As a commentator points out, didn’t Mexico “steal” it from Spain, Spain from the natives, and presumably those natives from other natives, etc

You left out the lizards and birds and plants and dirt - all mostly pristine until the humans with their slashing and burning and the rest moved in.

Clearly someone cut class on anthropocentrism.

PS "Qommies" is a qeeper. I feel I've seen it before, but that's the natural reaction to a natural, and, since I can't bring to mind a prior sighting, Sniper gets the citing in the Zombie OED.

narciso wrote:

Oh, I enjoyed that pomo semiotics cocktail, about as much as my last

Pomo? Emanations from Supercluster Fr. "Sniper" McCloskey's ex-ist beyond aesthetic historical periodicities. Plus he seems to be the only personage actually to check the link (twice at least) (thanks).

Fr. Supercluster also manages to isolate the key graphs from Mr. Mysteriously-Young's article - which converge, if tremulously, with the contrarian views of Max Hastings and George Friedman. Hastings, as you may recall, viewed the Afghanistan strategy as aimed at a pretext for withdrawal, under an only slightly foxed and creased banner of Mission Accomplished (or close enough for government shirk). Friedman concurred, in effect, that the main mission should be to walk out on this interminable 3rd (4th?, 5th?) world production - every soldier presumably with his or her own CIA-approved cover story re: need to use the restroom, interest in popcorn or jujubees, etc. And, like Young tossing and turning the dream songs of the Commonterrorat, Friedman also saw an Iran-thumping as the necessarily correct, if sadly less than inevitable, strategic solution. You may have also heard one or two Obamapologetic leftoids, with frogs in their throats or throats in their frogs, portray the Iran policy as the construction of the Second Pretext, for the thumping.

To thump or not to thump, that is the strategic question.

Many days without thought of matters medicinal to all (physicians excluded, unless on vacation)!

narciso wrote:

Like the Brecht Forum, the CAP,the group that Jeff Jones
was a part of, the Apollo Alliance, all have their imput into the system

The American way.

Newsflash, Ken: That delightful comrade in the video is not "the Left," and deluded weirdo nonentity "revolutionary" that he is, he's still several black masses short of "more evil than Hitler." The main reason that he's not worth negotiating with isn't that he's "evil," it's that he doesn't matter very much.

Ken wrote:

Read some of their posts sometime. These people are more evil than Hitler, and as with Hitler, we shouldn’t be trying, Chamberlain-like, to negotiate with them.

To say the least, that's an extreme and odious charge to make, and it's absurd for you to expect anyone to accept it on the basis of your testimony. I won't ask you to provide evidence, however, because the claim, or rather calumny, is unsupportable: "The left" is not sundry people who've written sundry posts - though search around a little longer and you'll find some of the same people, or their commenters, explaining why right-wingers are "more evil than Hitler," and on remarkably similar grounds. We used to run into them at the old Contentions comments all of the time: They are legion, and sooner or later turn up anywhere that commenting is open. The only thing that excuses such talk from either side is that it's impossible to take seriously.