Well, they would have called them selves Britons under Rome, who called them so. Otherwise, they had their tribal names, probably as Caesar said of the Gauls, "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur" that is, more or less, the third who in their language are called Celts, but whom we call Gauls. (i'm only a second semester Latin student, and an English lit major. But I know that's close for the highlighted part). So, they had a unified cultural Identity, and possibly called themselves Celts or something, as they are more Celtic than the Gael (who are, as the Book of Invasions says, hailing from Northern Spain and of relation to the Basques. Genetics have proven this, iirc, and the people of Gallicia in Spain speak a non-Romance language and play bagpipes).
The Welsh still do have a strong cultural identity with their bardic festival and all. Poltically, I'd say their more subdued than 'British,' they don't even get a stripe on the Union Jack... of course, dragons won't fit. For a long time it was illegal to speak Welsh. Of course, the Tudors were Welsh (which is why the Crown Prince is called the Prince of Wales, I belive). It'd all just be riddiculous chest thumping and crap to try and do anything about it now. Same with Scotland. There are lots of people who want to not be 'British,' just Scottish, but it'll likely never happen. As the song goes, 'The Sea, oh the Sea, is An Gradh Geal Mo Chroi (the great joy of my heart), long may it stay between England and me, for it's a sure gurantee that some hour we'll be free, thank God we're surrounded by water!'... Wales and Scotland have none.:-)
only because the Welsh WERE the Britons before the Saxons came. Wales comes from the Anglo-Saxon (old English) word walash, meaning a "foreigner", so calling them Welsh is more of an insult than calling them british. But i'm a Paddy, so what do I know.
see here. Everything below man and above the the trees is "animal," in that they lack both little r reason as in the enlightenment ideal, and big R Reason as in Emmerson's essay "Nature." That which is vegitable and mineral having no need for reason in either form, and that which is higher than man being beyond our comprehension anyway, thus it being hubris to attempt to rationalize it.
Firstly, the Japanese were every bit as horrific as the Germans. In fact, their unwillingness to die, and the fact that the general Japanese soldier believed in the whole of the cause (the average Fermacht soldier, a probably Catholic, average farmboy was hardly the an SS officer. All the Japanese would fight to the death, which is why the bomb was necessary. My mother worked for a Japanese company (Nichiminh) and one of her bosses was a Nagasaki survivor and said so.) Look at the history of the Pacific campaign some time.
Secondly, National Socialism is a different breed from Fascism. National Socialism stresses Race as an intrigal part of being part of the State. In Fascism, Race is all but irrelevent, so long as people tow the line. Italy had no racial policy until after the pact with Germany and Japan, 10 years after Mussolini came to power. Fascism did adopt the Nazi "goose step," and the Nazis adopted the "fascist" Roman saulute. Fascism was a sort of grandiose attempt to return to the time of Caesar and Augustus. The Nazis drew on this, too, Mussolini being a role model of Hitler, also adopting Roman legionary standards (see 'Triumph of the Will' for instance). Some tools of pagentry and a hatred for Communism were common to both, however at their very core they are fundimentally different.
Thirdly, there were no real poltical parties in Japan. The "Black Dragons," (I believe is the right name), were a secret society within Japan that believed was extremely Nationalist and extremely racially supremeicist. They operated within other countries, too, principly the United States and Brazil. That American shipping had no problems after Internment where as Allie-Friendly Brazil, which contains to this day the largest Japanese community out side of Japan, continued to have their ships sunk, is more or less proof that Internment was a well-calculated move. However, the Black Dragons may never have been so powerful in the United States anyway, so it is hard to tell, although they did their job on Brazil. So, Japan's leadership, members of this society, were closer to Nazis than fascists.
Disclaimer: I do not dislike Japanese people. I took Japanese some in College, my mother worked for them, and I dated a Japanese-Brazillian once. My grand father was a navy officer and Pearl Habour survivor. However, everything I've said above is true and can be proven, so don't try and tag me as anti Japanese... not that I think they should have won or anything. I didn't say Internment was "good" just that were it wasn't in place, there was a high price paid. I dont really have an opinion on that subject.
if we light up the night sky, it helps the enemy. If we have the best FLIR and night vision equipment (which we do), then the enemy is blind and we win. Lighting up the night sky is therefor not good for war.
the Guals sacked Rome in 390b.c.
