So much for the "Its just a scarf" excuse.

Wow. Just, wow.

Obviously she should pay more attention to the world around her.

Well, now you know.

Yet another leftist excuse destroyed by reality.

It was paisley.

/ fillin' in for o%u0287%u0131u%u0183o%u0254

Wow... Very interesting...

But come on folks... This is really a non-issue.... I mean.... Look at Meghan McCain... She wore one...

/Channeling the MSM

Shevonne Hunt, a freelance journalist who has reported on the keffiyeh's popularity in Australia, said many Palestinians were annoyed the widespread use of the keffiyeh for fashion had watered down its meaning.

I hope they don't mind that I use one to wipe my a** once in a while.

re: #6 EC Marm

Bah.

/ :)

So, wearing the kaffiyeh isn't a fashion statement but a watered down political one? Gotcha. /

Can't wait to see the NYT blog about this.

... and counting .........

WHO GETS THE VIRGINS TShirt

Too stupid to know any better. Typical lib excuse.

re: #4 jamgarr

LOL. Ya think?

re: #8 VegasRick

I hope they don't mind that I use one to wipe my a** once in a while.

It's more gentle on the behind than the pages of the Quran I usually use.

damned if you do, damned if you don't.

No donuts for you!

re: #15 JamesTKirk

It's more gentle on the behind than the pages of the Quran I usually use.

Neither one flushes worth a damn. Unless you have one of those Cuban toilets. Then it's just WHOOSH! and GONE like it never actually happened...

Another example of a lyric line I wrote for a tune over 20 years ago..."Ignorance-it truly is-the worlds most dangerous disease". I thought that I saw enough of ignorance back then to write a whole song about it. These days,the abundance of ignorance is overwhelming relative to those halcyon days.

a cowboy scarf

Strange cowboys they got down under.

Is that scarf Justpaisley™ or Justhoundstooth™?

re: #15 JamesTKirk

Oh Oh, your going to be on Huffpo/Koz/Fark now

re: #20 Kreuzueber Halbmond

It's okay, 'cause neither cows or boys are haram...

re: #19 mingjaiyo

Another example of a lyric line I wrote for a tune over 20 years ago..."Ignorance-it truly is-the worlds most dangerous disease". I thought that I saw enough of ignorance back then to write a whole song about it.

Now, you could write a three-day opera about it.

re: #22 blutonazi98

Oh Oh, your going to be on Huffpo/Koz/Fark now

Don't encourage him...

/

If she was also wearing a C4 belt as an accessory it would be OK.

re: #6 EC Marm

How'd you do that with the upsidedown thingy goin' on? BTW - I dinged this one up...

Dumb. The girl's a clerk, the guy's a jerk.

re: #23 The Jinxmedic

John Wayne is not amused.

re: #22 blutonazi98

Oh Oh, your going to be on Huffpo/Koz/Fark now

Maybe they can tell me why I can't get a huge government payoff like the dude who pissed on the crucifix?

re: #28 Dianna

Yup. And so much for the customer is always right...

/

It's JUST A SCARF, people!

/Isn't that what you told me just two days ago?

re: #15 JamesTKirk

It's more gentle on the behind than the pages of the Quran I usually use.

I use the devil's book to start up my bbq. Pork tenderloin cooks really nice on the grill.

re: #29 Kreuzueber Halbmond

My sincerest apologies to the Duke.

What does she mean by cowboy scarf? A bandanna?

re: #32 thedopefishlives

Only certain people told you that.

There is one thing about this that annoys me. I have a black and white scarf I like. I no longer wear it, lest someone think it's a keffiyeh.

re: #25 OldLineTexan

re: #22 blutonazi98

Oh Oh, your going to be on Huffpo/Koz/Fark now

Don't encourage him...

Since when do I need encouragement?

I haven't been on fark in a while, I'm not even sure I remember my password. There was a complete waste of time.

re: #25 OldLineTexan

well it's not any fun if you try, i mean how hard would it be if you actually tried?

If she blew herself up she'd have gotten a street named after her in Gaza.

re: #34 The Jinxmedic

I meant, "My sincerest apologies to the Duke, PBUH..."

/

somewhat OT but an important question

If McCain is "another george bush" and Obama is another Jimmy Carter
the question is, do we want GW or Jimmy Carter? thats a no brainer

re: #35 redstateredneck

Probably. Though most of those are red or blue.

re: #37 Dianna

There is one thing about this that annoys me. I have a black and white scarf I like. I no longer wear it, lest someone think it's a keffiyeh.

I have a similar problem with an antique gold crescent moon pin. It has to sit in my jewelry box and I used to love it.
:-(

re: #27 Cap'n DOC

%u02D9%u02D9%u02D9dn %u01DDuo s%u0131%u0265%u0287 p%u01DD%u0183u%u0131p %u0131 - %u028D%u0287q ¿uo ,u%u0131o%u0183 %u028E%u0183u%u0131%u0265%u0287 u%u028Dop%u01DDp%u0131sdn %u01DD%u0265%u0287 %u0265%u0287%u0131%u028D %u0287%u0250%u0265%u0287 op no%u028E p,%u028Do%u0265

:: evil laugh ::

A cowboy scarf as in a bandana?

That's a stretch...

Good morning Charles!

re: #27 Cap'n DOC

How'd you do that with the upsidedown thingy goin' on? BTW - I dinged this one up...

Fun with Unicode. Used judiciously, it is fun, but I assume Charles may not appreciate it being over-used.
I use it cause it's best not to mention o%u0287%u0131u%u0183o%u0254 or he automagically appears.

Are baggy, gang-banger pants a fashion or political statement?

/inquiring minds

re: #33 VegasRick

I use the devil's book to start up my bbq. Pork tenderloin cooks really nice on the grill.

