It took a day for William to seriously consider his daughter's tearful complaints, so removed had he become. Eventually, summoning up the last reserves of true emotion, he followed her to the room in which Jennifer now lay crouched in front of the figure, trembling. Evidently, she hadn't been eating, or had come down with a sickness of some sort. She was thin, very thin and shook uncontrollably. Deep, black circles surrounded her eyes and she was on the whole, drawn out. Her skin had become something William could only called a 'grey jaundice'. He attempted to get her attention, but her tear stained face stared at the bulging eyes and hideously knowing smile of the demonic stone figure. It took but two days for Jennifer to go comatose. A doctor said that it was best if she was moved to the hospital in Northbrook, to which William mindlessly agreed. With James and now Jennifer gone, the house was very quiet, only the sound that of Maria's tiny footfalls and William's dark mutterings as he searched in vain through the oldest corners of the house for clues in a quest he wasn't wholly sure of. All the while the sculpture stood by itself in the unused room, nearly stepping out from the surrounding block on two toed feet, piles of dead flowers and spent candles surrounding it, like an invisible congregation paying a charnel tribute to darkness.
William spent a lot time in the attic. He searched through every dark corner meticulously, stopping when he heard the patter of little Maria's feet on the staircase leading to the eternally night shrouded attic. In an instant of maddening insight, William dedicated his quest to finding all of the documents pertaining to Jeremiah Ashton in the house. He knew what he searched for, but not why. Relatives visited often, but not even fresh voices could stir the brooding silence that had taken the house. Madness and death had crept into it's walls and had made nests deep in the foundations, slowly but surely poisoning the rest of the great old mansion and it's hapless inhabitants. At one point, Maria, in a fit of extraordinary maturity for a young girl her age, attempted to put an end to her father William's obsession. They were all that was left of the family and they should be together. But the look on Williams eyes when Maria invaded the necromantic sanctum of the attic sent her out and never to return.
Day became night, dawn gave way to dusk and still William compiled all the mouldy notes, journals, undelivered letters and random scribblings that had anything to do with Jeremiah Ashton. William was determined now, in the clarity that flooded his soul after the hideous realization he was completely alone, and drove him towards learning the secret behind the demoniac detail of the demon sculpture, for surely there was a secret – a terrible one – and William knew it was behind James' death, Jennifer's madness and poor little Maria's sudden disappearance. He took one look at it whilst wandering lost through the house, a mere glimpse from the corner of his eye, and he damn well knew it leered at him maliciously, with black intent, with unspeakable knowing. It's coldly shining, bulging eyes stared from a head craned around in an agonized manner. But finally, William hit upon his goal – in a shunned corner of the attic, behind a fatally loose wooden frame, a final corner that stank of the piled up corpses of generations, adorned with rotten antique hangings and arabesques – a musty hell that had been home to spiders, and things that were once spiders, wherein lay a great black metal chest of intricate carvings and indecipherable hieroglyphs. The wood surrounding it's lock had rotten away and invaders had made their homes amidst the piled papers. With supreme effort, William attempted to drag the ancient thing from it's resting place, but no avail. He was mentally as well as physically weak. He hadn't properly slept in weeks and had sustained himself on meagre and rare meals. So, instead of finally killing himself in this last place, he obtained a torch and set it beside him on the ground, where dust had collected for generations, undisturbed. Unafraid of any still living creatures in the dank corner, William, sitting diligently like a student by a teacher, set about searching through the collection of rotting papers that hadn't seen light for over 200 years.
