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Snake oil - - better than any rocket fuel. Even better than slushed hydrogen.

SpaceShipOne has yet to fly a single tourist, yet it has already helped sell http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stori … TE=]Volvos.

Even Lord Vlork cannot summon the power of a supernova!

(a) Fair enough, I agree; and

(b) Stories like the Guardian story (even if willfully false) gain traction precisely because this Administration has been less than transparent concerning Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo & the rendition of terror suspects to nations that openly torture.

Thus, cases like the one with Jose Padilla (the US citizen being held without pending charges) undermine our moral legitimacy and is therefore imprudent even if all issues of morality are set aside.

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From a purely Machiavellian perspective, whether the Guardian story is true is less important than whether the Guradian story is believed on the streets of Europe.

Transparent investigation of such charges (as called for by Cobra) accomplishes two objectives:

(a) justice; and

(b) furthering the "psy ops" war needed to maintain the moral high ground.

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Yup. Once, this was true. Past tense.

Our current Administration is expending the reputation (and wealth) to accomplish its own ends having nothing to do with the values.

I see Cobra has cracked open the Kool-Aid again.

Last weekend David Brooks (a Bushie) wrote a column gushing about a Lebanese politician demanding that Syria withdraw their forces. "See" Brooks wrote, "Bush got it right."

Unfortunately, a month ago that same Lebanese praised those killing US soldiers in Iraq. Seems he wants the Syrians the hell out of Lebanon AND the Americans the hell out of Iraq. And if killing Americans helped that goal, well good.

Yup, freedom is on the march.

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This http://www.abbeypress.com/abbey//Shoppi … irt]trumps Cobra's Confederate flag! 

Central Wisconsin, the land of beer, brats and cheese. My poor wife tried to order a glass of wine.

Kept saying mer-low, mer-low and finally the waitress say "oh, you mean mer-lot (rhymes with cot) why didn't you say so?"

Nonetheless, Madison remains a liberal stronghold. Gotta keep the post on-thread.  :;):

Soon, I will be off to the land of cheese (Wisconsin) for a four day weekend. Time to log out of here for a while. . .

What we need are rockets that combust snake oil with LOX.

There has got to be a story title arising from the idea of "burning some snake oil"

IIRC, no one in Ontario speaks French.

Okay, lets review.

The Sudan/Darfur situation constitutes genocide.

Yup, I agree,

The United Nations is a weak, corrupt, ineffectual organization which cannot cope with the Sudan/Darfur situation.

Yup. I agree.

Why this is can be debated but is not currently relevant. I say we now look to the underlying power conflicts between the member states. I also say bashing the United Nations is a waste of time and that this Administration desire that we do exactly that - - bash the UN - - to deflect attention from other issues.

The UN is a dead horse. Stop beating a dead horse. How far behind is the US in paying UN dues? 

The Administration would like to maintain the UN on life support with a feeble pulse for the express purpose of inflicting further bashings to energize its right wing political base.

THAT is hypocritical.

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The draft? Current Administration policy requires a draft to be sustainable.

That is an opinion about strategic facts, neither Right nor Left.

One major conflict zone for the 21st century will be China, India and the US fighting over a limited supply of oil.

And it will be a marathon, not a sprint.

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