Think if I made a video of that, YouTube would let me host it?

re: #36 Cap'n DOC

The cognitive dissonance of these people saying "It's just a scarf!" and "how can you wear that as just a scarf, it's a political statement!" within two days of each other is simply astounding. I truly thought I had heard it all.

re: #41 The Jinxmedic

I meant, "My sincerest apologies to the Duke, PBUH..."

/

John Wayne isn't dead, he's just waiting.

re: #47 realwest

Good morning Charles!

brown nose.

HOPE - CHANGE - PAISLEY

This puts the pieces together for me. Frankly, I just wasn't getting the whole keffiyah kerfuffiyah.

re: #50 JamesTKirk

Think if I made a video of that, YouTube would let me host it?

Let's try.

re: #48 EC Marm

Fun with Unicode. Used judiciously, it is fun, but I assume Charles may not appreciate it being over-used...

After all, look what happened to my ability to make flags...

re: #40 NoSubmission

If she blew herself up she'd have gotten a street named after her in Gaza.

And another at the intersection of Mumia Blvd. in Fwanch.

re: #24 JamesTKirk

Now, you could write a three-day opera about it.

Speaking of opera, the local right-wing reactionary talk radio host mentioned that there has been an opera commissioned based on AlGore's classic fairy tale, An Inconvenient Truth.

I am trying to get the details.

Also, locally as well, a mandatory CAIR-led class on Islam at a junior high school, ordered by the principal. Also seeking details.

They should have sacked her on the spot for the heinous crime of being an ignorant bird brain.

re: #51 thedopefishlives

You haven't, yet. Let this story get a bit more play, and you'll watch the more hard-core leftists twist into pretzels to hold both positions simultaneously.

It's like global warming, there's nothing it can't do.

Ms Tieger said she had “no idea about the politics” when she bought the scarf at the Tree Of Life store.

And Roger Miller sang;

Dang me, dang me
ought to take a scarf and hang me
high from the highest treeeeeeeeeeeeee
Allah would you wait for me
da,da,da,da.....

Education is a good thing.

I'm 'Deeply Disappointed,' Had No Idea, Shocked.

Oh wait, that was the last thread.

Meanwhile, Fine picture of Hillary knocking back a wee dram

How ironic, a terrorist symbol of death purchased at the Tree of Life store. The tree of life, eytz chaim, is a very common Jewish theme that actually celebrates life. Sadly, the store is probably owned by a moonbat self-loathing Jew.

“I thought it was a nice scarf, a cowboy scarf..."

I was at a kids party not long ago and there was a little guy about ten years old wearing a Che Geuvara t-shirt. I asked him who it was on his shirt and he said, "he's a soccer player".

re: #6 EC Marm

It was paisley.

/ fillin' in for o%u0287%u0131u%u0183o%u0254

* * *
Paisley is not so innocent, amigos!

Paisley is originally an Iranian symbol, and is now associated with Kashmir in Pakistan/India, where radicals riot over ideology they export.

re: #59 JamesTKirk

After all, look what happened to my ability to make flags...

True. The flags were fun, now that you &#9758 that out.

re: #61 OldLineTexan

Speaking of opera, the local right-wing reactionary talk radio host mentioned that there has been an opera commissioned based on AlGore's classic fairy tale, An Inconvenient Truth.

To be performed at La Scala in Milan in 2010 or 2011? ? ? Funny if by then, his "theory" has been entirely disproved!
:D

Once again Islamists tell us exactly what their intent is, Leftists dutifully ignore it in their pursuit to displace Conservative culture, and the media selectively reports the news.

re: #69 alegrias

* * *
Paisley is not so innocent, amigos!

Paisley is originally an Iranian symbol, and is now associated with Kashmir in Pakistan/India, where radicals riot over ideology they export.

Wot?

What do I do with my 1970s paisley neckties?

"This is a very stressful job for a casual," the university biotechnology student said.

Yeah, you must be so envious of all the women who juggle professional careers and child rearing. If only you could have it so easy, Ms Tieger.

¡%u0183u%u0131u%u0279o%u026F s%u0131%u0265%u0287 p%u01DDq %u01DD%u0265%u0287 %u025Fo %u01DDp%u0131s %u0183uo%u0279%u028D %u01DD%u0265%u0287 uo dn %u0287o%u0183 %u0131 ¡ll%u0250 %u0250%u028E %u0131%u0265

Lunch

BBL

re: #66 itellu3times

I'm 'Deeply Disappointed,' Had No Idea, Shocked.

Oh wait, that was the last thread.

Meanwhile, Fine picture of Hillary knocking back a wee dram

She drinks whiskey and wears pants. She can take on any man!

re: #56 ploome hineni

did you see my post to you, on the previous thread?

Just went back and looked now. I had abandoned that thread as soon as this one popped up.

But remember, racism like that is never a problem when the left do it. Look at how they treated Steele and Rice, for instance.

/and somehow by going back to that last thread, I got logged out. Hrm.

re: #49 BignJames

Are baggy, gang-banger pants a fashion or political statement?

/inquiring minds

Depends on if it's fashionable or political to hide your guns and drugs.

Talk to a cop. They LOVE the baggy pants/no belt/boxers hanging out six inches thing.

Why?

Because these fools still keep their wallets in their pants. When they try to run from the cops, down go the pants.

I have a friend who is a Harris County (Texas) sheriff's deputy. He's done at least one arrest where they just drove over to the dummy house and arrested him as he walked up in his drawers.

re: #46 loppyd

the trouble is red is for Crips and blue is for Bloods or vice versa. now we have gang apparel, can't win.

re: #73 itellu3times

Wot?

What do I do with my 1970s paisley neckties?

Place them on the same box as your 60' dickies.

“A Palestinian customer came up and asked me if I’m wearing this scarf as a fashion statement or for political reasons.

“I had no idea what he was talking about because I don’t follow politics at all. I just laughed it off.

“Two days later he called and complained about it.”

Heh-heh.

Tee-hee.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Did the palestinian happen to mention just what the message was? Something like "Death to the Infidel".

