Haiti is plagued by a culture of poverty. There are some parallels between the Haitian culture of poverty and the culture of welfare dependency which can be seen in so many of our inner cities in America. The Katrina debacle in New Orleans is a prime example of generations of Americans addicted to poverty and to government welfare – so when a natural disaster strikes, the people are powerless waiting for outsiders (particularly the government) to come save them. Individual initiative is a foreign concept to those who depend on a higher authority to take care of their needs. Haiti shares an island with the Dominican Republic and the contrasts between those two nations are striking. Although there is poverty in the Dominican republic, there is also a growing middle class in that nation (which at one point it seemed as if their greatest exports was shortstops to the major leagues)!.
► Hot Linksby Jonah Goldberg
The images from Haiti are, if anything, only getting worse. What was left of an already fragile society is starting to break down, as violence and chaos take over. Despite the heroic efforts of aid workers and the battered Haitian government, it looks as if Haiti’s problems will persist well into the 21st century, long after the debris is cleared and the houses are rebuilt.
While the scope of the tragedy in Haiti is nearly impossible to exaggerate, it’s important to remember that last week’s earthquake was so deadly because Haiti is Haiti.
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It’s hardly news that poverty makes people vulnerable to the full arsenal of Mother Nature’s fury. The closer you are to living in a state of nature, the crueler nature will be — which is one reason why people who romanticize tribal or pre-capitalist life (that would be you, James Cameron) tend to do so from a safe, air-conditioned distance and with easy access to flushing toilets, antibiotics, dentistry and Chinese takeout.
The sad truth about Haiti isn’t simply that it is poor, but that it has a poverty culture. Yes, it has had awful luck. Absolutely, it has been exploited, abused and betrayed ever since its days as a slave colony. So, if it alleviates Western guilt to say that Haiti’s poverty stems entirely from a legacy of racism and colonialism, fine. But Haiti has been independent and the poorest country in the hemisphere for a long time.
Even if blame lies everywhere except among the victims themselves, it doesn’t change the fact that Haiti will never get out of grinding poverty until it abandons much of its culture.
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Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz note in their phenomenal new book, “From Poverty to Prosperity,” that low-skilled Mexican laborers become 10 to 20 times more productive simply by crossing the border into the United States. William Lewis, former director of the McKinsey Global Institute, found that illiterate, non-English-speaking Mexican agricultural laborers in the US were four times more productive than the same sorts of laborers in Brazil.
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Why? Because American culture not only expects hard work, but teaches the unskilled how to work hard.
It’s true that Haiti has few natural resources, but neither do Japan or Switzerland. What those countries do have are what Kling and Schulz call valuable “intangible assets” — the skills, rules, laws, education, knowledge, customs, expectation, etc. — that drives a prosperous society to generate prosperity.
Tags: earthquake, Haiti, Jonah Goldberg
goldberg missed the larger role that corruption and the religion of vodoo plays. both turn the haitian citizen’s outlook of the future into the bleakness of predestination where any attempt to further the quality of their lives is pointless.
Waiting for the MSM to start blaming this all on Bush in 3…2….1…. seconds.
@ coldwarrior:
Pat Robertson made a mention of them making a deal with the Devil and caught Hell for that! LOL.
Hello all. And welcome to a non fillerbuster world
Speranza wrote:
i didnt say anything about stan. just about their outlook
pat robertson is an ass that needs to shut the (%&* up. he embarassses me
how does that charlatan pat robertson know if they did or di not make a deal with stan? does he talk to stan on a regular basis?
Nevergiveup wrote:
amazing how that works
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh And I know that making a deal with the Devil shit Roberston is pushing is bullshit. See I’m now on intimate terms with the Devil and he told me so. Why am I so close to the Devil. Well that’s on a need to know basis and you all don’t need to know, but I’ll say this: Bet the House on the J E T S Jets Jets Jets this Sunday. And catch that new show coming to Broadway “Damn Jets”.
Pat Robertson opens his toilet of a mouth whenever when these disasters happen just long enough to alienate the independents that are moving towards the conservative side of things. Which, of course, the MSM gleefully transmits as an approved message from the right.
Does he realize the damage his idiocy causes to the conservative cause? Or is he just senile? PLEASE GO AWAY!!!!
