en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/413606 Comments by HarGru http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9IH6GUO0&show_article=1#IDComment101438927 If you want to help a country do so with U.S. Taxpayer money BUT PLEASE don't lecture them on their culture and how they must increase the tax on their wealthy. Stop the payments to Pakistan and let the ax fall where it might. No doubt the Pakistani army will take over again, the people will be pleased, the rich will pay against their will, and a bunch of civilian government crooks will be shot. That's what they do! But PLEASE let's not lecture others on income taxes that we are ourselves having a problem addressing. Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:19:52 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9IH6GUO0&show_article=1#IDComment101438927 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9H7KI6G0&show_article=1#IDComment89226670 A declaration of war by a country does not mean that military troops have to be involved. It makes the efforts official and it can act with whatever means it has at its disposal and it can be ruthless in so doing. It can also act with utmost speed to make all media and populace subject to war time controls such as limiting free speech on Al-Qaida matters, eliminating their web-sites, inspect the mosques, and suspending habeas corpus. Maybe we ought to have the guts do the same, and add the Taliban as well. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:46:20 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9H7KI6G0&show_article=1#IDComment89226670 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.1a40d4cce35f970833f2c65ba156eefb.7f1&show_article=1#IDComment89193816 Gaza is what it wants to be. Any political entity is what it wants to be. It can be at war or at peace. If it is at war than it could well be blockaded and turned into a prisoner of war camp. If it wants to be at peace, it could flourish with blue water ports and unification with the PLO for an independent Palestine. But it cannot have both. Gaza's government that does not recognize Israel as a state is saying to Israel: I want your land and your wealth that you have created over the last 60 years. Well, how would you reply to that? Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:10:48 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.1a40d4cce35f970833f2c65ba156eefb.7f1&show_article=1#IDComment89193816 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GHPK7G0&show_article=1#IDComment81986116 Even Britain's Chamberlain knew enough not to invite Hitler to London for a lunch at a fish and chips joint hoping to impress him with how good and homespun the Brits were. It is the mark of an immature President to think that Medvedev's concern for Russian interests worldwide can be reduced by buying him a cheeseburger. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:01:21 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GHPK7G0&show_article=1#IDComment81986116 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GHPK7G0&show_article=1#IDComment81983845 "The leaders snuck away for a bite to eat at a popular hamburger joint across the Potomac River" "snuck away" ??? "The people applauded" ??? Does the writer expect us to swallow such a terrible piece of journalism? It used to be a time when journalists got and reported the facts...secret service convoys? Checks for weapons? Rehearsed applause? Really!!! Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:44:02 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GHPK7G0&show_article=1#IDComment81983845 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GCMQS80&show_article=1#IDComment80518155 Any engineer will tell you that in the search for new solutions, such as very deep sea drilling, mishaps will occur. Statistical probability will not go away, even if the drill platform was checked and given an OK to do its thing by the U.S.. Therefore, it is a matter of fair share to allow BP to compensate the onshore commercial victims, but not to be further placed on trial for each incident. BP has been paying taxes for many years and I am sure that the U.S. can expend some of that money collected in order to close this incident. If that is not the case, there will be no commercial investment in any new large scale technology or infrastructure that could face a terrible accident while being perfected. Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:41:49 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GCMQS80&show_article=1#IDComment80518155 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.86c1ac9d54a51fd47b845663527a077d.1191&show_article=1#IDComment79828965 The closer you were to the Big Bang source (theology not science) the more dense was the matter that became less dense with time and spread. There is room for science and faith (dogma) in all of what we see out there. We are not smart enough to circle with undisputed facts both science and faith (dogma). Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:11:44 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.86c1ac9d54a51fd47b845663527a077d.1191&show_article=1#IDComment79828965 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.86c1ac9d54a51fd47b845663527a077d.1191&show_article=1#IDComment79828556 You must be a Democratic plant posting here trying for responses. There is no other answer as only the extreme uneducated and stupid can make those comments. A patriot you're not! All the patriots I know are reasonably educated to love their country and discuss things with their heads instead of with their bile. Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:06:59 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.86c1ac9d54a51fd47b845663527a077d.1191&show_article=1#IDComment79828556 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b0320c064d1eb19c9176b234a046992b.911&show_article=1#IDComment79770790 The euro may fold but certain hard currencies in Europe will replace it. Americans are still enamored with Europe's tourism offerings and they will rush there again. That is, until the teen and young adult demographics in the U.S. will no longer favor citizens of European ancestry and its culture and that may be sooner than one thinks. So, Europe better hurry up and welcome the dollar coming in through commerce and tourism while it can. Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:07:18 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b0320c064d1eb19c9176b234a046992b.911&show_article=1#IDComment79770790 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=TX-PAR-BXL96&show_article=1#IDComment79332084 Many questioned why Jews would support such a party and such a President. I think the answer lies with the concept of charity (Mitzvah) in Jewish culture. The Jewish people, over the years, must have decided that Mitzvah on the grand scale (not a small amount to a person or a small organization) is best done by the Government. So they pay taxes, and the rich Jewish people do pay quite a bit, and they allow the Government to do the "charitable" work that they could have done individually. As the Democratic party is seen as the giver to the lower social strata, or the unfortunate, at the macro level of giving (social engineering from all our taxes) then it becomes visible as to why Jewish people vote Democratic . All this on top of the natural attitude toward Liberalism (and thus political safety) from a group of people who have looked over their shoulder for persecutors for millennium. I think the above is the main reason, with the fact that Truman made Israel possible maybe secondary. Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:08:05 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=TX-PAR-BXL96&show_article=1#IDComment79332084 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=TX-PAR-BXL96&show_article=1#IDComment79325264 Borrow 400 million with interest from China, a possible economic and military enemy, and give it to the PLO (and Hamas) a real enemy whose people danced in the street after 9/11. Now is that is the type of international finance that Harvard and their ilk teaches? Why not have China give the money directly to such a just cause? LOL Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:22:45 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=TX-PAR-BXL96&show_article=1#IDComment79325264 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d7ee3248658ea97d198f69b55aace657.17b1&show_article=1#IDComment64401670 It started in 1940 with "lend lease" and with our troops on its soil awaiting the liberation of Europe. It started with the common English language and with the concept of English justice and civil liberty. We got from them, and we gave in return. I can't think of two countries more suited to a "special relationship" than Great Britain and the United States. The MP's are just Labor Party hacks awaiting to join Europe and to get their orders from Brussels. And our own administration would rather see a "special relationship" with the "world", ,whatever that may mean in their ideological and academic twisted minds. Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:37:49 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d7ee3248658ea97d198f69b55aace657.17b1&show_article=1#IDComment64401670 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64125971 Which Jerusalem are we talking about? The old city with its history and religions, the one that was in the Jordanian side of the fence, or the new Jerusalem, a large sprawling city with many suburbs? I agree that the old one was taken over by Israel in the 1967 war against it. BUT, the nitpickers and the UN want East Jerusalem to be the much bigger portion that it is today, after Jerusalem expanded as a whole due to Jewish industry and need for housing. There are plenty of Arabs in the "new" East Jerusalem also. I do believe that some new building is ongoing in this "new" East Jerusalem. Is it right? Well, the Arabs surely had nothing to do with the creation of this "new" East Jerusalem....Ciao Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:26:16 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64125971 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64105628 Thank God the UN was not instituted in 1945. Can you imagine if the U.S. troops would have taken all of Berlin (instead of ceding that glory to the Russians) and we would have said that Berlin is to be the capital of West Germany as it was one before? The UN would have declared that to be a violation of International law and would have insisted that the Russians have a part of it....the horror of that thought... Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:17:28 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64105628 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64104778 See my reply to Kenema above.... Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:09:44 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64104778 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64103128 I will give you a reply. All that area at a time ( within reasonable historical time..) was the Greater Syria land. Then it became part of the Ottoman empire. Then the western powers carved it out as gifts to the Arab big boys who were pro British (WW1)...Then various people immigrated and populated it both Arab and Jew. That was the Palestine Mandate of the British. So, today the people of the then Palestine are the Jordanians, some Lebanese, the Jews, and the Arabs who lived there. That is why it is so complicated! There was a Syria there first in recent historical memory followed by the Ottomans, followed by the British, etc.....Then the UN gave a sliver of it to the Jews...then the Jews were attacked..but you know the rest... Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:55:19 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64103128 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64090368 Demographics rule against Israel remaining a Jewish state. Western culture that worships the "me" as against the "us" ,and socialism in Israel, will result in fewer Jewish births. Period! That is a fact. Now, of course the state of Israel could adopt the Hitler attitude of having single girls give birth to babies from strangers on a production line...... but that is not Israel. So? what's the answer except for intelligent people to do intelligent things and avoid the extremes in order for Israel to remain the democratic anchor that it is in the region. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:30:13 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64090368 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64086839 Obama does not get it. The law can and should be repealed . And immediately, in a new law, all the good things from this existing law that can be done effectively should be included. The Republicans said all along that some changes are needed and they are willing to do them. So, the "people" that Obama is talking about will still see some of the benefits from the existing law minus the heavy public debt and constitutionality issues. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:01:25 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64086839 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64065841 It makes no difference who won what from whom and who attacked whom from a historical perspective. The fact remains that Jerusalem is a volcano that has to be capped for a while while the people on its slope can shape up their homes and try to live together as neighbors in a small piece of land. Israel offered at one time East Jerusalem to Arafat and he declined because he had to recognize the state of Israel. If Israel could do that then it can do it again. Allow East Jerusalem and let the Arab League look for other excuses, but it may not. It might be enough for a tenuous but real peace. The facts on the ground favor Israel and they should. The facts of future area demographics do not. Israel should be what it is today with minor border alignments and with a vibrant commerce and culture that will triumph in the end, while Palestine with its capital in East Jerusalem will continue to be a bother and headache to its Arab brothers . Unlike previous historical events in Europe, let's not allow extreme religious aspects keep that volcano erupting to no one's benefit. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:16:33 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b948b77732dbf16fb5c00296069651af.1a1&show_article=1#IDComment64065841 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.1433247da714fd1ce569b946f4746c07.b1&show_article=1#IDComment45842884 I have heard rumors about both Hitler and Peron. Probably not Mussolini...ha ha Fri, 4 Dec 2009 20:33:27 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.1433247da714fd1ce569b946f4746c07.b1&show_article=1#IDComment45842884