From the photo of the keffiyah-sportin' girl, it's clear she knows nothing about fashion. Everyone knows she should have dyed her hair green to represent Hamas, not red.

re: #69 alegrias

I'm not giving up my paisley. I like paisley. I also like dashikis, though I haven't seen one with a good pattern, lately.

re: #80 cybermonk

the trouble is red is for Crips and blue is for Bloods or vice versa. now we have gang apparel, can't win.

Aunt Jemima weeps.

Cognito says it can't be so, Cognito wears "its" for fashion purposes.

re: #75 marge45b

?%u0183u%u0131u%u0279o%u026F s%u0131%u0265%u0287 p%u01DDq %u01DD%u0265%u0287 %u025Fo %u01DDp%u0131s %u0183uo%u0279%u028D %u01DD%u0265%u0287 uo dn %u0287o%u0183 %u0131 ?ll%u0250 %u0250%u028E %u0131%u0265

!...>..^0((***=?

Maybe the sales of the rags will drop off now that the terrorist sympathizers are the ones being offended.

re: #75 marge45b

%uFFFD%u0183u%u0131u%u0279o%u026F s%u0131%u0265%u0287 p%u01DDq %u01DD%u0265%u0287 %u025Fo %u01DDp%u0131s %u0183uo%u0279%u028D %u01DD%u0265%u0287 uo dn %u0287o%u0183 %u0131 %uFFFDll%u0250 %u0250%u028E %u0131%u0265

WOW...Marge, happy hour started early?

re: #37 Dianna

There is one thing about this that annoys me. I have a black and white scarf I like. I no longer wear it, lest someone think it's a keffiyeh.

actually also navy and white or red and white(Saudis)..the pattern is very particular though. I have a red/white one when I was in DS pulling med support for psyops. They all had the whole garb.

re: #81 jorline

Place them on the same box as your 60' dickies.

OK, plenty of space, my Nehru jackets escaped several years ago and got jobs doing tech support.

re: #81 jorline

60' dickies.
Is that a 60 foot dicky?

re: #78 JamesTKirk

ahhh..what d'you know...you only date green chicks...

:-D

It's not the size of the dicky, it's how u use it

re: #73 itellu3times

Wot?

What do I do with my 1970s paisley neckties?

* * *
Blame the Beatles, wot did it! The Beatles popularized Indian/Paisley when they went to India in the 1960s.

Sell them on E-bay! Liberty of London prints, like Burberry, that's better than keffiyeh garbage.

Cowboy with scarf (on left)

re: #68 Ringo the Gringo

I was at a kids party not long ago and there was a little guy about ten years old wearing a Che Geuvara t-shirt. I asked him who it was on his shirt and he said, "he's a soccer player".

"No, he's not a soccer player. He's a bad man who liked to kill kids your age for fun."

I bet that would go over really well.

/Pawn is always a hit at parties

re: #92 paxnhymn

I tend to look at the pattern in red and see "Italian restaurant tablecloth."

re: #85 Dianna

I'm not giving up my paisley. I like paisley. I also like dashikis, though I haven't seen one with a good pattern, lately.

* * *
You been sleeping through the pastor's sermons again? Those dashikis were so bright they'd burn through my closed eyelids.

Hey {RED}! How you doin? Thought I would miss you again...as I am on my way out.

re: #93 itellu3times

OK, plenty of space, my Nehru jackets escaped several years ago and got jobs doing tech support.

LMAO...didn't know if anyone remembered dickies. I had a great orange Nehru jacket...come to think of it, I had hair back then too!

re: #92 paxnhymn

Seriously, when I am flying missions over there, I usually wear a khaki kaffiyeh that I bought at the Al-Udeid BX tent. They are really good for keeping the grit out when you do engine-running patient onloads on the C-130's. But wear it on the street back home? I don't think so.

re: #71 redstateredneck

To be performed at La Scala in Milan in 2010 or 2011? ? ? Funny if by then, his "theory" has been entirely disproved!
:D

It was for 2011. As I understand it, we will all be floating in the rising ocean, which will be full of drowned polar bears. Whales will rule the world once more, and they will seek revenge. Man, once at the top of the food chain, will devolve back into his primitive swimming ape form, clinging bitterly to guns and religion in the shallows of the Ohio and Illinois seas. Texas will slide back into the Gulf, no longer kept back even by the fact that Oklahoma sucks. Crops will fail, but shrimp will be cheap, plentiful, and tasteless due to shortages of butter and cornmeal. New Orleans will replace Atlantis, and the soggy ape poets will write dirges for the lost welfare paradise as they sit on their bamboo perches.

re: #101 alegrias

Those were not good patterns.

re: #95 paxnhymn

ahhh..what d'you know...you only date green chicks...
:-D

And real Orion women find Earth women wearing "greenface" to be offensive.

re: #100 Dianna

I tend to look at the pattern in red and see "Italian restaurant tablecloth."

Stick a candle in a chianti bottle and you're all set.

did you forward this to the Rachel Ray and Dunkin Donuts people so they can see what the thread the other day was all about ?

re: #94 redstateredneck

60' dickies.
Is that a 60 foot dicky?

I know, I know...and the waters deep too! Ment 60's...sorry

re: #102 Beach Lover

Hey {RED}! How you doin? Thought I would miss you again...as I am on my way out.

{ { {BEACHIE} } }!

re: #61 OldLineTexan

there has been an opera commissioned based on AlGore's classic fairy tale, An Inconvenient Truth.

Working title options:

The Ring of Bullsh*t Cycle
The Lady of the Rising Lake Level
The Carbon Footprint of Figaro
Il Bullshatore

re: #100 Dianna

I tend to look at the pattern in red and see "Italian restaurant tablecloth."

yeah but the pattern size changes and it has the characteristic fashionista/jihadi "fringe" about it...who knew splodeydopes were such trendsetters?

re: #104 buzzsawmonkey

Supposedly they are a reference to the droopy-drawers effect that occurs in prison, where one is not allowed a belt.

