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Larry Johnson and Patrick Lang on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show (& Open Thread)

By truthtelling007 on February 7, 2011 at 8:00 PM in Current Affairs

This is the audio of the important conversation with Larry Johnson and his mentor Patrick Lang had last Sunday, hosted by John Batchelor on his nationally syndicated radio show. Larry’s description of Pat Lang on the many complex crises swirling in Egypt, in one word: “Brilliant.” Since it’s possible that some of you aren’t familiar with Col. Lang’s storied career, here is a brief summary of his work for the United States, from his blog:

Colonel W. Patrick Lang is a retired senior officer of U.S. Military Intelligence and U.S. Army Special Forces (The Green Berets). He served in the Department of Defense both as a serving officer and then as a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service for many years. He is a highly decorated veteran of several of America’s overseas conflicts including the war in Vietnam. He was trained and educated as a specialist in the Middle East by the U.S. Army and served in that region for many years. He was the first Professor of the Arabic Language at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. In the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) he was the “Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia and Terrorism,” and later the first Director of the Defense Humint Service.” For his service in DIA, he was awarded the “Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive.” This is the equivalent of a British knighthood. He is an analyst consultant for many television and radio broadcasts.

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  • JimTicehurst

    Thanks…

  • EWard

    Amen! Larry & Pat made more sense than the combined hick hacks on the tube. 

    Learned a lot tonight :)

  • BINKY

    Appreciate being to listen to this interview.  Thanks for making it so easy.

  • JB in VA

    It’s good to hear some straight, informed discussion on this without the sugarcoating. Thanks, Larry!

  • FlDemFem

    Since this is labelled an open thread, I am going to toss this little tidbit in for your consideration. Apparently, Keith Olberman is going to work for Al Gore’s channel, Current TV. I thought that Gore’s agenda was to stop global warming, not add to it with more hot air. The big announcement comes today or tomorrow, depending on what source you read. And if Obie goes with Gore, he will get a piece of the action, as in equity in the channel. What kind of a fool gives that kind of deal to someone like Olberman? Can you fire a person who has equity in the company???

  • Breeze

    Obama’s Fantasies, Egyptian Reality

    American Spectator,
    by P. David Hornik

    Original Article

    2/8/2011

    One can take heart from this week’s Wikileaks revelations about how intensely Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s new vice-president and former intelligence chief, dislikes both homegrown Egyptian and Iranian Islamists. Regarding the domestic Muslim Brotherhood, Suleiman in 2006 told FBI director Robert Mueller that they had spawned “11 different Islamist extremist organizations” and that “the principal danger…was [their] exploitation of religion to influence and mobilize the public.” As for Iran, in 2007 and 2008 Suleiman called its regime “devils” and “a significant threat to Egypt” and said “Iran is supporting Jihad and spoiling peace, and has supported extremists in Egypt previously…..”

  • Breeze

    In Backing Vice President, U.S. Plays
    Tricky Hand in Egypt

    New York Times,
    by Helene Cooper &
    David E. Sanger

    Original Article

    2/7/2011 

    Washington – Vice President Omar Suleiman of Egypt says he does not think it is time to lift the 30-year-old emergency law that has been used to suppress and imprison opposition leaders. He does not think President Hosni Mubarak needs to resign before his term ends in September. And he does not think his country is yet ready for democracy. But, concluding that it lacks better options, the United States is backing him for a pivotal role in a still uncertain transition process in Egypt. In doing so…..

  • Breeze

    Olbermann Said to Be
    Going to Current TV

    New York Times,
    by Bill Carter and
    Brian Stelter

    Original Article

    2/7/2011 

    Keith Olbermann, the former top-rated host of “Countdown”…..