William sat in that black corner, surrounded by the still air of dead centuries, amidst the piles of long desiccated corpses of insects and rats, feverishly consuming all the hideous revelations contained within the great black chest. There were unspeakable descriptions that told in minute detail of the horrors raised up and brought down by Jeremiah Ashton – sorcerer, alchemist and necromancer. A man hunted by all law for heinous crimes, his final attack on civility and decency was his abrupt departure from the world amidst an explosion of death that served an unknown purpose. Just where Jeremiah Ashton went nobody knows, but bounty hunters turned up in their dozens, all claiming to have found Jeremiah Ashton or his remains. All were false. Jeremiah had disappeared and in his place left a great black stone sculpture, expertly carved from the darkest basalt, of a skeletal horror, a creature whose shape shouldn't be able to support life – and thankfully didn't. It was that very demon of Hell that resides now in that silent shrine of decayed flowers and melted candles in a bare room. But far worse than the connections with the monster Jeremiah was the implications of his dabbling in the dark arts, for loathsomely whispered myth tells that he had found nothing less than the ability to transmute base substances into finer things, and the other way around. Jeremiah was not interested in mere material gain and wealth, but for absolute dominion over the world, and that could only be achieved in a state beyond death, in a shape fed by the spilling of blood, in a way to walk the Earth dead, yet animate, but not composed of mere mortal skin, bone and blood. Only the strength of mountains would do, and a substance older than all mortal flesh. A perfectly carven image of Jeremiah's darkness made real and strong.
As William read, a subconscious creeping realization flooded over him, and even though he knew what madness he held in his hands, he knew it was hideous truth and that all was too late. Through the very floorboards he could feel those glassy, bulging eyes stare with an intelligence not of Earth, but one that had seen through the veil and came back madder and stronger. William could feel in his bones the terrible creaking scratches made by the demon as it's heart pumped living human blood not it's own through veins that were intricate chiselled by a master craftsman called up from the deepest pits of unspeakable realms. Clicking footfalls marked the steps taken by the hate-form on it's misshapen limbs and wheezing charnel breath that sounded for all the world like a rushing frozen wind what passed through the black spaces between the stars and enveloped the world in their malignant grasp. It had waited centuries trapped in stone for the right moment that its own lineage would serve to feed it's unholy appetite, it's need for sustenance, for stone made flesh is weak, but flesh made stone is strong, and under the will of a power like Jeremiah Ashton, it would never crack nor shatter. In all it's resplendent grotesquery, the demon form of Jeremiah Ashton, the true reflection of the utterly corrupted soul, lumbered sleepily and hungrily, ravening for delight, unstoppable in it's quest to make flesh stone and damned if a new skeleton didn't then preside over the ageless husks of insects that ruled the darkest corner of the mansion.


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Original post made by Gary, Downtown North, on Apr 14, 2008
I am not one to care about Europe's attitudes, however there are many American hatriots who love to ape Europeans, as long as they are hating on Bush. I just wonder how they digest the recent electoral trends in Europe. Seems very bully for GWB. At least some European sanity is emerging.
Will GWB be seen, by history, as a great world leader?
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 14, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Shrub is a laughingstock around the world. He is viewed as a dim witted lightweight, and is not taken seriously. Look at what he has accomplished on his recent excursions to global meetings--nothing.
European countries elect their leaders largely the same way we do in the US, that is, based on domestic issues and to express dissatisfaction with how the incumbents are doing. Tip O'Neill's maxim applies equally to democracies worldwide: all politics is local. Shrub's being President and the point of view politicians express around him is a secondary consideration for these electorates. It is both disingenuous and a decidedly naive American trait to think that countries elect their leaders in order to please whoever the President of the United States is.
BTW, these people largely got voted into office to serve terms that overlap only a bit with Shrub. You also discredit these voters by suggesting that their choice of national leaders is largely driven by their desire to support a lame duck who will spend little time interacting with those those have elected--it will be his successor.
I also would like to know your point of view on the recent elections in Taiwan and South Korea. How do those elections fit into your world view and of how Shrub is regarded?
Most countries like America and like Americans. This affection has withstood the swagger and jingoism of Mr. Shrub, and speaks more about this country than what any administration of either party can do to affect this perception.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Apr 14, 2008 at 8:27 pm
didn't spain vote out of office a supposed "pro-bush" leader? I agree with A Boomer's analysis. Typical of a chicken hawk like Gary to think that the world revolves around GWB. I guess that makes me a " hatriot".
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Apr 14, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Not to mention, of course, Bush is a lame-duck president and everyone knows it. He's irrelevant. None of the remaining candidates wants to follow his policies.
The one situation where an alliance with Bush had an impact was in Britain. Bush and Iraq destroyed Tony Blair. His own party forced him out because of it.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 15, 2008 at 7:05 am
Try as you will, you cannot deny that Europe is finally seeing the light. Don't forget Norway, Gary. And, of course, all 10 of the new EU countries. England is having a momentary hissy fit, being held at the neck by its BBC, but it will soon turn back as it sees what Brown is doing.
