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Tuesday Easy Bake Comments

Another casualty in the WoILBs:

Politicians, it seems, have killed the traditional Easy-Bake Oven.
Collateral damage in the war on energy waste is none other than the classic children’s toy Easy-Bake Oven, introduced in 1963 and an inductee in the National Toy Hall of Fame.
Millions of young chefs have used the toy to make tasty baked treats. It was made possible by the oven’s heating element, a common 100-watt incandescent light bulb.
But starting next year, manufacture of such bulbs will be outlawed. It’s the start of a 2007 federal law being phased in that requires light bulbs to be more energy efficient. The practical effect will be a ban on incandescent bulbs, which do not meet the requirement.

Just think – the millions of little girls programmed to be nothing more than Suzy Homemakers by the male-dominated toy industry will now be freed from a life of domestic servitude – and all thanks to a successful ban-the-bulb campaign! Phyllis Schlafly must be coming unhinged! But wait! Fear not, my fellow Stanley Kowalskis. All is not lost:

“We are aware that the 100-watt incandescent light bulb will no longer be available beginning in 2012. In fall 2011, Hasbro will launch the Easy-Bake Ultimate Oven, introducing a new way to bake for the next generation of chefs. This new oven features a heating element that does not use a light bulb and offers an extensive assortment of mixes reflective of the hottest baking trends for today.”

Now git back in that kitchen and bake us some snickerdoodles!

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231 responses to “Tuesday Easy Bake Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    When my ex-wife asked for a watch for her birthday, I told her that there was a clock on the stove so she did not need one. I still don’t understand why she finally left.

  2. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    When my ex-wife asked for a watch for her birthday, I told her that there was a clock on the stove so she did not need one. I still don’t understand why she finally left.

  3. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    I asked my Sweetie this weekend, “Why don’t we eat from somewhere we haven’t eaten in ages?” Sure, where? I said “The kitchen!”

  4. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I asked my Sweetie this weekend, “Why don’t we eat from somewhere we haven’t eaten in ages?” Sure, where? I said “The kitchen!”

  5. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    I vote for voluptuous.

    There isn’t the blond bombshell mold that everyone has to fit in to be considered attractive, says editor-in-chief Linda Wells. You can be old or young, dark skinned or light, slim or voluptuous, she says.

  6. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I vote for voluptuous.

    There isn’t the blond bombshell mold that everyone has to fit in to be considered attractive, says editor-in-chief Linda Wells. You can be old or young, dark skinned or light, slim or voluptuous, she says.

  7. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Well if Susie Homemaker replaces her 100W incandescent with a 23W (100W equivalent) fluorescent, that just means she will have more time to clean while she waits for her cookies to bake.

    You guys have to focus on the positive side of things. 🙂

  8. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Well if Susie Homemaker replaces her 100W incandescent with a 23W (100W equivalent) fluorescent, that just means she will have more time to clean while she waits for her cookies to bake.
    You guys have to focus on the positive side of things. 🙂

  9. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Perhaps this is an indication of some progress.

    The Milwaukee teachers union has dropped a lawsuit seeking to get its taxpayer-funded Viagra back.

    The union sued in July 2010 to force the school board to again include the erectile dysfunction drug and similar pills in its health insurance plans.

    The union has argued the board’s policy of excluding such drugs from the plans discriminates against male employees; the board has countered the 2005 move was meant to save money.

  10. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Perhaps this is an indication of some progress.

    The Milwaukee teachers union has dropped a lawsuit seeking to get its taxpayer-funded Viagra back.
    The union sued in July 2010 to force the school board to again include the erectile dysfunction drug and similar pills in its health insurance plans.
    The union has argued the board’s policy of excluding such drugs from the plans discriminates against male employees; the board has countered the 2005 move was meant to save money.

  11. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    #5

    That’s a pretty hard sell in this soft economic environment.

  12. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #5
    That’s a pretty hard sell in this soft economic environment.

  13. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Happy Mardi Gras!

  14. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    Happy Mardi Gras!

  15. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #6 They should probe other venues.

  16. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #6 They should probe other venues.

  17. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #5 sarge
    Support’s pretty soft for that one.

  18. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #5 sarge
    Support’s pretty soft for that one.

  19. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    G’Morning all

    #3 GJT

    You can be old or young, dark skinned or light, slim or voluptuous, she says.

    I noticed that while fragrances were studied, pheromones weren’t mentioned. That is the single most important item in determining “beauty”. If two people chemically match, you will have found the most beautiful creature on the planet, your brain will tell you. Size, hair color, etc. won’t matter.

  20. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning all
    #3 GJT

    You can be old or young, dark skinned or light, slim or voluptuous, she says.

    I noticed that while fragrances were studied, pheromones weren’t mentioned. That is the single most important item in determining “beauty”. If two people chemically match, you will have found the most beautiful creature on the planet, your brain will tell you. Size, hair color, etc. won’t matter.

  21. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hammy, how is Stanley Kowalski connected to the Easy-Bake Oven story? I’m stumped.

  22. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hammy, how is Stanley Kowalski connected to the Easy-Bake Oven story? I’m stumped.

  23. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    A WWII sniper is given an honorary “black sniper,s cap”
    (only 8 have been given to “outsiders”) along with his 03-A4 Springfield.

    Impossible Shots with Ted Gundy and Gibbs 1903A4 sniper rifle [video]

    WWII Sniper Shoots old and new rifles 1903A4 and new custom Remington 700 at 1000 yards! One Shot, One Kill.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQRpAxGVg4M

  24. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    A WWII sniper is given an honorary “black sniper,s cap”
    (only 8 have been given to “outsiders”) along with his 03-A4 Springfield.

    Impossible Shots with Ted Gundy and Gibbs 1903A4 sniper rifle [video]
    WWII Sniper Shoots old and new rifles 1903A4 and new custom Remington 700 at 1000 yards! One Shot, One Kill.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQRpAxGVg4M

  25. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #12 I think I got something in my eye.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #12 I think I got something in my eye.

  27. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    You can’t make this stuff up.

    Two recent GAO reports.
    The first report said the U.S. spends billions a year on redundant government programs and the second report said the U.S. government spends billions a year on redundant government programs.

    Opportunities and Challenges for Achieving Greater Efficiencies, Cost Savings, and Revenues in Federal Programs
    Presentation to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
    September 29, 2010

    http://www.fiscalcommission.gov/sites/fiscalcommission.gov/files/documents/Laurent_Dalton.pdf

    March 2011
    GAO-11-318SP
    United States Government Accountability Office
    GAO
    Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax
    Dollars, and Enhance Revenue

    http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11318sp.pdf

  28. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    You can’t make this stuff up.
    Two recent GAO reports.
    The first report said the U.S. spends billions a year on redundant government programs and the second report said the U.S. government spends billions a year on redundant government programs.

    Opportunities and Challenges for Achieving Greater Efficiencies, Cost Savings, and Revenues in Federal Programs
    Presentation to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
    September 29, 2010

    http://www.fiscalcommission.gov/sites/fiscalcommission.gov/files/documents/Laurent_Dalton.pdf

    March 2011
    GAO-11-318SP
    United States Government Accountability Office
    GAO
    Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax
    Dollars, and Enhance Revenue

    http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11318sp.pdf

  29. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Scott Miller sends a letter to the Dems in Wisconsin

    http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/03/07/profile-in-courage-and-humor-wisconsin-senate-leader-responds-to-awol-dem-proposal/

    lol

  30. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Scott Miller sends a letter to the Dems in Wisconsin
    http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/03/07/profile-in-courage-and-humor-wisconsin-senate-leader-responds-to-awol-dem-proposal/
    lol

  31. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Winds of change appear to blowing in Washington

    California’s Central Valley, where 200 billion gallons of water were deliberately diverted away from vital agriculture for the enjoyment and amusement of the 2-inch Delta Smelt is a case in point. These water diversions have destroyed a quarter million acres of the most fertile farmland in America, thrown tens of thousands of farm families into unemployment and impacted fruit, vegetable and nut prices in grocery stores across America.

    In Northern Arizona, 1,000 megawatts of hydroelectricity – enough to power a million homes – has been lost due to environmental mandates for the humpback chub.

    In the Klamath, the federal government is seeking to destroy four perfectly good hydroelectric dams at the cost of more than a half billion dollars at a time when we can’t guarantee enough electricity to keep refrigerators running this summer. The rationale is to save the salmon, but the same proposal would close the Iron Gate Fish Hatchery that produces 5 million salmon smolt each year.
    Meanwhile, funds that ought to be going to water and power development are instead being squandered on subsidizing low-flow toilets, salmon festivals, tiger salamander studies and grants to private associations whose principal activity is to sue the federal government.

    http://biggovernment.com/tmcclintock/2011/03/07/we-must-restore-abundance-as-the-cornerstone-of-our-federal-water-and-power-policies/#more-237672

  32. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Winds of change appear to blowing in Washington

    California’s Central Valley, where 200 billion gallons of water were deliberately diverted away from vital agriculture for the enjoyment and amusement of the 2-inch Delta Smelt is a case in point. These water diversions have destroyed a quarter million acres of the most fertile farmland in America, thrown tens of thousands of farm families into unemployment and impacted fruit, vegetable and nut prices in grocery stores across America.
    In Northern Arizona, 1,000 megawatts of hydroelectricity – enough to power a million homes – has been lost due to environmental mandates for the humpback chub.
    In the Klamath, the federal government is seeking to destroy four perfectly good hydroelectric dams at the cost of more than a half billion dollars at a time when we can’t guarantee enough electricity to keep refrigerators running this summer. The rationale is to save the salmon, but the same proposal would close the Iron Gate Fish Hatchery that produces 5 million salmon smolt each year.
    Meanwhile, funds that ought to be going to water and power development are instead being squandered on subsidizing low-flow toilets, salmon festivals, tiger salamander studies and grants to private associations whose principal activity is to sue the federal government.

    http://biggovernment.com/tmcclintock/2011/03/07/we-must-restore-abundance-as-the-cornerstone-of-our-federal-water-and-power-policies/#more-237672

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #12 – OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!