  • Breeze

    South Dakota GOP takes
    aim at ‘Obamacare’
    with a gun bill

    Washington Times,
    by Valerie Richardson

    Original Article

    2/7/2011 

    Unlike conservatives who reflexively rail against the mandate in President Obama‘s health care initiative that all American buy insurance, South Dakota Republicans say they are looking at the big picture. If the government can require Americans to buy health insurance, the reasoning goes, then why can’t the same government require them to purchase something a bit higher on the conservative wish list? That is why five GOP state legislators have introduced a bill that would require every South Dakotan age 21 or older to purchase a gun.

  • Breeze

    The “Judicial Activism” Ploy

    Creators Syndicate Inc.,
    by Thomas Sowell

    Original Article

    2/8/2011 

    Now that two different federal courts have declared ObamaCare unconstitutional, the administration’s answer is to call the courts guilty of “judicial activism.”   Barack Obama has a rhetorical solution for every problem. Remember the repeated claims of “shovel-ready” projects that needed only federal stimulus money to get started?   Last year the President quietly admitted that there were not many “shovel-ready” projects, after all.

    (Snip)A judge who lets politicians do whatever they want to, whether or not it violates the Constitution, never has to worry about being called a judicial activist by the left or by most of the media.  But the…..

  • Breeze

    Mandatory Arabic Classes
    Coming To Mansfield

    CBS DFW,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011
    MANSFIELD

    – Some Students at Mansfield ISD schools could soon be learning Arabic as a required language.  The school district wants students at select schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a federally funded grant.  The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant was awarded to Mansfield ISD last summer by the U.S. Department of Education.  As part of the five-year $1.3 Million grant, Arabic classes would be mandatory at Cross Timbers Intermediate School and Kenneth Davis Elementary School.

    [SNIP] The DOE has identified Arabic as a ‘language of the future.’

  • Breeze

    Stabenow: More green for the rich
     
    The Detroit News,
    by Henry Payne   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011 

    Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow sweetened subsidies for wealthy Americans Monday by introducing legislation that would allow buyers of electric vehicles like the $87,000 Fisker Karma and the $40,000 Chevy Volt to claim their $7500 tax credit at the time of purchase. Currently, the tax credit can only be claimed on April 15. “This is a new technology. . . “

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    HAha, the comments are hillarious. It’s a KO circle jerk!

    Hmmmm…an elite cable station owned by Al Gore and Ubberdrool is the big star….I don’t know, sounds more like Asshole TV….

  • Breeze

    Presidential Boots
    Too Big To Fill

    Canada Free Press,
    by Daniel Greenfield   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011

    Bill Clinton showed up on Time Magazine covers often enough, but was never disguised as another American president.  But so far Time has presented us with a cover picture of Obama in FDR drag and another one of Reagan embracing Obama.  Before the big O’s term is done, we may well be treated to another cover of Obama playing basketball with Andrew Jackson on the cover of Newsweek or in bed in the Lincoln Bedroom with Abe Lincoln for Time’s last print issue.

  • Breeze

    Natural resources hold the key
    to economy, creating jobs
     
    Washington Examiner,
    by Rep. Doug Lamborn   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011

    More than one in 10 Americans are currently out of work and struggling to pay their bills.  Even though President Obama professes a desire to tackle the issue of unemployment, his administration seems to have forgotten the vital role energy plays in growing our economy.  The United States has vast reserves of energy — from oil and natural gas off our coasts to huge gas deposits onshore available through new technology to uranium that powers nuclear reactors and, yes, two to 300 years worth of coal.

  • Breeze

    The steep price of
    crossing Nancy Pelosi

    Salon Magazine,
    by Steven Kornacki   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011

    Officially, Jane Harman’s career in Congress will come to a close in the next few weeks, when the California Democrat steps down in the middle of her ninth term to become the new president of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. In reality, though, it’s been over for years now — ever since Harman crossed Nancy Pelosi and….

  • Cindy

     I thought that Gore’s agenda was to stop global warming, not add to it with more hot air

    FlDemFem—-That’s the best line I’ve heard about the “merger”!
    Hilarious!

