$2 Billion a year well spent...UGH!

RoPMA

Please. Will you people just STFU and STFD?

Thanks.

Lovely image.
Nice thongs.

A crippled sheikh has awakened the nation, when will we act?’

Please act....and when you do, be so kind as to obligingly cluster in one plac and assume that the infidels wouldn't dare bomb you......

Saruman must be slipping.

That batch of Uruk-Hai looks very weak compared to his usual standards.

I guess the poster was too small to finish the thought, so let me. " ‘A crippled sheikh has awakened the nation, when will we act like civilized people who can stop hating the Jews long enough to grow the F*ck up and start building something like a modern civilization?’

Stand By... caps a'comin'

#6 V the K

Stand By... caps a'comin'

The answer to the question "How do you keep a lizaroid in suspense?"

when will we act?

When are we going to act on the issue of the 2 billion dollars we flush down the Porcelain God of the Nile every year?

I suppose we could start a divestment movement, but there's not much to divest from, is there?

Why is the woman in the middle wearing a pink headscarf?

She's a rebel & she'll never be any good?

I'm sure this is exactly how these muslim fucks reacted when palis tossed Leon Klinghoffer off that hijacked ship?

FASTER PLEASE!!!

What is comforting is knowing the futility of these "little darlings" gesture. "When shall we act ?" Whats this, bunch of wannabe thespians?

Looks like quite a "target rich" environment to me.

OT: my wash post news flag just alerted me that Condi will testify, under oath, in public.

I am so not sure how I feel about that-- what's she gonna say?-- "sorry, that's classified, sorry, i addressed that in closed session, sorry i can't speak to that in open session...."???

Somewhat OT, but apparently, Condi Rice and others willtestify under oath
This should be very intersting ...

You would be mad too if all your men? were nothing but cripple's. I divorce thee wench, I divorce thee wench, be gone wench!

Did anyone see that PBS program "The New Immigrants" last night?

Steve James of "Hoop Dreams" directed the documentary, which focuses in part on a female Palestinian immigrant to the US. During the time before he marriage and move to the US, the doucmentary followed her arround on her "typical school day" where she had to take 3 to 4 bus rides to get to "University" (which looked more like a maddrassah) in Jerusalem.

"Cry me an effin' river," I said out loud. "Maybe if your people didn't try to blow people up every day it woun't be so damn difficult!"

Interestingly though, they never explained why, as 90% of the women in the class were wearing hijab, she wasn't wearing a headscarf. At all. Ever. (Granted, the male instructor of the class seemed barely able to contain his disdain.)

Very strange.

Of course, the liberals will try to make Condi look guilty of something. I am confident she will do just fine.

From the hypocrisy files:

Senate Dems to Block All Nominations

WASHINGTON — All White House nominees will be blocked. That's right: every single one.

That's the word from Sen. Charles Schumer's office, which released a statement on Friday saying that Senate Democrats plan "to hold nominations until the White House commits to stop abusing the advise and consent process."

Schumer's release followed a statement by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., on the Senate floor Friday, in which he vowed to make life difficult for the president's nominees as long as Bush keeps using his recess appointment power to install the ones Democrats oppose.

His constitutionally authorized recess appointment power.

This from the same people abusing the filibuster, and blocking up-or-down votes.

Remember stuff like this the next time you hear dhimmicrats whining about the Constitution.

They hate it, and only abide by it when it suits their purposes. The rest of the time, they ignore and manipulate it.

Didn't Clarke not testify under oath a few years ago, citing executive privilege?

The man is a disgusting hypocrite.

#18

Good catch, Thom.

Seems that our friends at OPEC are not doing a real good job of stabilizing the oil market.

Retail Gasoline Rises to Another Record, AAA Says

Female circumcision tends to make the recipient(s)
very angry.

#19 Thom

Yeah, back in 99, during the whole fiasco over Y2K. They kept demanding his testimony under oath, but Clinton refused to allow it by citing "executive priviledge."

W plays poker. Condi's testemony will now have a higher profile than if she had testified straight away. Condi will also have a higher profile.

OT - Chicago, L.A. towers were next targets

LONDON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.

Those plans were aborted mainly because of the decisive U.S. response to the New York and Washington attacks, which disrupted the terrorist organization's plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, according to transcripts of his conversations with interrogators.

This can't be true. The WoT is a failed policy, according to Ketchup Stud.

prestigious how ? is it becuase they spend 4 years learing to excuse terrorism and blame the west for all thier ills while lesser schools only teach you to make the bombs ?

They look like extras in Woody Allen's sperm scene from "Everything you always wanted to know about sex..."

Hmmm. They're all wearing white. Did they get tired to being compared to Terry Jones in Life of Brian

#27 Freaky Boy - LOL!

I think this picture is really very sad.

Muslim means failure.

Gymnast,

No, not thespians. It's obvious they are from Lebanon - you know, Lesbians.

1. "A pink hijab! Blasphemous! I will whack you many times on the head with my Quran for this abomination."

2. A protest just isn't a protest without large groups of humorless, nonorgasmic women

3. Fatima reluctantly admitted, "Yeah, I'd do Rantisi... but I'd be thinking of Rumsfeld."

4. Well, on the plus side, it is rare to see that many college girls in one place without anyone screaming "I'm so wasted."

5. "I hate these rallies; they're so full of phonies. What say we go off somewhere and get to know each other?"

6. ISM practical joke #413. Get the mob to chant "Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!"

7. "Damn. Madeleine Albright and Hanan Ashrawi sure can mosh!"

8. Look at all of 'em... wearing white before Memorial Day. Send in Beverly Suthpin.

9. Martha Stewart and Ken Lay find the perfect disguises for their daring escape.

10. "Oh, come on, Brian, let's get to the stonin' "

11. The re-enactment went awry when the actor playing Yassin had a "wardrobe malfunction" and died with his shame exposed to the world.

12. 'Ow to speak Palestinian: "Erotic catfight"

Obviously, those holding up the placards are Jooish spies, trying to defame Islam. Obviously.

Here's some ideas on what we could do with the $2 billion dollars we have been giving Egypt every year (that's ten percent of our entire foreign aid budget, boys and girls):

1. Allocate the entire amount to building civic and democratic institutions in Iraq, especially secular schools and universities.

2. Give tax breaks to companies that invest in countries who actually support US interests in the region (Israel).

3. The Saddam Option - use it to bribe $2 billion dollars worth of Egyptian officials and military officers, giving us de facto control of the country.

4. Use it to fund a regional Alliance of Democratic Nations, loosely modeled on NATO. (Eventually, defund the UN and spend our money here, instead).

5. Buy every poor slob in Arkansas a Monster Truck. Better than what we spend it on now.

How Egypt will benefit from our "tough love":

1. End US subsidy of their Marxist-primitivist, state-controlled "economy", encouraging rational economics.

2. End US subsidy of their Marxist-primitivist "military", which is good for nothing but IDF target practice anyway.

3. Liberate Egypt from US-Zionist "neo-colonialism" disguised as foreign aid! Everybody wins!

Dennis Prager cited the following passage from the prophet Joel. It's an appropriate response from the civilized world to this nonsense.

Joel 3:9-17
9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare a war; rouse the mighty men! Let all the soldiers draw near, let them come up! 10 Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."

#25 brianstien,
Those plans were aborted mainly because of the decisive U.S. response to the New York and Washington attacks, which disrupted the terrorist organization's plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, according to transcripts of his conversations with interrogators.

It seems more likely that their change in plans is a direct result of the West's continuing diplomatic efforts in the region. Clinton was really beginning to talk a lot more forcefully and effectively to these people; the militants were just about to give up on all their freedom fighting until GWB came in and screwed everything up.

This is very similar to the way Libya finally gave in to our tough, exhaustive and persistent diplomacy, even though they were very angry about our immoral aggression in Iraq.

/extreme sarcasm

A little early morning Photoshop, brought to you by the RoP and the letter B.

Captions are good, but I also eagerly await input from our Photoshop guru minions. Those signs cry out for images of Elvis, dogs playing poker, etc.

Or, considering the apparel in evidence, maybe banners extolling the virtues of Clorox, when your misogynist-wear must be at its whitest.

Time to stop the payments to Egypt and end ALL imigration from there. Hell, let's do it with all of the Anti-Semite states in the Middle East.

I have no links to support this, but I believe that the $2 billion annual payment to Egypt allows the U.S. to send nuclear subs through the Suez Canal and U.S. warplanes to fly over Egypt.

I hope I'm not giving away any military secrets here.

#36 RIP Ford ---

Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

RIP Ford, thank you. I should have known someone was already hard at work on the issue!