Gary, you are right, history will praise Bush 2, ( not 1), for real leadership and for bringing the right to vote to 50 million more oppressed people ( never forget, half of them female), for bringing this country prosperity in the wake of the Clinton recession and 9/11, and for keeping this country safe in the wake of 9/11.
I have my arguments with the guy, not the least of which is the (&^% border with Mexico, Social Security and Medicare, but I am very, very grateful he was the one at the helm during the last 7 years.
I am proud to have been on the correct side in this one, unlike in my youth when I was brainwashed.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 15, 2008 at 11:20 am
I actually agree with you to a degree...most politics is local. However, you lefties were not saying this when pro-Bush governments were tossed out of office (e.g. Britain, Spain).
The three European politicians I mentioned were openly pro USA. If there was so much resentment against the USA, as the hatriots insist, then it is curious to me why these were able to achieve their victories, despite local issues. Maybe the Europeans are realizing that their future is more than just potholes and global warming...perhaps a strong alliance with the U.S. is important to them? With alliances come responsibilities, and the adults in Europe seem to be making that case.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Apr 15, 2008 at 12:13 pm
It is nice for the chicken hawks to think that the world revolves around GWB--however the reality, as others pointed out, is that elections are "local". i imagine very few went went to the polls in Italy thinking " I need to vote for the person that will support GWB the most".
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"Berlusconi capitalized on discontent over the nation's stagnating economy and the unpopularity of Prodi's government.
"I think it was a vote against the performance of the Prodi government in the last two years," said Franco Pavoncello, a political science professor at Rome's John Cabot University. "Berlusconi won because he has a strong coalition and because people feel that on the other side, the government is going to take them nowhere.""
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a resident of Midtown
on Apr 15, 2008 at 1:23 pm
You are missing the point, Hate, ( appropriately named)..it isn' "pro-Bush" or "pro-America", but pro-captialism, pro-freedom, pro-free market, pro-security that these guys are voting for..yes, it is local, but guess what? It is also what Bush and the last 7 years of America represent.
THAT is what it all means. In spite of all the "hate America" rhetoric of the Left here and of the Left overseas, the bottom line is that the Republican-Bush way is what is selling, just under different names.
Too bad I am too mature to sign my name in like manner.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 15, 2008 at 1:25 pm
If we get Clinton or, even worse, Obama, you will see a return to the right VERY quickly in 4 years, just like you are seeing in Europe. Nothin' like a little reality bitin' a country in the butt to wake it up.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Apr 15, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I love the way the right try to spin every event so it seems that the world revolves around GWB. Also another cute tactic is to paint everyone who does not agree completely with the Bush agenda as being a "hatriot"
spewing "hate america rhetoric".
Kind of amazing that over 70& of the citizens in the US are hatriots, since GWB's approval ratings are hovering below 30%.
Never let reality get in the way of right wing double speak
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 15, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I reserve the use of the word "hatriot" for those who would rather see America go down, if the alternative was that Bush (or any other polictician they oppose) might go up, with America. Although I only picked up on the term within the past year, and it is not original to me, it is a very rich and descriptive term for the haters. Such haters were there, while Ronald Reagan was winning the Cold War. They are now on the ash heap of history. Nothing much has changed.
These hatriots are a small percentage of the general population, but they tend to show up on blogs like this one.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 15, 2008 at 2:46 pm
These countries are neither stupid nor insane. I doubt they gave their leaders mandates to suck up to an inept clown who's not only hugely unpopular at home, but is losing two rather small wars at once.
Or is Gary suggesting Americans should now take their clues from "Old Europe"? Is the Bush crowd, what's left of it, getting that desperate?
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 15, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Hey, Hates, how do you explain me? Why do you oppose civilian control of the military? And why are you concerned about the opinion of Western Europeans? They have lost it to the dole and the foreign workers. Give us the Non-Islamic Asia and kiss the rest goodbye. The worst is behind China and ahead of Europe.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 15, 2008 at 4:49 pm
What's this GWB business? All presidents familiarly referred to by their initials: FDR, HST, JFK, LBJ, to date have been Democrats.* Are the Bushies so frantic to boost their hero's corroded image that they now try to turn his red coat to blue?