In addition to the straightforward "I'm-tough-'cause-I'm-a-prison-thug" implication, there is also an oblique implication that Mr. Droopy Drawers is so extra tough that he can protect his back passage from the assaults which often occur in prison, despite the fact that his half-mast pants are making it...more available.

sorry, minor and polite correction here
droop drawers in prison means one thing

you are checked in by inmates
given clothes by inmates
if you are given droopy drawers, the inmate(s)
that checked you in, marked you for rape bait
it's not a nadge of honor, it's a target

re: #105 The Jinxmedic

Seriously, when I am flying missions over there, I usually wear a khaki kaffiyeh that I bought at the Al-Udeid BX tent. They are really good for keeping the grit out when you do engine-running patient onloads on the C-130's. But wear it on the street back home? I don't think so.

We just used to call them "Drive On" rags. Of course ours were normally just the OD Green sling from the aid kit.
/real men don't need slings no way

I think 2012 will be a banner year for Republicans.

First, the 2010 census will be complete and Texas will gain at least four seats. The other seats will go to light red or light blue states, away from dark blue NY, etc.

Secondly, the MSM, at least the print media, will have collapsed. Americans will be getting their news from overtly biased sources. If the left continues to visit only their own lefty sites and hear only their own voices in their echochamber, we on the right will be more broad in our sourcing and info. This will be a huge advantage in elections.

Thirdly, because I'm expecting to win the presidency and lose Senate/House seats in 2008, many of these seats will switch back into the Republican column in 2012.

Fourthly, Republicans have children and more of them than Dems. By 2012, many of our children will be voting Rep. Of all the demographic and other data used to predict voting preferences, the most reliable and accurate indication is how one's family voted. Since we usually vote R, our kids will too!

Fifthly, the stupid opera/play remake of Gore's fantasy science in 2011 will drive the last shivering typical white person(s) into the Republican Party.

re: #109 redstateredneck

It's sad to see an entire family suffering from that much fashion impairment; this from a woman who won't buy anything that won't go with black shoes and stockings.

re: #110 Adrenalyn

No need to, everyone knows its all about fearmongering from the deranged right.

/kaffiyeh wearing moonbat

....the widespread use of the keffiyeh for fashion had watered down its meaning.

O good!....& the Lizard King STRIKES again!

re: #113 Occasional Reader

the phantom of the mind

So now all good jewish and other libnuts will have to choose. They can't pretend they are wearing this as a fashion accessory because to do so would be to offend phakistinians, and it's against libnut ideology to offend any minority or people of color of allegedly oppressed persons. Thus the only way they could wear it is by explicitly avowing phakistinian genocidal political ideology of the phakistinians. This is a red letter day.

re: #112 redstateredneck

dang! You don't have to yell!

re: #114 paxnhymn

Some older tablecloths have fringes.

re: #116 Just_A_Grunt

We just used to call them "Drive On" rags. Of course ours were normally just the OD Green sling from the aid kit.
/real men don't need slings no way

and that's exactly why a wardmaster, nurse, or medic could never find a damn sling when they needed one! You damn groundpounders were always stealin' em!

re: #117 buzzsawmonkey

The old Aunt Jemima images had auntie with her hair in a bandanna and with a red-checked apron. There's potentially an interesting hijab-and-keffiyah photoshop in there somewhere.

The new Aunt Jemima just looks like a black Betty Crocker.

Look what is back at DK... 9/11 "Truth" Movement

re: #115 Adrenalyn

I learn so much at LGF....................

;)

re: #53 redstateredneck
Oh, thank you very much! I consider it simply being polite to our host. You, OTOH, must have deep seated feelings about something I'd rather not discuss! LOL!

re: #8 VegasRick

Shevonne Hunt, a freelance journalist who has reported on the keffiyeh's popularity in Australia, said many Palestinians were annoyed the widespread use of the keffiyeh for fashion had watered down its meaning.

I hope they don't mind that I use one to wipe my a** once in a while.

CHUCKLE !

Red....would like to stay & chat, but have to run out. Are you gonna be here all day? I'll try to find you and maybe run into m along the way?!

buhbye for now

re: #124 Beach Lover

dang! You don't have to yell!

I was afraid you were goin' out the door!

re: #129 BFSkinner

Look what is back at DK... 9/11 "Truth" Movement

Wonder how long it'll last till Markos gets wind of it?

re: #129 BFSkinner

Look what is back at DK... 9/11 "Truth" Movement

That's the same kind of "movement" I cleaned out of my son's diapers.

I want the Kaffiyeh to become a fashion item. Let everyone wear them and dilute the message. Once the fashion trend passes, and it will, then we'll be back to identifying the political supporters of terrorism. Further, our troops could co-opt the symbol for their own purposes. The military could issue the rags to every Soldier and Marine on duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and the horn of Africa. It can be a symbol of OUR success.

re: #136 Honorary Yooper

Wonder how long it'll last till Markos gets wind of it?

Given the stink from the rest of that site, I'd wonder that he could "get wind" of anything.

re: #136 Honorary Yooper

Wonder how long it'll last till Markos gets wind of it?

Nod... most of the comments either say how such things are "frowned" upon there, or that Bush is too dumb to have done it, or has done worse things then the killings of 9/11. Typical noise.

re: #131 buzzsawmonkey

She doesn't have the Michelle Obama Scowl™?

Naw, that'd be like, "Donchoo eat no pancakes outta this box, you white devil!"

a cowboy scarf

More like a camelboy scarf actually...

re: #127 paxnhymn

Sure, blame the grunt. That is what everybody does, you gruntist!
/ :)

re: #126 buzzsawmonkey

It's hysterical to watch the droopy pants crowd cross the street. If they need to hurry at all, they have to pick up the sides like a victorian woman.