Could somebody help me out? I've heard varying accounts as to whether bin Laden had engineering training or not. While I realize that the family business was construction, I recently read in "Inside Al Qaeda" by Rohan Gunaratna that it was a misconception that he had been trained in engineering at university. So, is it true, or false? Thanks.

V the K:

A protest just isn't a protest without large groups of humorless, nonorgasmic women

That reminds me of good old Rudyard Kipling:

The Heathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone,
He won't obey no orders unless they is his own.
The Heathen in his blindness must end where he began,
But the backbone of the Left is the Nonorgasmic Woman.

OT, but I thought you'd all want to hear this one:

On Saturday I had lunch with a young lady friend of mine. At one point the conversation turned to all the reading I've been doing on the subject of the RoP. When I mentioned the root meaning of the word Islam ("submission"), she was surprised.

She thought it actually meant "peace."

I wonder how many more of her generation have been led to believe this swindle...

#35 DB

Yep. The terrorists would be eating out of our hands, if only Dubya had signed Kyoto.

Rip Ford #36,

I nearly soaked my keyboard with Java! Very good!
ROTFLMAO
(If only that were the case with these women ... sigh)

More cap's:

a) Do I hear 30 for the Yassin wheelchair relic? 30? Do I hear 40? You in the back. Going once, twice. Sold! To the woman showing the green Koran.

Isn't Hamas an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, and hasn't said organization been banned in Egypt since they assassinated Sadat, and doesn't Egypt exercise heavy control over its people and the media?

So why would this demonstration take place, and why would we be seeing it? Unless it's just about hating Jews.

Oh.

Great news from three seperate fronts in the WOT:

[Link: belmontclub.blogspot.com...]

Hundreds of female muslim university students?

Something about this picture seems a bit fishy...

Marie Brenner has a disturbing article in this month's Vanity Fair (Keira Knightly on cover) titled Unveiling France's Muslim Problem. Muslim girls and women in France do not have a snowball's shot in hell thanks to Islam and no thanks to the French government. There is no such thing as a non-traditional Muslim family in France, again thanks to the bang up job the government has done assimilating Muslims.

Europe is doomed.

#40 V the K
#41 Belize042
#46 Recovering Romantic f.k.a. Gang of One

I have my moments. :P

#9

Why is the woman in the middle wearing a pink headscarf?

She lost a bet.

#31 V the K:

Fatima reluctantly admitted, "Yeah, I'd do Rantisi... but I'd be thinking of Rumsfeld."

Truer thoughts have never been rendered on this blog, lol!

#36 RIP Ford:

"I'm lovin' it!" ** batump-bump **

Per V the K's thought above, how about adjusting your fabulous PhotoShop to include an homage to Rummy?

#30 Trixie ect. Hmmm. I think they are from Egypt which would make them Egyptshitz thespian wannabees. However it is possible that some of these people are indeed from Lebanon which would make this a mixed group of Egyptshitz and lesbion thespians. Is this gonna be a Buzbee Burkley spectacular with a syncronized whining chorus of Nile Maidens performing amidst fountain rising from the setteling pond of a three stage lagoon? This looks like a typical Al-Ahzar U Glee Club production to me. The crippled blind sheik angle does show some talent for plot though, in a perverted sort of way. Lets see if they have enough talent to choreograph a "dancing wheelchairs" sequence to the music from the 1812 Ovature.

Doesn't look like it's difficult finding a date to bring to Pig Night at the Tri-Lizzle Frat House.

Yasser Arafat: "Rantisi, brother, how is my scarf holding up"

Rantisi: "it is good, I cannot see your ugly, errr, beautiful smile, The Zionists will never suspect us here at the Muslem Lilith fair!"

I wonder if these women even had a choice about holding those signs.

#54 sharona

Roger. Gimme a couple of minutes...

you are all racists who need to grow up and ask yourself why would humen beings become so uterly filled with hate? But then i surpose that there just muslim animals who should be shot Yer that sounds easyier then trying to really explain there hate and try to resolve it peacefully.

The borg...

Let's see, women with dazed expressionless faces, wondering the streets at the direction of demented powerful exploitive men. If you just subsititute the picture of Sheik Yasin with Lenin, Castro, or John Kerry and you have the daily proceedings at your local USA university. Though, I do find the Egypt women much more attractive and better dressed.

#16

Was couch surfing when I came across it. Watched it for 2 minutes, had to go vomit, and barely made it back to change the channel.

REALLY loved the part where they were taking this old lady across a field that looked down upon some settlement's streets.

"What is that red light?" she asked the young girl.

"That's a stop light for the streets" says the young girl.

"Oh" says the old lady, trying to play fucking stupid. "I remember when we used to farm that land."

And it was at that point, I had to change it.

Oh come on, what do you expect? Israel keep all these poor Egyptians under a brutal occupation since 1967 - they are frustrated. Their support for terror is legitimate.

[whispers]

What?

[whispers]

What do you mean Egypt (the African side) had never been occupied by Israel?

/sacarsm

#21 T. Jefferson

Jerry Taylor, Natural Resources expert at CATO, wrote about OPEC late last week. He asks why OPEC has defenders when they're operating in a free market as a fixed market force.

"truth"

We covered all that the last time you were here.
GAZE

Great photo. I wonder if appeasers Susan Saradon or Barbra Streisand ever fancy themselves wearing one of these.

#60

Huh? What?

#57 John Gibbon:

Rantisi: "it is good, I cannot see your ugly, errr, beautiful smile, The Zionists will never suspect us here at the Muslem Lilith fair!"

A Muslim Lilleth Fair! Can you imagine? That is just too damn funny.

Please no one feed the troll at #60. If that post is any insight into his/her debating skills, it is really really a huge waste of time.

#66 JD

We covered all that the last time you were here.

Thank you...it really does get old, doesn't it? SSDD.

#60 you want the truth ? You can't spell worth shit

Let's see, women with dazed expressionless faces, wondering the streets at the direction of demented powerful exploitive men.

CNN is auditioning for anchors?

#60

you are all racists who need to grow up and ask yourself why would humen beings become so uterly filled with hate? But then i surpose that there just muslim animals who should be shot Yer that sounds easyier then trying to really explain there hate and try to resolve it peacefully.

One word answers your question: Anti-semitism.

My question is: When are they going to admit they have this problem and how are they going to resolve it, without killing Jews in the process?

"never forget

LGF: 9/11 Stories
LGF: Tilly's Story
The Black Day
Remembering 9/11
Sept. 11: A Memorial
Virtual Tour: World Trade Center
We Support You

Palestinians Celebrate 9/11

Middle East Maps

Myths & Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestine Facts

An Engineered Tragedy: Statistical Analysis of Casualties in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Palestinian Child Abuse Slideshow

Victims of Saddam"

nice two sided view your remembering there

#60 truth

Spellcheck, dude. And maybe it's time to change the bong water.

I think the woman in the front left looks a lot like Mel Brooks.
But that's just my opinion.

I think after the photo-op they all met at Starbuck's to debrief, or would it be deburka ???

OT

It looks like all the Chinese asskissing the French have been doing is about to pay off:

France expects to win China high-speed rail deal

SEOUL, March 30 (AFP) - Nicole Fontaine, deputy minister for French industry, said Tuesday she expected China to choose French giant Alstom to build a high-speed rail link between Beijing and Shanghai by the year-end.

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?su bchannel_id=25&story_id=6124

OT Heads-up

I've thought Larry Lessig was a jackass but this takes the cake. He's now decided that the weapons of the future are so scary that we should start surrendering now.
[Link: wired.com...]

THe penultimate paragraph miakes it pretty clear where he gets his cues.

#74 Maybe when they can stop defeding themselves and retaliating from attacks they will be able to and i'm not anti semimtic im anti israel
ps sorry about my abismal spelling.

Very OT - just had to share this:

Hmmm, who would I rather have leading us in the WoT.

This man or this boy.

nice zipper pull, dick

#75 comedy

nice two sided view your remembering there

Who the hell said we have to have a 2 sided view?

#60 truth-

Racist in the sense that one group has made it their avowed raison d'etre to push another group into the sea? Or racist in the sense that hate of one group (for no other reason than they are in that other group) is fully indoctrinated from infancy? Oh, I know! It's that OTHER racism where the government of one group actually sponsors rallies, where violence against the other group is born.

I know you CAN'T be talking about the racism of state sponsored terror where one group is tired of having its citizens blown up and shot by the other group, so the leader of the first group takes decisive action.

/sarcasm

Remember:

If it's not, in fact, a tiny minority then it's Israel's fault and America's fault for riling up the otherwise peaceful masses who only wanted to be left alone before the zionist/imperialist aggressors forced them towards radicalism.

