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To: tejek who wrote (452885)	1/31/2009 3:11:26 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572777

I guess everyone knows Obama is weak. NKorea says it won't honor past accords with South AP - Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:53:41 PM North Korea says it is rescinding past military and political agreements with South Korea over Seoul's hard-line stance toward Pyongyang. The North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland is accusing South Korea of pushing the two Koreas to the brink of war. The committee said in a statement carried Friday by state-run media that it considers all inter-Korean agreements "dead" and says it will not honor their disputed western sea border. Tensions have been high since South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office nearly a year ago pledging to get tough on Pyongyang.

To: tejek who wrote (452885)	1/31/2009 3:25:59 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572777

Carter Redux OR Iran Tells Obama To Take His Dialogue Offer and Shove It While North Korea Cancels Its Non-Agression Pact… By PUMA Pundit • January 31, 2009 Durign the presidential campaign, Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden had the following words of wisdom… “And here’s the point I want to make. Mark my words. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking… Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. Within the last 24-48 hours, two significant, albeit under-reported events took place on the global stage that show exactly where the origins of this “test” might be… First Iran not only rebuffed Obama’s offer to dialogue, but also told Obama that he needs to issue an apology before they would even consider talking to him, all the while denying Israel’s right to exist and running a nuclear program. Breitbart US President Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday. “This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed,” Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency. “Negotiation is secondary, the main issue is that there is no way but for (the United States) to change,” he added. After nearly three decades of severed ties, Obama said shortly after taking office this month that he is willing to extend a diplomatic hand to Tehran if the Islamic republic is ready to “unclench its fist”. In response, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a fresh tirade against the United States, demanding an apology for its “crimes” against Iran and saying he expected “deep and fundamental” change from Obama. Former US president George W. Bush refused to hold talks with the Islamic republic — which he dubbed part of an “axis of evil” — unless it suspended uranium enrichment, and never took a military option to thwart Tehran’s atomic drive off the table. The new administration of Obama has also refused to rule out any options — including military strikes — to stop Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Iran denies any plans to build the bomb and insists its nuclear programme is solely aimed at peaceful ends. Meanwhile, North Korea has decided that the non-aggression pact it’s had with South Korea is no longer necessary, and that the region in on the “brink of war” : Miami Herald The potential for a naval clash off the Korean Peninsula grew Friday after North Korea scrapped a nonaggression pact with South Korea and declared as void a western sea border, warning in shrill language that the region has “reached the brink of war.” South Korea expressed regret that Pyongyang canceled all political and military accords and pledged “firm counteraction” should North Korean vessels cross a U.N.-set demarcation line on the Yellow Sea. “The confrontation between the North and the South in the political and military fields has been put to such extremes that inter-Korean relations have reached the brink of a war,” the North’s statement added. North Korea tested its first nuclear device in 2006, demonstrating a nuclear capability. So there you have it folks, Joe Biden asked us to remember, and we have not forgotten… puma08.com

To: tejek who wrote (452885)	2/5/2009 1:57:42 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1572777

Oh we listened. Nonsense. "Also its rather bizarre that you actually seem to support rent seeking and think that lobbying for special favors is actually productive to society as a whole rather than a waste of time and energy that could be put to more productive uses." Huh? Where did I say that? ---- I posted (and you quoted) "Problem of government handouts is more than money, it pulls producers away from their products making them inefficient." After quoting that you responded - "Please.......your playbook has been discredited..." The idea expressed, that you deemed discredited was that people take time out from other business to seek government handouts, and that isn't a good thing. So either you think people don't rent seek and go for special favors when the government makes them available (a belief which is at serious disagreement with the facts in the real world) Or you believe its ok that they do so, in other words that "lobbying for special favors is actually productive to society as a whole rather than a waste of time and energy that could be put to more productive uses."