I have pointed that out on occasion.

buzzsawmonkey

wahabicorridor

it's been that way for decades
ask anyone who's been in the pen
on either side of the tower

only the strong survive
though being silent helps if you're not a big badass

re: #137 JamesTKirk

That's the same kind of "movement" I cleaned out of my son's diapers.

that's the ONLY thing I have no stomach for...CRAPPY HIPPINS!

(GAG!)

re: #137 JamesTKirk

That's the same kind of "movement" I cleaned out of my son's diapers.

lol.

Shhh it's interfering with my tin foil hat.

re: #132 realwest

Oh, thank you very much! I consider it simply being polite to our host. You, OTOH, must have deep seated feelings about something I'd rather not discuss! LOL!

I'm just pickin'!
;-)

re: #143 Ringo the Gringo

More like a camelboy scarf actually...

That's a very cute young couple.

re: #134 Beach Lover

Later, girl!

re: #138 buzzsawmonkey

I thought that the meaning couldn't be "watered down" because the Israelis had stolen all the water.

/sarc

Da Jooooosss did it!

re: #129 BFSkinner

Look what is back at DK... 9/11 "Truth" Movement

BTW, he has a poll up. Here are the results thus far:

52% - Believe the story of 9/11 as is
28% - Believe the government knew it would happen & allowed it to happen
12% - Believe the government was in on it
8% - Believe the Bush Cabal was involved

Should I buy stock in Alcoa?

re: #139 ratherdashing

I want the Kaffiyeh to become a fashion item. Let everyone wear them and dilute the message. Once the fashion trend passes, and it will, then we'll be back to identifying the political supporters of terrorism. Further, our troops could co-opt the symbol for their own purposes. The military could issue the rags to every Soldier and Marine on duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and the horn of Africa. It can be a symbol of OUR success.

* * *
Sorry, not in agreement with this.

We have plenty of great symbols that I'm proud to promote, but not those of totalitarian ideologies, thank you very much.

If you are going to wear a tablecloth, don't forget your fan belt. You never know when your old lady is going to mouth off and need a bit of discipline, right Achmed? Besides I would never go anywhere without my trusty camel hobble and combination dust filter, arm sling, and triangular bandage.

re: #154 Honorary Yooper

BTW, he has a poll up. Here are the results thus far:

52% - Believe the story of 9/11 as is
28% - Believe the government knew it would happen & allowed it to happen
12% - Believe the government was in on it
8% - Believe the Bush Cabal was involved

Should I buy stock in Alcoa?

48% of the populace is insane.

re: #15 JamesTKirk

It's more gentle on the behind than the pages of the Quran I usually use.

20+ YEARS AGO I USED TO USE ONE AS A DIAPER COVER

re: #139 ratherdashing

I want the Kaffiyeh to become a fashion item. Let everyone wear them and dilute the message. Once the fashion trend passes, and it will, then we'll be back to identifying the political supporters of terrorism. Further, our troops could co-opt the symbol for their own purposes. The military could issue the rags to every Soldier and Marine on duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and the horn of Africa. It can be a symbol of OUR success.

then can we given each soldier and marine a Koran to use for target practice ?

re: #99 Pawn of the Oppressor

"No, he's not a soccer player. He's a bad man who liked to kill kids your age for fun."

I bet that would go over really well.

/Pawn is always a hit at parties

I actually did tell him that the guy on his shirt was a very bad man.

I even taught the kid the word communist.

Behead all infidels who wear the kaffiyeh!

re: #154 Honorary Yooper

BTW, he has a poll up. Here are the results thus far:

52% - Believe the story of 9/11 as is
28% - Believe the government knew it would happen & allowed it to happen
12% - Believe the government was in on it
8% - Believe the Bush Cabal was involved

Should I buy stock in Alcoa?

Beyond just the sheer nut-jobness of DK elements that is what I do not understand. I mean, just hold in check the nut-ness factor. I mean the hypocrtical nature abounds. They post and post and post about how "dumb" Bush is, yet they then post things about how he has pulled off (in those pulls) such massive feats. They preach acceptance towards all....but Jews, etc.

I'm beginning to see a trend here....the Left is ALWAYS wrong!

Palestinians have no fashion sense. Hence the confusion.

re: #117 buzzsawmonkey

The old Aunt Jemima images had auntie with her hair in a bandanna and with a red-checked apron. There's potentially an interesting hijab-and-keffiyah photoshop in there somewhere.

Been there, done that.

re: #160 Ringo the Gringo

I even taught the kid the word communist.

Can you say "commie"? it rhymes with "Mommy", the silly bitch that dressed you like that.

re: #139 ratherdashing

I want the Kaffiyeh to become a fashion item. Let everyone wear them and dilute the message. Once the fashion trend passes, and it will, then we'll be back to identifying the political supporters of terrorism. Further, our troops could co-opt the symbol for their own purposes. The military could issue the rags to every Soldier and Marine on duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and the horn of Africa. It can be a symbol of OUR success.

Perhaps a red white and blue version of the Kaffiyeh for our troops would be a good idea.

Here's someone in Australia worried about "keffiyeh abuse", which the writer defines as cultural imperialism. The fashion world and the Israelis are "occupying" arab culture and making it their own.
[Link: enqalabe.blogspot.com...]

“I had no idea what he was talking about because I don’t follow politics at all. I just laughed it off."

Ignorance is bliss, eh? It is contributing to the fall of western civilization and strengthening our self-proclaimed enemies.

Your head may be in the sand, but your ass is in plain sight.

re: #117 buzzsawmonkey

The old Aunt Jemima images had auntie with her hair in a bandanna and with a red-checked apron. There's potentially an interesting hijab-and-keffiyah photoshop in there somewhere.

No waffles for y&#9787u.

For what it's worth, this is the Jewish agency the news site contacted for a statement on the issue..........it was mentioned at the very end of the article Charles linked to.

Ms Tieger said she had “no idea about the politics” when she bought the scarf at the Tree Of Life store.

