OT: Obama is dumber than a box of rocks

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Dan,

Your view of Cuba is a little at odds with Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/englishwr2k7/docs/2007/01/11/cuba14886.htm

My own experiences with Cuba date back to my time in Central America during the 1980s, mainly dealing with the DGI (Cuban intelligence services) boys and their operations in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. They had pretty well infested those countries and were doing a land office business in shipping in ComBloc weapons throughout the region.

I don’t find Fidel’s brand of communism to be very different from the Soviet’s, at least when it comes to “Wars of National Liberation”, such as their intervention in Angola (a little off the beaten path for a Caribbean country).

I recall pictures of Marti being everywhere in Central America as well (the FMLN in Salvador were his namesake), along with Sandino and Che.

On a personal note, I find it revolting that the US maintains a prison (Gitmo) equally as repressive as those found in Cuba. I can’t wait to see that place shut down.

[Casca]

[quote=Shadowfax][quote=Casca]Ah, now you show your colors.[/quote]

There you go again with the “colors” bit. Playing the devisive (racist) card again–black/white, red/blue, who cares? All I want is to see this country come back to a place I can be proud of, that isn’t hemorrhaging debt on wars, bailouts and corporate welfare. Where people have integrity and get ahead through innovation and hard work, not insider privileges, lying, cheating and stealing. And where we, as a country, are not slaves to the oil sheiks who are pumping oil for the bloated US consumption market (gotta have that 3 mpg Hummer!) with one hand while holding a knife in the other, waiting to slip it in our backs? Does that have enough “color” for you?

Damn, I promised myself I wouldn’t be baited again, but someone’s got to call you out for being the ‘tard you are.
[/quote]

Ah, now the mere utterance of the word “color” is racist. It was obviously a cliche meaning that you’ve shown your true beliefs, but perhaps not. Neo-conservative is a leftist anti-semitic epithet. It’s possible that you don’t understand that.

Actually, our goals are similar. However, the path you’re taking won’t lead us to them. Now take a deep breath, and try not to be so hysterical in the future.

[Casca]

[quote=Shadowfax][quote=Casca]Ah, now you show your colors.[/quote]

There you go again with the “colors” bit. Playing the devisive (racist) card again–black/white, red/blue, who cares? All I want is to see this country come back to a place I can be proud of, that isn’t hemorrhaging debt on wars, bailouts and corporate welfare. Where people have integrity and get ahead through innovation and hard work, not insider privileges, lying, cheating and stealing. And where we, as a country, are not slaves to the oil sheiks who are pumping oil for the bloated US consumption market (gotta have that 3 mpg Hummer!) with one hand while holding a knife in the other, waiting to slip it in our backs? Does that have enough “color” for you?

Damn, I promised myself I wouldn’t be baited again, but someone’s got to call you out for being the ‘tard you are.
[/quote]

Ah, now the mere utterance of the word “color” is racist. It was obviously a cliche meaning that you’ve shown your true beliefs, but perhaps not. Neo-conservative is a leftist anti-semitic epithet. It’s possible that you don’t understand that.

Actually, our goals are similar. However, the path you’re taking won’t lead us to them. Now take a deep breath, and try not to be so hysterical in the future.

[Casca]

[quote=Shadowfax][quote=Casca]Ah, now you show your colors.[/quote]

There you go again with the “colors” bit. Playing the devisive (racist) card again–black/white, red/blue, who cares? All I want is to see this country come back to a place I can be proud of, that isn’t hemorrhaging debt on wars, bailouts and corporate welfare. Where people have integrity and get ahead through innovation and hard work, not insider privileges, lying, cheating and stealing. And where we, as a country, are not slaves to the oil sheiks who are pumping oil for the bloated US consumption market (gotta have that 3 mpg Hummer!) with one hand while holding a knife in the other, waiting to slip it in our backs? Does that have enough “color” for you?

Damn, I promised myself I wouldn’t be baited again, but someone’s got to call you out for being the ‘tard you are.
[/quote]

Ah, now the mere utterance of the word “color” is racist. It was obviously a cliche meaning that you’ve shown your true beliefs, but perhaps not. Neo-conservative is a leftist anti-semitic epithet. It’s possible that you don’t understand that.