U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell said Wednesday that Syria and Lebanon were key to achieving peace in the Middle East.
How stupid is this asshole
I spent a short & I mean short time in Haiti years ago.
Weird place. I suspect the fact that it was a police state, impvrished & mixed up vodoo with Catholism would explain it.
You had the feeling that anything was possible there & most not good.
@ Nevergiveup:
Not stupid at all when your plan is to push Israel back into the indefensible 1967 borders, and ensure that their enemy has the high ground.
WrathofG-d wrote:
OK how about “evil”
“If people are determined to blame Haiti’s problems on someone other than the Haitians, perhaps they could start by looking at the damage done by the foreign-aid industry.”
Amen to that.
Most foreign “aid” programs only result in ever more corruption, inertia, and dependency.
coldwarrior wrote:
He is permanently stuck on stupid.
Speranza wrote:
So is almost everyone at MSNBC
@ Nevergiveup:
He should go back to looking for steroid cheats in baseball.
wolfie wrote:
and that is called job security in the aid world
Iran has signed a one-billion-euro (1.44-billion-dollar) deal with a German firm to build 100 gas turbo-compressors, an industry official said in newspapers on Wednesday.
The contract provides for the unnamed German firm to transfer the know-how to build, install and run the equipment needed to exploit and transport gas, said Iran’s Gas Engineering and Development Company head, Ali Reza Gharibi.
The German company has already delivered 45 such turbo-compressors to Iran, Gharibi said, according to Iran Daily. Industry experts said he was apparently referring to Siemens.
I am gonna try real hard not to call these Germans Nazis. I really am.
Speranza wrote:
Well seems he only looks for them in NYC. Sammy who?
@ wolfie:
I went to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to rebuild homes in the all Black neighborhoods.
While I worked on their homes, they sat around drinking and smoking complaining about how no one has come to help them. (and that wasn’t the worst of it, the story from the Housing Projects is even worse)
Before the quake, Haiti had 10,000 nongovernmental agencies working there. WTF? Are they scammers who keep all the money they take in. Just using the plight of the Haitians to play on sympathies of caring people who donate. Too many charities would gum up the works even if they are above board. They would get in the way of any society following a natural course of structuring itself. Capitalism always emerges as the way to order society. Then communism comes along and tries to impose its alien constrictions. And of course if the foreign aid industry succeeds in actually getting Haiti on their feet, then who needs the charity peddlers. They are out of a job.
@ Crashnburn01:
The question is not why Robertson says silly things. The question is why the MSM considers them newsworthy.
@ WrathofG-d:
i would have left
@ wolfie:
Wolfie, could you look at the lower half of the previous thread? I’ve been trying to explain the Invisible Man connection to Wrath, and I could use your assistance if you are willing to provide it.
@ chickadee:
ngo’s workers gotta eat to!
wolfie wrote:
because he is an embarrassment to the right, and the msm knows this…that’s why
We in the US are blessed with natural resources, it is true, but America would still be successful on the moon. When people are self-reliant and allowed to profit from their efforts, they will succeed.
coldwarrior wrote:
You nailed it, CW.
coldwarrior wrote:
Speaking of embarrassements, any chance to get Coakley a gig on MSNBC or CNN
Silhouette wrote:
Israel is successful because it works hard to make the most of the natural resources it has.
@ Nevergiveup:
He’s a Progressive, I think that’s the answer!
@ coldwarrior:
Yea, I considered it but (a) the leftist organization I was doing free work for didn’t agree with me and (b) their response to my charity wasn’t why I was there. I was there to do the good work, not to be appreciated for it.
When we were at The Projects, the people were actually smoking drugs while watching us, drinking at 9:30 a.m. while were were cleaning their mess, making sexist and racist comments to us, making sexist gestures at the women there, calling the black people who were with our group “uncle toms”, and at times throwing trash down to us (out of their apartments) to clean up.
@ Silhouette:
weber’s puritan (protestant) work ethic theory goes a long way here
@ WrathofG-d:
I tried to give a guy holding a sign “will work for food” a big mac value meal and he was pissed. “I’d rather have cash.”
Yeah, that didn’t work.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Other than the Dead Sea, what natural resources are there?
