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Scootertrash
02-19-2015, 08:57 PM
The plan is falling together nicely
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Nevermind. There's a new episode of Bachelor on and Vikings starts tonight. Carry on
Scootertrash
02-19-2015, 11:00 PM
Competency is like Class.
If you have to tell people you have it, you don't.
sledcrazyinCT
02-19-2015, 11:15 PM
Hard to like or thank your post because the truth hurts.... and most people are oblivious to the changes taking place
Amazed that POTUS was speaking out today asking for tolerance and assistance to overcome terrorists:crazy:
Obama says world should address ‘grievances’ that terrorists exploit
WASHINGTON – President Obama defended his administration’s approach to the terror threat at a White House summit Wednesday, standing by claims that groups like the Islamic State do not represent Islam -- as well as assertions that job creation could help combat extremism.Obama, addressing the Washington audience on the second day of the summit, said the international community needs to address “grievances” that terrorists exploit, including economic and political issues. He stressed that poverty alone doesn’t cause terrorism, but “resentments fester” and extremism grows when millions of people are impoverished.
“We do have to address the grievances that terrorists exploit including economic grievances,” he said.
He also said no single religion was responsible for violence and terrorism, adding he wants to lift up the voice of tolerance in the United States and beyond.
Scootertrash
02-20-2015, 01:31 PM
I totally agree sled. Problem is there are ALOT of people who want to remain oblivious, that is the saddest part. "Well, there's nothing I can do about it." Ya know what? If every person who said that picked up a pen or pencil or sat down and composed an email and sent if off to our POS politicians, maybe, just maybe, something would get done. They can't ignore volumes of letters that fill the entryway to congress.
So when the next terrorist attack on our soil happens, people will be "shocked and appalled" and blame the government for not doing something sooner. I have an idea, next time some Americans are killed in the name of Isla, all those who said "There's nothing I can do about it" should take a look in the mirror and say "Why didn't I do something sooner?
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
He also said no single religion was responsible for violence and terrorism
Yea, because we've all seen the videos of those Christian/Hindu/ Buddhist/Jewish beheadings and burning people alive.
the international community needs to address “grievances” that terrorists exploit, including economic and political issues.
I haven't heard anything from these terrorists about "Give us jobs and we'll quit killing your people." This is about religious ideology. If you don't follow Islam, you are an infidel and will be eliminated. In addition, if you are a Muslim and don't follow Islam the same way these terrorist believe, you will be eliminated.
Even Chris Matthews questions the jobs bullsh!t from Marie Harf (State Department Spokesperson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHJvyhI4QLY
I'll finish those post with this:
Quote:
As Hussein Massawi, former leader of Hezbollah, neatly put it, "We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you."
El Camexican
02-20-2015, 02:34 PM
She's got it all figured out. The US is going to create jobs over there when they can't do it at home? How? By sending cash money so their leaders can steal it and convert the rest into arms? Her Boss's hand is so far up her butt he's making her lips move. Putting her in that position should be taken as an insult to all American's. It's like watching a 3rd grader that didn't read the book give a speech about it in front of the whole classroom. I'm always waiting for an adult to interrupt her and say "Thank you dear, that's enough for today, go take your seat"
In other news most of the leaders of these radical types are filthy stinking rich to start with. Poverty isn't the cause of this problem, it a tool they use to manipulate the followers. The REAL bad guys WANT their populace to be hungry and upset (as do our politicians). What they spend on harming innocents could feed a lot of people. I could go on, and on. Pisses me off. Time to take my place back on the Chess board as a pawn.
Scootertrash
02-20-2015, 09:34 PM
Els post hits the nail on the head. We send them money to help the people, it gets stolen by the dictators and rulers who send these scum into battle and the peasants suffer. Institute sanctions and withhold money, food, and supplies, the rulers live high on the hog since they control everything and the people starve and suffer. Bin Laden was awealthy son from an oil family.
Most people wouldn't like my plan because it would cost lots of money and lots of lives, including innocent civilians, the same as any war does. Drone strikes cost money, soldiers cost money, supplies cost money..
How do you deal with a radical subset of nutjobs who believe they achieve martyrdom by dying for their God by chopping of "non-believers" heads or burning them alive? I believe the only way you can deal with certain individuals is in terms they understand. In this case it is outright brutality with no mercy.
ISIS burned 45 more people alive just a couple of days ago.
The terrorists WANT a war. They're BEGGING for it. Why do you think they keep doing this crap?
