Yes, you are right. When you get past his genocidal ravings and prejudices, he's quite a reasonable guy. How can you not like a guy who looks like Gilligan without the hat?
"Right out of Goebbel's playbook. For a guy who doesn't think the Holocaust happened, he sure seems comfortable using the same rhetoric and early tactics"
You are hitting upon one of the rules: those who deny the Holocaust tend to be those who think it really should have happened and that this sort of thing is a good idea. i.e. "It never happened before, so let's make it happen now!".
"So being "at war" allows anyone to violate Godwin's law, and somehow it isn't then an acknowledgement that they've just lost the argument?"
Remember, the law states "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one". It does not say that someone loses. That is a step too far, and would mean that both sides of a discussion concerning actual Nazi Germany would always "lose the argument" quickly because you can't really discuss that subject without discussing Hitler.
"We also, like everyone else, use coke to mean generic cola. But we use photocopy/photocopier and almost never Xerox. We use a plaster and never a Band-Aid. We certainly don't have dumpsters, only bins"
The "coke = any sodapop" in the US seems to only be used in the Southeast. Never heard of the term plaster being used for a bandage; that is a new one to me. In the US, "Dumpster" is actually one of those brand names that has become generic. It refers to a trash container large enough to contain a Mini Cooper, and never refers to the small "dustbin" by the desk. Do you always use the same term for any size bin?
"Would these be the same media companies whose content Google is stealing on Google News?"
I google the news on Google News a lot. However, I've never seen stolen news there. I've seen copied news, but nothing stolen. I'm always able to find the original source, still there, easily.
"Take for instance Kleenex, Jell-O, Frisbee & Hoover. You know what all these are and there's a fairly good chance you've called an imposter brand the same name. "
I've heard these used as "generic" terms (along with others such as kleenex, bandaid, and Xerox). Except for "Hoover". I've never anyone use this as a term for vacuum. I've heard it used as a misprunciation for "hover", though. ("That there yew eff oh! It done hoovered over the cow pasture! I'm tellin' yall!")
Sounds like Google is quite upset over this one. I hope someone comes up with a good solution and doesn't just put a band-aid on the problem. In the mean time, I hope their warning is xeroxed and distributed to all. So just sit back and drink a can of your favorite coke and wait for the results.
"Islam, like all religions, is a cult *based* on ancient fairy tales."
It is merely your opinion, based on your own religion, that other religions (not your own, of course) are mere "fairy tales". You statement was just another version of the arrogant "my religion good, your religion bad" statement.
"What's the minimum skill level required to get shot at in Afghanistan, Iraq or Lebanon?"
You might want to reword that. The purpose of a soldier is not to "get shot at". If you want the soldiers to be more than targets, you need trained and qualified recruits. US troops are not getting shot at in Lebanon, either.
"How's about those who want the war go their and fight it.'
Great idea. On that idea, why not also have those who believe in brain surgery be required to perform it? Doesn't matter if you are qualified or suited to participate in it right?
"bombing the shit out of organizations like Hizballah and Hamas, kidnapping their leaders and democratically elected representatives just as they were beginning to get their acts together, is the wrong way to do it"
When you consider that "their act", their Job One, is to exterminate the Jews, would you rather give them a chance to get this act together?
"The terrorists are in cahoots with Bowser, the Koopa Caliph!"
This must explain Bowser's constant anger and bad attitude. He's a lizard, and in Islam, lizards are unclean creatures. There goes Bowser's self-esteem. On the plus side, the disdain for reptiles has so far prevented Islamic militants from employing kaiju in their arsenal of terror.
"The reason goes beyond the US. Their religion has existed for thousands of years. This is their reason, which may not stop until the entire world is muslim and under their control. Would that satisfy you?"
A point of clarification: whose religion has existed for thousands of years (that you ar referring to)?
Dig a little more, and you find out that their real problem is that the Israelis live, and that they say there won't be peace until the Israelis flee into the ocean or die in ovens. To them, this is a "problem" that can only be solved a genocide. A final solution, so to speak.
National Review is a traditional conservative magazine. It is not neo-con. You might have it confused with The Weekly Standard, which is run by an actual neo-conservative (Kristol).
"however, she HAS been a Foxnews pundit in the past"
So has Charlie Rangel, David Corn of "The Nation", and so have many others. Does anything anyone ever says anywhere count as being said on Fox News if this person has been on Fox News at any time (regardless of what they said during their Fox News appearance)? Hardly, you went out on a limb here.
Using your type of thinking, I read a newspaper column by Pat Buchanan earlier this year in which he detailed how Hitler was the true victim in WW2. He was quite sympathetic to Hitler in the column. In the past, Pat Buchanan had a long, famous, and successful career as a major CNN pundit. Making the type of connection you made for Coulter, it would follow that "CNN is sympathetic to Hitler". (Sorry for any Godwin connections).
You said "It certainly qualifies as slander people using crude stereotypes on behalf of a fundamentalist religious group", but that was only half of it. The claim that it as done specifically by "Fox News" has conveniently vanished due the "factual evidence".
"it sucks fighting people in the reality based community..."
You might try this statement again, but with a dose of coherence. I could not parse that one.
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Yes, you are right. When you get past his genocidal ravings and prejudices, he's quite a reasonable guy. How can you not like a guy who looks like Gilligan without the hat?
I think he's one link away from Kim Jong Il.
"Right out of Goebbel's playbook. For a guy who doesn't think the Holocaust happened, he sure seems comfortable using the same rhetoric and early tactics"
You are hitting upon one of the rules: those who deny the Holocaust tend to be those who think it really should have happened and that this sort of thing is a good idea. i.e. "It never happened before, so let's make it happen now!".
