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Two wrongs do not make a right, DanS -- we can deplore both acts as stupid.
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Two wrongs do not make a right, DanS -- we can deplore both acts as stupid.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican. -
Relative sacrilege.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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The Muslims who abhor acts from both sides sincerely believe that the Quran and their mosques are sacred.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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This isn't about the act itself. It's about:Originally posted by DanS
This is crazy. Muslims are assassinating each other inside mosques in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and the headlines are about this?
1) The fact that we've justified out little overseas adventures based on the idea that we're a model for the rest of the world to emulate. We're still better than the Islamic fundamentalists but, really, how much a challenge is that?
2) The fact that the Bush administration has lied its ass off about nearly every aspect of its splendid little war."I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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Who ever said that? This is straight from RTF's imagination.The fact that we've justified out little overseas adventures based on the idea that we're a model for the rest of the world to emulate.
Which has nothing to do with this discussion, even if true.The fact that the Bush administration has lied its ass off about nearly every aspect of its splendid little warI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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At least we didn't flush it down the toilet.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Read Bush's second inaugural address, for starters.Originally posted by DanS
Who ever said that? This is straight from RTF's imagination.
Of course it does. You wanted to know why its in the headlines? Because our administration has at best lost control of its military grunts, and at worst is actually condoning this kind of nastiness. The publich should now about that. In some ways, sadly, its actually more like news than the daily Iraq body count, which is know so routine and predictable its starting to resemble the weather reports in LA.Which has nothing to do with this discussion, even if true."I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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Some Americans wonder why some of the Muslim population in the world hates us, and then when some Americans commit outrages too many Americans shrug their shoulders and refuse to take the outrages seriously. Then, they continue wondering with naivity why some of the Muslim population in the world hates us . . . . . . .
and the cycle go round and round.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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This is "losing control of its military grunts"?
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Given that the administration will inevitably trot out the few-bad-apples defense, sure. We seem to be operating our military detention centers using a manual written by Col. Kurtz.Originally posted by DanS
This is "losing control of its military grunts"?
"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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Given that the administration will inevitably trot out the few-bad-apples defense, sure.
Is this losing control, or isn't it? The spin after the fact has nothing to do with the objective fact.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I'm starting not to take you seriously, Rufus. Afghanistan was justified by 9/11 and Iraq was justified by WMD (which never showed up). As far as I know, those are our only overseas adventures at this point.Read Bush's second inaugural address, for starters.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Right. And once it turned out that WMD were a fiction, the Bushies actually said, repeatedly, that it was never about WMD to begin with. By the second inaugural -- when popular support for the war was falling -- the Bushies had of necessity dreamed up a whole new justification: spreading the American Way of Life. I'm not the one who keeps changing the reasoning on this; its your guys, Dan.Originally posted by DanS
I'm starting not to take you seriously, Rufus. Afghanistan was justified by 9/11 and Iraq was justified by WMD (which never showed up)."I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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So, is this losing control or isn't it, Rufus? Don't give me the same BS answer you gave above.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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That DanS can still "seriously" claim that the Iraq war was justified because of WMDs despite all the contrary evidence is just amazing.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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