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fishermanben
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I sometimes wonder if you're a real person. Could you provide a link to a past post where you talked about your personal life?
Are you 2nd account?
Seriously.
Ben
Are you 2nd account?
Seriously.
Ben
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Report: Israeli Forces Seized Nuclear Material During Syrian Raid
Sunday , September 23, 2007
Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to Sunday Times report citing informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.
The attack was launched with American approval on September 6 after Washington was shown evidence the material was nuclear related, the well-placed sources say.
They confirmed that samples taken from Syria for testing had been identified as North Korean. This raised fears that Syria might have joined North Korea and Iran in seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.
Israeli special forces had been gathering intelligence for several months in Syria, according to Israeli sources. They located the nuclear material at a compound near Dayr az-Zwar in the north.
Evidence that North Korean personnel were at the site is said to have been shared with President Bush over the summer. A senior American source said the administration sought proof of nuclear-related activities before giving the attack its blessing.
Diplomats in North Korea and China believe a number of North Koreans were killed in the strike, based on reports reaching Asian governments about conversations between Chinese and North Korean officials.
Syrian officials flew to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, last week, reinforcing the view that the two nations were coordinating their response.
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JuJu(the unorganized)btt
"Right is Right, even is everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it"
I posed a similar query a good two+ years back, questioning if the subject came here for any reason other than to conduct drive-by cheap shots at the President on any all and all threads the subject opened. All the usual suspects rushed out to man the ramparts.
Maybe the defense of botox baby was a bit too revealing of their anti-American agenda?
Sorry about the delay... I rarely get out from Politics.[;)]
First off, yes, I am a real person. And no, I am not a second account. Heck, why would I want to boost another number when it's taken me years to get over 10,000 posts?[:p]
As for my personal life, I don't really think it's important enough to advertise. I know it's all the rage for "bloggers" to reveal every last filthy detail of their lives to the world as if anyone really gave a damn, but to be perfectly honest, I just don't care to. So no, I can't provide a link to previous posts revealing details about my personal life because I can't recall any and I'm too lazy to look 'em up if I did.[:D]
fishermanben,
Sorry about the delay... I rarely get out from Politics.[;)]
First off, yes, I am a real person. And no, I am not a second account. Heck, why would I want to boost another number when it's taken me years to get over 10,000 posts?[:p]
As for my personal life, I don't really think it's important enough to advertise. I know it's all the rage for "bloggers" to reveal every last filthy detail of their lives to the world as if anyone really gave a damn, but to be perfectly honest, I just don't care to. So no, I can't provide a link to previous posts revealing details about my personal life because I can't recall any and I'm too lazy to look 'em up if I did.[:D]
Do you have a wife or girlfriend? Can we see naked pictures of her?
I've often thought that if conservatives and liberals could just share naked pictures of wives and girlfriends that we would figure out that we're not so different after all. I think it would provide a healing experience.
Ben
I would, but I promised Kristanna Loken I would never show those pictures of her to anyone...
Damn! Now I've said too much...[:p]
Never been in a newspaper, was on TV decades ago, and ain't never gonna divulge my tax info (identity theft, y'know[:p]).
fishermanben,
Sorry about the delay... I rarely get out from Politics.[;)]
First off, yes, I am a real person. And no, I am not a second account. Heck, why would I want to boost another number when it's taken me years to get over 10,000 posts?[:p]
As for my personal life, I don't really think it's important enough to advertise. I know it's all the rage for "bloggers" to reveal every last filthy detail of their lives to the world as if anyone really gave a damn, but to be perfectly honest, I just don't care to. So no, I can't provide a link to previous posts revealing details about my personal life because I can't recall any and I'm too lazy to look 'em up if I did.[:D]
Uh huh, so now you're saying being a "Texan" has to do with the filthy details of your life - or don't you recall your claim to fame?
Like I said, I don't recall which details I handed out and am too lazy to look for them.
As is, you just provided a detail of my personal life, so there it is.
You're a Texan, huh? Where you from?
Us Texans need to stick together........