Vercingetorix delt C. Julius Caesar his only defeat in 53b.c.
Joan of Arc
there would not be an America without LaFeyette
and Napolean.
The french also kicked the shit out of a number of shitty countries like Algeria.
However, they got chewed up in 2 world wars, french indochina (Vietnam - a fact which brought in the USA in the aftermath), lost Algeria after public opinion got pacifistic and De Gaul just sort of washed his hands of it all. Today they are a bunch of anti-war hippies like the rest of Europe, except for Britian who are just about as aggressive as their off-sprung nation which I call home.
I can't believe I am actually pointing out good things about France, but then I love the French countryside. Paris is a filthy shithole and I'll never go back and I hate Parisians, but the folk out in the countryside are perfectly nice. Of course, that is my impression of just about every country i've ever visited (canada, spain, france, switzerland, austria, germany, italy, england) or lived in (usa, ireland). I do like Spanish cities, and I London is nice enough, so is Rome. I'm not much on Florence or Munich or Paris. Or Quebec. Or any city in the USA. I am particularly not in favour of DC, New York, or Boston. I've never been to LA, but I suspect it to be the worst of the lot.
because Chimps and Gorillas are natural. Pigmen are not. I see no compelling reason why chimpanzees should have "rights," but I firmly believe that artificially making things which would never, ever have possibly been created by a natural process cannot lead to good.
breeding dogs is one thing. creating them in a lab is another entirely. especially breeding corn and dogs. it is just not right. the various dogs could have gone around fucking and eventually come up with an Irish Wolfehound or a Newfy. The chances are not high that maze would have grown to the size it is today without us purposely doing the cross polination, but it could have happened.
Once we start artificially creating new things in the lab, inevitably specimens will get out into the wild. there is a good chance that they will choke out what is alreay there. Its like who ever the fucktard is who brought bamboo to North America. The shit is all over Yorktown battlefields and cant really be done away with and it kills off everything else.
If people want to bitch that human intervention is responsible for "climate change" (guess what, in Roman times they grew grapes in Britain. Now its colder than it was 1800 years ago there, but warmer than it was like, 4000. go figure). the climate changes. it happens. Just because we're used to having the Netherlands where they are doesnt mean they will always be or should always be. Every time period and group thinks they are the top of the pops and as good as it'll ever get. In 500 years they may be calling this the middle ages. But they can't complaine that cars, which enable our modern way of life which people are so accustomed to enjoying, are bad but genetically engineering smart mice is good. That is retarded.
I could get a girlfriend if i wanted to. I do not want to. I don't have time to do the courtship thing. I don't particularly want to. I dont really respect women anymore. I do not have time to bother to try and just "Get some." I have enough to deal with my classes and PT. If the Army wants me to have a wife, they'll issue me one. Otherwise, slaying the enemies of the nation for the glory of the state and myself is fulfillment enough. it's not like i'm going to do anything else with an english major anyway.
madelaine left me for a woman and now i hate women. I especially hate lesbians and want them all to die in Nazi death camps. however, being not attracted to men, that just leaves me a bitter bastard with nothing to do but respond to slashdot. This is my 9th or so account since 1998. I ususally run myself into the karma hole by posting in person what i should post anonymously, mostly because i dont believe in anonymity. ALso, I don't play counterstrike. If i did, i'd be playing it right now instead of typing this message.
I personally expect funny or flamebait. Another post tonight I made detailing how my iBook G4 sucks ass and it broke very easily and so not to listen to the guy who said they are resilliant got modded troll. That said, my point stands: "oh my god!! they cancled a video game or some shit!!" is hardly "news," however it's a testiment, good or bad, to Western civilization that we can bother our selves with such frivolities when in much of the world they don't have electricty or liberties or shit we take for granted. But if like, make a wish or someone fucked over some cancer kid that'd be sad and horrible. this is only mildly dissappointing and only for a few people.
my first girlfriend got runner up in the miss teen virginia pageant when we were seniors in high school. we did it a lot. my 2nd girlfriend was an art student at vcu. she broke up with me because i don't like fags. that was last year. i'm 20. yeah. i used to get pussy. i don't have time for chicks these days.
