April 27, 2005
Religion of Peace Roundup: White Trash Wednesday Edition
Man, I never knew the Religion of Peace and good old fashioned white trash had so much in common!
There's nothing a redneck loves more than a good bloody flick, right? So CAIR gives its seal of approval to the new movie Kingdom of Heaven. I was so looking forward to it too! Let me guess: when CAIR says the flick gives a 'balanced' view of the Crusades they really mean 'Christians look bad'. Count me out now.
Lamia Abed Khadouri al-Sagri, a member of Iraq's National Assembly,
was murdered by terrorists inside her house. These guys are just like the Klan on meth.
The deadline is up for the 3 Romanian and 1 American hostage being held in Iraq. Romania has asked that their captors extend the deadline. No jokes, just pray.
Like rich-white-trash diva Paris Hilton's Blackberry, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's computer got hacked. What was on it? Porn, of course.
The Ebb and Flow Institute has a great biography of Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician who is being held in prison to guard him from members of the Religion of Peace who peacefully have threatened to peacefully cut his head off because he had the nads to speak out against them.
Highest religious authority in Saudi Arabia gets caught on tape urging young Muslims to go fight in Iraq, use General Lee to cross border.
High-school dropout? Learn a new skill from home: USDOJ publishes al Qaeda training manual. (Via Evil Glenn)
Islamic scholar Ali al-Timimi convicted of inciting al Qaeda support, Muslims seethe.
Pakistan will not give up nukes. Meanwhile, the Religion of Peace beats the crap out of an uppity young Pakistani Christian.
Man convicted in missile sting operation. I'm sure it was a setup.
"I punched Saddam in the mouth!"--Man, I envy that dude!
Groups in Turkey move to ban Schwarzenegger films because of his support for recognition of Armenian genocide. Gay porn still popular in Turkish mountains.
The Muslim school agenda vs. the Creationist school agenda. Food for thought.
Andrew Sullivan in full Freak-Out mode. And speaking of Andrew Sullivan: Gay rebels married in Philippines first openly gay-terrorist wedding ceremony.
MoveOn.org has some new TV spots. Let me give you a hint: there are no chicks in bikinis.
When 'people of the soil' protest Bush.
More oil refineries? Hell yes!
The Abe Fortas fillibuster in perspective.
When white-trash marries a promulent lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards' tinfoil brigades.
Jeff Quinton must not get a lot of trolls these days. Hey Jeff, come on over whenever you feel the need to go troll hunting!
Thomas Sowell on Black Rednecks.
And remember, for all your teacher-student sex-scandal updates check out Interested Participant!
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What is a "prumulent" lawyer? My ESL dictinary is of no assistance.
Please explificate!
Posted by: Brian H at April 27, 2005 05:11 PM (8AabM)
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news...but Christians WERE BAD during the Crusades. They killed lots and lots of folks.
Any film that didn't portray Christians of that time as doing a bad thing would be an completely unbalanced (and historically inaccurate) piece.
Posted by: carla at April 27, 2005 05:13 PM (FNmPI)
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Because, as we all know, Islam was, at that time, and now, the Religion of Peace & Trade.
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Posted by: Anwar at April 27, 2005 06:08 PM (8vKPW)
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carla,
but they didn't kill lots and lots of folks every single day and minute they were there, which was close to 250 years.
Should the movie only depict the bloodthirsty moments just to please you and all the christianity haters?
That would make it an Oliver Stone movie.
Posted by: Carlos at April 27, 2005 10:43 PM (8e/V4)
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Here we go again.
There were atrocities commited by both sides, but the Church has condemned those committed by the Christians. That's the difference.
(I'm talking about the atrocities, not the mano a mano warfare.)
Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at April 28, 2005 07:12 AM (x+5JB)
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Of course attrocities were committed, but it begs the larger point (at least, in my mind). The larger point is that the Crusades were a response to 600 years of Islamic expansionism.
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>>>"The larger point is that the Crusades were a response to 600 years of Islamic expansionism."