  • Breeze

    Desperately Seeking Solace

    American Spectator,
    by David Catron   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011 

    Discussing the utterly implausible main character of Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop, Oscar Wilde famously quipped, “One would have to have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without dissolving into tears… of laughter.”  It is similarly difficult to choke back the chuckles while reading ostensibly serious attempts by progressive pundits and bloggers to portray ObamaCare as alive and well despite being ruled…..

  • Breeze

    Don’t Kid Yourself About
    the Muslim Brotherhood
     
    Power Line,
    by Michael J. Totten   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011

    Egypt’s dictator deserves to be overthrown even more than Tunisia’s did.  At least Ben Ali’s government didn’t ram the country into the ground as Egypt’s Free Officers regime has, beginning with Gamal Abdel Nasser and continuing with the improved but still ghastly Hosni Mubarak.  If he’s forced out–though I wouldn’t underestimate his ability to survive just yet–

  • Breeze

    David Cameron’s Epiphany

    New York Post,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011

    It’s time to pour out the multiculti Kool-Aid. That was the message from British Prime Minister David Cameron as he attacked “state multiculturalism” for letting Islamic radicals prosper virtually unchecked in the West. Instead of celebrating Western freedoms, the Brits have played blind while extremists recruit followers…..

  • Breeze

    Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood Ties
     
    Human Events,
    by Robert Spencer   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011

    Barack Obama has declared that all opposition groups should have representation in the next Egyptian government, which essentially ensures that the Muslim Brotherhood will be part of that government. The Brotherhood is the largest opposition group in Egypt…..

  • Breeze

    Will Dems put unions
    ahead of air safety?

    Washington Examiner [DC],
    by Editorial   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011

    Air travelers and taxpayers alike are the biggest losers in Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief John Pistole’s decision to allow airport screeners to collectively bargain. That may be why the decision was made public late Friday when it was bound to attract minimal media coverage.

    Conversely, Democrats in Congress…..

  • Breeze

    What They Mean by ‘Civility’
     
    Wall Street Journal,
    by James Taranto   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011

    The New York Times editorial page, a division of the New York Times Co., on Saturday endorsed Common Cause’s personal attack on Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. As we explained Friday, Common Cause, a Washington-based corporation, is complaining about Scalia and Thomas’s having joined…..

  • tek

    Wow, how depressing. I thought Al Gore had more class than to give credence to a vicious pundit like Olbermann. Just shows there is no democracy in America anymore. Now it’s a battle to the death between Democrats and Republicans for control of the country. Then, they’ll have the Mexicans attacking whoever wins.

  • helenk

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h95MtnhYnXUe-umPi0xey05sqDVQ?docId=CNG.c0c63e4646495230d8449227753b8d56.151

    American drone downed in Yeman. AlQuida hijack the parts. 

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • helenk

    Unless they are going to teach the girls Lorena Bobbit defense against sharia law or just how backward and horrible it is, it does not need to be taught in our schools on our tax dime.
    At the rate we are going maybe they should teach the different Chinese dialects as they will own us sooner.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • helenk

    Who will be trying for the seat.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-jane-harman-20110208,0,1157882.story

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

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  • helenk

    After two years on NOT listening to the people they represent who did not want the so-called  health care bill now some dems are waking up.
    Gee I am so impressed NOT

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/08/new-threat-to-obamacare-senate-democrats/

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • helenk

    The  politicians can spin it all the want, but backtrack is not for this country and never will be.

    http://www.slate.com/id/2283755/

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE, MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

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  • Breeze

    -

    HELP!

    Does anybody know why sometimes I can post here and other times the arrow
    turns into a vertical and there is no way I can post at NQ, but then if I go else-
    where where they use ECHO, I never have any problems at all.

    There is nothing wrong with my mouse.

    All this since the green monster was introduced last week….

    Any suggestions?

  • Breeze

    Today’s Democrats Are Like Reagan

    Washington Post Writers Group,
    by Eugene Robinson   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011
    WASHINGTON

    – As we mark the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth, one of our major political parties has become imbued with the Gipper’s political philosophy and governing style. I mean the Democrats, of course. The Republican Party tries to claim the Reagan mantle but has moved so far to the right that it now inhabits its own parallel universe. On the planet that today’s GOP leaders call home, Reagan would qualify as one of those big-government, tax-and-spend liberals who are trying so hard to destroy the American way of life. Some Republicans, I suppose…..