#70 RWC,

...I was just going to say...I can't even understand the paragraph. I can only pick out words like 'hate' 'racist' etc...

Next try at a V the K caption:

"Melanoma was NOT an option for these burka clad women as even the signs provided a shade effect to their blasphemously exposed faces!"

Troll Mad-Libs

"you are all shoehorns who need to drink and ask yourself why would pine cones become so uterly filled with saliva? But then i surpose that there just muslim killbots who should be married to Ben Affleck Yer that sounds prettier then trying to really cross-dress there hate and try to fart peacefully."

Get outa my way!
I want a hit off of whatever #60 is smokin'.

My ten-year old granddaughter saw this photo today on my p.c. while she was watching over my shoulder. She asked me if the women were “nuns”. I told her they were Muslim “holy ladies”. (I’m so bad that sometimes I can’t even stand myself.) My granddaughter was born in Honduras and has only been in America for about five years. She doesn’t have a real grasp about many religions, and doesn’t really practice any. Then she asked me if the pictures they were carrying were of G_d. I told her “no”, but that the people holding those pictures do get all confused about that. Then she said to me that if it was G_d, he looked an awful lot like the “bad guy” in the Lord of the Rings movies. Before she went back to her games and snacks, she told me (once again) that she was so glad she was in America now and didn’t have to do anything that makes you wear funny clothes and do stupid stuff. I just let it all go and said to myself, “Hooray for you Jenny; from a ten-year old comes simple wisdom”.

truth = pete from yesterday

The re-enactment went awry when the actor playing Yassin had a "wardrobe malfunction" and died with his shame exposed to the world.

Awwwwwwww...Thanks a lot. I really needed that visual before lunch.

OT - looking for advice

I'm thinking of ditching Explorer as my web browser. Does anyone have comments on the relative merits of mozilla, firebird, and opera?

Grandma (#82)

Hooray for Jenny!
Out of the mouths of babes...

Gymnast,

Egyptshitz and lesbion thespians

THAT was funNEEE!

Best giggle I've had all day and now my boss thinks I've lost a few more marbles!

V the K

You are the reason my other boss wonders what I do all day!

Keep 'em coming, toots!

grandma:

Out of the mouths of babes can come the most profound and, as you said, simple truths. Jenny sounds like an amazing girl, and I am glad to know that she is here, where she can be free to learn what she wants to and can share her thoughts and opinions with you.

I go away for a couple of minutes and y'all wreck the place, what a mess.

Rummy 4 Eva

It's along the same lines as my first post, so, don't expect too much.

Those twin simians up front make a strong case for the burqa. I wouldn't fuck either of them with Hanan Ashrawi's dick.

Depilitate!

#96: LMAO!!!!!

#9 Smit

Why is the woman in the middle wearing a pink headscarf?

Oh come on, you've never accidentally washed a red sock with all your whites? ;-p

#92 Thom™

I went to Mozilla for a bit, but it has some nasty bugs that would make reading LGF a pain. I went back to IE.

#75 comedy

nice two sided view your remembering there

Two sides. We're on one of them, they're on the other. Pick one.

V the K:

CNN is auditioning for anchors?

Those 'chicks' over at CNN are something else, aren't they? There's one over there who is new, Robin Meade, used to be in Chicago, and she's a nice woman and all, but the make-up? Why does CNN make their anchorwomen where so much makeup? They look like "Price is Right" bimbos with all that gloss & highlighter! And I like to use a little of both, mind you, but less is more ...

Robin Meade

Terrorists try to recruit child, 15, as suicide bomber

Take note, "truth".

We see both sides, both good and evil. We choose "good." Or is it, "goodly?"

RIP Ford:

Awesome! Thanks for my new wallpaper! (I esp. love that they are worshipping the personna of Rummy's "1000 Figting Styles")

#105 sharona

Not a problem. LOL.

His Kung Fu is strong.

#9 smit,

Why is the woman in the middle wearing a pink headscarf? Why is the woman in the middle wearing a pink headscarf? She's a rebel & she'll never be any good?

No, no. Her son simply forgot his lucky red cap in the laundry. She's not a rebel: she's far worse. She's the Homer Simpson of the bunch.

OT

VIENNA, March 30 (Reuters) - Leading OPEC producer Saudi Arabia on Tuesday faced opposition from its two main Gulf allies in the oil cartel for plans to forge ahead with April supply curbs.

Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi made a strong case ahead of Wednesday's meeting of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to carry out supply cuts, agreed in February for implementation from April 1.

But he faces an unexpectedly robust challenge from the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, fellow Gulf Arab producers who normally share Riyadh's line on oil policy.

Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd al-Sabah said on his departure for Vienna that he backed a UAE proposal for postponing the April cuts.

Analysts said the rare split across OPEC's core Gulf Arab membership suggests the United States, having failed to budge Saudi, now is focusing diplomatic efforts aimed at securing lower prices on Kuwait and the UAE.

"The UAE and Kuwait are the guys that the U.S. can count on now," said Roger Diwan of Washington consultancy PFC Energy. .....

UPDATE 7-Saudi faces Gulf showdown on OPEC oil cut

Holding up the books like that reminds me of something:

Mao's Little Red Book

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

#103 --- Colt, here is the really, really evil part.

Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi said it is unfair to generalize, arguing that there had been only isolated attempts to recruit youngsters. She said Palestinian society, which has supported suicide bombings to a large degree, would have to do some soul-searching, but that the causes of despair - Israel's occupation and military strikes - must not be overlooked.

Only isolated attempts? Well, gee that's all right then. And notice that without the word "but," the LLL and the PPP would be completely unable to say "terrorism is wrong."

OT again
Three U.S. Passenger Jets Targeted by Bomb Threats

She said Palestinian society, which has supported suicide bombings to a large degree, would have to do some soul-searching,

They have approximately the same chance of finding one as O.J. has of finding "the real killers."

OK then.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Security officials aided by sniffer dogs swept through three U.S. passenger jets on Tuesday after they were targeted by bomb threats, authorities said.
The aircraft, all operated by Northwest Airlines, included one that arrived at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport on Tuesday morning on a flight from Miami, spokesmen for Northwest and the Transportation Security Administration, told Reuters.

The plane in Detroit was still being searched about two hours after it landed, according to TSA spokeswoman Yolanda Clark, who added that no explosive device had been found aboard the aircraft.

"So far these threats have not turned out to be credible," Clark told Reuters. She said she was unaware of the source of the bomb threats but added that authorities were "taking every precaution available."

The second and third flights, from Memphis to Miami and Los Angeles to Detroit, were stopped before takeoff and were being searched by Northwest and federal officials, Northwest said in a statement.

#87 V the K

Troll Mad-Libs

LOL!

This is way OT and I apologize. Please email me if you have opinions on this: I am doing a paper (book review) on "The Bible Unearthed" by I. Finkelstein and N.A. Silberman. Their thesis is that virtually the whole Jewish Bible was written (fabricated) during the reign of Josiah, ca. 700 BC. They cite deconstructionists who claim that virtually every book of the bible was written by "someone else, at some other time." I'm sorry, I'm just not buying it. Any thoughts?
And now back to our regularly scheduled program....

Government spin-doctors, academics, corporations and the media tell us that capitalism works, that Iraq is better off after the war, and that Britain is a democracy. Yet the experience of millions of people contradicts this.

They don’t see how a system that leaves 1 billion people living on less than a $1 a day is working. They don’t see how, with over 25,000 dead, more dying every day, and no democracy, the Iraq war was a success.
They don’t understand how Britain can be democratic when time after time the government ignores the wishes of the people.
That’s why millions across Britain and the world have resisted. They have protested, demonstrated and gone on strike.
They have also gathered together to talk about what’s happening in the world, debate the best strategies for resistance, the experience and lessons of past struggles, and crucially what the alternative is.
Marxism 2004 will see these debates and discussions continue. It brings together from across Britain and the world activists from many unions and social movements, speakers, writers and campaigners. Over the course of the event they will take part in over 250 separate meetings, forums, debates, discussions and cultural events.
Why not come along, ask questions, seek answers, and meet other activists?

Uhm...alright...is #116 spam? Or an honest post? Because either way, it gives me a good laugh.

#116

Sure./

#60 Truth

Obviously, No Child Left Behind is not working. Charles, a spell-check option please? Label it Trolls.

#31 V the K

Great stuff. Thanks.

I wonder if the KKK chicks pictured have studied that watershed experience in pan-Arabism: The description in The Six Days of War of Nasser's poison gas drops on the Yemenis and Saudis.

