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08-11-14 22:40 #288
Posts: 707Recommend reading "Agents of Innocence" by David Ignatius
Written 25 years ago, it is a spy novel but it has good insight about American, Israelis, and Palestinian relationships. To paraphrase a key concluding paragraph: Israelis are like the wife and Arabs are like the mistress. Americans always return to the wife.
The novel supposedly is base on the life of Robert Ames who is the subject of recently published biography.
http://www.amazon.com/Agents-Innocen...eywords=agents+of+innocence.
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Spy-Life-...1&keywords=the+good+spy+the+life+and+death+of+robert+ames.
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08-11-14 21:34 #287
Posts: 1017You like to choose sides.
Originally Posted by Jackson [View Original Post]
By the way, what is the latest on the Hatfields and the McCoys? Have not heard too much lately. They all can/t be dead? New generation, new thinking?
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08-11-14 19:10 #286
Posts: 191Peace on earth
Originally Posted by Jackson [View Original Post]
Ah, the Israel-Palestine question. Ain't going to go there, Jackson. I can only deal with objective facts and logical reasoning and when you are dealing with the Israel Palestine problem, facts and reason have no place.
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08-11-14 17:46 #285
Posts: 2556
Venues: 398Originally Posted by RockinBob [View Original Post]
I don't believe anyone has suggested that the Palestinians "give up idolatry and accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior.", but perhaps you might post a link quoting the source of this statement.
In the mean time, do you have a problem understanding that the Palestinians have been firing rockets from the Gaza strip into populated neighborhoods of Israeli?
How do you justify that?
If you were Israeli, what would you do? Surrender?
Curious minds want to know.
Thanks,
Jax.
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08-11-14 16:51 #284
Posts: 191Peace on earth
Originally Posted by Jackson [View Original Post]
It's that simple!
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08-10-14 20:13 #283
Posts: 1017As if Junior had leadership!
Originally Posted by Jackson [View Original Post]
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08-10-14 14:14 #282
Posts: 2556
Venues: 398Originally Posted by RevBS [View Original Post]
The Palestinians could have peace tomorrow if they stop firing missiles into their neighboring country.
It's that simple.
Thanks,
Jax.
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08-10-14 14:01 #281
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Venues: 398Originally Posted by RevBS [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by RevBS [View Original Post]
His subsequent inability to deal with the "uphill battle within the Democratic leadership" clearily demonstrated that he did not and does not have the leadership skills for the job.
Jax.
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08-10-14 00:01 #280
Posts: 1017The hell in Gaza.
http://www.latimes.com/world/middlee...809-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...0-story.htmlll
Nobody will give in. The never ending self destructive nature of mankind.
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08-07-14 18:57 #279
Posts: 1017Realistic?
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
Nobody and no party can claim to have the perfect solution / answer. Life in general is a series of pragmatic compromises. You win some, and you lose some. You cannot blame Obama for any significant failure if you fail to come to the table. Obama's youth and surprise nomination & victory meant that he had a uphill battle within the Democratic leadership, let alone the screaming rejection & hate from across the aisle. As in the AP forum. You all deny this? A magic wand does NOT Obama have.
Today, America looks very different than 50 years ago, and 50 years from now, it will be very different again. So can we say that we have a more cut-throat culture / society today? Why and who have contributed to all this? The rise of corporate culture in the last 3-4 decades into our homes and daily lives. Frenzy and getting more frenzy. That's the way it is. I am no fan of this lifestyle. Mental health, already the next explosion. I cannot keep up with all these new disorders.
The leaders you attributed are rare. They are leaders who have the long view, and they view community / nation over the individual. Yes, they did. It might be a surprise to some people who approve of them.
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08-07-14 16:10 #278
Posts: 776Originally Posted by RevBS [View Original Post]
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08-07-14 05:41 #277
Posts: 1017Congratulations!
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
I think you and I have the potential to solve all of America's ills. I know the perfect location, too. Food, massage, hot tubs and FS are available when we need a break or two.
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08-07-14 02:18 #276
Posts: 191Money for Nothin, Chicks for Free
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
They inspire other men to act. Like say Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, who apply ideas into political movements, say. Tom Paine, who wrote pamphlets to rouse the colonists to action. George Washington, who led an army and fought for these ideas. The USA was born in a Revolution based on new ideas, that people had a right to self government, not depending on the whims of monarchs. Freedom. Liberty. Even hear those words? Just two centuries ago the western world was ruled by monarchs and the Catholic church.
Ideas change the face of the world.
Nowadays, nobody cares about thinking. That's why everybody is regressing back to being serfs. The Bill of Rights is nothing more than a piece of paper. Freedom and democracy just words.
Slaves used to fight to be free. Now, free men fight to be slaves. They go in debt up their eyeballs to get a marketable skill so they can get worked to death and still live at home with their parents. If they're lucky.
I really love The Big Lebowski.
LEBOWSKI.
My wife is not the issue here. I hope that my wife will someday learn to live on her allowance, which is ample, but if she doesn't, sir, that will be her problem, not mine, just as your rug is your problem, just as every bum's lot in life is his own responsibility regardless of whom he chooses to blame. I didn't blame anyone for the loss of my legs, some chinaman in Korea took them from me but I went out and achieved anyway. I can't solve your problems, sir, only you can.
Let's keep those Little Lebowski Urban Achievers coming, folks!
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08-07-14 00:19 #275
Posts: 776Originally Posted by RevBS [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by RevBS [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by RockinBob [View Original Post]
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08-06-14 23:56 #274
Posts: 3510Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
1) My city, and most cities around here, charge non-residents more to use the facilities. These people never took cost accounting and have no concept of break-even point. But, I found a neighboring city that not only charges residents and non-residents the same, but gives a senior discount at age 55 vs. My city's age 62. $18 a month. Not surprisingly, the neighboring city does a healthy business while my city's facility is underutilized. However, the facility I use is not overcrowded during the hours I go there.
2) My state provides numerous silly discounts and few of them are means-tested. There is a $20,000 pension exclusion starting the year you turn 55 and then it goes to $24,000 at 65. Social Security, IRA withdrawals, IRA conversions, annuities, traditional pensions, etc. All qualify. There is a scheme whereby if you are 65 and low income (but could have assets out the ying yang), you never have to pay your property tax during your lifetime. It just creates a lienhold to be paid on sale or death. There is a similar scheme for utility bills but that one is means-tested.
3) 50% off on our transit system but it sucks so much it's not worth mentioning. I think this kicks in at 62 but it might be 65.
4) Albertson's gives 10% off the first Wednesday of the month at age 55 and they don't check I'd. Kohl's has a discount day that starts at 55 too.
5) AARP has the cheapest car rental rates. Check it out.
Now Tiny, you are ignoring an important point. Yes, seniors have lower poverty rates than the other two age brackets BUT they have a lot less opportunity to improve their situation! So looking at youth poverty vs. Senior poverty might not be as important as following the poverty rate for 19-64. That could be a better economic indicator. I think rather than being subsidies, a lot of these are marketing ploys.