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    im out of N. America quite often.
    Eastern Europe and Russia are pure trash.
    The standard of living is quite sad.

    I guess Russians dying in Ukraine without the families even knowing it is better... Being forced to go to Ukraine and then disappearing is your cup of tea.
    Poland and Czech
    - safer streets
    - better educated
    - strong family structure
    - less obesity
    - higher quality food

    than USA. But Americans own more crap.

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    Poland and Czech
    - safer streets
    - better educated
    - strong family structure
    - less obesity
    - higher quality food

    than USA. But Americans own more crap.
    Less obese yes.
    Family structure? Dad tends to stay and beat wife (Catholic Poland; divorce frowned upon) while drunk
    Better educated, no. How many foreigners go to Poland seeking prime universities?
    Quality of food. No way, not my experience. Less fast food, but you can't get the wide array of fresh produce on your own.
    Safer streets. Just depends were you are and what color you are. Blacks in Eastern Europe would not last a second. But that of course pleases you.

    So basically the above is fiction.

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    y dont the jews just resettle in alaska...

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    Less obese yes.
    Family structure? Dad tends to stay and beat wife (Catholic Poland; divorce frowned upon) while drunk
    Better educated, no. How many foreigners go to Poland seeking prime universities?
    Quality of food. No way, not my experience. Less fast food, but you can't get the wide array of fresh produce on your own.
    Safer streets. Just depends were you are and what color you are. Blacks in Eastern Europe would not last a second. But that of course pleases you.

    So basically the above is fiction.
    Average America is not the picture you have in your mind. The worst ghettos in Poland and Czech are the typical American cities. IE average american doesn't eat fresh produce.

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    Average America is not the picture you have in your mind. The worst ghettos in Poland and Czech are the typical American cities. IE average american doesn't eat fresh produce.
    You can get better food here. The avg. American is in a big hurry and not health conscious.
    The worst ghettos in Poland? People are too busy just trying to survive, they don't have anything to steal from anyone or anywhere. So yes, I guess that's safe. But sad. I don't know that much about the Czechs, but it can't be better.

    You must live in a horrible part of San Diego. I live in SA. I love this city. It is poor, but overall very down to Earth with a good mixture of all types of folks. And yes, fat folks. It's very normal for me to be around Hispanics and a few blacks if I have to do business here. It seems normal. Eastern Europe is so white it creeps me out a bit. And I am very Caucasian looking. Blue eyes, brown hair.

    I will be in Colorado for the next week. I will get a bit freaked with all the whites skiing and on the shuttle buses. I guess it's what you grow up with. I'm used to diversity since I was very young.
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    y dont the jews just resettle in alaska...
    Maybe you could round them up and suggest it?

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    no, he doesn't. The Repugs love him because it's just another way, like loving Putin, to disrespect the n!gg@ boy.

    Still waiting to hear Bibi's strategy for attacking Iran. Maybe he thinks more, unlimited sanctions will cause the corrupt, autocratic mullahs to give up and be nice?

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    Boehner Calls Netanyahu Closest Ally in Fight Against Obama




    WASHINGTON — On the eve of the Israeli Prime Minister’s address to Congress, House Speaker John Boehner used a joint press conference to praise Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him “our closest and most important ally in the fight against President Obama.”

    “Even as the President threatens us with provocative acts, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s support for us has been unwavering,” Boehner said. “He understands what many of us have long known: that peace with this enemy can only be achieved through total victory.”

    Netanyahu had equally high praise for Boehner, saying that “no one has been more steadfast and dedicated in the struggle against your President.”


    “This foe is not to be trusted or appeased,” Netanyahu said. “Your resolute refusal to find any common ground with him whatsoever has earned my undying respect.”


    As the press conference drew to a conclusion, Boehner appeared to fight back tears as he called Netanyahu “a brother in arms” in the ongoing hostilities with Obama.


    “A wise man once said that my enemy’s enemy is my friend,” Boehner said, choking up. “You, sir, are my best friend in the world.”


    http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/boehner-calls-netanyahu-closest-ally-in-fight-against-obama



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    Russia + China + Iran

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    A Delusional Netanyahu Sways Congress


    https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/0...ways-congress/

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    After Netanyahu Speech, Congress Is Officially High School

    First of all, the applause from members of the House and Senate was so over the top, it recalled the famous passage in the Gulag Archipelago about the apparatchik approach to a Stalin speech: "Never be the first one to stop clapping."

    Watching it, you'd almost have thought the members were experiencing a similar terror of being caught looking unenthusiastic. I say almost because in reality, it's a silly thought, in a democracy: nobody's getting taken out back and shot for showing boredom.


    But then, no kidding at all, a gif apparently showing Rand Paul clapping with insufficient fervor rocketed around social media.

