What the hell? I may be dating myself (as someone rather young) in saying this, but I've seriously never heard that before. Is this phrase really in common usage? It doesn't make any sense.
When you "eat someone's lunch", it means you dominate them so thoroughly that you can sit down next to them at the lunch table and take their lunch and they will not even complain about it. It's way passed the "ass kicking stage", because at least in that stage the loser fought back, when you "eat their lunch" they are totally cowed.
You don't really believe that. List 1 popular consumer product that is more complicated than a coffee cup and used by a majority of people who know how it works.
Same difference, as i think he is saying 1 user = 1 PC.
Yep, that's what I meant, sorry for the poor wording.
He also fails to mention if he is using alternate means (custom security policy, compatws.inf template, etc.) to ensure those apps run.
None of those apps took any tweaks for the users to be able to run them, but I will point out that 1,100 of the 1,500 or so users are Power Users, the others are Users (plus a few admins obviously). Activesync does have to be installed as an Admin and a PocketPC must be installed by the user, so those users get bumped up to Admin for their initial use of the PDA and then busted back down to Power User or User, I do consider this a tweak, but he did not mention Activesync. Also we have a several GPS device that use Activesync and they need similar tweaking. There are all kinds of backflips I have to go through to get many stupid windows apps to work, but the apps I mentioned in the previous post run fine on my network by Power Users with no tweaks.
I get the same calls regarding notebooks as you mentioned. Windows XP support for USB is quite spotty if you ask me.
Here's a partial list of programs that require admin rights to run (not merely install):
* Kodak Share software
* Autocad
* Any serial port emulation program
* PowerDVD
* Oracle
* Windows Media Player
You are misinformed on most of these:
I run Kodak Share on about 40 of our Windows boxes, none of them have admin rights.
I run AutoCAD on all of our Engineer's windows boxes (about 25), only one has admin rights.
I run PowerDVD on over 1,000 windows boxes, less than 20 have admin rights.
I run Windows Media Player on every machine we have, around 1,5000, and only a few have admin rights.
And these machine run the software as well as you can expect windows to work.
Look at Iraq now, we have how many hundreds of thousands of troops there, who have the authority to impose curfews, search without warrants, etc, and STILL there are many, many suicide bombings every month.
While I agree with your points almost entirely, the US and Britain combined have around 160,000 troops in Iraq, not many hundreds of thousands. Not only did W insist on going to war with trumped up charges, he tried to do it on the cheap.
I don't think I believe there is such a thing as a benevolent government. I'd take an indifferent one to tell you the truth. That would be tons better than the last 50 years of our (US) federal governments.
In fact, it didn't. I was using the OS/2 version of Lotus Smartsuite, but it was so buggy that I was forced to switch to the Windows version..:( Not to mention that most of the OS/2 printer drivers were crap, so I also used Windows to print my stuff. The native OS/2 application that I used most was Emacs. This is probably also the reason why I switched from OS/2 to Linux rather than to Windows;-)
This is almost exactly my history with OS/2 also. I got it mainly to run emacs and gcc on my 386 and later my 486. Once linux offered the nicities of X working on my hardware I also switched to it and not Windows.
I knew just enough about vi to load emacs onto whatever Unix machine I used.
Those are real hard drives, with flash memory interfaces. Good try though, and $6400 probably is too high anyway (4 GB CF flash cards can be found for approximately $300).
You sure about that? My 4GB Nano was $249 months ago.
I backed up what I said with facts. I noticed neither of you managed to do anything but lie and throw insults. The two of you (unless you are the same) are in a little world of your own -- anyone who doesn't agree with you is a right wing republican, guess what loser? There are billions of people who agree with me and can't stand neoconservatives. You don't have to like W to point out the millions of problems with Islam, you little worm. When Islam and Muslims can start to accept criticism of their faith, they will start to not only improve the way others see them, but also improve their own lives. Criticising Islam does NOT automatically make someone evil, inhumane, racist, or tools of Big Oil! I put the needle to anyone acting stupid (any religion, age, color or nationality) and burning down embassies and killing people over cartoons is stupid in ANY sane person's book, bucko.
>>Less than 10 people in all of US history have been murdered by moronic anti-abortionists.
>Hmm.
>What about the Crusades? Those killed plenty of Jews and Arabs.
He didn't bring up the Crusades, he said that US religious morons murdering people over abortion was as rampant as the Islamofascists that were burning embassies and killing dozens of people over cartoons. I called BS and was 100% correct. We can discuss the Crusades and the Islamic invasion, occupation and enslavement of Christian lands if you really want a history listen though.