True. those provinces were christian provinces before the islamic horde exploded out of the arabian peninsula in 700 AD.
Posted by: Carlos at April 28, 2005 09:14 AM (8e/V4)
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Perhaps my point was unclear. All I'm saying is that...
1. There were atrocities committed by both sides.
2. The Church has condemned the atrocities committed by those fighting as Christians. And rightly so.
2. I (nor the Church) condemn the fighting between actual combatants nor the original goals of the crusades.
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April 25, 2005
Religion of Stupid Bumperstickers Roundup: Honk if you're a terrorist edition
U.S. patrol in Iraq spots car with anti-US slogans, finds grenades and a bloody machete in trunk, nabs terrorists. I bet it's guys like these that Zarqawi
volunteers for suicide missions.
Oh, and happy ANZAC Day to our Aussia and NZ friends!
A number of people have e-mailed me about the Kill Jews for Peace Website. My initial reaction was that it had to be a spoof. Beth thinks otherwise. If it's not, then why the hell does Cao get a death fatwa issued but not me!!
I DEMAND A FATWA!!!
Why Lebanon Matters. I disagree that Lebanon is the key to resolving the Clash of Civilizations, but it is key in spreading democracy and further isolating Syria. Speaking of, Syria says that most of their troops are pulling out today. (Via Chad)
In Indonesia they give you 4.5 days in jail for every person you murder in the name of Jihad. On the other hand, if you're caught with some marijuana, you could just find yourself in jail for the rest of your life. Especially if you're a Westerner.
Saudis arrest 40 Christians for praying. Good thing they weren't trying to convert a Muslim, that could get your head chopped off!
Iran developing new bomb technologies.
Iraqis generally positive about prospects for future (via Ace).
Palestinians now starting blood-libel campaign against the U.S., says we grind the bones of Palestinian children and devour their eyes. Baseball, hot-dogs, apple-pie, and Pali-eyes!
AP stringer killed in Iraq, but it looks like the bad guys didi it this time (via LGF).
Is actor James Woods a CIA agent?
Domestic Dhimmis and Links of Interest
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal says 9/11 was our fault. She'll fit right in in Hollywood. (via Say Anything)
Good riddance! Please don't come back.
Donald Rumsfeld does Dolly Parton. I'm serious.
In support of John Bolton. I said John, not Michael.
More tolerance from the left.
Trey Jackson has audio of DNC Chair Howard Dean impersonating Rush Limbaugh snorting cocaine. Notice the media outrcry over this one yet?
Report: Conservative Southern Democrats Disappearing
Sexual predators could be in your town. Scary thought.
When hunger strikes go terribly wrong!
Phin thinks we should invade the Vatican now! It's funny because it's true.
Markos "Screw Them" Zúniga is chosen as Jackass of the Week over at Decision '08. Persnonaly I'd like to nominate him for Jackass of the Century.
The guys get shirts! Or, the single fashion review ever written that doesn't sound gay.
Leopold Stotch proves he has poor taste by declaring ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 'the most inspiring show on television today'. Dumbass!
One nation under dog.
Apocolypse Now--The Llama Butchers ask the important questions: Whatever happened to Kelly McGillis? Meanwhile, Kevin Aylward asks the even more important questions: Whatever happened to Cory Haim?
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If the Cops would stop any car with a Kerry/Edwards sticker on it, they would find bags of weeeeeed, imported hemp products and stolen bean pies.
Posted by: Filthy Allah at April 25, 2005 02:15 PM (yBHNA)
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I go to check my email and find that my house droid is missing and there's little sand-covered tracks all over the place. I knew immediately that I had to find the nearest Sandcrawler and send my warmest regards...Thanks for the linkage! :-)
--TwoDragons
Posted by: Denita TwoDragons at April 25, 2005 02:20 PM (O0t7P)
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About Schapelle Corby.
