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3DHS / Re: Rice to Replace Donilon in the Top National Security Post
« on: June 08, 2013, 01:43:05 AM »
The post in question is sitting there unedited all this time.

My reason for posting, as if i have to give one, stands.

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3DHS / Re: Liberal myth
« on: June 08, 2013, 12:48:48 AM »
Lot of interesting links at that first site:

White Doll, Black Doll. Which one is the nice doll?

and this about religion:

"The Church Doesn't Like the People to Grow Up."~ Bishop John Shelby Spong

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3DHS / Re: Rice to Replace Donilon in the Top National Security Post
« on: June 07, 2013, 11:21:06 PM »
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Rice has done NOTHING to suggest that she was unfit to be Secretary of State.

Which is why we have Secretary of State Kerry.

Rice did what she was told to do on that infamous Sunday circuit by the White House.

And the latter is whose fitness needs to be inspected.

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3DHS / Re: Rice to Replace Donilon in the Top National Security Post
« on: June 07, 2013, 08:24:48 PM »
The opinion in my first post that has sirs all persnickety about came on the second line.

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I just hope that Rice doesn't become a sock puppet for some behind the scenes scriptwriter.


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3DHS / Re: Rice to Replace Donilon in the Top National Security Post
« on: June 06, 2013, 10:45:56 PM »
Quote from: Christians4LessGvt on June 06, 2013, 07:21:24 PM
Democrat Kirsten Powers:

"Nominating Susan Rice as Secretary of State Could Be His Undoing"

Kirsten Powers: Nominating Susan Rice as Secretary of State Would Be His Undoing

Is Susan Rice the bad guy here?

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3DHS / Re: Rice to Replace Donilon in the Top National Security Post
« on: June 06, 2013, 06:28:24 PM »
My point was that her latest postings (especially at the UN) were by definition to be a regurgitator of admin talking points and therefore policy. I hope she is qualified to deeply analyze multiple points of data and draw a cohesive conclusion from that data and deliver a plan of action to her superiors because that is what her new job entails.

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3DHS / Re: Rice to Replace Donilon in the Top National Security Post
« on: June 06, 2013, 05:33:28 PM »
Quote from: sirs on June 06, 2013, 02:55:29 PM
...Just providing information for those not aware of how our government works?  Fair enough

Nope, just popping my head in and stating my opinion. Simple as that. Trying to remember if i even read your post.

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3DHS / Re: Rice to Replace Donilon in the Top National Security Post
« on: June 06, 2013, 11:40:02 AM »
Quote from: sirs on June 06, 2013, 03:16:58 AM
Quote from: BT on June 06, 2013, 12:29:46 AM
Obama gets to pick his appointments and the Senate gets to approve them.

Never claimed otherwise

Never claimed you did.

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3DHS / Re: Rice to Replace Donilon in the Top National Security Post
« on: June 06, 2013, 12:29:46 AM »
Obama gets to pick his appointments and the Senate gets to approve them.

I just hope that Rice doesn't become a sock puppet for some behind the scenes scriptwriter.

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3DHS / Re: The GOP is too Juvenile to Govern
« on: June 02, 2013, 10:40:36 AM »
Quote from: Xavier_Onassis on June 02, 2013, 09:01:53 AM
Issa is a grandstanding moron. He also is a car thief.

He was ever convicted of car theft. Does that reflect a flaw in the justice system or a flaw in his accusers word?

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3DHS / Re: Question about brick and morter
« on: June 01, 2013, 10:45:51 AM »
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On the bus I dont see many ebook readers.

That's probably true, but reading books on a bus or a plane had a dual purpose, one to have something to do to pass the time and 2 to send a signal to people sitting close to you that you were busy and not to be disturbed.

Now people can text or play games or yes even read because there are more entertainment devices available too fill those needs.

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3DHS / Re: Question about brick and morter
« on: June 01, 2013, 03:04:43 AM »
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People are reading a whole lot less since bookstore are disappearing.

Are they? I think they are reading more or the same, just using different methods. ie kindle.

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3DHS / Re: Belief Is the Least Part of Faith
« on: May 30, 2013, 05:18:04 PM »
I was picking up more of the shared cultural groupings and the need to be part of a larger group in pursuit of a common goal. But that concerns the practice of religion in some organized fashion and i think the commonality between Christianity and Buddhism is that you do not really need to belong to an organized faith to pursue either the teachings of Christ or of Buddha.

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3DHS / Former Bin Laden Bodyguard Claims Terror Leader Blew Himself Up During Raid
« on: May 30, 2013, 10:57:23 AM »
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — A former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden is claiming the terror leader blew himself up during the U.S. special forces raid on his Abbotabad compound in Pakistan.

Nabil Naim Abdel Fattah told Gulf News that Navy SEALs did not kill the al Qaeda leader who planned the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

“U.S. special forces did not kill Osama Bin Laden. He detonated himself to avoid being captured after American forces raided his hiding place in Pakistan in 2011,” Abedel Fattah explained to Gulf News.

Abdel Fattah – the former of Egyptian Islamic Jihad — said that bin Laden “wore an explosive belt for the last 10 years of his life.”

“He insisted on never handing himself over to the Americans. The American intelligence had planned to capture him alive, but they miscalculated,” Abdel Fattah said. “He blew himself up to avoid being captured because he wanted to protect his secrets until death.”

Fattah added: “The American president lied when he claimed that Bin Laden was buried in the sea. Bin Laden’s body parts were cut into multiple pieces, which is similar to suicide attacks following the bombing, so as not to leave any clue to the U.S. forces to identify him.””

Fattah told Gulf News he was not at the compound during the raid, but he “heard what happened there from Bin Laden’s cousin.”

Bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011, during the Navy SEAL Team 6 raid on his compound.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/05/29/former-bin-laden-bodyguard-claims-terror-leader-blew-himself-up-during-raid/


Sadly This story is quite plausible.

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3DHS / Re: Belief Is the Least Part of Faith
« on: May 30, 2013, 10:44:18 AM »
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And that was not really what I saw after my years spending time in evangelical churches. I saw that people went to church to experience joy and to learn how to have more of it. These days I find that it is more helpful to think about faith as the questions people choose to focus on, rather than the propositions observers think they must hold.

If you can sidestep the problem of belief — and the related politics, which can be so distracting — it is easier to see that the evangelical view of the world is full of joy. God is good. The world is good. Things will be good, even if they don’t seem good now. That’s what draws people to church. It is understandably hard for secular observers to sidestep the problem of belief. But it is worth appreciating that in belief is the reach for joy, and the reason many people go to church in the first place.

Interesting .

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