Jesus the Pooh
 

I would like to know whether the students were Muslims. Are they all going to Hell for suggesting that name? What's their jail sentence going to be?

Although, as a prank for getting back at a teacher, this is going to be hard to top.

Jesus the Pooh
 

So you don't think his novels actually exist?

Jesus the Pooh
 

It's the Sudan, they are 7 years old, and they came up with the name "Muhammed." What do you think?

We would all be better off if the kids and their parents were executed.

Jesus the Pooh
 

Maybe they were Christian but had been raised to know about "the enemy" from a very young age by their parents? I had to pretend not to be shocked when Hank's mom told me about how he could quote from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion when he was still in pre-school. She was so proud.

Jesus the Pooh
 

True, but nothing tops the 53 year-old prophet Muhammed fucking his 9 year-old wife Aisha. Precocious little harlot her.

Jesus the Pooh
 

I like how the Sudanese government has been "unable" to find even 1 person to prosecute for the genocide in Darfur going on now for 4 years, but in 2 days it charged, prosecuted and sentenced the Teddy Bear lady. I have to wonder about the thousands of Sudanese Arabs crying out for the execution of the lady with the Teddy Bear:


http://ap.google.com/media/ALeqM5ihh...SWRMFVw?size=m

Can someone find a pic of Arab protesters objecting to the slaughter of those they refer to as “slaves”? No, I didn't think so. BTW, nobody knows if there is oil in Sudan so why is it exactly that we are giving aid to a government that is clearly protecting the slaughterers? Because China and Sudan are trading buddies and we don't want to piss of China? Really, I'd love to know. If someone could explain, without use of the bullshit word "stablize" or any variation of it, I'm all ears.

Jesus the Pooh
 

This is redundant. All lines are fictional. I learned this in math. Except the part about Soviet bread lines being fictional -- that I learned in history. AMDG.

Jesus the Pooh
 

I know you know strings are real, and can be made straight and taunt.


http://superstringtheory.com/people/gifs/evas.jpg

Eva Silverstein with her favorite equations

Jesus the Pooh
 

Don't tell Paris Hilton.

Jesus the Pooh
 

Did Eva's people finally send you a TRO?

Jesus the Pooh
 

You've got it all backwards. They're more progressive and tolerant than troglodytes like us:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm

Jesus the Pooh
 

I'm reading a book about Bombay right now, and it touches on the riots in 1992-93 in which Hindus killed a bunch of Moslems. It's not like Islam is the only religion which can be used to whip a bunch of poor people into a frenzy so that they won't notice that their government isn't doing anything for them. At least no one in Khartoum was burning their neighbors alive, as happened in Bombay. This time, anyway.

Jesus the Pooh
 

Are those the riots where the Hindus stopped a train and set it on fire? I read a horrific story about some action of that sort, but I'm struggling to place the time of the event.

Anyway, I of course agree, Islam is not alone in creating violence. And I thought the goat wedding showed its seldom seen tolerant side.

Jesus the Pooh
 

It was not widely reported, but later the goat's brothers stoned her to death for having intercourse prior to marriage and shaming the herd. Animals.

Jesus the Pooh
 

Here is Wikipedia:

• Although numerous riots have occurred in the City of Mumbai, India (Bombay) since Independence, the Bombay Riots usually refers to the riots in Mumbai, in December 1992 and January 1993, in which 900 people died. This was followed by the 12 March 1993 Bombay Bombings, allegedly orchestrated by ganglord Dawood Ibrahim and his D-Company syndicate, in which 250 people died.
  
  The riots started as a result of communal tension prevailing in the city after the Babri Mosque demolition on 6 December 1992. It is commonly believed that the riots occurred in two phases. The first was mainly a Muslim backlash as a result of the Babri Masjid demolition in the week immediately succeeding 6 December 1992 by Hindu nationalists in the city of Ayodhya.
  
  The second phase was a Hindu backlash occurring as a result of the killings of Hindu Mathadi Kamgar (Workers) by Muslims in Dongri (an area of South Mumbai). This phase occurred in January 1993 (most incidents reported between 6 January to 20 January).
  
