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	<title>Comments on: Marmot’s Open Thread #18</title>
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		<title>By: Vacilando</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/09/08/marmot%e2%80%99s-open-thread-18/#comment-106698</link>
		<dc:creator>Vacilando</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just had to post this somewhere:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-politics10sep10,1,5376455.story?ctrack=1&#38;cset=true

Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain

Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show.

By Denise Gellene, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 10, 2007</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just had to post this somewhere:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-politics10sep10,1,5376455.story?ctrack=1&amp;cset=true" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/sc.....;cset=true</a></p>
<p>Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain</p>
<p>Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show.</p>
<p>By Denise Gellene, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer<br />
September 10, 2007</p>
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		<title>By: slim</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/09/08/marmot%e2%80%99s-open-thread-18/#comment-106631</link>
		<dc:creator>slim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anyone know who this Jacob Cambria guy is who writes letters to Asia Times Online every other day and who insinuates, despite a body of written evidence, that he better understands North Korea than Dr Lankov, among others, and heaps praise on the nutjob "unofficial DPRK spokesman" Kim Myong-chul?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anyone know who this Jacob Cambria guy is who writes letters to Asia Times Online every other day and who insinuates, despite a body of written evidence, that he better understands North Korea than Dr Lankov, among others, and heaps praise on the nutjob &#8220;unofficial DPRK spokesman&#8221; Kim Myong-chul?</p>
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		<title>By: Zonath</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/09/08/marmot%e2%80%99s-open-thread-18/#comment-106627</link>
		<dc:creator>Zonath</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Fact is, US soil has not been attacked since 9-11-01. That is also exactly what Osama had in mind, I suppose.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

And you have yet to make a point here.  Your point, I suppose, is that a Democratic president would welcome Al-quaeda into New York with a ticker-tape parade and an ice cream cake?  Or are you worried that a Democratic president would invade a secular country -- justifying that invasion as part of a global war on Islamic extremism -- which ultimately served to radicalize the regional populace (but hey, having no government is better than having a dictatorial government, eh?) while completely dropping the ball on actually catching the perpetrators of the worst terrorist attack in US history?  I suppose it's all &lt;i&gt;possible&lt;/i&gt;, but I really don't think &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt; is &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; stupid.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Fact is, US soil has not been attacked since 9-11-01. That is also exactly what Osama had in mind, I suppose.</p></blockquote>
<p>And you have yet to make a point here.  Your point, I suppose, is that a Democratic president would welcome Al-quaeda into New York with a ticker-tape parade and an ice cream cake?  Or are you worried that a Democratic president would invade a secular country &#8212; justifying that invasion as part of a global war on Islamic extremism &#8212; which ultimately served to radicalize the regional populace (but hey, having no government is better than having a dictatorial government, eh?) while completely dropping the ball on actually catching the perpetrators of the worst terrorist attack in US history?  I suppose it&#8217;s all <i>possible</i>, but I really don&#8217;t think <i>anyone</i> is <i>that</i> stupid.</p>
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		<title>By: wjk</title>
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		<dc:creator>wjk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and also add that people in Afghanistan don't really appreciate Muslim foreigners coming to bomb the whole country here and there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and also add that people in Afghanistan don&#8217;t really appreciate Muslim foreigners coming to bomb the whole country here and there.</p>
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		<title>By: wjk</title>
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		<dc:creator>wjk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>zonath, you're the one out of ammo.

You're just leaving with one-liners of wjk this and that.

Fact is, Osama bin Laden is hiding with restriction of $, medical services, and food.  That was exactly what he planned, I suppose.

Fact is, US soil has not been attacked since 9-11-01.  That is also exactly what Osama had in mind, I suppose.



Leaving Iraq makes Iraq an international war zone between Syria and Iran.  Not just with mortars and machine guns.  But with tanks, air force, and uniformed soliders.  

The United Nations has no incentive to make Bush look pretty.

However, they just released information that the fighters in Afghanistan are mostly foreign.

I'll bet you that most of the insurgency in Iraq does not support Al Qaeda per say, but they have their own goals supporting their Sunni or Shiite factions with foreign support from Syria and Iran.  They have their own ideology differences.

Democrats are saying US should leave Iraq as soon as possible.  That worked fantastic with Vietnam.  Indeed, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China had wars here and there and internal purges that resulted in as many people dying there as World War II.