If you lie about this why should anyone believe you for anything? I got thrown out of Bush's political rally in my town for telling him what a fraud he is and there has not been a month gone by that BOTH of my Senators have not heard from me about their votes on the Iraq war.
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Well if you're to count all killings by all muslims everywhere with only US anti-abortion bombings, you're sure to come up with a one-sided figure.
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He was the one who said US idiots killing abortion doctors were the same thing, not me. I refuted his arugment by saying outraged religious fanatics in the US killed far fewer people over abortion than Islamofascists killed people over the Muhammed cartoons.
As far as the your other points, I never said one nice thing about Christians. I am not a Christian not a Jew and I hate George Bush's guts and I dressed down both of my Senators about the Iraq war BEFORE we launched the invasion. I refuted what the poster said, I never claimed Christians are all rosey, and I never condemned all muslims. Please read what I type and do not assume I fall into the category of some stereotype when answering me.
According to The Guardian's Albert Scardino, Khalid Duran coined the term "Islamofascism":
Khalid Durán is a specialist in the history, sociology and politics of the Islamic world. He studied Middle Eastern languages and Islam in Bosnia and Morocco, and sociology and political science at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. In the 1970s, he worked at Pakistan's Islamic Research Institute and traveled extensively in the Middle East and South Asia. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Pakistan, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia and the United States, teaching at departments of anthropology, history, religion and sociology. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on Islamic Religion, the Middle East, North Africa and Central and South Asia, covering both history and current affairs.
I believe he came up with the phrase after he wrote a book for the American Jewish Committee called Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews. It was approved by 14 Islamic Scholars and even apparently Prince Hassan of Jordon, but it seems several groups did not approve of it and said that it spread anti-Muslim propaganda" through its "distortions of Islamic concepts." I have not read it myself, so I cannot say if it was true or not, but what I do know is that 'Abd al-Mun'im Abu Zant, a senior cleric in Jordon, declared Durán an apostate and threatened his life.
I would imagine a Mr Durán did not like being declared a non-believer not having himself and his family threatened. My guess is that the fascism part of the name is more related to the Gestapo-like intolerence, and threats of violence to silence all critics rather than tying fascism to corporatism only.
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Do you believe that hurting people is the right thing to do? If not (and I doubt that you do), then surely you have to concede that is was hurtful and wrong to print the cartoons.
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I do not agree that is was wrong to print the cartoons. It was an excercise in free speech to prove that the free press of the West is not a slave to Islam. It took centuries to throw off the yolk of Christian censors and then government censors and no way do I want our press to only print what muslims, christians, jews, hindus etc say is ok by them. Offensive speach is EXACTLY the kind of speech that needs protecting most. The Islamic press wage a non-stop assault against the West and Isreal, they have not one tiny bit of moral standing.
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The newspapers that printed those comics didn't seem to be doing so in support for free speech, I thought it seemed like they were stirring up controversy in order to generate sales.
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Germany's Die Welt stated with its reprint: "Democracy is the institutionalised form of freedom of expression. There is no right to protection from satire in the west; there is a right to blasphemy" the paper said in an accompanying comment piece.
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It would have been quite easy to condemn the reactions of the extremists without printing the offensive material, material which must have hurt the feelings of many perfectly peacable Muslims as well as those of the extremists.
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I'm sorry but if you read Western media, watch our television or listen to our music there is a VERY high chance most anyone will be offended. The peacable Muslims need to accept this, or never look at any of this media. There is a right to blasphemy and a right to offend. They need to get over it or stay out of the West and its culture.
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I understand that you're not happy with the situation, but who is? Getting angry about problems that stem from anger in the first place does not seem like the sensible thing to do.
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Muslims need to get out of the 14th Century. It would do them a lot of good in many ways. Now, it is their choice, I am not going to demand they follow my culture, and I certianly will not burn down any embassies or behead people who speak ill of my freedom -- which is something I love as much as any good muslim loves his/her Prophet -- but they do NOT get to tell Western newspapers what to print. Many demanded that the UN pass laws restricting our speech! That is not something I will tolerate. And yes, I give Prez Bush hell, for his administration's actions against my freedoms too.
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More incendiary terms like "Islamofascist" are not what the world needs right now.
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Please save your lecture for the people who burned down embassies, paraded around with signs demanding my death, and rioted in many countries causing dozens of deaths! My calling those criminals what they are has not harmed anyone.