On Fox News late show, Red Eye, last night they dumped on those who criticized Rachael Ray/Dunkin Doughnuts; they didn't see the problem. I only barely avoided having a one-way conversation with my TV, knowing that they missed the point, the significance is that it is no longer just a scarf to those who anointed it as a symbol for terrorists. Too many people just aren't paying enough attention to what is going on in the world.

Now only 34 percent say it was exactly as portrayed. :)

re: #165 Alouette

Been there, done that.

Genius.

re: #175 BFSkinner

Now only 34 percent say it was exactly as portrayed. :)

It's the Luap Nor effect.

Another quote frm the Australian blog:
"While you can find it in red and white, the black and white keffiyeh is the most prominent. It is commonly understood in the Muslim world as a symbol of Palestinian nationalism and is mainly associated here in the West with the solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self determination and liberation."
[Link: enqalabe.blogspot.com...]

re: #163 Gjergj Skënderbeu

I'm beginning to see a trend here....the Left is ALWAYS wrong!

Not always, but most of the time they're picking daisies in right field.

re: #155 alegrias

* * *
Sorry, not in agreement with this.

We have plenty of great symbols that I'm proud to promote, but not those of totalitarian ideologies, thank you very much.

That's why we adopt it. So that it no longer is identified with the totalitarians. Otherwise we can stick to our "symbols" that are in place. Do you have an example of one that has come out of this current war?

Awww, it's gone now.

The Krazy Kaffiyeh Kerfuffle!

So let me see if I have this figured out: ...you're racist if you critisize somebody for wearing a kaffiyeh as a pro-Pali political statement, but if somebody is wearing the kaffiyeh as a fashion accessory, with no understanding of the political issues, then that person is a racist too. And that's because the kaffiyeh is a fashion accessory used as a political symbol by a pseudo-ethnic terrorist group dedicated to exterminating the Jewish race.

Ouch! That's just too much cognitive dissonance for my brain to take. I think I better go lay down a while.

re: #8 VegasRick

Palestinians were annoyed the widespread use of the keffiyeh for fashion had watered down its meaning.
I hope they don't mind that I use one to wipe my a** once in a while.

Wow! Now there's a great novelty product idea. Do you remember seeing the toilet paper rolls that resemble dollar bills, so you can wipe your a** with money? Someone should produce a roll of keffiyeh TP, I am certain there is a market for it.

re: #167 Ringo the Gringo

I was thinking of something more subdued:

shemagh

re: #183 Pshawalaw

Wow! Now there's a great novelty product idea. Do you remember seeing the toilet paper rolls that resemble dollar bills, so you can wipe your a** with money? Someone should produce a roll of keffiyeh TP, I am certain there is a market for it.

I don't want to abuse my ass.

re: #183 Pshawalaw

Wow! Now there's a great novelty product idea. Do you remember seeing the toilet paper rolls that resemble dollar bills, so you can wipe your a** with money? Someone should produce a roll of keffiyeh TP, I am certain there is a market for it.

I'm a little concerned about the fringe.

re: #178 jaunte

Pali hanky code: the black & white kaffiyeh is pro-Fatah faction, the red & white kaffiyeh is pro-Hamas.

re: #184 ratherdashing

I was thinking of something more subdued:

shemagh

Yup, that's the one. Works good.

Now I need one of those "Infidel" t-shirts to wear with it under my flight suit.

My pigs like them.

re: #188 The Jinxmedic

Yup, that's the one. Works good.

Now I need one of those "Infidel" t-shirts to wear with it under my flight suit.

Maybe she can loan you hers.

re: #190 ratherdashing

Maybe she can loan you hers.

Wow. maybe not. :-)

I think the young lady has beautiful eyes and the fact some store sold her a loaded political symbol is shameful.

She seems like a pretty normal person who got caught up in other people' idiocy. The fact the Palestinians' symbol is a mask to disguise who they are is quite apt. All notions of democracy and honorable adherence to the laws of war are hidden by the scarf. You hide your identity because you are fighting outside the normal laws of war.

Ms. Teigan, you are forgiven.

re: #180 ratherdashing

That's why we adopt it. So that it no longer is identified with the totalitarians. Otherwise we can stick to our "symbols" that are in place. Do you have an example of one that has come out of this current war?

* * *
Sorry, I'm sticking with my symbols, not the caliphates'.

Afghan women & men wear those shalwar kamises that look like Hillary's pantsuits only the top is longer.

Hillary's showing solidarity with Afghan women?

Heh. I walked past the Urban Outfitters in the Woodlands Mall a couple weeks ago. The sales clerk stationed near the door was wearing a pair of skin tight teal jeans and a NEON PINK and black Kaffiyeh. I wonder what statement he was trying to make?

I'm thinking of buying a kaffiyeh to wear to the beach this summer.
It'll make a dandy loin cloth.

That's the fashion statement I want to make.

re: #195 bitsy

Queers for Palestine?

I used to wear one in the 80's. I loved it, thought it was perfect for certain weather, and rather comfy.

It is too bad that this rather useful garment is now a symbol of evil.

I don't look too harshly on those that do wear it, I can understand the appeal outside of politics.

re: #187 Kenneth

Pali hanky code: the black & white kaffiyeh is pro-Fatah faction, the red & white kaffiyeh is pro-Hamas.

and not blowing them both the fuck up is pro-terrorist.

One question: In Australia, is a bottleshop a liquor store? If so, why was this pious Muslim even in there?

re: #40 NoSubmission

Or Paris.

How's this for an idea - *everyone* start wearing one. Seriously. Turn the kaffiyeh into nothing more than a mildly unattractive scarf until it loses all meaning as a symbol of 'solidarity.' Diluting the power of their symbols might actually work out well.