@ chickadee:
There’s BIG money in keeping certain members of society “victims”. See Pali “refugees” for a start.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
John Stossel had a special on Hong Kong once. He showed how in 40 years they went from an impoverished British enclave, to one of the wealthiest cities in teh world. Why becasue the British did benign neglect and the people were allowed to prosper. Natural resources doesn’t make a a great nation. It’s in innovation of the people.
m wrote:
He said he’d work for food. He didn’t say anything about accepting food as a handout.
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@ m:
He wants the money for alcohol!
@ WrathofG-d:
if a man does not raise his own hand to help himself, then why should others do it for him.
@ coldwarrior:
See my 38.
Rodan wrote:
the comparison between hong kong and india are even more telling.
@ coldwarrior:
In general, I actually agree with you.
This was the organization I was working with: Common Ground Collective. They were founded (IIRC) by an ex-Black Panther, and are now run by a guy who is on the lam for stockpiling weapons for the upcoming revolution.
Obama is meeting with their board member.
ok, my break time is over…back to the books.
bbl
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-19/hes-done-everything-wrong/
Mark Levin read this editorial a few minutes ago. Mort Zuckerman, a multimillionaire Dem, once adored and voted for Zero . And now is so pissed off. My, my, my how people are waking up.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yeah. That HAD to be it.
m wrote:
There used to be a guy outside a baseball stadium I used to go to (major league stadium) who had a sign “Why lie, I need a beer”.
Nevergiveup wrote:
The brains of its people.
@ Speranza:
See my 39.
chickadee wrote:
What the hell did Zuckerman expect he would be getting from Comrade Obama?
I don’t know if the story of the pact with the Devil is true or not. I ran across this while doing a search on it.
In defense of Pat Robertson
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Will do!
Nevergiveup wrote:
The Dead Sea has minerals; there are also semiprecious stones in the Negev (“Eilat stone” is a greenish-turquoise variant of malachite found nowhere else).
The Kinneret has fish. There are natural harbors on the Mediterranean, there are broad, fertile valleys and hillsides which were terraced for agriculture in ancient times. Olives, dates, figs, grapevines, barley, wheat, linen (flax) and other products grow there; the more arid areas provide pasture.
The Torah describes the Land as “a land whose stones are iron, and from whose hills you may dig copper.” It also describes the Land as being a land of streams and lakes; it has perpetual rivers, such as the Jordan, and other brooks and streams, as well as springs and wadis which are subject to filling during the rains. It has rain, as well as dew, in season, so there are multiple growing seasons.
This makes the Land a particularly blessed place; it is not dependent, as ancient Egypt was and even modern Egypt is, upon the single source of the Nile. It is not dependent on one natural resource, as the Arab oil nations are. The Land changes in topography from the high, snowcovered peak of Mount Hermon (one of the highest in the region) to the Dead Sea, one of the lowest spots on Earth, with every possible topography and climate in between.
This means that there is not one big thing for the people to rely on, but many different potential sources of wealth, each in its place and season, which allows for the development and maintenance of many different skills, and ensures there will be one source of wealth if another fails. At the same time, there is not too much of anything, so that means things must be used carefully and conserved.
A friend has a child in the Peace Corps in Dominican Republic. He told me the PC is not in Haiti even though clearly Haiti is much worse off than DR. The PC has been in and out of Haiti over the years, out usually during times of violence. Most recently, they suspended Haiti operations in 2005 due to violence.
Life lesson: If you want help, don’t try to kill people trying to help you.
wolfie wrote:
I support going in and digging people out of the rubble when disaster strikes.
But on-going foreign aid is just a trap even if it ever gets to the poor people its intended for, rather than sticky fingered despots.
@ WrathofG-d:
I grew up there and saw the same kinds of people. There were the ones that got jobs, went to school, got degrees and moved to Metairie and Jefferson Parish. Then there were the ones who sat in their own excrement and blamed everyone but themselves for their plight and demanded they be helped because someone did this to them.
Speranza wrote:
Yeah, I set that one yp for ya ha? Sabras: Hard on the ouside, but soft inside
Everyone look at this video below.