  34. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #12 – OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!

  35. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    6 GJT says:
    March 8, 2011 at 7:28 am

    #5

    That’s a pretty hard sell in this soft economic environment.

    And think of how much more they’d be able to screw the citizens of WI if they get it back.

  36. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    6 GJT says:
    March 8, 2011 at 7:28 am
    #5
    That’s a pretty hard sell in this soft economic environment.

    And think of how much more they’d be able to screw the citizens of WI if they get it back.

  37. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    This Nobel Laureate needs his head examined. He says that credit should be a “human right“.
    The Nobel committee awarded prizes to the manbearpigcrazedsexpoodle and the foul “O” even before O actually accomplished anything. I guess that the blimp Michael Moore is getting one in economics for this.

  38. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This Nobel Laureate needs his head examined. He says that credit should be a “human right“.
    The Nobel committee awarded prizes to the manbearpigcrazedsexpoodle and the foul “O” even before O actually accomplished anything. I guess that the blimp Michael Moore is getting one in economics for this.

  39. gtotracker42 Avatar
    gtotracker42

    Laura Ingraham is talking about this today.

    http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/03/project-gunrunn.html

  40. gtotracker42 Avatar
    gtotracker42

    Laura Ingraham is talking about this today.
    http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/03/project-gunrunn.html

  41. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #19 Bones

    Made me look. 🙂 I assumed the Nobel Laureate who says credit is a right would be Obammy. I mean, with his exceptional grasp of economics an’ all…

  42. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #19 Bones
    Made me look. 🙂 I assumed the Nobel Laureate who says credit is a right would be Obammy. I mean, with his exceptional grasp of economics an’ all…

  43. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #20 Goat-man: This is the same BATF that harangued Randy Weaver to cut off a shotgun barrel ONE QUARTER OF A FREAKING INCH TOO SHORT so they could bust him. They marked the barrel and insisted that it had to be cut there over the strenuous objections of Mr. Weaver. They busted him, gave him a bogus court date (it was scheduled for a Sunday), then sent out the goons to arrest him when he failed to make the proper date. They murdered his wife and son and killed his dog.
    This is the same BATF that firebombed the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, that killed innocent women and children. They said they wanted to arrest David Koresch but they were afraid of something at the compound (?). They could have nabbed him while he was alone and in town, where he went almost every day.
    Ever since Clinton, I do not trust anything that comes out of the BATF.

  44. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #20 Goat-man: This is the same BATF that harangued Randy Weaver to cut off a shotgun barrel ONE QUARTER OF A FREAKING INCH TOO SHORT so they could bust him. They marked the barrel and insisted that it had to be cut there over the strenuous objections of Mr. Weaver. They busted him, gave him a bogus court date (it was scheduled for a Sunday), then sent out the goons to arrest him when he failed to make the proper date. They murdered his wife and son and killed his dog.
    This is the same BATF that firebombed the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, that killed innocent women and children. They said they wanted to arrest David Koresch but they were afraid of something at the compound (?). They could have nabbed him while he was alone and in town, where he went almost every day.
    Ever since Clinton, I do not trust anything that comes out of the BATF.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Can you imagine what happens when her welfare check is late?

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Can you imagine what happens when her welfare check is late?

  47. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    BLOGMONKEY SEZ:

    This is an inaccurate story. Any chain email should be checked for authenticity before posting on this site.

    Nonie Darwish, a former Muslim and human rights activist, told TruthOrFiction.Com that she is not the author of this article.

    This just came into my e-mail inbox. Sarge, as you can see below, I am not alone in my opinion.

    This was written by a woman born in Egypt as a Muslim.

    This is not hearsay, and it will scare the life out of you.
    Make sure you read the paragraph towards the end.

    Joys of Muslim Women
    By Nonie Darwish

    In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year
    old and have sexual intimacy with this child, consummating the marriage
    by 9. The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who
    becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the
    woman, to use her as a toy.

    Even though a woman is abused she cannot obtain a divorce. To prove
    rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.
    Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and
    the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute
    her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can
    beat their wives ‘at will’ and he does not have to say why he has beaten
    her.

    The husband is permitted to have four (4) wives and a temporary wife for
    an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.

    The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life
    of the woman.

    In the Western World ( America ) Muslim men are starting to demand
    Shariah Law so the wife cannot obtain a divorce and he can have full
    and complete control of her. It is amazing and alarming how many of our
    sisters and daughters attending American universities are now marrying
    Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly
    to the Shariah law.

    By passing this on, enlightened American women may avoid becoming a
    slave under Shariah Law.. Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the
    goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping
    Western law and liberty in two.

    She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The
    Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.

    Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza
    before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old.
    Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel . He was a
    high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza
    .

    When he died, he was considered a “shahid,” a martyr for jihad. His
    posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in
    Muslim society.

    But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned
    her own Muslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity
    after hearing a Christian preacher on television.

    In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law – what it
    is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.

    For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on
    the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed.
    Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the
    dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that
    non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.

    Peace and prosperity for one’s children is not as important as assuring
    that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in
    the world.

    While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of
    the golden rule, Sharia teaches two systems of ethics – one for Muslims
    and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh
    century, Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from
    and subjugate others.

    While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a
    personal understanding of and relationship with God, Sharia advocates
    executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted
    as criticism.

    It’s hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree
    that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be
    executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even
    assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are
    silenced through intimidation.

    While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance
    over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an
    extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and
    elsewhere.

    (In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect
    the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so. You can
    look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA – Dearborn ,
    Mich. is one… and there are others…)

    I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with
    the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of
    us sends it on!

    It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity
    to accept Muslims as peaceful. Some may be but they have an army that is
    willing to shed blood in the name of Islam. The peaceful support the
    warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their
    religion. While America is getting rid of Christianity from all public
    sites and erasing God from the lives of children the Muslims are
    planning a great jihad on America .

    This is your chance to make a difference…! Pass it on to your email
    list or at least those you think will listen..

    Some of those I’m sending this to to WILL NOT pass it on!
    So, put your head back under the covers and hope the obvious isn’t true.

  48. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    BLOGMONKEY SEZ:
    This is an inaccurate story. Any chain email should be checked for authenticity before posting on this site.

    Nonie Darwish, a former Muslim and human rights activist, told TruthOrFiction.Com that she is not the author of this article.

    This just came into my e-mail inbox. Sarge, as you can see below, I am not alone in my opinion.

    This was written by a woman born in Egypt as a Muslim.
    This is not hearsay, and it will scare the life out of you.
    Make sure you read the paragraph towards the end.
    Joys of Muslim Women
    By Nonie Darwish
    In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year
    old and have sexual intimacy with this child, consummating the marriage
    by 9. The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who
    becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the
    woman, to use her as a toy.
    Even though a woman is abused she cannot obtain a divorce. To prove
    rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.
    Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and
    the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute
    her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can
    beat their wives ‘at will’ and he does not have to say why he has beaten
    her.
    The husband is permitted to have four (4) wives and a temporary wife for
    an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.
    The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life
    of the woman.
    In the Western World ( America ) Muslim men are starting to demand
    Shariah Law so the wife cannot obtain a divorce and he can have full
    and complete control of her. It is amazing and alarming how many of our
    sisters and daughters attending American universities are now marrying
    Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly
    to the Shariah law.
    By passing this on, enlightened American women may avoid becoming a
    slave under Shariah Law.. Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the
    goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping
    Western law and liberty in two.
    She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The
    Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.
    Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza
    before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old.
    Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel . He was a
    high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza
    .
    When he died, he was considered a “shahid,” a martyr for jihad. His
    posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in
    Muslim society.
    But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned
    her own Muslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity
    after hearing a Christian preacher on television.
    In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law – what it
    is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.
    For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on
    the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed.
    Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the
    dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that
    non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.
    Peace and prosperity for one’s children is not as important as assuring
    that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in
    the world.
    While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of
    the golden rule, Sharia teaches two systems of ethics – one for Muslims
    and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh
    century, Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from
    and subjugate others.
    While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a
    personal understanding of and relationship with God, Sharia advocates
    executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted
    as criticism.
    It’s hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree
    that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be
    executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even
    assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are
    silenced through intimidation.
    While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance
    over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an
    extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and
    elsewhere.
    (In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect
    the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so. You can
    look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA – Dearborn ,
    Mich. is one… and there are others…)
    I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with
    the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of
    us sends it on!
    It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity
    to accept Muslims as peaceful. Some may be but they have an army that is
    willing to shed blood in the name of Islam. The peaceful support the
    warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their
    religion. While America is getting rid of Christianity from all public
    sites and erasing God from the lives of children the Muslims are
    planning a great jihad on America .
    This is your chance to make a difference…! Pass it on to your email
    list or at least those you think will listen..
    Some of those I’m sending this to to WILL NOT pass it on!
    So, put your head back under the covers and hope the obvious isn’t true.

  49. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #23 TT: I hope that “woman” spends a lot of time behind bars to consider her behavior.

  50. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #23 TT: I hope that “woman” spends a lot of time behind bars to consider her behavior.

  51. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    20 gtotracker42

    Laura Ingraham is talking about this today.

    http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/03/project-gunrunn.html

    I’ve been watching this for quite awhile. Here’s a link to the guy that did the legwork on the whole thing. You will find multiple links of the stuff he’s discovered.

