Today and yesterday night my web server started to experience some hiccups, and, while my host was load balancing, killed my files server. As such, I didn’t get a post up but will continue to do so tomorrow. If you experience sluggish performance on the blog, well, it’s because of that problem.
Hopefully it’ll be fixed soon.
I am planning MAJOR changes to the blog’s design to get a more modern feel and an overall better look. I think it’ll be a lot more pleasing to the eye than it is now. Oh, and I’ve decided that after this week I will only accept blog comments in English. Google’s translator is cool and all, but really I’d like to keep it in English just for the sake of the readers and to save me some translation troubles.
The title to this post isn’t much of a surprise to anyone. However, I did want to put a throwback to one of my posts, Political Insults And Attacks, which was written when the election was still on.
And the barrage of insults does not stop, even after the winner was decided. And there’s plenty of people who don’t even like the idea of bipartisanship. Meaning, their party is absolutely in the right and that alternative ideologies are clearly worse.
One side hates that the other side pokes fun, but they both do exactly the same thing. The irony.
The whole point of the Israeli assault on Gaza is to cease the constant rocket attacks into southern Israel by Hamas fighters. I don’t think it’s going to work, and it hasn’t been.
If anything Israel is drawing negative attention to itself. Combat is being executed poorly as civilian casualties continue to pile up. Yes they have been hitting Hamas targets, but they have also been causing considerable collateral damage to the local populace. What’s more, now it’s said that Gaza is running out of supplies, and world leaders are calling this a big humanitarian crisis.
Here’s what I think will happen. International pressure will continue to build and force Israel into a cease fire. The surrounding Arab nations and Hamas are furious about this assault, and I can see a build up of arms to Hamas in order to escalate the bombardments into Israel. In the end I predict more arms and absolutely no resolution to the conflict. In fact, this can only end up making matters worse.
Every cease fire allows both sides to seize more arms. Israel isn’t going to give up its offensive too soon because they know that’s what it would mean to stop. At the same time, the civilian casualties continue to rise and world leaders are not happy about this. I feel like Israel is incriminating itself almost, despite their intentions.
It’s a tough, tough situation, but I guess we’ll see how it plays out.
I’d like to thank everyone who commented last week! As I brought up in Hooray For 100 Posts, I said I would be giving shoutouts to those who commented. I explained that the purpose is twofold, not only to encourage more commenting but also to let others see comments they wouldn’t otherwise see. I will not be placing my replies to any of these comments, so you’d have to look at the source post to see what I said, if anything.
It is tough to say whether these items are not more successful than the logically reasonable alternatives. Another possible title for the list would be “5 Political Argument Methods That Shouldn’t Work, But Probably Will”.
Alberto, I thoroughly enjoyed this post, and welcome you to The Black Sphere. I agree that the tactics of your list is how Liberals argue, however we Conservatives put them over our knees and spank them, if they use these tactics! Nevertheless, I like seeing how they argue in print. Fun read! – Kevin
Alberto, the homosexuals have “civil unions” that grant them essentially ALL rights of marriage. The bigger question is “Why do homosexuals want the word ‘marriage’?” When you get to that answer, you will have your twist. I will blog on this soon…Kevin
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fastfret writes:
I find that our support of Israel is a blinded attempt at keeping up ideals. Yes the Brittish promised the Jews the land but knowing that it would result in chaos gave it to the UN to handle. Which in turn the US now champions. Giving the Jews the land was a mistake, there was an irrational thought process throughout the world mostly due to the zionist movement and massive sympathy due to the concentration camps and hitler/ww II. We have created a situation in which if we stop supporting Israel we will damage our already tarnished reputation but continued support will lead to the abuse of Palestinian land by the Israelis and soon Palestine will cease to exist.
That’s all for this week’s comment shoutouts. Again, if you’d like to appear on this list, all you have to do is leave a comment that’s not spam! I’d like to thank everyone for giving their input and I look forward to further input from those who agree with me, disagree with me, hate me, tolerate me, etc. : )
First of all, I hope everyone is having a good time with the holidays. I know with current economic conditions everything seems a little gloomier, but I hope that everyone has made the best of it.
This blog has come a long way since it’s starting back in late July. I’ve learned a lot about maintaining a blog and actually finding others in the community to discuss politics with. Through persistence and through your support this blog has made it to it’s 100th post!
If you haven’t already checked out my list of Awesome Economic and Political Blogs, then I suggest looking at them in the sidebar. I promise they are well worth your time. They are at the very least well worth mine.
I’ve also begun using Twitter in order to keep in better touch with the community as well as to let everyone know about my political thoughts throughout the day. It’s also been great hearing what others have to say, whether or not I agree with their viewpoints or not. Listen to me on Twitter or talk to me through Twitter if you’re interested.
Those who have commented may have noticed that I’ve turned off nofollow on comment links. This means you can get link juice to your own blog just by commenting here on Youth Politics. I do appreciate everyone’s comments as they help me write and they do sometimes help to prove me wrong >: ). At the very least they get the conversation going, so if you haven’t given your input please do so. I encourage it!
Starting next week I’m going to start a comment shout out list. Basically I will put up a list of all the comments for that week in a blog post. This means the more times you comment, the more times you get listed. Seems good right? Oh, and don’t forget that you will show up on the top commentators sidebar list if you post more than most. My main reason for doing this is of course for more commenting action but also because I feel a lot of newer comments that go on older posts just don’t get noticed, and I want to bring those kinds of comments to everyone’s attention.
So again, thanks everyone for helping this blog get to its 100 posts! Couldn’t have done it without you readers. And remember I will reward comments once a week with a shout out, so feel free to take advantage of that.
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