Great now I can't just buy junk anymore.

They are not fools. They know they have to diversify away from a one trick pony economy or perish in time.

Forget the freakin' caribou. Can we start drilling in Alaska now?

saw this coming. they are trying to find ways to fund Jihad when the oil runs out

Interesting they'd want to invest their money in the infidel West instead of improving their own countries, or giving the money to zakat. They don't want to make a better life for their fellow muslims- they want to subject the West and bring it down to their level.

Diversify. That's what I predict this is about. The oil money runs out, one day.

This will go over like a port deal in 2006.

re: #5 Sharmuta

Interesting they'd want to invest their money in the infidel West instead of improving their own countries, or giving the money to zakat. They don't want to make a better life for their fellow muslims- they want to subject the West and bring it down to their level.

Have you been to or have seen pictures of the Emirates?

Massive internal investment - some frivolous - in modern infrastructure. Socialized medicine ... etc.

This is what $83 per barrel buys.

Burj

re: #9 RTLM

This is what $83 per barrel buys.

Burj

Actually that was what $40 bbl bought.

OT: Thai govt exhuming a possible mass-burial (mass-murder) site in southern Thailand.

More as it happens

Karridine

Dubai: 1991 - 2005

re: #8 Bobibutu

I wouldn't go to an islamic country for all the oil in Iraq. It's not just their particular country they should invest in- it's the ummah. They would rather invest in the infidel's community than their own- mo cannot be amused.

Its ok..when the do something REALLY stupid, like another 9/11, then we'll get to nationalize their interests in the U.S.

re: #2 Bobibutu

No, they don;t give a shit about the future. It's not part of the arab mind. They could care less about their people. Self, family and tribe are what counts. Bedouin dirty up a patch of desert, pack up, and move on.

The leadership will have decamped to the Costal Del Sol and Riviera and Vail long before the oil runs out.

This is all about buying influence.

The business of America is business, someone important once said, and by influencing business, they hope to influence America.

Let me be as clear as Charles, after Saudi Arabia, these are the primary Sunni terrorists supporters in the world. Like George Sorros, they feel they have transcended their religion and have become god's on Earth.

Dubai, SA, Bahrain and the other semi-stable Arab states are on the shoulders of US and Euro engineers.
And built by Bangladeshi labor.

Remove the managers and the operators and the house falls. Arabs have demonstrated an inability to produce yields other than raw materials or mayhem.

This deal is in the proverbial toilet.

Didn't the Japanese buy a whole lot of the US back when they were flush with cash? I don't think it worked out too well for them in the long run.

re: #7 RTLM

Let's hope not. Here's what happened after the Dubai Ports deal was nixed.
(From CAIR WATCH, Profiles page)

Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Makhtoum
CAIR Financier

To stem the tide of the public relations disaster that was the UAE ports deal, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on May 21, 2006, announced on its website its decision "to build a property in the United States to serve as an endowment for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)." This proposal, reportedly worth just under $75 million dollars, was endorsed by Bin Rashid Al-Makhtoum, who holds the positions of Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE and UAE Minister of Finance and Industry. (Paul Sperry, 'The CAIR-U.A.E. Connection, FrontPage Magazine, June 20, 2006)

According to CAIR's Executive Director, Nihad Awad, "The endowment will serve as a source of income and will further allow us to reinvigorate our media campaign projecting Islam and its principles of tolerance, which is based on promotion of peace, co-existence and dialogue among various religions and cultures." (UAE INTERACT, 'Hamdan okays setting up endowment in US,' May 21, 2006)

Dubai holds the deed to CAIR's current Washington, D.C. location. (Paul Sperry, Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington, 2005)

re: #15 Maine's Michael

re: #2 Bobibutu

This is all about buying influence.

The business of America is business, someone important once said, and by influencing business, they hope to influence America.

Of course it is/they do. As I said - they are not fools.

Well, it's above $84 now. Somebody had better start checking out who and what is driving these prices up because it ain't economics or even supply and demand.

However, at $84 a barrel, isn't time our Dimocratic Congress started to rethink domestic drilling? How about it Windmill Kennedy?

Heh - World Net Daily gets a hat tip on Drudge.

they nationalized/stole our oil companies property back in the sixties. why can't we do the same with their stocks?

re: #22 goodbye_natalie

Didn't Humberto damage some platforms?

re: #13 Sharmuta

No argument. Have you looked at RTMLs links?

To put that 250 billion in perspective.

The NIIP got a lot worse during Clinton's second term. The Bush years, not so much.

All the more assets to threaten to freeze, if it comes to that, though.

re: #18 Liege

LOL. Yeah, I had forgotten the fiasco back in the 80s. The Japanese went out and bought Rockefeller Center for about 2 billion and sold it back to us for about $1.3 billion. NY laughed all the way to the bank.

American ingenuity always wins out...it will this time too.

re: #20 savage_nation

Don't forget that Dubai was supposed to provide port security...

Baker Botts has an office in Dubai.

That's Baker, as in James.

Middle Eastern countries are becoming more sophisticated at heading off potential backlash from high-profile deals, especially in the U.S

Too bad they can't become more sophisticated in every other aspect of their bass ackward societies.

Gee, it's not like they're not already heavily invested in U.S. companies, just like the Chinese and everyone else are. It's business and our economy depends on foreign investment.

/nothing particularly scandalous or unusual here

re: #25 MandyManners

I don't know. But that would be a knat's behind in a boxcar. This price speculation is far more insidious and there are Americans involved in the trading. It's time for someone to start answering for this shiite...

re: #26 Bobibutu

I don't look at links from people who post at the stalker blogs.

I wonder if Baker Botts has a piece of this.

re: #34 Sharmuta

re: #26 Bobibutu

I don't look at links from people who post at the stalker blogs.

/agree

to hell with em.

GO Charles!

It's also about staking their claim on the U.S. They do plan on running this place someday, remember? I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, but I really think that the Imadinnerjacket trip to the WTC site, esp with Bloomberg escorting him, was about showing the muslim world we had submitted. Symbolism is everything to those people.

re: #33 goodbye_natalie

See my Nos. 30 and 35, please.

This is so bad!

Evenhandedness from Al-Grognard

[Link: commentisfree.guardian.co.uk...]

When the Guardian Sez yer tilted to the left, something is wrong

Unfortunately, they may be buying up more than companies. Journalists, politicians, and academics are also for sale. What's on the menu: Islam-friendly propaganda, greasing the wheels for a little sharia here, a little sharia there, a few hundred thousand visas here, a few hundred thousand visas there.

re: #15 Maine's Michael

re: #2 Bobibutu

No, they don;t give a shit about the future. It's not part of the arab mind. They could care less about their people. Self, family and tribe are what counts. Bedouin dirty up a patch of desert, pack up, and move on.