    “FLASH! The government of Mexico has formally asked the United States for details of the ATF operation ‘Fast and Furious’!” Mike Vanderboegh reported yesterday morning on the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog.

    “The Project Gunwalker* Scandal just became an international incident,” he told readers, linking to a post on Mexico.vg that was reporting:

    The government of Mexico asked the United States for details of the ATF under Project Gunrunner, Operation name “Fast and Furious“ implemented by the U.S. Department of Justice that allegedly allowed thousands of weapons into the Mexico.

    snip

    Now, according to the statement, posted online by Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Spanish), the Mexican government has requested detailed information about the “Fast and Furious” operation being conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the U.S. Department of Justice.

    The (rough) Google translation of the Ministry’s statement:

    In relation to information released by various media and Mexican Americans on an operation called Fast and Furious conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Snuff [!], Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Department of Justice United States, the Secretariat Foreign states:

    1. It has been requested detailed information on this matter to the U.S. authorities.

    2. The Government of Mexico will continue with special research interest announced by both ATF and the Department of Justice.

    3. The aim of the governments of Mexico and the United States is to stop arms smuggling on the basis of the principle of shared responsibility and both work to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the field. This priority was endorsed by the Presidents of Mexico and the United States on 3 March in Washington.

    http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/project-gunwalker-now-an-international-incident

  52. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    20 gtotracker42
    Laura Ingraham is talking about this today.
    http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/03/project-gunrunn.html

    I’ve been watching this for quite awhile. Here’s a link to the guy that did the legwork on the whole thing. You will find multiple links of the stuff he’s discovered.

    “FLASH! The government of Mexico has formally asked the United States for details of the ATF operation ‘Fast and Furious’!” Mike Vanderboegh reported yesterday morning on the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog.
    “The Project Gunwalker* Scandal just became an international incident,” he told readers, linking to a post on Mexico.vg that was reporting:
    The government of Mexico asked the United States for details of the ATF under Project Gunrunner, Operation name “Fast and Furious“ implemented by the U.S. Department of Justice that allegedly allowed thousands of weapons into the Mexico.

    snip

    Now, according to the statement, posted online by Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Spanish), the Mexican government has requested detailed information about the “Fast and Furious” operation being conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the U.S. Department of Justice.
    The (rough) Google translation of the Ministry’s statement:
    In relation to information released by various media and Mexican Americans on an operation called Fast and Furious conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Snuff [!], Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Department of Justice United States, the Secretariat Foreign states:
    1. It has been requested detailed information on this matter to the U.S. authorities.
    2. The Government of Mexico will continue with special research interest announced by both ATF and the Department of Justice.
    3. The aim of the governments of Mexico and the United States is to stop arms smuggling on the basis of the principle of shared responsibility and both work to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the field. This priority was endorsed by the Presidents of Mexico and the United States on 3 March in Washington.

    http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/project-gunwalker-now-an-international-incident

  53. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Sarge, as you can see below, I am not alone in my opinion.

    Once again, we find things are not true in the emails we receive

    Analysis: Despite the attribution at the top — “Joys of Muslim Women by Nonie Darwish” — this text wasn’t written by Nonie Darwish; indeed, the bottom two-thirds of it refer to her repeatedly in the third person. Darwish confirmed via email that she did not write the article, though it is, in her words, “to a large extent accurate.” She said her 2009 book, Cruel and Usual Punishment, better represents her views.

    It should be noted that though the article is at least partially based on Darwish’s personal experiences growing up in a Muslim country and reading the Qur’an, it’s awash in generalizations and makes pronouncements about Islam and Islamic practices that don’t necessarily hold true for all Muslims.

  54. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Sarge, as you can see below, I am not alone in my opinion.

    Once again, we find things are not true in the emails we receive

    Analysis: Despite the attribution at the top — “Joys of Muslim Women by Nonie Darwish” — this text wasn’t written by Nonie Darwish; indeed, the bottom two-thirds of it refer to her repeatedly in the third person. Darwish confirmed via email that she did not write the article, though it is, in her words, “to a large extent accurate.” She said her 2009 book, Cruel and Usual Punishment, better represents her views.
    It should be noted that though the article is at least partially based on Darwish’s personal experiences growing up in a Muslim country and reading the Qur’an, it’s awash in generalizations and makes pronouncements about Islam and Islamic practices that don’t necessarily hold true for all Muslims.

  55. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I don’t know about anybody else, but if somebody sends me an e-mail that makes an immediate representation of fact that turns out to be untrue, I wonder about their motives and what’s so wrong with their position that they have to tell me a lie to get me to believe it.

  56. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I don’t know about anybody else, but if somebody sends me an e-mail that makes an immediate representation of fact that turns out to be untrue, I wonder about their motives and what’s so wrong with their position that they have to tell me a lie to get me to believe it.

  57. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    . . . . . . .From an interview with Nonie Darwish:

    Slavery, for example, has never been abolished by Islam. If you read Muslim Shariah law, it is full of regulation of slaves. Sexual slavery of women captured in war is allowed, which was practiced by Mohammed. Even today, sexual slaves are accepted and all over the Middle East. Honor killings are rooted in Islamic law. For example, the murders for which a Muslim will never have punishment: to kill an apostate, to kill an adulterer – which is usually a woman, and honor killings. If you allow the killings of an apostate or an adulteress woman in the form of vigilante justice under Islamic law, you are endorsing honor killing. There are so many laws you cannot imagine that are brutal and unfair. A woman, for example, cannot divorce her husband, only a man can divorce her. I have an entire chapter in my book about the Muslim marriage contract. All of this is to open the eyes of the West to something totally against their own value system and democracy.

    . . . .And from the very block quote posted above:

    Darwish confirmed via email that she did not write the article, though it is, in her words, “to a large extent accurate.”

    Each and every attempted advance of Sharia into Western Civilization must be fought vigorously.

  58. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Darwish confirmed via email that she did not write the article, though it is, in her words, “to a large extent accurate.”

    Again;

    Somebody lies to me right off the bat, he’s blown it with me for the whole deal. It bespeaks a bias that is malicious and a willingness to tell me more lies.

    You can go ahead and accept this quality of “information”, but I think that speaks more towards your bias than anything else.

  59. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Darwish confirmed via email that she did not write the article, though it is, in her words, “to a large extent accurate.”

    Again;
    Somebody lies to me right off the bat, he’s blown it with me for the whole deal. It bespeaks a bias that is malicious and a willingness to tell me more lies.
    You can go ahead and accept this quality of “information”, but I think that speaks more towards your bias than anything else.

  60. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    The head of NPR is caught flapping his gums to the wrong folks.

    http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/03/08/nprs-ron-schiller-ot-nay-oo-tay-ight-bray/

  61. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    The head of NPR is caught flapping his gums to the wrong folks.

    http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/03/08/nprs-ron-schiller-ot-nay-oo-tay-ight-bray/

  62. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Dude in Kentucky stopped for driving erratically. Cops thought he might be drunk, so they pulled him over. He failed the field sobriety tests, but only blew .054%. He still got a ticket for DUI, among other things.

    The real cause of his erratic driving? He was intoxicated by the “mouth hug” he was receiving at the time.

    Bonus: includes mug shot showing what an arrestee who is a recent recipient of a mouth hug looks like.

  63. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Dude in Kentucky stopped for driving erratically. Cops thought he might be drunk, so they pulled him over. He failed the field sobriety tests, but only blew .054%. He still got a ticket for DUI, among other things.
    The real cause of his erratic driving? He was intoxicated by the “mouth hug” he was receiving at the time.
    Bonus: includes mug shot showing what an arrestee who is a recent recipient of a mouth hug looks like.

  64. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Sarge: SHE SAID THE INFO WAS LARGELY ACCURATE! Those are not my words but hers. What about the quote from her interview in my #29 above??? That has nothing to do with the email which, once again, she said was largely accurate.
    You are trying to make a Dan Rather – forged documents argument, therefore the info is bogus. In order for that comparison to hold any water in this case it would require GWB to confirm that the info in the forged documents was largely accurate and I am pretty sure that he did no such thing.

    You can go ahead and accept this quality of “information”, but I think that speaks more towards your bias than anything else.

    Your bias is on display in that you refuse to recognize the blatantly obvious.

    Somebody lies to me right off the bat, he’s blown it with me for the whole deal. It bespeaks a bias that is malicious and a willingness to tell me more lies

    Where is the lie in the substance of the information?? Ms. Darwish stated (for the 3rd time now) that the info was largely accurate,

    if the info is accurate

    does the source, even though mis-attributed, really matter so much?

  65. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Sarge: SHE SAID THE INFO WAS LARGELY ACCURATE! Those are not my words but hers. What about the quote from her interview in my #29 above??? That has nothing to do with the email which, once again, she said was largely accurate.
    You are trying to make a Dan Rather – forged documents argument, therefore the info is bogus. In order for that comparison to hold any water in this case it would require GWB to confirm that the info in the forged documents was largely accurate and I am pretty sure that he did no such thing.

    You can go ahead and accept this quality of “information”, but I think that speaks more towards your bias than anything else.

    Your bias is on display in that you refuse to recognize the blatantly obvious.

    Somebody lies to me right off the bat, he’s blown it with me for the whole deal. It bespeaks a bias that is malicious and a willingness to tell me more lies

    Where is the lie in the substance of the information?? Ms. Darwish stated (for the 3rd time now) that the info was largely accurate,

    if the info is accurate

    does the source, even though mis-attributed, really matter so much?

  66. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    does the source, even though mis-attributed, really matter so much?

    Golly gee.

    You’ve got me convinced now.

    I’m just gonna start believing everything I read on the internet from now on.

    Sources don’t matter at all.

    What was I thinking?

  67. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    does the source, even though mis-attributed, really matter so much?

