101. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #262935 by lastgreekstanding on October 9, 2008 at 9:30 pm

Caudimordax,

What's your point?

This will sound trite, but Democrats and Republicans are cut from the same cloth---the corporate cloth. That's it. I totally agree with al-rawandi (must be a full moon tonight).

McCain's a prick, Obama's -- what? Smart?

Smart.

Seriously, I take issue with his voting record. He is not the progressive that he claims to be.

Hate that!

Hate what? What did I do?

Unfortunately, the "bailout" was sort of necessary due to Reagan's deregulation.

Yes, Reagan was for deregulation, but it was the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (which separated commercial banking from investment banking) by the corrupt Clinton administration in 1999. In fairness, though, the Republicans, with Senator Phill Gramm leading the charge, supported it.

102. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #262924 by lastgreekstanding on October 9, 2008 at 8:04 pm

al-rawandi said,

The funny thing is that McCain was in NO danger while imprisoned in Hanoi. His father and grandfather were admirals, the Vietnamese were certainly not going to kill little Johnny, no matter what happened.


You might enjoy this:


http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23316912/makebelieve_maverick/print



Make Believe Maverick.


McCain was busy fucking up and chasing strippers, then he got shot down.

Yeah, that McCain is a prick.

Unfortunately, as you stated last month in this thread, there are not many differences between Obama and McCain. Obama keeps talking about change. What change? I haven't heard anything new. Have you? Anyway, all his talk about helping the middle class is just that: talk! Obama, like McPrick, voted for the Wall Street bailout earlier this week. The bankers all heaved a sigh of relief; the homeowners facing foreclosure . . . It's obvious whose interest Obama really cares about.


~Peter


McCain to wife Cindy after she had just teased him about his receding hairline:

At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.

(from the above link that al-rawandi provided)

103. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #262594 by lastgreekstanding on October 9, 2008 at 12:25 am

Bonzai,

You know what is funny?

The Vietnam war was a war of aggression and the carpet bombing of rice paddies and civilians was a war crime. Here you have a war criminal who went on a bombing mission, got shot down and sat out the war in a POW camp, everyone thinks he is a "war hero" and supposedly that is a qualification for the Presidency.

The war criminal, while a POW, was known to his fellow soldiers as "the Canary".

He's not doing well in the polls, but he can sure count on Charles Keating's vote!

That said, I thought McCain won the "debate".




Edit

104. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #260173 by lastgreekstanding on October 4, 2008 at 8:05 pm

Laurie Fraser,

Her performance on the debate was one of the most dismal I've seen by any politician, anytime.

How true.

Here's an excerpt of what Michelle Goldberg of The Guardian had to say of Palin's debate performance:

At least three times last night, Sarah Palin, the adorable, preposterous vice-presidential candidate, winked at the audience. Had a male candidate with a similar reputation for attractive vapidity made such a brazen attempt to flirt his way into the good graces of the voting public, it would have universally noted, discussed and mocked. Palin, however, has single-handedly so lowered the standards both for female candidates and American political discourse that, with her newfound ability to speak in more-or-less full sentences, she is now deemed to have performed acceptably last night.

By any normal standard, including the ones applied to male presidential candidates of either party, she did not. Early on, she made the astonishing announcement that she had no intentions of actually answering the queries put to her. "I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also," she said.

And so she preceded, with an almost surreal disregard for the subjects she was supposed to be discussing, to unleash fusillades of scripted attack lines, platitudes, lies, gibberish and grating references to her own pseudo-folksy authenticity.

It was an appalling display. The only reason it was not widely described as such is that too many American pundits don't even try to judge the truth, wisdom or reasonableness of the political rhetoric they are paid to pronounce upon. Instead, they imagine themselves as interpreters of a mythical mass of "average Americans" who they both venerate and despise.

...

That her performance was considered anything but a farce doesn't show how high Palin has risen, but how low we all have sunk.

105. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #260161 by lastgreekstanding on October 4, 2008 at 7:42 pm

DarwinsPitbull,

Her policies on government, taxes, the war on terror, and the economy is what matters to me, not her views on science.

Why not science? A socially conscience citizen would care what a politician had to say about education. Remember the No Child Left Behind program?

By the way, I consider McCain a piece of shit. But, I must admit, your take of Obama is right on!

106. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #260127 by lastgreekstanding on October 4, 2008 at 5:14 pm

Nairb,

Maybe I misunderstood but Hezbollah has not been kicked out of Lebannon.

