Sovereignty under attack - by our own President
Mr. President, there are no excuses. Warships passing into territorial waters (<15 miles from coast) without explicit State Department authorization is considered an act of War.
Those ships should have been shadowed once they were 250 miles away, warned off when they hit 25, and sunk as soon as they crossed the line.
Those ships should have been shadowed once they were 250 miles away, warned off when they hit 25, and sunk as soon as they crossed the line.
to the point if you have read the book how did you rate it as to accuracy. overall.
I found the far eastern port to be somewhat wild west and more open to discussion and information exchange. I detected some interest in Siberia doing a Ukraine and going independent but that was not discussed much still more than I expected. In the western end it was all business. I had brought samples of items commonly available in Dollar Stores which they didn't believe existed in such quantities. When I spoke of people incensed because there was a line of three to five at ten of the twenty or so open check counters in Walmart and later brought pictures. Too much for them to take in. the hugely funny part was back in the USA when i related the experience of going to one of their stores. that sold one type of item and had lines of a hundred or so. One lady asked why so many waiting? Simple answer. "They wanted to eat."
Much has changed. But your comment of going from serf to comrade to the current status rang very true. They had zero background other than 'stories' Not the same as moving from England or Italy to the USA in the late 1800's or 1900's.
Thought I would throw that in see how it squares with your fund of knowledge.
Jan
I tried to be careful to distinguish between 'represent to me' and 'represent me'. The Queen of England was never elected by the people of England, but she represents a lot to her people. Similarly, whether or not Putin represents the Russian people is a different discussion entirely. He represents to the Russian people the ability of Russia to stand amongst the premier (!) nations of the world. A PR victory is not an insignificant gain.
Jan
(I agree with your last sentence.)
Palin was also correct in her description of the job of the Vice President. She spoke as an educated informed citizen not as a PC politician.
Objectively speaking Washington DC has nothing to do with the country - that is practical or useful. That goes double for their shills on the toob
Something completely lost on the people of the USA.
And I suspect it will be a very entertaining time.
Jan
Jan, laughing
apologizing our way through the second term. . shameful. -- j
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Too much intrusion anyway.
I also think that those cities that experience murdered cops should experience a public penalty of no police protection for a few months and see what they think then. It might even bring the people out of the presumed safety of their homes and get them demonstrating against the “hands up” and other demonstrators. Large volumes of people should have shown up at the demonstration in St. Paul last week. They should have brought cameras and photographed everyone in that mob. I’m sure the employers of those in the mob would have been interested. But then again, most of them probably don’t have an employer. I think everyone must be held responsible for their actions.
I think those that murder their offspring, and all those that assist, should be tried and put down for murder. Whatever the law is must be followed, period. Those that don’t want offspring should use a condom. Again everyone needs to be responsible for their actions, period. Those that don’t want guns shouldn't have guns, and leave the rest of us alone. It’s the law of the land, stop the nonsense. Anyone that keeps trying to change the constitution should be tried and hung for treason.
I think Obama should go live in Iran with all his friends instead of staying here where he really doesn't seem to like it very much. I think we should leak to Iran nuclear technology that blows itself up. I think we should build self-destruction technology in all our weapons and weapons system that we can destroy by satellite anyplace in the world at will. We could make weapons for our friends and enemies and then blow them all up when they turn them on the wrong people.
I think the people that think the government should raise taxes to spend more should just pay more in taxes than they currently do. I suppose they could be accessed double to start and see how that helps the government actually fix something. Maybe they might change their minds instead of just arguing about it. After all if they think that’s the way to go, we got to start someplace and they might as well set the example.
Of course these are only my ideas and wishes, I too could be wrong.
For example, the U.S., as a representative style government has a strong inherent force to uphold it's side of the bargain or lose face w/the voters and face a loss at the polls. Indeed w/the party system it is doubly so as it can affect the opinion of the party in power when it happens.
On the other hand dictatorships and other forms of non-representative governments have zero internal pressure, and those who control the media have incentive to break them and spin themselves as standing up to the "bad guys".
I believe if you were to examine the cases of broken treaties you will nearly always find this combination, and that the violator is the non-representative government. Alas, I've not done the digging to support or falsify the hypothesis.
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