OT

Alistair Cooke Dead at 95

#93, J.D. and #95, Sharona

Jenny is my “stolen” granddaughter. She is the daughter of my son’s second wife. I often tell her that she is the only grandchild I have that took 15, rather than the usual 9, months to get. Her mother came here as an illegal alien, caught my son’s eye (he’s very discriminating about women) and have been married for more than seven years. Now, my daughter-in-law has a good job, is working on a degree from the local community college, serious about applying for U.S. citizenship, and cooks delicious food that I can’t even pronounce. She and Jenny will make a visit this summer to Honduras to see family. Jenny confided to me recently that she is very afraid that something bad might happen while she’s there and she won’t be allowed to come back to America. All I can do is be supportive and assure her that no matter what happens, Grandma will get her back! It is so eye-opening and enlightening for me to be close to a little kid who has such a feel for the world as it really is and knows that what we have here is the best it gets. G_d bless America!

#117 Targetpractice etc.

Maybe it's RWC getting his punk groove on.

Interesting blurb today:

**Sunday Could Become a Day Off in Israel

Likud MK, Leah Ness, is proposing a new bill aimed to shorten the Israeli
workweek from 5.5 to 4.5 days by making Sunday a day off, MAARIV reported. The
bill recommends barring the opening of shops and companies on Saturdays, turning
Sunday into a day of shopping and entertainment. "In reality, the 1951 Work and
Rest Hours Law, which prohibits work on Saturdays, is non-existent, so that
Saturday, which was supposed to be the day of rest, turned into the day of
shopping", Ness said. "This law can significantly improve the quality of life
for all of us". If turned into a law, the legislation will convert the workweek
to four nine-hour days (Monday-Thursday). Friday, which for many Israelis is a
day off, will become a 5-hour workday with Sundays off. The school system will
also adopt the 5-day schedule with longer school days. MK Nahum Langental of the
National Religious Party proposed a similar plan in the last Knesset.
--------------------------------------------------
So, despite what has been going on, Israelis continue to try to figure out how to improve and enjoy life better. Contrast that with the Paleonazis death cult of destruction.

Al Ahzar, and its notoriously infamous fatwas and support for terrorism , is a splendid demonstration of the double standard rule applied to the muslim world by the democratic West.

Almost noone dares to make a link between the statements issued at Al Azhar and the true face of Islam. Eventhough it is considered by all as the most prominent religious authority within the islamic world.

Could we imagine, for just a second, the Pope or the Dean of Cambridge, condoning mass murder, calling people to exterminate infidels etc...?

#116 WAY OT, idiot. This is the anti-Islamist BBS

"Why not come along, ask questions, seek answers, and meet other activists"

Man, the colostomy bags are going to get emptied that weekend...

#116,

It brings together from across Britain and the world activists from many unions and social movements, speakers, writers and campaigners.

You wouldn't happen to know exactly where and when these people would be meeting, would you? Longitude and latitude numbers would be extremely helpful...

#92 Thom:

Apologies in advance for the chauvinism, but:

Get a Mac and use Safari!

#116 cometogroucho

They don’t see how, with over 25,000 dead, more dying every day, and no democracy, the Iraq war was a success.

Oh, for the good old Saddam days, with pure democracy (100% turnout, all for Saddam), and no one ever died. Those were the days, my friend.

#116:

They don’t see how, with over 25,000 dead, more dying every day, and no democracy, the Iraq war was a success.

Where do you get your numbers?

They don’t see how a system that leaves 1 billion people living on less than a $1 a day is working. They don’t see how, with over 25,000 dead, more dying every day, and no democracy, the Iraq war was a success. They don’t understand how Britain can be democratic when time after time the government ignores the wishes of the people.

They don't understand why all the good jobs go to people who shower daily, dress neatly, spell properly, and don't spend every night getting baked. Oh, the injustice of it all.

#122 brianstien

No sir. Not me. Don't have the energy to type all that right now. Time for lunch.

ps - It looks like a spam post.

Man, my political science may be way off, but aren't those 1 billion working for less than $1 a day suffering because they're working under some form of the system known as Marxism?

Or is there some other 1 billion that I don't know about?

On the bright side of that coin, consider that those folks are actually working - as opposed to the troll who posted this and thinks himself clever and informed.

He is neither.

#130 V the K

They don't understand why all the good jobs go to people who shower daily, dress neatly, spell properly, and don't spend every night getting baked. Oh, the injustice of it all.

LMAO.

They have also gathered together to talk about what’s happening in the world, debate the best strategies for resistance, the experience and lessons of past struggles, and crucially what the alternative is.

The alternative is stop doing your piddly 'actions' and get a freakin' job so you can contribute to society.

Grandma (#121)

What a great story. Jenny is lucky to have a Grandma as loving as you. She sounds like a treasure.

OT:

If nobody has mentioned it yet, I will:

Heinz Seeks to Disavow Kerry Connection

PITTSBURGH - H.J. Heinz Co. has launched an election-year campaign of its own, this one to distance the ketchup maker from what is shaping up to be an acrimonious presidential race.

The company has sent nearly 50 letters to radio and television talk shows nationwide to tamp down chatter on the airwaves and Internet suggesting revenue from ketchup sales will benefit the campaign of pending Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

That tripe is spam folks, all the way from London. Here is their website: Crap

#83 RWC

Who the hell said we have to have a 2 sided view?

Ummm...John Kerry? Who else can stand on both sides of an issue so well?

#10 V the K
Obviously, Ashrawi does not watch PA TV.

#111 JD:

OT again: Three U.S. Passenger Jets Targeted by Bomb Threats

Read that with interest, & I notice immediately several important points:

1.) Nearly all of the recent "unruly passenger" arrests or diverted flights of recent days have been associated with Northwest Airlines flights, and now you have 3 Northwest flights being targeted for bomb threats.

Conclusion: You'd have to be dumber than a box of rocks to fly Northwest these days.

2) Any reason why the targets were associated with Detroit-bound flights? Anything to do with the large population of disgruntled, activist Muslims living in the Detroit metro-area?

Conclusion: Avoid Detroit, lol!

From my link:

Looky who is giving a speach at their conference...

"George Galloway the anti-war MP"

Blech!

Caption Contest entry:

"DON'T... GET... ELIMINATED!!!"

(Okay, it's not a perfect fit, but I'm a big MXC fan)

I wouldn't mind the special Troll Spelling™ but I wish they would learn the difference between there, their, and they're. I don't think anything bothers me more, editor-wise.

I can even take an occasional confusion of your and you're or the non-word irregardless, if they can just keep those three straight.

#135

If Kerry manages to ketchup in the polls they will embrace him.

look at this website there are some great speechs about israel

[Link: www.stlimc.org...]

"We, the people of Truth, reach out our hand in peace. But they accuse us of being terrorists. Terrorists, because when the Palestinian mother welcomes her martyred son, she wishes to receive him as a corpse. She does not want him to be alive. But she does not want this corpse butchered. The wish of the Palestinian mother is to see the body of her son the martyr.

MEMRI: Last friday sermons

sharona (#139)

Conclusion: Avoid Detroit, lol!

Not a problem. I once went to Grand Rapids. You could have flown on the mosquitoes at that time. We're talking LARGE. You know, come to think of it, the last Northwest flight I was on coming back from Texas stopped in Memphis (note to self: never connect in Memphis - airport employees not pleasant) and picked up a strange passenger who was roaming the aisle at will. No one ever even said a word about it. Very strange.

come to marxism learn something  3/30/2004 10:53AM PST

Government spin-doctors, academics, corporations and the media tell us that capitalism works, that Iraq is better off after the war, and that Britain is a democracy. Yet the experience of millions of people contradicts this.

They don’t see how a system that leaves 1 billion people living on less than a $1 a day is working. They don’t see how, with over 25,000 dead, more dying every day, and no democracy, the Iraq war was a success.

Perhaps you should read Adam Smith, or spend a month in the Norh Korean Workers Paradise. Capitalism works, communism ends up killing millions in almost every case where it has been tried.

[Link: hcd.ucdavis.edu...]

Failures of socialist land reform By 1990, most socialist systems had abandoned collectives and state farms. China made major revisions in 1978 and afterwards. The conclusion in general is that the 60 experiment with socialist reform (expropriation-colectivization-central management) had failed. Evidence of failure 1. Russian famine 1929-1933: 5-7 million deaths directly attributed to loss of food producing capacity. Many more deaths were caused by government repression 2. Chinese famine, 1958-59: 30 million deaths attributed to bureaucratic mismanagement and failure to acknowledge problems with collectivization. 3. Stagnation of agriculture in collective and state owned farms (ejidos, Soviet farms) in comparision to privately own and managed farms.

