ROK Drop Open Thread – September 28, 2014
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It’s not the things we have that define us. It’s the things we do.
It’s not the things we do that define us. It’s the things we get caught doing.
Delay of OPCON transfer could reverse relocation of US troops from Seoul
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/655934.html
More YRP poop, I don’t like how this guy makes it out like it’s only the US that’s pushing for changes in the old agreements. Not to mention in an article where he admits how the RoK already “backed out” of the OPCON Transfer deal. It’s an ok piece aside from that.
Japan overwhelmingly favors CDs to digital music
http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/japan-overwhelmingly-favors-cds-to-digital-music
Ahhh, yes… the old analog CDs.
Russian State Media Portray Hong Kong Democracy Protests as U.S. Plot
http://online.wsj.com/articles/russian-state-media-portray-hong-kong-protests-as-u-s-plot-1412103539
First woman director of Secret Service, Julia Pierson, resigns over White House security breach.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/politics/secret-service-director-resigns/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Ebola reaches Dallas, TX. Patient had contact with 5 Dallas schoolchildren.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-ebola-texas-20141001-story.html
Maybe the Korean restaurant was correct to hold sign barring Africans for fear of Ebola?
ha ha ha.. ebola has reached the US and is infecting the Americanos. Now who was right.
And read about just another violence hated filled day in an American city, where beheadings are common.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/world/2014/10/182_165558.html
1) Denny… Obama has given leadership roles based on race, gender, and ideology rather than qualification. The result? Secret Service, IRS, AG, etc.
2) Denny… Ebola is a problem made bigger by political correctness and push for diversity over more important issues.
3) Tom… that is funny. After consideration, it really is a good thing. It will have little effect on the upper class population capible of following basic safety precautions. The poor and uneducated living 8 to a room will be culled.
As for beheadings, so what? Black AND Muslim? Hating white people and cuting off their heads while yelling jihadish stuff? Where is the news in that? They don’t need a front page story every time grass is seen to be green or water turn out to be wet. Fire up the presses next time a racist white cop kills an unarmed black gentle giant or a racist white radio personality says “nappy headed hos” about some well-groomed finishing school graduates. Until then, leave the race baiting to the professionals.
CH’s boy(Kobach) loses again
Kobach loses again in Kansas:
http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article2421062.html
“A three-judge panel in Topeka ruled Wednesday that Kansas Democrats need not nominate a candidate for the 2014 Senate race. The ruling is expected to help independent Senate candidate Greg Orman’s campaign against incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Roberts.”
Normal Red state Kansas has gone Bad Breaking voting Blue(hehehe).
And on another note…
Lack of ice forces some 35,000 walruses to chill on Alaska shore
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/10/02/us-usa-climatechange-walruses-idINKCN0HR05520141002
“An estimated 35,000 walruses are pictured are pictured hauled out on a beach near the village of Point Lay, Alaska, 700 miles northwest of Anchorage, in this September 2014 handout photo. According to scientists, the congregation of Pacific walruses — one of the largest ever — was prompted by a lack of sea ice which the walruses use to rest in Arctic waters, according to scientists.
Fast-melting Arctic sea ice has forced some 35,000 Pacific walruses to retreat to the Alaska shoreline, scientists from several federal agencies said on Wednesday.”
CH notes that women and black men aren’t “qualified” to do their jobs. Name me a recent AG who has done more good than Eric Holder. Hey, he’s not perfect. I would’ve liked him to go after those on Wall Street but he made GOP’s happy by leaving big business alone so what are you crying about? As far as the IRS woman goes, she can claim the 5th like so many men have done in the past.
In response a NY Times article…
‘Clay Aiken Takes Lessons From ‘American Idol’ to the Campaign Trail’
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/magazine/clay-aiken-takes-lessons-from-american-idol-to-the-campaign-trail.html
The man had this to say…
“Clay Aiken unable to make himself say anything positive about Obama, and saying he didn’t want Obama to come campaign for him. Really, Clay? You’re going to lose. How much worse could it be if the president of the United States came to campaign for you? This is what’s so frustrating about the Democrats: always trying to get votes that are never there, while not exciting their own base. Obama gave people health care, not herpes. Own it. You’re gay in North Carolina. I think the redneck vote has sailed. This could wind up as the beginning of a show-ending monologue on “Real Time.”