Then why, pray tell, did the ruling Sheiks pack up their kids back in the 50s and 60s and send them to Cambridge?

Those same kids are now and have been running the Emirates for the last 40 years. And they are sending their kids to Cambridge, etc.

re: #40 savage_nation

James A. Baker, III, has served in senior government positions under three United States Presidents. He served as the nation's 61st Secretary of State from January 1989 through August 1992 under President George Bush. During his tenure at the State Department, Mr. Baker traveled to 90 foreign countries as the United States confronted the unprecedented challenges and opportunities of the post–Cold War era. Mr. Baker's reflections on those years of revolution, war, and peace—The Politics of Diplomacy—was published in 1995.

Mr. Baker served as the 67th Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan. As Treasury Secretary, he was also Chairman of the President's Economic Policy Council. From 1981 to 1985, he served as White House Chief of Staff to President Reagan. Mr. Baker's record of public service began in 1975 as Under Secretary of Commerce to President Gerald Ford. It concluded with his service as White House Chief of Staff and Senior Counselor to President Bush from August 1992 to January 1993.

re: #45 savage_nation

All kinds of tasty stuff out there on the Internet!

You know what I don't quite understand, is how is Dubai keeping secure? They have all these buildings going up, all these tourist attractions, and surely the Saudi royals are right in there drinking and whoring like they do everywhere else. All these feelthy infidel tourists with their money and liquor and uncovered meat, and all kinds of juicy good targets that would look great ablaze on television... And yet nobody has attacked it? What sort of security arrangements have been made?

If you have the money, you can buy anything.

As to the arabs sponging up companies; those companies still need to be well-run. And, they're hardly likely to have many arabs doing any of the heavy lifting.

If people aren't treated well? They leave.

As to the fiasco that befell the Japanese; after buying up Rockefeller Center (overpriced). They gave it back for less.

It shows you that many times markets lose money; as well as make, some.

I think the difference is IF the companies then get to draw law-makers into the arrangement; where the bloviators then provide "monopoly" arrangements.

Other than that?

As I said, we have a Capitalistic system, that does not look for the government to create controls. Or "tests." Which would be a very bad idea.

It's very possible that when people get upset, what comes into play, is just old fashioned jealousy. But it's way too late, now, given how crucial oil is; for us to damage a part of the arab world that works.

In other words? Better to be investing in companies than in Madrasses.

Companies run by illiterate imams? You're kidding me. Take a look at syria and see what happens to the junk they bought from the russians.

And, the work accidents they got "playing" with chemicals and nukes.

Don't anticipate you know the results that come down the line.

By the way, I'm mystified at Dubai. They built that in the desert? To be? Ozymandias?

re: #34 Sharmuta

OK ...

try these

[Link: www.magicalurbanism.com...]

Scroll down to last 2 pics.

and ...

[Link: images.google.com...]

I would call that serious internal investment.

This is the dark side of the push for a global economy. Our prosperity over the past 60 years has been driven in large part to an expanding economy. When few in the US needed a car or a refrigerator anymore, companies looked overseas to unload their excess goods. As other nations prosper, they demand more goods.

The oil "shortage" of a couple of years ago was demand-driven, not supply-driven. India and China's huge emerging middle-classes demand a lot of goods. Petroleum is a large component of many of our plastic products.

Now that we've prospered other countries, they're buying up stock in our companies. All those profits will flow out of the country into the hands of God-only-knows who, who will use the money for God-only-knows what purpose, including sponsoring terrorism against us.

Not only do we have a massive trade deficit, our money is also pouring across the border. How long before we can no longer compete in a global economy? And how long before jihadists own 51% of Boeing or IBM? Think of the sharia company policies that will go into effect then.

I would like our gov't to call T. Boone Pickens to the stand to explain to us minions exactly how the exchange works and what is driving the prices.

T. Boone called this almost to the week. Of course, T. Boone made 1.1 billion dollars last year. I think we are smart enough to understand the explanation.

I just got back from Dubai.

Can anyone tell me what their links to sponsoring terrorism consist of?

Certianlly not sticking up for them; just ignorant of the connections.

re: #47 Pawn of the Oppressor

Maybe they got some really good blackmail going on with the oil ticks.

re: #47 Pawn of the Oppressor

I was wondering the same!

re: #34 Sharmuta

Now you're after RTLM?

/that's pretty [expletive deleted] up, he's about as Lizardly as they come

re: #50 Bobibutu

Thanks.

re: #49 savage_nation

Ouch. Sorry about that.

It makes you wonder about who's running what.

I know it's off topic but look at this disgusting piece of trash by Macleans mag. of Canada that the nutroots are wetting themselves over.

The ole' "Bush is the Saddam"
F-in disgusting!

re: #56 Killian Bundy

You go ahead and tell yourself that, thread cop.

For anyone else- you can go see for yourself at gulf coast pundit stalker blog #2. Just put it in your search engine- I won't link it here.

re: #32 Killian Bundy

Gee, it's not like they're not already heavily invested in U.S. companies, just like the Chinese and everyone else are. It's business and our economy depends on foreign investment.

/nothing particularly scandalous or unusual here

But what's to gain from owning 20% of the Nasdaq except opportunities for manipulation ? Honest question.

If money was the goal, why not invest in Exxon?

Seems to me to be a nefarious plot to somehow screw us.

re: #53 astronmr20

I just got back from Dubai.

Can anyone tell me what their links to sponsoring terrorism consist of?

Certianlly not sticking up for them; just ignorant of the connections.

They have been paying blackmail for many decades to be left alone.

They have been trying to find a way out since the 70s.

No solution yet.

re: #32 Killian Bundy

It's business and our economy depends on foreign investment.

There is foreign investment that is good for the host country and then there is foreign investment that isn't. In the latter case, the host country's GNP can actually decline.

By allowing them to buy into our sophisticated financial markets, they leap ahead in a fashion that they couldn't have attained themselves AND we lose our competitive hold in that field. And then what do we invest the money in? If it isn't into a growing industry where the U.S. can hold a commanding presense, we as a nation lose.

My $0.02 is this is not a great deal for the U.S.

PIMF
presense-presence

re: #57 Sharmuta

You are welcome.

There are some good Arabs. Heavens, we have good relations and military bases in some of their countries to fight terrorism.

re: #64 savage_nation

beware of what is behind the scenes.

Sharmuta isn't the bad one here.

just sayin'

re: #60 savage_nation

Yep.

re: #61 Sharmuta

Quite a few Lizards cross post there.

/who's next, Ed?

Heh!

Nighty-night, Lizards. The Sandman calleth.

I suppose I should wait for an open thread, but a new thought has occurred to me.

In Lebanon and Iraq we can see that our enemy's way of dealing with opponent politicians, with judges is to assassinate them.

