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10/31/09 @ 4:37 pm
maverick [Member]
In response to: WHO’S THE BOSS?
Peter Walker comments..."Mary, don't you think Gates would have been tipped off by the uniform? I'm no Harvard professor but it might have gotten my attention.

You seem to be ignorant of the history of the relation(ship) between bad people and the police in this country.

Five cops were shot that morning in a similar situation. Why don't you get out from behind your computer screen and ride shotgun some time.

The only thing racist about this are the racebaiters beating the race card drum. Is this your idea of the dialogue that is supposed to change things?

My thought...the only thing racist about this incident was Obama's response.
10/23/09 @ 5:21 pm
Peter Walker [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
And what would you call Reagan?

The Great One.
10/23/09 @ 5:07 pm
bittersweet [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
"I know all about tax evasion, hookers and drug addiction."

You work for the GOP?
Better call Perry then. ALTHOUGH, I happen to like him as a human being. He is an idealist, just like Benjamin Fulford. And we need more of them.

And you want me to believe that Grenada was keeping the United States from freedom? Sheeesh, you SHOULD work for Fox. That's bullshit too.

And I'd be happy to lead ACORN here. But I'd be highly unqualified to do much more than clean their offices.
Unless they're hiring big mouths. But then, plenty of us here would foot that bill. PLENTY.

Well, anyone want bets on Blubber-Boy shedding some tears tonite?
OR coming up with some devious Marxist Plot to overthrow this gvt.? OOOPS...that's YOUR domain, isn't it?

10/23/09 @ 4:55 pm
maverick [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
possee...sorry to leave you but Glenn B is calling.

We will survive. As long as we have more ammo than bitter.

bitter will be leading the new chapter of Acorn here on the Cape.

bitter...can I apply for one of your consultant positions? I know all about tax evasion, hookers and drug addiction.

And as a bonus I am honest. Might that help me?

Not a chance. Application denied.
10/23/09 @ 4:55 pm
Buzz [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
possee,

Please make sure your TV is facing Mecca.
10/23/09 @ 4:53 pm
possee [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
maverick, buzz, r-five
This one's for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40&feature=related

possee
10/23/09 @ 4:49 pm
possee [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
bittersweet [Member] writes:
Not blasphemy possee...just bullshit.

My sentiments exactly.it's all bullshit
especially from pennsylvania avenue.

maverick..check out oathkeepers.org on the web, you gun totin bang bang shoot shoot sob!

possee
10/23/09 @ 4:49 pm
Buzz [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
bitter asks: "So, a Marxist military kills a Marxist president, and we are involved why?"

So you can continue to blog freely without fear of retribution.... until this site is put on Obama's enemy's list.
10/23/09 @ 4:42 pm
possee [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Please be informed of the following..

Due to the serious nature's discussed here, I must take some time out to get my talking points from 5-6pm on that talk radio channel..as our dear leader described.
Once indoctrinated,and full of anti government rhetoric, I will return refreshed and invigorated with propaganda..

possee
10/23/09 @ 4:42 pm
bittersweet [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Not blasphemy possee...just bullshit.

buzz...did you ever wonder how politico was all of a sudden "the"
place for news?
Sudden rise, just like the Buttburger Twins.
10/23/09 @ 4:42 pm
maverick [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Aisles for Pres...Rush for VP.

Nice to see that the Rush quotes were fabricated by the left sleaze bags.

Why did CCToday participate in that crap?
10/23/09 @ 4:41 pm
bittersweet [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Is there some reason you are always bringing up your guns maverick?
You sound like you are always itching for a fight. bang bang shoot shoot
And "your" money would be pretty hard to identify...mixed up as it is with everybody else's in this vast country.
And I'm from Michigan....never heard anyone talk like that. Where'd you get that stereo-type? Ruuussshhh the magic blow-hard?

So, a Marxist military kills a Marxist president, and we are involved why? There are numerous accounts that the students were in no danger at all....their parents even wrote to pres Reagan and told him so!
So obviously there was another reason to do it.
Same old boogey-man right?
The Hated Left.
And Reagan? Steadfastly on the Right.
10/23/09 @ 4:34 pm
possee [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
buzz

First of all, it's a Fox news feed, therefore the aforementioned would never dare to venture..blasphemy!!!

possee
10/23/09 @ 4:32 pm
Buzz [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Ned, Richard, bitter, cru,

This ones for you!

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0910/fox_head_could_make_run.html
10/23/09 @ 4:19 pm
maverick [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
bitter...Buzz is Buzz and Maverick is Jack.