She went to Bali for a "cheap vaction" the judges in the case have said that they could very well seek the death penalty for her if she is found guilty. The death penalty is death by firing squad. The problem with her case is the indonesian police mishandled evidence (namingly the drugs) so as to make it useless trying to get finger prints. They refused to allow Austrillian law enforcement test the drugs to see where they may have been grown. Her urinalysis test came back negative yet she has been stuck in a cage that would be unfit for an animal to be in. So far, this looks like a lust for indonesia to see the blood of more Westerners spilled. To me indonesia if it wasn't for the fact a lot of american companies have factories in it would be getting bombed flat for it being a hotbed of islamic terrorism. Remember this is the same place that the bali blast took place and the judges made sure that the defendants got off easy for murder.
Posted by: Andre at April 25, 2005 02:38 PM (N/Slw)
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THat is why GOd send Tsunamis my friend. Think of all the Muslims that are in Hell now thanks to the Last one that hit.
Posted by: Filthy Allah at April 25, 2005 03:04 PM (yBHNA)
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Maybe Maggie Gyllenhaal is planing to apply for the Kennedy Chair in the Poli Sci Dept at Harvard. This will help get her on the top ten list; maybe on the to three.
Posted by: Rod Stanton at April 25, 2005 04:02 PM (vRg2Q)
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oops. I meant that last comment about Iran to go here, not in the previous post. Anyways, Rusty, do you think there's a serious threat from Iran?
And let me also say how PISSED I am at President Bush. He's supposedly declared war on terrorism. What is he going to do to stop this??
Posted by: Labosseuse at April 25, 2005 04:34 PM (+bdi8)
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I gots to get me some of those tactical pants.
Posted by: TheRoyalFamily at April 25, 2005 04:49 PM (UFUEr)
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I don't think Iran poses a threat directly to us, only indirectly through its funding of terrorists and Islamists. That plus their commitment to going nuclear makes me nervous.
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at April 25, 2005 06:06 PM (JQjhA)
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Tolerance from the left:
The left is better organized. They will always be able to produce the Brown Shirts needed for a rally on a day's notice.
In Seattle, watch out for the Union thugs they bring out. They will get in your face.
Posted by: Brad at April 25, 2005 11:44 PM (6krEN)
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Dealing with brown shirts is easy, Just keep your best men blocking the exits then let them have it. I saw a video where some white supremicists of all people had been cornered in a library by violent leftists who had been attacking them from the word get. What I found in this video was lacking is they gave the leftists an escape route. This was bad tactics on the part of the white supremicsts as they should have blocked the exists. During the fight that the leftists started by punching one of the white supremicists, the WP types though outnumbered by the leftists had stronger people. The leftists began to break ranks and flee but some stayed and tried to slash the WP types with knives and spray them with mace (the same one that threw the first punch) only to mace himself. I obviously being just someone who watched the video saw exactly where the WP types goofed up. Of course, i didn't expect them to be very swift when it came to dealing with there opposistion, they're not like me, I have about 7/8ths more brains than they do, which is an unfair advantage, but I have 15/16ths more than the leftists, so lets not be too harsh on them either. They just need to eat more fish (salmon) to help grow it.
Posted by: Andre at April 26, 2005 05:29 PM (7Xvze)
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Schapelle Corby,
Here is a forum to go to for information on her:
http://www.schapellecorby.com/index.php?
Those evil indonesians are trying to make her look like a slut. Read the recent accusation that the locals have made against her here:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=%2B%22schapelle+corby%22&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&datesort=1&x=wrt
Those people are the lowest form of trash and I don't see why we give them a dime for tsunami relief, they don't deserve a freshly laid turd for relief after this outrage.
Posted by: Andre at April 26, 2005 06:26 PM (7Xvze)
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http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/bringschapellehome/
Petition to bring schapelle back to her native country. Don't let these filthy animals continue with there bullshit.
Posted by: Andre at April 26, 2005 10:21 PM (7Xvze)
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Even those who called for her death initially changed there tune.
http://aussie_news_views.typepad.com/aussie_news_views/2005/04/schapelle_corby_17.html
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maggie gyllenhaal seems to look a little like
MISS PIGGY. Perhaps I am just feed up w/ liberal celebrities knocking the US, but willing to give up US tax payer money while never making any real material contributions themselves relative to the own wealth.
