tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post1950322233155515822..comments2024-01-03T05:18:54.650-05:00Comments on CDR Salamander: A sad, hard truth on AfricaCDR Salamanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05981221786954902349noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-65108196585937920522013-01-09T17:07:20.477-05:002013-01-09T17:07:20.477-05:00Malaysia & Singapore & brunei best interne...Malaysia & Singapore & brunei best internet blogshop for wholesale & quantity <br />korean accessories, earrings, earstuds, pendant, rings, <br />trinket, hair & bracelet add-ons. Deal 35 % wholesale price cut. Ship Worldwide<br /><i>Also visit my web page</i> <b><a href="http://locksmith-salt-lake-city.com/car-locksmith/" rel="nofollow">car lockout salt lake city</a></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-66694081206494926572013-01-07T04:39:40.830-05:002013-01-07T04:39:40.830-05:00Malaysia & Singapore & brunei finest inter...Malaysia & Singapore & brunei finest internet blogshop for wholesale & <br />quantity korean add-ons, accessories, earstuds, locket, rings, <br />bangle, hair & bracelet accessories. Promotion 35 % wholesale discount. Ship Worldwide<br /><i>My web blog</i> ; <b><a href="http://www.plumberbondinsw.com.au/hot-water-system/" rel="nofollow">blocked drain plumber</a></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-33882848807454029902011-01-06T21:19:03.000-05:002011-01-06T21:19:03.000-05:00don't be sorry man you were just getting a rol...don't be sorry man you were just getting a roll on .<br /><br />cpknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-62595911107623213182011-01-06T21:15:09.000-05:002011-01-06T21:15:09.000-05:00DB:
remember it was saddim who gave us a new term...DB:<br /><br />remember it was saddim who gave us a new term in our language.<br /><br />CHILDRENS PRISONS.<br /><br />Cpknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-12807676255166071482011-01-06T07:49:39.000-05:002011-01-06T07:49:39.000-05:00That effect is exactly the reason I automatically ...That effect is exactly the reason I automatically turn off the TV whenever one of those inane celebrity-make-ourselves-feel-good fundraisers appears.<br /><br />I'll send my dollars to Soldier's Angels, the USO, or a similar organization before I enable any of those jackwagons.Grumpy Old Hamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-28606628388760125572011-01-06T07:39:54.000-05:002011-01-06T07:39:54.000-05:00...once again, parallels to similar programs in ou......once again, parallels to similar programs in our our nation are left as an exercise to the reader. :-EGrumpy Old Hamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-13020135316935382162011-01-05T23:18:58.000-05:002011-01-05T23:18:58.000-05:00Again, it's the Left that is at fault, with th...Again, it's the Left that is at fault, with the controls put on the growing and even the distribution of the food. There is plenty of food for all, but the Left will allow starvation, to retain thier power. Those people over there oppose us, or may even possibly oppose us, or may even worship the wrong God. No problem, let them starve.SCOTTtheBADGERnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-9967760738296628042011-01-05T23:13:33.000-05:002011-01-05T23:13:33.000-05:00That's because it IS thier fault. That's because it IS thier fault. SCOTTtheBADGERnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-66892855128570515572011-01-05T22:18:04.000-05:002011-01-05T22:18:04.000-05:00I feel sorry for the kids, just like I feel sorry ...I feel sorry for the kids, just like I feel sorry for the American kids in the inner city.<br /><br />However, they are being raised in cultures that have no values, morals, family structure, nor respect for authority, or even appreciation for the acts of kindness from others.<br /><br />They cannot all be saved. Probably most of them cannot be saved. Perhaps a few might be saved, but are the benefits worth the cost? Sadly, I think not, and therefore I will not waste scarce resources trying. <br /><br />What help I can give is better spent trying to promote free market capitalism, family values, religious beliefs (less the misnamed "religion of peace") and the inherent desire for freedom, not dependence, or serfdom to local tribal tyrants.<br /><br />Our own nation has challenges enough. Someone else will have to worry about Africa, if they believe it is their interest or obligation to do so.<br /><br />The European powers carried "the white man's burden" in Africa for more than a century, and attempted through colonization to improve the lot of the natives, admittedly with some benefit to the home country in the process. However, their forced departure in favor of independence has reduced virtually every former colony in Africa worse off than in the worst colonial days. A noble experiment failed.