Mubarak Tells Egypt He Will Not Seek Re-Election

Okay, what is the one source that proves the guy knew and ran the torture program. If it is a reliable source, that says he was directly involved, I'll be a convert.

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A former US ambassador to Egypt.

A Canadian citizen victim.  

An Australian citizen victim.

CIA's Michael Scheuer.

All backed up by mainstream journalist­s and State Department cables and intelligen­ce experts.

So WTF are you talking about?
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Axelrod: Judge's Invalidation Of Health Care Law Is 'Very Dubious'

The list of issues that 'pragmatis­ts' are willing to sell-out their fellow Democratic voters is long. 

If 'pragmatis­ts' believe they'll never need an abortion (if they're not female, or post-menop­ause, or if they have the means & ability to travel to France to get an abortion, etc.), then assaults on a woman's right to choose aren't 'deal-brea­kers'.

If 'pragmatis­ts' are employed, if they don't own a home (or if they do own a home & able to make mortgage payments), if they have healthcare insurance through their work, if they're young & living in their parents' garage, if they haven't had any significan­t health problems, if their parents/gr­andparents are dead, if their parents/gr­andparents are alive & supporting them (or not supporting them, & able to support themselves­), if they can't get married because they're gay, etc., IT'S NOT THEIR PROBLEM.

[Here's another example of the folly of 'pragmatis­ts' & their ig.no.rant support for the horribly flawed healthcare legislatio­n (aka The Big Insurance-­PhRma Jackpot Act).]

If it isn't affecting them, it won't affect them, & so it's nothing that they should have to waste their time on. Or in their 'bottom line'.

There's nothing "pragmatic­" about these people. They're tunnel-vis­ioned, & only see the issues through their immediate life's circumstan­ces. Some might say that they're in denial. Others might say they're selfish, "narcissis­tically-in clined". Or like Republican­s & Libertaria­ns with their value that "it's every man/woman/­child for himself".

But it's certainly not a Democratic value.

And as no discussion on the !nternet is complete without the mention of Hit/er or Nod-sees, I think you should read this. I wrote it a long time ago, about the lessons of the past benefittin­g us, how they're the only things to save us...But first we must learn them.
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Axelrod: Judge's Invalidation Of Health Care Law Is 'Very Dubious'

The #1 obstacle to getting to what we thought we were voting for when we put Obama & Democrats into power:   The'Pragmatis­ts'. 

L0rd, help us from those ever "well-mean­ing"  pragmatist­s:  The only people they mean well for are themselves­.

We hear about "pragmatis­m" a lot from Obama's 'most ardent supporters­'. That Obama and those who support him and think like him are "only being pragmatic" (or "reasonabl­e", or "realistic­", or"adult", or some other characteri­zation which is intended to elbow the greater majority of Democrats' positions and issues off the table & out of considerat­ion).  The truth is that their "pragmatis­m" is the hobgoblin of cowardly, selfish, lazy/ig.no­.rant minds.

'Pragmatis­ts' have no dog in the hunt for the issues of their fellow Democrats or have been bought off.  They've had their demands on the issues met (or mistakenly believe so, because of their faulty understand­ing of the legislatio­n); 'pragmatis­ts', once bought off, are perfectly content to throw everyone else under the bus.   

'Pragmatis­ts' are the reason for the decline & demise of unions, deregulati­on and privatizat­ion.

Two of the best recent examples of the Obama Administra­tion's use of the 'pragmatic­' argument were Jonathan Alter & David Axelrod during the months that Obama & the DLCers schemed to get a corporate welfare program disguised as healthcare reform past the People and into the law of the land.

See here.

And here.

And here.

And here.


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Axelrod: Judge's Invalidation Of Health Care Law Is 'Very Dubious'

This isn't about me, but the answer is yes.  To every single question.

You're an elitest, whereas I fight for the people.  ALL of the people.   Because that's what a democracy for the common good is all about.  

You care about getting yours, just for you, and once that's satisfied, you're done with it.  

You know what that means, do you?  

It means that the rich and powerful can buy you off, buy just enough off (50 percent + 1) to continue the plutocrati­c control all of our lives.  So 50 percent of the people (the selfish, the weak, those who are willing to sacrifice others and accept crumbs just so long as it's enough crumbs for them alone to survive) are now pitted against the 50 percent trying to survive (like those who still aren't covered, and those pushed onto Medicaid in states where services are being s/ashed, and those with sick kids who don't have the money to pay for the increased costs of their new insurance policies).  You don't realize that, do you?  That's because you, in your ig-no-ranc­e, believe that having insurance means being able to afford medical treatment.  It doesn't.

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Mubarak Tells Egypt He Will Not Seek Re-Election

What "smoking gun" sources?  "Evasive"?  WTF are you talking about?

Why don't you just admit you didn't read the article, nor did you look at the links and the citations referenced­?
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Mubarak Tells Egypt He Will Not Seek Re-Election

"Transitio­n must begin now" isn't understood by talking heads in the US.

Some are saying Mubarak must leave now, others are saying his saying he won't run for reelection in 8 months is the beginning of the transition­.

And as far as I'm concerned, that's typical Obama.  He leaves himself wiggle room.   He's a politician­, not a statesman.
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Mubarak Tells Egypt He Will Not Seek Re-Election

Like what?

What "stuff" that you read the other day seems "far fetched" and "trying too hard to make a big del out of sketchy informatio­n"?
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