The nonsense of Muslims and dhimmis like us living together in peace and harmony is a sham. Name one modern country where that is occurring. Go on, name one (that has a Muslim population over 20 or 25%, anyway). There are none. A good friend of mine, a very sharp guy, just got back from 9 months traveling through Indonesia. He says there are two kinds of states there: those with a minority Muslim population--where it is dangerous to travel without a body guard, the places with beheadings and shot-up and burned villages--and those where the Muslims have taken over--which are generally peaceful and the non-Muslims are left alone...as long as they follow the rules, and accept the new religious government where Church and State are one.
That is Islam's version of moderacy and peace: once they win, they'll put up with dhimmis.
All the major Islamic states of the Middle East have bluntly and openly stated, as a matter of official policy, that only one solution to the "Israel Problem" is acceptable: complete annihilation. The rest is smoke and mirrors. And the idea of the terrorist-run Palestine being recognized as a state is impossible for the Israelis, as the Palestinians demand "right of return." Further, States are allowed to weaponize--not in the way Palestine is now armed, but openly on the world market. Look at the size of Israel on a map. It is tiny. It would be suicide to allow a psychotic terror state to arm itself right next door.
The Israeli/Palestinian (more generally, the Israeli/Arab) situation remains unsolvable, and will remain so unless the bordering Arab states make concessions of their own, and Palestine is run by a government at least quasi-sane.
And as for the 88% of American Jews who voted for Obama--good job.

"According to Cameron, the story tension centers on a conflict between Earth’s “Military Industrial Complex” and the Na’vi, who are peaceful, live happily in the forest “when humans are not trampling their planet,” and ultimately “prove to be wiser than we are.” When provoked, though, they are “ferocious warriors.”

That's all I need to know. I will NEVER watch this film. I respect Cameron, but I will not swallow any more of this sort of Hollywood/liberal bile.

Apparently they deleted my completely correct and provable comment. Try again.
When will Waters protest the walls that Jordan and Egypt have put up to keep their Arab brethren out of THEIR countries?

Is he suggesting Egypt and Jordan tear down their walls, too? Funny how those walls keeping the filthy Palestinians...I mean their oppressed Arab brethren...out of their nations never seem to get much press. As in any.

I love it when people who know nothing about Christianity try this sort of thing. The imaginary Christianity/Christians they've formed in their heads via osmosis from similarly-mind friends, none of who know anything either, leads to moronic "gotcha!" statements like this which simply display their ignorance and foolishness to anyone who knows the reality.
CgntvDssdnt, grab a plate. You'll need it for your ass.

Thank god I studied poetry back on the 70s, when the teacher just, y'know, felt she should teach poetry. I wasn't told I must hate T.S. Eliot because he was a Christian white male, and love Maya Angelou because she was a black female "with a difficult childhood and I could 'learn' from her."
I was free to read and learn and explore and discover what I liked, be it Pound or MacDiarmid or Robert L. Service or, god forbid, Rudyard Kipling (is it even legal to show his poetry to schoolkids any more?). She saw nothing at all wrong with getting a laugh out of Carroll, but also taught the joy of finally feeling all the difficult pieces of something like Eliot's "The Hollow Men" click into place. Because I her I went on to learn Middle English and Anglo-Saxon. Thanks, Mrs. Jackson--I doubt there are any like you around these days.
Doubtless there are modern poets out there I would enjoy. But digging through stacks of pompous, PC-corroded magazines and journals to dig out the nuggets has become a complete waste of time. There are plenty of interesting anthologies and such to be found in used book stores--just don't buy one dated later than, say, 1975.

The problem is that once a few key positions were taken over by liberals (instead of people who just wanted to make great comics) back in the mid 80s, within a decade the liberals had (just as they do in academia or anywhere they work) pushed out anyone with opposing viewpoints. If you wanted work, you fell into line.

CA could (temporarily) balance their budget by simply rolling it back to the 2005 budget. A common-sense act any business would do in a heartbeat. But they won't. They are cash junkies owned by the unions who DON'T CARE if they gut the goose that lays their salaries and pensions (see: the UAW)
Obama will violate the Constitution (again) by bailing out CA. Which will respond by raising their budget and be back with a hand out again next year. And the next. And the next.
There are a lot of perceptive and inteliigent people commenting on this blog, but I wonder how many realize just how bad things are getting, and how fast? China is right now working to remove the dollar as the standard currency and have cut their US bond purchases for the first time ever. Some people say they "need us" to sell to. No. Sales to the US from China total 5% (five percent) of their exports. They don't need us very much at all, considering they are now (wisely) putting their money into resources instead.
And that just touches on the disasters awaiting. Pension meltdowns, heck, "entitlement" meltdowns of all types. SSI and Medicare collapse seem to be moved closer every time someone does a study. The US credit card is maxed and the kneebreakers are coming for us and I have yet to hear a solution to the problem that is being proposed seriously by any one in a position to actually make it happen.
Whatever comes out of thus, the USA as we knew is gone forever. At best, we'll end up another Britain, a once-great world power now a sniveling welfare state offering practically nothing to the world.
I'm not thrilled to write this, but I'm a successful businessman, not a dreamer. I've closed my business and am on the way to my ex-homeland of Canada, where they at least have resources they are willing to use and some vague idea how to run a socialist economy.

The libs are utterly convinced the eeeeeevil auto makers have that darn 100mpg carb or the engine that runs on water hidden in the basement, and the only way to flush it out is with the progressively more insane CAFE standards.
Someone needs to fax them a copy of "The Idiot's Guide to Thermodynamics."

I've spent 25 years working in Japan 3 or 4 months out of each year. I have seen, with my own eyes, the death of the "work our asses off to get this country great" generation and rise of the new "who cares, our ass is covered by socialized everything and I'd rather text my pals than work at anything useful anyway and you know, living in Mom and Dad's spare room is okay."
Why do you think one of the most innovative and technically sophisticated countries in the world was been stuck in a recession for nearly 20 years?
Oh, yeah, there was a bank failure the government tried to bail out by ramping up government spending. Sounds familiar.