It seems inevitable that we will see assassinations in this country in coming years.

re: #67 Bobibutu

I know.

re: #70 Killian Bundy

You know this isn't about cross postin

/just sayin'

re: #62 RTLM

But what's to gain from owning 20% of the Nasdaq except opportunities for manipulation ? Honest question.

Not sure how a 20% stake gets you there.

/anyway, all foreign deals this size are vetted by our Government by law

re: #64 savage_nation

re: #61 Sharmuta

re: #56 Killian Bundy

You go ahead and tell yourself that, thread cop.

For anyone else- you can go see for yourself at gulf coast pundit stalker blog #2. Just put it in your search engine- I won't link it here.

Someone piss in your cornflakes?

I think something's in the air...a lot of people have been cranky, here at LGF, here physically, I've been guilty of it myself. I dunno, no answers,
/just sayin'
/good to see ya, btw

re: #78 Dread Pirate Jheka

You have got to be SHITTING me. You brag at stalker blog 2...and you still post here?

/people obviously don't read your tripe at stalker blog 2

/I call bullshit.

I find best not to shit where you eat.

And not to start trouble with people who have never wronged you in any way.

re: #43 Bobibutu

re: #15 Maine's Michael

re: #2 Bobibutu

No, they don;t give a shit about the future. It's not part of the arab mind. They could care less about their people. Self, family and tribe are what counts. Bedouin dirty up a patch of desert, pack up, and move on.
---
Then why, pray tell, did the ruling Sheiks pack up their kids back in the 50s and 60s and send them to Cambridge?

Those same kids are now and have been running the Emirates for the last 40 years. And they are sending their kids to Cambridge, etc.

Maine's Michael .. ya there?

re: #81 savage_nation

re: #80 bikermailman

re: #64 savage_nation

re: #61 Sharmuta

re: #56 Killian BundyYou go ahead and tell yourself that, thread cop.

For anyone else- you can go see for yourself at gulf coast pundit stalker blog #2. Just put it in your search engine- I won't link it here.

Someone piss in your cornflakes?

I think something's in the air...a lot of people have been cranky, here at LGF, here physically, I've been guilty of it myself. I dunno, no answers,
/just sayin'
/good to see ya, btw

Good to see you too. I've been fighting a bad, bad cold and fever the last couple days and I got a pinched nerve in my right arm. Can't figure out how to get rid of that, but I've been hopped up on Aleve.

Find a good masseuse...might not fix the nerve, but you'll feel better for the time being... :P

re: #83 RTLM

I find that DAMN good advice.

re: #82 Highrise

So you actively monitor GCP for LGF transgressors?

/most of us just ignore it, not interesting or worth it

re: #88 savage_nation

re: #85 bikermailman

Not too many masseuses at 10:30 in Cheyenne WY.

Not legal ones, anyway, huh?

While President Bush promised a careful review of the deal, a key legislator, Democrat Barney Frank, said it "doesn't raise any alarm bells to me."

Oh! Well! As long as Barney Frank is okay with it.

/eye roll

re: #48 Carol Herman

By the way, I'm mystified at Dubai. They built that in the desert? To be? Ozymandias?

One of the restrictions Islam places on dhimmis is that they can't build anything taller than any Muslim building. In my opinion, that's why you see monstrously tall buildings being built throughout the Muslim world, like the Petronas twin towers in Malaysia. It's a religious statement, a signal of Islamic dominance.

They are taking all the oil dollars we send them and sending back here as investment. I do not see a problem with this. Somehow I do not think that they are going to impose sharia law on NASDAQ. It is better that the money comes here then to the EU.

re: #47 Pawn of the Oppressor

See my # 63

Is everything for sell these days?

Nasdaq, investment groups, newspapers, defence companies, steel manufacturing, ports, airports...perhaps our leaders think this is some sort of garage sale.

One big problem is our former senators and congressman becoming agents for these foriegn countries.

Maximu§
3/11 ACR

Night all...

re: #96 Maximu§

Absolutely. And when the more sophisticated sectors are purchased the higher the probability of a downturn in GNP. Our vaunted elected officials, however, have never gotten past classical economics and into the 21st century.

re: #96 Maximu§

One big problem is our former senators and congressman becoming agents for these foriegn countries.

Indeed.

re: #48 Carol Herman

By the way, I'm mystified at Dubai. They built that in the desert? To be? Ozymandias?

That is their homeland. It is a very small place as are all the Emirates.

All of this as the Chinese are buying our debt. As far as I'm concerned, they can drill in my back yard.

re: #101 savage_nation

You might just be my kind of dictator.

Charles- the place looks great. Sorry I've missed the fun.

Someone here I wanted to talk to.

I've been busy and I'm tired and some of this is old, but I want to take care of this.

SHARMUTA: A few days ago, in an act of over-the-top and misdirected judgmentalism, you screamed "COP OUT!" at LGFers who took the time to compile an LGF dictionary complete with attributions to posters, some of whom are now banned. The rationale for including banned posters was politely explained to you, and again you screamed COP OUT. A cop out is a shabby excuse -- for shabby behavior. That's a disgusting charge to level at people who worked for free for you. I was late to that thread, so I didn't respond and I didn't stay to see how the argument ended, but I remained struck by your wrong-headedness and sheer pissiness. I became a victim of it not long after, when you called me a liar. A LIAR. Let me state a few things:

I didn't ding Lucius Septimus's post and then "disingenuously" ask who did it. I really don't know who dinged it; I wanted to know who did and why.

Contrary to your charge, I wasn't lurking when I said I was working. I was working. I had no idea that thread was grinding on after I'd left it and I found out because in a later thread someone named "Subtle" posted a link -- which you weren't polite enough to do when you called me "Little Miss Disingenuous."

Also, I didn't "get three or four of my friends" to participate in my post-dinging game. I enjoyed the game, but I have no idea who it was that was playing along.

SUBTLE, if you ever show up: You seem to be more of a follower than a leader in this "squarepeg is a liar" campaign, but you're dead wrong either way. And thanks for posting the link. I wasn't trying to "void or avoid" anything. By the way, was that supposed to be a dirty joke?

FULL DISCLOSURE/BACKSTORY FOR THOSE WHO ARE WONDERING WTF THIS IS: A few days ago Charles declared himself "irritated" with my irreverent game of minusing my own posts. He used the terms "malice" and "sabotage."

I'm still very absorbed with work and family, and I'm not likely to be around much in the coming days. If I'm still up in an hour I'll check back in to see if there's anything I feel like responding to.

re: #63 Bobibutu

re: #53 astronmr20

I just got back from Dubai.

Can anyone tell me what their links to sponsoring terrorism consist of?