Actually, our goals are similar. However, the path you’re taking won’t lead us to them. Now take a deep breath, and try not to be so hysterical in the future.

[Casca]

[quote=Shadowfax][quote=Casca]Ah, now you show your colors.[/quote]

There you go again with the “colors” bit. Playing the devisive (racist) card again–black/white, red/blue, who cares? All I want is to see this country come back to a place I can be proud of, that isn’t hemorrhaging debt on wars, bailouts and corporate welfare. Where people have integrity and get ahead through innovation and hard work, not insider privileges, lying, cheating and stealing. And where we, as a country, are not slaves to the oil sheiks who are pumping oil for the bloated US consumption market (gotta have that 3 mpg Hummer!) with one hand while holding a knife in the other, waiting to slip it in our backs? Does that have enough “color” for you?

Damn, I promised myself I wouldn’t be baited again, but someone’s got to call you out for being the ‘tard you are.
[/quote]

Ah, now the mere utterance of the word “color” is racist. It was obviously a cliche meaning that you’ve shown your true beliefs, but perhaps not. Neo-conservative is a leftist anti-semitic epithet. It’s possible that you don’t understand that.

Actually, our goals are similar. However, the path you’re taking won’t lead us to them. Now take a deep breath, and try not to be so hysterical in the future.

[Casca]

[quote=Shadowfax][quote=Casca]Ah, now you show your colors.[/quote]

There you go again with the “colors” bit. Playing the devisive (racist) card again–black/white, red/blue, who cares? All I want is to see this country come back to a place I can be proud of, that isn’t hemorrhaging debt on wars, bailouts and corporate welfare. Where people have integrity and get ahead through innovation and hard work, not insider privileges, lying, cheating and stealing. And where we, as a country, are not slaves to the oil sheiks who are pumping oil for the bloated US consumption market (gotta have that 3 mpg Hummer!) with one hand while holding a knife in the other, waiting to slip it in our backs? Does that have enough “color” for you?

Damn, I promised myself I wouldn’t be baited again, but someone’s got to call you out for being the ‘tard you are.
[/quote]

Ah, now the mere utterance of the word “color” is racist. It was obviously a cliche meaning that you’ve shown your true beliefs, but perhaps not. Neo-conservative is a leftist anti-semitic epithet. It’s possible that you don’t understand that.

Actually, our goals are similar. However, the path you’re taking won’t lead us to them. Now take a deep breath, and try not to be so hysterical in the future.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
Does that mean I can call you Daddy?[/quote]

LOL, of course not you idiot. It would make you my brother, or something like that. We’ll call you “It”. Upon further reflection, it must have been a chunk of masticated liberal, instead of a roid. In the lifeboat, they’re always consumed first.

I wish that I had the time to do justice to your interrogation, but this is an uncompensated activity, and therefore must compete as such.

[quote=urbanrealtor]Let me give 2 examples: the fear of manipulation in the Sirius XM merger and nature of telecommunications during the era of Ma Bell. Again, I pose the question: does this fall under your rubric of market manipulation and/or command economy?[/quote]

Anti-competitive activities vis monopolies are rightly curbed by government to protect competition. Ma Bell was rightly broken up, and we see the fruits of that competition in lower prices today. Sat Radio, not so much. I don’t NEED Sat Radio like I do the means of voice comm.

[quote=urbanrealtor]So where do you see the appropriate limit of government control? Where does the “creation of structure” end?[/quote]

Where government tilts the playing field in favor of one competitor over another, or penalizes success and rewards failure.

[quote=urbanrealtor]What would you see as a way to improve the schools?[/quote]

Denude the State School Boards of staff, and bar any member or former member of the NEA from holding office on any school board anywhere. I’d also hang every sitting BOE administrator along with the lawyers tomorrow.

[quote=urbanrealtor]Bearing in mind that I am a foodie that prefers hot dogs to tenderloin[/quote]

Somewhere between fourteen and twenty-four, your tastes should mature.

