tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post5309682883007515599..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: This is What Mitt Romney Actually BelievesAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-47829568762551324182012-04-30T15:24:40.892-07:002012-04-30T15:24:40.892-07:00Kasey, that is not Romney's underwear. It'...Kasey, that is not Romney's underwear. It's his head, and that of his wife, transposed on to a set of Mormon underwear just as a sense of humour should be transposed on to you. So far as respecting other people's beliefs is concerned I certainly can not respect a cult - and Mormonism is clearly that - which holds underwear, of all things, to be 'sacred.'Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-34548052380414628462012-04-29T21:00:18.371-07:002012-04-29T21:00:18.371-07:00If you believe Mormonism is a parody of Christiani...If you believe Mormonism is a parody of Christianity, that is fine. You and Mitt Romney are both entitled to believe what you believe. However, your posting a picture of him in his underwear, which Mormons believe to be sacred, seems in poor taste. It is a shame that civility and respect for other people's beliefs have gone by the wayside. Badly done.Kaseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14380724170733825031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-43245873799613131712012-04-04T15:33:18.186-07:002012-04-04T15:33:18.186-07:00Yes, thank you. :-)Yes, thank you. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-55795634218076571912012-04-03T17:46:11.920-07:002012-04-03T17:46:11.920-07:00I sent you some on YT, I will find more links.I sent you some on YT, I will find more links.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-72656028416860344112012-04-03T15:52:42.082-07:002012-04-03T15:52:42.082-07:00Thanks. I appreciate that.Thanks. I appreciate that.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-54440313001248213522012-04-02T17:32:43.774-07:002012-04-02T17:32:43.774-07:00I'll get the information for you.I'll get the information for you.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-18730791635888624262012-04-02T15:35:44.926-07:002012-04-02T15:35:44.926-07:00Richard's it's all so bizarre. They shoul...Richard's it's all so bizarre. They should do things in the English fashion. We don't do God; we have the C of E. :-))Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-92167821073716858872012-04-02T15:33:45.951-07:002012-04-02T15:33:45.951-07:00Now that's something I did not know! I agree t...Now that's something I did not know! I agree that Pickett's Charge was the greatest mistake of Lee's career but he had made a reputation by playing the long shots. It worked at Chancellorsville but failed at Gettysburg. So far as the outcome of the war is concerned, Shelby Foote, a specialist in the conflicts, says that the North fought with one hand tied behind its back. In other words, only a fraction of its potential strength was brought to bear. The only way the South could have won was by hoping for the victory of political defeatism, and that prospect passed with the failure of George McLellan's presidential bid in 1864.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-46309798640224795202012-04-02T15:25:49.977-07:002012-04-02T15:25:49.977-07:00Anthony, do you have a reference? I'd be fasc...Anthony, do you have a reference? I'd be fascinated to look into this.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-48284256381668131362012-04-02T10:19:34.010-07:002012-04-02T10:19:34.010-07:00Scientologists don’t have a personality, theirs go...Scientologists don’t have a personality, theirs got stolen by the Thetan invented by L Ron. They are now recognised as a religion in the US, and that in itself raises interesting questions about the genesis of religions. Christianity was a cult and it is arguable Pilate was doing his job. The way cults are structured is that Joe Bloggs gets treated like dirt while Tom Cruise sees the best side of them. He is there to advertise. They are hierarchical and ultimately appeal to the individual’s desire to abnegate responsibility for his or her own life. I believe there is a strong attempt in America to establish a theocracy. The Bible bashers failed, maybe they're trying the back door of Mormonism now. Judge keep people ignorant and docile. Make sure they do not anaylse your policies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-46609283618141416142012-04-01T17:36:08.177-07:002012-04-01T17:36:08.177-07:00Robert E. Lee lost the war at Gettysburg because h...Robert E. Lee lost the war at Gettysburg because his judgment was impaired as he has high on Laudanum, the war went on but the initiative was forever lost. Longstreet could have very well won the war but you know, could have, would have, should have.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-4492492919005667532012-03-30T20:47:37.551-07:002012-03-30T20:47:37.551-07:00They have found tall red haired Caucasoid remains ...They have found tall red haired Caucasoid remains in North and south america that predate the current "native" Americans and the white bearded God of the Aztecs who promised to return was a Viking who made it to Mexico in a longboat with a dragon bow head, the ancients traveled much farther than modern history states.