    Golly gee.
    You’ve got me convinced now.
    I’m just gonna start believing everything I read on the internet from now on.
    Sources don’t matter at all.
    What was I thinking?

  68. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    ….After both suffering with depression, me & the wife decided to commit suicide yesterday…but strange enough, after she killed herself I started to feel a lot better and thought, to hell with it! I’ll soldier on …

  69. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    ….After both suffering with depression, me & the wife decided to commit suicide yesterday…but strange enough, after she killed herself I started to feel a lot better and thought, to hell with it! I’ll soldier on …

  70. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #31 texanukian

    In a new video released Tuesday morning by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, Schiller and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving, are seen meeting with two men who, unbeknownst to the NPR executives, are posing as members of a Muslim Brotherhood front group. The men, who identified themselves as Ibrahim Kasaam and Amir Malik from the fictitious Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust, met with Schiller and Liley at Café Milano, a well-known Georgetown restaurant, and explained their desire to give up to $5 million to NPR because, “the Zionist coverage is quite substantial elsewhere.”

    They should have used different names. Like Makollig Jesfahted and Levdaroum Dibasted. 😆

  71. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #31 texanukian

    In a new video released Tuesday morning by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, Schiller and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving, are seen meeting with two men who, unbeknownst to the NPR executives, are posing as members of a Muslim Brotherhood front group. The men, who identified themselves as Ibrahim Kasaam and Amir Malik from the fictitious Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust, met with Schiller and Liley at Café Milano, a well-known Georgetown restaurant, and explained their desire to give up to $5 million to NPR because, “the Zionist coverage is quite substantial elsewhere.”

    They should have used different names. Like Makollig Jesfahted and Levdaroum Dibasted. 😆

  72. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #34 Sarge: Try reading Ms. Darwish in her own words.
    If you read her own words, then perhaps you may not be so inclined to scream bias or whatever.
    After you read her interview, if you still disagree, you will be disagreeing with her and not with me.

  73. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #34 Sarge: Try reading Ms. Darwish in her own words.
    If you read her own words, then perhaps you may not be so inclined to scream bias or whatever.
    After you read her interview, if you still disagree, you will be disagreeing with her and not with me.

  74. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    36
    or Zaphoid Beeblebrox

    😉

  75. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    36
    or Zaphoid Beeblebrox
    😉

  76. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Or Sheik Yerbouti.

  77. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Or Sheik Yerbouti.

  78. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    I’m a fermata.

    Hold me.

  79. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    I’m a fermata.
    Hold me.

  80. Robert M Avatar
    Robert M

    And they wonder why they are losing viewership…..

    When did the Boney/Sarge Bromance start????

  81. Wonder Woman Avatar
    Wonder Woman

    And they wonder why they are losing viewership…..
    When did the Boney/Sarge Bromance start????

  82. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #15 OTL, Yea for Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald’s letter. Game, set, match; checkmate.

  83. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #15 OTL, Yea for Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald’s letter. Game, set, match; checkmate.

  84. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    then perhaps you may not be so inclined to scream bias or whatever

    Boney;

    So far you’ve given excuses for a bloodthirsty dictator systematically raping and killing people because the victims were Muslim, and defending sources that make misrepresentation of fact because they make Muslims look bad.

    Those two things, right there, are the basis of my “screaming” bias.

    Newsmax seems to be one of your accepted sources. Let’s see what they have to say.

    Islam oppresses women: Women have been granted some rights within which they can work and have a share in property. But there are certain conditions to do that; all such conditions are more culture specific than religious in nature. Islam does not permit spousal abuse or forced marriage.

    Followers of Islam make up 20% of the world’s population. Of that number, 0nly 15% are Arabic. It is Arabic culture that you are using to paint an entire religion.

  85. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    then perhaps you may not be so inclined to scream bias or whatever

    Boney;
    So far you’ve given excuses for a bloodthirsty dictator systematically raping and killing people because the victims were Muslim, and defending sources that make misrepresentation of fact because they make Muslims look bad.
    Those two things, right there, are the basis of my “screaming” bias.
    Newsmax seems to be one of your accepted sources. Let’s see what they have to say.

    Islam oppresses women: Women have been granted some rights within which they can work and have a share in property. But there are certain conditions to do that; all such conditions are more culture specific than religious in nature. Islam does not permit spousal abuse or forced marriage.

    Followers of Islam make up 20% of the world’s population. Of that number, 0nly 15% are Arabic. It is Arabic culture that you are using to paint an entire religion.

  86. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #Sarge

    Those Muslims who blew up the nighclub in Bali were not Arabs…

  87. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #Sarge
    Those Muslims who blew up the nighclub in Bali were not Arabs…

  88. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #44 mh42
    Neither were/are the ones in Thailand and the Philippines who are going around raiding Christian villages.

  89. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #44 mh42
    Neither were/are the ones in Thailand and the Philippines who are going around raiding Christian villages.

  90. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    So far you’ve given excuses for a bloodthirsty dictator systematically raping and killing people because the victims were Muslim

    That is a gross misrepresentation of the facts: What I said was that he was responding to mooosllim aggression; Slobo did not instigate the attacks he was responding to attacks. Was his response out of proportion. . . . . . .time will tell.
    I notice that you never responded to the statistic that 700 churches have been burned in Indonesia since the mid 90’s.

    Followers of Islam make up 20% of the world’s population. Of that number, 0nly 15% are Arabic. It is Arabic culture that you are using to paint an entire religion.

    The center, philosophically speaking, of Islam is the middle east. The center of Judaism as well as Christianity, SCRIPTURALLY, is Jerusalem. That there are more moooslims in SE Asia is just as irrelevant as there are more Jews in the USA than Israel.

    It is Arabic culture that you are using to paint an entire religion.

    For at least the 10th time, I never said that each and every follower of Islam is a bloodthirsty savage, some are genuinely decent people. What I have said is that islam is inherently evil at its core and I stand by that statement.

  91. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    So far you’ve given excuses for a bloodthirsty dictator systematically raping and killing people because the victims were Muslim

    That is a gross misrepresentation of the facts: What I said was that he was responding to mooosllim aggression; Slobo did not instigate the attacks he was responding to attacks. Was his response out of proportion. . . . . . .time will tell.
    I notice that you never responded to the statistic that 700 churches have been burned in Indonesia since the mid 90’s.

    Followers of Islam make up 20% of the world’s population. Of that number, 0nly 15% are Arabic. It is Arabic culture that you are using to paint an entire religion.

    The center, philosophically speaking, of Islam is the middle east. The center of Judaism as well as Christianity, SCRIPTURALLY, is Jerusalem. That there are more moooslims in SE Asia is just as irrelevant as there are more Jews in the USA than Israel.

    It is Arabic culture that you are using to paint an entire religion.

    For at least the 10th time, I never said that each and every follower of Islam is a bloodthirsty savage, some are genuinely decent people. What I have said is that islam is inherently evil at its core and I stand by that statement.

  92. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Let’s not forget about the rape/murder/starvation of non mooslims in Somalia and Ethopia.

  93. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Let’s not forget about the rape/murder/starvation of non mooslims in Somalia and Ethopia.

  94. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    44 mharper42 says:
    March 8, 2011 at 11:39 am
    #Sarge

    Those Muslims who blew up the nighclub in Bali were not Arabs…

    The Muslims who blew up the nightclub in Bali did it 9 years ago. They were arrested, tried, and executed by the nation that has the largest Muslim population on the planet. The motive of the killers was political, not religious.

    The three never expressed remorse, saying the bombings were meant to punish the United States and its Western allies for alleged atrocities in Afghanistan and elsewhere. They even taunted relatives of victims at their trials five years ago.

    In an interview with Reuters late last year, the militants said their only regret was that some Muslims were killed. In recent months, the men publicly expressed hopes their executions would trigger revenge attacks in Indonesia.

    You might note, that among the largest muslim population in the world, there have been very few revenge attacks in Indonesia in the past 9 years.

    Politcal islam is the enemy.

    You lose when you fail to identify the real enemy.

  95. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    44 mharper42 says:
    March 8, 2011 at 11:39 am
    #Sarge
    Those Muslims who blew up the nighclub in Bali were not Arabs…

    The Muslims who blew up the nightclub in Bali did it 9 years ago. They were arrested, tried, and executed by the nation that has the largest Muslim population on the planet. The motive of the killers was political, not religious.

    The three never expressed remorse, saying the bombings were meant to punish the United States and its Western allies for alleged atrocities in Afghanistan and elsewhere. They even taunted relatives of victims at their trials five years ago.
    In an interview with Reuters late last year, the militants said their only regret was that some Muslims were killed. In recent months, the men publicly expressed hopes their executions would trigger revenge attacks in Indonesia.

    You might note, that among the largest muslim population in the world, there have been very few revenge attacks in Indonesia in the past 9 years.
    Politcal islam is the enemy.
    You lose when you fail to identify the real enemy.

  96. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Politcal islam is the enemy.

    You are on the right track there Sarge. Under Sharia there is no difference between mosque and state. The goal of islam, at its core, is global Sharia.

  97. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Politcal islam is the enemy.

    You are on the right track there Sarge. Under Sharia there is no difference between mosque and state. The goal of islam, at its core, is global Sharia.

  98. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Frankly, any email I get that ends with some kind of guilt trip if I don’t “send it on” completely blows my bs radar out of operation.

    Islam/Arabic cultures definitely don’t adhere to our beliefs, but I would get my info elsewhere.

    If it’s true, and if it’s important, I don’t need a guilt trip to accept the information.

  99. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Frankly, any email I get that ends with some kind of guilt trip if I don’t “send it on” completely blows my bs radar out of operation.
    Islam/Arabic cultures definitely don’t adhere to our beliefs, but I would get my info elsewhere.
    If it’s true, and if it’s important, I don’t need a guilt trip to accept the information.