    It got enough attention that the Washington Post wrote about it and Paul himself had to issue a statement on Fox and Friends denying he wasn't clapping really, really hard. "I gave the Prime Minister 50 standing ovations. I co-sponsored bringing him here," Paul pleaded. Is the Internet age beautiful or what?


    But the telescreens weren't just watching the Republicans. Cameras also captured Nancy Pelosi looking somewhat south of enraptured during the speech.


    Those photos only circulated more after she said she was "near tears" because she was saddened by Netanyahu's speech, which she termed an "insult to the intelligence of the United States."


    from South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who told a donor at a fund-raiser: "Did you see Nancy Pelosi on the floor? Complete disgust. . .If you can get through all the surgeries, there's disgust!"


    All of this preening and adolescent defiance, all these y homeroom-style barbs and insults: has the U.S. government ever seemed more like high school?

    Indiana Republican Jackie Walorski apparently thinks school's still in. This is her reacting after Netanyahu's speech, according to Slate:
    "Wooh, baby! That was awesome!"

    But this was like the October Surprise as a pay-per-view MMA event. That this sleazy scheme was cooked up mainly for the political gain of both the hosts and the speaker (who faces an election in two weeks) was obvious in about a hundred different ways, beginning with the fact that the speech was apparently timed so that Israeli audiences could watch it over dinner.


    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/after-netanyahu-speech-congress-is-officially-high-school-20150306?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=daily&u tm_campaign=030615_16&utm_medium=email&ea=bGNvbnJh ZEBnbzJmcmFuY2UuY29t



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    http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articl...uclear-program

    In the confrontation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama, we are seeing the consequences of the long game Obama initiated right in his inauguration six years ago: “To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent,” he declared, “know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.” A regime might well be tyrannous and murderous, as Iran had been since the return of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, but the better angels of human nature might reassert themselves if embraced in a web of cooperation. It was a big bet, given the history of Iran where the very word ‘democracy’ was not used in Khomeini’s regime, with many hundreds executed and thousands targeted for assassination in other countries. And the new Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had maintained that monstrous program for a time, even doubling the rewards for assassinations. He interpreted Obama’s gesture as a weakness. Six months later, he was brutal in his suppression of the Green Revolution. He was confirmed in his evaluation when the Obama administration failed to do more than whimper. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he now regrets their restraint; they were advised by the CIA and the State Department that too powerful an American voice might enable the regime to label the protesters as American puppets. Maybe so, but the inertia was also an expression of the new strategy of conciliation. Gates says the suppression of the Green Revolution ended “most support inside the administration.” What it didn’t end was Obama’s infatuation with his illusion of making Iran safe for democracy.

    Khamenei’s appreciation of U.S. restraint was another bout of fist-clenching, albeit in secrecy. `Only later did we discover that he had built an underground bunker at Fordow for the enrichment of uranium, in violation of the agreements under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. For a moment there, it seemed as if Obama would follow the angry French lead and react forcefully. Khamenei adroitly forestalled punishment by a sudden bout of reasonableness. He agreed that the Iranians would ship their stockpiles of low-grade fissile material to Russia in exchange for fuel rods for energy. This played brilliantly to the Obama strategy. He resisted the congressional hawks who hadn’t imbibed the Kool-Aid. Doubting Thomases, they thought Iran could not be trusted so by 99 votes to zero enacted the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions Accountability and Divestment Act. Once the focus on this initial crisis was diverted, Khamenei reneged on the deal. Only recently the Iranians insisted that the transfer the world thought was happening is not. Iran has held on to its uranium, a failure that ought to have reaped headlines, but hasn’t: For the media, the Netanyahu vs. Obama show is more fun.

    Obama was not deflected from his strategy by Iran’s second thought. Indeed, his attachment to it was one of the reasons he finally retreated from the red line he had drawn in Syria. The CIA had drawn up a plan to equip Syrian rebels in Jordan and provide assistance once they were back in Syria. Obama stopped it – not because he’d gone soft on Bashar Assad. It was because he was still soft on Iran, Assad’s main benefactor. Subsequently Obama opened a secret bilateral channel to Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s regime, according to Mosaic’s Michael Doran. Major concessions were offered on sanctions and permitting the Iranians to continue enriching uranium to levels of 5 percent. Six U.N. Security Council resolutions had ordered Iran to cease all enrichment and reprocessing. Iran demanded the right to enrich. In effect, Obama was prepared to end the economic sanctions on Iran entirely and allow the Iranians to enrich uranium in perpetuity, Doran wrote.