Not by USA, Not by France, Not by Israel and Not by Syria.

I think anyone who knows anything about Labannon knows this. So I am abit surprised by Bidens remarks.

As hawt4dawk mentioned, it was a Biden gaffe---Syria was kicked out of Lebanon, not Hezbollah.

Excuse me if I didn't express myself clearly.


Cheers,


lgs

107. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #259777 by lastgreekstanding on October 3, 2008 at 11:34 pm

From the Biden, Palin debate (courtesy of CNN---the Corporate News Network):

PALIN: Israel is in jeopardy of course when we're dealing with Ahmadinejad as a leader of Iran. Iran claiming that Israel, as he termed it, a stinking corpse, a country that should be wiped off the face of the earth. Now a leader like Ahmadinejad who is not sane or stable when he says things like that is not one whom we can allow to acquire nuclear energy, nuclear weapons.

Israel is our strongest and best ally in the Middle East. We have got to assure them that we will never allow a second Holocaust, despite, again, warnings from Iran and any other country that would seek to destroy Israel, that that is what they would like to see.

We will support Israel. A two-state solution, building our embassy, also, in Jerusalem, those things that we look forward to being able to accomplish, with this peace-seeking nation, and they have a track record of being able to forge these peace agreements.

It's got to be a commitment of the United States of America, though. And I can promise you, in a McCain-Palin administration, that commitment is there to work with our friends in Israel

Senator?

BIDEN: Gwen, no one in the United States Senate has been a better friend to Israel than Joe Biden. I would have never, ever joined this ticket were I not absolutely sure Barack Obama shared my passion.

Governor?

PALIN: I'm so encouraged to know that we both love Israel, and I think that is a good thing to get to agree on, Sen. Biden.

Oh gosh, golly, gee! I wonder if Biden and Palin love America as much as they love the apartheid state of Israel!

Seriously, does AIPAC have them on a short leash or what? LOL


Also ...

BIDEN: When we kicked -- along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, "Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don't know -- if you don't, Hezbollah will control it."

WTF! Hezbollah? "We" ---U.S. and France---kicked out Hezbollah out of Lebanon? That would be SYRIA, Senator.

108. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #258222 by lastgreekstanding on October 1, 2008 at 4:00 pm

Happy belated Rosh Hashanah to all the Jewish members here---especially to those "responsible" Jewish members of Congress who put religion ahead of the public interest by staying away from the House on Monday.


When I get the chance (hopefully later tonight), I will reply to what al-rawandi said about me in this thread regarding Hezbollah and Hamas. Also, I'd like to comment on somenthing very interesting Steve Zara said about Fanusi Khiyal.


Later.



EDIT

109. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #244930 by lastgreekstanding on September 9, 2008 at 9:14 pm

Brandy---The US Government quickly whipped itself into socialist mode over the weekend and saved the largest mortgage lenders in the world, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Capitalism relied on socialism to bail itself out?


Laurie---That's an interesting comment, Brandy. It's remarkable how the bastions of big capital, always interested in privatising wealth, are ever so ready to socialise debt.

American Economics 101: Free enterprise for the poor, social welfare for the rich.

110. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #243899 by lastgreekstanding on September 7, 2008 at 5:58 pm

It is apparent that the system in place in the U.S is not working.

Not only is it not working, it's also criminal: profits before people. To paraphrase Ralph Nader, pay or die, motherfucker.

But to conclude that socialized medicine is the answer is not practical either.

By "socialaized" do you mean a publicly-funded health care system like Canada's or a health care system run by commies?



p.s. How are you doing, keith?

111. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #243459 by lastgreekstanding on September 5, 2008 at 11:04 pm

LOL

Exhibit B: Chomsky was exposed as an neo-nazi defending, fabricator and exaggerator.

--->LOL


What do you think, Cartomancer? Do the above comments merit more than a three-letter acronym? Should I have ignored them instead? I considered it, but the person who posted them claims to have a degree in Middle East Studies.

134. A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Comment #222659 by lastgreekstanding on July 31, 2008 at 4:56 pm

ScarSick,

I repeat: Nothing that you posted proves or substantiates that Hitchens is a holocaust denier (a charge that the Anti-defamation league deems incorrect in regards to Mr. Hitchens.) It's all a bunch of heresay ). . .

You're absolutely right: it's all hearsay.