I droped an iBook g4 the day after i got it. i got triped in the cord and pulled it off the table. It took me two days to get it to boot again. Then about 4 months later, the hard drive crashed and i had to replace it. The trackpad has been fucked ever since. The other day, the new hard drive (an offical apple disk put in by official apple people) crashed and wiped itself. I had to do a low-level reformat before it'd install again. I took my eRacks workstation back from my sister (1GB of RAM and 1.2Ghz Duron i got 2 years ago when I came to college) and let her have the iBook. iBook is not good. PowerBooks allegedly can survive being run over by Suburbans. I think the metal shell has most to do with that. but iBooks are gay and fragile.
Iran has supported Hezbellah and Hammas. They give them money and guns. They are more than likely passing money and guns to the people in Iraq. I'd be surprised if they didn't give money and guns to the talliban. I also didn't say all muslim terrorists do suicide attacks. However, much as the carbomb was a favourite of the IRA (they invented it), you don't see any other type of terrorists doing suicide bombings on a regular basis. I don't really follow the crap that goes on in South America. They may do it, but I have a feeling its a random, last-resort sort of thing if they do.
Also, as for terrorist names: Even if Jack were the name of an IRA carbomber, the IRA would never, ever attack the United States. There are like, 40 million Irish in America. This is were their guns and money come from. We've had 17 Irish Presidents. Eamon DeValera, the man who towered over Irish politics from 1916 to his death, was born in New York, same as myself. However, the chances of a Muslim terrorist named Muhammed or something (it'd be like the SAS bringing catching an IRA guy and being surprised his name is Michael) attacking the US or her intrests and allies is great. It's a common name. Jack is a common Irish-Catholic name. I have 6 uncle Jacks myself. Ever see the money "Air Plane"? the iranian with the rpg and rpk and belts of amo walks through the metal decetor and doesnt set it off. An old lady goes through, her lipstick sets if off, and they beat her. Lets face it: "profiling" may not be "politically correct" butmy 83 year old grandmother isn't going to be hijacking an airplane. The muslim dude behind her might not be, but hey, if anyone IS going to do it, it's probably not him, not the old lady from long island.
Now, why is Bin Laden pissed off that the US has presence in Arabia? Because the area is Muslim holy land. He believe that to have non-muslims in the Arabian peninsula defiles the land. Hell, non-muslims are not allowed into Mecca.
Also, comparing the Vatican to Iran is pointless. The Vatican, as an independent central authority of the Catholic church, in which the only residents are the Pope and other high-ranking church officials, is a lot different than Iran. What Protestants think of what is basically a museum, a dude's house, and some office buildings that happen to be a country, is a non-issue. There are millions of people in Iran. I believe there are some Christians and Jews there, too. There are probably Sunnis. They can argue about Shiaism all they want to. I don't know the difference and quite frankly, i'm not interested. I do know that Iran and the Holy See are fundiemtally different. If you had compared it to Franco's Spain, that might have been more appropriate.
I have no doubt that there are "muslim scholars" (i've taken relgion classes. does that make me a christian scholar? i dont know. i dont understand this lack of central authority and priest stuff and why i should listen to a history professor about doctrine) who condem terrorism. there are others that support it. Durring the Irish War for Independence there were some Priests who supported the IRA and some who condemned it. I'm sure there were some clergy in the Colonies who took sides either way on the Revolution. I'm not saying that all muslims are terrorists, as i stated above. Just that any terrorist that is going to attack the united states these days is either going to be a loony (Kazinski) or claim to be doing it for Islam.
Most Republican-types in Ireland aren't really practicing Catholics or anything. In fact, in recent years I don't think most people are particularly devout there anymore. I lived there for 4 months myself, but America my whole life otherwise. I never met anyone who went to church more than me, which is sporadic.