<br /><br />Learn from history and don't attempt the impossible.<br />Afghanistan offers very similar lessons to those willing to observe and learn.Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-82572697998649835032011-01-05T19:55:01.000-05:002011-01-05T19:55:01.000-05:00I'm not worried. these things have a way of wo...I'm not worried. these things have a way of working themselves out over time. Things like the Black Death, Ebola, famine, etc along with war should right that ship.<br /><br /> This nation, and the rest of the world, ought not to give a single penny towards African relief. Let the leaders of their nations start to pull their own weight and stop hogging their national wealth for themselves.<br /><br /> When the African nation's peoples have had enough, they will either deal with the problem themselves, or die.<br /><br /> We have enough problems at home. Africa was set upon this road to ruin by the Chinese and Soviets. It isn't OUR problem any kore, and we shouldn't make it our problem either.AW1 Timnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-77430916711682407422011-01-05T19:05:31.000-05:002011-01-05T19:05:31.000-05:00One of my professors in college made the very vali...One of my professors in college made the very valid point that all the "green revolution" (the food-growing kind, not the Al Gore get-rich kind) did was create hundreds of millions on the edge of starvation. And that was 1983. <br /><br />Tough to argue.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-9383185394811840652011-01-05T18:20:34.000-05:002011-01-05T18:20:34.000-05:00Post WWII and upon entering independence, the gran...Post WWII and upon entering independence, the grand majority of African countries embraced socialism. Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania, you name it... they all 'doctored' their own variant of afrosocialism. When I was a kid I had to study about what a wonderful person Tanzania's Nyerere was because of his implementation of what he called 'ujamaa', which was basically a collectivization of his country's agricultural sector (not that there was much beyond that, and what there was, was nationalized).<br /><br />The result? Tanzania's economy went down the gutter completely.<br /><br />Look at it this way. The international left, and that includes not only the badass exporters of socialist ideology like the USSR and China, but also leftist governments in western countries, is GUILTY of ruining the Third World's countries' economies.<br /><br />But they are also GUILTY of opening wide our borders for the wretched flotsam of millions of refugees from these countries.<br /><br />The older I get, the harder it is to escape the notion that almost anything that goes wrong on this planet and is anthropogenic, is the left's fault.Outlaw Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-31996110128882254702011-01-05T17:58:10.000-05:002011-01-05T17:58:10.000-05:00Gee, thanks, URR and Badger. Finally! Recognitio...Gee, thanks, URR and Badger. Finally! Recognition that all those hours spent studying British Literature weren't in vain.DeltaBravonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-83691660932505579802011-01-05T17:44:04.000-05:002011-01-05T17:44:04.000-05:00Many of Africa's problems--and indeed many of ...Many of Africa's problems--and indeed many of the rest of the world's problems--would be cured by some negative population growth. I'm not talking anything draconian, either. But as long as backwards religious values hold sway over so many people and suggest that birth control is somehow sinful things are just going to keep getting worse. Maybe it's just because I'm packed into Northern Virginia with millions of other folks, but it's hard to understand how anyone could think our lives wouldn't be improved by less of us running around everywhere.Guestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-28880330051006244952011-01-05T17:12:03.000-05:002011-01-05T17:12:03.000-05:00Wow, DB. That is excellent. Truly!Wow, DB. That is excellent. Truly!UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-23441982400545905112011-01-05T17:11:45.000-05:002011-01-05T17:11:45.000-05:00That bit of poetry gets you access to all the stor...That bit of poetry gets you access to all the storerooms in all the tunnels, on all levels, Bravo.SCOTTtheBADGERnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-88781636244544738682011-01-05T16:33:41.000-05:002011-01-05T16:33:41.000-05:00After Somalia I wondered about that myself, URR.