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April 22, 2005
Religion of Peace Roundup: (Oops!) Honey, I Killed an Infidel edition
It's the Religion of Peas Roundup!
Pakistani PM claims Islam is "religion of peace and moderation which abhors extremism". Doesn't consider Pakistani law which puts to death blasphemers, missionaries, or homosexuals extreme.
Moderate Muslim country of Malaysia sentencing people to jail for apostasy. See how moderate works in Islam? At least they weren't killed.
Zacharias Moussaoui tries to plea guilty on capital charges related to 9/11, lawyers claim he's insane in the membrane. Of course he's insane. He's a f*cking suicidal terrorist! Duh!! (via Slublog)
Spain begins trial of 9/11 telated terrorists. Each defendent could spend up to 40 years in jail for helping murder 3,000 people. Justice European style.
Shoe-bomber conspirator gets 13 years in prison. Ditto.
Pro-Syrian Lebanese PM promises May vote will not be rigged. [Insert laugh track here]
Catholic University bends over, hands KY to Mullahs, takes it like a good dhimmi.
Former Spanish President has new test for freedom in Islamic countries: When can I freely buy a beer in Tehran?
Scores of Shiite hostages still missing. You know, infidel, anyone who disagrees with my form of Islam.
Jane Galt on surgical warfare.
Domestic stuff and other linakge
VDH on lessons learned from Iraq: Do not look for logic and consistency in the Middle East where they are not to be found (Via Daily Pundit)
Take a Kennedy. Put him together with a Clinton. Indict him. What do you get? No. Media. Coverage.
Jane Fonda opens her big-mouth again in defense of traitors moving to Canada to escape service in Iraq.
Dean on the use of the word moderate.
Lileks gets Catholics better than many Catholics get Catholics (via Spoons).
A review of Microsoft's new blogging software.
Finally the Dread Pundit Bluto notices that we have a three-way going with Ann Coulter. Sorry man. I'm not into that kind of three-way!
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Your just begging to have the mouse sue you.
Posted by: Defense Guy at April 22, 2005 04:29 PM (jPCiN)
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Good stuff here. Lilek's beefs with the Church can be argued by any Catholic worth his salt. But damn it, he/she/its main point is right on the money.
Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at April 22, 2005 04:52 PM (d99JR)
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Dude, it's ANN COULTER. Just stay on your side and we'll be fine.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at April 22, 2005 05:06 PM (RHG+K)
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Dread Pundit: She's not Catholic? And I thought she was perfect.
Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at April 22, 2005 05:11 PM (d99JR)
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DPB BF's Fabio...just a theory.
Posted by: Mr. K at April 22, 2005 05:12 PM (YBs9F)
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Catholic University has been the bane of good Catholics in America forever. Ugh.
Posted by: Rightwingsparkle at April 22, 2005 08:13 PM (tLqLU)
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Fantastic roundup. I think. I haven't read them yet. I'll have an opinion when I sober up.
Posted by: Oyster at April 22, 2005 09:26 PM (YudAC)
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What is wrong with people moving to Canada?
Posted by: Collin Baber at April 23, 2005 05:01 AM (fufbw)
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The Bushian Warfare Cult has creosotely belched as it devoured the latest emergency funding meal. As the Commander of Theft's drunken hubris spins the giant ship of state into the whirlpool vortex of fiscal insanity, the jihadis of the world are rejoicing at our slavish desire to fight ourselves on their behalf. As our Damastean Cult of the Twisted Cross brutally binds our shrieking minds on seeking blind revenge, we dash our humanity on the rocks and sell our souls in worship of the oily Mammonnean desert beast.
Posted by: Collin Baber at April 23, 2005 07:38 AM (fufbw)
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creaseotely? Creas-ea-freaking-otely??
Posted by: Rusty at April 23, 2005 07:53 AM (HoSBk)
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Yeah. creosotely?
whirlpool vortex - redundant
Mammonnean - no such word
Damastean - no such word
Collin, is English your first language? Even the sentence structure is contorted. I can't even diagram it.
