selise says
December 19th, 2006 at 10:28 am*

what’s with giving vancouverpat @ 77 such grief?

imo, this is not exactly how we regain our neighbor’s respect.

If I over-reacted, I apologize. On the other hand, the guy didn’t walk in the door showing much respect for us, now did he?

I’d consider emigrating to Canada, but it seems to slow brain-function, from what I can tell.

I admit that, as a first comment ever, I could have made my point in a more diplomatic manner, but was that personal attack really necessary?

That arrogant attitude is part of what I was referring to.

Taken as a whole, Western Europe is by far the most sustainable industrial economy in the world, despite local differences. There is no major governance in the world so focused upon the environment and quality of life issues. (~Like the Germans, we’ve learned from past mistakes, significantly.)

The people here suffer from the same problems as the amurkans, including the gradual loss of our media to the amurkan model of corporate spokes-propaganda. But no problem is near as significant as in amurka.

And the people here are healthier, and the food is less dangerous, and our economies are far less dependent on sellling destruction, and shock and awe are what good artists produce.

Eye miss SanFranDisco, but the loss is greatly tempered by living where global warming has been taken seriously for a decade, and the ramp-up to even further movement toward ecological sustainability, based upon a strong economic foundation, grows every day.

Vielen Dank, Christy.

Would be nice if Dickerson and his editor were respectful enough to check spelling of proper names.

Kos is short for Markos.

After seeing that, I’m not going to waste my time with the rest of the article. If they can’t get something that easy to check right, what else didn’t they bother to check or get right?

Walk back with me for a moment to those weeks after 9/11/01, at a time when the unprecedented support for the United States from around the world offered us an opportunity — had we but seized it at the time — to forge even stronger alliances, stronger threads,on which our foreign policy, influence and ability to work with other nations around the world could have rested for years and years to come.

We must face the fact that 9/11 happened because of the Bush Administration and the neo-cons, not despite them. I no longer have any doubts that a 9/11 attack, with ALL THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE, would not have happened under a Gore administration, or any administration with at least the slightest interest for the welfare and continence of the American Democracy.

This is not conspiracy, it is just damming facts. Whether MIHOP, LIHOP or just the incredible indifference to the Mideast by a cabal with so much at stake on its most precious commodity — oil, they are responsible for it happening, and for the subsequent squandering of all the positive that horrible event could have met to America, and the world.

When people really wake up to this knowledge, the course to chart for the future becomes very clear.

Someone at KOS quoted this:

Shall we only threaten and be angry for an hour?
When the storm is ended shall we find
How softly but how swiftly they have sidled back to power
By the favour and contrivance of their kind?

from the poem Mesopotamia, by Kipling.
Somehow, seems to echo what the NeoCons have done, and are doing.

Please read Shaun’s post from today:…