Democrats are helping Al Qaeda by exiting Iraq.  Deal with it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>zonath, you&#8217;re the one out of ammo.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re just leaving with one-liners of wjk this and that.</p>
<p>Fact is, Osama bin Laden is hiding with restriction of $, medical services, and food.  That was exactly what he planned, I suppose.</p>
<p>Fact is, US soil has not been attacked since 9-11-01.  That is also exactly what Osama had in mind, I suppose.</p>
<p>Leaving Iraq makes Iraq an international war zone between Syria and Iran.  Not just with mortars and machine guns.  But with tanks, air force, and uniformed soliders.  </p>
<p>The United Nations has no incentive to make Bush look pretty.</p>
<p>However, they just released information that the fighters in Afghanistan are mostly foreign.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll bet you that most of the insurgency in Iraq does not support Al Qaeda per say, but they have their own goals supporting their Sunni or Shiite factions with foreign support from Syria and Iran.  They have their own ideology differences.</p>
<p>Democrats are saying US should leave Iraq as soon as possible.  That worked fantastic with Vietnam.  Indeed, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China had wars here and there and internal purges that resulted in as many people dying there as World War II.</p>
<p>Democrats are helping Al Qaeda by exiting Iraq.  Deal with it.</p>
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		<title>By: dokdoforever</title>
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		<dc:creator>dokdoforever</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As for those very old, very expensive apartments south of the river, according to naver.com's real estate site, Hyundai in Apkujung-dong (price $2million to $5 million per unit) and the apts in Chamshil ($1.5 mill/ unit) were built in 1979 and 1978, respectively.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As for those very old, very expensive apartments south of the river, according to naver.com&#8217;s real estate site, Hyundai in Apkujung-dong (price $2million to $5 million per unit) and the apts in Chamshil ($1.5 mill/ unit) were built in 1979 and 1978, respectively.</p>
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		<title>By: dokdoforever</title>
		<link>http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/09/08/marmot%e2%80%99s-open-thread-18/#comment-106461</link>
		<dc:creator>dokdoforever</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WJK, in many ways Bush's Iraq invasion played right into Osama Ben Laden's hands, and helped to increase El Quada's popularity and political power in the Middle East. Osama had claimed prior to 911 that the US sought to dominate the Middle East, supress Islam, etc, when we had been doing nothing of the sort.  Invading Iraq proved Osama right to many Arabs, and the power vacuum we created there gave all Osama's new recruits a place to engage in holy war.  Defeating the Taleban was different, a justifiable case of self defense. Going into Iraq just reinforced Osama's propoganda about America.

A terrorist can just as easily win by goading the enemy into over-aggressive retalliation.  Of course, doing nothing is also not an answer.  A measured response is most effective, so I'd argue that Osama would actually be best served, and the US least served, by election of a warmongering Republican, like Bush/Cheney, or a pacifist from the far left.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WJK, in many ways Bush&#8217;s Iraq invasion played right into Osama Ben Laden&#8217;s hands, and helped to increase El Quada&#8217;s popularity and political power in the Middle East. Osama had claimed prior to 911 that the US sought to dominate the Middle East, supress Islam, etc, when we had been doing nothing of the sort.  Invading Iraq proved Osama right to many Arabs, and the power vacuum we created there gave all Osama&#8217;s new recruits a place to engage in holy war.  Defeating the Taleban was different, a justifiable case of self defense. Going into Iraq just reinforced Osama&#8217;s propoganda about America.</p>
<p>A terrorist can just as easily win by goading the enemy into over-aggressive retalliation.  Of course, doing nothing is also not an answer.  A measured response is most effective, so I&#8217;d argue that Osama would actually be best served, and the US least served, by election of a warmongering Republican, like Bush/Cheney, or a pacifist from the far left.</p>
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		<title>By: Zonath</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zonath</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;name that insurgent guerilla group that Bush is funding.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

wjk.... What the holy hell are you talking about?  You first -- name a single terrorist organization that any prominent Democrat is funding.  You're obviously just blowing a bunch of smoke now, since you're obviously losing on all the other points.  Who really gives a shit whether or not Osama or any other terrorist would vote Democrat or Republican?  None of that should inform or influence one whit who anyone actually votes for in the upcoming elections.  But again, you're just pulling another wjk by completely missing the point on that.

You know what, though?  Forget it.  You can go on making pointless and frankly stupid accusations against Democrats all you like... We'll just all ignore you like we always do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>name that insurgent guerilla group that Bush is funding.</p></blockquote>
<p>wjk&#8230;. What the holy hell are you talking about?  You first &#8212; name a single terrorist organization that any prominent Democrat is funding.  You&#8217;re obviously just blowing a bunch of smoke now, since you&#8217;re obviously losing on all the other points.  Who really gives a shit whether or not Osama or any other terrorist would vote Democrat or Republican?  None of that should inform or influence one whit who anyone actually votes for in the upcoming elections.  But again, you&#8217;re just pulling another wjk by completely missing the point on that.</p>
<p>You know what, though?  Forget it.  You can go on making pointless and frankly stupid accusations against Democrats all you like&#8230; We&#8217;ll just all ignore you like we always do.</p>
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		<title>By: Griego</title>
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		<dc:creator>Griego</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If I was a politician in the US, I wouldn't worry too much about losing the Muslim terrorist vote. Only politicans seeking office in Londinistan have to fret that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I was a politician in the US, I wouldn&#8217;t worry too much about losing the Muslim terrorist vote. Only politicans seeking office in Londinistan have to fret that.</p>
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		<title>By: wjk</title>
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		<dc:creator>wjk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>there is clear irony in the US Muslim who is plotting a terror on US soil, who also makes sure he votes Democrat in a US election.  Mind boggling. 

Worthy of criticism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>there is clear irony in the US Muslim who is plotting a terror on US soil, who also makes sure he votes Democrat in a US election.  Mind boggling. </p>
<p>Worthy of criticism.</p>
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