You can find me at Allen Harbor in Harwich Port or on Arcadia Road in Hope Valley.

No secrets. Just a lot of honesty with the guns to back it up.

When is your next Detroit flight to go get my money? Sorry Jack, dats my money and dems my people.
10/23/09 @ 4:17 pm
Buzz [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
bitter asks: "Which is it?"

Answer: Both. His military had a radical group that split and overtook his goverment.... he was a Good Marxist.
10/23/09 @ 3:59 pm
bittersweet [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Oh he had no problem with gimme gals....as long as their incomes were 6 figure and up.

The regular working people? He "cut their allowance."

10/23/09 @ 3:57 pm
bittersweet [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
buzz says;
"the Marxist regime that overthrew the government killing President Bishop"
maverick says Bishop was a Marxist.

Which is it?
10/23/09 @ 3:56 pm
maverick [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
"And what would you call Reagan?"

A patriotic American who loved all of the people who made this country great.

The fact that he had a problem with "gimmee gals" should not be held against him.
10/23/09 @ 3:51 pm
bittersweet [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Not my thoughts buzz...Don Rojas...he was there, I wasn't.
10/23/09 @ 3:49 pm
bittersweet [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
"He was a Marxist"

And what would you call Reagan?
10/23/09 @ 3:16 pm
maverick [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
possee...just got back home from the Cape.

Had an offshore charter yesterday and sent some happy folks from Fla. home with 150# of blue fin tuna. Both steaks and sushi.

Please give me a call or email me at info@maverickchartersltd.com

Thanks,
Jack
10/23/09 @ 3:00 pm
possee [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
maverick

What are you doing between 5 and 6 pm this evening?

possee
10/23/09 @ 2:56 pm
Buzz [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
bitter,

Continue your though... what happened to Maurice Bishop?
10/23/09 @ 2:42 pm
maverick [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Not sure what Afghanistan and Grenada have in common. Having visited Grenada four times in the last five years I was impressed.

First thing in the AM you see beautiful children walking to school with their uniforms on. Well behaved and polite. In the marketplace the locals are genuinely friendly.

And my British friends who live there say it is far better for all the locals since Bishop. He was a Marxist. And they lived there before and after his control.
10/23/09 @ 2:30 pm
bittersweet [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
"Maurice Bishop was attempting to empower the Grenadian people, a people who had a long history of slavery followed which British colonialism, followed by independence in 1974. Five years after formal independence from Britain, Maurice bishop attempted to begin a social experiment to empower the Grenadian people, to involve them in the decision-making that would affect their daily lives. To bring a popular form of democracy to a country that had for, as I said for centuries, had been under the thumb of foreign rulers, in this particular case, the British. Maurice Bishop’s vision for Grenada was of a small country standing tall and proud in the Caribbean region, and in the world community."

NOT ALLOWED!
10/23/09 @ 2:25 pm
bittersweet [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
"I can tell you that in the period before the invasion during the time of the internal coup d’état that had killed Maurice Bishop, when the entire country was under a lockdown curfew, and no one could have left their homes in Grenada, the only persons freely walking about the beaches of the country and the streets of the city were the American medical students."
10/23/09 @ 2:25 pm
bittersweet [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Don Rojas:
"The Reagan administration had been conducting a very organized and concerted campaign of political, economic, diplomatic destabilization of the Bishop government, the revolutionary government of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, from the time Reagan came into office. The justification for the invasion, as articulated by President Reagan, I would say, was full of lies and distortions and falsifications. Reagan attempted to confuse the American people and the world by claiming that the Grenadian government was in fact building that the Soviet and Cuban military base in the Caribbean region. That was totally false. Also by using the fact that there were American medical students on the island, claiming that their lives were threatened by the Grenadian authorities. That was totally false."
10/23/09 @ 1:37 pm
Buzz [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Mary writes: "We were tricked into sending troops... excuse was American medical students were in danger.... real reason to prevent construction of airport that could help the tourist industry"


Where to begin? The "bloody" coup that took place was by the Marxist regime that overthrew the government killing President Bishop, members of his cabinet and dozen others. The "airport" was a commercial grade airport capable of handling military jets providing a threat not only to the U.S. but Caribbean nations as well.

