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Not really. I was talking about the guy at the top, who seems to be getting down to business, much as his immediate predecessor did as well, without attempting to impose an overtly partisan agenda. At least, that’s what it looks like to me from my vantage point 10,000 miles away. Whether this percolates down to those Iran-watchers, who I’d agree don’t seem to have learned much since their days of predicting the continuing reign of the Shah, remains to be seen.

Langley? you mean those sensible grownups who assured President Bush that Iran had stopped working on the A-Bomb?

Maybe you would like to adjust that statement a bit.

If you watch about 30 seconds of a Van Jones speech, it is impossible (in my view) to come away with any opinion other than that Jones is a complete wild-eyed lunatic. And not just from the substance of his views; I’m talking about the rhetoric, the delivery, the clown show he puts on, i.e. THE TOTAL PACKAGE.

Ever since I saw Jarrett gushing about Van Jones, I can’t look at her the same. Something seems “off” with her. Like, crazy time “off”. Maybe it’s the hair helmet thing she has on her head or whatever. But in a million years i would NEVER judge her to be someone who should be within a country mile of the POTUS, even a dummy like Obama.

Ah, not quite yet, Bob. But it is certainly a rare commodity in this administration. The only sensible grownups I’ve identified in it so far appear to be at the Pentagon and at Langley. Too bad there don’t seem to be any across the river, where it really counts. Just fools, megalomaniacs, and combinations thereof on the east bank of the Potomac.

Bulgakov in Master… spoke through one of the characters of the strange ways the blood trickles through generations: “The stack of cards is dealt with in surprising ways…”

Boot: I always suspected that about “affordable housing”, i.e. that it is in fact a scheme, contrary to all the idealistic smokescreen that instigators surround it with.
Actually, Ayn Rand already described it perfectly in Fountainhead.

Did they? Care to back yourself up with a link?

I have different sources that supply me with much more plausible explanation: remember Ryazan-99?

Wiki: “Incident in Ryazan gave rise to a theory of Russian Governmental conspiracy, according to which the bombings were a “false flag” attack perpetrated by the FSB in order to legitimize the resumption of military activities in Chechnya and bring Vladimir Putin to power[8][9].”

As someone said in my “friends’ band”: there is a folk saying already: ” Something goes Poof in Moscow – look at VVP in Kremlin”.

Don’t try to hang your own transparent disinformation assignment on Israelis – you’re too crude, officer.

If living in a foreign country for a few years when you’re a kid qualifies one as an expert on foreign policy, shouldn’t one be required to live in America as a kid to run domestic policy? Isn’t that really what the founders were after when they required that the President be native-born?