Also, the Kamikazi were an officialy sanctioned military unit that came from a culture who valued death over dishonour. They wore unifroms. They engaged in pitched battle. I would not call them terrorists, even though if th
Tim McVeigh didn't blow up the Alfred P. Murrow Federal Building Because he was Irish-Catholic. The various IRA/INLA groups and the UDA/UVF/et cetera aren't REALLY at it because of the Catholic/Protestant thing. That's a nationalism thing which happens to have the better part of each religious group on opposing sides (Wolfe Tone and Robert Emmet, for example, great Irish hereos, were Protestant). HOWEVER, Muhammed Atta et al DID crash planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon BECAUSE they are Muslim. Face it, Jack and Mary aren't going to be hijacking aeroplanes or blowing them selves up in shopping malls any time soon. Muhammed Akbar is. Appologists always like to say "look! these people are fucked up and they're Christian!" Well guess what, boyo, FARC-EP isn't on a "jihad." They may have a political agenda (marxists), but not a religious one. When you look at the Middle East, religion and politics are the same bloody thing. Sure, not all muslims are terrorists. But the terrorists which attacked us and with which we are in pitched battle against are Muslim. Its the luck of the draw. We could be battling Basques right now like the Spanish. Basques don't have a religious reason for fighting. Its the same as the IRA -- they want their land back from the people who took it. The Isreali-Palestinian conflict is about getting fucked over on birthright and sibling rivalry with guns. But Bin Laden wants an Islamic state. Iran IS an Islamic state. Iran practicly invented islamic extreamist terrorism. Just thank God they haven't got a Michael Collins (not the astronaut).
During WWI, sauerkraut was called Liberty Cabbage. Also, German was the 2nd language of the USA until WWI. We have a very large population of German extraction (we also have some 40+ million Irish), so that makes sense even though I was surprised to learn it (History of the English Language class my advisor duped me into taking (I am an English major even if Slashdot posts don't get that across)).
Slashdot Mirror
The Welsh still do have a strong cultural identity with their bardic festival and all. Poltically, I'd say their more subdued than 'British,' they don't even get a stripe on the Union Jack... of course, dragons won't fit. For a long time it was illegal to speak Welsh. Of course, the Tudors were Welsh (which is why the Crown Prince is called the Prince of Wales, I belive). It'd all just be riddiculous chest thumping and crap to try and do anything about it now. Same with Scotland. There are lots of people who want to not be 'British,' just Scottish, but it'll likely never happen. As the song goes, 'The Sea, oh the Sea, is An Gradh Geal Mo Chroi (the great joy of my heart), long may it stay between England and me, for it's a sure gurantee that some hour we'll be free, thank God we're surrounded by water!'... Wales and Scotland have none. :-)
How is that different than inside the USA? Since Andrew Jackson it's been more or less ignored.
only because the Welsh WERE the Britons before the Saxons came. Wales comes from the Anglo-Saxon (old English) word walash, meaning a "foreigner", so calling them Welsh is more of an insult than calling them british. But i'm a Paddy, so what do I know.
see here. Everything below man and above the the trees is "animal," in that they lack both little r reason as in the enlightenment ideal, and big R Reason as in Emmerson's essay "Nature." That which is vegitable and mineral having no need for reason in either form, and that which is higher than man being beyond our comprehension anyway, thus it being hubris to attempt to rationalize it.