Less than 10 people in all of US history have been murdered by moronic anti-abortionists. Over 200 people were hacked to death when muslims in Nigeria were "offended" by a remark by a reporter about a beauty contest. (it was something like "Muhammed may have chosen a wife from the contestants.")
Plenty more died there after the Danish cartoon episode. Course Blair and Bush both sided with the Islamofascists saying how hurtful and wrong it was to print the cartoons!
It's a sad day when the French and other continentals print the cartoons in solidarity with Denmark and free speech, but the UK and USA cower from the rage of Islamofascists. The French have to defend our honors because we are too scared too. Very sad. Hopefully this will end the stupid French surrender jokes.
Thousands more can be found. Google is your friend. My favorite terrorist supporters are the ones in SE Asia (I think it was Bangladesh) that were running around with any pictures they could find of Osama Bin Laden, including one that had Burt the muppet from Sesame Street beside Bin Laden's shoulder! Here's the link http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blo samabert2.htm .
Oh, and by the way, "Palenstinians" is correctly spelt: Palestinians
Dude, its called a typo. They come easily when you do not have spell check.
The percentage of muslims who murder people in terrorist acts is small, but the percentage of muslims that support those acts is much higher than you Islamofascist apologists ever admit. A full 60% of polled Palenstinians supported the World Trade Center attack, tens of thousands of them paraded around with banners of Bin Laden in the streets. Arafat was so embarassed that the murderous nature of his people was on public display that he had his own men shoot into the crowds! Very high percentages of people in Islamic countries approve of terrorist acts, 30-60% in Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakitstan, Jordon, Saudi, and Yemen. This is nothing like the joke you make of Islamic hatred and violence against non-muslims.
Look at the burning embassies! The West is vilafied CONTINOUSLY in the Islamic press -- virtually all of it controlled by the dictatorship governments. But a set of cartoons has muslims across the world, burning emabassies, kidnapping foreignors, threatening to behead ANYONE who speaks ill of Islam, killing people and chanting "Death to (insert country with a free press here)".
Nothing Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, or Sikhs in modern times has EVER EVER come close to this Islamic stupidity. NOTHING. Hundreds of thousands rallied in Lebanon with banners saying: "We are ready to sacrifice our children for you, O Prophet Muhammad." Lovely! Kill your kids over a cartoon.
Some more islamic nicities:
"Damn your beliefs and your liberty."
"Whoever insults Prophet Muhammad is to be killed."
From London we had:
"Go to Hell Freedom"
'Behead those who insult the prophet'
"Free speech go to hell."
"Slay those who insult Islam"
These are not suicide bombers, these are typical muslims and they are telling non-muslims that we have to obey their wishes. No amount of pathetic spin from apologists will ever convince a non-self-hating Western citizen otherwise. More people were killed because of muslims in Nigeria in one day over these cartoons than have been killed in abortion violence in all of history.
I am not a christian, not a jew and I hate George W Bush, so there goes 99% of the arguments you have against me.
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It is blasphemy to insult our Profit Optimus Prime (peace be upon him in death beacuse all he did in life is make war)! Even though you are from a different culture, country and continent you must RESPECT THE PROFIT'S AUTHORITY!!!!!
We are a peaceful cult and anyone who disagrees gets beheaded!
Freedom of speech does not mean you can offend people! You are violating our rights! This Optimusaphobia must end!
To hell with freedom, just give us our EU welfare checks and do as we say!
No kidding. Just because Charles de Gaulle was a jackass is no reason to insult all French people. Without France's help the US would have never won our Revolutionary War. The French people gave us the Statue of Liberty which is in my opinion the greatest gift from one people in a country to those in another in the history of civilization.
I hope the world would not blame all of us for W being a jack ass nor think we are all like him. I am an old fashioned conservative and I hate the SOB. Lets not keep blaming our first ally for one jerky leader.
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I don't know where you're from sonny, but in this house we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!
What the hell? I may be dating myself (as someone rather young) in saying this, but I've seriously never heard that before. Is this phrase really in common usage? It doesn't make any sense.
When you "eat someone's lunch", it means you dominate them so thoroughly that you can sit down next to them at the lunch table and take their lunch and they will not even complain about it. It's way passed the "ass kicking stage", because at least in that stage the loser fought back, when you "eat their lunch" they are totally cowed.
How they go to Australia? Oz has plenty of room, right?
You don't really believe that. List 1 popular consumer product that is more complicated than a coffee cup and used by a majority of people who know how it works.
A pepper mill?
Though I see your point.