  • Breeze

    U.S. eases off call for
    swift Egypt reform

    Los Angeles Times,
    by Paul Richter and
    David S. Cloud   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011 
    Washington

    — The Obama administration has reconciled itself to gradual political reform in Egypt, an approach that reflects its goal of maintaining stability in the Middle East but is at odds with demands of the protest movement in Cairo that President Hosni Mubarak relinquish power immediately.  A week after the Obama administration demanded a swift transition to a post-Mubarak era, it has dampened the sense of urgency…..

  • Breeze

    President Stealth Strikes Again
     
    American Thinker,
    by Ed Lasky   

    Original Article

    2/8/2011

    How Obama and his merry band are trying to evade the will of the people.

    (snip) The people have had it with the tricks and sly maneuvers used by Democrats to push their agenda on America. Apparently they have not yet heard our voices or care to listen to us — they still have some tricks up their sleeves.

  • helenk

    Here is an article to make you think,

    http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2011/02/grimly-trudging-towards-reality.html

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • JimTicehurst

    Pat Lang and Larry johnson made excellent Remarks…and Points with CLARITY on John Batchelor’s show…the Spoken Word..is often better than the written word for Comprehension.Very good Show..

  • helenk

    in some states it is really hard to find out how much is spend on k-12 education.

    http://biggovernment.com/abschaeffer/2011/02/08/what-happens-when-you-ask-a-bureaucrat-about-government-spending/

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • FlDemFem

    President Obama professes a desire to tackle the issue of unemployment

    And here is how he is going to do it..by letting states raise taxes for employers…they will now go from paying $7000 in unemployment tax to $15,000. So, once again, those who have a business and are hiring, hopefully, will be stuck with another expense that will cause them NOT to hire people because it costs too much. This moron has to go!!!!!

  • HARP

    I guess we just misunderstand muslims.

  • helenk

    Just because every once in a while we need to see something beautiful

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110208.html

  • sowsear
  • sowsear

    And the Chinese Ballet
    http://www.nzwide.com/swanlake.htm

  • AbigailAdams

    …and buried at the bottom of the 8th page:

    Ces batards!  (I don’t have a French keyboard)  I knew it.  I knew it.  I just knew it!  And as I was saying to dear Husband two days ago:  “You just watch, with all this rumbling lately about bankrupted states, he’s going to do bailouts.”  And so here we are this very day with the WH talking to McCain, et al, about spreading some more wealth around.  I do hope the governors step up to this and the tea party congresspeople do some serious push back. 

    McCain has got to go.

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Mean while in

    Mandatory Arabic Classes Coming To Mansfield

    MANSFIELD (CBSDFW.COM) – Some Students at Mansfield ISD schools could soon be learning Arabic as a required language.  The school district wants students at select schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a federally funded grant.

  • +

    Patrick Lang = far more level headed, fair and logical.

    versus

    Larry Johnson = drama queen, looking for an angle to bash Obama and fear-mongering.

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Meanwhile in…..
     
    Mandatory Arabic Classes Coming To Mansfield  
     
    MANSFIELD (CBSDFW.COM) – Some Students at Mansfield ISD schools could soon be learning Arabic as a required language.  The school district wants students at select schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a federally funded grant.

  • oowawa

    Here’s some more breathtakingly beautiful ballet, mixed in with some spy action . . .

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Blond moment see this link now above! Worth repeating though!

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Blond moment! see this link above! Worth repeating though!

  • helenk

    this does not seem right. 52% of Americans heard little or nothing on Egypt protests. But think backtrack handled it right.

    http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/08/6011468-egypt-crisis-flying-under-americans-radar

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • +

    John Batchelor,

    We need to make it clear about something you said in this interview. Ayman Zawahiri the number two in Al Qaeda left the Muslim Brotherhood because it was not radical enough and started Egyptian Islamic Jihad. The Muslim Brotherhood actually fought against the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group. 