It's not altogether a new thing - Condi likes to call him the new FDR. I can't fault the Bushies, desperate times beget desperate measures, but let's be up front about this, kids.
*To illustrate - see how quick you can fill in the last initial for these: RW_, GR_, DD_, RM_, GHW_. Hint: all were reds.
a resident of Ohlone School
on Apr 15, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Here is our new commander in chief.
The look of him will put terror into the heart of our enemies dont you think? see Web Link
a resident of Community Center
on Apr 15, 2008 at 4:58 pm
"Too bad I am too mature to sign my name in like manner."
Too bad, indeed, 'ol lady Gary.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 15, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Was "TR" a dem?
You are now wallowing in the pit of ignorance. How about some rational thought?
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 15, 2008 at 6:24 pm
TR, as in Teddy Roosevelt, cousin of FDR? C'mon. Everybody calls him Teddy.
But to answer your question: He might as well have been a dem, being somewhat leftward of most contemporary bluecoats, what with all that conservation stuff (early environmental extremism, you know).
Then there was that night he had Booker T. Washington over to dinner in the White House. The repubs of his day kicked him out of the party, hence his Bull Moose run. As with Lincoln, true latter-day redcoats would rather forget about him.
His cousin FDR got the hint and put on a blue coat, starting the string of liberal dem TLA monnikers that some people are now trying to graft Bush onto.
"You are now wallowing in the pit of ignorance. How about some rational thought?" Privately, I love it when you talk right wing. But be careful or you'll get this thread shut down. This is private property, after all.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Apr 15, 2008 at 8:04 pm
don't feel bad, Paul-Gary also accused me of being in a " pit of ignorance" because I do not worship at the George bush altar. I consider it a badge of pride to be considered a hatriot by Gary. Free speech is a terrible thing for Gary if you use that right to criticize anything that bush said or did.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 15, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Nobody needs to worship GWB. I don't. However, I do recognize those that hate him above any sense of reason (hatriots). Marvin and Paul, you both fit the bill. Now, if you want to get rational, you should just make rational arguments. This irrational hate leads nowhere...except to the ash heap. I am sure that you both feel better about yourselves, privately, than what you expose publicly.
Marvin, one more time: Is GWB different than Pol Pot? You seem to have a constipation over that one. Just give a straight-forward answer. If you did, that might put you on the path of rationality.
You guys are making this much harder than necessary. Rational thought is not hard, in fact, it is much easier than delusional thought. Just try it. You will feel better.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 15, 2008 at 10:21 pm
These forums really need a bozo filter. It used to be Hitler, now it's Pol Pot.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Apr 16, 2008 at 7:00 am
There you go again with the Bush/Pol Pot red herring--into how many threads are you going to carry that non-issue???
Disagreeing with Bush about how Iraq was handled, about the use of torture, about how are soldiers were equipped to fight the war, about the lies during the run up to the war, about how his inner circle bungled the war in Iraq is considered by you to be "hate above any sense of reason (hatriots)"???
It is really called democracy, Gary.
Your constant labeling of those that disagree with the Bush Doctrine as "hatriots" has already consigned you to the ash heap of minority Bush worshipers.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 16, 2008 at 9:47 am
"Rational thought is not hard, in fact, it is much easier than delusional thought."
I know that, Gary. Tell it to the Rummy/Cheney/Bush/Condi/Feith/Wolfowitz/Podhoretz crowd.
a resident of College Terrace
on Apr 16, 2008 at 9:53 am
Paul- what do you have against the Israeli lobby?
They are just following their self interest in lobbying for us to invade Iraq and next Iran.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 16, 2008 at 10:36 am
There we go...Hitler and Jews have entered the thread..time to lock it down.
BTW to the one who thinks Pol Pot is just being thrown around like Hitler..it is in response to a hatriot who compared Bush to Pol Pot and Gary has been trying to get him/her to denounce that comparison as a sign that rational thought returning.
Kind of fun to watch.
a resident of College Terrace
on Apr 16, 2008 at 10:39 am
The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel.