  100. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Sarge, you seem to be saying that “religious Islam” is just fine, and thius it does not need to undergo a modernization or reformation. Is that your position?

  101. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Sarge, you seem to be saying that “religious Islam” is just fine, and thius it does not need to undergo a modernization or reformation. Is that your position?

  102. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #50 TT: Generally speaking I agree. Because there is so blasted much dis-information out there that is being pushed by the pro-islamists the truth must be trumpeted to be heard. The knee-jerk response to assume that “the truth is in the middle” just won’t cut it in this case.

  103. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #50 TT: Generally speaking I agree. Because there is so blasted much dis-information out there that is being pushed by the pro-islamists the truth must be trumpeted to be heard. The knee-jerk response to assume that “the truth is in the middle” just won’t cut it in this case.

  104. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    That is a gross misrepresentation of the facts: What I said was that he was responding to mooosllim aggression; Slobo did not instigate the attacks he was responding to attacks. Was his response out of proportion. . . . . . .time will tell.

    You also intimated that the War Crimes conviction of Milosovic was a “railroading.”

    The very respected Global Security website might provide you with more factual information on the true nature of the merciless genocide:

    The fighting between the Serbs and Bosnian Muslims was perhaps the heaviest and most reported in the entire war. The Serbs were interested in creating an ethnically pure Republika Srpska for the Serbs, but large Muslim minorities, especially in the cities, made it difficult for the Serbs to carve out homogonous ethnic entities. As a result, the army of the Republika Srpska under the leadership of General Ratko Mladic began a policy of “ethnic cleansing” against Muslims in what they considered to be Serb lands. This included sending Muslims to Europe’s first concentration camps since World War II, massive counts of rape and sexual assault against Muslim women and girls, and mass executions of Muslim men and boys of military age. Most infamous of these acts was the 1995 massacre in the city of Srebrenica, where more than 7000 Muslims were killed by Serb forces under than command of Gen. Mladic. There was also heavy looting, torture of Muslims, and widespread forced relocation. Many of Bosnia’s cities were also besieged by Serb forces, namely Sarajevo, Bihac, and Tuzla, as well as many others. The brutality and scale of the fighting shocked many in the west. Though it should be added for the sake of fairness, that while most acts of ethnic cleansing were overwhelmingly committed by Serb forces, Croat and Muslim forces also committed similar acts as well. In addition, this was not the first time that ethnic cleansing was practiced in the Balkans, with both the Croat Ustase and the Serb Cetniks committing acts of ethnic cleansing during World War II.

    And just in case you still wonder whether the Serb “reaction” to “muslim violence” was “in proportion” :

    War crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic led his troops in July 1995 into the U.N. safe-haven of Srebrenica and “stripped all the male Muslim prisoners, military and civilian, elderly and young, of their personal belongings and identification, and deliberately and methodically killed them solely on the basis of their identity,” according to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

    A video that surfaced during ICTY proceedings depicts members of the Scorpions paramilitary force leading Bosnian Muslims to their execution in a field in Srebrenica. In one incident, six men are shown being taken from the back of a military vehicle and forced to march single file to meet machine gun fire – one man at a time – by the Scorpions. During the video, a soldier is shown emptying an entire magazine into the head of one of the prisoners, protesting “I have a few more shells left!”

    There was no response to “muslim violence” involved. There was no excuse except that made by the perpetrators:

    “Muslims are incompatible with Western Civilization.”

    Your willingness to beleive that muslims were the instigators and not the victims here despite the facts is more than enough evidence to convince me that you’re not going to get off this “Evil Islam” kick you’re on. Its very dangerous. I don’t want to fight all the Muslims in the world—we lose that war.

  105. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    That is a gross misrepresentation of the facts: What I said was that he was responding to mooosllim aggression; Slobo did not instigate the attacks he was responding to attacks. Was his response out of proportion. . . . . . .time will tell.

    You also intimated that the War Crimes conviction of Milosovic was a “railroading.”
    The very respected Global Security website might provide you with more factual information on the true nature of the merciless genocide:

    The fighting between the Serbs and Bosnian Muslims was perhaps the heaviest and most reported in the entire war. The Serbs were interested in creating an ethnically pure Republika Srpska for the Serbs, but large Muslim minorities, especially in the cities, made it difficult for the Serbs to carve out homogonous ethnic entities. As a result, the army of the Republika Srpska under the leadership of General Ratko Mladic began a policy of “ethnic cleansing” against Muslims in what they considered to be Serb lands. This included sending Muslims to Europe’s first concentration camps since World War II, massive counts of rape and sexual assault against Muslim women and girls, and mass executions of Muslim men and boys of military age. Most infamous of these acts was the 1995 massacre in the city of Srebrenica, where more than 7000 Muslims were killed by Serb forces under than command of Gen. Mladic. There was also heavy looting, torture of Muslims, and widespread forced relocation. Many of Bosnia’s cities were also besieged by Serb forces, namely Sarajevo, Bihac, and Tuzla, as well as many others. The brutality and scale of the fighting shocked many in the west. Though it should be added for the sake of fairness, that while most acts of ethnic cleansing were overwhelmingly committed by Serb forces, Croat and Muslim forces also committed similar acts as well. In addition, this was not the first time that ethnic cleansing was practiced in the Balkans, with both the Croat Ustase and the Serb Cetniks committing acts of ethnic cleansing during World War II.

    And just in case you still wonder whether the Serb “reaction” to “muslim violence” was “in proportion” :

    War crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic led his troops in July 1995 into the U.N. safe-haven of Srebrenica and “stripped all the male Muslim prisoners, military and civilian, elderly and young, of their personal belongings and identification, and deliberately and methodically killed them solely on the basis of their identity,” according to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
    A video that surfaced during ICTY proceedings depicts members of the Scorpions paramilitary force leading Bosnian Muslims to their execution in a field in Srebrenica. In one incident, six men are shown being taken from the back of a military vehicle and forced to march single file to meet machine gun fire – one man at a time – by the Scorpions. During the video, a soldier is shown emptying an entire magazine into the head of one of the prisoners, protesting “I have a few more shells left!”

    There was no response to “muslim violence” involved. There was no excuse except that made by the perpetrators:
    “Muslims are incompatible with Western Civilization.”
    Your willingness to beleive that muslims were the instigators and not the victims here despite the facts is more than enough evidence to convince me that you’re not going to get off this “Evil Islam” kick you’re on. Its very dangerous. I don’t want to fight all the Muslims in the world—we lose that war.

  106. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    I wish these doomsday groups would pick a date, lock in on it, and get their messaging straight.

  107. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I wish these doomsday groups would pick a date, lock in on it, and get their messaging straight.

  108. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    #54 WB, They have. Again, and again, and again. Like the Energizer Bunny.

    People have be predicting the end of the world since the beginnings of civilization. That it is so common makes it an interesting epistemological study.

    From the map at your linkie, it looks like they may be in Houston.

  109. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    #54 WB, They have. Again, and again, and again. Like the Energizer Bunny.
    People have be predicting the end of the world since the beginnings of civilization. That it is so common makes it an interesting epistemological study.
    From the map at your linkie, it looks like they may be in Houston.

  110. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Sarge, you seem to be saying that “religious Islam” is just fine, and thius it does not need to undergo a modernization or reformation. Is that your position?

    Islam, as a religion, is evolutionarily behind Christianity. It does need to excise from its ranks the comparatively small population of radical fundamentalists in mainly Arabic nations. But if all followers of Islam were as blood thirsty as has been portrayed in some circles, then we already would have lost the war we are fighting against the real bad guys. They simply control too many important nations and resources.

    I also know that most PEOPLE, regardless of thier religion, only want to practice it in peace and to be left alone to do it. Until recently, most of the terrorism on the planet perpetrated by Muslims have been done by politically left leaning organizations like the PLO. The recent rise of religiously motivated terrorism is not endemic throughout the Muslim population of the planet, and is centered mainly in Arabic nations, and a large component of that is cultural as well as religious.

    I also know that most religious people beleive that spreading their religion is part of practicing the religion—but there are differing views among sects on how to achieve that. The Westboro Baptist Church has a bit of a differing view of how to do that than does River Pointe Church, for instance.

  111. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Sarge, you seem to be saying that “religious Islam” is just fine, and thius it does not need to undergo a modernization or reformation. Is that your position?

    Islam, as a religion, is evolutionarily behind Christianity. It does need to excise from its ranks the comparatively small population of radical fundamentalists in mainly Arabic nations. But if all followers of Islam were as blood thirsty as has been portrayed in some circles, then we already would have lost the war we are fighting against the real bad guys. They simply control too many important nations and resources.
    I also know that most PEOPLE, regardless of thier religion, only want to practice it in peace and to be left alone to do it. Until recently, most of the terrorism on the planet perpetrated by Muslims have been done by politically left leaning organizations like the PLO. The recent rise of religiously motivated terrorism is not endemic throughout the Muslim population of the planet, and is centered mainly in Arabic nations, and a large component of that is cultural as well as religious.
    I also know that most religious people beleive that spreading their religion is part of practicing the religion—but there are differing views among sects on how to achieve that. The Westboro Baptist Church has a bit of a differing view of how to do that than does River Pointe Church, for instance.

  112. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    If it’s true, and if it’s important, I don’t need a guilt trip to accept the information.

    And iof the first tning they tell you is a lie, that’s a pretty good indicator that you’re only getting part of the truth.

    Bonecrusher blogs on Hamous’ couch. He lives in the Houston area. His avatar is a yellow vise. He bites the heads off kittens.

    That statement is “largely accurate.”

    But it ain’t the whole truth.

  113. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    If it’s true, and if it’s important, I don’t need a guilt trip to accept the information.

