No, I do not try to pass myself off as smart. I present facts, information, ideas and interpretations. I do not refer to my previous education, degree or language skills WHEN IT IS NOT CALLED FOR.

People who do, do it for only one reason, of course.

Invalid. Nice try.

Well, in my travels in the third world where conditions were difficult, I saw plenty of Europeans and nary an American among the volunteers who did a fantastic job helping the starving, the poor, those living in terrible shanty towns, street urchins in Romania, orphans in Romania, those dying of AIDS, those in drought-stricken areas where people were dying of starvation, and also in Thailand where, admittedly, there was an American or two and where the food is excellent and incredibly cheap and lodgings comfortable. I wonder why. Perhaps because there were no comfortable air-conditioned lodgings and good food available for them there. The volunteers were Italian, German, Swedish, Swiss, French, Belgian and from most other European countries, but nary an American.

I don't care how much you have searched the internet, and anyway, I don't believe a word you write, neither do most people on Current.

I don't believe in anything positive about those Americans who are like you. I know plenty of good and wonderful Americans, you are not among them and you do represent the worst and the bad, as you consistently demonstrate.

No, it only seems obvious in your twisted imagination, that's all.

LOL! You are of course entitled to your delusions, but all the shit you post on Current proves the opposite of what you are claiming!

Actually, absolutely accurate, however much you dislike being thus exposed. Everything you post, all your responses confirm this.

"I saw plenty of Europeans and nary an American among the volunteers"

So, it appears that we cancel each other out.

Let's go by the studies and research, then. Americans are far more charitable than Europeans. I also added the reasons for this.

"I don't believe in anything positive about those Americans"

Again, even if you deny the truth, the reality is that Americans are the most generous people on the planet.

I took a RANDOM look at the museums recommended by Fodors Guide. I know that they are old and started mainly by kings, etc., but let's have a look at how they came to be public in the modern era.

Louvre: The National Assembly (Government)
Museum Island: Government
British Museum: Its foundations lie in the will of the physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane. (Private)
Uffizi: (Government)
Guggenheim Museum (Spain): Government
Etc. This is the pattern.

Look at American museums and how almost ALL started.

No, I am very consistent.

Funny how the government museums are far better and far superior to the private ones, save perhaps for the British Museum.

Yes, consistent in your desire to goad people on Current to furnish you with your narcissistic supply as well as your desire to disrupt and destroy Current.

That statement stems from the same kind of pretentiousness that prompted you to write in French, Russian, knowing full well that others could not read it, of course.

And the NY Museum of Art is better than those in Europe, but that is not the point.
Not the point at all.

I will spell out the point: You demeaned Americans, saying that they are not charitable, despite my presentation of data confirming that they are. I then pointed to the origin of the great museums and you missed the point. In Europe, they are mostly from GOVERNMENT. But in America, virtually all are from the EVIL RICH.

Have you been to the National Museum of Art in Washington, D.C.? Do you know who created it?

Visitors will not know. Do you know why they will not know? You can enter and never see any donor's name. You will not see the name of the EVIL RICH guy who built it. That is because the founder had a stipulation: People who donated could not do it to buy prosterity but only in the public interest. And the museum is completely free. The donor, in fact, an AMERICAN EVIL RICH GUY, even fought with his children because they wanted to keep some pieces he collected. But no, no, no. This EVIL RICH AMERICAN, REPEAT, AMERICAN, MAN wanted the public to have the pieces.

Check it out.

What you incorrectly call "narcissism," is really the telling of truth. The charge is simply an excuse to avoid any discussion.

Better than the museums in Europe? LOL! You obviously have never been to Europe or never visited its top museums. Try the Louvres and the Ermitage for starters - they are state-owned and unparalelled and unsurpassed.

Your rant about the "EVIL RICH AMERICAN" is ludicrous and risible - you don't belong in the same category as he does, he's not part of the evil ones.

Yes. The NY Metropolitan Museum of Art is better than virtually anything in Europe. There is more to museums than just the paintings themselves, but apparently you do not know about that, but rather defer to the status quo of those who have pretenses to imagining that Europe is more cultured and sophisticated than America. It simply is not valid. Our orchestras, on the whole, outperform Europe's, for example.

Do you know the evil rich American who built that museum in D.C.? Seems you do not. He is hated by the Left-wingers.

There is no National Museum of Art in Washington DC. I presume you were thinking of the National Gallery of Art which was buit by Andrew W. Mellon. The person that liberals justifiably hate is Richard Mellon Scaife, who is indeed profoundly evil - that is why you worship him.

You had to look it up, of course.

Please read history. The Progressives consider Mellon to be one of the "robber barons." I am surprised that you do not know this.

Do you know what "robber barons" means?

Don't you know that Mellon was one of them?

I know you will contrive some way to deny this or avoid it, of course. But I will put a simple reference that can be verified, even though you will not accept it, the list of those considered "Robber Barons" is there, and this can be verified in many places. But I will not do it, because I KNOW I am correct:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist)#List_of_businessmen_who_were_called_robber_barons

It is silly and puerile to try to "prove" which museum is better. What is your point? Why do you do that, anyway?