Posted by: Oyster at April 23, 2005 08:18 AM (YudAC)
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Oyster: He reads William Burroughs. In my mind, that explains all.
Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at April 23, 2005 09:05 AM (d99JR)
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Oh, Burroughs!? Now there's a man wallowing in the depths of depravity and despair. How depressing he is.
Posted by: Oyster at April 23, 2005 09:29 AM (YudAC)
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Nothing. Let them go.
There wouldn't be anything wrong with stripping them of citizenship either.
Posted by: Carlos at April 23, 2005 10:07 AM (8e/V4)
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Creosotely - like "Mr. Creosote" of Monty Python fame
Whirlpool vortex - every whirlpool has one - poetic license
Mammonean - trait of Mammon
Damastean - trait of Damastes
Posted by: Collin Baber at April 23, 2005 07:54 PM (fufbw)
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Well if these low life reptiles want to live in canada i say let them then if they ever want to return a say tell them to drop dead you choose to move to canada then you can get used to it and stay there for good and dont ever come back traitors since hanoi jane is also a traitor
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April 21, 2005
Religion of Peace Roundup: Viva Larry Summers Edition
Well at least somebody from Harvard is reading my work. Yeah, I know it's
my blog and not my
academic research, but I'll take what I can get. Some irreverent students at Harvard are
hawking a Viva Larry Summers shirt. But don't worry, they assure me that no communist revolutionaries were harmed in the making of these T-Shirts. I don't know why they e-mailed
me of all the bloggers out there. Especially since I noticed that Glenn Harlan Reynolds was recently seen out and about wearing one of their shirts.
It's the Religon of Peace and other tales of interest roundup. Since all trackbacks to me appear as a link to your site, just send a trackback to this post for some linky love.
Zarqawi attempts to assasinate Allawi. Zarqawi misses. Zarqawi lauds suicide bomber blowing himself up in order to kill the 'friends of Christians and Jews'. What's new?
Osama bin Laden to kiss and make up with the Europeans. Offers truce with Europe.
Missile downs civilian helicopter in Iraq, 11 dead--6 Americans. Kos readers react by celebrating death of Americans.
Traitor Hasan Akbar found guilty for murdering fellow soldiers just before the Iraq war. Like Muhammed Ali, Akbar decided it was against his religion to fight in Iraq. Unlike Ali, he decided to go ahead and kill some infidels as a means of protest.
U.S. forces ice 12 Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan. Way to go!
EU cancels meeting with Pakistani delegation because it included a Taliban sympathizer. Europe: not for us, not against us, just lukewarm.
Don't travel Iranian Air.
And speaking of our allies in the GWOT the Pakis: Pakistan decides NOT to send Army to Waziristan, you know, to find Osama bin Laden.
Phillipines to enter talks with MILF. (Note: MILF in this context is an Islamic seperatist group, not, well, you know, that other kind of MILF my readers are so familiar with.)
Islamic terrorists in Phillipines abduct 22 school children, kill police officer in stand off. Why is there no more press on this?
Battle raging in Mecca. Ultra extremist Islamists killed by only moderately extremist Islamists in Saudi Arabia.
NJ newspaper defines 'Jihad', plays dhimmi to the T.
Europe pitching a hissy fit because we want to protect our airspace from terrorists. Thanks, once again, Europe for being such great allies in the GWOT!
Bush hanging tough on Bolton nomination.
I [heart] my vagina. Yeah, and I'm kind of fond of it too.
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Rumor has it that Mr. Bin Laden cross-dresses to evade capture in Waziristan.
Posted by: Collin Baber at April 21, 2005 06:18 PM (FV4oJ)
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Thank you ever so much for that, Collin. Does the phrase "like a frightened turtle" give you an idea of the involuntary physical reaction your post provoked?
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at April 21, 2005 06:24 PM (RHG+K)
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Collin, I'll take good news wherever I can get it.
Let's hope he at least matches his purse to his shoes.
Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at April 21, 2005 06:57 PM (QSIH2)
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I believe that Charles Johnson has linked to a story about a video being made of the helo shoot-down that includes video of the insurgents shooting a survivor.
That is why the Iraqi insurgents are outside the protections of the Geneva Convention - their own war crimes.
Posted by: Robin Roberts at April 21, 2005 09:42 PM (xauGB)
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Whoever shot that crash survivor must be punished.
Posted by: Collin Baber at April 21, 2005 10:40 PM (FV4oJ)
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Check this everyone,
There is a really nasty cycle of violence raging over there in Iraq. The violence is wrecking that society and laying waste to the population. There is one chap on this site who is a decorated Marine Officer, a talented Mechanical Engineer, a sharp entrepreneur and more. He has some ideas he may want to share.
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Collin,
is that a bicycle or a motorcycle, and how is it wrecking that society.
Posted by: Carlos at April 22, 2005 12:07 AM (8e/V4)
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Hi Carlos,
You're right, my error. It should be called a "violence interlock".
Posted by: Collin Baber at April 22, 2005 12:31 AM (FV4oJ)
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violence is coming from one side only. Guess which one. hint: they shot down a helicopter yesterday.
The other side is just playing d.
Posted by: Carlos at April 22, 2005 12:46 AM (8e/V4)
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Dear Carlos,
That helicopter downing and the cold-blooded execution was revolting, I agree. Their retaliation excuse enraged me. Why were they inclined to do what they did?
Posted by: Collin Baber at April 22, 2005 12:58 AM (FV4oJ)
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then they helped a survivor to his feet to better execute him.
cycle schmycle
Posted by: Carlos at April 22, 2005 01:18 AM (8e/V4)
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Hi Carlos,
What they did was despicable, we and everyone else on Jawa would agree to the core. Did they say why they did it?
Posted by: Collin Baber at April 22, 2005 01:27 AM (FV4oJ)
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Yeah, they said that if democracy succeeds, they're toast.
Posted by: Carlos at April 22, 2005 01:29 AM (8e/V4)
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Hi Carlos,
You and I both agree those killers must be punished. Their propagandists claim it was some kind of retaliation - for what?
Posted by: Collin Baber at April 22, 2005 01:35 AM (FV4oJ)
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"Why were they inclined to do what they did?"
It's called Islam, Collin.
And yes, they should be brought to trial and punished.
Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at April 22, 2005 07:41 AM (x+5JB)
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According to CNN, some asshats that call themselves the Islamic Army of Iraq claimed responsibility and said it was in retaliation for Fallujah....Guess it sounds more palatable than "because we're homicidal degenerates and we don't like you very much"..
Posted by: disgruntledinca at April 22, 2005 08:32 AM (8DwXG)
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Every rightwing blog should line up to defend former clinton appointees.
Posted by: actus at April 22, 2005 08:57 AM (0HUw1)
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Why, did they figure out what 'is' means?
Posted by: Defense Guy at April 22, 2005 09:05 AM (jPCiN)
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Off topic, but related to terrorism. Read to the end.
A powerful story for all you WWII history buffs...
Sixty years ago, the United States military invaded Okinawa on April 1, 1945, the last bastion of the Japanese maritime empire that stood in the way of an assault on the mainland.
Operation Iceberg was perhaps the largest combined land-sea operation since Xerxes swept into Greece, involving more troops than at Normandy Beach — 1,600 ships, 183,000 infantry aand 12,000 aircraft. More than 110,000 skilled Japanese troops, commanded by the brilliant Gen. Ushijima and buttressed by another 100,000 coerced Okinawan irregulars, were ready for them.
Despite the most terrible naval barrage in history, and an ominous unopposed initial landing, almost everything imaginable then went wrong. The ravaged island was not to be declared secure until a little more than a month before the final Japanese surrender.
In just these few weeks before the end of the war, 12,520 Americans were killed — well over twice as many as were lost at the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. In all, more than 33,000 more American s were wounded and missing. Perhaps another 200,000 Japanese soldiers, Okinawan auxiliaries and civilians died in the inferno.
