Deranged Rhino Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 This just in: The Koch brothers aren't running for President. However, they are doing everything possible to put the country back in a position of respect internationally, and imbue national policies with the common sense that appears to have served us well lo these many years...well, OK, not the past six years. :lol: The LAST thing the *Koch brothers care about is this country. They care about their companies and positioning their companies to make as much profit as possible. If they truly cared about the country, or you and your family's ability to prosper in it, they wouldn't be blatantly corrupting our representative democracy by flooding it with a billion dollars in political capital. *This goes for every big time corporate, or private, donor on both sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 :lol: The LAST thing the *Koch brothers care about is this country. They care about their companies and positioning their companies to make as much profit as possible. If they truly cared about the country, or you and your family's ability to prosper in it, they wouldn't be blatantly corrupting our representative democracy by flooding it with a billion dollars in political capital. *This goes for every big time corporate, or private, donor on both sides. Thank you for that. And of course everyone knows that they rank #18 in the list of those donors' dollar amounts... virtually all of those above them in the list contribute 90 - 100% to Democrats and leftist candidates and causes. So, yes the Koch brothers are large contributors, but what they donate is dwarfed by huge special interests contributors to the opposite political side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 :lol: The LAST thing the *Koch brothers care about is this country. They care about their companies and positioning their companies to make as much profit as possible. If they truly cared about the country, or you and your family's ability to prosper in it, they wouldn't be blatantly corrupting our representative democracy by flooding it with a billion dollars in political capital. *This goes for every big time corporate, or private, donor on both sides. If they didn't care about this country they wouldn't be contributing so much money to try and change if. If they cared so much about their companies they would be pumping all that money back into those companies to make even more money. But thanks for playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keukasmallies Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 :lol: The LAST thing the *Koch brothers care about is this country. They care about their companies and positioning their companies to make as much profit as possible. If they truly cared about the country, or you and your family's ability to prosper in it, they wouldn't be blatantly corrupting our representative democracy by flooding it with a billion dollars in political capital. *This goes for every big time corporate, or private, donor on both sides. George Soros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 If they didn't care about this country they wouldn't be contributing so much money to try and change if. If they cared so much about their companies they would be pumping all that money back into those companies to make even more money. But thanks for playing. That's my argument, Chef. The political money isn't intended to change the country to everyone's benefit, but to their corporate interests' benefit. Thus, 1 billion in political capital is, in reality, pumping all that money back into those companies to make even more money by influencing law makers. That's the game. That's not patriotism, that's capitalism. And this particular brand of democratic capitalism is doing more to corrupt this country and take power away from the people than it's fixing what amounts to a broken system. George Soros Just as bad. Which is why I included that last paragraph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Iran president cheers nuclear talks, says deal is getting closer Hassan Rouhani has plenty of reasons to feel cheerful, as the US attempts to deal its way out of a four-decade standoff with Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry has loosened up billions of dollars to rescue the Iranian economy in exchange for nothing but talk, for one thing. Now, though, it appears that Kerry will cut a deal that not only allows Iran to keep all of its centrifuges, but also grants them de facto hegemony over the Middle East and Afghanistan to boot — and does so behind the backs of our European Union allies. Smart power: With time for negotiations running short, the U.S and Iran are discussing a compromise that would let Iran keep much of its uranium-enriching technology but reduce its potential to make nuclear weapons, two diplomats tell The Associated Press. Such a compromise could break the decade-long deadlock on attempts to limit Iranian activities that could be used to make such arms: Tehran refuses to meet U.S.-led demands for deep cuts in the number of centrifuges it uses to enrich uranium, a process that can create material for anything from chemotherapy to the core of an atomic bomb. So what’s the solution that Kerry’s offering? A pledge from Iran to, er, not spin the centrifuges really fast. No, that’s actually what this compromise is: The possible compromise under consideration, according to the AP, would see most of the 10,000 centrifuges in operation left in place but reconfigured so that they would be less productive. One way of doing that would be to spin the centrifuges more slowly. Other measures would be agreed upon to reassure the west that Iran could not make a warhead quickly, such as reducing its stockpile of uranium hexafluoride gas – the form in which uranium can be enriched by centrifuge. More at the link: http://hotair.com/archives/2015/02/04/iran-president-cheers-nuclear-talks-says-deal-is-getting-closer/ . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 I think Kerry and Obama have been spun in really fast centrifuges and consider it torture. That's why they're holding the Iranian's feet to the fire to make them slow them down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 The Roots of Obama’s Appeasement :The president’s disastrous foreign policy is as much a product of his own vanity as anything else. By Victor Davis Hanson Members of the Obama administration have insisted that the Taliban are not terrorists. Those responsible for the recent Paris killings are not radical Islamists. The Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular. Jihad is a “legitimate tenet of Islam.” And “violent extremism,” “workplace violence,” or “man-caused disaster” better describe radical Islamic terrorism. Domestic terrorism is just as likely caused by returning U.S. combat veterans, according to one report by a federal agency. What is the point of such linguistic appeasement? The word “appeasement” long ago became pejorative for giving in to bullies. One side was aggressive and undemocratic; the other consensual and eager to avoid trouble through supposedly reasonable concessions. But appeasement usually weakened the democratic side and empowered the extremist one. {snip} President Obama currently is convinced that his singular charisma and rare insight into human nature will convince the Taliban to peacefully participate in Afghan politics. Obama will supposedly also win over the Iranian theocracy and show it how nonproliferation is really to everyone’s advantage. “Reset” diplomacy with Putin was supposed to lessen tensions — if, after the 2012 election, Putin just had more exposure to a flexible statesman of Obama’s wisdom. More at the link: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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