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RedPhillip

I'm what used to be affectionately called a commie pinko fag (which dates me fairly accurately for those who share memories of the era). Canidophile, horticulturist, handweaver.

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  • My wife's Christmas message
    • RedPhillip December 25, 2010 at 9:01 am with 7 replies

      @ joer: "[...] a dump of hundreds of thousands of secret documents onto the internet [...]"

      You are (I assume innocently) passing along a falsehood concerning the diplomatic documents that Wikileaks has received. Wikileaks has not 'dumped' hundreds of thousands of documents. As of today, Wikileaks with it's partners in the international press have released 1897 out of 251,287 documents in the cache. Less than 1%!

      You can see everything released so far by Wikileaks at this address: link to

  • Editable comments | Site Improvements
    • RedPhillip December 17, 2010 at 11:50 am

      Alec, the spell-check function is one that operates within the browser, so that whether one is using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome (are there others?) running under the Windows OS, one can select the spell-check capability. Apparently the red underlining of misspelled/unrecognized words is a convention that has been adopted across operating systems. (I last worked on Mac systems in about 1987 so am out of touch with the current capabilities of the Mac OS.)

  • What the demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state means to Palestinians
    • RedPhillip September 23, 2010 at 10:46 am

      Antidote: What is this 'natural law' of which you speak?

      The analogy you posit between the Irish and the Jews fails, in that the Irish were not claiming some religiously-based notion of nationality, nor did they lay claim to and portion of the territory and resources of the US. Further, their presence in the US did not entail them resorting to terror and later full-scale military measures to ethnically cleanse their newly seized 'homeland'.

    • RedPhillip September 22, 2010 at 12:07 pm with 6 replies

      @ Richard Witty

      They should negotiate on the basis of self-determination, not on the basis of origination.

      Following this logic you could claim that the Europeans who invaded and occupied the territories of the First Nations of the western hemisphere (and elsewhere) were acting on the basis of self-determination, or perhaps Manifest Destiny. Of course, indigenous peoples frequently had the decency to die off from European diseases and thus cease to be a 'demographic threat.' Since the Palestinian people had had contact with Europeans for millennia they failed to accommodate the colonial venture that is Israel, requiring more military approaches like massacres, ethnic cleansing, mass incarceration, occupation, etc.

  • Stand behind Wikileaks and against secret war
    • RedPhillip August 4, 2010 at 9:12 am with 1 replies

      With regard to the issue of placing US personnel at risk, for all that I have sympathy for those in the US Armed Services who are there because they can't find employment, the fundamental fact is that they are engaged in an illegal war of occupation. That they are in harm's way because of the criminal acts of those who administer the Empire means only that the political, military and economic 'leadership' of the US has the greater culpability, but does not absolve low-ranking military from their role in furtherance of the crime in which they participate.

      The sooner the US is defeated and run out of Afghanistan the better. I really, really wish that could be accomplished without more kids being killed -- of all nationalities, by the way -- but it can't.

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