Ya wanna know why? Because either way they win: If we don't give them a war they win because our government has shown them that America doesn't have the spine to stand up for itself. If we give them a war, then America is a big bully who is intolerant of the Religion of Islam. It doesn't help that our leader blames us in front of the world.
Like El, this sh!t pisses me off to no end.
Knight to Queens Bishop3
robertc
02-20-2015, 09:57 PM
It's unfortunate that we have to wait till 2016 to truly reverse what is happening as of late. Lets hope all republicans show up at the polls next time around.
El Camexican
02-20-2015, 10:21 PM
I don't know what it is about your posts that get me so fired up Scoot, but here's something you're going to love...
You know how the do-gooder countries of the world often send goods to help in a humanitarian crisis? You’ve likely heard how few if any make it to the intended recipiants, but there’s more to it than that in some cases.
When the goods are shipped they have to be insured. Marine insurance is mandatory for a number of reasons I won’t get into, but basically a lack of it can ruin you even if your cargo arrives safe and sound. The policy is signed over to the recipient of the goods. This would likely be the government of the receiving country, or an entity that represents it. Let me use an example:
- The citizens of some 3rd world country are suffering a civil war and starving
- The US government decides to send a ship full of surplus of corn to them
- When it arrives a claim is filed for damage and the goods are quarantined for up to 3 years
- Two or three years later the claim, or a portion of it, is paid and the money goes to the government of the impoverished country
- The goods, if they are still usable would go up for bid. In a corrupt country it would be very simple to have them sold to friends of that same government for pennies on the dollar as only 3 bids are required
- If the goods have spoiled in wait no one cares as the guys who ended up with the cash don’t give a trailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro about the starving people
- The real kick in the teeth is that your insurance premiums go up from things like this
- The only bright spot is that some of the money ends up back in the US when arms are bought to fight the civil war. Unfortunately they always end up in the hands of some nut jobs.
Wanna talk cash donations? The Mexican government refuses to let the US government see where it spends the money it sends to fight the war on drugs and yet it still keeps coming. How many kickbacks do you figure are involved in that scam?:lol:
Scootertrash
02-21-2015, 12:15 AM
It's unfortunate that we have to wait till 2016 to truly reverse what is happening as of late. Lets hope all republicans show up at the polls next time around.
It's going to be a long and interesting 2 years robertc. Strap yourself in.
ETA: Always remember:
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”― Joseph Stalin
Al Franken (Dem) won his first term up here thru a recount that was brought about by an election judge turning in 2 boxes of ballots late because he "forgot" them in the trunk of his car. :rolleyes: The Secretary of State at the time was Mark Ritchie, also a Democrat. He found no wrong doing involved with the "forgotten" boxes of ballots. How convenient.
Scootertrash
02-21-2015, 12:30 AM
Sorry El, I don't do it on purpose.
Can you ever forgive me?:naughty: :beer
El Camexican
02-21-2015, 12:54 AM
Sorry El, I don't do it on purpose.
Can you ever forgive me?:naughty: :beer
Only if you keep doing it:beer
RIDE-RED 250r
02-21-2015, 10:12 AM
I propose a requirement that any candidate running for congress or the presidency be a member in good standing on 3ww!
I marvel at how so many of us from so many corners of this continent brought together by this single common interest can be so like-minded on so many of the big issues.
El Camexican
02-21-2015, 11:02 AM
Where i disagree with scooter is .....he still believes this gov. works.....I DON`T !!
Good point. Public service (government) was once a volunteer position reserved for people who wished to give back to their communities. The pay was a small compensatory gesture for the service. Once politics became a lucrative career and the prophetic statement below came to be the writing was on the wall. The current governing and monetary systems of the 1st world are like runaway freight trains. The only way they will ever stop is if they come off the tracks.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy”
Scootertrash
02-21-2015, 11:13 PM
Where i disagree with scooter is .....he still believes this gov. works.....I DON`T !!
Nope. I don't believe this gov works. I do believe it could work if it was run as the Founding Fathers designed it. But it has been corrupted.
I totally agree with Els post above 100%
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I think you and I are on pretty much the same page glamy. I think you and I are a couple of crabby old fvcks who are sic of all of the .gov BS. And the .gov is the reason we are crabby!! ;)
.P.S. And El is catching up fast!! :D
Scootertrash
02-22-2015, 03:13 PM
My wife does my dirty laundry. Unless she's out of town then I have to do it. :P
Scootertrash
02-23-2015, 09:35 AM
Only if you keep doing it:beer
You have yourself a deal! :D
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