Firstly, the Japanese were every bit as horrific as the Germans. In fact, their unwillingness to die, and the fact that the general Japanese soldier believed in the whole of the cause (the average Fermacht soldier, a probably Catholic, average farmboy was hardly the an SS officer. All the Japanese would fight to the death, which is why the bomb was necessary. My mother worked for a Japanese company (Nichiminh) and one of her bosses was a Nagasaki survivor and said so.) Look at the history of the Pacific campaign some time. Secondly, National Socialism is a different breed from Fascism. National Socialism stresses Race as an intrigal part of being part of the State. In Fascism, Race is all but irrelevent, so long as people tow the line. Italy had no racial policy until after the pact with Germany and Japan, 10 years after Mussolini came to power. Fascism did adopt the Nazi "goose step," and the Nazis adopted the "fascist" Roman saulute. Fascism was a sort of grandiose attempt to return to the time of Caesar and Augustus. The Nazis drew on this, too, Mussolini being a role model of Hitler, also adopting Roman legionary standards (see 'Triumph of the Will' for instance). Some tools of pagentry and a hatred for Communism were common to both, however at their very core they are fundimentally different. Thirdly, there were no real poltical parties in Japan. The "Black Dragons," (I believe is the right name), were a secret society within Japan that believed was extremely Nationalist and extremely racially supremeicist. They operated within other countries, too, principly the United States and Brazil. That American shipping had no problems after Internment where as Allie-Friendly Brazil, which contains to this day the largest Japanese community out side of Japan, continued to have their ships sunk, is more or less proof that Internment was a well-calculated move. However, the Black Dragons may never have been so powerful in the United States anyway, so it is hard to tell, although they did their job on Brazil. So, Japan's leadership, members of this society, were closer to Nazis than fascists. Disclaimer: I do not dislike Japanese people. I took Japanese some in College, my mother worked for them, and I dated a Japanese-Brazillian once. My grand father was a navy officer and Pearl Habour survivor. However, everything I've said above is true and can be proven, so don't try and tag me as anti Japanese... not that I think they should have won or anything. I didn't say Internment was "good" just that were it wasn't in place, there was a high price paid. I dont really have an opinion on that subject.
the KGB didn't have an internet to sniff, dude. do you really think they wouldn't have done so in a country where one literally had no rights?
that's a really shitty Friend Bear rip off.
so... Challenger, then?
if we light up the night sky, it helps the enemy. If we have the best FLIR and night vision equipment (which we do), then the enemy is blind and we win. Lighting up the night sky is therefor not good for war.
the Guals sacked Rome in 390b.c. Vercingetorix delt C. Julius Caesar his only defeat in 53b.c. Joan of Arc there would not be an America without LaFeyette and Napolean. The french also kicked the shit out of a number of shitty countries like Algeria. However, they got chewed up in 2 world wars, french indochina (Vietnam - a fact which brought in the USA in the aftermath), lost Algeria after public opinion got pacifistic and De Gaul just sort of washed his hands of it all. Today they are a bunch of anti-war hippies like the rest of Europe, except for Britian who are just about as aggressive as their off-sprung nation which I call home. I can't believe I am actually pointing out good things about France, but then I love the French countryside. Paris is a filthy shithole and I'll never go back and I hate Parisians, but the folk out in the countryside are perfectly nice. Of course, that is my impression of just about every country i've ever visited (canada, spain, france, switzerland, austria, germany, italy, england) or lived in (usa, ireland). I do like Spanish cities, and I London is nice enough, so is Rome. I'm not much on Florence or Munich or Paris. Or Quebec. Or any city in the USA. I am particularly not in favour of DC, New York, or Boston. I've never been to LA, but I suspect it to be the worst of the lot.
so, you're saying that you lose and lose bad?
with Apple customers being mainly women and homosexuals, sperm count is not an issue.
unless they look exactly alike, i am quite sure its bamboo.
because Chimps and Gorillas are natural. Pigmen are not. I see no compelling reason why chimpanzees should have "rights," but I firmly believe that artificially making things which would never, ever have possibly been created by a natural process cannot lead to good.
breeding dogs is one thing. creating them in a lab is another entirely. especially breeding corn and dogs. it is just not right. the various dogs could have gone around fucking and eventually come up with an Irish Wolfehound or a Newfy. The chances are not high that maze would have grown to the size it is today without us purposely doing the cross polination, but it could have happened.
Once we start artificially creating new things in the lab, inevitably specimens will get out into the wild. there is a good chance that they will choke out what is alreay there. Its like who ever the fucktard is who brought bamboo to North America. The shit is all over Yorktown battlefields and cant really be done away with and it kills off everything else.