Luminaries were not exempt. The commander of the operation, Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner — the highestt-ranking American officer to die in the Pacific — perished. So did the celebrrated war correspondent Ernie Pyle. The notorious Isamu Cho, who had sought to overthrow the Japanese civilian government in 1931, committed suicide along with Gen. Ushijimi. Some of the most gripping American war writing — E.B. Sleddge's "With the Old Breed" and William Manchester's "Goodbye, Darkness" — grew out of this hell at Okinawa.
Almost every controversy of the present war has an antecedent at Okinawa. Faulty intelligence? The War Department insisted there were no more than 60,000 enemy troops on the island — not three timees that number who had bored into the coral with sophisticated reinforced concrete bunkers.
Suicide bombers were vastly underestimated. No one ever imagined that there were 10,000 Japanese bombers and fighters committed to the campaign — and perhaps as many as 4,000 kamikazes slated for suicide attacks.
The result was the greatest losses in the history of the American Navy — 36 ships sunk, 368 hit, 5,000 sailors killed. Anger arose almmost immediately: Why no accurate intelligence; why no armored aircraft carrier decks; why no suitable fighter screens; why the need to post off the island as sitting ducks — why the need to invade at all? Why, why, why?
Meanwhile, the Americans hit the Shuri Line, using head-on charges into fixed defenses — the Marine way of bullet, flame and bayonet. Thousands fell — including my namesake Victor Hanson of the 6th Marine Division — during the last hours of the last day of the successful effort to take Sugar Loaf Hill.
We of quieter times lament the dropping of two atomic bombs. But those who lived though the nightmare of Okinawa — far more killed than on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined — were thankful that Okinawa was not to be soon repeated on a scale 20 times worse on the Japanese mainland.
Most Americans of that late summer 1945 did not censure their politicians for the use of such horrific bombs to stop the carnage of the Pacific War. More often they were perplexed that we went ahead with Okinawa when the weapons to prevent such a traditional bloodbath were on the immediate horizon.
Are there any lessons from the nightmare of Okinawa for the present age? For all the horror, stupidity — and sheer courage — of the campaign, American firepower, training, adaptability and bravery prove eventually a match for zealots and suicide bombers, whether on Okinawa or in Fallujah.
For all the talk of the softness and decadence of modern Western man — whether the hot-rodders and soda jerks of the late 1930s or our own Jasons and Jeremys with rings in their ears and peroxide hair — the free American soldier proves far more lethal than those who blow themselves up.
Operational mistakes and intelligence gaffes are the stuff of all wars — whether the failure to count accurately the enemy on Sugar Loaf Hill or in the Sunni Triangle. Yet victory, then and now, goes to those who in their calm determination press on and thus make the fewest errors rather than none at all.
Despite heartbreak at our present losses, nothing in the three years of this present conflict, from its first day on Sept. 11 to the present terrorism in Iraq, compares with the carnage of those few weeks on Okinawa — for all its melancholy, still a hallowed Americann victory.
Perhaps we wonder now whether a presently divided American people can still overcome fascism, suicide bombers and beheaders to foster freedom in an autocratic landscape. In answer, we should look back 60 years ago to what we went through in Okinawa and the subsequent humane society and decent democracy that followed in Japan and sigh, "Yes, we can and will again."
Posted by: youngdude at April 22, 2005 09:23 AM (x+5JB)
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i wana say that what happen in all the world wheather in muslim or forwegin countires it is elly bad it is not just bad ,it is awful,but we canot say that all of that is related to ISLAM
islam is not an identical for terrorism
there something that madeand say that muslim did it but for your knoweldge as soon as he did it ,he is not muslim any more
terrorism is aresult of the environment which all of the pepole live in it ,violence,cheating and so on,plz whem you write about terrorism see all side and try to meet some muslim pepole in chat and so on so will u see them as aterrorist?
thanks
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April 19, 2005
Afternoon Reads: Club Med Gaza Edition
Israelly Cool thinks Shimon Perez's notion of a Club Med style resort in Gaze is, er, interesting.