. . . by Clintonoids' (Epstein) and the Left who believe Hitchens is a traitor (Cockburn/Chomsky/Finklestein/etc)

Well, like you said, Cockburn and CH can't stand each other. I don't know what Chomsky thinks of CH. As for Finkelstein, like Juan Cole and As'ad AbuKhalil (www.agryarab.blogspot.com), he doesn't take CH seriously when it comes to the Middle East. And I agree---CH shouldn't be taken seriously when it comes to the Middle East.

One last thing, if I seem to be directing attacks on you personally, I apologize. I realize you are just puting forth the claims by other men, so no hard feelings.

None taken.

Take care.



Edit

135. A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Comment #221996 by lastgreekstanding on July 30, 2008 at 12:21 pm

ScarSick,

Your cherrypicking. The full quotation is: "Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism" Hitchens said this due to Irving's insight into the Churchill-Hitler relationship.

Thank you for the full quotation. However, it doesn't change anything: Irving is not a "great historian" of anything. How can a racist like Irving be free from bias in his subject matter, especially regarding Hitler?

Here is Hitchens speaking on the manner:

"1) Edward J. Epstein himself gave the names of Anna Wintour and Brian
McNally as the only witnesses he could recall, to a statement that I never made.
And indeed, they were the only other guests I could remember at a dinner-table
that he attempted to crash. So their affirmative statements on my behalf
seemed to decide the matter.

2) The same allegation surfaced a few years later, in the mouth of Henry
Kissinger, and it has crossed my mind that Epstein may have been the
foul-mouthed whisperer in that case also. Be that as it may, anyone with the patience
to visit my website can read the ensuing correspondence between my lawyers and
Henry Kissinger's lawyers. They withdrew the allegation and promised not to
repeat it. Cockburn's standards are more relaxed: any old stick will do.

3) My long account of my view of, and experience of, David Irving is to be
found in my latest collection, entitled Love, Poverty and War and published by
Nation Books."

The above is part of CH's letter to Counterpunch after the editor of Conterpunch Alexander Cockburn had written about CH. Here is Cockburn's reply to each of the above points:


1) On this point let me express my confidence in two things: Edward Jay Epstein's powers of recollection and the loyalty to their pal Hitchens of both Wintour and McNally. As for Hitchens' views on the Holocaust, last week one of the most adoring of his former claque, Dennis Perrin, publicly recalled Hitchens talking to him some years ago about the Holocaust: "Take the claim that gassed Jews were turned into soap and lampshades. 'Stalinist fiction, my dear boy,' he said with a smile."


2) There's no need for dramatic evocation of a"foul-mouthed whisperer". When Epstein recalled Hitchens at the Royalton questioning the Six Million Dead, it was well covered in the press. Kissinger reads newspapers, same as other people. When he smeared Hitchens as a holocaust denier Hitchens got a good libel lawyer to write a threatening letter to Kissinger's lawyers. Kissinger's lawyers blinked, which was lucky for Hitchens who would have faced years of discovery and sworn depositions and mountainous legal bills. Of course these days Hitchens and Kissinger are on the same side, so they should shake hands and agree to forget all past unpleasantness. As for "relaxed' standards, let me remind Hitchens that I prefaced my remarks about him with the sentence "Let's suppose Hitchens was writing in similarly nasty terms about Hitchens", as he did about Cindy Sheehan. Now that he's felt its sting, maybe he should think twice about giving others the Hitchens treatment.


3) Who cares about long essays? In terms of the "Hitchens treatment", his lauding of Irving as "a great historian" is the phrase that counts.


I do apologize. It was not Epstein who said "Stalinist propaganda, dear boy", but Dennis Perrin.


Edit

136. Obama Should Re-Think His Faith-Based Agenda

Comment #221562 by lastgreekstanding on July 29, 2008 at 7:18 pm

7. Comment #220458 by kkelly :

I have no respect for Obama's integrity.

[Reaching for an Oreo cookie]

I agree. No sooner does he clinch the Democratic nomination and what does Obama do? He runs to an AIPAC (Israeli lobby) conference, bends over, and spreads his butt cheeks wide open---the obligatory act of submission for any American presidential hopeful.

137. A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Comment #221551 by lastgreekstanding on July 29, 2008 at 6:34 pm

122. Comment #220121 by al-rawandi:

I thought Hitchens had defended Irving's right to free speech. A stance which I share, despite the odious nature of his message

Yes, defend free speech. But, if I'm not mistaken, CH has also called Irving a "great historian."