If people want to bitch that human intervention is responsible for "climate change" (guess what, in Roman times they grew grapes in Britain. Now its colder than it was 1800 years ago there, but warmer than it was like, 4000. go figure). the climate changes. it happens. Just because we're used to having the Netherlands where they are doesnt mean they will always be or should always be. Every time period and group thinks they are the top of the pops and as good as it'll ever get. In 500 years they may be calling this the middle ages. But they can't complaine that cars, which enable our modern way of life which people are so accustomed to enjoying, are bad but genetically engineering smart mice is good. That is retarded.
i never really look at the section thing. somehow i manage to ignore it often. also, it was front-page. it could have been anything
I could get a girlfriend if i wanted to. I do not want to. I don't have time to do the courtship thing. I don't particularly want to. I dont really respect women anymore. I do not have time to bother to try and just "Get some." I have enough to deal with my classes and PT. If the Army wants me to have a wife, they'll issue me one. Otherwise, slaying the enemies of the nation for the glory of the state and myself is fulfillment enough. it's not like i'm going to do anything else with an english major anyway.
madelaine left me for a woman and now i hate women. I especially hate lesbians and want them all to die in Nazi death camps. however, being not attracted to men, that just leaves me a bitter bastard with nothing to do but respond to slashdot. This is my 9th or so account since 1998. I ususally run myself into the karma hole by posting in person what i should post anonymously, mostly because i dont believe in anonymity. ALso, I don't play counterstrike. If i did, i'd be playing it right now instead of typing this message.
I personally expect funny or flamebait. Another post tonight I made detailing how my iBook G4 sucks ass and it broke very easily and so not to listen to the guy who said they are resilliant got modded troll. That said, my point stands: "oh my god!! they cancled a video game or some shit!!" is hardly "news," however it's a testiment, good or bad, to Western civilization that we can bother our selves with such frivolities when in much of the world they don't have electricty or liberties or shit we take for granted. But if like, make a wish or someone fucked over some cancer kid that'd be sad and horrible. this is only mildly dissappointing and only for a few people.
my first girlfriend got runner up in the miss teen virginia pageant when we were seniors in high school. we did it a lot. my 2nd girlfriend was an art student at vcu. she broke up with me because i don't like fags. that was last year. i'm 20. yeah. i used to get pussy. i don't have time for chicks these days.
I droped an iBook g4 the day after i got it. i got triped in the cord and pulled it off the table. It took me two days to get it to boot again. Then about 4 months later, the hard drive crashed and i had to replace it. The trackpad has been fucked ever since. The other day, the new hard drive (an offical apple disk put in by official apple people) crashed and wiped itself. I had to do a low-level reformat before it'd install again. I took my eRacks workstation back from my sister (1GB of RAM and 1.2Ghz Duron i got 2 years ago when I came to college) and let her have the iBook. iBook is not good. PowerBooks allegedly can survive being run over by Suburbans. I think the metal shell has most to do with that. but iBooks are gay and fragile.
At first I thought this was about Make A Wish and they cancled some sick cancer kid's wish. That would have been wicked. A game seems less than news.
Iran has supported Hezbellah and Hammas. They give them money and guns. They are more than likely passing money and guns to the people in Iraq. I'd be surprised if they didn't give money and guns to the talliban. I also didn't say all muslim terrorists do suicide attacks. However, much as the carbomb was a favourite of the IRA (they invented it), you don't see any other type of terrorists doing suicide bombings on a regular basis. I don't really follow the crap that goes on in South America. They may do it, but I have a feeling its a random, last-resort sort of thing if they do.
Also, as for terrorist names: Even if Jack were the name of an IRA carbomber, the IRA would never, ever attack the United States. There are like, 40 million Irish in America. This is were their guns and money come from. We've had 17 Irish Presidents. Eamon DeValera, the man who towered over Irish politics from 1916 to his death, was born in New York, same as myself. However, the chances of a Muslim terrorist named Muhammed or something (it'd be like the SAS bringing catching an IRA guy and being surprised his name is Michael) attacking the US or her intrests and allies is great. It's a common name. Jack is a common Irish-Catholic name. I have 6 uncle Jacks myself. Ever see the money "Air Plane"? the iranian with the rpg and rpk and belts of amo walks through the metal decetor and doesnt set it off. An old lady goes through, her lipstick sets if off, and they beat her. Lets face it: "profiling" may not be "politically correct" butmy 83 year old grandmother isn't going to be hijacking an airplane. The muslim dude behind her might not be, but hey, if anyone IS going to do it, it's probably not him, not the old lady from long island.