@ Speranza:
It’s a case of a combination of the emperor not having any clothes and Lili von Schtupp realizing that it’s not twue.
@ coldwarrior:
They showed part of that video during his speech at the NRA Annual Meeting banquet in Phoenix. It was pretty amazing, how he could open a business in one day in Hong Kong, while it would take months or years to do the same in India.
@ Nevergiveup:
One other thing. Judea and Phoenicia were glassmaking centers back during ancient times.
There is an archaeological theory that the technique of glassmaking was discovered only once, in ancient Chaldea, and spread from there—around the time that Abraham is thought to have left the region and come West. Supposedly, this is confirmed by the quality and quantity of glass made in ancient Egypt diminishing after the period usually ascribed to the Exodus—and glass, in the form of faience, enamel and paste was very important as a decorative item as well as for vessels.
The Romans did not have glass until they conquered the Eastern Mediterranean; what we know as “Roman glass” is actually from Judea and Phoenicia.
Judea—Israel—has a lot of sand, which is the primary ingredient in glass. Today, that silicon may go into computer chips, but in the ancient world it was part of the production of glass, which was then a valued luxury good.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yeah yeah yeah, but G-D could have given us a little oil ya know. Not that I’m complaining!
Speranza wrote:
He was as blind as the rest of them who tried so hard to not appear racist. What a bunch of fools.
Zero’s descent has begun. Wow, he could become completely unglued and go super doublepluss nuts.
As for Israeli natural resources, for one thing, they are on the Med. Miles of beautiful beaches means tourism. (Gaza could technically do the same thing. If they didn’t choose instead to have a cult based on death.) Speaking of tourism, half the world wants to see Israel’s historical sites. That’s quite a natural resource. (Imagine how many more tourism dollars Bethlehem could attract were it safe.) And I always think of those greenhouses.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I thought it was the Russian Olim who were into computers? Oh well, I was into a few Russian Katikas….ah never mind.
calcajun wrote:
Sounds like you are describing the “Palestinian refugees.”
Gee, this is good news.
It apparently never occured to anyone that the underwear bomber should have been interrogated as a terrorism suspect, rather than for prosecution, according to Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence.
Fortunately, though, he says they’ll do a better job “next time.”
wolfie wrote:
Anything to bash a Christian. The MSM sucks
@ lobo91:
@ Silhouette:
@ Nevergiveup:
In my 59, I agree with Stossel, to get a good economy benign neglect is good!
@ BBEV:
They are silent on Danny Glover and Hugo Chavez!
@ Nikis Knight:
Or Obama voters in general.
lobo91 wrote:
Good enough for Gov’t work, right?
lobo91 wrote:
Damn that inspires confidence ha?
@ calcajun:
At our intake meeting for the Common Ground Collective, the white instructor informed the mostly Jewish, mostly white, all upper middle class group I was with, that all whites are racist by nature, and that no whites cared about the blacks suffering there in N.O. He then tried to get us all to go to “racist deprogramming classes” so we could go learn about our own racist.
It was straight out of the SDS playbook. (yes I know I am beating a dead horse, but now I know the source of the left)
I nearly stood up during his speach and instructed the white moron to look at the group we brought (more racially harmonious then his organization) and tell him to shut up.
Oh, but Amy Goodman from KPFK showed up to a standing ovation.
chickadee wrote:
Zuckerman bought those greenhouses the Jews built in Gaza which was a great money earner, to turn them over to the Palestinians and guess what? The Palestinians destroyed them.
Speaking of sand, my company had an engineering project in Egypt and we had to import sand.
It actually made sense because the task required a specific grain size and other factors, but it makes a funny story.
Along those lines, I also have a friend whose uncle worked in Alaska for a company that makes bagged ice. Of course, we’d expect to see products for sale there just like anywhere, but he gets to joke that he got rich selling ice to Eskimos.
Pat Robertson drives me crazy.
His blaming disasters on “sin” is really bad Christian theology in my opinion. Which just becomes fuel for the non-believers.
Case in point:
(Luke 13:4)
Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were sinners above all men who lived in Jerusalem?
(Luke 13:5)
I tell you, No. But unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
Great Video here if you haven’t seen it.
America Rising
@ Nikis Knight:
It’s a human condition which transcends ethnicity.