    I know conservatives want to scare Americans about the Muslim Brotherhood and you, as you have said in a previous post, want to keep Mubarak in power, so you are trying to paint the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda as one in the same, but that is complete bullshit. You are just fear-mongering. Something that you neocons do very well.

  • My Site (click to edit)

    Wow–I’ve never seen The Battle of the Bulge re-enacted via ballet ;)

  • Cindy

    Wow–I’ve never seen The Battle of the Bulge re-enacted via ballet ;)

  • helenk

    This comment might just be accurate. The teaparty seems to scare the hell out of our government. And they do it without violence and threats and beheadings and a sick sharia law.
    Damn the Americans are waking up. look out.
    I really wish this fool was not wearing a shirt with Ireland on it.

    http://www.breitbart.tv/pro-egypt-protester-tea-party-more-dangerous-than-muslim-brotherhood/

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS, BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • JimTicehurst

    +
    What a stupid Snarky Comment to make..Pat Lang is Larrys Mentor…and The foremost Inel Expert on the region..and served at the Highest level in the Intelligence Community..
    You can clearly see..he and Larry are Close friends and hear How often Pat Agrees with Larrys comments and Analysis..
    Larry just tells the Truth about Obama for good reason..He can’t produce a Valid Birht Certificate..spent his Life being mentored by marxists..associated with a Known Domestic terrorist Bill Ayers..and willfully sought out Marxist Profeassors..and is carrying out a radical Socialist Agenda called “Progressive”..that is costing the US taxpayers trillions ..and policys which even Federal Courts are now finding Un~Constitutional…Thats the Real ABUSE of Power..
    So..with that background..+.. are all Americans just sup[pose to sit back..Accept things..and not  Express thier Opinions..?
    Obama applaudes the Demonstration (Revolution) in Egypt as Democracy..and he and his Minions hammer and ridicule the Citizens of America for doing the same..
    in my opinion +..you are the worst kind of Hypocrite there is..
    An IDOL Worshipper…”all Hail Obama..”..
    Excuse me..some of us believe in Checks and Balances and Free Speech..

  • oowawa

    The stupid monkey taunted the tiger until one day….

  • +

    John Batchelor,

    Read this article by former CIA Bruce Riedel. It may help to improve your interviews.

    “Zawahiri probably also has very mixed feelings about what is going on in his homeland.  No doubt he welcomes Mubarak’s demise.  He has called for the Egyptian leader’s overthrow for three decades.  But al Qaeda and Zawahiri know they have been bypassed in the streets of Cairo, Suez and Alexandria. This is not their revolution and they are not its inspiration.  They may try to jump on the bandwagon but this is not their caravan.

    Worse, their hated enemy, Egypt’s oldest Islamic party, the Muslim Brotherhood or Ikhwan, stands to benefit from the opening of Egyptian politics that seems to be coming next.  Already the Brotherhood is negotiating along with other opposition groups with Mubarak’s new vice president, Omar Suleiman, about the next steps in the revolution.  If there are free and relatively fair elections, the Brotherhood will probably do well.  It could be a part of some coalition government in the future.

    For al Qaeda that would be a disaster. They have denounced the Brotherhood for years for participating in Mubarak’s rigged elections and for advocating change through non-violence.  Both Zawahiri and bin Laden were once members of the Ikhwan but long ago they left it because it would not support their use of terror. To see the Brotherhood now playing a significant role in changing Egypt is a major setback for al Qaeda. If the Brotherhood demonstrates that an Islamist party can help bring regime change and reform in the largest Arab country without jihadi terror, al Qaeda will be isolated. ”

    http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0207_egypt_alqaeda_riedel.aspx

  • Cindy

    ~JustMe~ LOL! But YES, it is  worth repeating….and that’s a little too close to home.  Mansfield is only about 4 hrs. from us.
    How do you say “F***Off’” in Arabic?!  I’ll just call Mansfiled ISD and ask—HA!

