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Multi-lateral international trade bodies were created to untangle these potential snarls of bilateral relations, just like every other issue in which the nations of the world have a common interest. ...

Yep.

Yep.

You want to call on someone to sacrifice, call on the people with more than one child. Let them bear the cost of their choice. Why should I?

I understand it and I basically agree with it. I just have two comments:

1. The invasion of Japan analogy is questionable.

2. It's true that there are great pressures for Obama to use...

You're probably right, but that's what they said about the Nazis, at first.



It's a joke. "Hey Lindsay, what part of illegal alien don't you understand?"

For the nation, of course.

That's what an executive is for, to decide the costs and benefits and pick between the various tools available . . . not to turn everything on at once and turn everything up all the way.

That's possible.

Yeah right. Something tells me you're "for" cultural diversity like you're "against" drones.


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That's a big question. Diplomatic and military stuff. Proceedings of certain entities.

I thought the question was what secrets are we, the people allowed to keep, or, to put it another way, what...

Lincoln knew he couldn't go for abolition so he didn't. People said he was a coward and pro-slavery. Wrong.

I'm not saying Obama is Lincoln but in politics you have to lead without getting too...

Government population control would only work in the short to medium term, and could easily backfire even then.

Which makes the responsibility of the individual greater, not less. Restrain...

How much oil did they have?

Thanks to Nicholas Carey for the explanation of pen registers.

This is what I gather from the Wikipedia Article:

A pen register used to mean a device that recorded impulses with a pen. Now it...

People talk about how they are into green this and green that in order to conceal this basic truth from themselves and blunt their conscience and their intellect. Conservation is a shuck . . . in...

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People who believe that are the ones that need to have a red line drawn around them and be taken out, as the common enemy of mankind.

When did that ever happen? <-- joke

There's no reason to celebrate the end of the GOP -- on the contrary. It doesn't mean the ignorant bigoted rabble has gone away. The GOP's successor won't have to move to the far right.

Why would an invasion have been necessary? Japan was dependent on imports. Japan had no navy or air force, not much of an army, not even much of a merchant marine. Blockade all four main islands...

The Princess Gambit . . . Love is great, yes, but Guilt puts it to practical use. Don't you love me enough to make me your princess?



There shall be nothing plain about The Princess.

What's a pen register?

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How do you figure?





I don't get it. It's Obama, but it's everybody else, too? Everyone has the right to assassinate foreign heads of state?

If we're still at stage of calling them all "rebels" then obviously we don't know what the F is going on, which makes it hard to advocate intervention.

1. America takes out my nation's leader, bombs my country, puts in a puppet leader.

2. My so-called sovereign country can't protect us.

3. Therefore we must make war on America ourselves.

The history as a stick-length contest theory? Is is possible to get past that just a little bit, sometime, somehow?

But Clapper's answer wasn't "I can't answer because that information is classified." His answer was "No", and that was false.

With their billions of dollars his super-efficient mercenary employer...

According to the guy Waddie has cited, they can read your e-mail.

“Anything that comes through (an internet protocol network), we can record,” Steve Bannerman, marketing vice president of Narus, a...

Who is "we" and how did "we" acquire the right to draw red lines and take people out?

Kind of clumsy but if it's accurate, OK. There's lots of suggestions that they aren't unified, so why are they all called the same name? That implies they are unified. Well, are they or aren't...

Yeah. When did neutrality stop being the preferred alternative?



Nah, you break it, you own it. Why would we want to own a broken Syria? To make a matched set with Iraq?

The distinction between lethal and non-lethal aid is specious.

If the world outside Syria has a legitimate interest in the situation, the United Nations is the mechanism for dealing with it. Where, oh where, did the US acquire the right to intervene...

Faith has nothing to do with it. They are our servants and will do as we say.

I wish the media would stop calling them "rebels". Though it's better than "freedom fighters".

May I quote you? ;)

Thanks for those, Waddie.

According to Mr. Binney, there's fourth and a fifth party:

1. Person 1
2. Person 2
3. Communication facilitator e.g. the phone company
4. The US Government
5. ...

I think everyone should have to kill somebody before we start a pre-emptive war, so they can have more information.

He's just an entertainer = Nuremburg defense for the 21st century.

Reds find entertainment in cognitive dissonance = global right wing media conglomerate that seemingly sprang from nowhere to...

It's not a matter of trust per se, it's a matter of accountability. If a soldier is fooling around, you yank him in and make him talk right now.

Not perfect, but on the whole I think it...

VIP = Very Important Point.

I agree with the new laws part. As to whether the language is no longer sufficient, if we work it right, we'll never have to mess with it. Just write laws making this and that illegal, requiring...

Take a chance that the courts will make no decision or a bad decision after we wait five or ten years. Congress can act today.

1. Repeal the Patriot Act altogether, for openers.

2. Take a...

Like Charlie Wilson's war?

Yes but Congress can act quick and to the point. Make the offensive practices illegal. Boom, zing, done. No need to argue about the Constitution.

The Courts groan on and on for years and maybe...

I find that unreasonably intrusive, without a warrant.

The problem, as you point out, is that the things being collected are in the possession of a third party i.e. the phone company. Like, if...

9th, 10th, I get 'em mixed up. Haven't got to the part in the book yet about the horse trading about the Bill of Rights, to maybe learn why they are separate amendments

Cost of item = X

Cost of item with governmental inefficiency = 1.5 X

Cost of item from private contractor with billing fraud, padded accounts, taking people on golf vacations to Scotland, etc =...

OK with the HS. What's up with the CG and the ammo?