Rodan wrote:
Ya they are but we know about it and I tell as many people I can.
@ WrathofG-d:
Ignorant bastards.
@ Speranza:
Houston?? We have a couple of those here. Lol!
Morales deplores US ‘occupation’ of Haiti
Published: 01.21.10, 00:45 / Israel News
President Evo Morales said Wednesday that Bolivia would seek UN condemnation of what he called the US military occupation of earthquake-stricken Haiti.
“The United States cannot use a natural disaster to militarily occupy Haiti,” he told reporters at the presidential palace. “Haiti doesn’t need more blood,” Morales added, implying that the militarized US humanitarian mission could lead to bloodshed.
Is there a special on assholes going on?
@ Nevergiveup:
So we could be dependant on it like a fiend on the pipe like the Muslims are?
no thank you. I’d rather rely on our own, and G-d thanks!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I can’t add much. As you said, you really have to read the book itself. I can only join you in strongly recommending Invisible Man to get a feel for the Marxist movement and how easily an individual, especially a black man, can be drawn into it —or manipulated into serving it.
I had an interesting chat with the Am Lit teacher at our local Catholic school just yesterday. I asked him why Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, a novel even she admits is not very good, is assigned instead of Invisible Man. His eyes brightened up and he said he would love to do Ellison’s novel if only someone could raise the money to get copies.
When I said I might be able to raise the money, he got very quiet and said it probably would be better to wait a few years. Wait until the Bluest Eye paperbacks needed replacing anyway. But I knew what he really meant.
You cannot read Invisible Man today without thinking about Obama.
Muslim scholars critical of US policy can return
Published: 01.21.10, 00:18 / Israel News
Two prominent Muslim scholars once accused of ties to terrorism are cleared to travel to the United States now that the State Department has concluded they pose no danger to the country, federal spokesmen said Wednesday.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has signed orders enabling the re-entry of professors Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University in England and Adam Habib of the University of Johannesburg in South Africa once they obtain required admittance documents, department spokesman Darby Holladay said. (AP)
Yeah shit what could go wrong after all?
@ Nevergiveup:
‘Lady al-Qaida’ Trial Could Preview Terror Cases to Come
@ Nevergiveup:
Maybe global warming is frying their brains.
It’s summer in the southern hemisphere, isn’t it?
@ Nevergiveup:
Morales is a puppet of Chavez. he’s a Bolivarian, he’s just taking his master’s orders.
WrathofG-d wrote:
I guess you haven’t driven much in Israel and had to filler up?
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What do Alyssa Milano, Sandra Bullock, Lance Armstrong, Gisele Bundchen, the country of Senegal and — very possibly — you have in common?
All — including you — have donated more funds to the Haitian relief effort than oil-rich nations like Saudi Arabia and Iran.
What a joke
A disaster relief program would be certain to get the abled Haitians working alongside the visitors. Bring extra shovels, as it were. I’m not sure exactly what actions I mean.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Nope, never been to Israel. I’ve been told it is great though.
WrathofG-d wrote:
Really wow. It is great. It is unique
@ Nevergiveup:
We should tell Senor Morales that if he thinks he can do a better job, please send the Bolivian Navy ASAP– just as soon as he solves that little land-locked country problem. Until then, FOAD.
@ bar:
Amazing document when actually read it is.
It also works pretty good literally literal where it is and literally spiritual where it is.
@ calcajun:
He’s a puppet of Chavez.
@ Nevergiveup:
You know I’m kidding right?
wolfie wrote:
Thank you! Eloquent post—and interesting that the teacher felt that he could not safely teach the book because (whispers) it might cause someone to think about Obama.
Which, of course, also means thinking about Ayers—to my mind.
@ Rodan:
The string-pulling or hand-up-the-ass kind of puppet?
WrathofG-d wrote:
I assumed you have been in Israel many times?
Wrath—please see Wolfie’s #86, if you haven’t, for an additional voice on the topic we were discussing earlier.
@ Nevergiveup:
Good for Alyssa Milano, Sandra Bullock, Lance Armstrong, Gisele Bundchen and the country of Senegal!
Nevergiveup wrote:
Why yes, I do believe there is!
The utopia Evo Morales promised is not working out so well.