Same difference, as i think he is saying 1 user = 1 PC.
Yep, that's what I meant, sorry for the poor wording.
He also fails to mention if he is using alternate means (custom security policy, compatws.inf template, etc.) to ensure those apps run.
None of those apps took any tweaks for the users to be able to run them, but I will point out that 1,100 of the 1,500 or so users are Power Users, the others are Users (plus a few admins obviously). Activesync does have to be installed as an Admin and a PocketPC must be installed by the user, so those users get bumped up to Admin for their initial use of the PDA and then busted back down to Power User or User, I do consider this a tweak, but he did not mention Activesync. Also we have a several GPS device that use Activesync and they need similar tweaking. There are all kinds of backflips I have to go through to get many stupid windows apps to work, but the apps I mentioned in the previous post run fine on my network by Power Users with no tweaks.
I get the same calls regarding notebooks as you mentioned. Windows XP support for USB is quite spotty if you ask me.
So they are full of spyware and crash for no reason? ;)
hehehehe
Yep, that was what I hinting at.
I run Kodak Share on about 40 of our Windows boxes, none of them have admin rights.
I run AutoCAD on all of our Engineer's windows boxes (about 25), only one has admin rights.
I run PowerDVD on over 1,000 windows boxes, less than 20 have admin rights.
I run Windows Media Player on every machine we have, around 1,5000, and only a few have admin rights.
And these machine run the software as well as you can expect windows to work.
Look at Iraq now, we have how many hundreds of thousands of troops there, who have the authority to impose curfews, search without warrants, etc, and STILL there are many, many suicide bombings every month.
While I agree with your points almost entirely, the US and Britain combined have around 160,000 troops in Iraq, not many hundreds of thousands. Not only did W insist on going to war with trumped up charges, he tried to do it on the cheap.
I don't think I believe there is such a thing as a benevolent government. I'd take an indifferent one to tell you the truth. That would be tons better than the last 50 years of our (US) federal governments.
In fact, it didn't. I was using the OS/2 version of Lotus Smartsuite, but it was so buggy that I was forced to switch to the Windows version.. :( Not to mention that most of the OS/2 printer drivers were crap, so I also used Windows to print my stuff. The native OS/2 application that I used most was Emacs. This is probably also the reason why I switched from OS/2 to Linux rather than to Windows ;-)
This is almost exactly my history with OS/2 also. I got it mainly to run emacs and gcc on my 386 and later my 486. Once linux offered the nicities of X working on my hardware I also switched to it and not Windows.
I knew just enough about vi to load emacs onto whatever Unix machine I used.
Fujitsu Lifebooks are still made in Japan. I have one, it's fantastic, but my goodness you pay for it.
Federal Education spending has increased by an average of 7% anually from 2001-2006.
2 -federal-spending-inside_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-04-0
I'd tell you how much the defense spending has increased since, but I only have a BSc in Mathematics and thus I cannot count that high.
The Toyota Corolla has a standard 1.3L Engine. It is built in Kentucky and millions of them are on US roads. I bought one for my wife two years ago.
Those are real hard drives, with flash memory interfaces. Good try though, and $6400 probably is too high anyway (4 GB CF flash cards can be found for approximately $300).
You sure about that? My 4GB Nano was $249 months ago.
I backed up what I said with facts. I noticed neither of you managed to do anything but lie and throw insults. The two of you (unless you are the same) are in a little world of your own -- anyone who doesn't agree with you is a right wing republican, guess what loser? There are billions of people who agree with me and can't stand neoconservatives. You don't have to like W to point out the millions of problems with Islam, you little worm. When Islam and Muslims can start to accept criticism of their faith, they will start to not only improve the way others see them, but also improve their own lives. Criticising Islam does NOT automatically make someone evil, inhumane, racist, or tools of Big Oil! I put the needle to anyone acting stupid (any religion, age, color or nationality) and burning down embassies and killing people over cartoons is stupid in ANY sane person's book, bucko.
>>Less than 10 people in all of US history have been murdered by moronic anti-abortionists.
>Hmm.
>What about the Crusades? Those killed plenty of Jews and Arabs.
He didn't bring up the Crusades, he said that US religious morons murdering people over abortion was as rampant as the Islamofascists that were burning embassies and killing dozens of people over cartoons. I called BS and was 100% correct. We can discuss the Crusades and the Islamic invasion, occupation and enslavement of Christian lands if you really want a history listen though.
Not a Christian, not a Jew and I hate Bush!