"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in our favor."
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Apr 16, 2008 at 10:53 am
'ol lady--perhaps you need to go back and read some of the threads to get your facts straight. I believe I am the "hatriot" you are referring to (btw--gary-like personal insults will get you nowhere).
Gary introduced the Pol Pot/Bush red herring into a discussion about a Khmer rouge survivor who compared waterboarding to torture (those of us familiar with Gary's rhetoric will not be surprised by this tactic--he uses it often to muddy the waters). I refused to answer his question. I guess you have proven that if you repeat a falsehood often enough people believe it is true.
Please get your facts straight before you make false accusations or claim that someone said something
BTW--you do not fool me, Gary, posting as your alter ego, ol lady
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 16, 2008 at 12:41 pm
The so-called Israeli lobby has a constitutional right "peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
OK by you, Peter?
However, the Government has a concomitant obligation to listen critically and make intelligent decisions.
a resident of College Terrace
on Apr 16, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I do not believe the constitution supports the rights of alien nations.
Civil rights only apply to US citizens IMHO.
Meanwhile--Obama is, in his own words, something of a Rorschach test.
In his latest book, "The Audacity of Hope," he writes, "I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views."
That has been confirmed thus far during this campaign, and come November, Americans will have to decide if they want a Rorschach test for president.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 16, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Do you really think there are no American citizens lobbying on behalf of Israel, Peter? That would mean the pro-Israel Bush administration has been taking its clues entirely from foreigners, right?
a resident of College Terrace
on Apr 16, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Paul here is some hopeful news that will change the conversation.
New Jewish-American lobby wants to be alternative to AIPACWeb Link
During its formative stage, the heads of the J Street Project were reluctant to show publicly their opposition to the strongest and most established Jewish lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
But in yesterday's conversation, this was made officially clear. "I'm not with AIPAC; I do not support AIPAC," Kovner said. The new organization will try to erode AIPAC's strength and restrain what they see as its identification with the American and the Israeli right.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 16, 2008 at 1:48 pm
You have a perceptible grasp of the obvious, Peter. Don't skip the meds.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 16, 2008 at 2:07 pm
wow, what a shock, you mean that in America people aren't obliged to act and vote as a group? Each person can act as an individual? There isn't the "Jewish Block" and the "Black Block" and the "Woman Block" etc?
Does that mean I am free to think for myself after all?
I am shocked.
a resident of College Terrace
on Apr 16, 2008 at 2:12 pm
The J Street Project has a new website here Web Link
They will have a real challenge being heard over AIPACs screaming
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 16, 2008 at 2:48 pm
'ol lady,
Marvin, and perhaps others, would prefer to think that you and I are the same person. It probably shocks them that there could be more than one rational person in town. I have never met you, at least as far as I know. However, I do welcome your rational voice on this blog.
The hatriots like to use the usual leftist tactics of moral conflation. I, and others, I think, have used the old fable about moral equivalence: The thug pushes the little old lady in front of cars, as he steals her purse. A Boy Scout (be prepared, and do a good turn daily) pushes the old lady out of harms way, and gets killed by the onrushing traffic. The NY Times announces, in a small article, "Two men were reported to police for pushing an old lady around. One of them was found dead at the scene".
When Marvin conflates Khmer Rouge attrocities with CIA interoogation methods, including waterboarding, a rational person would ask him:
Marvin, are you equating GWB and Pol Pot?
Simple question.
So far, no answer from Marvin. Hatriots do not like to answer such questions, because it would cause them to use rational thought, give up arguments to moral equivalence (Reductio ad absurdum), and have their underlying assumptions destroyed. Nothing new here. I just called him on it.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Apr 16, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Gary--once again you are playing with the facts and muddying the waters--I did not "conflates Khmer Rouge atrocities with CIA interrogation methods, including waterboarding".
I posted a story from CNN concerning a highly respected Khmer artist who was a survivor of the notorious S21 torture center in Phnom Penh during the Khmer Rouge days. He personally witnessed the Khmer rouge version of waterboarding and in his opinion, it was torture.
I posted the story so that people could read a story from an eyewitness to waterboarding and hear his opinion on it. I gave my opinion in the title for the initial posting.