Certianlly not sticking up for them; just ignorant of the connections.

They have been paying blackmail for many decades to be left alone.

They have been trying to find a way out since the 70s.

No solution yet.

Sorry but...

More explination?

I'm not doubting, just want to connect the dots.

re: #106 squarepeg

You still haven't answered Charles' question, BTW.

I posted "cop out" only once, and I most certainly didn't scream it. I also posted it with the phrase "with all due respect". You don't even finish reading the thread- so perhaps you should go and do that before you open your mouth and speak of that which you admit you have no knowledge of. You are being disingenuous, therefore there is nothing left to say to you.

re: #107 astronmr20
I have absolutely no idea at this time but Charles gave us a great new resource recently and you might want to poke around there:
[Link: www.investigativeproject.org...]

Sorry if you already have this link.

Makhtoums my ass. They tried to take over the racing world with their Godolphin Stud but the Irish beat them hands down; AND for a fraction of the money they poured into it.
And BTW they didn't get their wealth from oil. They got it from smuggling. Gold to India, drugs from Afghanistan and Vietnam to America and Europe. They're totally corrupt ( and corrupting )

What would be really interesting would be to see who the most active raters are +/-. Too bad Charles keeps all the cool data to himself.

/that said, you don't need to draw me a map to see the patterns/sides evolving on this thread, ding away!

Killian,

You always deserve a + in my book! So, there you go.
;)

re: #111 Killian Bundy
I think I have only dinged CZ but I have seen people getting dinged for no reason. Usually, I just ignore it unless it's real good or real bad.

re: #111 Killian Bundy

What would be really interesting would be to see who the most active raters are +/-. Too bad Charles keeps all the cool data to himself.

/that said, you don't need to draw me a map to see the patterns/sides evolving on this thread, ding away!

I got a negative for that?

/talk about vindictiveness for the sake of vindictiveness

re: #114 Killian Bundy

I got a negative for that?

Galling isn't it when you let the kids play with the adult stuff.

re: #107 astronmr20

re: #63 Bobibutu

re: #53 astronmr20

I just got back from Dubai.Can anyone tell me what their links to sponsoring terrorism consist of?

Certianlly not sticking up for them; just ignorant of the connections.

They have been paying blackmail for many decades to be left alone.They have been trying to find a way out since the 70s.

No solution yet.

Sorry but...

More explination?

I'm not doubting, just want to connect the dots.

I am speaking from personal experience. I was in Abu Dhabi as a guest of one of the Rulers nephews back in '74. I won't mention his full name but let's just say he was then and still is now a heavyweight minister. His last name is Al-Nahyan.

We had a private meeting at his residence - I was there to discuss counterterrorism and the dilemma they had themselves in by paying blackmail to radical Islamic groups over the years.

He is still a personal friend.

re: #114 Killian Bundy

re: #115 Irene NYC
I don't get it. It's one thing to give a +...I have, often to TFK and several really good/clever posts but to give a - doesn't make much sense unless it's a troll or something that really goes against the grain. You people are why I registered, I'd been reading for years.

re: #117 Pvt Bin Jammin

You people are why I registered, I'd been reading for years.

I registered so I could add my two cents to the topics. Making friends, and enemies, is a perk for me.

re: #117 Pvt Bin Jammin

Sour people.
People who see the glass as half empty.
People who are vindictive.
Jealous.

Get the picture?
;)

(all of which doesn't mean that I don't love a good argument, mano a mano, so to speak, upfront and in your face.)

Lordy...lotsa bannings recently. people need to mellow out a bit

re: #118 ploome hineni
Fixed that minus for ya.

re: #120 Irene NYC
I'm with you both and I really am missing some of the posters. I don't know if they are banned or if they left but it's sad.

re: #32 Killian Bundy

Gee, it's not like they're not already heavily invested in U.S. companies, just like the Chinese and everyone else are. It's business and our economy depends on foreign investment.

/nothing particularly scandalous or unusual here

I agree with you, KB. If they buy a 20% interest in the business of NASDAQ, then they are going to have a stake in its continued success. I'd be a lot more concerned about Arabs divesting U.S. holdings en masse.

Nasdaq getting OMX, selling 20% of itself to Borse Dubai

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Borse Dubai is buying a nearly 20% stake in the Nasdaq Stock Market (NDAQ) as part of a sweeping global settlement of their battle for control of the Nordic exchange operator OMX.

The multifaceted set of deals announced Thursday would help Nasdaq avoid a bidding war with cash-rich Borse Dubai for OMX while Dubai gains footholds in both Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange.

The deals involving Nasdaq could face scrutiny in the United States, where a Dubai-owned company's plan to manage some U.S. ports previously raised an uproar.

The Nasdaq Stock Market would take control of Stockholm-based OMX while selling a one-fifth stake in itself to Borse Dubai as well as a 28% in the London Stock Exchange. Nasdaq owns a 31% stake in the London exchange.

Borse Dubai will go ahead with its $4 billion cash bid for OMX, but when that transaction is completed it will sell all shares in the Nordic exchange operator to Nasdaq.

See, the Nasdaq people aren't stupid. It's not even a hostile transaction.

/there's more to this deal than people initially jumped on

re: #118 ploome hineni

He took his horses away from his English trainer because the trainers wife--- note that word, it's got female written all over it--- was involved in the trainers set-up. Advanced thinkin, wha?

re: #122 Pvt Bin Jammin

re: #118 ploome hineni
Fixed that minus for ya.

Congratulations!

/you made their [expletive deleted] list, they lurk, THEY DING DOWN!

re: #127 Killian Bundy

re: #122 Pvt Bin Jammin

re: #118 ploome hineni
Fixed that minus for ya.

Congratulations!

/you made their [expletive deleted] list, they lurk, THEY DING DOWN!

Does this mean I'm going to start getting dinged down? I probably already have.

re: #125 Killian Bundy

And yes, I actually got a minus for posting that important news story that actually explains the terms of the deal.

/pathetic

re: #127 Killian Bundy

Killian, you live in the high desert don't you?

re: #125 Killian Bundy

I'd read the details. It still amounts to the same problem. Does the US keep its hold on sophisticated financial markets? (The same goes for London.)

This isn't the worst deal I could think of, but I am concerned about a lot of these purchases being made, especially so when the dollar has had such a concerted assault against it.

On the one hand you can argue that this gives them a stake in seeing things go well with the NASDAQ and with the US economy. You could also argue that, in the right hands, some pretty nefarious types of scenarios could be played out that could have devastating ripple effects throughout our economy. But, then again, I sometimes get paranoid after 2 am.

Killian Bundy

I also went up and did a + to some of your post.

re: #128 Pvt Bin Jammin

Does this mean I'm going to start getting dinged down? I probably already have.

Take it to the bank, like clockwork.

