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- Mon Oct 22, 2018 4:00 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi
- Replies: 37
- Views: 40963
Re: Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi
It is now admitted that members of the Saudi government killed a person the government decided betrayed it. If Salman initiated it, that is probably his right as Crown Prince. If not there already seems to be a list of suspects reaching up to a high level. Saudi Arabia’s legal system is based on Sha...
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 2:27 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi
- Replies: 37
- Views: 40963
Re: Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi
First - I merely explained why JAK might have been assassinated, why this isn’t unusual in the Middle East, and that even our own government has done far worse. Normally, this would not have raised much attention but as an anti-Trump tool, it has ballooned to the worst crisis since Kavanaugh. This ...
- Fri Oct 19, 2018 5:56 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi
- Replies: 37
- Views: 40963
Re: Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi
What petty reactions to a serious subject. Of course I condone neither what happened to JAK nor to 80 innocnt Lebanese. The Obama administration assassinated targets in the Middle East, one of which inspired the revenge attack in Benghazi. Even the collateral damage probably wasn't something you wer...
- Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:25 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi
- Replies: 37
- Views: 40963
Re: Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi
V, Your point is a non-sequitur to mine. Mine is that the media outrage is disproportionate to the assassination when you look at what governments, including my example of the US, do to their enemies. JAK was considered an enemy of the state by the Saudi government. Middle East justice can be harsh ...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:41 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi
- Replies: 37
- Views: 40963
Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi
Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi JAKs conjectured demise is currently a major news item. My only interest in it is that is an example of how little Americans know or understand of what goes on in the world. The media controls what you are allowed to know. I have lived in a different world than most of you and...
- Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:41 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: New Fall of Gondolin book coming in August?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 51803
Re: New Fall of Gondolin book coming in August?
V, I had not thought you had read it. It was your mention of the award that got my attention. I know this is somewhat OT, but since I mentioned it earlier, it has nagged me that, of the 13 dwarves, all but one's name is derived from first Edda poem (Voluspa). Of the group, it is Thorin who stands ou...
- Fri Oct 12, 2018 2:43 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: New Fall of Gondolin book coming in August?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 51803
Re: New Fall of Gondolin book coming in August?
Thanks V. I heard of its coming but dismissed it without looking based on my encounter with The Fellowship... mentioned earlier in the thread. Nothing against the author of the Arthurian/Inkling book, but I stopped reading The Fellowship... after 373 pages of a lot of uninteresting trivia. It just h...
- Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:35 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Kavanaugh controversy
- Replies: 395
- Views: 172824
Re: The Kavanaugh controversy
RoseMorninStar, I agree with Mr. Garrold. The last 2 weeks were a travesty of government. Trumpeting unsupported accusations and whining about unfairness every time Democrats were allowed to have it their way, purely for political theater, was contemptible. I will let the WP correct your misundersta...
- Mon Oct 08, 2018 5:22 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Kavanaugh controversy
- Replies: 395
- Views: 172824
Re: The Kavanaugh controversy
As i said before, we will probably never know the truth of Ford's accusations. What we do know is that all of those she identified as witnesses failed to support her accusation. We also know her former boyfriend accused her of lying about having never coached anyone about polygraph testing, which is...
- Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:51 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Benghazi revisited
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13069
Re: Benghazi revisited
yovargas, You missed two important distinctions: Hillary was investigated by Hillary supporters within the FBI and was exonerated. That's why McCabe is being investigated. There are not just accusations but ample evidence to investigate Uranium One. Millions from beneficiaries of the Uranium One dea...
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 6:31 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Kavanaugh controversy
- Replies: 395
- Views: 172824
Re: The Kavanaugh controversy
Based on the consequences of several polls from the last 2 weeks, all I can say to liberals is please keep it up. The Harris poll is seated in the liberal haven of Harvard, so it can’t be easily dismissed. This is a quote from Monday’s poll: “If the FBI review finds no corroborating evidence, 60% of...
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 5:55 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Benghazi revisited
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13069
Re: Benghazi revisited
Yovargas, When the NYT was still interested in the story, they reported the method by which disclosure of donations and amounts was obscured by the Clinton's use of a Canadian foundation scheme. Canada has no disclosure requirements so the Uranium One related donations were sent to the Canada founda...
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 9:43 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Kavanaugh controversy
- Replies: 395
- Views: 172824
Re: The Kavanaugh controversy
If you didn't listen to Susan Collin's statement, you should. Her support of Kavanaugh is secondary. After the insanity of the last few weeks, she spoke in favor of order and justice in carrying out the responsibilities of government, as opposed to unsupported accusations and mob rule. It has been m...
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:40 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Benghazi revisited
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13069
Re: Benghazi revisited
yovargas, It is easy to understand your reaction The problem is that all you hear is what the MSM allows you to hear. Occassionally something slips through. For example, on the Uranium One issue, this is a NYT article from the before anyone else actually looked at it: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04...
- Thu Oct 04, 2018 6:54 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: New Fall of Gondolin book coming in August?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 51803
Re: New Fall of Gondolin book coming in August?
The Fall of Gondolin is probably of the last of Christopher Tolkien’s books derived from his father’s notes. It is also the last of the six books he edited after the History of Middle Earth was finished. Three of these books are connected directly to Middle Earth and specifically the Silmarillion a...
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:31 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
- Replies: 2045
- Views: 605124
Re: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
This is intended to address the Manafort part of my assertions. There is an interesting article in the Kyiv Post: https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/graham-stack-everything-you-know-about-paul-manafort-is-wrong.html It is written by Graham Stack who claims to have been a major source of ...
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 12:55 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Kavanaugh controversy
- Replies: 395
- Views: 172824
Re: The Kananaugh controversy
Cerin,
Thank you for being a voice of reason in this thread. Since none of us have any way to know what actually happened, that's about all that can fairly be said.
Thank you for being a voice of reason in this thread. Since none of us have any way to know what actually happened, that's about all that can fairly be said.
- Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:07 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
- Replies: 2045
- Views: 605124
Re: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
V, I responded to all of your points, but it took so long I was timed out. Is there a way to recover? It left me with just the first part. I will try the rest again tomorrow. ----------------------------------- Thanks for your response. It is difficult to find mention of misbehavior when most of the...
- Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:13 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
- Replies: 2045
- Views: 605124
Re: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
I have edited the post in question and added references to media sources. Most of these can't be accused of conservative bias. One exception is the NYPost entry. If I missed supporting an assertion, just let me know.
- Sat Sep 15, 2018 5:06 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
- Replies: 2045
- Views: 605124
Re: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
There may yet be hope for justice. Manafort's "crimes" had nothing to do with the 2016 campaign, but with activity carried on years before for being paid to lobby for Ukraine without filing the paperwork for agents of a foreign government and for hiding the income. Both of these things had...