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should have happened a long time ago - then break up Turkey and we can take back Constantinople 
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Rather, I think our tanks are turning right rather than left.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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you could go both ways, mop up Syria while you're at itAny views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?Comment
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Wasn't that task assigned to Israel? Division of labor and whatnot.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Dan, no response for Vanguard?Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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No, more like partitioned with the largest portion a Shiite Islamist stronghold with close ties to Iran.Originally posted by DanS
In the long-term, Iraq-related expenses are non-recurring. Do you imagine 150,000 troops or 200,000 troops in Iraq 10 years from now?
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Whatever happened to that vision of a model of democracy for the Mideast, and a friendly, pro-American base for US influence and power projection?Originally posted by DanS
Iraq will be partitioned before that happens. Cheaper.When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."Comment
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Originally posted by DanS
This isn't true, but is a typical misconception. It all depends on how much your economy has grown in the meantime.
And there's going to be a very bad recession in 2007. The housing bubble is popping -- there are ten times more units for sale in Florida this year than last, and no one's buying. Whether you call it stagflation or inflation, the doubling in the price of oil is about to start showing up majorly in the oil-dependent (read: all) goods, and the price of oil isn't going down anytime soon unless Bush nukes China or something.
Bernanke should have made a major hike in the interest rates to prevent a hard landing for your economy, but he's playing electoral politics for the Republicans and decided to actually sit on his thumbs instead of raising it by even a measily quarter of a percent. So, bon voyage. One hopes Canada does not follow your death spiral.Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.comComment
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Death Spiral? Meh.
Recession? Entirely possible. Which will somehow get blamed on the Dems, no doubt.
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Why have one when you can have three?Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Whatever happened to that vision of a model of democracy for the Mideast, and a friendly, pro-American base for US influence and power projection?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I've responded in the past with regard to the difference between gross debt and net debt. No need to repeat. For this thread, I will say that Bush went above and beyond the call of duty to convince the Dems to help reform Social Security for the good of all (that's the significance of the difference between gross debt and net debt).Originally posted by Oerdin
Dan, no response for Vanguard?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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For the good of all. Bush. Same sentence.
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The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Unlikely that Canada will follow the US economy. While a US slump hurts us , it would require slumps in a couple of major markets for our commodities before Canada really starts to hurt. Even then, it would take a major crash to slow oilsands development . . . a recession of a year or two would be unlikely to slow it at all unless the long-term forecasted oil price crashes as well.Originally posted by St Leo
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Bernanke should have made a major hike in the interest rates to prevent a hard landing for your economy, but he's playing electoral politics for the Republicans and decided to actually sit on his thumbs instead of raising it by even a measily quarter of a percent. So, bon voyage. One hopes Canada does not follow your death spiral.
Plus Canada has a lot more breathing room since the feds have a surplus and have paid down some debt. Since as DanS points out, growth alone makes a static debt SMALLER as a proportion of an economy, it is doubly good to be able to pay down some debt.
If we do face a recession, we are in reasonably good shape to weather such stormsYou don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto LuongoComment
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Ah, so after partition, then they'll love us?Originally posted by DanS
Why have one when you can have three?
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Could get tricky, I'll admit.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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