/click your comment rating numbers to update the fun

178 people...logged in. Roll Call! CZ, I'm not even positive that I gave you a -.

Okay. I went and gave you all +. Girl Scout good deed for the day.

Nite all.

re: #111 Killian Bundy

That's why I suggested to Charles I wish he would produce the old T-Square. When you hit the number, it would provide the list of nics who "plussed or minused." It's a neat idea the way it is set up but is still open to abuse IMHO.

Of course, it could turn this board into one giant ring match too if feelings get hurt so my idea has its minuses as well.

re: #121 Jewels (AKA Julian)

Lordy...lotsa bannings recently. people need to mellow out a bit

Things have been getting ridiculous lately around here. The rating / dinging thing is a distraction imo.

Boy, I'm glad I turned my rating thingy off.

re: #132 tommoon

I also went up and did a + to some of your post.

Yeah, well, you're marked for down dinging too.

/we've once had our differences in the past, but I never thought you'd be troll rated, thanks for your three tours of service

I sure hope this is part of some diabolical plan to convince China and the Islamic countries they can dominate the West by owning enough of us, while actually making them dependant on us. The poor b@stards will have us surrounded...

I'm still in here but I haven't been futzin with the +/- thingy.

re: #137 Irene NYC
Nite, nite. I'll give you some +++, too.

re: #124 Alberta Oil Peon

I agree with you, KB. If they buy a 20% interest in the business of NASDAQ, then they are going to have a stake in its continued success. I'd be a lot more concerned about Arabs divesting U.S. holdings en masse.

I agree with your assessment because I like the idea of the Sauds getting to put their money where their mouth is. However, that does give them a huge voting bloc which could be subject to abuse. I still remember the corporate raiders of the 80's. It's a balancing act.

re: #145 savage_nation

re: #140 DesertSage

Boy, I'm glad I turned my rating thingy off.

Ron Paul?

Hey buddy, did you get my e-mail? I thought you'd be in town by now.

re: #140 DesertSage

Boy, I'm glad I turned my rating thingy off.

We can turn it off?

killian bundy

It was never personal. Just different points of view. I don't feel like a troll! Or a Moby or a lair or a drunk. I guess I just let myself go.

I will not be fooled by the NASDAQ-ian Illuminati !

re: #148 Cobra

re: #140 DesertSage

Boy, I'm glad I turned my rating thingy off.

We can turn it off?

Go to "manage my account" right under your login...top left corner. You can turn it off there.

All right, whoever is using the rating tool for petty reasons have got to stop. I've seen a number of posters getting negged for harmless posts which is just ridiculous. It's bad enough that many of the long time lgf members who were active when I first joined have since left or been banned, but the increasing bickering over non-issues is just as troubling. I have and still considering LGF to have some of the brightest people on any blog, but this tool seems to bring out some most childish behaviors. I thought we were all in this together, so why this division?

re: #149 tommoon

You are the one that comes here and says LGF is a hate site. Several times you have said such.

Yes you are a moby.

re: #133 ploome hineni

they have dozens of children, many to spare

LOL. Yeah, the Muslims have made that much obvious, haven't they?

re: #131 Irene NYC

The NASDAQ is a totally computerized trading network. 20% ownership of the shares of the company doesn't get you access to the keys. Also, for what it's worth, by law, the U.S. government will have to vett this deal.

/compared to how much of our debt the communist Chinese hold, I'm not sure why this is such a big deal

re: #151 DesertSage

Well I'll be darned.

re: #149 tommoon

killian bundy

It was never personal. Just different points of view. I don't feel like a troll! Or a Moby or a lair or a drunk. I guess I just let myself go.

Hey tommoon, how's the weather in Hawaii?

You're not a Moby, Troll or a liar...but I'm not so sure about the "drunk" thing :')

re: #133 ploome hineni

re: #43 Bobibutu

sending their kids to Oxford is an investment..a place to make friends in the right places and practise dawah, to enable their people to move comfortably in the dal ul harb, to understand the civilization they would take over, find suitable blond women

they have dozens of children, many to spare

The comment was this:
"No, they don;t give a shit about the future. It's not part of the arab mind. They could care less about their people. Self, family and tribe are what counts. Bedouin dirty up a patch of desert, pack up, and move on."

I do not agree. It is and was not my direct personal experience.

Granted there are Muslim religious nutcakes for what you state is true. My experience is that for the middle and upper class Arabs - the majority of them - this is not so.

Imma Dhimmi

Go back and read the whole threads on those charges. What started it, if you only read and listen to one side you do not get the full story.

The entire purpose of this is to cause disinvestment in contrary countries such as Israel. The investment is clearly Haraam. It is to destroy us from within. A Muslim can no more be trusted to deal honestly with America than a pedophile in a trailer with the 7 year old next door. These people live amd breed hatred of all Christians and Jews. PERIOD

re: #149 tommoon

Tom Moon is OK.

DesertSage,

Yea, you could be right about the drunk thing.

re: #148 Cobra

Heh. Wouldja lookit dat? Two "dings" for askin' a simple question. Who'da thunk?

Thanks Pat.

Last paragraph of Thomas Sowell's three-part series Mugged By Reality.

"This is not a plea for withdrawal. Whatever the situation when we went
in, international terrorists have chosen to make this the place for a
showdown battle. We can win or lose that battle but we cannot
unilaterally end the war. It is the terrorists' war, regardless of
where it is fought."

The third part of the series is running in National Review titled
Wilsonian No More
The end of "nation-building" history.

re: #140 DesertSage

Boy, I'm glad I turned my rating thingy off.

I think the original intent was to provide a means to identify comments that stand out. Unfortunately the discussions can turn juvenile about it. I would prefer to see stinky take some of the more noteworthy comments and post them in another place as recognition.

re: #160 tommoon

I for one, remember quite correctly you calling LGF a hate site.

I don't stand by you, tommoon, even though others may.

You are a moby, imo.

You appear after a dead thread then toss out how Charles is a hate site, theyou get drunk and argue. i have seen it too many times to say this is just a fluke. Nice try, but a few of us see it as a pattern. You do realize that Charles sees this right?

re: #78 Dread Pirate Jheka

Jheka, I assume that's you. Since you won't be returning my response but surely will be reading this, I wish to say something between me and you.

I hope that if we meet sometime, someplace out on the net, we can wipe the slate clean. I said some pretty vicious crap and I do apologize for it. The comment about my daughter was the one time I lost it and I was looking for blood. It's forgotten. Hopefully, you can do the same.

Tom Moon gets worked up by the "kill everyone talk". So does Charles and many others. You cannot be in combat like Tom and say that stuff. that is why these Muslims are weirods. Their culture enjoys such talk.