Time to blame the USA for something. Anything.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I read it. Very interesting story from her professor. If I was into reading fiction, I just might pick it up.
Yikes! If I’m going to get a piece of coconut pie I’d better move my patoot! The little wolves are circling it and drooling.
Israel’s Disproportionate Response…..to Haiti
The international agencies that condemn Israel for its “disproportionate response” when it is attacked are not mentioning Israel’s disproportionate response to human suffering. The U.S. has pledged 100 million and sent supplies and personnel. The U.K. pledged $10 million and sent 64 firemen and 8 volunteers. China, a country with a population of 1,325,639,982 compared to Israel’s 7.5 million sent 50 rescuers and seven journalists. The 25 Arab League nations sent nothing.
Israel in Haiti
Silhouette @ 93:
I totally agree with that, shipment of shovels pickaxes and wheelbarrows should priority.
You want to eat, pick your choice of tool.
I get rilled up looking at the photos from Haiti of the thugs stealing looted items from other looters, they are even to lazy to do their own looting.
How is Dr. Sanjay Gupta fairing?
I didn’t see it mentioned above, but I would think that Haiti’s average IQ of ~77 may have a lot to do with its impoverished condition.
@ Beltfed:
And between shovels pickaxes and wheelbarrows, pick two fellows for your team and rotate through the tools so you all can work longer, be healthier and get more done.
I just poked my head in at the swamp.
Over 500 comments on a thread that basically accuses Brown of being part of some group that wants to overthrow the US government by force.
The crazy is strong over there…
@ Chip Designer:
I dunno. I see universities full of high IQ’s but they would be impoverished without massive influx of aid from the US tax payer.
@ lobo91:
You mean he doesn’t?
lobo91 wrote:
Funny. I thought Brown’s election dragged the US government back from the precipice of skewed, arrogant, overbearing one-party rule and the attendant cronyism that such rule always engenders.
waldensianspirit wrote:
High IQ doesn’t mean that you have wisdom, but you do need smart people to run a society.
Republicans gotta work on health care but by policies that improve and protect the private health care system. They gotta put up some good proposals. Also tort reform. Write these up in cogent form even if they don’t have the power to enact them; they’ll still be valuable come a sunny day.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
The “scott” heard around the world?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
You say tomato…
On those of us who say blunt critical things of any and all Presidents of the U.S.A..
On those of us who say we who say blunt critical things of any and all Presidents of the U.S.A. are unAmerican and that it dishonors the office of President of the U.S.A..
1. Who dishonored who and what first?
2. Richard Nixon did what?, Jimmy Carter did what?, LBJ did what?, Bill Clinton did what?, No new Tax Bush did what?, Open Broders, Religion of Peace Bush did what and spent in what amounts $$$?, B. Obama doubled down on all that and??????
3. The msm, the two party hacks, others tell me and others we are the ones who dishonor the office of President..?????
4. And we are the ones who did Vietnam, Irag, I and II, Korea, WWII,,ect.
When these skanks from the two party evil money cult clean up the trash they left in the White House over the last 50 years, then they will have the right to tell “We the People” how to talk to and about the people we hired to be President of the U.S.A. and DID EXPECT THEM EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM TO HONOR THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A..
like that IMHO
lobo91 wrote:
It rots from the top down over there
@ lobo91:
Talk about bitter clingers!
@ taxfreekiller:
Amen and great observation!
calcajun wrote:
Not to be confused with angry transgender activists, who are bitter Klingers.
The one resource that Haitians have in spades is artistic creativity and really, its too bad their ability to create amazing folk art wasn’t exported in a “global” way. That country could have exported all the things they made and used for themselves and done very well. That too was squandered.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday ordered a college in the West Bank town of Ariel recognized to be as a “university center,” thereby winning praise from the right but an outraged response from both the political left and many academics.
The move is also likely to grant new momentum to overseas supporters of an academic boycott of Israel, leaders of the campaign against the boycott said. However, they added, it will not change the legal realities that have so far prevented any such boycott from taking effect.
Damn Jews always worried about education. Why don’t they just go out and blow themselves up like their Arab neighbors?