In re Bobama’s youth. You miss my point sir. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t share the foundational experiences of most Americans; e.g. when called on to lead the pledge of allegiance today, he punted.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
Does that mean I can call you Daddy?[/quote]

LOL, of course not you idiot. It would make you my brother, or something like that. We’ll call you “It”. Upon further reflection, it must have been a chunk of masticated liberal, instead of a roid. In the lifeboat, they’re always consumed first.

I wish that I had the time to do justice to your interrogation, but this is an uncompensated activity, and therefore must compete as such.

[quote=urbanrealtor]Let me give 2 examples: the fear of manipulation in the Sirius XM merger and nature of telecommunications during the era of Ma Bell. Again, I pose the question: does this fall under your rubric of market manipulation and/or command economy?[/quote]

Anti-competitive activities vis monopolies are rightly curbed by government to protect competition. Ma Bell was rightly broken up, and we see the fruits of that competition in lower prices today. Sat Radio, not so much. I don’t NEED Sat Radio like I do the means of voice comm.

[quote=urbanrealtor]So where do you see the appropriate limit of government control? Where does the “creation of structure” end?[/quote]

Where government tilts the playing field in favor of one competitor over another, or penalizes success and rewards failure.

[quote=urbanrealtor]What would you see as a way to improve the schools?[/quote]

Denude the State School Boards of staff, and bar any member or former member of the NEA from holding office on any school board anywhere. I’d also hang every sitting BOE administrator along with the lawyers tomorrow.

[quote=urbanrealtor]Bearing in mind that I am a foodie that prefers hot dogs to tenderloin[/quote]

Somewhere between fourteen and twenty-four, your tastes should mature.

In re Bobama’s youth. You miss my point sir. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t share the foundational experiences of most Americans; e.g. when called on to lead the pledge of allegiance today, he punted.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
Does that mean I can call you Daddy?[/quote]

LOL, of course not you idiot. It would make you my brother, or something like that. We’ll call you “It”. Upon further reflection, it must have been a chunk of masticated liberal, instead of a roid. In the lifeboat, they’re always consumed first.

I wish that I had the time to do justice to your interrogation, but this is an uncompensated activity, and therefore must compete as such.

[quote=urbanrealtor]Let me give 2 examples: the fear of manipulation in the Sirius XM merger and nature of telecommunications during the era of Ma Bell. Again, I pose the question: does this fall under your rubric of market manipulation and/or command economy?[/quote]

Anti-competitive activities vis monopolies are rightly curbed by government to protect competition. Ma Bell was rightly broken up, and we see the fruits of that competition in lower prices today. Sat Radio, not so much. I don’t NEED Sat Radio like I do the means of voice comm.

[quote=urbanrealtor]So where do you see the appropriate limit of government control? Where does the “creation of structure” end?[/quote]

Where government tilts the playing field in favor of one competitor over another, or penalizes success and rewards failure.

[quote=urbanrealtor]What would you see as a way to improve the schools?[/quote]

Denude the State School Boards of staff, and bar any member or former member of the NEA from holding office on any school board anywhere. I’d also hang every sitting BOE administrator along with the lawyers tomorrow.

[quote=urbanrealtor]Bearing in mind that I am a foodie that prefers hot dogs to tenderloin[/quote]

Somewhere between fourteen and twenty-four, your tastes should mature.

In re Bobama’s youth. You miss my point sir. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t share the foundational experiences of most Americans; e.g. when called on to lead the pledge of allegiance today, he punted.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
Does that mean I can call you Daddy?[/quote]

LOL, of course not you idiot. It would make you my brother, or something like that. We’ll call you “It”. Upon further reflection, it must have been a chunk of masticated liberal, instead of a roid. In the lifeboat, they’re always consumed first.

I wish that I had the time to do justice to your interrogation, but this is an uncompensated activity, and therefore must compete as such.

[quote=urbanrealtor]Let me give 2 examples: the fear of manipulation in the Sirius XM merger and nature of telecommunications during the era of Ma Bell. Again, I pose the question: does this fall under your rubric of market manipulation and/or command economy?[/quote]

Anti-competitive activities vis monopolies are rightly curbed by government to protect competition. Ma Bell was rightly broken up, and we see the fruits of that competition in lower prices today. Sat Radio, not so much. I don’t NEED Sat Radio like I do the means of voice comm.