The reason that I point out that America's museums are among the best in the entire world is not only because it is an irrefutable fact, but because you consistently defile, demean and degrade anything about America - the people, the values, the history, the Founding. Even a simply mentioning that Americans are generous gets a response of "oxymoron" and terms of disparagement from you.

It would be interesting to either get a clear response about why you consistently do that, or exchanges dealing with concepts about the topic of the threads.

He already exhibited restraint by keeping his seat. I'm sure he'll enjoy an occasional sleep over in the Lincoln bedroom after daddy Mitt wins in two weeks.

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Yet trying to prove American museums are superior to European ones is exactly what you did! LOL!

no balls to rush the stage.

It could never have hit Georgie, he had too much practise draft dodging durning the Nam war.

Why did you change the content?

I responded to your reviling, demeaning, maligning and defaming America and its people. I also responded at the pretenses which have already been discussed.

I was just giving you a tiny dose of your own medicine to see how you would enjoy it.

"Bush did become a pilot and served. Volunteered, in fact."

I'm sorry, I think you have a few typos there. You wrote, "Volunteered," when you should have written, "Placed in a non-combat unit by his daddy that never even went overseas," and you wrote, "in fact," when you should have written, "and was AWOL for nearly half of his military career."

Just thought would be good to clear that up. You have my permission to respond to my comment, regardless of whether or not you want it or need it.

WTF does this have to do with Tagg Romney?

If you'd actually watch the video you'd find out. It has everything to do with this election jo jo.

ROFL!

uh huh

It's sad that Herzl denied his own heritage. thanks for posting this v.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak threw cold water on the right-wing media narrative that President Obama is anti-Israel, praising Obama for doing "more" for Israeli security than any other U.S. president.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/07/31/israeli-defense-minister-undermines-righ...

You can choose to side with the feelings of an 18 year old or the Israeli Defense Minister. Pick one.

You obviously didn't bother to watch the video - afraid of the truth, eh? You are a seeker of truth, so you claim - but you're going in the totally wrong direction and won't find it.

This implies that YOU are a seeker of truth. Is that correct?

It does no such thing.

Political pandering. Many Jews would disagree.

OK. Does that mean you are NOT a seeker of truth, then?

media matters who your link is attributed to is suspect in their lack honesty and biased reporting. So just about anything they report must be taken with a grain of salt. One doesn't have to rely on biased reporting from either the left or right to determne that the Obama administration hasn't exactly been much a friend to Israel. Just watching the relationship between Obama and Netanyahu deteriorate over the last four years is difficult to dispute. Being Jewish myself my own instincts throw up a red flag when I see the type of propoganda as presented by media matters. I would much rather trust the personal experience and testimony of the young Jewish woman who produced the video that I linked in the earlier comment. Obama has given up on his attempts to win Florida and will concentrate his campaign money elsewhere. Do you know why? Because Florida has a large Jewish population. Although they gave Obama most of their support four years ago they now recognize he has become a threat to the security of Isreal.

Just did.

Ho hum

Are you saying that because you don't trust Media Matters, Ehud Barak did not say Obama has done more for Israeli security than any other U.S. president? If so, I can provide more links to that quote. He did say it and there is nothing you can say to etch-a-sketch it out of history.

Many would not.

"media matters who your link is attributed to is suspect in their lack honesty and biased reporting"

I have had an electronic subscription to Media Matters for about 3 years now. I rarely read it anymore because it is over the top and distorts. The writers are deceitful and dissemble. It is unfortunate the Liberals refer to this pathetic source that is dedicated to sheer propaganda.

Media Matters has a way of twisting and cherry-picking data and present the "technical" truth (like Clinton saying, which was true, "I was never alone in the White House with THAT woman) and deceive with the omissions, manipulation of data.

Not exactly.

Fee-fi-fo-fum.

When did Clinton ever say "I was never alone in the White House with THAT woman"? Source please.

I really hate to provide Left-wingers with any sources for the TRUTH that I post. And I NEVER lie. I will post this, and you will contrive a way to deny it. I GUARANTEE you will, and I am eager to see how you do it. (Or you might just choose to ignore the TRUTH that I post, of course.)

It is the virtual CENTER of the perjury charge, for Christ's sake!

The title of this paper:

"Perjury about being alone with Monica Lewinsky"

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-clintonaloneperjury.html

Now, I can anticipate your deceit in saying that I lied or did not write the correct thing. I did not have the precise words memorized, word for word; I ain't THAT smart. But go ahead and use that EXCUSE that I provided for you to start your denials of the concepts, the truth. Go right ahead. But it is for those on this public forum to see, of course.

Yep, you did PRECISELY what I knew you would do. Deny the truth via word games. Deny the content, the essence, the overall and intended obvious meaning. Go off on tangents.

Just following your example.