  Overall around 900 people were killed in these riots. Arson, killings and the destruction of property occurred in distinctively different kinds of areas. The areas of Pydhonie, Dongri, Agripada, Gamdevi, V.P.Road, Byculla, Bhoiwada, Nagpada, Kherwadi, Nehru Nagar, Dharavi, Ghatkopar, Kurla, Deonar, Trombay, Bandra, Vakola and Jogeshwari were largely affected amongst others. Violence affected not only slums but also apartment blocks and chawls.

The book I'm reading (Maximum City -- it's excellent) has a number of stories that are just awful. People who described to the author pouring gasoline on their neighbors and burning them alive in the street. The book also makes it clear that these aren't necessarily devout Hindus, and that they were whipped up by politicians. So I'm just thinking that whoever got the Sudanese going about the teddy bear probably had their own agenda, and that it doesn't necessarily have much to do with religion.

You have my proxy on matters relating to goat weddings.

eta: In contradistinction to the Wikipedia entry, the author (a Hindu) says that the Bombay riots were whipped up by the Sena party, which was allied with the BJP, and that Moslems were generally the victims -- no suprise, as they are the minority in Bombay. It would appear that whoever wrote the above was trying to make it sound even-handed.

Jesus the Pooh
 

Disgusting. Reports I found indicate the stoning went on for three days, hooves being terribly suited for picking up rocks.

Jesus the Pooh
 

I think all of the instances are deplorable. We are how many years from the dark ages? Religion does not get a pass here. It's the instrument of manipulation, as culpable as the people who use it for these ends.

Beauchamp this.
 

Egg on the National Review's face, I tell you what. Let's see how exercized the wingnuts get.

Jesus the Pooh
 

When you start arguing whether hacking people to death with a machete is less savage than burning them alive, you have already lost your argument.

Beauchamp this.
 

Oh, come on, the Right gets most of its news from Fox and you're worried about a National Review blogger lying?

This is like Democrats who inhale - not news.

Jesus the Pooh
 

Were the dark ages worse than the 20th century?

But, yes, all the instances are deplorable. And, while goat-boy did indeed get what he deserved, think of the poor goat?!

Jesus the Pooh
 

That would be true, but I didn't think anyone in Khartoum was dead yet as a result of the Big Bad Teddy Bear Naming Incident.

Jesus the Pooh
 

Given that you are someone who sets himself up as a big believer in personal rights, I find it very odd that you minimize the chilling effect of things like "the Big Bad Teddy Bear Naming Incident." You do realize that people live under that crazyness, real people?




ETA: I can't remember my password or even the email for my blue_Triangle sock. Because of my negligence the whol board has to suffer:(

Beauchamp this.
 

Uh, Reynolds, Malkin, Morrisey, LGF, Confederate Yankee and Powerline have already beaten you to the story - and criticized as appropriate.

So not only are you wrong, you're late.

Beauchamp this.
 

They won't get very exercized because they aren't liberals, Ty. The Natl Review will write some ludicrous claptrap, filled with evasive wordplay, defending itself. It will then conclude the defense with a pile of vague, snotty shots at the Left.

You realize if the left wing took a page from Natl Review, it would get a lot further, don't you? Natl Review gets respect because they're arrogant assholes who write very funny stuff. I love the magazine just because its funny. I don't agree with half of its politics but have bought it for years just to read those five pages at the beginning where it savages self-righteous liberals.

When DailyKos and MoveOn learn to pick up a poison pen with the same sort of reckless, comedic approach the Review takes in its best moments, the Right will be in trouble. But as long as the Left allows itself to be defined by the shrill and wonky and unapproachable and unfunny, its never going to compete.

The Left needs to stop telling everyone how much it knows and how evil the GOP is and started using satire and comedy. It's much more effective. Why do you think the Right hates Michael Moore so much? It isn't because his movies pull heartstrings or dredge up touchy issues. Everyone knows he's a full of shit advocate. But for about a half hour in Farenheit 9/11 he was a really fucking funny advocate. There were parts of that movie that were damn funny, and they also happened to be the most spot on, and strongest criticisms in it.