A rational person would read the story and draw whatever conclusion they chose to draw from it ( I personally do not care what opinion Gary has about the story). A rational person would not introduce the Pol Pot/Bush red herring and then constantly bring it up, as if it really had anything to do with the issue at hand.
Your question concerning had no relevance and you "called me" on nothing. Clearly you have decided to harp on a non-issue, rather then addressing the real matter of torture by the government.
Fortunately the story is still on the CNN website. everyone is welcome to read it:
Web Link
Also anyone who is interested can read through the original thread and see how Gary likes to introduce non-issues into discussion that he has no real answer to:
Web Link
Also, Gary likes to use personal insults when dealing with those that disagree with his philosophy. "hatriot" is one of his favorite terms.
a resident of Ohlone School
on Apr 16, 2008 at 4:17 pm
James Boswell wrote:
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest.
Last October a contemporary figure, Barack Obama of Chicago, likewise disparaged false patriotism:
"The truth is that right after 9/11 I had [an American flag lapel] pin," Obama said. "Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security. . . ."
When Obama got into trouble because of the anti-American lunacy of his so-called spiritual mentor Obama made his "race" speech flanked by eight--count 'em--full-size American flags.
Obama appeared at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania yesterday ,April 15, wearing a flag lapel pin--a symbol, according to Obama himself, of false patriotism
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 16, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Yeah. I heard Ronald Reagan did the flagpin flip flop too. (Possibly 41 too.) You can find out anything you want if you look and listen carefully enough.
I wonder what Reagan would think about our "patriots" sporting their little flagpins from (Red) China, supporting a communist regime and calling it patriotism.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 17, 2008 at 9:24 am
Yes, Gary, I am getting a laugh out of the belief that there can only be ONE right wing nut around here, so the different names are one poster. Classic leftist tool...state that a belief is in the small minority so that sheep will follow the "majority".
I used to call myself "perspective", btw, till someone else took that name. So, mea culpa from necessity, I am using a different name now. I will try using my original name in a while after I don't see the usurper in a good while.
I like that Marvin is still busy revealing how s/he thinks, in being unable to understand the reasoning for why you asked if Bush and Pol Pot are equally morally compromised.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Apr 17, 2008 at 9:40 am
ol' lady--excuse me for thinking you were Gray--your writing style was so similar and you like to harp on the same non-issue. I am sure any rational person would have mistaken you for the same person.
BTW, I am not trying to hide how I think--it is no secret.
However you should go back to some of Gary's original posts introducing the Bush/Pol Pot red herring--you will find that the issue of moral compromise was never raised. The question that Gary asked was "That George Bush is Pol Pot?".
But it is good to see that even strident right wingers, like yourself, do see Bush as morally compromised (based on your writing above).
Just to enlighten me, why don;t you explain to everyone what is the reasoning behind Gary's Bush/Pol Pot question? The person(s) you should take issue with if you are unhappy with the CNN story I posted are the writer of the story and the Khmer Rouge survivor, since they introduced the issue of waterboarding as being torture.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Apr 17, 2008 at 10:03 am
Marvin- Gary sure got your goat with the pol pot/bush matter.
I fear thou do protest too much
Why are so defensive? cant you read between the lines?
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Apr 17, 2008 at 10:14 am
Joel--I would be more than happy to drop the Bush/Pol Pot issue, however it seems that Gary is intent on beating that dead horse some more. It is constantly brought up by him as the proverbial "red herring". He has carried it over now into at least 3 threads and his compatriot ol lady also seems to have jumped on that band wagon, as well.
When you cannot address the issues at hand, you resort to red herrings, muddied waters, personal insults and name calling--that is what Gary is good at.
What lines am I supposed to red between?
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 17, 2008 at 10:46 am
Back to basics, people. The topic of this thread is Gary thinks we should all love Bush (aka GWB, a la FDR) because that's what Gary thinks Europe is doing.
a resident of College Terrace
on Apr 17, 2008 at 10:56 am
Europe is waking up to its looming demographic crisis, the failure of the welfare/ nanny state and threat of islamic terrorists from
WITHIN its borders.
Traditionally the European left looked with fond eye towards communism but that God is dead.
