Based on that alone, you should be banned permanently from this board. If we were DU or DailyKaos, you would be persona non grata.

Regards,
Peter H.

If your raj/Ian/blah, the trick is to sidestep all responsibility for civil debate, wildly speculate opinion and present it as truth, then deny you wrote it when confronted with the truth.

It’s a slick lawyerly trick. And those boys have it down pat.

As in, see raj above.

If a sockpuppet tells a lie in a forest, is it still considered the truth?

Good question. One thing that you might want to consider is that you, Matty, and “V die dummeKuh” all seem to pipe up here pretty much on schedule. I’d include NDXXX in that, but someone using that monicker also bloviates on other websites that I’ve visited.

BTW, just a question, did you have something substantive that you wanted to say? If not, why did you bother saying anything at all?

And perhaps you might elaborate how the German police were able to foil these plots? As I recall, it’s because the German laws that you so admire about the government being allowed to wiretap, tail, and arrest people are at the level that you denounce as “fascist” in the United States.

An amazing contradiction — RajIan likes to brag about how much better the Germans are and how the US isn’t advancing in that regard, but opposes laws that would allow the US to do the same as the German government.

Regards,
Peter H.

Scientific question for our hosts: can a sockpuppet be in two places at once? What???

Next, we’ll hear that –as a casual aside– “blah” is in Peru or Lima or Canton. LOL.

Here is news that Katie Couric will not report on this evening in her debut on the CBS Evening News….

Since I’m here in Germany, I didn’t get to see the debut of Perky Katie on the CBS Evening News, but I’m wondering. Are you really suggesting that CBS News is supposed to be the (oral) stenographer for the US Government/Military? Give me a break. The US already has NBC (owned by government contractor General Electic) and ABC (the Disney channel) as stenographers.

BTW, regarding

The central front in the War on Terror remains in Iraq.

Um, not really. The central front in the War on (Some) Terror extends from Morocco (remember the bombings of the trains in Madrid a few years ago? and the bombings in Morocco itself?), through Egypt (remember the Muslim Brotherhood bombings of tourist areas that have been going on for years?), into Jordan (remember the various plots against tourist areas there?), into Pakistan (America’s supposed “ally,” but remember the fact that the plot against American air carriers was apparently uncovered in Pakistan), into Bali, back to Turkey (bombings of British interests in Istanbul a few years ago, and more recently further bombings).

And, quite frankly into Libanon (that’s Lebanon for the Amis). There was a plot here in Germany that was foiled a little over a month ago, in which a couple of Lebanese residing in Germany were suspected of trying to bomb a couple of RegionalZuege (regional trains) outside of Koblenz and Duisberg. The apparent intent was to cause the trains to derail and kill a few people. I don’t know whether this made the news in the USofA, but let’s understand something. Their plotting was so incompetent that I could do even better than what they did. The Rote Armee Fraktion (a/k/a Baader-Meinhof Gang, from the 1970s) was more competent at terrorism than these people were.

But the RAF (and their twins Red Brigade in Italy) were eventually subdued with a bit of effort–but not a whole lot.

To the point: the “central front in the War on Terror remains in Iraq”? On what do you base that assertion? Other than the fact that your St. Bush, he of Shrub, says so.

I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for a response.

“Pakistan has openly admitted that it would let Osama bin Laden remain a free man if committed to living a peaceful existance in the region. “If he is in Pakistan, bin Laden ‘would not be taken into custody,’ Major General Shaukat Sultan Khan told ABC News in a telephone interview, ‘as long as one is being like a peaceful citizen,” reports ABC News’ The Blotter. An independent intelligence source confirms Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan Khan’s position is an accurate reflection of Pakistani policy. [Note: Pakistan has since retracted its statements on bin Laden and immunity, but the Blotter transcript of teh interview refutes this.]”

http://billroggio.com/archives/2006/09/talibanistan_the_est.php

THANK YOU! I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN YOU GUYS WHEN I PRAY!
PLEASE, COME HOME SAFELY! WE ALL LOVE YOU AND ARE PROUD OF YOU!

(regardless of the sad ways that the media portrays you guys!)

Because all you see is BS.

Regards,
Peter H.