>Oh but now they're free of Saddam you cry!
When did I say that you miserable little liar?
If you lie about this why should anyone believe you for anything? I got thrown out of Bush's political rally in my town for telling him what a fraud he is and there has not been a month gone by that BOTH of my Senators have not heard from me about their votes on the Iraq war.
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Well if you're to count all killings by all muslims everywhere with only US anti-abortion bombings, you're sure to come up with a one-sided figure.
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He was the one who said US idiots killing abortion doctors were the same thing, not me. I refuted his arugment by saying outraged religious fanatics in the US killed far fewer people over abortion than Islamofascists killed people over the Muhammed cartoons.
As far as the your other points, I never said one nice thing about Christians. I am not a Christian not a Jew and I hate George Bush's guts and I dressed down both of my Senators about the Iraq war BEFORE we launched the invasion. I refuted what the poster said, I never claimed Christians are all rosey, and I never condemned all muslims. Please read what I type and do not assume I fall into the category of some stereotype when answering me.
According to The Guardian's Albert Scardino, Khalid Duran coined the term "Islamofascism": Khalid Durán is a specialist in the history, sociology and politics of the Islamic world. He studied Middle Eastern languages and Islam in Bosnia and Morocco, and sociology and political science at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. In the 1970s, he worked at Pakistan's Islamic Research Institute and traveled extensively in the Middle East and South Asia. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Pakistan, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia and the United States, teaching at departments of anthropology, history, religion and sociology. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on Islamic Religion, the Middle East, North Africa and Central and South Asia, covering both history and current affairs.
_ Dur%E1n
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Khalid
I believe he came up with the phrase after he wrote a book for the American Jewish Committee called Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews. It was approved by 14 Islamic Scholars and even apparently Prince Hassan of Jordon, but it seems several groups did not approve of it and said that it spread anti-Muslim propaganda" through its "distortions of Islamic concepts." I have not read it myself, so I cannot say if it was true or not, but what I do know is that 'Abd al-Mun'im Abu Zant, a senior cleric in Jordon, declared Durán an apostate and threatened his life.
I would imagine a Mr Durán did not like being declared a non-believer not having himself and his family threatened. My guess is that the fascism part of the name is more related to the Gestapo-like intolerence, and threats of violence to silence all critics rather than tying fascism to corporatism only.
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Do you believe that hurting people is the right thing to do? If not (and I doubt that you do), then surely you have to concede that is was hurtful and wrong to print the cartoons.
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I do not agree that is was wrong to print the cartoons. It was an excercise in free speech to prove that the free press of the West is not a slave to Islam. It took centuries to throw off the yolk of Christian censors and then government censors and no way do I want our press to only print what muslims, christians, jews, hindus etc say is ok by them. Offensive speach is EXACTLY the kind of speech that needs protecting most. The Islamic press wage a non-stop assault against the West and Isreal, they have not one tiny bit of moral standing.
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The newspapers that printed those comics didn't seem to be doing so in support for free speech, I thought it seemed like they were stirring up controversy in order to generate sales.
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I have to politely disagree with you.
France Soir said it had published the cartoons to show that "religious dogma" had no place in a secular society. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4669360.s
Germany's Die Welt stated with its reprint: "Democracy is the institutionalised form of freedom of expression. There is no right to protection from satire in the west; there is a right to blasphemy" the paper said in an accompanying comment piece.
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It would have been quite easy to condemn the reactions of the extremists without printing the offensive material, material which must have hurt the feelings of many perfectly peacable Muslims as well as those of the extremists.
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I'm sorry but if you read Western media, watch our television or listen to our music there is a VERY high chance most anyone will be offended. The peacable Muslims need to accept this, or never look at any of this media. There is a right to blasphemy and a right to offend. They need to get over it or stay out of the West and its culture.
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I understand that you're not happy with the situation, but who is? Getting angry about problems that stem from anger in the first place does not seem like the sensible thing to do.
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Muslims need to get out of the 14th Century. It would do them a lot of good in many ways. Now, it is their choice, I am not going to demand they follow my culture, and I certianly will not burn down any embassies or behead people who speak ill of my freedom -- which is something I love as much as any good muslim loves his/her Prophet -- but they do NOT get to tell Western newspapers what to print. Many demanded that the UN pass laws restricting our speech! That is not something I will tolerate. And yes, I give Prez Bush hell, for his administration's actions against my freedoms too.
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More incendiary terms like "Islamofascist" are not what the world needs right now.
