On Jun 21, 12:28 pm, Phlip <
phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Turns out the entire herd of them should resign. Oblamer has invoked
>> executive privilege to shield him from telling stuff he supposedly has
>> no knowledge of.
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> And the possibility that Issa is only pretending the 8,000 pages
> turned over so far aren't enough...
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Have you seen the photo of the pages turned over with every line
blacked out?
http://images.quickblogcast.com/0/8/8/4/7/185470-174880/bk.jpg?a=6
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> ...and that Obama's protecting the identity of our agents in Latin
> America who investigate drug cartels...
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> ...probably hasn't even crossed your mind.
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Whoa there, Phil!
By claiming "our agents in Latin America [are] investigating drug
cartels," you are claiming that `Fast and Furious' covered virtually
all the land mass south of the southern border of the United States!
"Latin America" includes:
Mexico, most of Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, Cuba,
the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico — in summary, Hispanic America
and Brazil. Latin America is, therefore, defined as all those parts of
the Americas that were once part of the Spanish and Portuguese
Empires.
By this definition, Latin America is coterminous with Ibero-america
("Iberian America").
Particularly in the United States, the term more broadly refers to all
of the Americas south of the United States, thus including: English-
speaking countries such as Belize, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and
Tobago, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, St.
Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Bahamas; French-speaking Haiti and
Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana; and the Dutch-speaking
Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and Suriname. (In the former Netherlands
Antilles and Aruba, Papiamento – a predominantly Iberian-derived
creole language – is spoken by the majority of the population.) This
definition emphasizes a similar socioeconomic history of the region,
which was characterized by formal or informal colonialism, rather than
cultural aspects. (See, for example, dependency theory.) As such, some
sources avoid this oversimplification by using the phrase "Latin
America and the Caribbean" instead, as in the United Nations geoscheme
for the Americas.
In a more literal definition, which remains faithful to the original
usage, Latin America designates all of those countries and territories
in the Americas where a Romance language (i.e., languages derived from
Latin, and hence the name of the region) is spoken: Spanish,
Portuguese, and French, and the creole languages based upon these.
Strictly considering this definition, Quebec, in Canada, is part of
Latin America as well. But this region is rarely considered so, since
its history, distinctive culture and economy, and British-inspired
political institutions are generally deemed too closely intertwined
with the rest of Canada.
The distinction between Latin America and Anglo-America is a
convention based on the predominant languages in the Americas by which
Romance-language and English-speaking cultures are distinguished.
Neither area is culturally or linguistically homogeneous; in
substantial portions of Latin America (e.g., highland Peru, Bolivia,
Guatemala, and Paraguay), American Indian cultures and, to a lesser
extent, Amerindian languages, are predominant, and in other areas, the
influence of African cultures is strong (e.g., the Caribbean basin—
including parts of Colombia and Venezuela)—and the coastal areas of
Ecuador and Brazil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America
Care to provide evidence to back up that false assertion, Phil?
"Do you want to change your bullshit story, sir?"
--Chief Deputy US Marshal Samuel Gerard
"Come on, don't give us none of your bullshit stories huh?...I'm
pretty much ODing on all your bullshit stories!"
--Jake Fratelli
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> (Ahem. "But Clinton but Clinton but Clinton b...)
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The Third Law of Leftist Debate:
The more you present a leftist with factual evidence that is counter
to his preconceived world view, and the more difficult it becomes for
him to refute it without losing face, the chance of him changing his
criteria (goal post move) approaches infinity.