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Exactly! Too late when they have taken over ALL our inner cities demanding the odds!

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Exactly! Too late when they have taken over ALL our inner cities demanding the odds!

  • oowawa

    Arabic a language of the future–sure, about as much as latin.

  • Cindy

    Breeze—- I can’t believe he’s saying this about the Dems and Reagan.
    Eugene Robinson is so dumb. Ignorant. There is no other way to describe him.

  • oowawa

    Well, I certainly hope they also require them to destroy their old Mercedes and Lexus clunkers . . .

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Wonder if they will be opening “massage parlors” on the side?

  • elizabethrc

    Far better that all Muslim students be required to study (and be tested on) American history.  They need to be taught the truths about the evils of their wretched Sharia law. 
    Castrating the males of each family which allows torture and murder of their daughters and wives and mothers needs to happen.  To break their practice of victimizing women, there needs to be a horrible price they will have to pay.   

  • helenk

    you can not fix stupid.

    as Bill Engval would say
    “Here’s your sign Eugene”

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  • Cindy

    helenk—Exactly. LOL!

  • sowsear

    My granddaughter’s school teaches Chinese among the other usual choices. She’s in 6th grade and just finished a sampler course in Chinese. She has an adopted Chinese sister so we hope that both of them will ultimately study Chinese.

  • oowawa

    Well, when and if the Moslem Brotherhood gets into the inner cities in the USA, they are going to find something that they don’t find in European cities: lots and lots of Mexicans.  I don’t think Muslim fanaticism is going to mix well with Hispanic Catholicism . . .

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Not pretty huh?

  • helenk

    All kidding aside I think it is a good thing to study, We will be doing more and more business in China. It is nice to know what they are talking about at a meeting.
    Knowledge is power and you can never have too much knowledge.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • sowsear

    My 9th grade grandson is taking Latin..He wants to be a Dr. Even if he nerver goes to med schjool, having a knowledge of Latin gives a student  help with root words.

  • oowawa

    “It is nice to know what they are talking about at a meeting.”

    They will be talking about what they will do with all their new property in the USA . . .

  • elaine

    +,  Re: Your comparison between NQ/Larry Johnson & Sic Semper/Pat Lang, here’s my take on that: your fervent attacks on Israel are greated with more acceptance @ Sic Semper than @ NQ so why not go where you’re welcome?

    99.4% of the M.E. is controlled by Arabs/Muslims, leaving tiny Israel with only .6% land mass control, which is too much for you.

    You played your real hand when you posted the link to “Christian Zionism is Heresy.”  WTH are you wanting? Another Holocaust? A real genocide?  & Please don’t skirt around the question with some hooey about Palistinian rights…don’t play word games…Are you advocating for the destruction of Israel? It’s a yes or no question. 

  • sowsear

    I think McCain is getting senile…He send me newsletters and I sent one back to him telling him that Obama is not our friend and to stop trying to make it so.

  • Cindy

    Back when I was a public school teacher, my favorite assignment was when I taught at what had been, up to that point, an all-black elementary school. It was integrated that year.
    The black principal had been there for 30 years. He was the most dynamic, likeable, intelligent man, not to mention school administrator, that I had ever had the pleasure of working with.
    But this is what was unbelievable——At our first teachers meeting, he told us what he expected, etc.
    Then he told us to be sure that we keep “ a couple” of Hispanic books on our shelves, just to make it look good, in case somebody came snooping around! I couldn’t believe it.
    Anyway, I taught the 6th graders the song “Eres Tu” in Spanish. It was popular at the time, and the kids loved it. They sang it for a PTA program. My principal just rolled his eyes! LOL
     My point is that he didn’t consider hispanics to be a minority like blacks, and was irritated that he had to do anything special for them. They were just kids, like all others.
    Thangs have sure changed………………