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-77541378423863210922012-03-28T15:38:35.978-07:002012-03-28T15:38:35.978-07:00CB, thanks. I was thinking about this today, in t...CB, thanks. I was thinking about this today, in the light of your remarks, conjuring up, by wonderful coincidence, the image of Mr Desert Boots himself, Pontious Paul the Procurator. The whole ting really follows from a misconceived strategy, the people and the actions. I'm a conservative. The neo-cons for me are just that - cons. It is simply not out business to waste resources setting the world to rights, expecting gratitude when there is none. As a human being I would have hated to have lived in Saddam's Iraq. As a woman I would hate to have to live in 'liberated' Iraq, which is no liberation at all.<br /><br />Thanks fir that tidbit on Lee. It makes the error of Cemetery Ridge a little more understandable.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-83561979036547177582012-03-28T15:28:31.889-07:002012-03-28T15:28:31.889-07:00Jameson, Clemens'observation puts it beyond al...Jameson, Clemens'observation puts it beyond all curiosity for me. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-36195761467142906372012-03-27T18:18:24.622-07:002012-03-27T18:18:24.622-07:00Of the book, I think Samuel Clemens said it best: ...Of the book, I think Samuel Clemens said it best: "The book is a curiosity to me. It is such a pretentious affair and yet so slow, so sleepy, such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print..."<br /><br />As for me, I'll pass. I learned everything I need/want to know about it and them (aside from Trey Parker and Matt Stone) from John Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. (And as an American I'll also happily take four more years of Obama rather than this maladroit milquetoast.Shipsa01https://www.blogger.com/profile/14007235992632039305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-66102129262550566092012-03-27T14:07:23.115-07:002012-03-27T14:07:23.115-07:00Ana, thank you for your kind regards.
I can'...Ana, thank you for your kind regards. <br /><br />I can't speak to the activities of the BA in Basra (I just don't know anything about the subject), but I do know that a lot of the difficulties on the US side of things were due to factors not entirely under Bush's control (that being said, since he WAS the US C-i-C, it's still his responsibility).<br /><br />The first was that despite being NATO allies, the Turkish Parliment voted (shortly before the invasion) to deny the Americans permission to invade from Turkey. As this would have been the 4th ID (one of America's "heavy" divisions), with little notice the US lost ~33% of its initial forces. As a result, instead of Hussein being bottled up in Baghdad, he was free to escape to Tikrit with several millions of $ of US currency.<br /><br />The second is that without Bush's approval, (but I forget as to whether it was against orders) Paul Bremer (the post-invasion civilian administrator) foolishly (and suddenly) elected to relieve all Iraqi soldiers [that had been members of the Baathist Party] of their duties. This resulted in hundreds of thousands of unemployed, well armed, resentful men roaming the countryside. As all officers had been REQUIRED to be members of the party this was especially shortsighted.<br /><br />I can't help but wonder how much more smoothly things might have gone w/out these two events!<br /><br />[historicl tidbit: in a similar fashion, General Lee has long been blamed for losing the Battle of Gettysburg since he didn't occupy the local high ground before the battle started. I have recently learned that he HAD commanded one of his subordinate generals to take the ridge the night before, they just declined to follow his orders until it was too late.]ColonialBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14408255297226140956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-37416799388880817372012-03-27T10:06:10.179-07:002012-03-27T10:06:10.179-07:00Thanks, CB. I have tremendous respect for your vi...Thanks, CB. I have tremendous respect for your views across so many issues, and I absolutely agree the world is better off without monsters like Saddam Hussein. But I think the invasion was a disaster, particularly with regard to forward planning. I don't just blame Bush for this; Tony Blair was as much at fault. I've written about this before but neither man understood the political, cultural and religious complexities of Iraq. Blair took advice from respected scholars in the field and then just ignored it. Above all their seems to have been lamentable absence of realpolitik. Saddam was a monster, yes, but after the First Gulf War we had him in a cage. Removing him altogether was to remove a check on the regional ambitions of Iran, now far, far greater threat. Looking at the situation from a national point of view, though the full story may take a while to come out, the British Army in Basra suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in its long history. I do not think the Americans in Baghdad fared that much better. Look for some of my previous Iraq posts. <br /><br />Agree or not I welcome your contribution. I might take up this subject again in the light of your remarks.