novumorganum said:

i hope israel invades me

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Arden said:

I dated an Israeli woman for 3 years. We're off and on still.

A lot of them are beautiful, but you can forget any  excessive nurturing, affection, or otherwise feminine behavior. Most would scoff to hear me say this. But in reality it's hard to go from wielding a machine gun to cooking pancakes for hubby.

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PS: is there any news of charlie sheen having a huge suitcase full of coke and having been arrested yet?

Synesthetic said:

Besides, if the US government opened fire on we, the people, our credibility as standing for the people and justice would go right out the fucking window.

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Bodhi of Ankou said:

Synesthetic said:

Besides, if the US government opened fire on we, the people, our credibility as standing for the people and justice would go right out the fucking window.

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    Q    Robert, why does the U.S. still support countries and regimes that we know do not respect human rights, like Egypt?

      MR. GIBBS:  Well, again, we have documented, again, the concerns that some have had for quite some time.  As is the case with a country like China, we have a whole host of bilateral issues that we deal with countries on, as we did in the recent trip.  There were economic, security and basic human rights issues that we discuss when the President meets with his counterparts.

      Our belief is it is important to have those conversations very directly with those leaders.  If you walk away from the table of engagement, you can’t deliver that message in a face-to-face manner.  And the President believes obviously that's tremendously important.

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WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday put Egypt’s embattled leader, Hosni Mubarak, on notice that he should not use his soldiers and the police in a bloody crackdown on the protests in Egypt, edging away from a close American ally whose cities have erupted in protest.
Addressing the nation from the White House after a day of rage across Egypt, Mr. Obama said he called Mr. Mubarak and told him “to refrain from any violence against peaceful protesters” and to turn a “moment of volatility” into a “moment of promise.” Declaring that the protesters have universal rights, he said, “The United States will continue to stand up for the rights of the Egyptian people.”

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TEHRAN — Hopeful that the protests sweeping Arab lands may create an opening for hard-line Islamic forces, conservatives in Iran are taking deep satisfaction in the events in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, where secular leaders have faced large-scale uprisings.

While the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confronted its own popular uprising two years ago — and successfully suppressed it — conservatives in Iran said they saw little similarity between those events and the Arab revolts, and instead likened the recent upheavals to Iran’s own 1979 Islamic revolution.

“In my opinion, the Islamic Republic of Iran should see these events without exception in a positive light,” said Mohammad-Javad Larijani, secretary general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights and one of the most outspoken figures among Iran’s traditional conservatives.

He made it clear that he hoped that the “anti-Islamic” government of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted in Tunisia, would be replaced by a “people’s government,” meaning one in which conservative Islamic forces would gain the upper hand, as they did when Iranian people overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, establishing a quasi-theocracy.

On the other side are the United States and France, he said, who are “doing everything they can to ride the wave and prevent the people from establishing the regime that they desire.”

“I am more optimistic about Egypt,” Mr. Larijani said in comments published Friday on the Web site Khabar Online, which is closely linked to his brother, Ali Larijani, the Parliament speaker.

“There, Muslims are more active in political agitation and, God willing, they will establish the regime that they want,” Mohammad-Javad Larijani said.

Some here have even echoed the pan-Islamic rhetoric of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

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