More claims of U.S. soldiers abusing poor innocent Iraqis debunked by the Dread Pundit Bluto.
Tim at Opinion Bug wonders what 'the true face of Islam' really is.
Collin Baber (yes, THE Collin Baber) sends me this Guardian article about the ordeal of British journalist Frank Gardner as he watched a colleague murdered in cold blood and then how he is shot 9 times by al Qaeda operatives. Here is the most disgusting thing from The Religion of Compassion:
They didn't help at all. To me this was extraordinary, they offered no reassurance, no glass of water, no blanket, no cushion, nothing. They were discussing the cartridge cases around. They were saying, 'Look, I think he's been shot, has he been shot, yes, he has, look at the bullet cases there,' as if I was just an exhibit in a museum. It was bizarre because I've had so much hospitality in the Middle East, so much kindness.
The Cedar Revolution has it's own blog. And that Joumanna Nasr is a total babe! .Thanks Totten
Bill Dauterieve wonders if maybe the Germans are suffering from post-genocidal depression disorder.
Jason at Texas Rainmaker on the use of the judicial filibuster and Richard Paez.
Confederate Yankee and I are discussing openning our own tax-exempt organization. Why not? If illegal aliens can have one why not bloggers?
Mark at Decision '08 has some pretty bad taste in music. But is it possible to love the art and hate the artist? Especially when the artist is a loud mouth left-wing supporting idiot.
Carpe Bonum thinks the WSJ has it all wrong on passports for day-trippers. I think he's probably right.
More on Steve and Virginia Pearcy, left-wing idiots.
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That Guardian Article really brings the reader face to face with the brutal nature of the Death Cult followed by the Bin Laden Groupies like Mr. Zarqawi.
http://www.juancole.com/essays/qaeda.htm describes how they are brainwashed into becoming homicidal nihilists.
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April 04, 2005
Good Morning Blogosphere! (Updated)
Here's what I'm reading this morning:
More on American companies still helping terrorists. Related.
Pop quiz, cowboy. Al Jazeera runs positive story on Pope. What is reaction of salafists, wahabbis, and other radicals? One guess.
Giuliana Sgrena changing stories yet again. Not surprising.
Blame Bush. For everything. Seriously.
Frequent commenter and friend of The Jawa Report, See Dubya, is guest blogging over at Patterico's place. Cool.
Is Oliver Willis white? Yes.
Terri Schiavo poll rigged. You mean the question you ask may influence the answer given?
Congrats. It took me like 6 months to reach that mark...(grumble, grumble)
Tim's father has had a stroke. Please include him in your prayers.
Sources reveal that something big is going to happen in the blogosphere tomorrow. Ask yourself this question, though: Can bloggers help the spread of democracy? Details later.
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Sgrena's story has changed - to that of being driven down a secured road firmly under U.S. control. Why was she fired upon then? Who did the shooting? Too many questions unanswered. I'm waiting for the five Ws.
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Perhaps this make some of you realize that Al Jazeera is not run by terrorists. The people who got pissed off about their Pope coverage were...drumroll...radicals. The MAJORITY of the arab world would disagree with them, which is why they are called...wait for it...radicals.
Interestingly enough, this situation is strangly familiar to republicans complaining about CBS and democrats complaining about Fox News. Perhaps we will open our eyes and see how silly this is.
Posted by: Jim at April 04, 2005 10:47 AM (jcSwY)
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Al Jazeera has taken something of a turn since the Iraqi elections. I need to post on this, but there is a definite change in how stories are contextualized in al Jazeera.
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Sgrena comments that she thinks "it was because of the anti-war coalition in Italy she was freed and it just shows what can be done when you are organised" ARHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I SAY IT AGAIN ARHHHHHHHHHHH
This woman is really pissing me off as a matter of fact
there have been anti-war protests in the UK and Margaret Hussan did more for the people of Iraq than she could ever hope to but the fact is Mrs Hussan was still murdered. So that puts paid to that bullshit!
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More likely it was because of that brave man and the fact that money exchanged hands.
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