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-26950811435306026642012-03-27T09:54:00.905-07:002012-03-27T09:54:00.905-07:00Yes, thanks, Anthony; I read about the Mormon offs...Yes, thanks, Anthony; I read about the Mormon offshoots once in the Sunday Times.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-27938271855783775532012-03-27T09:52:57.822-07:002012-03-27T09:52:57.822-07:00Actually, Yogendra, it was my personality I was re...Actually, Yogendra, it was my personality I was referring to , not to be so easily caught in such a net. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-5998417415399683172012-03-26T14:24:09.185-07:002012-03-26T14:24:09.185-07:00Ana, I am disappointed that someone who usually is...Ana, I am disappointed that someone who usually is so well informed about truths regarding American politics seems to have succumbed to Bush Derangement Syndrome and the long term MSM propaganda campaign against the Republican Party. <br /><br />Its the Republican President(s) Bush who appointed two Black Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Dr. Condoleezza Rice, and the Black Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In contrast the Democrats have only appointed of Caucasians for the same. <br /><br />It was the Demo presidents Kennedy & Johnson that got America into that mess in Vietnam, drafting literally millions of poor black men (who despite only being 10% of the population represented 40% of the soldiers). In contrast, it was the Repub Pres Nixon that got them out. It's Johnson's "Great Society" programs that lead to the total disintegration of the urban family unit, w/70%+ of children now being born out of wedlock, and 25% of the men having been imprisoned.<br /><br />As for the BDS/Iraqi issue, it wasn't ONLY the MI6 & the CIA claiming the presence of WMDs and nuclear materials. Also Hussein had violated 9 different UN Security Council resolutions, had 2500 TONS of "yellowcake" uranium ore (sold to Canada after the fall of his govt), and some very sophisticated machine tools hidden away (the head of the Iraqi weapons team wrote a book about it titled "The Bomb in My Backyard"). Finally, just before the invasion took place, a 60-truck heavy truck convoy crossed the Syrian border. By itself, it would just appear to be loot heading to a safe place, except they were escorted by Spetsnaz troopers. I later ran across a translation of the post-retirement memoirs of one of the Russian officers involved in the project. He indicated that they removed quite a few Russian-supplied WMDs (sorry, I've lost the link to that)<br /><br />We won't dwell on the 273K+ corpses recovered of people tortured to death by the Baathist regime.<br /><br />Certainly mistakes were made, but the world is a MUCH better place in the absence of Hussein and his regime, and the Republican hostility towards African-Americans is greatly overstated by the MSM.ColonialBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14408255297226140956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-48316935224333082972012-03-25T21:58:02.964-07:002012-03-25T21:58:02.964-07:00I only mean what should be, not what is. Political...I only mean what should be, not what is. Political realism sounds sensible, but without sensible ideals no politician can reach any where. Rick Perry started his campaign by calculating religious equation, and you can see the premature demise of his campaign. Talk about what matters not what you think matters. It's simple is not it.Yogendra Rawathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14108070374497245917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-55044240478838890692012-03-25T17:56:04.423-07:002012-03-25T17:56:04.423-07:00There are Mormon sects still today where polygamy ...There are Mormon sects still today where polygamy is practiced, they are not officially recognized by the "latter day Saints" as the Mormons call themselves. Yes, it looks as it will be Romny vs Obama, Not Rick Sanitarium.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-46511304315566720152012-03-25T13:50:35.750-07:002012-03-25T13:50:35.750-07:00Yogendra, my friend, it's beyond all such simp...Yogendra, my friend, it's beyond all such simplicity!Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-65999214951993609832012-03-25T13:49:13.018-07:002012-03-25T13:49:13.018-07:00Hey, Alexis, how many sets of in-laws do you want?...Hey, Alexis, how many sets of in-laws do you want? :-)) They gave up on it in 1890, one of the conditions for Utah's entry into the Union.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-28674682792841468522012-03-25T13:47:49.831-07:002012-03-25T13:47:49.831-07:00This place is really acting up tonight!This place is really acting up tonight!Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.com