Nice job Ronnie.
10/23/09 @ 11:52 am
Mary [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Well, Ned, in regard to Grenada. We were tricked into sending troops there, too. The excuse was that American students at a medical school there were in danger. The real reason is that we wanted to prevent construction of an airport under the aegis of the New Jewel Movement that would accommodate large commercial planes that could up the tourist industry. My comments about trickery are not about winning or losing, but about how our leaders persuade us to trash other places and people.
10/23/09 @ 11:22 am
Ned [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Yeah but we won that one in Grenada and sort of won Desert Storm even though that ditzy April Glaspie caused it in the first place. Oceania Rules the Waves... it's the Desert it has a Problem with.
10/23/09 @ 11:09 am
Mary [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
r-five: The Taliban know very well who built the training camps and created Al Quaeda. These were phony demands ponied up for domestic consumption. The Taliban were “paying the price” for not finalizing the oil agreement, but we didn’t know that and were not supposed to know it.

But there is a history, stretching back over those forty years that you mention, that should give us pause before we run the flags up the poles. And that is that we here in the US have been tricked into fighting WW II, the Korean War, Vietnam, the Gulf War, and now these two.
10/23/09 @ 10:53 am
crusader [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
911 attacks were put in place to start the war on oil. I really think it's that simple. They knew congress and the American people would never agree to a war, otherwise.

The only question you need to ask yourself regarding any case that continues to remain buried in the murky waters of unknown truths--

Who had the most to gain?

There lies your answer. Who has got the guts to tell us?
10/23/09 @ 10:47 am
crusader [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Mary,

The majority of members serving the UN are comprised of a bunch of flaming idiots. If we had strong members who supported anti-war efforts, we wouldn't be in this mess. They continually cry and complain of the US war machine, but where have they been, Mary? Why haven't they stopped the war dogs?
10/23/09 @ 10:43 am
bittersweet [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
"we are now engaged in questioning to what extent our own government was involved in this attack."

And that is the crux.
Because you can say "all presidents do it", "all parties are to blame"... NO! We are talking about a specific cabal of people who took over this gvt.,(election via Supreme Court),and may have committed the biggest Treason possible for a gvt. to committ! And we know who they are. At least the perifery.
Murdering you own people cannot be reduced to "paving the way for our current demise".
And I think they know it too.
10/23/09 @ 10:37 am
r-five [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Mary wrote [in part]:
This was not a matter for “national defense.” If that had been the case, the UN would have supported our going to war against Afghanistan.

R-5:
Regardless of whether or not that would have been the case, a proportion of the People simply will not accept the authority of the UN to determine matters of national self-defense

Mary:
The attack was orchestrated by a GROUP, not a NATION.

R-5:
Very true.

Mary:
The nation of Afghanistan did not attack us with their military forces.

R-5
Also true. The Taliban regime, however, was offered the opportunity to deal with the situation by shutting down al-qaeda camps and surrendering al-qaeda personnel.

They did not accept this offer. So far as I am concerned, I could otherwise care less whether the Taliban takes over.

Mary:
And we are now engaged in questioning to what extent our own government was involved in this attack.

R-5:
The main point stands--should it be found that Cheney himself pushed the plunger, it's the Nation's right to respond accordingly.

R-5
10/23/09 @ 10:08 am
r-five [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
Possee asks:
Do you believe that Bush, and prior administrations, paved the way for our current demise.. and that Ob has taken the ball and accelerated it?

R-Five:
So far as I am concerned the root causes of our present National crisis go back at least 40 years--and that the policies and principles of both parties in that time period are to blame.

R-Five
10/23/09 @ 9:36 am
possee [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
jihad by whom?

possee
10/23/09 @ 9:36 am
Mary [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
r-five: In response to my writing that the war in Afghanistan should be shut down because it violates international law, you state: Irrespective of the accuracy of this observation, it is a clear fact, that a proportion of the People do not--and will not--accept the proposition that national self-defense ought to be subordinated to the determinations of "international law" or "interational public opinion".

Well, international law has been put in place precisely to prevent emotional responses from “people,” especially before the facts are known.This was not a matter for “national defense.” If that had been the case, the United Nations would have supported our going to war against Afghanistan. The attack was orchestrated by a GROUP, not a NATION. The nation of Afghanistan did not attack us with their military forces. And we are now engaged in questioning to what extent our own government was involved in this attack.
10/23/09 @ 9:35 am
possee [Member]
In response to: The US Mission in Afghanistan is...?
overall direction and policies..

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Mary Wentworth - Ma(i)niac in Massachussetts
Having been a Democratic candidate for Congress, a paid organizer in the women’s movement, a “no nuker” (it looks like that is going to be a do-over), a fighter for fair taxes, a vehement opponent of war, once a wife and ever a mother, now a columnist and author of a political memoir — you get the picture — I have my opinions.

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