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swchandler
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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Many folks tire of the never ending call to war somewhere in the world, but that's not the case with isobars. To him, an eternal state of war is a desirable goal. |
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isobars
Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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What's the difference between these two statements?
1. John Dillinger was not a bank robber. He was simply a man who robbed banks.
2. Members of ISIS, Al Qaeda. Boko Haram, the Taliban, et.al. are not terrorists. They are simply people who commit terrorist acts.
Answer: #2 has been issued from the Office of the President of the United States in several ways via many teleprompters and official spokesmen. #1 is just stupid. |
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MalibuGuru
Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9300
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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OBAMA STOLE SOME OF MY BEST LINES TO GET A GIRL TO SLEEP WITH ME...
Obama’s pre-Super Bowl interview was conducted by NBC’s Savannah Guthrie. The interview was an intertwining of lighthearted banter accompanied by an attempt at tough questioning.
During the interview, perhaps once again attempting to portray himself as ‘just one of the guys,’ Obama bragged about making his own beer in the White House. First thought, between the basketball pickup games, vacations, watching ESPN, and golfing, where does Obama find the time to also make beer? Second, does he have a permit to make this beer at the White House so that it can be regulated?
Then again, he also claimed that he used honey that came from Michelle’s garden, that we know she doesn’t tend to. So, maybe he didn’t make the beer himself after all.
There were two strange takeaways from this ‘interview.’
First, Obama stated that he is the first president since George Washington to make beer in the White House. There’s only one problem, Barry. Washington didn’t make beer in the White House because construction of it was not completed until John Adams became President. Washington made beer at his home in Mount Vernon.
Second, Obama used the interview as another type of beer summit, bringing some of his supposed homemade brew for the female reporter to try.
As they were tasting the beer, Obama recommended that Guthrie down the entire pint of beer before they begin recording the full interview, which was set to air on NBC’s Today Show on Monday. Why was he so eager for her to finish it so quickly? He told her if she downed the beer, the interview would go more smoother.
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17749 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Bard--several things were clear without any checking:
1. Obama has a better sense of humor than you do.
2. It must get tiresome having a crew of "gothcha" folks, like mrgybe, pointing out tiny errors that don't matter at all.
I was going to ask if you were smart enough to figure out that the White House hadn't been built when Washington was President--Obama's terrible error--or you received your message on www.Obamaslamoftheday.com\
But then I found out Obama has more integrity than you do--you cribbed this, without attribution, directly from the Tea Party site: http://www.tpnn.com/2015/02/02/video-obama-encourages-female-reporter-to-get-drunk-to-make-the-interview-go-smoother/
What was the saying? Nattering nabobs of negativity? When will you ever figure out what matters? |
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KGB-NP
Joined: 25 Jul 2001 Posts: 2856
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 11:02 am Post subject: |
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I hear Obama has a grow op going in the White House basement, true? |
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swchandler
Joined: 08 Nov 1993 Posts: 10588
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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You know, if the Republicans in Congress hadn't deliberately voted against the will of the people of Washington DC when they successfully voted for the legalization of marijuana in November, maybe President Obama could have grown it. Leave it to the Republicans to crap on democracy for specious reasons. |
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DanWeiss
Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 2296 Location: Connecticut, USA
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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isobars wrote: | Even the French get it, so why can't Obama?
SNIP
But I must still ask ... WTF were the French thinking when they let Muslims carve out big blocks of their country; exclude French police, laws, and commerce; create mini-caliphates independent of French rule; and yet vote in national elections? A few more little Muslim voters and their president's name will be Muhammed Muhammed Muhammed and Sharia law will rule the nation, not just many of its neighborhoods. |
Above is the epitome of a internally conflicting statement: Participation in elections, the right and defense of which is codified in law versus "exclude . . . laws . . ; creat[ing] mini-caliphates independent of French rule [of law]."
The different United States have embraced to different degrees regional and local control -even when dominated or including populations choosing to live more isolated than most and often privately enforcing religious behavioral codes upon members of the local community. Though some enforcement occurs to those who are at least pressured to submit and tragically against those who feel physically threatened unless they submit, our country allows this civil dispute resolution. After all, nobody forces you to seek civil justice in court if you can find it elsewhere. Limits exist, of course.
What were the French thinking when allowing people of different religious beliefs to enter the county and live near each other? The same thing as the USA when it allowed (or compelled) immigrants to live in close proximity with "their own kind." Would you blame Catholicism for the way Irish and Italian immigrants established organized crime "families" and committed great violence in the local and more broad communities? Would you blame Christianity, regardless of pew preference, for creating violence and institutional dehumanization against black people in the US or against Jewish people across Europe?
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mrgybe
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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DanWeiss wrote: | Would you blame Catholicism for the way Irish and Italian immigrants established organized crime "families" and committed great violence in the local and more broad communities? |
There is a significant difference. The Italian/ Irish who established crime families did so in the name of greed not in the name of Christ. Muslims who have killed and maimed citizens of their adopted countries did so in the name of Allah.
Separately, surely you are not referring to the perpetrators as "victims"? |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17749 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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There are about 5 million Muslims in France. We can certainly debate how well they have been integrated into the economy and assimilated. But the violent behavior of a handful of thugs many of whom were criminals before now, who kill in the name of the religion, should be treated as a criminal matter. |
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uwindsurf
Joined: 18 Aug 2012 Posts: 968 Location: Classified
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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mrgybe wrote: | DanWeiss wrote: | Would you blame Catholicism for the way Irish and Italian immigrants established organized crime "families" and committed great violence in the local and more broad communities? |
There is a significant difference. The Italian/ Irish who established crime families did so in the name of greed not in the name of Christ. Muslims who have killed and maimed citizens of their adopted countries did so in the name of Allah.
Separately, surely you are not referring to the perpetrators as "victims"? |
A French journalist's ISIS captives cared so little about religion they did not even have a Quran, Didier François -- who spent over 10 months as the group's prisoner in Syria -- told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.
"There was never really discussion about texts or -- it was not a religious discussion. It was a political discussion."
"It was more hammering what they were believing than teaching us about the Quran. Because it has nothing to do with the Quran."
"They didn't even have the Quran; they didn't want even to give us a Quran."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/03/intl_world/amanpour-didier-francois/index.html
Oh, great and powerful Master Gybe, please excuse the fact that my source is derived from the internets and not the recesses of an overly egotistical mind. |
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