Oh and did Obama ever give health care…Now the GOP is complaining that the ACA/Obamacare doesn’t help enough people even though they’ve voted to repeal it 50 times.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117494/gop-hypocrisy-obamacare-uninsured-medicaid
And…
GOP robbed of campaign issue with Obamacare success
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/gop-loses-attack-issue-as-obamacare-succeeds-336553027521
Steve Kornacki reports on diminished Republican emphasis on Obamacare as a campaign issue as the statistics repeatedly show the health care program succeeding both in terms of coverage and cost savings.
1 year after the ACA/Obamacare rollout…Click above to watch video(hehehe). Someday soon the GOP will take credit for Obamacare/ACA and say it was their idea(hehehe).
tbonetylr, I see you fell unsurprisingly for the latest global warming propaganda. Here is my response:
https://www.rokdrop.net/forums/topic/global-warming-alarmists-caught-in-walrus-gate/
I see there have been some changes. But the Liberals are still, well “Liberals”. Not much intelligence in them. And Tom is still trying to manufacture some rage in the Americans to give his life some small meaning.
I wonder if I will get “notifications form this incarnation of ROKDROP. Time will tell.
Retired GI, welcome back. Let me know if the notifications work or not. You can read about the technical difficulties I developed with my webhost at this link. I wonder if that is what was causing your notification issue in some way?
GIKorea, I get the following “every time” I post to a new story. Is that intended? “Howdy.
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I also must reenter my email and name on every comment. Also intended?
Ajeoshi doin ajeoshi stuff.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2775816/Opportunist-pedestrian-attempts-extreme-form-insurance-fraud-fails-miserably-driver-dash-cam.html
Somehow I don’t see his claim getting granted. 😉
South Korea Is Awarded Berths in 2018 Olympic Tournaments
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/sports/olympics/south-korea-awarded-berths-in-2018-olympic-hockey-tournaments.html
Yeah there’s no tom-foolery goin on here. I’m a big hockey fan and have (painfully) watched a good bit of Korean hockey and I can say for sure neither of their teams have any business competing anymore than the USA does in Caber Toss (look it up). This crap takes away a spot from a deserving team that can compete and win in the qualifiers. Shame on Korea. 🙁
Is N. Korea still digging tunnels to South?
http://www.wfmz.com/news/is-n-korea-still-digging-tunnels-to-south/28366322
Some freaky stuff if it turns out to be true, a tunnel found as far south as Seoul would be as bad as if the DPRK shelled another island. 🙁
Retired GI, did you click the subscribe to new comments box? If you did you would receive a notification every time there is a new comment. As far as the name an email address that should be something your browser does by storing the info. What I recommend is registering for an account on ROK Drop and that would resolve the issue for you.
GI Korea, Thanks.
DON’T BE DISTRACTED SHEEPLE! WAKE UP! THE FRAUD IS ABOUT TO BE EXPOSED!
The real news is that Mike Zullo, the lead investigator on Sheriff Joe’s Cold Case Posse has a new lead!
Obama’s mother wasn’t actually his mother!
Zullo said that he doesn’t know who Obama is, but “all that I can tell you is I don’t believe he is who he purports to be.”
He said that he disagreed with fellow investigator Joel Gilbert’s assertion that the president’s real father was American labor organizer Frank Marshall Davis. Instead, he said, “I would be focusing real hard on who’s the mommy.”
I guess it doesn’t really matter who his dad was. As far as I know, if your mother is an American citizen, then you have citizenship rights as well. (Anyone confirm or deny that?) So all the birther arguments are pretty much irrelevant. A curiosity for sure, but basically irrelevant.
Whether or not his mama was knocking boots with ol’ Frank, I am more concerned with the allegations that one of the top card carrying communists in Hawaii had any sort of influence on our president. That is the most troubling aspect for me.
I would like to believe that I don’t get caught up in sensational claims, but there seems to have been an attempt to remove any mention of Frank from his life in the run up to his presidential campaign.
Supposedly Frank is mentioned numerous times in his autobiography as it is originally published, but subsequent editions had removed any trace of the man. If there’s nothing to hide, then why hide it?
Leon, you and I could go around and around on how good or bad this president has been, or how baseless some of the accusations against him have been, but I can’t understand how you are seemingly untroubled by anything from his past, much less his actions while in office.
The list of scandals — real or cooked up by the right- keeps growing. Common sense would tell you they can’t all be false.
“if your mother is an American citizen, then you have citizenship rights as well.”
DING DING DING We have a winner! Thank you. Thank You.
