[speechlesstx]

Manners and that from someone who tells me they ignore my posts. My distain, as you put it, for my allies stems directly from their behaviour which shows a total distain for everything that exists outside their country, that is if they acknowledge anything exists outside their country. Like yourself I poke fun as often as I note something worthy of fun such as peculiar ways of expressing oneself or dealing with issues. I am equally critical of dills within my own country as I am of those outside. I am a citizen of Earth and therefore anything that happens on Earth, or in fact the universe, is open to comment. If you draw adverse comment from me it is because the actions are open to question.

Any time you would like to look beyond your borders and comment you will find me here

I think you have me confused with someone else, I don't ignore your posts. I darn sure call you out every time I see you insult my country, which in itself says I don't ignore your posts.

If anything your knee-jerk assumptions that I or we don't care about the world at large indicates it is you who needs to look within yourself. Especially for someone bearing the nick "paraclete" referring to my country as the "Useless Skunks Association", which is privately more charitable worldwide than any other. The wife and I have personally and faithfully supported multiple children across the globe every month with financial assistance to help meet their physical and educational needs for years. So spare me your self-righteous "the US is self absorbed" bullsh*t.

[paraclete]

Speechlesstx, what you do privately is your affair. I also support multiple children but that doesn't exonerate your country or mine from their international obligations. We might support children but our nations have collectively been part of destroying many lives in the last decade, destabilising regions and perpetrating wars and I see little good as coming from it. Don't tell me how generous your nation is because it's giving of international aid is even lower than that of my own nation. You cannot take the actions of individuals and say it typifies a nation when your government perpetuates wars it cannot win. Your national policies are designed to enrich your own nation, your national greed has in recent times destabilised the world's financial systems and your lack of accountability in this regard is monumental. You have internal problems, just as we all have problems, but you seem to lack solutions or the will to break the empasse and what I cannot fathom is you seem to think this is normal and acceptable. Everything you do has echoes around the world and affects us all so you will get criticism where criticism is due

[tomder55]

Back to the original topic: thank you NY for relieving Chicago and Illinois polticians from the burden of being the biggest idiots in the room!

NY has always given Chi-town a run for that title .

[speechlesstx]

Speechlesstx, what you do privately is your affair. I also support multiple children but that doesn't exonerate your country or mine from their international obligations. We might support children but our nations have collectively been part of destroying many lives in the last decade, destabilising regions and perpetrating wars and I see little good as coming from it. Don't tell me how generous your nation is because it's giving of international aid is even lower than that of my own nation.

Sure seems to me that $30.46 billion is a much larger number than $5.44 billion, especially when you thrown in the hundreds of billions in private giving, much of which goes across the globe.

You cannot take the actions of individuals and say it typifies a nation

Sure I can, "we the people" are the nation, not those knotheads in DC, although I'm certainly proud of some things our government does, like how the formerly most hated man on the planet has helped save millions.

Your national policies are designed to enrich your own nation, your national greed has in recent times destabilised the world's financial systems and your lack of accountability in this regard is monumental. You have internal problems, just as we all have problems, but you seem to lack solutions or the will to break the empasse and what I cannot fathom is you seem to think this is normal and acceptable. Everything you do has echoes around the world and affects us all so you will get criticism where criticism is due

I don't mind criticism but you're pathological about it. If you hate the US so much then by all means you guys go on without us. But your obsession with America bashing is unhealthy.

[NeedKarma]

I don't mind criticism but you're pathological about it.

Physician heal thyself.

But your obsession with America bashing is unhealthy.

Your obsession with liberal bashing is unhealthy.

[speechlesstx]

Physician heal thyself.

Your obsession with liberal bashing is unhealthy.

If only you weren't oblivious to the obvious you might be a decent person.

[NeedKarma]

Don't even know what that means.

[speechlesstx]

Of course not.

[NeedKarma]

I'm open to your explanation of what you wrote about me.

[speechlesstx]

I'm open to your explanation of what you wrote about me.

It's all about truth, figure it out.

[paraclete]

Sure seems to me that $30.46 billion is a much larger number than $5.44 billion, especially when you thrown in the hundreds of billions in private giving, much of which goes across the globe.

You have a nation of 300 million so that equates to 0.2% of GDP whilst we have 22 million so that equates to 0.35% of GDP with plans to lift it to 0.5% over the next few years but you should examine the statistics on tied aid where the statistics are more telling

Sure I can, "we the people" are the nation, not those knotheads in DC, although I'm certainly proud of some things our government does, like how the formerly most hated man on the planet has helped save millions[/URL].

I don't mind criticism but you're pathological about it. If you hate the US so much then by all means you guys go on without us. But your obsession with America bashing is unhealthy.

What I hate is the attitude, the idea that you are born to rule over us, that you are the fountain of all truth and that the only thing important in this world is your unimportant lives. You want to save millions stop droping bombs on them and exploiting them. As to the knotheads in DC you elected them to represent you knowing full well who they were because if you don't know nobody does

[speechlesstx]

You have a nation of 300 million so that equates to 0.2% of GDP whilst we have 22 million so that equates to 0.35% of GDP with plans to lift it to 0.5% over the next few years but you should examine the statistics on tied aid where the statistics are more telling

In real dollars it still dwarfs you, especially as I said when you add private giving of over$200 billion.

What I hate is the attitude, the idea that you are born to rule over us, that you are the fountain of all truth and that the only thing important in this world is your unimportant lives. You want to save millions stop droping bombs on them and exploiting them. As to the knotheads in DC you elected them to represent you knowing full well who they were because if you don't know nobody does

And there you go, you are the one with the attitude. Your resentment is showing.

[paraclete]

In real dollars it still dwarfs you, especially as I said when you add private giving of over$200 billion.

I come back to the question how much of it is tied and the answer is most of it which means the only country you are helping is yourself, once again fueling corporate greed.
I do agree that very recently you have untied a small proportion of this aid following pressure from other nations

And there you go, you are the one with the attitude. Your resentment is showing.

Yes my resentment for hypocrisy is showing

[tomder55]

Back to the OP

Spitzer and Weiner are creepy a@@ crackers .

[speechlesstx]

back to the OP

Spitzer and Weiner are creepy a@@ crackers .

The good news is that Weiner is hardly a moral authority to be expanding your nanny state, not that that ever stopped anyone. Let's at least hope he's fully clothed as he takes the stairs.

[tomder55]

Lol ,I take it that Bloomy makes it a habit of walking up and down the stairs of your typical NYC apartment . I have in my time. It was a risky proposition. At very least you have to step over the used condoms ,drug paraphanlia and other garbage left behind.

[speechlesstx]

lol ,I take it that Bloomy makes it a habit of walking up and down the stairs of your typical NYC apartment . I have in my time. It was a risky proposition. At very least you have to step over the used condoms ,drug paraphanlia and other garbage left behind.

So, elevator or hazmat area. Tough choice.

[tomder55]

NY Post does it again .

[tomder55]

New Anthony Weiner campaign poster

[tomder55]

Geraldo Rivera harbored notions of making a run for the NJ Senate seat hat became available due to the death of Frank Lautenberg . So of course the smart thing would be to avoid doing an Anthony Weiner (tweet a nude pic trap) . So what did he do instead ?