[quote=urbanrealtor]So where do you see the appropriate limit of government control? Where does the “creation of structure” end?[/quote]

Where government tilts the playing field in favor of one competitor over another, or penalizes success and rewards failure.

[quote=urbanrealtor]What would you see as a way to improve the schools?[/quote]

Denude the State School Boards of staff, and bar any member or former member of the NEA from holding office on any school board anywhere. I’d also hang every sitting BOE administrator along with the lawyers tomorrow.

[quote=urbanrealtor]Bearing in mind that I am a foodie that prefers hot dogs to tenderloin[/quote]

Somewhere between fourteen and twenty-four, your tastes should mature.

In re Bobama’s youth. You miss my point sir. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t share the foundational experiences of most Americans; e.g. when called on to lead the pledge of allegiance today, he punted.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
Does that mean I can call you Daddy?[/quote]

LOL, of course not you idiot. It would make you my brother, or something like that. We’ll call you “It”. Upon further reflection, it must have been a chunk of masticated liberal, instead of a roid. In the lifeboat, they’re always consumed first.

I wish that I had the time to do justice to your interrogation, but this is an uncompensated activity, and therefore must compete as such.

[quote=urbanrealtor]Let me give 2 examples: the fear of manipulation in the Sirius XM merger and nature of telecommunications during the era of Ma Bell. Again, I pose the question: does this fall under your rubric of market manipulation and/or command economy?[/quote]

Anti-competitive activities vis monopolies are rightly curbed by government to protect competition. Ma Bell was rightly broken up, and we see the fruits of that competition in lower prices today. Sat Radio, not so much. I don’t NEED Sat Radio like I do the means of voice comm.

[quote=urbanrealtor]So where do you see the appropriate limit of government control? Where does the “creation of structure” end?[/quote]

Where government tilts the playing field in favor of one competitor over another, or penalizes success and rewards failure.

[quote=urbanrealtor]What would you see as a way to improve the schools?[/quote]

Denude the State School Boards of staff, and bar any member or former member of the NEA from holding office on any school board anywhere. I’d also hang every sitting BOE administrator along with the lawyers tomorrow.

[quote=urbanrealtor]Bearing in mind that I am a foodie that prefers hot dogs to tenderloin[/quote]

Somewhere between fourteen and twenty-four, your tastes should mature.

In re Bobama’s youth. You miss my point sir. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t share the foundational experiences of most Americans; e.g. when called on to lead the pledge of allegiance today, he punted.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
I have been to Cuba…[/quote]

Isn’t that against the law?

[quote=urbanrealtor]Ironically there was a grocery store there (outside the Russian (ex-soviet) embassy) that had billboards about Bush (dressed as Hitler) and slogans about Yankees and facism. It took only American dollars. Weird.[/quote]

Nothing weird at all about it. They need hard dollars to buy foreign products (oil), and every dollar you spent in Cuba helped them evade our embargo.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
I have been to Cuba…[/quote]

Isn’t that against the law?

[quote=urbanrealtor]Ironically there was a grocery store there (outside the Russian (ex-soviet) embassy) that had billboards about Bush (dressed as Hitler) and slogans about Yankees and facism. It took only American dollars. Weird.[/quote]

Nothing weird at all about it. They need hard dollars to buy foreign products (oil), and every dollar you spent in Cuba helped them evade our embargo.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
I have been to Cuba…[/quote]

Isn’t that against the law?

[quote=urbanrealtor]Ironically there was a grocery store there (outside the Russian (ex-soviet) embassy) that had billboards about Bush (dressed as Hitler) and slogans about Yankees and facism. It took only American dollars. Weird.[/quote]

Nothing weird at all about it. They need hard dollars to buy foreign products (oil), and every dollar you spent in Cuba helped them evade our embargo.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
I have been to Cuba…[/quote]

Isn’t that against the law?

[quote=urbanrealtor]Ironically there was a grocery store there (outside the Russian (ex-soviet) embassy) that had billboards about Bush (dressed as Hitler) and slogans about Yankees and facism. It took only American dollars. Weird.[/quote]

Nothing weird at all about it. They need hard dollars to buy foreign products (oil), and every dollar you spent in Cuba helped them evade our embargo.

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