Honduras 1903
Dominican Republic 1903-04
Cuba 1906-09
Nicaragua 1907
Honduras 1907
Panama 1908
Nicaragua 1910
Honduras 1911
Cuba 1912
Panama 1912
Honduras 1912
Nicaragua 1912-33
Mexico 1913
Dominican Republic 1914
Mexico 1914-18
Haiti 1914-34
Dominican Republic 1916-24
Panama 1918-20
Honduras 1919
Guatemala 1920
Costa Rica 1921
Panama 1921
Honduras 1924-25
Panama 1925
El Salvador 1932
Uruguay 1947
Panama 1958
Panama 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Honduras 1982-90
Grenada 1983-84
Bolivia 1987
Panama 1989
Haiti 1994

More importantly, thanks to American hegemony all of these nations (except Cuba) are more peaceful, free, prosperous, and stable than at any time in their violent and despotic past.

Source: Freedom House, 2007.

I also posted a response that was censored, I will re-post:

While the many lament holding suspected terrorists underwater or the use of the tazer on stupid, impaired, and potentially dangerous malcontents; many on this blog support or disregard the annual murder and torture of tens of thousands of our most vulnerable and innocent (without anesthesia) — babies in the third trimester.

We need to be reminded that these 6-9 month old innocents have (1) self-awareness, (2) feel pain, and (3) understand the horror associated with their murders. These innocents are brutalized by a forced hollow metal rod injected into the babies skull and the brains sucked out.

In summary, hypocrisy, barbarism, (and censorship) appear to be the cornerstone of Progressive “thought”.

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” ~Noam Chomsky

“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.”Eugene Gladstone O’Neill, American playwright

Don’t play chicken….be the fox, be the bull, be the stallion. Don’t put up with this…

Just Stop it Now!

selise @ 198

yes – and typically it’s not just clothes and accessories. hair cut, nails and general bearing.

Once in Sonoma I made a California rolling stop thru a stop sign at 3 in the morning. I was pulled over by two cops. I rolled down my window and with my best southern belle accent asked them whatever did they want? Combined with that demeanor and my address they let me go. Chumps.

Did the same thing in New Jersey. Was speeding & got pulled over but claimed I never saw the lowered speed limit in construction zone signs as I travelled the same route every Sunday night for years. Cop saw my sleeping 10-year-old & let me go. Another unfair positive-prfiling story. A friend toal me his ex-wife cried every time she got pulled over & got away with it every time.

Now I think we gals ought to shut up. Pretty soon the guys are going to get really upset with how many privledges we have.

selise @ 203

read his book when i was going through my world view change on america’s place and history in the world. it made an impression.

That it would. When people say – as they often do – that they want their country back, I think – sorry, this is your country. All they have lost is their illusions.

the illusion i hate to loose is the one where americans have to be lied to because they would otherwise never support aggressive war,regime change, torture, secret prisons and gov. spying. the one where americans valiantly fight for all that is good and just – not the one where we don’t give a shit.

hanging out with you-all reminds me that it is not always illusion.

Steve-AR @ 117

Sounds like it might have been a necessary use. I have seen hospital personnel injured by very large, very drunk men in the ER.

Perhaps, but would be more compelling if it were just one instance. A properly staffed emergency room should be generally equipped to handle drunk/psychotic patients. Two instances this close together carries the whiff of shortcut over-reliance/understaffing.

Possibly tasering should be treated like gun shots – w/after action reviews.

So how did hospitals handle these situations before they had tasers.

newtonusr @ 211

Kiss like an angel and kick like a mule.

bless your little heart

Suzanne!
and
Demi!

newtonusr @ 211

Kiss like an angel and kick like a mule.

bless your little heart

Evening, Ma Cheri! Ya might not want to read this thread…

marymccurnin @ 207

Cause we ahr sweet and mean.

Kiss like an angel and kick like a mule.

The razor steel fist in the velvet glove.