Now, why is Bin Laden pissed off that the US has presence in Arabia? Because the area is Muslim holy land. He believe that to have non-muslims in the Arabian peninsula defiles the land. Hell, non-muslims are not allowed into Mecca.
Also, comparing the Vatican to Iran is pointless. The Vatican, as an independent central authority of the Catholic church, in which the only residents are the Pope and other high-ranking church officials, is a lot different than Iran. What Protestants think of what is basically a museum, a dude's house, and some office buildings that happen to be a country, is a non-issue. There are millions of people in Iran. I believe there are some Christians and Jews there, too. There are probably Sunnis. They can argue about Shiaism all they want to. I don't know the difference and quite frankly, i'm not interested. I do know that Iran and the Holy See are fundiemtally different. If you had compared it to Franco's Spain, that might have been more appropriate.
I have no doubt that there are "muslim scholars" (i've taken relgion classes. does that make me a christian scholar? i dont know. i dont understand this lack of central authority and priest stuff and why i should listen to a history professor about doctrine) who condem terrorism. there are others that support it. Durring the Irish War for Independence there were some Priests who supported the IRA and some who condemned it. I'm sure there were some clergy in the Colonies who took sides either way on the Revolution. I'm not saying that all muslims are terrorists, as i stated above. Just that any terrorist that is going to attack the united states these days is either going to be a loony (Kazinski) or claim to be doing it for Islam.
Most Republican-types in Ireland aren't really practicing Catholics or anything. In fact, in recent years I don't think most people are particularly devout there anymore. I lived there for 4 months myself, but America my whole life otherwise. I never met anyone who went to church more than me, which is sporadic.
Also, the Kamikazi were an officialy sanctioned military unit that came from a culture who valued death over dishonour. They wore unifroms. They engaged in pitched battle. I would not call them terrorists, even though if th
Tim McVeigh didn't blow up the Alfred P. Murrow Federal Building Because he was Irish-Catholic. The various IRA/INLA groups and the UDA/UVF/et cetera aren't REALLY at it because of the Catholic/Protestant thing. That's a nationalism thing which happens to have the better part of each religious group on opposing sides (Wolfe Tone and Robert Emmet, for example, great Irish hereos, were Protestant). HOWEVER, Muhammed Atta et al DID crash planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon BECAUSE they are Muslim. Face it, Jack and Mary aren't going to be hijacking aeroplanes or blowing them selves up in shopping malls any time soon. Muhammed Akbar is. Appologists always like to say "look! these people are fucked up and they're Christian!" Well guess what, boyo, FARC-EP isn't on a "jihad." They may have a political agenda (marxists), but not a religious one. When you look at the Middle East, religion and politics are the same bloody thing. Sure, not all muslims are terrorists. But the terrorists which attacked us and with which we are in pitched battle against are Muslim. Its the luck of the draw. We could be battling Basques right now like the Spanish. Basques don't have a religious reason for fighting. Its the same as the IRA -- they want their land back from the people who took it. The Isreali-Palestinian conflict is about getting fucked over on birthright and sibling rivalry with guns. But Bin Laden wants an Islamic state. Iran IS an Islamic state. Iran practicly invented islamic extreamist terrorism. Just thank God they haven't got a Michael Collins (not the astronaut).
Your girlfriend is a fanboy? Sir, you sicken me.
During WWI, sauerkraut was called Liberty Cabbage. Also, German was the 2nd language of the USA until WWI. We have a very large population of German extraction (we also have some 40+ million Irish), so that makes sense even though I was surprised to learn it (History of the English Language class my advisor duped me into taking (I am an English major even if Slashdot posts don't get that across)).