    And iof the first tning they tell you is a lie, that’s a pretty good indicator that you’re only getting part of the truth.
    Bonecrusher blogs on Hamous’ couch. He lives in the Houston area. His avatar is a yellow vise. He bites the heads off kittens.
    That statement is “largely accurate.”
    But it ain’t the whole truth.

  114. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    54 wagonburner says:
    March 8, 2011 at 12:13 pm
    I wish these doomsday groups would pick a date, lock in on it, and get their messaging straight.

    0 0

    But it says right there on the side of thier bus that its in the Bible.

    That means that all Christians beleive it.

  115. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    54 wagonburner says:
    March 8, 2011 at 12:13 pm
    I wish these doomsday groups would pick a date, lock in on it, and get their messaging straight.
    0 0

    But it says right there on the side of thier bus that its in the Bible.
    That means that all Christians beleive it.

  116. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #55 bob
    All I’m saying is that I wish they could all agree on one, so I can know when to start charging up my credit cards on fun stuff with no intention of having to pay it back. You know, like the Federal gov’t. 😉

  117. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #55 bob
    All I’m saying is that I wish they could all agree on one, so I can know when to start charging up my credit cards on fun stuff with no intention of having to pay it back. You know, like the Federal gov’t. 😉

  118. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #55 bob
    All I’m saying is that I wish they could all agree on one, so I can know when to start charging up my credit cards on fun stuff with no intention of having to pay it back. You know, like the Federal gov’t.

    If the world’s gonna end in 10 weeks, why do they need a camper in the first place?

  119. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #55 bob
    All I’m saying is that I wish they could all agree on one, so I can know when to start charging up my credit cards on fun stuff with no intention of having to pay it back. You know, like the Federal gov’t.

    If the world’s gonna end in 10 weeks, why do they need a camper in the first place?

  120. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    The 87 year old had just finished his morning jog and wasn’t even short of breath.

    The 80 year old was amazed at his friend’s stamina and asked him what he did to have so much energy.

    The 87 year old said, “Well, I eat rye bread every day. It keeps your energy level high and you’ll have great stamina with the ladies.”

    So, on the way home, 80 year old stops at the bakery. As he was looking around, the lady asked if he needed any help.

    He said “Do you have any Rye bread?”

    She said, “Yes, there’s a whole shelf of it. Would you like some?”

    He said, “I want 5 loaves.”

    She said, “My goodness, 5 loaves … By the time you get to the 3rd loaf, it’ll be hard”

    He replied, “I can’t believe it, everybody knows about this sh1t but me.”

  121. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    The 87 year old had just finished his morning jog and wasn’t even short of breath.
    The 80 year old was amazed at his friend’s stamina and asked him what he did to have so much energy.
    The 87 year old said, “Well, I eat rye bread every day. It keeps your energy level high and you’ll have great stamina with the ladies.”
    So, on the way home, 80 year old stops at the bakery. As he was looking around, the lady asked if he needed any help.
    He said “Do you have any Rye bread?”
    She said, “Yes, there’s a whole shelf of it. Would you like some?”
    He said, “I want 5 loaves.”
    She said, “My goodness, 5 loaves … By the time you get to the 3rd loaf, it’ll be hard”
    He replied, “I can’t believe it, everybody knows about this sh1t but me.”

  122. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    The center, philosophically speaking, of Islam is the middle east.

    The center of Christianity is regarded by many as being in Rome.

    That doesn’t mean all Christians like spagehtti.

  123. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    The center, philosophically speaking, of Islam is the middle east.

    The center of Christianity is regarded by many as being in Rome.
    That doesn’t mean all Christians like spagehtti.

  124. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #62 Sarge
    Speaking as a Catholic and and Italian –

    The center of Christianity is regarded by many as being in Rome.

    That doesn’t mean all Christians like spagehtti.

    – they should! 🙂

  125. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #62 Sarge
    Speaking as a Catholic and and Italian –

    The center of Christianity is regarded by many as being in Rome.
    That doesn’t mean all Christians like spagehtti.

    – they should! 🙂

  126. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #62 Sarge
    Speaking as a Catholic and and Italian –

    The center of Christianity is regarded by many as being in Rome.

    That doesn’t mean all Christians like spagehtti.

    – they should!

    I, of course, agree. But I can’t find it in my Bible.

    I note that some Muslims read at their Koran and see that Sharia should hold dominion over the Earth.

    I also note that some Christians read thier Bible and find that God has told them the Earth will be destroyed on May 21 of this year and that they should buy a camper and travel across the country to tell people.

  127. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #62 Sarge
    Speaking as a Catholic and and Italian –

    The center of Christianity is regarded by many as being in Rome.
    That doesn’t mean all Christians like spagehtti.

    – they should!

    I, of course, agree. But I can’t find it in my Bible.
    I note that some Muslims read at their Koran and see that Sharia should hold dominion over the Earth.
    I also note that some Christians read thier Bible and find that God has told them the Earth will be destroyed on May 21 of this year and that they should buy a camper and travel across the country to tell people.

  128. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Yeah, well, if they’d all eat spaghetti, the carb effect would put everyone to sleep and then we’d all get along.

    Spaghetti. The solution to world peace.

  129. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Yeah, well, if they’d all eat spaghetti, the carb effect would put everyone to sleep and then we’d all get along.
    Spaghetti. The solution to world peace.

  130. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Spaghetti. The solution to world peace.

    And bacon.

    Don’t forget bacon.

  131. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Spaghetti. The solution to world peace.

    And bacon.
    Don’t forget bacon.

  132. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Except for the Muslims. They just get spaghetti.

    I’ll eat their bacon for them.

  133. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Except for the Muslims. They just get spaghetti.
    I’ll eat their bacon for them.

  134. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And the Jews. You can have their bacon. I’ll be full by then.

  135. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And the Jews. You can have their bacon. I’ll be full by then.

  136. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Just think – the millions of little girls programmed to be nothing more than Suzy Homemakers by the male-dominated toy industry will now be freed from a life of domestic servitude – and all thanks to a successful ban-the-bulb campaign!

    How will all those little pre-wimmins ever learn their places and learn how to make good sammiches?

  137. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Just think – the millions of little girls programmed to be nothing more than Suzy Homemakers by the male-dominated toy industry will now be freed from a life of domestic servitude – and all thanks to a successful ban-the-bulb campaign!

    How will all those little pre-wimmins ever learn their places and learn how to make good sammiches?

  138. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #69 WB

    We’ll open the “Wagonburner Sammich Training Center for PreWimmins”.

  139. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #69 WB
    We’ll open the “Wagonburner Sammich Training Center for PreWimmins”.

  140. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    In addition to being Mardi Gras, today is pancake day, and International Women’s Day.

    Pancakes, bacon, and women… nomz…

  141. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    In addition to being Mardi Gras, today is pancake day, and International Women’s Day.
    Pancakes, bacon, and women… nomz…

  142. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    In addition to being Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday, today is pancake day, and International Women’s Day.

    The genius of Lefties wanting to proclaim meaningless commemorative dates and how it displays the unintended consequences of Lefty policies.

  143. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    In addition to being Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday, today is pancake day, and International Women’s Day.

    The genius of Lefties wanting to proclaim meaningless commemorative dates and how it displays the unintended consequences of Lefty policies.

  144. SC Avatar
    SC

    In addition to being Mardi Gras, today is pancake day, and International Women’s Day.

    Rush made note of that. International Women’s Day and Fat Tuesday, how the heck did that happen?

  145. SC Avatar
    SC

    In addition to being Mardi Gras, today is pancake day, and International Women’s Day.

    Rush made note of that. International Women’s Day and Fat Tuesday, how the heck did that happen?

  146. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Rush made note of that. International Women’s Day and Fat Tuesday, how the heck did that happen?

    I listened to a radio interview with the woman who was given credit for the proclamation.

    It was on a Sunday night program on KPFT.

    You can do the math.

  147. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Rush made note of that. International Women’s Day and Fat Tuesday, how the heck did that happen?

    I listened to a radio interview with the woman who was given credit for the proclamation.
    It was on a Sunday night program on KPFT.
    You can do the math.

  148. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    House Dems whine that polystyrene foam (Styrofoam®) coffee cups may contain carcinogens and they are not sufficiently “green”.

    These people are bigger whiny butts than a patrol of Brownies who just got told they have to eat vegetables for a snack instead of juice & cookies.

    btw – some of the comments are pretty funny

  149. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    House Dems whine that polystyrene foam (Styrofoam®) coffee cups may contain carcinogens and they are not sufficiently “green”.
    These people are bigger whiny butts than a patrol of Brownies who just got told they have to eat vegetables for a snack instead of juice & cookies.
    btw – some of the comments are pretty funny

  150. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Skinny Tuesday

  151. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Skinny Tuesday

  152. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Those peaceful INDONESIAN mooslims, they burn churches.

    Indonesia’s constitutional court upheld the blasphemy law last year as not limiting religious freedom and vital to religious harmony in the secular nation. Activists argued the law discriminates against believers outside the mainstream of six officially recognized faiths.

    They also say the law is used largely to defend Islam, the dominant religion of Indonesia’s 235 million people

  153. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Those peaceful INDONESIAN mooslims, they burn churches.

    Indonesia’s constitutional court upheld the blasphemy law last year as not limiting religious freedom and vital to religious harmony in the secular nation. Activists argued the law discriminates against believers outside the mainstream of six officially recognized faiths.
    They also say the law is used largely to defend Islam, the dominant religion of Indonesia’s 235 million people

  154. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Those peaceful mooslims

    This morning (1/1/11) the Dallas Morning News carried three different stories about attacks on Christian churches or Christians carried out by Muslim terrorists; one in Egypt, one in Iraq, and one in Afghanistan. These are not isolated incidents. Over the last two decades Muslims have attacked Christian churches and killed Christians in Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Iran, and Afghanistan. (See http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/255861/away-manger-paul-marshall) One is tempted to balance this report with attacks in the Christian West on mosques and Muslims, but in reality there is no comparison in number, deadliness, intensity, and most importantly motivation.