  • Cindy

    Back when I was a public school music teacher, my favorite assignment was when I taught at what had been, up to that point, an all-black elementary school. It was integrated that year.  
    The black principal had been there for 30 years. He was the most dynamic, likeable, intelligent man, not to mention school administrator, that I had ever had the pleasure of working with.  
    But this is what was unbelievable——At our first teachers meeting, he told us what he expected, etc.  
    Then he told us to be sure that we keep “ a couple” of Hispanic books on our shelves, just to make it look good, in case somebody came snooping around! I couldn’t believe it.  
    Anyway, I taught the 6th graders the song “Eres Tu” in Spanish. It was popular at the time, and the kids loved it. They sang it for a PTA program. My principal just rolled his eyes! LOL  
     My point is that he didn’t consider hispanics to be a minority like blacks, and was irritated that he had to do anything special for them. They were just kids, like all others.  

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Knowledge is power ! Quite right!

    We will be doing more and more business in China.
     
    However, most prefer to buy American… We need to bring the business back here and help the businesses/unemployed at home!

  • Cindy

    ~JustMe~  Oh you naughty girl, you!  LOL!!!!!!

  • sowsear

    My 9th grade grandson is taking Latin..He wants to be a Dr. Even if he never goes to med school, having a knowledge of Latin will help with root words.

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Knowledge is power ! Quite right!  
     
    We will be doing more and more business in China.  

    However, most prefer to buy American… We need to bring the business back here and help the businesses/unemployed at home!

    We don’t need to line Chinas pocket anymore. Look at the debt we have already incurred!

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Knowledge is power ! Quite right!    
       
    We will be doing more and more business in China.    
     
    However, most prefer to buy American… We need to bring the business back here and help the businesses/unemployed at home!  
    We don’t need to line Chinas pocket anymore. Look at the debt we have already incurred!  

  • FlDemFem

    I had eight years of Latin when I was in school, starting in third grade. I got to read “Ceasar’s Commentaries” in the original language. Read some Ovid and Livy too, as I recall. I found it was an enormous help when learning the Romance languages, French, Spanish, Italian, etc. No help in Germanic languages though, sigh. We had a little rhyme we used to say on the way to Latin class..

    Latin is a language,
    As dead as it can be,
    It killed the Greeks and Romans,
    And now it’s killing me!
    O:-)

  • ~~JustMe~~

    NO, NO, NO…..!!!
     
    Just a reminder to: – I thought Al Gore had more class?
    How easy we all forget some of the baggage that goes along with these men!
     
    (But I do understand your joke)

  • ~~JustMe~~

    NO, NO, NO…..!!!  
       
    Just a reminder to: – I thought Al Gore had more class?  
    How easy we all forget some of the baggage that goes along with these men!  
       

  • ~~JustMe~~

    NO, NO, NO…..!!!    
         
    Just a reminder to: – I thought Al Gore had more class?    
    How easy we all forget some of the baggage that goes along with these men! 

  • ~~JustMe~~

    NO, NO, NO…..!!!      
    Just a reminder to: – I thought Al Gore had more class?      
    How easy we all forget some of the baggage that goes along with these men! 

  • ~~JustMe~~

    NO, NO, NO…..!!!        
    Just a reminder to: – I thought Al Gore had more class?        
    How easy we all forget some of the baggage that goes along with these men! 

  • ~~JustMe~~

    And I’m not really shouting at you Cindy. =-O  Sorry!

  • oowawa

    Yes–I studied Latin too, and it’s a bear.  It’s very interesting to me that the modern romance languages are much simpler than latin.  As languages “progress,” the vocabularies increase, but the languages get simpler . . .

  • sowsear
  • sowsear

    Eventually they’ll merge into one language…what was that wniversal language proposed years ago/

  • sowsear

    Esperanto..never caught on.