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Please save your lecture for the people who burned down embassies, paraded around with signs demanding my death, and rioted in many countries causing dozens of deaths! My calling those criminals what they are has not harmed anyone.
Less than 10 people in all of US history have been murdered by moronic anti-abortionists. Over 200 people were hacked to death when muslims in Nigeria were "offended" by a remark by a reporter about a beauty contest. (it was something like "Muhammed may have chosen a wife from the contestants.")
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2671229.stm
Plenty more died there after the Danish cartoon episode. Course Blair and Bush both sided with the Islamofascists saying how hurtful and wrong it was to print the cartoons!
It's a sad day when the French and other continentals print the cartoons in solidarity with Denmark and free speech, but the UK and USA cower from the rage of Islamofascists. The French have to defend our honors because we are too scared too. Very sad. Hopefully this will end the stupid French surrender jokes.
I have no idea where you are getting your facts from, your statement is totally wrong,
No, it's very correct. I base my conclusions on facts, not on any kind of religion.
please include a URL supporting your statements next time.
http://www.pmw.org.il/Latest%20bulletins%20new.ht
And there's more:
Only 41% of Palestinians viewed the attack on the world trade center as terrorism. Only 46% thought the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was an act of terrorism.
http://www.pcpsr.org/survey/polls/2001/p3a.html
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=13420
In this poll only 36% of Palestinians thought 9/11 was an act of terrorism.
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1226762.html
Thousands more can be found. Google is your friend. My favorite terrorist supporters are the ones in SE Asia (I think it was Bangladesh) that were running around with any pictures they could find of Osama Bin Laden, including one that had Burt the muppet from Sesame Street beside Bin Laden's shoulder! Here's the link http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/bl
Oh, and by the way, "Palenstinians" is correctly spelt: Palestinians
Dude, its called a typo. They come easily when you do not have spell check.
The percentage of muslims who murder people in terrorist acts is small, but the percentage of muslims that support those acts is much higher than you Islamofascist apologists ever admit. A full 60% of polled Palenstinians supported the World Trade Center attack, tens of thousands of them paraded around with banners of Bin Laden in the streets. Arafat was so embarassed that the murderous nature of his people was on public display that he had his own men shoot into the crowds! Very high percentages of people in Islamic countries approve of terrorist acts, 30-60% in Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakitstan, Jordon, Saudi, and Yemen. This is nothing like the joke you make of Islamic hatred and violence against non-muslims. Look at the burning embassies! The West is vilafied CONTINOUSLY in the Islamic press -- virtually all of it controlled by the dictatorship governments. But a set of cartoons has muslims across the world, burning emabassies, kidnapping foreignors, threatening to behead ANYONE who speaks ill of Islam, killing people and chanting "Death to (insert country with a free press here)". Nothing Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, or Sikhs in modern times has EVER EVER come close to this Islamic stupidity. NOTHING. Hundreds of thousands rallied in Lebanon with banners saying: "We are ready to sacrifice our children for you, O Prophet Muhammad." Lovely! Kill your kids over a cartoon. Some more islamic nicities: "Damn your beliefs and your liberty." "Whoever insults Prophet Muhammad is to be killed." From London we had: "Go to Hell Freedom" 'Behead those who insult the prophet' "Free speech go to hell." "Slay those who insult Islam" These are not suicide bombers, these are typical muslims and they are telling non-muslims that we have to obey their wishes. No amount of pathetic spin from apologists will ever convince a non-self-hating Western citizen otherwise. More people were killed because of muslims in Nigeria in one day over these cartoons than have been killed in abortion violence in all of history. I am not a christian, not a jew and I hate George W Bush, so there goes 99% of the arguments you have against me.
It is blasphemy to insult our Profit Optimus Prime (peace be upon him in death beacuse all he did in life is make war)! Even though you are from a different culture, country and continent you must RESPECT THE PROFIT'S AUTHORITY!!!!! We are a peaceful cult and anyone who disagrees gets beheaded! Freedom of speech does not mean you can offend people! You are violating our rights! This Optimusaphobia must end! To hell with freedom, just give us our EU welfare checks and do as we say!
No kidding. Just because Charles de Gaulle was a jackass is no reason to insult all French people. Without France's help the US would have never won our Revolutionary War. The French people gave us the Statue of Liberty which is in my opinion the greatest gift from one people in a country to those in another in the history of civilization.
I hope the world would not blame all of us for W being a jack ass nor think we are all like him. I am an old fashioned conservative and I hate the SOB. Lets not keep blaming our first ally for one jerky leader.