@ WrathofG-d:
Can I have a link to that. I want to post it on facebook
lobo91 wrote:
I think the obama admin has proven the only way to attempt that is with a super majority – by force by citizens would be impossible.
we the people is a force indeed™
@ BBEV:
If you ever want a link to a youtube site, just click the video. However, here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VQA5NDNkUM
WrathofG-d wrote:
Not to belabor the point (he says, belaboring the point), but there are certain works of fiction which need to be read as an adjunct to fully understanding history and times. Invisible Man is one of those—not only because it is one of the great American novels of the 20th century (which it is), not only because it was the most widely read novel of the Civil Rights Movement era and therefore allows you the luxury of seeing and feeling what thought was like in that period, not only because it likely shaped the minds of many people still on the political scene, but because it offers, in my opinion, some insight into the character and behavior of the opponents of today.
That’s a lot for one work of fiction to carry, but this is one that does it.
Can I request one of those really cute avatars? Please?
@ teacake:
If you have set yours I believe if you unset it then the random “cute avatar will be seen.
I think…
@ teacake:
I like them too!
@ WrathofG-d:
Thank you, I love to piss off my family. Most are so far left they can not see a right.
By the way, the way this is written is confusing.
I just can’ imagine Harry had Jewish parents, but perhaps his wife did. The asshole on talk radio is claiming Harry was Jewish before converting. This is the same guy who said Israel uses bags of pig fat on the buses.
waldensianspirit wrote:
I’ll give that a try. Thanks!
TEST
@ teacake:
If you just turn your existing one off, it should give you a funny one.
@ teacake:
What you quoted there says that Reid’s wife was born to Jewish parents, not that Reid was.
@ snork:
Although you may have to clear your browser’s cache in order to see it.
lobo91 wrote:
Thank G-D I don’t have to be associated with that prick. Glad he is not in my tribe
@ Nevergiveup:
I don’t think anyone deserves to be associated with him, including the voters of Nevada.
Fortunately, that little error will probably be fixed in about 10 months.
@ snork:
I like my Avatar!
lobo91 wrote:
That’s what I thought. This asshole on the radio is a douch. The one time I corrected his error on face book he said on the radio that he didn’t care what I had to say, he liked his version better. Not about this one, he just said that a minute ago and I ran a search.
Maybe the avatar will activate later, I hope.
lobo91 wrote:
I use firefox, can’t find the cashe clear thingy.
@ lobo91:
He’s bye bye!
AF chief: F-35 testing, acquisition will slow
By John Reed – Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Jan 20, 2010 16:34:42 EST
The Pentagon is slowing down testing and acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz acknowledged Wednesday.
“The path we were on was too aggressive, so there’s an effort underway to reduce concurrency, to lengthen the period associated with testing, to increase the number of test assets and make the production rate somewhat less ambitious,” Schwartz said during a briefing with reporters in Washington.
The F-35 will be ready for initial operational capability with the Air Force in 2013, Schwartz said.
“While it would have been ideal to go without adjustment, there are very few programs of this sophistication that I’m aware of that have not required some adjustment,” said Schwartz. “This is in the larger interest of the larger attack community that will rely on” the jet.
He said the adjustment is meant to ensure that large numbers of F-35s can be built problem-free when it comes time to replace U.S. and allied fighter fleets toward the end of the decade.
Schwartz added that he did not think the jet was going to breach the Nunn-McCurdy statute’s limits on cost growth in weapon programs.
His comments come a week after a leaked Navy analysis document said the F-35 would be considerably more expensive to operate than the Navy and Marine Corps’ current tactical fighters.
“I have not yet had an opportunity to validate for myself the accuracy of that analysis,” Schwartz said, adding that he did not accept the findings of this analysis “at face value.”
Still, he said he acknowledged that operating costs are a serious issue, and that he would be troubled if the analysis turns out to be accurate.
“If there are issues related to cost of operations, we’ll find remedies and mitigations; we have to,” he said.
Many have said that the Pentagon has no choice but to make sure the F-35 program succeeds since the existing U.S. fighter fleet is rapidly closing in on its retirement date.
Sure glad we shit canned the F-22 since ti was said the F-35 was ahead of schedule and so much cheaper??????????? Oh Yeah remind me–the F-22 is flying ain’t it?
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