Log in
Register
Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
News
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Features
Log in
Register
Search
Search titles only
By:
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Install the app
Install
Reply to thread
Home
Forums
Off Topic
The Basement
running commentary on middle east policy and news.
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Message
<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 49340" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Re: running commentary on middle east policy and news.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The second amendment, part of the bill of rights, is not well understood, and still argued about today (in the courts). You may not like my version, but my understanding is that it's original intent was so citizens could protect themselves from the "government". Our very wise founders were distrustful of federal government being so hungry it might try to usurp personal rights from it's citizens. </p><p></p><p>As another old saying goes, when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.. A few responsible armed people around can actually save lives, while this is not worth discussion as remotely related to nations and nuclear weapons. There is a calculus involved with nukes on the national level but not very simple. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I am still glad I don't live within thousands of miles of that neighborhood and don't have neighbors like Israel has who want to disappear them/us. My judgement is that Iran is not trying to get nuclear weapons as a deterrent, but more so they can be a bigger bully in the region.</p><p></p><p>Who is threatening to invade them? We did them a favor by neutralizing their closest and proved enemy (Saddam), who they already fought one nasty war with in the past. Instead of relaxing, they have ramped up the rhetoric with the west (I explain this as creating a straw man external enemy to distract political opposition from the regimes internal shortcomings.) </p><p></p><p>It's easy to be critical of Israel from a distance, but i suspect they have very good reason to be apprehensive. Iran has publicly declared their bad intentions toward Israel. The downside of underestimating that threat is pretty ugly. Hopefully they are just empty threats from Iran for political effect but how can you tell? After the fact, expecting the UN to scold them is too little too late. </p><p></p><p>JR</p><p></p><p>PS Some UN related group is accusing Texas of human rights violations for requiring photo IDs to vote... If this is such an abuse of human rights lets get them folks some friggin photo IDs! For all the free shit the government is already giving away, giving them a picture ID too seems small change. There's always a subtext to these things and this smells like political posturing to me to gain favor with some minority group. It is already illegal to deny "citizens" their right to vote. When I went to vote today.. I had to sign a ledger and attest that I was who I said I was,, In this modern age if someone doesn't have a photo ID (Papers?) they can leave behind a thumbprint and pose for quick photo. I think every citizen should vote, but only once and only while they are still alive. I plan to stop voting then. We can't be more than a decade or so away from smart voting machines being able to recognize us. That should end this nonsense. If the smart voting machine doesn't recognize you from a voter registration database, just press your thumb here and smile. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 49340, member: 126"] Re: running commentary on middle east policy and news. The second amendment, part of the bill of rights, is not well understood, and still argued about today (in the courts). You may not like my version, but my understanding is that it's original intent was so citizens could protect themselves from the "government". Our very wise founders were distrustful of federal government being so hungry it might try to usurp personal rights from it's citizens. As another old saying goes, when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.. A few responsible armed people around can actually save lives, while this is not worth discussion as remotely related to nations and nuclear weapons. There is a calculus involved with nukes on the national level but not very simple. I am still glad I don't live within thousands of miles of that neighborhood and don't have neighbors like Israel has who want to disappear them/us. My judgement is that Iran is not trying to get nuclear weapons as a deterrent, but more so they can be a bigger bully in the region. Who is threatening to invade them? We did them a favor by neutralizing their closest and proved enemy (Saddam), who they already fought one nasty war with in the past. Instead of relaxing, they have ramped up the rhetoric with the west (I explain this as creating a straw man external enemy to distract political opposition from the regimes internal shortcomings.) It's easy to be critical of Israel from a distance, but i suspect they have very good reason to be apprehensive. Iran has publicly declared their bad intentions toward Israel. The downside of underestimating that threat is pretty ugly. Hopefully they are just empty threats from Iran for political effect but how can you tell? After the fact, expecting the UN to scold them is too little too late. JR PS Some UN related group is accusing Texas of human rights violations for requiring photo IDs to vote... If this is such an abuse of human rights lets get them folks some friggin photo IDs! For all the free shit the government is already giving away, giving them a picture ID too seems small change. There's always a subtext to these things and this smells like political posturing to me to gain favor with some minority group. It is already illegal to deny "citizens" their right to vote. When I went to vote today.. I had to sign a ledger and attest that I was who I said I was,, In this modern age if someone doesn't have a photo ID (Papers?) they can leave behind a thumbprint and pose for quick photo. I think every citizen should vote, but only once and only while they are still alive. I plan to stop voting then. We can't be more than a decade or so away from smart voting machines being able to recognize us. That should end this nonsense. If the smart voting machine doesn't recognize you from a voter registration database, just press your thumb here and smile. :-) [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Off Topic
The Basement
running commentary on middle east policy and news.
Top
Bottom
Sign-up
or
log in
to join the discussion today!