The only succesful collective farms of the 20th century were Israeli Kibbutz. You do support those right?

ocasional reeder,

look at this website there are some great speechs about israel

lol! You make me laugh mine ass off.

Hitler in a wheelchair is still Hitler.

Hold the presses-these ladies obviously haven't been reading up on eyebrow plucking fatwas! Tweezers Akbar!

#82 RWC

Buy me a coke...I posted a Dubya in the flight jacket in the yummy Rummy thread.

Your president looks mighty fine in Top Gun couture-now I'm debating whether I like the aviator or cowboy look better. Whatever!

#96 RIP Ford

LMAO

#138 David 'Parisian Insider'

Oh, she does. She's just a liar.

I was about to write a response to #144, until I thought: "just a goshdarn minute, that's not how you spell 'occasional'!" Had me fooled, I can tell ya.

I found the list provided in post #75 a very handy summary to present to people who, from ignorance of any opposing view, continue to support and enable the death cults that plague the modern world. I've bookmarked it for future use.

Reading Tilli's story and reactions to the events of 9/11 , and then viewing the other side-- Palestinian's dancing in the street to celebrate the mass murder of American's in the same manner they celebrate the mass murder of Jews provides an excellent summary of the two basic views and positions- support or opposition - regarding psychotic hatred and mass murder.

For those interested in understanding the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but who so far only understand the view of terrorists and their various supporters and enablers, "Myths and Facts" is an excellent resource.

-------------------

Meanwhile, as poster 116 points out--despite the best efforts of Government spin-doctors, academics, corporations and the media
(and, of course, LGF) telling us

that capitalism works, that Iraq is better off after the war, and that Britain is a democracy.

We still are left with this anomaly:

Yet the experience of millions of people contradicts this.

As he helpfuly points out, some of them are Marxists. Some, as we know, are are members of nihilistic death cults, some are French, some are just ignorant and somehow haven't managed to consider "both views."

What accounts for the rest? I'd like to be as optimistic as #116 and think the problem was limited to millions of people and Marxism but I am afraid he has seriously underestimated the number of llloons.

All the Muslim women in the photo are unappetizing cows, as homely as hell. They should be wearing burqas.

#136 RIP Ford

Ah, yes - I see that our old friend George Galloway (recipient of the esteemed Saddam Hussein Oil-for-Food Grant - which really should have gone to feed some of those poor buck-a-day Iraqis) will be on hand to rouse the Proletarian rabble.

I'm counting on old George to spread that Dialectical Materialism like butter on a hot scone: "Permanently Unemployed Assholes of the United Kingdom, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your nose-chains and nipple rings!"

#36 and 96 RIP Ford

Great stuff! LOL

Students at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, the most prestigious school in the Islamic world

An honor akin to having the best Mexican restaurant in all of Eastern Europe.

Needless to say, #144 is not me.

#154 Glen Wishard

LOL!

I hadn't put the two events together. Hah! He is the perfect example of what he will surely denounce in his speech! Too perfect.

OT: Too funny. The Heinz company disavows any connection to John Kerry.

#157

Fooled me!

Hitler in a wheelchair is still Hitler.

But Hitler with great PR is Arafat.

LMFAO!

Something called "Islamica Shop" sells lots of Muslim apparel, for the Muslim trying to find their place in Western society.

For example...

Front of T-shirt: do you think i'm hot?

Back of T-shirt: so is hell. lower your gaze.

You can't make this stuff up!

#103 Colt

Terrorists try to recruit child, 15, as suicide bomber

Must be an anomaly, like last week's mentally challenged 16 year old and the 11 year old the week before that.

Trend? What trend? They looooove their children.

WriterMom
odin

Thanks.

Occasional Reader

No worries.

V the K

LOL

Folks,

Updates on Farah Khan's murder trial. That poor child.

RoP?

I think we all know the answer to that one.

Pathologist testifies to Farah's severe bruising

So many ways, so many days for mourning

#161 V the K

Hitler had pretty good PR too, at least before the war. If and/or when they off the Fish, at least he won't be able to hide behind his means of transportation. (That Yassin had been in a wheelchair since childhood, and not as the result of enfeebled old age, seems to have been ignored by most of the media.)

OT: Oh that Babs! She has such insight into politics and stuff.

#161 V the K:

Ah, but I killed more than those two Proletariat bourgeois bozos (not to mention throw in a couple of worthless Pol Pot wannabes for good measure). I want my rightful place in history damnit!

#166 scaramouche

(That Yassin had been in a wheelchair since childhood, and not as the result of enfeebled old age, seems to have been ignored by most of the media.)

Have you ever seen Unbreakable?

"They call me Mister Glass."

Did you lot support aparthied?

Good lord, what the hell happened in here??

#169 - ESAD. Thanks.

ocasional reeder,

Needless to say, #144 is not me.

ok. than charles needs to ban somone.

#142 Renna,

These abysmal spelling errors are the result of the feel-good, self-esteem, no-answer-is-wrong philosophy being promulgated in a number of public school systems across the nation. I am not a full-time teacher, although I sub at least thrice weekly in Leonia, NJ, where some of this is practiced, albeit not to a large extent.
Over the years (I did a lot of subbing in the 80s) I have seen teaching and learning become sub-ordinated to sloganeering -- all sorts of warmfuzzy platitudes on glossy posters all over the walls inside calssrooms and hallways. It is as if basic principles are no longer taught in today's public school, and the message will be absorbed through osmosis. Kind of scary, IMHO.

#166 Miss. T

Fortunately, Blatch immediately latched on to the honour killing aspect of the story- otherwise, it would have been just the run-of-the-mill psychopathic father kills tot case.

If there was ever a justification for bringing back the death penalty, this ranks right up there...

#171 Thom

How come you're trademarking yourself lately?

#167 Joe Stalin

Your PR wasn't bad either, what with that NYT reporter who glossed over your starvation of folks up in the Ukraine. Seems to me you got a free ride for many years--kinda like that Fidel guy, although he's a piker compared to you when it comes to mass murder (smaller pond and all.) But don't fret. In my book, you're up there in the top three tyrants of all time; maybe even numero uno.

#171 dirc digler AKA TROLL

Stealing another nic, I see. FOAD.

#170 Thom - I haven't had time to scroll the thread yet; were you referring to something/someone in particular?
#169 "truth" (vile retching sounds not appropriate for children of all ages) what do you mean "you lot"?
Oh, never mind.

*GAZE*

#162 Colt

Check this out and sing "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" from Fiddler on the Roof in the background.

#169:

I support a wall that will keep murderous thugs out of civilian popultaions. What about you?

#174 WriterMom

I was lamenting the undistinctive nature of my name - and that it renders the search function useless any time I want to find an old post of mine. So after some back and forth I eventually decided to ™ my name.

Now it's mine!! All mine!!

#169 truth:

At a minimum, we can spell apartheid.

Here's a question for you, truth:

Can you define "apartheid?"

#178 WriterMom

This video doesn't not only talk about qualities of an ideal Muslim husband but also contains great tips on making a marriage successful. Suitable for ages 15 to adult.

LOL

15? They marry young, huh?

WTF is going on with the nic stealing crap, anyway?
Hey Charles, if #144 and #171 are the same, perhaps you could ban him/her/it?
(nice try by #171 to hide, but fortunately RIP Ford is hard to deceive).

I'm refering to the people on this website in general as you all seem in support of israel which is almost a clone of south african aparthied

Another enemy of civilization rears its ugly head...

[Link: www.fawzaan.com...]

#177 realwest

There just seemed to be a lot more troll droppings than usual, and everyone seemed to be having a helluva good time - which I missed while wrestling with my computer.

(MS sez one can uninstall MS .NET Framework 1.1 from one's XP machine, but don't do it. Unless you enjoy seeing "Internal Error 2908" about 1000 times every time you try to do something. Bastards.)

#115 whosoever:

I haven't read the book to which you are referring but, back in my college days, shortly after the invention of movable type, I read Who Wrote the Bible by Friedman and found it to be an excellent and informative read on the same subject. I recommend it, if you're interested in the topic.

#169: So I see that you're resolutely anti-apartheid. That's wonderful, it really is. So here's your choice: on one side, a liberal democracy which, although majority-Jewish, has about a 20% Arab Muslim citizenry, who enjoy full citizenship rights. On the other side, an utterly intolerant terrorist-controlled autocracy, which insists on being judenrein and ethnically pure, and relies on mass murder to pursue that vision. Please apply your anti-apartheid principles, and make your choice.

#184

I thought I told you to partake of excrement, and then subsequently expire? What are you still doing here?

"dirc" ... moron.

