Add your response to the August ‘06 Table Topics

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Will the cease-fire hold between Hezbollah and Israel?

Vern:
Is there anybody here that believes that the cease-fire will hold when there is a group of people who object so much to Jews, Christians and anyone who isn’t a Muslim!
Do you think these people are really going to be held back? Absolutely not.
They’ll come back stronger than they were before when they attack again.
I don’t know whether we should have brokered a cease-fire or if we should have just let Israel go and finish the job and wipe Hezbollah out.
They don’t want peace. They haven’t wanted peace for centuries. Their whole purpose is: if you’re not a Muslim, you’re not worth being alive.
Like in an old western, when the cowboys talked about the Indians, they now believe: “the only good Christian, Jew, Hindu or Buddhist are the dead ones!”
I hope that all Muslims do not share that same philosophy. I’m afraid a lot of them do, even some that were born in England and the United States and have had all the privileges of our society. They still want to kill us.
So ladies and gentlemen, I hate to tell you: the peace will not last.
The only way to ensure peace is to eliminate the enemy.

What did you think of the debate between incumbent Nelson and challenger Ricketts?
Jim Simmons:
I watched the August 11 debate between Pete Ricketts and our-used-to-be-esteemed Senator Ben Nelson and all the circumnavigation of elocution to avoid making a specific statement by which he might be held accountable. He used the standard technique of not giving you the whole story, but giving you part of the story.
For instance, Ben Nelson said: as governor the state of Nebraska had a balanced budget. Well, that’s by law that you have to have a balanced budget.
I also happen to be one of the proponents of changing the (sic) infernal revenue service, so he hit my hot button when he trashed the whole issue of scrapping the income tax in favor of a sales tax, incorrectly saying that it would be an additional 30% sales tax.
It is not. It was never designed to be an additional tax, but a replacement tax.
Either he didn’t read the book or doesn’t understand it, or he’s lying.

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