  155. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Those peaceful mooslims

    This morning (1/1/11) the Dallas Morning News carried three different stories about attacks on Christian churches or Christians carried out by Muslim terrorists; one in Egypt, one in Iraq, and one in Afghanistan. These are not isolated incidents. Over the last two decades Muslims have attacked Christian churches and killed Christians in Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Iran, and Afghanistan. (See http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/255861/away-manger-paul-marshall) One is tempted to balance this report with attacks in the Christian West on mosques and Muslims, but in reality there is no comparison in number, deadliness, intensity, and most importantly motivation.

  156. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Something smells fishy here; Millions of dead fish at King Harbor in Redondo Beach.

  157. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Something smells fishy here; Millions of dead fish at King Harbor in Redondo Beach.

  158. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Those peaceful INDONESIAN mooslims, they burn churches.

    Is it just the peaceful ones that burn churches, or do the violent ones burn them too?

  159. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Those peaceful INDONESIAN mooslims, they burn churches.

    Is it just the peaceful ones that burn churches, or do the violent ones burn them too?

  160. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    The mob set two churches on fire and threw rocks at a third and a school building. They also torched a police truck, three cars and six motorcycles. Calm was restored about four hours later.

    Yah.

    They should have gotten the violent ones to pitch in.

    They missed one church.

  161. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    The mob set two churches on fire and threw rocks at a third and a school building. They also torched a police truck, three cars and six motorcycles. Calm was restored about four hours later.

    Yah.
    They should have gotten the violent ones to pitch in.
    They missed one church.

  162. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The big difference between you and me Sarge, is that you refuse to acknowledge the inherent evil contained in islam and I refuse to ignore it.

  163. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The big difference between you and me Sarge, is that you refuse to acknowledge the inherent evil contained in islam and I refuse to ignore it.

  164. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    The big difference between you and me Sarge, is that you refuse to acknowledge the inherent evil contained in islam and I refuse to ignore it.

    The big difference between you and me is that it took you three hours of googling to find something Indonesian Muslims have done bad, found two burned churches, then said it was indicative of all 325 million Indonesian Muslims, and claimed your point was proven.

    I note that it doesn’t.

    In fact, it kinda proves mine.

  165. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    The big difference between you and me Sarge, is that you refuse to acknowledge the inherent evil contained in islam and I refuse to ignore it.

    The big difference between you and me is that it took you three hours of googling to find something Indonesian Muslims have done bad, found two burned churches, then said it was indicative of all 325 million Indonesian Muslims, and claimed your point was proven.
    I note that it doesn’t.
    In fact, it kinda proves mine.

  166. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #82 Bones:

    you refuse to acknowledge the inherent evil contained in islam all men

    There, fixed it for ya.

    Or, do you think it’s just Muslims that are evil????

  167. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #82 Bones:

    you refuse to acknowledge the inherent evil contained in islam all men

    There, fixed it for ya.
    Or, do you think it’s just Muslims that are evil????

  168. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Welfare State: Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages

    Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent of wages and salaries this year, up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960, according to TrimTabs Investment Research using Bureau of Economic Analysis data.

    🙁

  169. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Welfare State: Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages

    Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent of wages and salaries this year, up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960, according to TrimTabs Investment Research using Bureau of Economic Analysis data.

    🙁

  170. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #82 Bones:

    you refuse to acknowledge the inherent evil contained in islam all men

    There, fixed it for ya.

    I recognize the evil in all men.

    Its what made Slobodon Milosovic and his cronies murder and rape thousands of Muslims. Its what makes Taliban Muslims kill non-Taliban Muslims. Its what makes the Westoboro Baptist Church picket the funerals of soldiers. Its what makes a man kidnap his ex wife and torture her for hours.

    Boney seems to think that Muslims have a corner on the market, though.

  171. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #82 Bones:

    you refuse to acknowledge the inherent evil contained in islam all men

    There, fixed it for ya.

    I recognize the evil in all men.
    Its what made Slobodon Milosovic and his cronies murder and rape thousands of Muslims. Its what makes Taliban Muslims kill non-Taliban Muslims. Its what makes the Westoboro Baptist Church picket the funerals of soldiers. Its what makes a man kidnap his ex wife and torture her for hours.
    Boney seems to think that Muslims have a corner on the market, though.

  172. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #80 Sarge

    Is it just the peaceful ones that burn churches, or do the violent ones burn them too?

    I will make an exception for MOST of the Muslims that have emigrated out of their own for-the-most-part backward countries, and settled in the West. Muslims still in their home countries, seem to me to be mostly 2 groups: the violent jihadis and the reticent Muslims. The latter group seem to either passively agree with the jihadis or are afraid to disagree. I don’t see a “Silent Majority” of Muslims anywhere who are peaceful but don’t speak up.

  173. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #80 Sarge

    Is it just the peaceful ones that burn churches, or do the violent ones burn them too?

    I will make an exception for MOST of the Muslims that have emigrated out of their own for-the-most-part backward countries, and settled in the West. Muslims still in their home countries, seem to me to be mostly 2 groups: the violent jihadis and the reticent Muslims. The latter group seem to either passively agree with the jihadis or are afraid to disagree. I don’t see a “Silent Majority” of Muslims anywhere who are peaceful but don’t speak up.

  174. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I don’t see a “Silent Majority” of Muslims anywhere who are peaceful but don’t speak up.

    One rarely hears a Silent Majority. They wouldn’t be a Silent Majority if you heard them.

    My basic problem is with the way Boney frames the situation. He is steering folks towards there being only one ultimate solution, and that is to wage war on all of Islam before all of Islam wages war on us.

    During the Iraq War, I took the unpopular position that we would ultimately lose that war if we engaged in the kind of tactics used in WW2. I argued that classic counter-insurgency tactics would work for both moral and tactical reasons. The moral reason was that we would be no better than our enemy if we did, the tactical reason was that our enemy wanted us to use those kinds of tactics in order to mobilize the Muslim world against us.

    General Petreaus used a classic counter insurgency strategy and won the war. There is now a nascent democracy in Iraq that is an ally. We are engaged in a similar conflict in Afghanistan and are seeing similar results, albeit at a slower pace.

    We fought a war with Muslim extremists once before, in the Phillipines at the beginning of the last century. Despite untrue rumors to the contrary, Blackjack Pershing used almost exactly the same tactics that Petreaus used successfully in Iraq. When Filipinos had the chance to choose between us and the Japanese, they chose us and fought a guerrilla war against them for nearly 4 years.

    Making war on Islam is a bad idea.

    Making war on bad muslims is a good one.

    If you can’t make a distinction between the two, you will be no more successful than a blind giant flailing about in a dark forest trying to kill the dogs that are after him.

  175. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I don’t see a “Silent Majority” of Muslims anywhere who are peaceful but don’t speak up.

    One rarely hears a Silent Majority. They wouldn’t be a Silent Majority if you heard them.
    My basic problem is with the way Boney frames the situation. He is steering folks towards there being only one ultimate solution, and that is to wage war on all of Islam before all of Islam wages war on us.
    During the Iraq War, I took the unpopular position that we would ultimately lose that war if we engaged in the kind of tactics used in WW2. I argued that classic counter-insurgency tactics would work for both moral and tactical reasons. The moral reason was that we would be no better than our enemy if we did, the tactical reason was that our enemy wanted us to use those kinds of tactics in order to mobilize the Muslim world against us.
    General Petreaus used a classic counter insurgency strategy and won the war. There is now a nascent democracy in Iraq that is an ally. We are engaged in a similar conflict in Afghanistan and are seeing similar results, albeit at a slower pace.
    We fought a war with Muslim extremists once before, in the Phillipines at the beginning of the last century. Despite untrue rumors to the contrary, Blackjack Pershing used almost exactly the same tactics that Petreaus used successfully in Iraq. When Filipinos had the chance to choose between us and the Japanese, they chose us and fought a guerrilla war against them for nearly 4 years.
    Making war on Islam is a bad idea.
    Making war on bad muslims is a good one.
    If you can’t make a distinction between the two, you will be no more successful than a blind giant flailing about in a dark forest trying to kill the dogs that are after him.

  176. Robert M Avatar
    Robert M

    For Bob42.

    ***Not suitable for work or chillrens***

  177. Wonder Woman Avatar
    Wonder Woman

    For Bob42.
    ***Not suitable for work or chillrens***

  178. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I don’t see a “Silent Majority” of Muslims anywhere who are peaceful but don’t speak up.

    Ok, Sarge made this point already, but exactly how would you see them? You think the media is going to focus on people who DO NOT blow stuff up? If you simply focus on raw population numbers it’s blatantly obvious that the majority of Muslim people are neither terrorists nor do they condone terrorism.

  179. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    I don’t see a “Silent Majority” of Muslims anywhere who are peaceful but don’t speak up.

    Ok, Sarge made this point already, but exactly how would you see them? You think the media is going to focus on people who DO NOT blow stuff up? If you simply focus on raw population numbers it’s blatantly obvious that the majority of Muslim people are neither terrorists nor do they condone terrorism.

  180. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    If you simply focus on raw population numbers it’s blatantly obvious that the majority of Muslim people are neither terrorists nor do they condone terrorism.

    Whaddya mean?

    Those 350 million Indonesians burned two churches.

    And that was just the peaceful ones.

  181. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    If you simply focus on raw population numbers it’s blatantly obvious that the majority of Muslim people are neither terrorists nor do they condone terrorism.