Dallas proper. Not Plano or Richardson. Unfortunately I no longer reside in Texas... I now live in California.[xx(]
I believe Bloviator, Nunn, and dheffley are all fellow Texans as well.
this is a cyber world where nothing is real.
not true. And, it IS none of my business. If he doesn't want to say, he obviously doesn't have to. It was an inquiry--That is all. Just to be clear, I've never had any kind of animosity at all towards EMM. I just have wondered for a while if he was real, because he has never really given one personal detail of his life. To me that seems odd. It seems like at some point you would mention a wife, a kid, a parent, a cousin, a job, a car, a gun, or just anything that would be unique to an individual. It has never happened to my knowledge, and that is why I asked.
add: I guess I always try to look at the person who is posting, and develop an image of them in my mind of who they are, and what experiences they draw on in their responses, and to me EMM is the one person on here that I cannot relate to on any level, because I cannot envision a normal, everyday, flawed human behind the monicker.
Ben
whatever you think you might have picked about me here, may or may not have any basis in reality.
so true.
Ben
TexasVet,
Dallas proper. Not Plano or Richardson. Unfortunately I no longer reside in Texas... I now live in California.[xx(]
I believe Bloviator, Nunn, and dheffley are all fellow Texans as well.
Sorry to hear that you have to live in California instead of Texas; I lived there -- first in the Valley (Woodland Hills) and then in Kern County (Bakersfield). There were some really nice people there (and a few wierd ones!)
EMM,
You're a Texan, huh? Where you from?
Us Texans need to stick together........
Be careful with your good nature TexasVet.
I took no offense at your inquiry. People get curious and I'm cool with that.
For the record, I write for a living. I own several guns, but prefer shooting long guns over hand guns. And while I may seem like a stark raving liberal around here, I find myself painted as an inflexible conservative neanderthal out here - which is good because I'd hate to be pegged as anything that can be summed up in one word.[;)][:D]
I have no girlfriend currently (not for lack of trying), no pets (no time for 'em), and no kids (that I know of).
Other than that, I'm a pretty dull individual (as if the preceding items were riveting show stoppers).
I've met some great people out here. A lot of folks out here are "closet" shooters. A few of us, however, are pretty unabashed about enjoying our 2nd Amendment rights.
Bakersfield, eh? I drive through there whenever I go to Vegas.
On the lighter side, what do you write about?
Ben
Thanks![:D]
kimi,
I don't consider myself a liberal, conservative, or even a moderate. Liberal means you don't think enough, conservative means you think too much about the wrong things, and moderate is a fancy way of saying you don't know what to think.
I have a tendency to be uncompromising in my very disparate views. For example, I am pro-choice, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-immigration (legal), pro-integration and assimilation (I don't really care for "multiculturalism"), pro-military, but anti-Iraq War. I am anti-illegal immigration, anti-gun control, anti-welfare, and pro-education including sex education in schools as well as any proposed or actual firearms instruction in schools.
My views may not make sense or have any logic, but they're what I believe in. I am not ardently pro-states' rights because California has shown me what a cluster-f*** state's rights can be. I believe in smart state's rights. The dumb ones should to be told what to do and often.[;)][:D]
And lest I forget - I hate and fear zombies with a passion. George A. Romero slow, shuffling zombies I can live with... those new fast "Dawn of the Dead" remake zombies scare the heebie jeebies outta me.
BTW, what do you write about?
Hey Monkey! Your democratic buddies are stepping on their tounges again![}:)]
You mean outta their @$$es, don't you?
Ever since Mark Warner said he wasn't running in '08, I couldn't care less about 'em.
kimi,
Trust me, if anything, this community out here has made me even more "conservative" than I previously.
dheff,
You mean outta their @$$es, don't you?
Ever since Mark Warner said he wasn't running in '08, I couldn't care less about 'em.
kimi,
Trust me, if anything, this community out here has made me even more "conservative" than I previously.
I see the GB community has helped us both, I seemed to have moved somewhat "center" myself, as Dixiecrats go.
GunBroker does that. Like dheffley alluded to, we don't often agree, but at least we all think.[;)][:D]
John is a real person with whom I almost totally disagree when it comes to politics. Still, his heart is good and he's not a fake or a bad person. He just walks a little to far left of center![:D]
Hey Monkey! Your democratic buddies are stepping on their tounges again![}:)]
That about sums up what I've been able to gather from here...