Egyptians Vow To Take Over U.S Embassy In Cairo. Time To Act Like Russians

[twyacht]

You're forgetting the Canal.

+1000

That is, and has been, a MAJOR travel route for International Trade and the World Economy. Sorry TAB, Egypt is not a player in the oil market, Libya is only +/- 5%.

But the canal is huge. If the "shortcut" is cut off, or made too dangerous for shipping....than it's simply geography,...aka, Take the long way:....

More distance= more fuel= More $$$$, euro, yen,..whatever,....and everything goes up.....EVERYTHING...ripple effect.....

Remember when people were saying "Oh good, those evil dictators Mubarak and Gadaffi need to go" .
Remember how I said those people were idiots ?


Told you so.

I remember, and I never thought anything good would come of it. Hey, but I hear Yemen killed some more civilian protestors this weekend, and Saudi Arabia will let women vote in 2015....

Oh, happy days.....

[tombogan03884]

Actually, Egypts largest "energy" export is the half million tons of Coal they ship annually.

I remember, and I never thought anything good would come of it. Hey, but I hear Yemen killed some more civilian protestors this weekend, and Saudi Arabia will let women vote in 2015....

Oh, happy days.....

Good for the Yemeni's !
What do you want to bet Saudi Arabia starts going down the crapper around 2016.
The only thing the Jihadis got right and now they're going to screw that up to.

[MikeBjerum]

TAB, you need to slow down before you strip a(nother) gear!

On one thread you are saying that the Second Amendment has no strength because it hasn't been upheld in court, and here you say you aren't supporting the removal of gun rights.

[Solus]

TAB, you need to slow down before you strip a(nother) gear!

On one thread you are saying that the Second Amendment has no strength because it hasn't been upheld in court, and here you say you aren't supporting the removal of gun rights.

In TAB's defense, holding both those beliefs is not contradictory.

Even though we all, TAB included, firmly believe in the the right to bear arms as protected in the constitution, there are many who do not hold that belief.  They interpreter the 2A differently either by conviction or the need to negate it.  

The practical matter is that a good many of those are in positions of power and are able to make laws restricting the 2A rights.

As we have seen, those laws are enforced until, and sometimes after, the court has ruled in favor of the 2A.

I think that while TAB holds with our views on the 2A, he is just stating the legal and practical reality where gun ownership is concerned.

We all tend to obey the laws rather than fight them, or obey them while we fight them at least, but we get the impression from TAB, which may or may not be correct, that he obeys them with less resentment of them than we do.

[tombogan03884]

I see no point in arguing with TAB on this subject.
We all hold opinions based on our understanding of the Constitution, but heavily influenced by our ages , experience, and environment.
The fact that TAB seems to miss the point of the whole "Personal liberty" thing, and assume that lawyers are the final arbiters of what is right, and what is wrong, leads him to hold opinions many of us think are contradictory and/ or foolish.
It is what it is, to steal a cliche', we are no more likely to change his thinking than he is to change ours.
He offers good information on enough technical subjects to make it worth simply ignoring his posts on political ones.

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