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To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 2:23:25 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575048

Ayn Rand TERRORIZES lefty combelly.

To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 2:25:03 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1575048

A REAL sociopath is on display HERE: The look of a rabid animal? The one in the center.

To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 2:27:22 PM
From: average joe	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575048

Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government. No society can survive the socialist fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's. Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it...The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God. For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice." Christendom might quite reasonably have been alarmed if it had not been attacked. But as a matter of history it had been attacked. The Crusader would have been quite justified in suspecting the Moslem even if the Moslem had merely been a new stranger; but as a matter of history he was already an old enemy. The critic of the Crusade talks as if it had sought out some inoffensive tribe or temple in the interior of Thibet, which was never discovered until it was invaded. They seem entirely to forget that long before the Crusaders had dreamed of riding to Jerusalem, the Moslems had almost ridden into Paris. G.K. Chesterton In *The Meaning of the Crusade*, 1920

To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 2:38:01 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1575048

Kerry’s first overseas trip off to shaky start By Josh Rogin Monday, February 25, 2013 thecable.foreignpolicy.com America's new top diplomat is already facing trouble and confusion as he begins a two-week trip whose major focus is on coalescing international action on Syria. With John Kerry in London Monday on the first leg of his nine-country tour of Europe and the Middle East, administration officials were scrambling to salvage a planned meeting between the new U.S. secretary of state and the leaders of the Syrian opposition coalition scheduled for Thursday. Following a Monday meeting in London with British Foreign Secretary William Hague, Kerry condemned the Syrian regime's use of rockets to attack civilians in Aleppo but declined to specify any of the steps he suggested earlier this month the Obama administration is "evaluating" to change the situation on the ground in Syria. He downplayed the notion that any new American initiatives would be unveiled at the upcoming Friends of Syria meeting in Italy. "Now, let me make clear, we will continue to work closely with our British allies to address the growing humanitarian crisis, and to support the Syrian Opposition Council. We are coordinating with the Syrian opposition coalition, we're coordinating with the U.N. and with others in order to help get relief to the victims who need that help," Kerry said. The leaders of the Syrian opposition council are threatening to boycott the Rome meeting, according to the New York Times, "to protest what they see as fainthearted international support." The administration sent U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford to Cairo to try to persuade the coalition leaders to show up in Rome. Kerry urged the opposition leaders to attend the Rome meeting Monday, casting the meeting as a unique opportunity for them to discuss ways the United States can help persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to change his thinking. "They should come and meet because in fact, countries have been helping them, and because we are precisely meeting to determine how to help President Assad change the calculation on the ground," Kerry said. "I said that previously in the United States -- that President Assad needs to be able to change his calculation. And President Obama has been engaged in examining exactly in what ways we may be able to contribute to that. That's the purpose of this meeting in Rome." Kerry said he would meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Tuesday in Berlin, and that he plans to discuss specific proposals Syria at the Rome meeting. A senior State Department official traveling with Kerry told reporters that the secretary is focused on convincing Russia to convince Assad to change his behavior and his calculus. "The Russia piece we've been focused on for some time, because we've been absolutely clear that there needs to be a political transition, and we felt that Russia could play a key role in convincing the regime and everyone that there needs to be that political transition," the official said. "We're following up on that... we have not seen major breakthroughs with the Russian or a change of the Russian position. So we're not expecting this meeting to be a big breakthrough either." Hague said the British are already working with European partners on a package of new sanctions against the Assad regime and pledged that his country would soon be unveiling new steps to help the Syrian opposition defend itself from the military onslaught perpetrated by the regime. "We agreed that for as long as a political solution to the conflict is blocked off, the international community has a responsibility to take steps to help prevent the loss of life in Syria, loss of life including the terrible loss of life that we have just witnessed in Aleppo," Hague said. "And that's why in the United Kingdom we believe we must significantly increase our support for the Syrian opposition on top of our large contributions to the humanitarian relief effort, and we are preparing to do just that. In the face of such murder and threat of instability, our policy cannot stay static as the weeks go by, and it is an important opportunity in Rome on Thursday to discuss this with our allies and partners." The European Union decided this week not to end its embargo on shipping arms to the Syrian opposition, but the UK was able to get through a measure that expands the types of allowable non-lethal support to the armed opposition, to include things like night-vision goggles, armored vehicles, and body armor, the senior State Department official said. But there's no expectation that the Obama administration is preparing to relax its reluctance toward providing the Syria rebels with anything beyond limited humanitarian assistance and communications equipment. "I don't have anything further to add on our approach to arms in Syria," the official said

To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 2:39:09 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575048

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion

To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 2:39:54 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575048

when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing

To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 2:40:30 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575048

when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors

To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 2:42:55 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575048

One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 3:12:10 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1575048

Obama the Transparency President: I Want 'To Clear Out the Press So We Can Take Some Questions' Obama the Transparency President: I Want 'To Clear Out the Press So We Can Take Some Questions'

To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 3:13:33 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575048

Obama Using Fake Twitter Messages In Fight Over Gun Control GOP Lawmaker: Obama Using Fake Twitter Messages In Fight Over Gun Control thehill.com \| February 25, 2013 \| Pete Kasperowicz

To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 3:14:58 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1575048

Biden: Americans 'No Longer Worried' About Economy In remarks today at the White House, Vice President Joe Biden said that Americans don't have the same economic worries they did when President Barack Obama came into office: "The are no longer traumatized by what was a traumatizing event, the great collapse of 2008," said Biden. "They are no longer worried, I think, about our economy being overwhelmed either by Europe writ large, the EU, or China somehow swallowing up every bit of innovation that exists in the world. They are no longer, I think, worried about our economy being overwhelmed beyond our shores. But, and I don't think ... there is very little doubt in any circles out there about America's ability to be in position to lead the world in the 21st century. Not only in terms of our foreign policy, our incredible defense establishment, but economically." weeklystandard.com this guy is so full of crap

To: combjelly who wrote (700928)	2/25/2013 4:00:28 PM
From: longnshort	7 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575048

At his media blog for The Washington Post, Erik Wemple expressed amazement at how "President Obama finished an address to members of the the National Governors Association at the White House by saying, 'What I want to do is clear out the press so we can take some questions.'” This is the latest example of how Team Obama has utterly failed to live up to its promise of being the most transparent administration in American history, which the president still asserts. Wemple added: Seems there’s a contest of sorts going on within the White House: Who can fashion the most Orwellian quote regarding open government? Here’s the quote that Obama had to beat, from White House counterterrorism chief John O. Brennan at his confirmation hearing to be the director of the Central Intelligence Agency: “What we need to do is optimize transparency on these issues, but at the same time, optimize secrecy and the protection of our national security.” At some point, this press corps needs to decide whether they serve Obama first, or serve the public first. Read more: newsbusters.org