But apparently Hitchens made some other comments about the Holocaust which weren't so forgiveable.

Does anyone remember what those were?

Those comments were made many years ago (1995?) at some formal dinner. According to author Edward Jay Epstein ,in an MSNBC interview, he overheard Hitchens question the Nazi Holocaust. Edwards also said that CH referred to the gassing of Jews as "Stalinist propaganga, dear boy."

138. A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Comment #219768 by lastgreekstanding on July 27, 2008 at 2:05 pm

BFKate,

CH: A chickenhawk warmonger who lets others fight the "worthy" cause.

Like Dick Cheney, CH may be a piece of shit but hardly stupid.

139. A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Comment #219577 by lastgreekstanding on July 27, 2008 at 9:04 am

Just wondering... If it's illegal to impersonate a police officer, shouldn't it be illegal to impersonate another professional also, for example, a historian?

140. Nine face stoning death in Iran

Comment #218022 by lastgreekstanding on July 24, 2008 at 9:11 pm

First: "Are there any takers?" "There" not "they." I slipped.

Comment #217968 by Goldy on July 24, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Where abouts in Canada do you live if I may ask?
I lived (past tense) in Alberta - Red Deer and then Brookes. I am in New Zealand now.

Small world. I have cousins in New Zealand.

141. Nine face stoning death in Iran

Comment #217951 by lastgreekstanding on July 24, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Post 295 by al-rawandi---Just remember LGS is the very person who refused to condemn Hezbollah for stating that Jews spread AIDS. He first downplayed this saying that Hezbollah meant this was "unintentional" (like that matters).

Oh, stop it. You don't know what the heck you're talking about.

al-rawandi---He is the very kind of person who apologizes for the people who behead humanitarian aid workers.

Not I, buffoon. Please don't confuse me for the CIA. These "people who behead humanitarian aid workers" are the same people the CIA was tacitly supporting in the 1980's and 90's in Afghanistan. Then again, I don't expect a buffoon like you to know that.

al-rawandi---Israel has rountinely foregone military operations because of the potential for loss of civilian lives (Arab lives).

No, buffoon. The Israeli "defense" forces ROUTINELY engage in LOW INTENSITY WARFARE against both the Palestinians and Lebanese.

They also ROUTINELY engage in HIGH INTESITY WARFARE. Israel has invaded Lebanon FIVE TIMES!!! In the 1982 invasion, over 20,000 civilians were killed by the indiscriminate bombing of the Israeli air force.

April 18, 1996. Does it ring a bell? Operation Grapes of Wrath, dishonest buffoon. Over 100 Lebanese refugees were butchered inside a UN compound in Qana by Israeli shelling. Why don't you google "Qana" and see for yourself the death and destruction! No fuckin' excuse, though the Zionist pricks tried.

In another thread I wrote the following:

"In the 2006 Lebanon war, 3 days before the signed ceasefire was to take effect, the Israeli airforce dropped millions of cluster bombs in populated areas of southern Lebanon. The UN humanitarian chief not only called it "completely immoral", he went on to say, "Every day people are maimed, wounded and killed by these weapons---it shouldn't have happened." [BBC NEWS] Yes, "every day" because cluster bombs have an unexploded rate of roughly 10%."

The ceasefire was already signed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Truth be damned, eh?

al-rawandi---Only a person with pathetic and disgusting morals would miss this distinction. George Carlin is not an authority on the matter, that is for sure. And guess what our ignorant friend LGS is no expert either, amateur jack off

Expert in what? I am not claiming to be an expert in anything (except maybe the Greek language :)). You're the one claiming to have knowledge of the Middle East (remember: it's Cyprus not Cypress). However, compared to you, I'm a Professor Emeritus of Middle East Studies, "published" dishonest buffoon.

I have had enough of you for one day, "published" dishonest buffoon.

Post 305 by Goldy---On a good note, we both heartily agree when it comes to LGS :-)

That's nice.


EDIT

142. Nine face stoning death in Iran

Comment #217055 by lastgreekstanding on July 23, 2008 at 9:11 pm

Goldy,

:-)

Where abouts in Canada do you live if I may ask?

143. Nine face stoning death in Iran

Comment #217047 by lastgreekstanding on July 23, 2008 at 8:54 pm

Post 295 by al-rawandi---Just remember LGS is the very person who refused to condemn Hezbollah for stating that Jews spread AIDS. He first downplayed this saying that Hezbollah meant this was "unintentional" (like that matters).