Smart Europeans are looking to the USA for economic and social solutions. They prefer GWB and the values he represents to those of China and Iran
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 17, 2008 at 11:18 am
Is that why they sent all those troops to Iraq?
a resident of College Terrace
on Apr 17, 2008 at 11:33 am
Well many of them did particularly the UK.
The fact of the matter is that the majority of European troops are social workers with guns.
They are pretty hopeless and even a liability in real combat, remember the French in Rwanda and the rest in the Balkans?.
They would get in the way of US warriors, they could maybe operate as a peace keeping force, but in Iraq there was no peace to keep and when the time came they were too scared after UN official was murdered.
The Brits did their part as our traditional allies but in reality the US war fighting capability is now so advanced for the sharp edge conflict that no one could keep up with us.
The best role for the UN types is as systems administrators, this is a very different role from warrior.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 17, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Quoting Gary's kickoff posting: "First Merkel (Germany), then Sarkozy (France)"
So how many German and French troops have poured into Iraq since these worthies took office? Number, please.
a resident of College Terrace
on Apr 17, 2008 at 12:36 pm
If you talk to the military they will tell you they do not want German of French troops in Iraq at this point for the reason I give in my prior post.
They would get in the way and we would end up having to protect them, as they are not combat troops.
Also because France has been marginal in NATO for so long their comm3
systems are not compatible with ours.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 17, 2008 at 12:55 pm
"So how many German and French troops have poured into Iraq since these worthies took office? Number, please."
Your question, though rhetorical, is a fair one. It is something that I have often cticized, namely that Europe thinks it has distilled itself beyond war. Remember when the Dutch troops were supposed to keep the peace in the Balkans, but shrank from their duty, while ethnic murder was rampant? They refused to fire a shot, becasue they had been trained as a social instrument, not a military one. However, they were still pround of themselves, becasue they openly welcomed homosexuals into their ranks (ask, tell, but don't shoot).
Peter S. has it about right. In fact, Europe is a disappearing society, as we have known it for centuries. If current trends continue, it will be an Islamist state withing 2-3 generations, and its woment will wear the burkha. Germany is currently paying its citizens to emigrate, in order to lower its own high unemployment rate, despite its below-replacemnt birth rate. Yes, it is that bad.
Yet, we have those on this blog who complain that GWB and the USA in unpopular in Europe. I ask you, or anybody else: Who really cares what the European left thinks? They have been on the ash heap for some time now, and they won't come back. Dead as a Dodo bird. Yet, they cling to their suicidal ideologies.
There is a sliver of hope in the recent elections of pro-USA political leaders, however it would need to be followed up with a general acceptance that the left is dead in Europe...that will not happen for a long time, IMO.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 17, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Very well, Peter. I doubt you have ever phoned Petraeus yourself, but it was Rumsfeld/Cheney/Bush who've been touting the ever-shrinking Coalition of the Willing, and Cheney/Bush are still on their knees begging NATO for troops in Afghanistan. You believe in Cheney and Bush, don't you? Then take your clues from them.
Gary: My point is that "Old Europe" has very evidently not decided to support Bush and his war in any meaningful way. It has certainly not capitulated and come crawling to Bush. So your attempt to boost Bush by linking him with Old Europe politics is at once a feeble and spectacular failure.
I see your view of European history and society closely follows Karl Marx and Lenin. We have seen what prescient prophets they were.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 17, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I don't think I mentioned "Old Europe". I find the Europe of the last several decades bad enough (they are the New Europe). Unfortunately, they are a socialist Europe. They would willingly convert to any given "ism" in order to have state-sponsored perks. In more recent times, this theme is called the "Social Contract" (or words to that effect).
Neither the "Old" nor the "New" Europe will fight to liberate anybody, including itself...it might take away from its 'free' health care system. Europe, today, is like an old heroin addict, on its knees, and willing to do anything to get the next fix.
There are still some adults in Europe, but the juveniles will rebel, as soon as they are requested to grow up. Europe is pathetic. The hatriots in the USA ape them. Go figure....