M...After Somalia I wondered about that myself, URR.<br />May I add another verse perhaps Kipling might have forgot....<br /><br /><br />We took up the white man's burden<br />And bore it as our own<br />Gave food and drink and bound up<br />wounds gashed by distant throne.<br />The more we gave they hated<br />We failed to understand<br />White guilt will not be sated<br />By our severed outstretched hand.DeltaBravonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-73072018155255051202011-01-05T16:08:41.000-05:002011-01-05T16:08:41.000-05:00SG - the history of the last hundred years says it...SG - the history of the last hundred years says it isn't just brown people in far away lands that do that.andrewdbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-18191514343734775882011-01-05T16:05:15.000-05:002011-01-05T16:05:15.000-05:00Hafta reply, so I can like URR again! Good Old Ru...Hafta reply, so I can like URR again! Good Old Rudy! So few have read and actually understood that poem. YAY URR!SCOTTtheBADGERnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-34904455253221708832011-01-05T16:01:05.000-05:002011-01-05T16:01:05.000-05:00"Never give up. Never. Never. NEVER. NEVER!!..."Never give up. Never. Never. NEVER. NEVER!!"<br />(Churchill)campbellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-53881481272372379092011-01-05T15:42:00.000-05:002011-01-05T15:42:00.000-05:00Take up the White Man's burden
The savage war...Take up the White Man's burden<br /> The savage wars of peace<br />Fill full the mouth of Famine<br /> And bid the sickness cease;<br /> And when your goal is nearest<br /> The end for others sought,<br /> Watch sloth and heathen Folly<br /> Bring all your hopes to nought.<br /> <br /> Take up the White Man's burden<br /> No tawdry rule of kings,<br /> But toil of serf and sweeper<br /> The tale of common things.<br /> The ports ye shall not enter,<br /> The roads ye shall not tread,<br /> Go mark them with your living,<br /> And mark them with your dead.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-65439607574216098942011-01-05T13:30:25.000-05:002011-01-05T13:30:25.000-05:00It isnt West that armed dictators, it is the vast ...It isnt West that armed dictators, it is the vast surplus of post cold war Soviet arsenals plus chinese dime-a-dozen ones...<br />But yeah, where there was shortage of AK-47s machetes would suffice...<br />Still it is easier to run from a guy with a machete than from one with AK-47ewok40knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-427445091761223082011-01-05T13:27:09.000-05:002011-01-05T13:27:09.000-05:00It is not that West imports these people, it is th...It is not that West imports these people, it is that they escape the Africa, braving desert and seas... thousands yearly die in the Mediterranean, but this doesnt deter others.ewok40knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-41327101014619801482011-01-05T12:32:50.000-05:002011-01-05T12:32:50.000-05:00Greetings:
The rock group "Hot Tuna" us...Greetings:<br /><br />The rock group "Hot Tuna" used to sing a song called "Death don't have no mercy in this land".11B40noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-86719390048460350972011-01-05T12:18:01.000-05:002011-01-05T12:18:01.000-05:00Overseas I remember being introduced to the horrif...Overseas I remember being introduced to the horrific idea that some parents deliberately maim their children before sending them out begging. Makes guilty "rich" white people give more.<br /><br />Do whole governments do this to their children to fill the gummint coffers? <br /><br />We saw enough of that with the "dying Iraqi children" during the embargo while Saddam was installing gold toilets in his palaces. I guess the Iraqi schools filled with AK-47s weren't funded by the bake sales the "Arms are for hugging" crowd said we should hold here. How come it's only wrong when America depletes its treasury to buy weapons (or whatever claptrap we were accused of doing.)<br /><br />Those questions bother me when I see the images of starving children flicker on tv. They're pointing at the wrong boogeyman and we fall for it every time. Ignoring the obvious in one damned country after another.DeltaBravonoreply@blogger.com