Earl,

Glad you caught that and it's an important point you make. Blatchford is onto this, Ottawa looks like it's waking up and the RCMP are looking into other muslime-oriented crimes in Canada.

I am quite certain that there are more crimes like this happening: against their women & children but we won't hear about it because the god-damned media are too PC to offend anybody or print the truth. Spineless b*****ds.

Hey, forget the victims. The perps are too oppressed to be thinking logically and they don't understand our ways. What a load of horse-s**t.

The death penalty is too good for a piece of s**t like this sub-human.

God, I am so sick, frustrated and furious that we have these muslime pr***s in this fair country.

One day, Germany will have had enough
By Mark Steyn
(Filed: 30/03/2004)

In the old days, the headline "Germans Go On Offensive" would have caused palpitations among Czechs, Poles, Belgians, etc. But, in the case of this weekend's AP headline, Germans going on the offensive refers not to sending German troops to foreign countries, but keeping foreign troops in Germany. And it's the Germans having the palpitations, after press reports that the Pentagon plans to pull out half its troops.

Right now, Germany plays host to 175,000 Americans - military personnel plus their families - and reducing that number to 80-90,000 would leave a big hole in an economy that's already looking like a Swiss cheese. See the recent story in Bild: "Can't We Do Anything Any More in Germany?" Also the cover of Der Spiegel: "Germany: A Joke."

The joke keeps getting better. Karl Peter Bruch, a state official in Rhineland-Palatinate who's lobbying the Americans to change their minds, put it this way: "We realised that our installations are in grave danger. And then came the question, what can we do to make us more attractive?"

"Our" installations? As Daffy Duck famously remarked after losing yet another verbal duel with Bugs Bunny and getting his bill shot off: "Hmm. Pronoun trouble." As to what Germany can do to make itself more attractive to the Yanks, how about this? Spend less time running around playing Mini-Me to Jacques Chirac's Doctor Evil. Just a thought. And it seems to have occurred, somewhat belatedly, to Gerhard Schröder.

Last March, there were plenty of takers for it. My Spectator colleague Matthew Parris indulged himself in one of his elegant scoffs about the Bush doctrine: "We should ask whether America does have the armies, the weaponry, the funds, the economic clout and the democratic staying power to carry all before her in the century ahead. How many wars on how many fronts could she sustain at once? How much fighting can she fund? How much does she need to export? Is she really unchallenged by any other economic bloc?"

My confrère was falling prey to theories of "imperial overstretch". But, as I wrote at the time in an article on "the death of Europe", "if you're not imperial, it's quite difficult to get overstretched. By comparison with 19th-century empires, the Americans travel light."

America's main "overstretch" lies not in Afghanistan or the Horn of Africa, but in its historically unprecedented generosity to its wealthiest allies. "The US picks up the defence tab for Europe, Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia, among others," I wrote. "If Bush wins a second term, the boys will be coming home from South Korea and Germany, and maybe Japan, too."

Well, the second term is not quite here. But America has already quit Saudi Arabia, and plans for South Korea and Germany are well advanced. When scholars come to write the final chapter in the history of the European continent, the six-decade US security guarantee will be seen as, on the whole, a mistake. Not for America, but the Continentals.

The so-called "free world" was, for most of its members, a free ride. Absolving wealthy nations of the need to maintain credible armies softens them: they decay, almost inevitably, into a semi-non-aligned status.

Even now, the likes of Mr Bruch see the US military presence in Europe in mainly economic terms - all those German supermarkets and German restaurants that depend on American custom. But, looked at in defence terms, if Don Rumsfeld wants a light, mobile 21st-century military, the last place to base it is the Continent: given that the term "ally" is now generally used in the post-modern meaning of "duplicitous obstructionist", it's not unlikely that any future Saddamesque scenario would see attempts to throw operational restraints around the use of US forces in Europe.

This weekend, for example, nearly 60 per cent of French electors voted Socialist, Communist, Fascist or Green. Most of the rest voted for the "ruling centre-Right" - ie, Chirac. Does that sound like an "ally" that's ever again likely to grant overflight rights to the USAF? Better a nice clean flight plan direct from Missouri or Diego Garcia.

What happens when a country becomes just as militant and aggressive about the virtues of "soft power" as it once was about old-fashioned hard power? Germany has a shrinking economy, an ageing and shrivelling population, and potentially catastrophic welfare liabilities. Yet the average German worker now puts in over 20 per cent fewer hours per year than his American counterpart, and no politician who wishes to remain electorally viable would propose closing the gap.

Germany, like much of Europe, has a psychological investment in longer holidays, free healthcare, early retirement, unsustainable welfare programmes, decrepit military: the fact that these policies spell national suicide is less important than that they distinguish Europe from the less enlightened Americans.

Where did all the money go? In a recent speech in Washington, the Oxford historian Niall Ferguson recalled German objections 80 years ago to their First World War reparations bill of $132 billion - why, such a sum would bankrupt the country!

Ferguson pointed out that Germany has paid $132 billion and then some to France, Belgium, Italy and co in net EU contributions. And, as predicted, bankruptcy looms. From Belgian steel to Italian agriculture to French colonial subventions, the entire European project has been financed by Germany.

Even a rare fellow contributor such as Britain owes its brief romance with the Common Market to German success: in stagnant pre-Thatcher Britain, the business community looked enviously across the Channel and figured that yoking the British economy to Europe would cut 'em a little piece of that rich German stollen.

But there's no stollen left to steal: Germany is the sick man of Europe, and too risk-averse to try any cure other than sugary placebos such as the dismal "Year of Innovation" Mr Schröder has declared 2004 to be. He has appointed an Innovation Council. The first sign of a genuinely innovative culture is that it's too busy innovating to have an Innovation Council. An Innovation Council is just more of the same-old same-old.

The Germans get 11 per cent of the votes in the Council of Ministers and pony up 67 per cent of the EU's net contributions. And sooner or later, they'll figure out that pandering to a pampered populace at home is one thing, subsidising it Continent-wide is quite another. Then they really will go on the offensive.

occasional reader, dirk digler, faux-Thoms et al: Invasion of the Nic Snatchers.

Israels treatment of the palestinians is to apartheid as my golf skills are to Tiger Woods.

Putz. Try critical thinking for once- I know it hurts but it just may do you some good.

#193 scaramouche:

occasional reader... Invasion of the Nic Snatchers.

Hold your fire! Occasional Reader is really me. ocasional reader is not. Fortunately, our troll is rather challenged in its spelling abilities.

Occasional Reader:

Ah, but don't you see that if they have no Jews there will be no anti-Jewish discrimination, therefore making "Palestine" the most tolerant and Jew-friendly (as long as there aren't any) nation on earth???

It'll be paradise, I tell you. It'll be the first time a Nobel Peace Prize (a new one for not hating Jews too much) will be given to a nation.

Hating "Israel" and "zionists" will still be OK.

If the ANC had been sending children with bombs strapped to them onto schoolbuses in J'burg, and if the ANC had openly advocated the oppression of women, brutality toward gays and religious minorities, and genocide against all white South Africans, and brainwashing their children into mindless, white-hating killbots... those would have been compelling reasons to support Apartheid.

WriterMom #178 -
From your link - Tally counters

I am afraid to think about why that item would be listed under "Essentials."

Also, am I reading this wrong, or are they selling a stick as a toothbrush?

#169 truth

Do you support the ethnic cleansing of Christians in Sudan?

Do you support slavery?

Are you good Islamic?

#182 RIP Ford

You just can't make this stuff up. Truth is much funnier than fiction.

#180 Thom

Ahhh-I see. I think the addition of TM is very restrained. Live a little. (I know-I'm one to talk with my very crazy nic.)

Thom the Conqueror?

Thom the Troll Slayer?

Thom, Purveyor of Fart Curses?

#193 MSF:

Post links, not entire articles. You don't want Charles having problems because of your copyright violations, do you?

Invasion of the Nic Snatchers.

If there is a way to misspell my nic, I'm sure a troll will find it.

#171 dirc digler AKA TROLL

Guys guys it's me. It thought Occasional Reader was joking.

#180 Thom™

One of the cool things about your new improved nic is that the trademark thingy even shows up in the "last comment by:" field and looks really snazzy.
And if trolls steal it, you can get realwest to sue them.

#187 Jheka

back in my college days, shortly after the invention of movable type

LOL!
Dude, don't they host blogs or something?

Folks,

Re post #191.

Got a little carried away there. Apologize profusely for the profanity.

[deep breaths]

Thanks.

*sigh*

I really feel like crying.