    Whaddya mean?
    Those 350 million Indonesians burned two churches.
    And that was just the peaceful ones.

  182. SC Avatar
    SC

    These bad guys don’t wear uniforms.

  183. SC Avatar
    SC

    These bad guys don’t wear uniforms.

  184. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    92 SC says:
    March 8, 2011 at 4:43 pm

    These bad guys don’t wear uniforms.

    Which is actually good news.

    Because if we fight bad guys with uniforms, it means we are fighting a real war with nation states, and not a small minority of fundamentalist nut cases.

  185. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    92 SC says:
    March 8, 2011 at 4:43 pm
    These bad guys don’t wear uniforms.

    Which is actually good news.
    Because if we fight bad guys with uniforms, it means we are fighting a real war with nation states, and not a small minority of fundamentalist nut cases.

  186. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Those 350 million Indonesians burned two churches.

    Rather inefficient arsonists, eh? Heck, I coulda done two myself and not even broke a sweat.

  187. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Those 350 million Indonesians burned two churches.

    Rather inefficient arsonists, eh? Heck, I coulda done two myself and not even broke a sweat.

  188. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Rather inefficient arsonists, eh? Heck, I coulda done two myself and not even broke a sweat.

    Good thing you’re not a muslim.

  189. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Rather inefficient arsonists, eh? Heck, I coulda done two myself and not even broke a sweat.

    Good thing you’re not a muslim.

  190. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    I am pleased to be in receipt of another invitation to one of my “adopted” kid’s 21st birthday celebrations. This one is the female half of a couple that had lived here temporarily a few times over the last few years, and it will be held at their new apartment (Yea! Fiscal responsibility!) She’s doing the cooking, and I can’t wait. I’m not saying that the only reason I helped them out was that she could cook and he could clean… But it sure didn’t hurt!

    They simultaneously make me feel young, and old.

  191. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    I am pleased to be in receipt of another invitation to one of my “adopted” kid’s 21st birthday celebrations. This one is the female half of a couple that had lived here temporarily a few times over the last few years, and it will be held at their new apartment (Yea! Fiscal responsibility!) She’s doing the cooking, and I can’t wait. I’m not saying that the only reason I helped them out was that she could cook and he could clean… But it sure didn’t hurt!
    They simultaneously make me feel young, and old.

  192. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Good advice when you find yourself in a fight:

    Fight only the guy who is trying to hurt you.

    Don’t make any more new enemies—try not to pizzoff his freinds.

    Try to get his freinds to get him to back off. The first step in doing this is to not pizz them off.

  193. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Good advice when you find yourself in a fight:
    Fight only the guy who is trying to hurt you.
    Don’t make any more new enemies—try not to pizzoff his freinds.
    Try to get his freinds to get him to back off. The first step in doing this is to not pizz them off.

  194. Robert M Avatar
    Robert M

    Mohammad, an Arab child, entered his classroom on the first day of
    school in Ohio . “What is your name?” asked the teacher. “Mohammad”
    answered the boy.

    “You are in America now. From now on your name will be Johnny,”
    replied the teacher.

    In the evening, Mohammad returned home. “How was your day, Mohammad?”
    asked his mother.

    “My name is not Mohammad. I ’m in America and now my name is Johnny.”

    “Ah, are you ashamed of your name, are you trying to dishonour your
    parents, your heritage, your religion? Shame on you!” and she beat
    him. Then she called his father and he too, beat him.

    The next day Mohammad returned to school. When the teacher saw him
    with all the bruises she asked, “What happened to you little Johnny”?

    “Well ma’am, 4 hours after becoming an American, I was attacked by Muslims.”/ducks and hauls butt

  195. Wonder Woman Avatar
    Wonder Woman

    Mohammad, an Arab child, entered his classroom on the first day of
    school in Ohio . “What is your name?” asked the teacher. “Mohammad”
    answered the boy.
    “You are in America now. From now on your name will be Johnny,”
    replied the teacher.
    In the evening, Mohammad returned home. “How was your day, Mohammad?”
    asked his mother.
    “My name is not Mohammad. I ’m in America and now my name is Johnny.”
    “Ah, are you ashamed of your name, are you trying to dishonour your
    parents, your heritage, your religion? Shame on you!” and she beat
    him. Then she called his father and he too, beat him.
    The next day Mohammad returned to school. When the teacher saw him
    with all the bruises she asked, “What happened to you little Johnny”?
    “Well ma’am, 4 hours after becoming an American, I was attacked by Muslims.”/ducks and hauls butt

  196. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #12 OletimerLin, I’m at home now so I could open your U tube link,…DAYAAM a 5″ group at 1000 Yds for this WW II Vet! Outstanding! I’m a better than average shot, but I don’t think that I could do that. Thanks for that great video! 😀

  197. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #12 OletimerLin, I’m at home now so I could open your U tube link,…DAYAAM a 5″ group at 1000 Yds for this WW II Vet! Outstanding! I’m a better than average shot, but I don’t think that I could do that. Thanks for that great video! 😀

  198. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Silent majority.

    Gee, they don’t seem too silent to me. My son goes to school with many Muslim kids. I can usually hear them just fine too.

  199. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Silent majority.
    Gee, they don’t seem too silent to me. My son goes to school with many Muslim kids. I can usually hear them just fine too.

  200. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #90 Dooood42

    nor do they condone terrorism.

    Sorry, I don’t buy this. Any time I see survey results about what Muslims in various countries believe or support, they often show 80% that support what are NOT moderate positions: death for adultery or apostacy or insulting Islam; FGM and other forms of female subjugation; etc. People who support barbaric practises can not be counted on to oppose jihadism.

  201. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #90 Dooood42

    nor do they condone terrorism.

    Sorry, I don’t buy this. Any time I see survey results about what Muslims in various countries believe or support, they often show 80% that support what are NOT moderate positions: death for adultery or apostacy or insulting Islam; FGM and other forms of female subjugation; etc. People who support barbaric practises can not be counted on to oppose jihadism.

  202. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    To All:

    Just when you think you are so jaded that nothing could outrage you.

    See this link to KPRC

    Simple

  203. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    To All:
    Just when you think you are so jaded that nothing could outrage you.
    See this link to KPRC
    Simple

  204. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Doood

    My son goes to school with many Muslim kids.

    Your son and his Muslim schoolmates are in the US, right? In my earlier comments, I said I have higher expectations of Muslims who have immigrated into Western countries. Presumably some, if demonstrably not all of them, are looking for a more modern life.

  205. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Doood

    My son goes to school with many Muslim kids.

    Your son and his Muslim schoolmates are in the US, right? In my earlier comments, I said I have higher expectations of Muslims who have immigrated into Western countries. Presumably some, if demonstrably not all of them, are looking for a more modern life.

  206. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Oh sure. Downding ’em and they get all wrapped around the axle. Upding ’em and nary a word.

  207. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Oh sure. Downding ’em and they get all wrapped around the axle. Upding ’em and nary a word.

  208. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s one for the record books on Drudge: burglar barricades himself in the bathroom of the house he has broken into — and calls 9-1-1 for help when the owner comes home!

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/portland/911-calls

  209. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s one for the record books on Drudge: burglar barricades himself in the bathroom of the house he has broken into — and calls 9-1-1 for help when the owner comes home!
    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/portland/911-calls

  210. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #104 Dooood

    Are you speaking in tongues or what ? 🙂

  211. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #104 Dooood
    Are you speaking in tongues or what ? 🙂

  212. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I tried a da spinach for a while. Now I speaka only da engrish.

  213. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    I tried a da spinach for a while. Now I speaka only da engrish.

  214. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Dude42, can you tell me — in either spinach or engrish — I speak both fluently — what is the meaning of the blue AB in your gravatar?

  215. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Dude42, can you tell me — in either spinach or engrish — I speak both fluently — what is the meaning of the blue AB in your gravatar?

  216. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Click on my underlined name. There is no more meaning than that. Akelas Biggins.

  217. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Click on my underlined name. There is no more meaning than that. Akelas Biggins.

  218. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    El gordo #1;

    I still don’t understand why she finally left.

    Cuz she couldn’t tell time?

  219. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    El gordo #1;

    I still don’t understand why she finally left.

    Cuz she couldn’t tell time?

  220. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Oletimer #12;

    VERY cool video.

  221. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Oletimer #12;
    VERY cool video.

  222. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    ST #41;

    That is one dumbfounding and incredible clip from the Young Turk.

    I think the BoneSarge bromance started soon after El Gordo’s wife left him.

  223. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    ST #41;
    That is one dumbfounding and incredible clip from the Young Turk.
    I think the BoneSarge bromance started soon after El Gordo’s wife left him.

  224. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Tedtam #50;

    If you do not foward this post then your husband will never grow a hairy chest.

  225. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Tedtam #50;
    If you do not foward this post then your husband will never grow a hairy chest.

  226. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Sarge #62;

    The center of Christianity is regarded by many as being in Rome.

    Jerusalem? Rome? It’s Salt Lake City, duh. 😉

  227. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Sarge #62;

    The center of Christianity is regarded by many as being in Rome.

    Jerusalem? Rome? It’s Salt Lake City, duh. 😉

  228. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Dude #94;

    I coulda done two myself and not even broke a sweat.

    But bring some aloe for safe keeping, OK?

  229. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Dude #94;

    I coulda done two myself and not even broke a sweat.

    But bring some aloe for safe keeping, OK?

  230. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    About the most ungodly message to leave young people.

    Van Jones Brown-Nose Youth Recruitment: Forget Respecting Old People — You Are Gods, Geniuses & Walking Superpowers!

  231. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    About the most ungodly message to leave young people.
    Van Jones Brown-Nose Youth Recruitment: Forget Respecting Old People — You Are Gods, Geniuses & Walking Superpowers!

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