Oh, stop it. You don't know what the heck you're talking about.

al-rawandi---He is the very kind of person who apologizes for the people who behead humanitarian aid workers.

Not I, buffoon. Please don't confuse me for the CIA. These "people who behead humanitarian aid workers" are the same people the CIA was tacitly supporting in the 1980's and 90's in Afghanistan. Then again, I don't expect a buffoon like you to know that.

al-rawandi---Israel has rountinely foregone military operations because of the potential for loss of civilian lives (Arab lives).

No, buffoon. The Israeli "defense" forces ROUTINELY engage in LOW INTENSITY WARFARE against both the Palestinians and Lebanese.

They also ROUTINELY engage in HIGH INTESITY WARFARE. Israel has invaded Lebanon FIVE TIMES!!! In the 1982 invasion, over 20,000 civilians were killed by the indiscriminate bombing of the Israeli air force.

April 18, 1996. Does it ring a bell? Operation Grapes of Wrath, dishonest buffoon. Over 100 Lebanese refugees were butchered inside a UN compound in Qana by Israeli shelling. Why don't you google "Qana" and see for yourself the death and destruction! No fuckin' excuse, though the Zionist pricks tried.

In another thread I wrote the following:

"In the 2006 Lebanon war, 3 days before the signed ceasefire was to take effect, the Israeli airforce dropped millions of cluster bombs in populated areas of southern Lebanon. The UN humanitarian chief not only called it "completely immoral", he went on to say, "Every day people are maimed, wounded and killed by these weapons---it shouldn't have happened." [BBC NEWS] Yes, "every day" because cluster bombs have an unexploded rate of roughly 10%."

The ceasefire was already signed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Truth be damned, eh?

al-rawandi---Only a person with pathetic and disgusting morals would miss this distinction. George Carlin is not an authority on the matter, that is for sure. And guess what our ignorant friend LGS is no expert either, amateur jack off

Expert in what? I am not claiming to be an expert in anything (except maybe the Greek language). You're the one claiming to have knowledge of the Middle East (remember: it's Cyprus not Cypress). However, compared to you, I'm a Professor Emiritus of Middle East Studies, "published" dishonest buffoon.

I have had enough of you for one day, "published" dishonest buffoon.

Post 305 by Goldy---On a good note, we both heartily agree when it comes to LGS :-)

That's nice.


EDIT

144. Nine face stoning death in Iran

Comment #216962 by lastgreekstanding on July 23, 2008 at 6:11 pm

utelme,

You are misinformed.



al-rawandi,

You are GROSSLY misinformed.



Fanusi Khiyal,

When are you enlisting?



mordacious1,

I don't know about you being a commie, but you are definitely a fascist.



edit

145. Nine face stoning death in Iran

Comment #215431 by lastgreekstanding on July 21, 2008 at 10:19 pm

Let's go back a bit . . .

Comment 63 by joshualocum:

And that's what makes you [kkelly] a shockingly rude, boorish jerk. Not only don't you care that you inadvertently hurt someone, but you don't mind compounding the offense. Ordinary human kindness - including the ability to say "I'm sorry" even if you didn't mean what was perceived - is in short enough supply. Thanks for making the forum a little bit uglier.

Post 73 by thewhitepearl:

We tend to stick up for each other especially against rude disrespectful trolls such as yourself [kkelly].

Why would you want to stick up for a fascist like mordacious1?

You should be "thanking" the fascist mordacious1, not kkelly, "for making the forum a little bit uglier", joshuaslocum:

Comment #211693 by mordacious1:

I see that Hezbollah has traded the remains of the two Israeli soldiers kidnapped in 2006 , for 5 live prisoners. Interesting how this works.

This comment, in another thread, came out of nowhere---completely off topic.

I replied that soldiers are captured, not "kidnapped". To which he replied . . .

Comment #214184 by mordacious1:

These two were kidnapped and murdered.

Again, I replied that soldiers are killed, not "murdered".

Unless you think like Hitler, you would never use such terms. (I wonder if he---like Rabbi Shmuley Boteach---"shrieks like Hitler", too.) And, like a fascist, he answered with . . .

Comment #214193 by mordacious1:

OK, they are soldiers and they were captured. That means they are at war, which means Israel can bomb the shit out of them. Let's do it your way.

The apartheid state of Israel has been kidnapping Palestinian and Lebanese civilians (not soldiers) for decades. No decent human being would call for the bombardment and destruction of Israel, not unless he thought like a Nazi!