    Obama is such a captive of his own illusions about Iran that he has been unable to be straight with the American people. In reporting belatedly on the November 2013 interim agreement, he boasted it had “halted” Iran’s nuclear program. In fact, major American concessions were traded for Iranian gestures of temporary restraint, concessions that will likely never be reversed. Instead of halting the Iranian program, the agreement froze only American actions. Iranian nuclear engineers continued their work to improve the efficiency of their centrifuges and to master the use of more effective centrifuges.

    No nuclear plant is being dismantled. Here, too, the administration has misled the public by underplaying the American concessions and overplaying the Iranian commitment. The Iranian foreign minister blew a hole in the smooth talk by defying an interviewer on television to find a single word in the agreement that even closely resembled dismantling or could be defined as dismantling in the entire text. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani went further. Iran had refused to destroy centrifuges, he said, and would never destroy them under any cir stances, contrary to the implicit suggestion by the administration that the final agreement would force the Iranians to dismantle some 15,000 centrifuges.

    Obama thought he was offering a strategic accommodation with the U.S., but Khamenei is betting that Obama will accommodate Iran even if it pursues an industrial-scale nuclear program. Remarkably, Obama retreated even further in agreeing Iran could have $700 million a month in revenues reportedly allowing Iran to retain in one form or another its facilities in Natanz, Fordow and Arak, sites that Iran built in flagrant violation of the non-proliferation treaty, wrote Doran. Dennis Ross, Bill Clinton’s and Obama’s preeminent Middle East peace envoy, is scathing in his condemnation of the president’s ongoing concessions to the Iranians.

    The people most affected by Obama’s zeal for a strategic grand bargain with Iran see through all this. Netanyahu’s Hail Mary pass before Congress was a devastating indictment boldly delivered. Obama’s successive appeasements, he said, had added up to paving the way to an Iranian bomb (and the unregulated missiles they’re building, too).

    And again if Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it behave like one. It trains and arms terrorists in Hamas and Hezbollah. Khamenei’s idea of moderation is to channel Pol Pot. In a recent post, he says he doesn’t mean Israel should be annihilated by a bomb but simply abolished as a country inhabited by people there before 1948. Oh, and yes, give weapons to Palestinians on the West Bank. Presumably not to be policemen, but to simply eradicate Jews who don’t want to leave.

    None of the Sunni powers in the region see American outreach to Tehran as good news, particularly since Obama has given Iran a free hand in Syria and Iraq over the last three years. Obama has allowed Iranian troops to dig on the border of Israel and the border of Jordan. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urged the U.S. to destroy Iran’s program and thereby “cut off the head of the snake in the Middle East.”


    A proposed 10-year ban on Iran’s nuclear work won’t cut off the head. It is too short a time for a transition to a civilized state – and do we really want a nuclear-capable Iran, ever? Not in 10, 20, 100 years. We should abandon the daydream that embracing and enriching Iran will turn it into Switzerland. To date, the efforts to sooth the rogue regime are emboldening it. Iran is thinking like an old-fashioned superpower, yet instead of forcing them to get rid of the Iranian nuclear threat, we’re not even verifying or inspecting it.
    The risks of letting Iran get to the one-year threshold of being a nuclear power are too great, given how much religion and ideology dominate their thinking. Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations describes a 10-year timeframe as a “catastrophic mistake”.

    Anyway, let’s not get hung up on 10, 11, 12 – Obama talks of “double digits” at one moment and “10” the next. But do we ever want a nuclear-capable Iran in a country as anti-American as the pronouncements of the Iranian leaders suggest they are? As David Brooks of The New York Times put it, “If the Iranian leaders believe what they say, then United States policy should be exactly the opposite of the one now being pursued. Instead of embracing and enriching Iran, sanctions should be toughened to further isolate and weaken it. Instead of accepting a nuclear capacity, eliminating that capacity should be restored as the centerpiece of American policy.” Iran has taken full control of Syria. Revolutionary Guard commanders have taken charge of the front from the Golan Heights all the way down to Daraa in the south. More than 10,000 e volunteers have been flown to Syria to repel the Sunnis. This process of Iran-ization is unfolding just 10 kilometers from Israel’s border. Washington, which seems to want a nuclear agreement at nearly any price, has turned a blind eye and is exploiting America’s lack of familiarity with the region. In effect, it has lent its support in transferring control over Damascus to the Iranians. That puts Israel in much greater danger of another broad Iranian front and will present a new regional reality in the form of Iranian power. It is astounding that a country, Iran, that engages in global terrorism that floods the Middle East with blood and surrounds Israel with terror on three fronts, Lebanon, Gaza and the Golan, be given a tool to threaten the region and to have the capacity to launch an existential threat to Israel. America’s key allies across the Middle East are as upset as Israel over the administration’s pursuit of a nuclear bargain with Iran, for they see an America that is about to abandon its long-standing friends to win the favor of their common foe, which is on a rampage across the region. No wonder in a Fox News poll 84 percent of Americans think allowing Iran to get nuclear weapons in 10 years is a bad idea.