Highrise,

You are on ignore. I will not play your hate game again.

re: #170 goodbye_natalie

One thing you need to know about jhenka, is that this person is going over to the stalker blog and laughing their ass off. They purely posted to start trouble and admitted as such if one looks at the timing of posts.

re: #153 Imma Dhimmi

36 comments in over a year, a moby expert?

/seriously, you best head on home, Mama's cooking supper

re: #156 Killian Bundy
I worry sick about the Chinese buying our debt.

re: #173 tommoon

YOu came onto lgf and called us a hate site. There is nothing to ignore.other than the many posts you post that Charles has now turned this into a hate site. Once we call you on it, you then run to charles and say how you are going to email him how we are so unfair to you.

You are just a wimp. Stop calling Charles' blog a hate site, that is simply all we have asked from the start.

re: #168 Racer X

re: #140 DesertSage

Boy, I'm glad I turned my rating thingy off.

I think the original intent was to provide a means to identify comments that stand out. Unfortunately the discussions can turn juvenile about it. I would prefer to see stinky take some of the more noteworthy comments and post them in another place as recognition.

I can see another good use for it. Charles can identify the vandals that are dinging all the comments. Somebody got some 'splainin' to do.

Sorry Folks,

Let's end this right now, I'm out of here for the night. Charles is not running a day care center. These are his words after the last on.

Damn, it's almost two o'clock in the morning. What am I doing here?

P.S. Tommoon - I don't know what happened the other night, but I will attest you're no troll if someone made that accusation.

re: #171 pat

This was never uttered to him.

Mark my words...

he knows what well he dug him self into.

Ploome, my dear. I did! LOL

re: #172 ploome hineni

re: #159 Bobibutu

I was going to respond to your post about the rulers of Dubai paying blackmail to the jihadi extremists..

assassination has been part of the arab 'political' process for Milena, I don;t buy it

the 'rulers' are just more sophisticated...they will cut your head off in a second to keep their money and status

See my # 116

What is your source?

re: #171 pat

Tom Moon gets worked up by the "kill everyone talk". So does Charles and many others. You cannot be in combat like Tom and say that stuff. that is why these Muslims are weirods. Their culture enjoys such talk.

You're right pat. We don't want to give Islamo-nuts or Lefties any ammunition against LGF.

re: #163 pat

re: #149 tommoon

Tom Moon is OK.

/the lurking down dingers say you're wrong

re: #180 tommoon

Sorry Folks,

Let's end this right now, I'm out of here for the night. Charles is not running a day care center. These are his words after the last on.

You can stop this right now by stopping threatening us by emailing us to charles every time YOU disagree.

Stop calling us all haters just because we quote the koran. Stop calling us haters because we want islam to stop spreading.

Would be a great start, tommoon, that is wher eyou went wrong, you started the name calling and telling us that we were all haters...

re: #173 tommoon

Highrise,

You are on ignore. I will not play your hate game again.

Ooo...where's that button at?

re: #178 Highrise

/gee, any coincidence your comments are the only one's not getting down dings?

I am not much of a hater. :(

re: #181 goodbye_natalie

This isn't about the other night, goodbye,

this is eveyr single time tommoon comes in..he disses the blog and charles for becomming a hate site.

Time to stop.

re: #191 pat

I am not much of a hater. :(

Neither am I...but I'm a fighter!

re: #187 savage_nation

No you don't understand, this isn't about calming down. I"m very calm. Every time tommoon comes on, he usually calls people a hater. If anyone quotes the koran, they are called a hater by him. He then generalizes that to that Charles has become a hatesite.

And that is supposed to be taken as how?

One night, sharmuta quoted the koran, tommoon called her a hater.

Is she now supposed to shut up?

Please answer.

re: #193 DesertSage

This week has been day by day. Luckily I have Bebes and Trigger to rave at. LOL

re: #196 Dread Pirate Jheka

You are banned Jheka, and you are posting by your sockpuppet...?

I have to say, whatever else history judges about George W. Bush, one of the facts is going to be how the price of oil increased on his watch.

It's a miracle our economy has held up as well as it has, so far, with these energy prices. But if the price of oil now goes up to $100 because the federal reserve is busy bailing out speculators ... well, we'll just see. We went to war in 1991 putatively to keep the price of oil from soaring to $35/barrel, can you imagine that!? Well, that was 16 years ago, and at 5% inflation per year, we're just about at that level now. So have the terrorists already won? And by "terrorists", I mean the royal Sauds.

re: #106 squarepeg

That's a disgusting charge to level at people who worked for free for you.

I was wrong- there's one more thing to say to you. You have the nerve to say this to me after the way you talked to Charles- who does all the work on LGF for us for free?! The people who worked on the dictionary would not have done so if there were no LGF. I respectfully stated my dissenting opinion on that thread and, unlike some people, did not run over to the dictionary to cr*p on it. You are being completely disingenuous here.

About tom moon- go ahead- click my football, read my comments and that I linked to tom's own words. He called me a hater for quoting the koran. You can also click my football and see me link to squarepeg's own words on this issue in the paragraph above. I'm done for the night if this is how it's going to be- railroaded and back stabbed by ones whining about being railroaded and back stabbed.

re: #197 savage_nation

I can only hope you are not calling me a liar.

Even if member xyz blasts LGF on another site, leave that up to Charles. All this petty bickering will do us no good.

/sigh, I'll go back to watching Red Eye.

re: #195 Highrise

Tom was likely brought up Bhuddist. It is very different. They can read nonsense like that and come to a very different conclusion to what the words say. Tom has been through a lot, and would like to enter a more gentle period in life. Just saying.

re: #197 savage_nation

Your first hand experience doesn't matter.

/DOWN DING FOR YOU!

re: #209 Killian Bundy

re: #197 savage_nation

Your first hand experience doesn't matter.

/DOWN DING FOR YOU!

LOL!

And I am tired. And yes I went to Japanese (Bhuddist) school when I was young. And I know that I cannot spell. But that is they way I learned it.

Its just more more fun bashing trolls.

(had a great time on C&L until given the boot)

re: #174 Highrise

I saw where Jheka was banned. This was strictly personal. I went back and read what happened. It is none of my business.

What happened a year and a half ago was a tragedy and I actually liked most of them who were let go. But they pushed it and Charles did what he had to do. I am sure it hurt him personally to do so, many were members in good standing for a long time, some were great contributors to LGF, and I know for a fact it wasn't easy for Charles to block them. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.