Truth,

"I'm refering to the people on this website in general as you all seem in support of israel which is almost a clone of south african aparthied"

If you want to debate with us, you need to have an IQ over 90. You also must have some access to the facts. Quite clearly, the apartheid exercised in South Africa has little to do with the clash of civilizations in Israel. In South Africa, a white minority subjugated the black majority on the basis of race. In Israel, they are simply trying to survive the onslaught of islamofascists bombing their children and grandmothers. Quite a difference, don’t you think?

My advice is this, shut up until you know what you are talking about...

#198 Renna

No-I think that's Islamic toilet paper!

The freak calling itself "truth," "pete," "comedy," etc. is now banished to Troll Netherworld. This one is in Britain.

Wow, #60, "truth", has made an appearence on this thread, Can "justice" and the "American Way" be far behind? How about "wisdom'" and "light" and best of all "Pete"?

202 K eth V

Huh?

#203 Dirk Diggler:

Sorry, buddy.

#208 Charles

Which just proves this blog is a clone of suoth afrecan arperthied.

;-)

#184 "truth"

You made me laugh so hard I farted.

That is as much response as you will get out of me.

GAZE

#202 v Duh K:

Could happen.

Just curious. When someone gets banned, can they still read? Or are they totally locked out?

Guys guys it's me. It thought Occasional Reader was joking.

I'm sorry, that is "Guys, guys, it's me. I thought Occasional Reader was joking". What with the atrocious spelling, grammar, syntax, and lower case-caps.

#215 V the K

If trolls could read, they wouldn't say so many stoopid things.

Still read.

#215 V the K:

I'm pretty sure that the shmuckazoid can still read (well, as much as he could before, at least).

181 Jheka "At a minimum, we can spell apartheid."!!

LOL!!!

Apparently not ALL of us (blushing terrifically) can. I just jumped on the attempted larceny of a good poster's good name.

#203 Dirk Diggler

Sorry man. :P

Charles,
Excellent shooting.

Okay, now let's get back to the Caption Contest.

[Woman in pink]

"Look, for the last time, YES, I threw in my red towels with a load of hijabs and set the machine on "hot", okay???"

hese abysmal spelling errors are the result of the feel-good, self-esteem, no-answer-is-wrong philosophy being promulgated in a number of public school systems across the nation. I am not a full-time teacher, although I sub at least thrice weekly in Leonia, NJ, where some of this is practiced, albeit not to a large extent.
Over the years (I did a lot of subbing in the 80s) I have seen teaching and learning become sub-ordinated to sloganeering -

If one tried to design a school system intended to produce children who could not read or write, it would be hard to come up with a system as effective in producing uneducated children as the current public schools.
IMHO

Invented spelling is part of the whole language movement:

[Link: www.ericzorn.com...]

ZORN HOME

"Children should be encouraged to use invented spelling in their writing activities. Invented spelling does not conflict with teaching correct spelling, but can actually be helpful for developing understand of the sounds that different combinations of letters create."
   From a March, 1988 report of The National Research Council,  the principal operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering

[Link: www.coe.missouri.edu...]

What is invented spelling?Invented spelling is the term currently used to describe the spellings that learners  produce as they come to understand how written language and its spelling system work.  Children learning to write in any alphabetic language will invent spellings. Many  educators believe "invented spelling" is a more accurate term than "misspelling" since  it recognizes that such spellings are not random but are based on the learner's knowledge  of language. For instance, a young child who writes LIX for "likes" is relating the sounds she hears to the names of letters that she knows. When an older child writes  MATHYOU for the name "Matthew," it shows a knowledge that whole words can be combined  to create new ones. There is a good deal of research that shows how logical children's spellings are.
Is invented spelling a good idea?
Many teachers have begun encouraging children to use invented spelling as they write,  particularly for beginning writers and students who are fearful about writing, and  for first draft writing. Invented spelling lets children get their ideas down on  paper independently, using all the words in their speaking vocabulary, without having to  ask an adult how to spell every unfamiliar word.

Vouchers, faster please!

#207 WriterMom (or should I say RighterMom)

Ouch!

#223 piglet:

i dunno homes, im a pruducd off poblec scoools and i reid reely doap.

#116
1 billion living on under $1 a day? More like 250 million.

From the Arab Mad Science/Mad Arab Science Dept:
Qataris invent robot camel jockeys so they can stop kidnapping, enslaving and stunting the growth of children.
RoboJock-that's right up there with the buzzing prayer rug!

147 piglet

The only succesful collective farms of the 20th century were Israeli Kibbutz.

Unfortunately the kibbutz movement did not stand the test of time. Privatization is going ahead full steam and there is hardly any real kibbutzim left in Israel. The ones that haven't sold off their land and factories rely on the income of members who work outside the kibbutz in the real world. Most are already small villages and kibbutzim in name only. The kibbutz was a wonderful invention for the early pioneers but now they're just a dying anachronism. I suppose it was successful in its time because it was a voluntary collectivization, as opposed to the Soviet kolkhoz which was forced on Russian peasants from above, a la Marx.

I have two levels of banning available; 1) read but not post, and 2) forbidden to enter the site at all.

Most idiots get level 1. Some graduate, by sheer persistence or creepiness, to level 2.

#137 Powderfinger 3/30/2004 11:14AM PST

#83 RWC

Who the hell said we have to have a 2 sided view?

Ummm...John Kerry? Who else can stand on both sides of an issue so well?

Maybe we can come up with jokes about Kerry fighting with himself, like this old classic from Firesign Theaters with Gordon Liddy surrounding the WaterGate complex:

[on a bullhorn] This is G. Gordon Liddy of the FBI. Now I know I'm in there. If I don't come out with my hands up in five minutes, I'm going in after me!

#229 Charles:

Oo!! Oo!! which one am I???

Wait a minute . . .

#186 Thom -"(MS sez one can uninstall MS .NET Framework 1.1 from one's XP machine, but don't do it. Unless you enjoy seeing "Internal Error 2908" about 1000 times every time you try to do something. Bastards.) "
LMFAO - sorry, but I'm so computer 'tarded I only figured out how to turn the thing on by myself a couple a weeks ago!!!
I sure don't get the frickin troll infestations lately; last week and this week were (are) the worst.
Why do people troll? How much pleasure can any one get from that? I mean, I've gone swimming in some of the LLL pools, with the incredibly naive idea that perhaps reason, logic and my famous sense of humor could bring some of them around, but alas to no avail. Of course, I didn't troll; I stuck around trying to debate issues, post a few facts (did ya'll know that LLL sites, for the most part, don't want to be encumbered with FACTS?!!) and all I got for my efforts was an ear infection. Sigh :>)

#230 Joshua Scholar

LOL

I seem somehow to have acquired (unjustly) the reputation for fart humor.

To make amends, I offer the following Public Service Announcement.

Thank you.

#226 necklace of shoes

1 billion living on under $1 a day? More like 250 million.

No, it's possible. My sister has two kids, ages 2 and 4, and my brother has two kids aged 3 and 4. So, there's four people earning considerably less than $1 a day. Also, my brother's wife doesn't work, so she's earning less than a dollar a day. So, by playing games with statistics, I can demonstrate that more than half the people in my immediate family are struggling by on less than a dollar a day.

#229 Charles

I wish you had a 3rd option of sending 1,000,000 volts to the offending terminal.

#234 Thom™:

I saw what the link was and opened it anyway. That'll teach me. I'm going to go open a window now ...

I seem somehow to have acquired (unjustly) the reputation for fart humor

Stop workin' my corner!

Hello
I'm sure this has been asked a load of times before BUT search isn't working here for me and it's a simple ques. If the Bomber To Be doesn't kill anyone but themselves, yet does it in the name of allah (like Brescia's very own Mostafa Chaouki) does he get the virgins or not?

I have two levels of banning available; 1) read but not post, and 2) forbidden to enter the site at all.

Wow I'm sooooooooo glad I got out that meeting and back to my terminal when I did. I mean if I got banned from LGF, I might have to do work!

#238 V the K

You do fart jokes? Man, you're too good for that ...

Thom, I use Opera and love it. There is no more satisfying browser to use day-to-day, it gives me an amazing degree of control over all kinds of things. You should give it a try, fool around with it and kick its tires. Opera owns. There's a new version coming out soon, 7.50-you can grab the release candidate, it's already much better than 7.23, the present release version (which itself is way better than any other browser I've used).
A close second is Firefox. It's also fun to use, but not as polished as Opera.

#235 V the K

And if half of them are skitz-o-frenik the numbers keep growing and growing and growing. Oh the humanity of it all!

But on the other hand, how many are living on $2 (US) a day?

Thom and V the K: The Terrance and Phillip of LGF?