  • helenk

    I agree with you about buying American and  creating American jobs. That is not happening right now. Very little made in America in stores now. The government is not interested in creating an enviroment that creates jobs here. They talk a good game but do nothing positive.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • helenk

    Tell me again how peaceful these sick bastards are.
    Why would anyone want them around them or their families.

    http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/02/08/mob-destroys-three-churches-after-blasphemy-trial-central-java.html

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • helenk

    Maybe backtrack was on the golf course or at a game or on vacations when these warnings were given.

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/02/the_egypt_warnings_obama_ignor.html

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE  CHATTERING  PEOPLE RULE

  • ~~JustMe~~

    President Obama has kicked his smoking habit
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama finally has kicked the habit, Michelle Obama said Tuesday. “Yes, he has,” the first lady told reporters at the White House when asked whether her husband had finally done what millions of Americans can’t seem to do and quit smoking.
    “It’s been almost a year.”
    She said she didn’t know exactly when he quit “because he never smoked a lot” and she never saw him light up.

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Oh the Irony! Code Pink Leader Medea Benjamin Rescued From Cairo Chaos By America-Loving Egyptian Army Officer  
    Last week Big Peace reported on two Code Pink women who were rescued from the chaos in Egypt by Shell Oil.This week we can report the humiliating irony of virulently anti-U.S. military activist Code Pink co-founder Susan “Medea” Benjamin who was rescued by a U.S. Army trained Egyptian Army officer. Benjamin writes at OpEdNews that she was kidnapped in Cairo by “pro-Mubarak thugs.”

  • helenk
  • getfitnow

    How well is the station doing? I remember before the reporters were “detained” in N. Korea, there was a big lay off announcement.

  • getfitnow

    But why a federal grant to fund Arabic or any other language class.

  • getfitnow

    Apparently there were just a few hundred sold last year.

  • helenk

    Should we laugh or cry. Smuggle people in to USA and bring them ashore at a Marine Base.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/02/border-authorities-arrest-31-illegal-immigrants-wading-ashore-along-san-diego-county-coast.html

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • helenk

    We do not have to pay to bring them home do we?
    Several months or years  in a muslim country should be a good education for them.
    Maybe then they will value the freedom of people in America.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • Cindy

    ~JustMe~—You’re are too funny! I used the word “naughty” because I hear it used in all of the British comedies….and it cracks me up!
    You always make me laugh, JustMe!!

  • JB in VA

    Major barf alert — all parties guilty:

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-08/rich-taking-from-poor-as-10-billion-u-s-subsidy-law-funds-luxury-hotels.html

    This is the sort of waste and legislated theft that makes me think we need to end govt. as we know it — or at least scrap the tax code ENTIRELY.

  • helenk

    will the American msm ever tell the truth about Afghanistan?

    http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/08/deck_chairs_on_the_titanic

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Thank goodness! Cindy was having a Good Grief Day! Went away and overdosed on chocolate!

    “Naughty but Nice” ;)

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Thank goodness Cindy! Was having a Good Grief Day! Went away and overdosed on chocolate!  
     
    “Naughty but Nice” ;)

  • Cindy

    Chocolate??/ Me too! They now sell Godiva at the local drug store. I’m doomed! :)

  • Bronwyn

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    THANKS,  It’s IMPORTANT and could be a lot of FUN!

    (I’m going to repeat this a couple times so I’m sure you see it.)

  • Bronwyn

    BREEZE:  Please contact me via e-mail or Facebook.  You can leave me a message at my relative’s Facebook page, and he will get your message to me:  His username at Facebook is Jeter Amy aka jeteramy30@ymail.comi
     
    THANKS,  It’s IMPORTANT and could be a lot of FUN!
     
    (I’m going to repeat this a couple times so I’m sure you see it.)

  • Bronwyn

     
    BREEZE:  Please contact me via e-mail or Facebook.  You can leave me a message at my relative’s Facebook page, and he will get your message to me:  His username at Facebook is Jeter Amy aka jeteramy30@ymail.comi
     
    THANKS,  It’s IMPORTANT and could be a lot of FUN!
     
    (I’m going to repeat this a couple times so I’m sure you see it.)

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