For those of us who are incredulous at the changing rationales for our intervention in the Libyan civil war, Deputy National Security Adviser 
Denis McDonough has come to the rescue. He told reporters that “we don’t make decisions about questions like intervention based on consistency or precedent. We make them based on how we can best advance our interests in the region.” Thus, inconsistency is the consistent policy that we are trying to advance?
The White House has sent out legions of allies to defend his decision to intervene in a civil war. We were originally told that we simply wanted to maintain a no-fly zone. We are now actively assisting the rebels in their campaign and taking out government forces. What is most striking are the liberals who are defending the President and acknowledging that the distinction between Libya and Syria is probably oil (which we refer obliquely to as “our interests”). The key is that we no longer offer a pretense of principle or consistency. We appear now to simply be saying that we are the United States and can intervene whenever it suits our purposes.
Source: USA Today
Stazi Stamford:
Get lost.
Taliban Tootie,
Take your hyperbolic screeching and shove it firmly up your ass.
And while you’re at it, shut the f*ck up. Please.
Impeach the war-monger Obama.
Stop his illegal war/non-war in Libya.
Sorry for the typos. I’m running on only a few hours sleep.
Swarthmore:
I would never vote for Huck (he is a blood-thirsty neocon interventionist). In other words he is a leftist republican.
But the giggling by the audience (in the clip your provided) tends to show that Huck was joking. And I find it instructive that the lead-in to the video clip you provided was edited out so that we cannot understand the context of his comments. I suspect this was done to obscure the truth (not by you, though you did perpetuated the video by making it available to us without commented on the trickery of the edited).
You cannot possibly be offended by Huck’s comments if you support the public school system in America. In that system government officials propagandize hundreds to millions of school children about the virtues government, and they do so by gunpoint. If you do not send your kids to some kind of school you will get arrested. Men or women with guns will attack your home, take your kids, and force them into some kind a school (the vast majority of which will be public).
It is the same concept. Yet, leftists and Democrats are not mortified by such conduct. They are only mortified when Republicans do it. This is called hypocrisy.
I reckon that leftists have their dental floss in a wad about this but see nothing wrong with propagandizing innocent little children at gunpoint in the public schools.
Of course, the rich can put their kids in private schools. This is no problem for the Democrats since they are greedy money grubbers and don’t mind that the rich can skirt what we poorer folks cannot.
Furthermore, I pay confiscatory taxes at the point of a gun. Democrats and leftists have no scruples against this either. In fact they recently bullied the government of Wisconsin about it.
So I don’t believe any outrage people on the left might have about his comments. It is phony outrage. The leftists who complain about the leftist Huck are all essentially on the same page but don’t know it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1O1dvN8lag#t=1m6s This is what the republican with the highest poll numbers said.
Buddha,
The rhubarb cash crop was sufficient to the needs of all those lucky enough to hang out with the guys in shop class and we all agreed to “pants” rafflaw and Slarti under the bleachers during the next home game for being teacher’s pets.
SwM,
My grandmother grew rhubarb and then made the best rhubarb pie in the world … she didn’t add any other fruit … my word, it was heaven.
Bda,
85?!
Okay, it’s official … mine will be the shot heard round the world
I am late to this. When I read it, I thought of rhubarb and midwestern summers. Loved my mother’s rhubarb and strawberry rhubarb pies.
The answer is A.
The final grades are:
Raff: A
Slarti: A- (for not following test format)
Blouise: Retake permitted, hall pass granted, just make sure they are harvesting and not rubbing.
Canadian Eh: Partial credit to be assigned after conferencing with the instructor . . . just because I like the way she thinks.
So everybody goes home a winner.
For those of you taking this test for the “(Groucho) Marxism and the Theory of Art” course, the correct answer was C.
Monday looks good Blouise
Mostly sunny and breezy, with a high near 85.
Buddha…..
I pick D, in part
Bdaman
1, March 31, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Blouise you may want to wait a bit until the sun comes back out. We have been inundated with heavy heavy rains the last two days. š
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Good idea … gotta keep the powder dry.
Buddha,
Can I have a hall pass? The guys in shop class are harvesting their rhubarb.
Elaine,
Perhaps.
But I really wanted people to consider the relative importance of rhubarb to our daily lives whether or not C is the correct answer.
Buddha,
You have given us four choices. Your question should be: Which is MOST important?
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And I must refrain from discussing rhubarb until the time is up and all respondents have taken the exam.
Slarti,
This is a multiple choice question, not a comparative essay question.
Slarts,
I agree with your feelings about rhubarb!