#235 V the K:

So, by playing games with statistics, I can demonstrate that more than half the people in my immediate family are struggling by on less than a dollar a day.

This fact pales in comparison with the horrendous statistic that fully half the people on this planet have sub-average IQs! This, of course, is the fault of capitalism.

#244 Occasional Reader

This fact pales in comparison with the horrendous statistic that fully half the people on this planet have sub-average IQs! This, of course, is the fault of capitalism.

Fun with statistics. ROTFLMAO

As Churchill said, there are lies, damned lies and statistics.

from JINSA

Egypt in Perspective

What would you call a country with no external enemies, no border disputes, and no alliances that require military support and no peacekeeping obligations?

Lucky? Costa Rica? Egypt.

Which makes the increasing evidence of Libyan-Egyptian nuclear cooperation – and the Administration's lack of evident concern – most distressing. According to Middle East News Line (MENL), Libya was both the source for and the recipient of nuclear and missile technology and expertise from Egypt. MENL reports that inspection officials "said Egypt appeared to have been using Libya as a way-station for obtaining nuclear and missile technology and components from North Korea," and the IAEA is still trying to determine whether Egypt received Pakistani nuclear weapons designs, including those for nuclear warheads. U.S.
officials have reported that Libya, with help from North Korea, had developed and produced an extended-range Scud C missile with an 800 km range. The U.S. now has possession of them, but according to MENL, Washington also has evidence that the Scud C technology was relayed to Egypt.

The Egyptian dictator Mubarak is scheduled to meet with President Bush in April, but U.S. officials said they doubt the alleged Egyptian-Libyan missile and nuclear cooperation will be raised. We doubt it as well, but we propose that it be added to the list of items that SHOULD be on the agenda, including:
· Missile technology Egypt acquired from North Korea, including the 24
No-Dong missiles Egypt reportedly acquired in 2002.
· Egyptian development of the 1,200-mile range, liquid fueled missile
known as Vector.
· Egyptian assistance to Libya for developing a 1,000+ km missile based
on No-Dong technology.

Mubarak gets huffy when questioned about Egypt's military intentions, claiming the right to decide for himself what form Egyptian "defense"
should take. But since the U.S. has spent BILLIONS transforming Egypt from a Russian-based to an American-based military, including M1A1 tanks with depleted uranium rounds, F-16 jet fighters, MLRS, Harpoon Block II missiles, air-defense radars and more, we have some right to ask.

Right, hell. We have an obligation to ask why a poor, dictatorial, hostile country with a government maintained by force of arms over an oppressed and restless population is building an offensive force including missiles that have no evident target except Israel. The fact that it sits in a crucial geographic location is not good enough.

Egypt has not helped constrain Palestinian violence against Israel or policed the Gaza- Egypt border. It is not an ally in the war against terrorists and the states that harbor and support them. It is not a participant in the Middle East Democracy Initiative. At best it is quietly belligerent toward all three American objectives – which isn't good enough either.

OT (Request for Info please)

One of my coworkers is reading Moore's "Stupid White Men". The subject of the 2000 presidental election came up in a conversation and he's buying Moore's lies hook, line & sinker. I've tried googling for information but am coming up short.

Could someone kindly provide a link to some information that I could pass along to him please.

Thank you!

Cool. I'm tinkering with Firefox now, but I'll get Opera and see how it is. Thanks.

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This may get me banned, but it's too damn funny: The seamy side of Donald Duck! NC-17 rated humor. Sexual innuendo! Volume alert! Not safe for the office! Refreshing lack of farts, though! So that's something, isn't it? Not PC at all! Almost certainly guaranteed to offend almost everyone! DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK!

#244,245: You know that, anyway, 29% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

#224 Occasional Reader:

You and your Canuckian "humor" references!! Take it back to Canuckistan you damned flop-headed Canuck!

D'oh! The first half of that last post was for #242 evariste.

The pink hijab is quite original-there are other more subtle fashion statements here.

Um, meant to say 244 ... otherwise my #251 makes even less sense.

#253 Writermom:

So, no views from the front, huh?

#248 Bowling For Truth skewers that gasbag Moore quite nicely.

Okay, the fart jokes on this site just totally proved that I'm in the right place. My 11 year old's recent favorite book is "The Day my Butt Went Psycho," followed by it's sequal, "Zombie Butts from Uranus."

She got to meet the author yesterday, who is from Australia. Steve Irwin and the Butt author - I'm thinking the aussies are my kind of people.

RecoveringRomantic:

And your points at 172 are a BIG reason my kids are currently homeschooled. Military pay doesn't cover private schools and the cr*p they were learning in public schools turned some of my hair grey at age 26.

Forget the moronic tolls - go and read this:

[Link: www.imra.org.il...]

#248:

Have you looked at moorewatch?

#251 Jheka:

Doctor, I have a terrible crack in my a*s! It's right there, take a look! Closer... closer...

Benjamin Disraeli, not Churchill, nor Twain.

This fact pales in comparison with the horrendous statistic that fully half the people on this planet have sub-average IQs! This, of course, is the fault of capitalism.

One actually can't help but marvel at the stupidity of our trollish visitor. If he wanted to spell your name properly he could have simply copied and pasted it from the screen or spelled it out O-c-c-a-s-i-(etc, etc). That guy was definitely three standard deviations from the mean intelligence curve.

#253 Jheka. No, darling. Your eyes would burn.

#257 military brat

My daughter is loving the Captain Underpants Series. It's hilarious-you should check it out.

#204 papijoe "And if trolls steal it, you can get realwest to sue them. "
Thanks, I can use the work!!! (not really, more work means more money, which is GOOD, but it also means more time away from LGF which is BAD, VERY, VERY BAD!!
Actually, I don't mind getting after people like that. To be totally honest about it, if I can figure out a way to sue the MF's such that when I win they have to pay my fee, well, gosh, I get sort of a tingling feeling all over!!!

#205 Miss Trixie the Five-Pound Yorkie aka Leftylass - first of all, ya gotta get a shorter nic. Seriously. Secondly there was NOTHING in your post that you need be ashamed of. (uh, make that there is nothing in your post of which you should be ashamed!). I hope you don't feel like crying over something like profanity (especially given how much you "cleaned it up" for those of us who are {and EVERYONE here knows this applies to me} embarrassed by bad language).

192 Steyn fan

...given that the term "ally" is now generally used in the post-modern meaning of "duplicitous obstructionist"...

This man needs the largest possible audience.

#247 hellcat

No-Dong technology

Say what?
I know they have some serious problems with zinc deficiencies in Egypt, but I had no idea it was that bad. Or is that a result of shaking hands with foreigners?

Thank you, Jheka (#259) and Belize042 (#256). Much appreciated! Looks like I've got some reading to do...

This one is in Britain.

Probably upset that a few less infidel capitalist dogs won't get killed by jihadis.

#192 Mark Steyne fan

As to what Germany can do to make itself more attractive to the Yanks, how about this? Spend less time running around playing Mini-Me to Jacques Chirac's Doctor Evil.

LOL!

#262 Dirk Diggler:

or spelled it out O-c-c-a-s-i-(etc, etc)

Ha! See? Not as easy as you thought, was it?!

Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth. ~Author Unknown

I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable. ~Mrs. Robert A. Taft

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.... ~H.G. Wells, The Undying Fire

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein

WriterMom;

We read those, too! When you have four kids and spent half your growing up on a farm, potty humor is unavoidable. And, really, it's very funny.

We liked the "episode" where everyone had to change their names. My 6 year old was Gidget Liverbutt. My friend's daughter was Squeezit Appletoosh.

#30--- say speaking of Lebanon--whats going on in the Bekaa valley these days---any electrical plants or water systems need fixin' there these days? May need to excavate real soon there.
--24 smit-yup I think this Condi testifying is W poker.
she can hold her own,and if they rough her up, looks bad and gives another topic for apr_may 04.

#271 Renna

Have you heard this one: "There are lies, damn lies then statistics."

hmmm.... i don't think i got that right, but you probably get the point.

Mark Steyn fan (#192)

Thanks.

#266 papijoe -LMFAO!! You're really "on" today!!!
Did I ever tell you my carpel tunnel syndrome joke??
;>p

OT: Another kid bomber.

#230 Joshua Scholar

Maybe we can come up with jokes about Kerry fighting with himself,

Your wish is my command.

Kerry - Robbed!

{It's a slow work day, and I love photoshop}

scumbags. the whole lot of them. You can always play "where's "whahibbi," the terrorist?" in a picture like this.

#271 Renna - "Statistics are like ladies of the evening; once you get the numbers down, you can do anything you want with them" Mark Twain.