    This is a life and death issue for Israel. With just one bomb Iran can do to the Jews in 12 minutes what Adolf Hitler did in 12 years. Jews learned from the Holocaust to take fanatics at their word. Nobel prize laureate Elie Wiesel’s invitation is compelling, “Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America.”

    The great Greek leader and historian Pericles once warned: “What I fear more than the strategies of our enemies is our own mistakes.” With memories of another rabid leader many years ago whose name was Hitler, it is natural that Israel would consider a nuclear armed Iran as an existential threat. This is a nation, perhaps the only nation, that has been constantly threatened with extinction. Israel is not the enemy. Iran is, especially if it is a nuclear-armed Iran. We should not abandon an ally in the hopes of appeasing an enemy.

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    This is a life and death issue for Israel. With just one bomb Iran can do to the Jews in 12 minutes what Adolf Hitler did in 12 years. Jews learned from the Holocaust to take fanatics at their word. Nobel prize laureate Elie Wiesel’s invitation is compelling, “Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America.”

    The great Greek leader and historian Pericles once warned: “What I fear more than the strategies of our enemies is our own mistakes.” With memories of another rabid leader many years ago whose name was Hitler, it is natural that Israel would consider a nuclear armed Iran as an existential threat. This is a nation, perhaps the only nation, that has been constantly threatened with extinction. Israel is not the enemy. Iran is, especially if it is a nuclear-armed Iran. We should not abandon an ally in the hopes of appeasing an enemy.
    Hitler did what?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89vian_Conference

    Evian Conference - 1938
    Hitler asks 32 countries to take his Jews. Even offering to ship them on Luxury Ships



    FACT: Iran has not invaded a foreign nation in over 200 years
    FACT: Israel has invaded multiple foreign nations in the past 50 years

    "We need to bomb/sanction Iran because they don't get along with our ally" is hypocritical, absurd and an act of War. Who ing cares what Americans feel about Iran getting the bomb, where did the Middle East, Russia or China sign off on Israel getting theirs?

    Bottomline: if Israel has the bomb then so should Iran. Otherwise bomb/sanction Israel


    sidenote: when has Polands existence not been threatened? Get the outta here with that bull crooked nose, money laundering, media brainwashing, holocaust crying Jewish garbage. I may not agree with their viewpoints but alteast I can trust Muslims and what comes out of their mouths.
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    no, he doesn't. The Repugs love him because it's just another way, like loving Putin, to disrespect the n!gg@ boy.

    Still waiting to hear Bibi's strategy for attacking Iran. Maybe he thinks more, unlimited sanctions will cause the corrupt, autocratic mullahs to give up and be nice?
    They loved him before Obama.

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    If Israel is so scurred of Iran they can stop taking our money and start the war with them now. I am fine with that. I am done with their meddling in our internal politics and directing our foreign policy for us. The US gets nothing from its propping up Israel. Nothing.

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    They loved him before Obama.
    Inviting Bibi behind Obama's back was nothing but a chance to to disrespect the n!gg@ boy. Bibi's speech accomplished nothing but that. His song hasn't changed in 20+ years, said nothing new. It was all about disrespecting Obama, by Repugs and Bibi. btw, Israel is now a LOT more insecure after Repugs invaded Iraq for oil and destabilized the Middle East, probably going to last decades.

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    http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-new...r-408443971622

    Full Interview with Iran Foreign Minister


    Summary:
    Israel is a threat to the region and is guilty of many crimes against the Palestinians. Netanyahu is a fear monger and a liar.


    Iran has saved the Jews three times since biblical times, including in the days of Esther. Jews are over represented in the Iranian government. Iran is nothing but peaceful.

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    Inviting Bibi behind Obama's back was nothing but a chance to to disrespect the n!gg@ boy. Bibi's speech accomplished nothing but that. His song hasn't changed in 20+ years, said nothing new. It was all about disrespecting Obama, by Repugs and Bibi. btw, Israel is now a LOT more insecure after Repugs invaded Iraq for oil and destabilized the Middle East, probably going to last decades.
    Dear God, SHUT UP!!!

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    Dear God, SHUT UP!!!
    Another devastating take down. The great boutons is humbled.

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    I'm very impressed with Darrin's for ude, to get beat down every day on every topic, and he comes back more.

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    The last time the US "helped" the regime it created ISIS.....so I'm not sure Israel wants it's help.

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    I'm very impressed with Darrin's for ude, to get beat down every day on every topic, and he comes back more.
    just like you

    LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem — a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

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    false equivalence, o you of punctured bladder

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    No. Perfect equivalence.

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