Comments Posted By LomaAlta
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Great post. Thanks.
I have seen many pictures of US troops with their heads bowed in prayer. You think faith and serving a higher purpose are related. They are the best among us.
Comment Posted By LomaAlta On 18.03.2006 @ 19:21
SEND GINSBURG TO THE HAGUE WHERE SHE BELONGS
Long discussion. Thanks.
The central issue to me is does a judge believe in the three branches of government, is he loyal to America and its Constitution, and will he follow these principles rather than imposing his own will.
Those who see the libs as more interested in using foreign law to circumvent the above principles are certainly correct.
Comment Posted By LomaAlta On 16.03.2006 @ 23:27
Interesting question and your response was insightful and interesting too. Thanks.
But, perhaps some of us see a bigger divide between the National GOP and the True Blue GOP. This is in the area of illegal immigration, open borders/mass amnesty and national security and sovereignty. I cannot remember a time when the Republican leadership was so out of touch with its base and the public. President Bush in common policy beliefs with McCain, Kennedy, Hillary, and Specter on open borders and mass amnesty? This is something to think about, and very seriously too.
I have a feeling Karl Rove is a principal player in the open borders/mass amnesty policies of the President. If so, he is neither serving the President or his nation well.
Comment Posted By LomaAlta On 12.03.2006 @ 17:28
HAMAS SIGNS CONTRACT TO RUN AMTRAK
BRILLIANT!
Good satire is so much more effective than raw news or ranting. And, its fun. Thank you.I wish you would do a similar newsflash about Iran taking over runing the US Embassy in Mexico City and subcontracting with the DHS to operate the Border Patrol and points of entry. Some salient points:
1) Iran has experience in running the US Embassy in Iran going as far back as 1979
2) The trail through the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico was long known as the drug highway but now some are calling the terrorist highway
3) A road north of Douglas, AZ is called by the locals "The Arab highway" because of so many items found there indicating Muslim illegal immigrants ( Korans, prayer rugs, etc.). Local Border Patrol agents, Sheriff deputies, and residents call it this. So, Team Iran will feel welcome and at home.
4) Iran has a long history of supporting and directing Hamas, so this will add management depth to the AMTRAK management team.
5) The current border operation is very innefficient. The Border Patrol stops as many as 1 out of 5 illegal immmigrants, that is a 20% loss rate. Instead of 4 million illegals a year we could have 5 million.PLEASE consider an article of this type.
Thanks again.
Comment Posted By LomaAlta On 24.02.2006 @ 18:45
Political Correctness
Remember, Political Correctness is inconsistent, intolerant, based on emotion not reason, and it is almost always in opposition to factual correctness. These are its weaknesses and education of the public is the first way to attack PC.
Comment Posted By LomaAlta On 24.02.2006 @ 18:26
Rick:
Thanks for the nice article spelling out some of the issues so even I could get them. It is easy to agree with everything you said.But, have you considered that the UAE company, and thus their government, will have access to all sorts of port data. Origin/destination, tonnage, crew information, and other information about every ship. The port operators must be included in emergency plans, the legally required records will be kept in UAE, not in the USA where a court order would allow an FBI raid and confistication. Also, with state-of-the art world wide communications capability, might they also have listening capabilities too? I can see many risks and dangers in the ports deal but I fail to see one advantage.
The President's staff did not serve him well in keeping all the port deal information from him until after it broke in the press. Time for some personnel changes in the White House?
Comment Posted By LomaAlta On 23.02.2006 @ 13:06
Mr. Moran said: "And I also believe he tragically underestimates the threat of Islamism both from a domestic political point of view and a real world miscalculation of their intentions.... While the necons may be dead wrong about any number of things, their decision to go to war in Iraq and their belief that democracy in the Middle East will eventually make us safer still sounds like the correct policy to me."
Comment Posted By LomaAlta On 20.02.2006 @ 14:59
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You have given us much to think about and I tend to agree with you. However, I don't think it is realistic to think of the radical Muslim terrorist threat in terms of the Middle East only. President Bush and his administration have an open borders/mass amnesty policy 4 1/2 years after 9/11. With 2000 miles of open border and several million illegal aliens from anywhere in the world walking across (the Border Patrol admits to catching one million a year which they say is 1 in 3 and some think it is as little as 1 in 7), we are inviting terrorist strikes in America. I don't see how this can be ignored in any comprehensive assessment of threats to America.
THE "HAPPY WARRIOR" IS WEEPING IN HIS GRAVE
Thanks for a nice article on HHH. He was much as you describe him. I met him a year or two after the election after he made a speech on campus. He was even more dynamic and likeable in person. I too have admired him since 1964.
As a footnote or an adjunct to your article, it is interesting how LBJ treated potential VP candidates and their response. President Johnson was keeping Humphrey and J. William Fulbright on the hook by dangling the VP before them. When Humphrey got it, Fulbright was very angry and vengeful (unhinged in today’s lingo) and never got over it. Fulbright couldn’t get back at Johnson directly so he went full bore against the war in Viet Nam to hurt Johnson. The rest is history, but this shows the difference between HHH and Fulbright. One died a happy man full of life’s joy. The other died a bitter angry man who opposed a war for personal reasons. I’ll take the Happy Warrior any day and Over the Hump with Humphrey!
Comment Posted By LomaAlta On 18.02.2006 @ 01:09
CARNIVAL OF THE CLUELESS CANCELED: WORLD COMES TO AN END
Your "World Comes to an End" line reminds me of a joke I first heard on Rush. Something like the following.
God got angry with the world and decided to destroy it tomorrow.
Comment Posted By LomaAlta On 15.02.2006 @ 23:33
He contacted the NYT and they buried the story on p 27.
He Contacted the WSJ and their headline was "Market to Close Early Tomorrow"
He contacted the WA. Post and their headline was "World to End Tomorrow, Women and Minorities to Suffer Most"
EVERYONE WANTS TO GET IN ON THE ACT...
I agree moral relativism stinks. 9/11 and the cartoon are not equivalent in any sense. There has been nothing, (in numbers) outside the closed societies of Stalin and Mao, like the murders in the Holocaust. Even the communist murders were not as diabolical as what the Nazis did.
How about a moratorium on cowering from, and making excuses for radical Muslims and their Mohammad?
How about a crash program to build our military strength to face the coming evil?
Comment Posted By LomaAlta On 14.02.2006 @ 14:51