I dunno, it's times like these where I think mainstreaming the scarf is one of the best ways of belittling the terrorists. Plus, it's one of the things the capitalist machine does best: take what's good (looking) and leave out the rest. While I think it's important to avoid using the scarf as a symbol, I think it's great that we're pissing off Palestinians by making "their symbol" meaningless. I'd love to see a scarf like that that says "horray israel" on the front or something like that.

re: #197 redstateredneck

I guess so. Either that or color-vision deficient individuals for Palestine.

re: #203 dmjboose

I dunno, it's times like these where I think mainstreaming the scarf is one of the best ways of belittling the terrorists. Plus, it's one of the things the capitalist machine does best: take what's good (looking) and leave out the rest. While I think it's important to avoid using the scarf as a symbol, I think it's great that we're pissing off Palestinians by making "their symbol" meaningless. I'd love to see a scarf like that that says "horray israel" on the front or something like that.

True. Co-opting an icon disarms it.

re: #196 Speller

I'm thinking of buying a kaffiyeh to wear to the beach this summer.
It'll make a dandy loin cloth.

That's the fashion statement I want to make.

Actually, I was thinking that one might make an awesome protest bikini.

re: #205 kuffarharbi

True. Co-opting an icon disarms it.

Haha... so true! The ever popular Houndstooth Desert Scarf comes in teal and yellow. The closely related Buffalo Plaid Fringe Scarf comes in even better colors!

re: #203 dmjboose

I'd love to see a scarf like that that says "horray israel" on the front or something like that.

How about:

[Link: www.israelmilitary.com...]

The picture's not great, but it's a "Star of David Kaffiyeh."

A Palestinian customer came up and asked me if I’m wearing this scarf as a fashion statement or for political reasons.

“Two days later he called and complained about it.”

The commentors at the nyt blog can put that in their pipe and smoke it.

re: #8 VegasRick

Shevonne Hunt, a freelance journalist who has reported on the keffiyeh's popularity in Australia, said many Palestinians were annoyed the widespread use of the keffiyeh for fashion had watered down its meaning.

I hope they don't mind that I use one to wipe my a** once in a while.

... mind the ink stains.  Some inks are toxic so be careful about exposing such an unprotected part of yourself.

}:)     ["Holy skidmarks, Batman!"]

How ironic.

The kaffiyeh is not a political symbol in the Middle East. Normal people wear it as a scarf when it's cold and windy. Outside the Middle East, however, it has become a a political symbol. And that is only because terrorist sympathizers decided to use it as one.

re: #15 JamesTKirk

re: #15 JamesTKirk

It's more gentle on the behind than the pages of the Quran I usually use.

Man, I hate it when I get a paper cut there ...

}:)     [You'd think they'd print it on softer paper ... ]

Last night I noticed that I have a bottle of Rachael Ray Extra Virgin Olive Oil on my counter. There's a joke in there somewhere, but I haven't been able to come up with it.

“I thought it was a nice scarf, a cowboy scarf. I thought: ‘It’s black and white, no-one will say anything to me because that’s all we can wear [with our work uniform]’.

So this ditsy Kiwi chick with red dyed hair blows through a radar trap at 80 mph in her convertible and the cop jumps in his car and pursues.

The chick isn't paying his flashers any mind so he pulls up beside her and to his amazement she's knitting something black and white!

The cop rolls down his window and yells, "Pull over!"

The Kiwi chick yells back, "No, scarf!"

Get your Jewish scarf here

[Link: www.gpil.us...]

re: #75 marge45b

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Last time I heard that, it was in a porn film.

}:)     [Debbie Does Mecca or something like that ... ]

this is classic. I have an idea. Lets let all the "fashionable" cool people who want to wear the rag go and hang with Hamas for a week in Gaza. I think that with the purchase of these rag they should come with an all expense paid week long vacation in the heart of beautiful GAZA. I think it would really open their eyes, and possibly necks to the real situation over there. I mean what better way to be sensitive than to actually go over there. I mean, since you bought the rag it shows "solidarity" with Hamas and all the "victimized" people.

Then when the cool, fashionably hip people get kidnapped and held for ransom....we just let them stay there. It would be an excellent learning experience for all the kooks in the rags like rachael ray.

re: #195 bitsy

that he takes it in.... nevermind i have never had a post deleted

re: #88 republic

Cognito says it can't be so, Cognito wears "its" for fashion purposes.

So true! And I understand you, republic, enjoy kicking old ladies in the street.

(How's it feel to have someone make up things about you?)

Symbols and their meanings. Symbols can lose their meanings, too.

Long ago (man, I'm getting old) I was a rep for a consumer goods company and based in Pine Bluff, AR. Pine Bluff was and is a majority minority city (what I'm trying to say is that it was about 40% white and 60% black) so most of the customers I dealt with were not of my racial background.

There was a TV show called The Dukes of Hazzard, and it probably says something about our society when I tell you that this show was a hit. People loved it. Couple of country bumpkins and a leggy boobalicious girl doing improbable car tricks in a late '60's Dodge Charger with a Confederate flag on it (the red one with the X on it, not the stars and bars). Come to think of it, I believe that a movie may have been recently made so you've probably heard of it.

Annnywho, I'm working in one of my stores one day behind the counter and this little black boy (I'd guess no older than 10, if that old) asked me to hand him one of the toy cars displayed behind me. I did so, giving him a black Charger. He refused my pick, saying "Naw, man, gimme one wit de Duke sign on it."

At the time, I thought it a harbinger of better racial relations that what once was the symbol of a country that had most likely enslaved his ancestors had become simply a 'Duke sign' and meant nothing more to this child than a connection to a popular TV show.

And millions ingest croissants every morning...and ironically in Muslim societies too......, unknowingly celebrating the defeat of the Islamist Ottomans in 1683 outside the gates of Vienna.

New business idea:

Silk-screen rainbows on them, and sell them at Gay Pride parades all over the country. Let the Palestinians smell the irony.

That's my McClellen cash-out (or is it "cash-in"?) idea for the day.

re: #213 wrenchwench

Last night I noticed that I have a bottle of Rachael Ray Extra Virgin Olive Oil on my counter. There's a joke in there somewhere, but I haven't been able to come up with it.