But the crap being said at their blog about Charles is blatantly unfair, I don't care if they were hurt or not.

re: #196 Dread Pirate Jheka

Cool. Best wishes. I saw where you were "in transition." Hope it goes well.

re: #199 ploome hineni

re: #184 Bobibutu

re: #172 ploome hineni

re: #159 BobibutuI was going to respond to your post about the rulers of Dubai paying blackmail to the jihadi extremists..

assassination has been part of the arab 'political' process for Milena, I don;t buy it

the 'rulers' are just more sophisticated...they will cut your head off in a second to keep their money and status

See my # 116What is your source?

my source for what? believing that jihad and betrayal and lying to the non muslim is in the fabric of arab society and spelled out in the koran?

you are kidding me

Not all Muslims are religious fanatics.

Most don't go to Mosques.

Most have not read the Koran or listen to the imams.

I have lived with them, worked with them, taught them.

And I would kill the first and every jihadi who threatened me or mine.

I base my convictions upon what I have personally experienced not on what I have read.

re: #213 savage_nation

you big meenie!

Hell, I didn't do it, but I can guess who did.

/you see, TOMMOON IS BAD, it's now the LGF LAW, bucking authority will just get you down dinged!

re: #214 RTLM

Its just more more fun bashing trolls.

(had a great time on C&L until given the boot)

What's a C&L RTLM?

re: #208 ploome hineni

bob

arabs and muslims are very hospitible and work hard on their manners, it is written that they behave that way

do you understand dawah? inviting people to islam?

Of course ... and ya know what? In all the years I spent with them I was never once "invited" even when I visited mosques.

re: #219 DesertSage

Crooks & Liars. The site is just chock full of red meat. Shit flinging, vegan, race baiting, leftist red meat.

re: #215 goodbye_natalie

Thank you for seeing this. This is few what people want to admit that they know.

I have much respect for you.

re: #218 Killian Bundy

You do realise that some asshole likele Trole can log in and whizzup and down the posts dinging away like gollum without posting ?

re: #222 ploome hineni

Dan Rather now on Larry King repeat

And behold the down ding for posting the TV schedule.

/who're the haters?

re: #223 RTLM

re: #219 DesertSage

Crooks & Liars. The site is just chock full of red meat. Shit flinging, vegan, race baiting, leftist red meat.

Oh, ok. I went there once, I think it was a link or something. Had to wash my brain out with bleach after that.

re: #217 Bobibutu

re: #199 ploome hineni

re: #184 Bobibutu

re: #172 ploome hineni

re: #159 BobibutuI was going to respond to your post about the rulers of Dubai paying blackmail to the jihadi extremists..

assassination has been part of the arab 'political' process for Milena, I don;t buy it

the 'rulers' are just more sophisticated...they will cut your head off in a second to keep their money and status

See my # 116What is your source?

my source for what? believing that jihad and betrayal and lying to the non muslim is in the fabric of arab society and spelled out in the koran?

you are kidding me

Not all Muslims are religious fanatics.

Most don't go to Mosques.

Most have not read the Koran or listen to the imams.

I have lived with them, worked with them, taught them.

And I would kill the first and every jihadi who threatened me or mine.

I base my convictions upon what I have personally experienced not on what I have read.

I',m glad you have had that experience. I LOVE different people and would hate to live somewhere where we were all the same. I just wish that these "moderates" would speak out...it would help so much.

re: #225 threecoloursblue

You do realise that some asshole likele Trole can log in and whizzup and down the posts dinging away like gollum without posting ?

/that's obviously not what's going on here, there's a pattern to who's getting dinged down and who's not

re: #53 astronmr20

Can anyone tell me what their links to sponsoring terrorism consist of?

I would like someone to post something about Dubai sponsoring terror. If Charles says they support terror, I believe him. But I'd like a link to an article I can send to friends.

re: #228 Pvt Bin Jammin

re: #217 Bobibutu

re: #199 ploome hineni

re: #184 Bobibutu

re: #172 ploome hineni

re: #159 BobibutuI was going to respond to your post about the rulers of Dubai paying blackmail to the jihadi extremists..assassination has been part of the arab 'political' process for Milena, I don;t buy it

the 'rulers' are just more sophisticated...they will cut your head off in a second to keep their money and status

See my # 116What is your source?

my source for what? believing that jihad and betrayal and lying to the non muslim is in the fabric of arab society and spelled out in the koran?you are kidding me

Not all Muslims are religious fanatics.Most don't go to Mosques.

Most have not read the Koran or listen to the imams.

I have lived with them, worked with them, taught them.

And I would kill the first and every jihadi who threatened me or mine.

I base my convictions upon what I have personally experienced not on what I have read.

I',m glad you have had that experience. I LOVE different people and would hate to live somewhere where we were all the same. I just wish that these "moderates" would speak out...it would help so much.

Absofriginlutely - and a few are starting to - abit somewhat late but it's a start.

re: #207 savage_nation

There is plenty backcase of this person calling us a HATER blog.

I can ONLY hope you are NOT calling me a liar.

Guys and gals, I got to go to bed. These late nights get pretty funny. Wish I could do it more often.

But for anyone interested, I got a forewarning. And I've been pretty prophetic about these things in the past. These bickering matches that are breaking out. It reminds me very much of about 13 months ago. I see major bannings coming if we don't cool it.

If you value your position on LGF, think about it.

Wow. This is the "ding"iest thread since it's inception.
I'm outa here. Ya'll "Play nice".

re: #233 goodbye_natalie

Guys and gals, I got to go to bed. These late nights get pretty funny. Wish I could do it more often.

But for anyone interested, I got a forewarning. And I've been pretty prophetic about these things in the past. These bickering matches that are breaking out. It reminds me very much of about 13 months ago. I see major bannings coming if we don't cool it.

If you value your position on LGF, think about it.

I agree with you!
I don't know why people have been so thin-skinned recently, including myself. The moon? the news? The who knows what...but g.n. is very right. We should stop bickering among ourselves.

Dear barrister
I find it a bit funny that you get so worried about rates lol
Don't pay any attention to either malignant or mischevious raters.
Let them rate away while you enjoy the Best Blog In The World ™ ;)

re: #231 Bobibutu
I hope so...we need more of them. We met the greatest guy the other night from England, whose father was a muslim. My husband had just come from a job at a restaurant where they gave him four slabs of pork ribs. The guy took home a slab. We had a good talk & exchanged cards.

re: #234 ploome hineni

re: #221 Bobibutu

well, I am sure you had a very nice experience, and these people were very nice to you. It is very heady to be in the entourage of the very rich and powerful. I have been there myself.

Your personal experience does not reflect the reality of the arab and muslim agenda.

The majority of my experience comes from the common muslims of Malaysia and Indonesia. Hence my nic ... which was given to me by them.

re: #236 savage_nation

Sharmuta quoted the koran and he came out screaming how we were a hater of arabs.

What can I say.

Ever since then, it's the same old same old

I'm getting a bit sick and tired of the pc bullshit.