Give me GWB, over that crowd, anyday.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 17, 2008 at 2:20 pm
"Old Europe" was Don Rumsfeld's characterization of Merkle's and Sarkozy's bailiwicks, which you brought up at the beginning of this thread. I assumed you'd be familiar with the term. Maybe you aren't the Bushie I thought you were.
And there you go again with that Marxist-Leninist cant about class revolution remaking Europe. Yesterday's discarded liberalism recycled.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 17, 2008 at 3:03 pm
" "Old Europe" was Don Rumsfeld's characterization of Merkle's and Sarkozy's bailiwicks"
Perhaps you could educate me on that one. I think Rumsfeld was referring to a new hope for Europe, respresentd by Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. Merkle and Sarkozy, along with Blair and the newly emerged Eastern European democratic states are examples of such new hope.
Unfortunately, the hatriots in this country, and their comrades in Europe, continue to worship the "Old Europe" of socialist suicide.
Rumsfeld got it right.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 18, 2008 at 10:59 am
On second thought, maybe you got something here, Gary. The older European generation remembers how it got badly burned experimenting with right wing utopianism: Soviets, Nazis, Fascists, and Phalangists. They haven't cared to repeat the disaster. But their young people may have to learn firsthand again.
We've been lucky on this side of the pond. So far America has gotten off lightly. Our rightist experience, while weakening and certainly deeply embarrassing the US, has come to a far less painful end than Germany's.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 18, 2008 at 11:58 am
It is a bit hard to follow your definitions, but if by "rightist experience" you mean Ronald Reagan...forward through George Bush, then your argument fails.
Ronald Reagan won the cold war, and defeated the Soviet Union. George W Bush toppled Saddam, another totalitarian dictator. GWB is also fighting extremely reactionary religious fanaticism (jihad).
Who is embarrassed? You? Your leftie friends here? Your comarades in Europe? Your dog? I am confused by your embarrassment. Please explain.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 18, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Ronald Reagan was certainly much chummier with the leader of the Evil Empire than his predecessors, all of whom did their parts to contain and weaken it, but his kindness wasn't what killed it. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, well into Bush 41's term. As a stagnant rightist dictatorship for over 60 years, it had been dying from its internal contradictions for many decades.
Why did you leave out commie fighter Richard Nixon? Because he quit under liberal fire?
Yep, even the dog.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 18, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Revisionist history is always,in the end, judged by its internal contradictions.
Reagan was a firm anti-communist from his early days in Hollywood, as presdient of the Scrren Actors Guild (SAG). Every post-WWII president, until Reagan, wanted to co-exist with the Soviet Union. Reagan wanted to destroy it, based on its essential evil of collectivism. Even Reagan's own inner circle told him this was not possible. He said it was. They now admit they were wrong.
Reagan re-armed America, took the ideological fight to the world, inspired millions enslaved by socialism, aligned with Thatcher and the Pope. His major weapon was SDI, which the Soviets feared immensely...they knew they could not possibly keep up with the free nations' technologies. Reagan also used other strategies, such as talking down the price of oil, in order to deprive the SU of cash to buy western technology. Gorbachev tried to resist for a time, but he finally threw in the towel.
Reagan, always the gentleman, agreed to meet Gorby, and get to a heart-to-heart (from a position of strength). Reagan was castigated by the left in the country (the hatriots of their time). Today (and going forward), Reagan is seen as a great world leader. His detractors, like yourself, are just ignored (ash heap).
Must be pretty lonely, Paul.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 19, 2008 at 6:08 pm
oh, forgot about S. Korea..just elected an America lovin' president also..gosh, could it be that people are wakin' up?
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 21, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Still looking to foreigners for affirmation, eh, Gary. America lovin' is good news - it means they don't like Bush either. So the South Koreans agree with 72% of Americans, OK, but I think we will make up our own minds without clues from Old Europe or Korea or anybody else.
You missed some Reagan points. First, Star Wars went flat nowhere. Some people confuse it with the antimissile system developed by Clinton, but they are very different technologies. The Russkies yelped, but so what? They griped about everything US.
But Ronnie did chum it up with Gorby, like Bush 43 and his soul buddy Putin the KGB man, and Nancy and Raisa went along because Nancy's astrologer blessed it all. It still didn't work, though, the Soviets threw in the towel when Bush 41 was in the ring.
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