And "bomb the shit out of them" (southern Lebanon) is what Israel did: thousands of civilians killed or maimed! Billions of dollars in infrastructure damage!

Hey! mordacious1! Sieg Heil!

Post 165 by "published" buffoon:

The one thing I always ask these self flagellating miscreants is "In a world with overwhelming military power, who would you rather wield it... the west, or countries like Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia?"

This usually inspires a stuttering response about moral relativism and other bull shit of the most malodorous variety.

NO ONE.

See! No "stuttering response about moral relativism and other bullshit", buffoon.

He failed to mention that the United States had no misgivings in initiating Iran's nuclear program back in the "good ol' days" when it was ruled by the "likeable" Shah.

He also failed to mention that the United States is a stanch supporter of the tyrannical monarchy of Saudi Arabia---the same Saudi Arabia that beheaded nearly 100 people last year!

Have I mentioned that the United States also initiated Pakistan's nuclear program?

So when a person like Kraut says "How many families are destroyed by a bombing" several issues arise.

1) They are obviously situated near a legitimate target, and are always free to take up arms against the thugs and killers that are being targeted.

2) A lot less than would be dying if Muslims had the power the west does. Imagine the likes of Bin Laden, Nasrallah, Yassin, Haniyyah with the power to deliver weapons of mass destruction.

"A person like Kraut" is a decent human being. That cannot be said of you., buffoon.

The point can only be "The west needs to be more perfect". To this agree, but get real if you think there is a legitimate comparison between targeting a terrorist (even in an unjust war) and blowing up a bus load of children

LOL

Israeli murderers are called commandos; Arab commandos are called terrorists---George Carlin on Soft Language

George Carlin, you are sadly missed.

146. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #214195 by lastgreekstanding on July 19, 2008 at 11:12 pm

It's late.

Good night, mordacious1.

147. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #214190 by lastgreekstanding on July 19, 2008 at 10:13 pm

And one more thing . . .

SOLDIERS ARE KILLED NOT "MURDERED"!

EDIT: Israeli murderers are called commandos; Arab commandos are called terrorists.---George Carlin

148. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #214162 by lastgreekstanding on July 19, 2008 at 7:49 pm

Comment #211693 by mordacious1---I see that Hezbollah has traded the remains of the two Israeli soldiers kidnapped in 2006 , for 5 live prisoners. Interesting how this works.

Oh, please, not another Zionist apologist for the shitty, apartheid state of Israel.

Just for the record: SOLDIERS ARE CAPTURED NOT "KIDNAPPED"!


edit

149. Anti-Darwinists turned away by Israeli academia

Comment #214129 by lastgreekstanding on July 19, 2008 at 4:19 pm

Christopher Davis said---I don't really know much "text lingo"...but what the hell, while you're busy LOL, you can KMA.

"KMA"?

Are you saying that your ass is a "free fire zone"?

150. Anti-Darwinists turned away by Israeli academia

Comment #213668 by lastgreekstanding on July 18, 2008 at 6:35 pm

the "published" Buffoon said---If you don't know already. People generall just ignore this lastgreekstanding and his text messages. Heavy on obnoxious rhetoric, woefully light on evidence and data.

Now, now, "published" Buffoon---that's hardly sporting of you.

C. Davis---Yeah I had no idea what lastgreekstanding was trying to convey.

Your statements merited a three-letter acronym and no more.

How many millions of people in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were killed by American forces, CD?

How many millions of people have Americans forces killed, maimed, or displaced by this immoral, criminal war in Iraq, CD? (Let's exclude Gulf War I and the harsh economic sanctions that followed.)

How many people were killed, maimed, and tortured after 9-11, CD?

Yeah, you "had no idea what lastgreekstanding was trying to convey."

denizb---I must say, this has gone way off topic - but I must say I have come to learn of the audience of this website - and it really brakes my heart.

I love Dawkins because like the site's name, he provides an oasis for clear free thought - and I see there is blind obedience that still lives in the minds of his readers - even if they have rejected the silly notion of God (an all powerful being) they have not applied the same reasoning to other things in life. Blind obedience to crooked politicians, to ill intended governments who have only the goal of protecting their own economic and political interests - is the same thing!

Very well said, denizb.

One more time:

To paraphrase G.K. Chesterton, it's funny how when people stop believing in God they often become not more skeptical but more ready to believe anything. You'd expect it to be the other way around.