I don't care how long someone has been registered...if they come out and say..charles has turned into a blog hate site..then they need to move on. Every time tommoon is challenged, he cries that he will go and email Charles.

Give me a break. For quoting the koran?

re: #236 savage_nation

Click my football, and search my comments from the last week- I linked tom's comments the other night, okay? Fact check our asses, folks! Be my guest!

/Good night.

re: #234 ploome hineni

To have " an agenda " you have to be fairly wealthy and well fed. Not the status of the vast majority of Muslims, is it ?

re: #238 Pvt Bin Jammin

re: #231 Bobibutu
I hope so...we need more of them. We met the greatest guy the other night from England, whose father was a muslim. My husband had just come from a job at a restaurant where they gave him four slabs of pork ribs. The guy took home a slab. We had a good talk & exchanged cards.

Yes - many, many muslims could care less about the Koran. I would say the majority.

But the out of control fruit loops - they are the problem. The iman says jump and they ask how high on the way up. Not healthy states of mind.

re: #240 Highrise

So, you're going to keep bring this up, until when?

/let it go, water over the dam, one incident in the grand scheme of 4 million LGF comments, reminds me of AI fixation

re: #243 Bobibutu
Yea, it is the "fruit loops" that bother me too and they are everywhere.

Time for me to get to bed.

I love all the LGF.

In the words of a former infamous neighbor:

"Can't we all just get along?"
Nite, nite from Altadena.

re: #245 savage_nation

Let me let you in on a few things.

I want you to pretend for a moment that you are head chief.

A few people hate you for whatever reason, they go post on a stalker blog and say a bunch of lies.

What are you going to do? Are you going to set the record straight with a 100,000 people or are you going to answer ever question from 1000 people who have dumb questions to answer.

I've been here, so I know. If you had read what i read in the past month or so, you I promise would feel as I do. But you can read whatever you think at that stalker blog 2, they are vindictive and plot how to take down charles, I prefer to be on Charles side...is all. Effe them.

I'm Flat on charles side.

When we have to stand and be counted, please ding me down or up accordingly.

Is there a link to the stalkerblog2?

re: #246 ploome hineni

re: #239 Bobibutu

how are Buddhist and Christian minorities treated in Indonesia?

Three girls have been beheaded and another badly injured as they walked to a Christian school in Indonesia.

They were walking through a cocoa plantation near the city of Poso in central Sulawesi province when they were attacked.

sorry..they will smile while they kill you, and tell you it is not because they do not like you, but because they must

See my #243

Some imans are mini war lords.

Kind of like MS-13 here in the states.

I am a hybred - Christian by upbringing and Jewish by DNA - never had a problem. Never kept it a secret.

re: #247 Pvt Bin Jammin

sleep well. nite.

Immigration restrictions OK'd in France

PARIS — The National Assembly approved tough new restrictions on immigration yesterday, completing a major step in President Nicolas Sarkozy's program to roll up a famously well-trodden welcome mat.

The bill, which still needs Senate approval and a second vote in the Assembly, requires would-be immigrants for the first time to demonstrate a knowledge of the French language and cultural values.

Its most controversial clauses provide for voluntary DNA testing of applicants seeking to show they are related to current French residents, and legalize some data gathering based on race and ethnicity.

First Britain, now France.

/maybe there's hope for Europe yet

re: #250 Highrise

I'm Flat on charles side.

When we have to stand and be counted, please ding me down or up accordingly.

That's nice, aren't we all.

/however, please don't assume you're vicariously entitled to Charles' job description, he can defend himself quite adequately

Gaaa - 12:30 ... gotta sleep ...

We will surely get to go at this again Ploome.

Nite

Nite all...play nice.

re: #254 Killian Bundy

Yep, -1 for posting a news article.

/gee, wonder who might have done that?

re: #256 Killian Bundy

let's pretend you bullshit on 9/11 meant a thing.
Thanks

re: #259 Killian Bundy

re: #254 Killian Bundy

Yep, -1 for posting a news article.

/gee, wonder who might have done that?

I bet it's a prankster lol
When pranksters find a victim, they squeeze it lol ;)

re: #260 Highrise

let's pretend you bullshit on 9/11 meant a thing.
Thanks

I do beleive you're unhinged.

/ding me baby!

re: #264 Killian Bundy
and your linky to that would be where?

re: #262 MigueldowninMexico

Hey, figure this one out . . .

Anger over art showing Pope in sex pose

THE Roman Catholic bishop of Ibiza has demanded that a collage depicting the late Pope John Paul II being sodomised be removed from an exhibit held at a former church on the Spanish holiday island.

The work is one of three collages by Ivo Hendriks that are part of a showcase of art by 15 Dutch artists with ties to Ibiza made over the last 50 years that opened on September 7 and is due to run until the end of the month.

/what is Ibiza?

re: #268 Killian Bundy

re: #262 MigueldowninMexico

Hey, figure this one out . . .

Anger over art showing Pope in sex pose

THE Roman Catholic bishop of Ibiza has demanded that a collage depicting the late Pope John Paul II being sodomised be removed from an exhibit held at a former church on the Spanish holiday island.

The work is one of three collages by Ivo Hendriks that are part of a showcase of art by 15 Dutch artists with ties to Ibiza made over the last 50 years that opened on September 7 and is due to run until the end of the month.

/what is Ibiza?

Ibiza is one of the Balear Islands, a Spanish province (State) in the mediterrenean.

Ivo seems to be the name of sons of bitches: this artist, the prez of Bolivia (soon to be at the UN) and a Hurrican just brewing up right now. LOL

You have to very sick to do something like that.
He'll answer to God, anyway.

re: #265 Highrise

re: #264 Killian Bundy
and your linky to that would be where?

Read this thread, you think your Charles' appointed avenger and you actively monitor at least one other website and take names.

It's a blog!

/and you're obsessed with dinging people down

You have to very sick to do something like that.
I ment: you have to BE very sick, etc...

Drill domestically, use clean coal technology, build more refineries and some more Nuclear Power Plants would be just swell. We can lessen our dependence on foreign oil RIGHT NOW while we pursue other sources of energy for the future. But the Al Gore types seem to want us to ride around on horses all day. No wait, I forgot about the methane emissions, even worse than Carbon.

re: #269 MigueldowninMexico

Ivo was also the name of the friend in "Fright Night", if you've ever seen it. he was a pretty cool character at least! :D

ahh yes, modern "art". throw in a Qu'ran and it is Hate Speech, a felony.

re: #273 savage_nation

re: #269 MigueldowninMexico

Hey miguel!

Hello bro! How is it going with your life?

re: #261 ploome hineni

By Naipaul do you mean the bit where he says that in Islam you are required to obliterate from your memory, all your previous culture , history, family ties etc etc. ?

That's the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Scarier by far than any terrorism imho.