“you and I could go around and around on how good or bad this president has been”
Why would we do that? Why do you think I’m pro-Obammy? Because I point out the hypocrisy and idiocy of his detractors and they way they go about it as well as the lemmings that fall in line with it? He’s a freaking terrible president but I sure as hell wouldn’t want Sarah Palin one heart beat from that office and I seriously question the judgement of anyone who would choose her for the VP position. It was a cynical political calculation. Our entire political process is no longer based on selecting the best candidate, it’s choosing the lessor evil.
Shark attacks AFB in California
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/3-shark-attacks-2-days-vandenberg-afb/
3 shark attacks in 2 days at Vandenberg AFB
A day after a surfer is attacked, two kayak anglers are attacked at the California military base; there were fatal attacks there in 2010 and 2012.
Vandenberg Air Force Base is located in Santa Barbara County, about 130 miles north of Los Angeles.
On Friday the base posted this statement on its website homepage:
“Shark attacks AFB in California”
Thanks Obama!
/hope they had health insurance.
Poor Muslims Ben Affleck thinks/says..
Video: Bill Maher and Sam Harris versus Ben Affleck on Islam
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/10/04/video-bill-maher-and-sam-harris-versus-ben-affleck-on-islam/
It’s amusing. The Christians are loving Maher for (rightfully) slamming Islam. They say he is right! Problem is, they can’t see he is right about Christianity (and all religion) as well. It’s hilarious. It’s almost as funny as Paul Ryans love affair with Ayn Rand.
‘Lou Holtz Doesn’t Know What Ameer Abdullah’s Name Is’ calls him Muhammad
…even though he leads the NCAA in total rushing yards
http://deadspin.com/lou-holtz-doesnt-know-what-ameer-abdullahs-name-is-1642496481
Nebraska running back Ameer Abdullah is among a short list of players worthy of early-season Heisman talk, but ESPN college football analyst and race-baiter advocate Lou Holtz doesn’t even know the Cornhuskers star’s name—inserting, instead, something we’re sure he finds appropriately “Ay-rabbic.”
Leon,
Palin is outrageous. So is McCain. That was 2008. I honestly don’t know if we would have been better off with McCain. His answer to everything seems to be to send in the military or to give weapons to some unvetted group or another.
I do believe that Romney was a better choice, all things considered. I do feel the country would be better off today if he were the current president. I’m not saying he would have set things right in the way that you or I may desire, but I think things would be better than they are right now.
You may not be prObama, but you certainly are quick to point out perceived flaws in his detractors, while hesitant to speak out on his countless inadequacies and outright lies to the American public.
I am not a republican. I despise many things about both parties. I do feel that the vision of the democrat party is the downfall of a powerful and sovereign America whether they recognize it or not.
Johnnyboy: “I do believe that Romney was a better choice, all things considered.”
You wouldn’t have seen the record number of filibusters(unprecedented obstructionism) by the GOP therefore you would’ve seen more cooperation in the house and senate which could’ve given us an up tick in local infrastructure investment. However, Bush had that and look where he took us. If Romney had the same we’d still have boots on the ground in iraq, would’ve invaded Iran, and also responded with boots on the ground in Syria, Liberia, Somalia(II), and any other place the GOP Hawks would’ve created in the world. With Romney Mississippi would only have one abortion clinic in the entire state on its way to zero forcing women to travel out of state to get an abortion.
All that without any Affordable Care Act/Obamacare which is no longer a GOP campaign issue only 1 year after the website kickoff. Again, the GOP will someday take credit for the ACA and perhaps say it was all their idea. Because of Bush’s 2007/2008 financial crisis and lack of leadership to fix the problem, Obama stepped up(before inauguration) and took over while Bush was sitting in the room planning his doodling/painting future. In 2008 I considered voting republican because I saw the racism in gov’t but I’m not going to vote for people because they hate a particular black man/people even though it could’ve brought more cooperation in gov’t.
Johnnyboy says: “I honestly don’t know if we would have been better off with McCain.”
Huh???
John McCain and other war mongerers
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/a6yqrp/mess-o-potamia—now-that-s-what-i-call-being-completely-f–king-wrong-about-iraq
Mess O’Potamia – Now That’s What I Call Being Completely F**king Wrong About Iraq
This is the short version on Lindsey Graham…
“A Nightmare on Graham Street”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hNvpTGkufk
Tbone,
I’ll reply in the new open thread.