Isn't Ahmadinejad the guy who writes all the stuff for www.infowars.com ?
"He had to start his own blog, the infidel CmdrTaco kept rejecting his "Was there a Holocaust?" poll.
Of course it was rejected. The Iranian president forgot to include "Cowboy Neal" as one of the poll answers.
I decided to visit it and was reading all the nasty stuff he said about Jews and Booze. Then I found out I was on Mel Gibson's blog by mistake.
"So being "at war" allows anyone to violate Godwin's law, and somehow it isn't then an acknowledgement that they've just lost the argument?"
Remember, the law states "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one". It does not say that someone loses. That is a step too far, and would mean that both sides of a discussion concerning actual Nazi Germany would always "lose the argument" quickly because you can't really discuss that subject without discussing Hitler.
How sensitive is it. Would it be able to detect the skin inside the soylent green wafers?
"We also, like everyone else, use coke to mean generic cola. But we use photocopy/photocopier and almost never Xerox. We use a plaster and never a Band-Aid. We certainly don't have dumpsters, only bins"
The "coke = any sodapop" in the US seems to only be used in the Southeast. Never heard of the term plaster being used for a bandage; that is a new one to me. In the US, "Dumpster" is actually one of those brand names that has become generic. It refers to a trash container large enough to contain a Mini Cooper, and never refers to the small "dustbin" by the desk. Do you always use the same term for any size bin?
Something tells me the next one will be G rated.
"Would these be the same media companies whose content Google is stealing on Google News?"
I google the news on Google News a lot. However, I've never seen stolen news there. I've seen copied news, but nothing stolen. I'm always able to find the original source, still there, easily.
"Take for instance Kleenex, Jell-O, Frisbee & Hoover. You know what all these are and there's a fairly good chance you've called an imposter brand the same name. "
I've heard these used as "generic" terms (along with others such as kleenex, bandaid, and Xerox). Except for "Hoover". I've never anyone use this as a term for vacuum. I've heard it used as a misprunciation for "hover", though. ("That there yew eff oh! It done hoovered over the cow pasture! I'm tellin' yall!")
Sounds like Google is quite upset over this one. I hope someone comes up with a good solution and doesn't just put a band-aid on the problem. In the mean time, I hope their warning is xeroxed and distributed to all. So just sit back and drink a can of your favorite coke and wait for the results.
"Islam, like all religions, is a cult *based* on ancient fairy tales."
It is merely your opinion, based on your own religion, that other religions (not your own, of course) are mere "fairy tales". You statement was just another version of the arrogant "my religion good, your religion bad" statement.
"What's the minimum skill level required to get shot at in Afghanistan, Iraq or Lebanon?"
You might want to reword that. The purpose of a soldier is not to "get shot at". If you want the soldiers to be more than targets, you need trained and qualified recruits. US troops are not getting shot at in Lebanon, either.
"Throw a football? Not everybody can be the goalkeeper all the time"
There are no goalkeepers in football. You have it confused with hockey or soccer.
"How's about those who want the war go their and fight it.'
Great idea. On that idea, why not also have those who believe in brain surgery be required to perform it? Doesn't matter if you are qualified or suited to participate in it right?
I was going to answer this, but I read down to the end, and found that your main point is that you really hate Jews. I'll leave you to it.
But won't the player play BD content that has been cracked and then burned onto a BluRay disc in the format that the player will accept?
"bombing the shit out of organizations like Hizballah and Hamas, kidnapping their leaders and democratically elected representatives just as they were beginning to get their acts together, is the wrong way to do it"
When you consider that "their act", their Job One, is to exterminate the Jews, would you rather give them a chance to get this act together?
"I suspect, we'll be flying naked"
I'm OK with that as long as they let me know any time Halle Barry shows up for security and boarding.
"The terrorists are in cahoots with Bowser, the Koopa Caliph!"
This must explain Bowser's constant anger and bad attitude. He's a lizard, and in Islam, lizards are unclean creatures. There goes Bowser's self-esteem. On the plus side, the disdain for reptiles has so far prevented Islamic militants from employing kaiju in their arsenal of terror.
"The reason goes beyond the US. Their religion has existed for thousands of years. This is their reason, which may not stop until the entire world is muslim and under their control. Would that satisfy you?"
A point of clarification: whose religion has existed for thousands of years (that you ar referring to)?
Dig a little more, and you find out that their real problem is that the Israelis live, and that they say there won't be peace until the Israelis flee into the ocean or die in ovens. To them, this is a "problem" that can only be solved a genocide. A final solution, so to speak.
"This one was in the more upscale neo-con rag"
National Review is a traditional conservative magazine. It is not neo-con. You might have it confused with The Weekly Standard, which is run by an actual neo-conservative (Kristol).
"however, she HAS been a Foxnews pundit in the past"
So has Charlie Rangel, David Corn of "The Nation", and so have many others. Does anything anyone ever says anywhere count as being said on Fox News if this person has been on Fox News at any time (regardless of what they said during their Fox News appearance)? Hardly, you went out on a limb here.
Using your type of thinking, I read a newspaper column by Pat Buchanan earlier this year in which he detailed how Hitler was the true victim in WW2. He was quite sympathetic to Hitler in the column. In the past, Pat Buchanan had a long, famous, and successful career as a major CNN pundit. Making the type of connection you made for Coulter, it would follow that "CNN is sympathetic to Hitler". (Sorry for any Godwin connections).
You said "It certainly qualifies as slander people using crude stereotypes on behalf of a fundamentalist religious group", but that was only half of it. The claim that it as done specifically by "Fox News" has conveniently vanished due the "factual evidence".
"it sucks fighting people in the reality based community..."
You might try this statement again, but with a dose of coherence. I could not parse that one.