Instead of a 57 like a Heinz ketchup bottle, does it have a 72 on it anywhere?

So I was googling the keffiyeh and found a ditzy-looking blog by a "Native Muslimah revert" with comments I found pertinent and amusing at the same time.

"i think we have those [keffiyehs] in like everyyy color! it really irritates me to see people wearing those merely as a fashion statement. can you imagine i saw a yahoodi wearing one once? lol i was like err... huhh?"

"A yahudi wearing a Palestinian scarf. That's like a nazi wearing a Star of David. WTH?"

"Salam'alaikum aalia!
being half palestinian i appreciate ur support so thanx! "

link

Somehow, I don't think that for them it's just a scarf.

re: #44 redstateredneck

I have a similar problem with an antique gold crescent moon pin. It has to sit in my jewelry box and I used to love it.
:-(

Wear it points up and tell everybody you're a Sailor Moon fan.

re: #59 JamesTKirk

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re: #198 Johnny 100 Pesos

I used to wear one in the 80's. I loved it, thought it was perfect for certain weather, and rather comfy.

It is too bad that this rather useful garment is now a symbol of evil.

I don't look too harshly on those that do wear it, I can understand the appeal outside of politics.

Try this: a silk flying scarf.

I have a t-shirt with a picture of a chimpanzee on it. Obviously I am a Bush Supporter.

I would like to get an explosive vest for fashion purposes only. Anybody out there help me?

The other day I read an Arab guy's blog - he had a humorous article making fun of "loony tunes hippies" for wearing kaffiyahs or "anti-war scarves." His basic reason for scoffing was different from mine, but his take on the scarf wearers was pretty much the same as mine - they are clueless twits.

I'm hoping that Charles will be consistant with his campaign against Arab scarves being incorporated into pop culture because he believes they symbolize terrorism by also standing against The Dukes Of Hazzard for displaying a Confederate Flag.

re: #231 justiceforall

I'm hoping that Charles will be consistant with his campaign against Arab scarves being incorporated into pop culture because he believes they symbolize terrorism by also standing against The Dukes Of Hazzard for displaying a Confederate Flag.

re: #231 justiceforall

You either forgot the sarc or stupid tag.

re: #231 justiceforall

Read the newer posts on this thread, "Justice", the ones about the Moslem who complained about a salesclerk wearing the Kaffiyah as a mere fashion statement, not a symbol of struggle, and the other one, wherein it's stated that the Kaffiyah is a symbol of Palestinian struggle.

It's not Charles who'se being consistent about the Kaffiyah being a terrorist symbol. It's Moslems themselves.

P.S. Well, as I recall, none of the characters in "Dukes of Hazard' advocated terrorism, or killing innocents to get their message (Dukes of Hazard had a message?) across to anybody----unlike Yassir Arafat, and countless other Kaffiyah wearers. If you can show us a contemporary terrorist movement that advocates murdering civilians and spreading terror, and which uses the Confederate flag as their symbol, then we'll all condemn the brain-dead idiots who flaunt it as a fashion statement. (Yeah, I know some bikers and white power types have tried co-opting it---but not to the point that the kaffiyeh's been taken up by moonbat fashionistas. And there is, at this moment, no organized criminal gang with great power, like Hamas or Hezbollah, flaunting the Stars and Bars.)

P.P.S. By the by---as I recall, you never did answer any questions on the other thread, re the "victimization" T-shirt. Or the one before that. Seriously, do you have anything to offer other than snarky snarkisms?

re: #231 justiceforall

And, next time, take Kansas' advice and remember the sarcasm tag---or the stupid tag; or, in your case, it should be the snarkasm tag.

re: #229 kansas

I want to get a T-shirt with a Crusader cross on it, and a hoodie with a picture of Richard the Lionheart killing infidels, and the caption, "The Good Old Days!" on it.---or, maybe, a silver Crusader sword pendant.

Then, I want to play dumb when somebody accuses me of being racist and/or Islamophobic, bat my eyes and say sweetly, "Awwww, c'mon, it's only a fashion statement. Why, people wear hoodies and t-shirts and pendants all the time!"

re: #231 justiceforall

And, next time, you might try actually reading the article the thread is about.

I repeat: it's an Islamic writer, not Charles, who'se claiming the kaffiayeh as a symbol of Palestinian resistance here.

re: #236 TalkinKamel

You have to take into account its nic has an implicit.

re: #61 OldLineTexan

Is this for real?

Mandatory Islam in Texas of all places?

This is nothing but an insult to the people and state of Texas because this is President Bush's home state.

If the [bigoted word]s try to push this nonsense, some of the good ol' boys may come up with creative responses -- such as dead pigs in their mosque for starters.

re: #220 razorbacker

I have one even better.

I went to UNO several years ago; to get there I had to catch three buses to get to there from Harahan. At one of the stops in New Orleans I saw this black man wearing a large silver belt buckle that had a Confederate flag on it. I asked him about the flag and his response was, hey he liked it and thought it was cool.

re: #200 doppelganglander

Yes. In Australia a bottleshop is the liquor outlet attached to a pub. For reasons that are unclear you can't (don't) buy bottles to take-away from the bar but from the bottleshop.

BTW Bondi is the Sydney suburb considered to be the heart of the (Jewish) 'ghetto'. Kemenys is a large liquor distributor - wine merchant. It is (or was) a Jewish owned business. Technically I don't think it's a bottle shop but I may just be nitpicking.

BTW When I first visited Israel in 1973 I bought a keffiya in Jerusalem. At that time anyone wearing a keffiya in Sydney was almost certainly a Jewish student who had visited Israel. After a while I stopped wearing it and it gave me several years good service as a tablecloth.

Personally I have to agree with NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff from the original article. He said

the wearing of the keffiyeh as a fashion item was a "non-issue".

"It's a non-issue as far as we are concerned. If someone chooses to wear such an item for whatever reason that's their choice."