So you don't like Media Matters. Okay. This is from the right-leaning CNN. You will probably now say that you don't like CNN. I suspect you don't like any source that's not to the right of Fox News but there is nothing you can say or do to erase his statement from history, try as you might.

"Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak said the Obama White House has been the most supportive administration throughout the two countries' diplomatic relations on matters of Israeli security, in an interview to air Monday on "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer."

"the right-leaning CNN?"

You mean the Communist News Network?

What's an outrage, That Tagg didn't?

Tagg talks likes most punks; he'll do nothing. He should have tried it to see how far he got before the Secret Service helped him off the floor.

I am sure that something he has, that most liberals do not prevented him from carrying out his desire...common sense:)

More like alligator mouth and a jaybird ass.

He lacks many things including common sense.

Kinky

He wouldn't even make it past Michelle Obama.

There are plenty of positive comments we could make about Obama but why comment on the obvious?
Do you condone a threat on the president, however lame, made by the grown son of a candidate?
Threats like this help to legitimize (in the mind of an unstable person) violence against the president.
Dangerous ground we're treading on here.

201 comments now about nothing (minus your and mine, of course.....)

A "threat?" You REALLY consider that a serious threat?

W..O..W

cut and paste much?

I agree. The Bill Lumaye Show, like most Republican hate radio, are shows about nothing. In fact, all the politics of the right wing, when you think about it, are a big show about nothing. In fact, isn't all this social warrior malarkey a big deal about nothing?

I believe they hate that we care about this President or any President of the United States that has threats made on him. If it were one of their beloved Right Wing candidates it would most definitely be anything but a joke. This President receives more threats than any past President.

It wasn't a joke.

It is about something to those of us who still have a conscience, who still believe that threats against The POTUS aren't jokes, funny or to be taken lightly. It sure is something when the children of candidates behave less than civilized.

Yes, many do. I would imagine should there be a poll taken and not just assumptions made by those who think they are the authority on everything it would be surprising how comments like this are unsettling, unexpected and prove nothing more than the person who made them as being a spoiled, boorish, brat.

This is one weird family!

Your average right winger wants to see him fail, even if the country suffers for it, and be voted out of office. A smaller percentage would like to see him injured or dead. Hate knows no bounds on the right.

What I don't is FEIGN MORAL OUTRAGE like those who want nothing more than to see Obummer get another 4 years to really screw us all over. Well, those of the dwindling 52% who actually pay federal income taxes. Those with children and grandchildren should also be concerned, because it's their kids' future that is totally screwed. I don't understand why the nut bags don't get it, and continue with the mantra,"Obama has had many achievements, well, uh, uh, I can't think of them right now, but he has".

It goes without saying that any normal person would have concerns if the spoken "threat" was serious. Under the law, the definition of a threat is, "a threat, combined with the present ability to carry it out". Coffee anyone? Wake up!!! To make an issue out of a non-issue is just more of the same old perverted and twisted crap that the nut bags continue to chant. I remember the Moonies, they were quite big in Los Angeles back in the 80s, I worked on some "issues" involving that cult. Point is, those members were certainly more level headed than the freaks that continully spew BS about how great their mesiah is. The normal people, who make up the majority, see them for a bunch of loosers and cry babies, and tune them out. However, sometimes it's fun to venture into the sewer to see what the minority is saying about the topic du jour. I just shake my head and ask myself, WTF?!?!?!

It's so easy to just, walk away and accomplish something. :)

Creative!

Relax. Take a deep breath. Everything will be okay. President Obama will treat you well for the next four years, as he has for the last four. I predict you will be voting for Hillary in 2016 if you don't have a heart attack before then.

Good find - the resemblance is uncanny.

From your link:

"According to authors Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. Grow, Pratt was often “dour and humorless,” with an “antisocial bent," and he could be remarkably insensitive in his relationships with his wives."

Well, apples sure don't fall far from the trees!

Further proof that apples don't fall far from the tree:

http://www.internetslang.com/PRATT-meaning-definition.asp

Really? Did you respond to the video I posted to you above? I am curious how Left-wingers will deny this.

"who still believe that threats against The POTUS aren't jokes"

At "attack?" Really?

Post Classification: Histronics and Leftist hypocrisy.

"many do."

Many do what?

"comments like this"

Comments like what?

"To make an issue out of a non-issue is just more of the same old perverted and twisted crap that the nut bags continue to chant."

Maybe it is because nobody is listening to their vapid charges of "racism, racism" anymore? The "war on women" idiocy fell through. The attacks on Mormonism ain't sticking. So, they are desperate for virtually anything.

And Romney will rip Obummer apart on Monday because now Obummer is scrambling to hide and lie and deceive about Libya! It will be fun to watch. Maybe Obummer won't show up!

Please explain this.

Can you summarize the article, please? That is, as you interpret and analyzed it in terms of the other information that is available. Thanks.

Please explain PRECISELY how and why this has a bearing on the capabilities of the potential president. Thanks.

They have since the day he was elected.