Yes, I realize this is an aside, but it popped into my head, so I said it.

Beauchamp this.
 

We run Al Franken for Senate and get criticized for no sense of humor?

That's almost as funny as runing Al Gore.

Beauchamp this.
 

"criticized as appropriate" >< "exercised"

But thanks for playing.

Jesus the Pooh
 

I minimize nothing, my friend. I merely call it like I see it, and to my knowledge, no one has been burned alive yet. (N.B. -- If and when they are, that will be a warming effect, not a chilling effect.)

Beauchamp this.
 

Exactly the tone they struck with that Beauchamp affair. Thanks for reminding me.

Beauchamp this.
 

If a Republican can't be a HypocRite, who can be?

Aren't we all still waiting for someone to get as incensed about the "secret" ballot in a public election in Virginia as they are about union elections?

Don't hold your breath, Ty. This is what they do.

Beauchamp this.
 

Not snotty enough. Too much of an everyman. For years, the GOP has milked middle class voters who want to call themselves wealthy by branding itself as the party of the moneyed (the funniest myth, since there are just as many wealthy democrats as republicans). People could feel like they were players if they favored the GOP. It was a cheap way of advertising your "prosprusness," like a BMW or a Rolex or talking about vacations in places in the Caribbean Expedia described as "upper crust."

If Franken put his excellent wit into a Bill Buckleyish delivery he'd do better. He tries to dumb it down to the level of the likes of Limbaugh or O'Reilly. He should be aiming for a higher common denominator.

Beauchamp this.
 

Over time, considering all of their reactions, the compoite response will have been smooth, and obnoxious (the right kind).

Beauchamp this.
 

This is so ludicrous it barely deserves a response. You really are out of your mind.

NRO immediately apologized, said they would look into it.

Malkin, LGF, CQ et. al then immediately and openly criticized NRO for doing enough.

This all within about 3 seconds of the story coming out.

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How does this remotely compare to the New Republic - which stood by and defended the indefensible Beauchamp crap for nearly 5 months? Again, this several months after Beaucamp retracted. Franklin Foer lied to his readers and the rest of the world over and over again (and will probably be fired before long).

PS - see also the rest of the America-loathing lefty blogosphere, that took up the Rather-like "Fake but Accurate" mantra once the truth (or lack thereof) of those stories was revealed.

PPS - Wow. Lookee here. Currently the lead item on instapundit:

- ED MORRISSEY interviews Kathryn Jean Lopez (http://www.captainsquartersblog.com...ives/016194.php)about the Thomas Smith retraction. Since some lefty bloggers (Hi Ty!) and New Republic apologists (Hi GGG!) are trying to draw equivalence between this story and the Beauchamp affair, let's note two key differences: NRO quickly responded and retracted, instead of circling the wagons and attacking its critics, and the story in question -- though wrong -- didn't constitute a libel of American troops in the field. To some people, at least, that's a significant matter

Beauchamp this.
 

Do you have to be an elitist liberal asshat to understand what this post means?

Because I clearly don't get it, other than a typical sneering tone.

Beauchamp this.
 

It turns out they had been warned about him six weeks ago, so the "immediately" thing isn't looking so good.

I will leave it to anyone who can stomach Malkin and her peers to decide whether she struck a consistent tone.

Exactly.

Foer's piece today ("Fog Of War") about what they knew and did stands up pretty well. Have you read it? How did Foer lie?

Beauchamp this.
 

Did you catch the line in her piece about cutting her guy slack because Arabs are liars? If Foer said something like that, you would call him a racist, and you would probably be right.

Jesus the Pooh
 

I thought it was also a more general reference to the Sudanese's record of respect for the sanctity of human life. My bad. Here, have a decapitated teddy bear. His name is W.

Beauchamp this.
 

Fuck you, assclam.

Beauchamp this.
 

Per K-lo, he emailed the author, not NRO. So she did - as he claimed - get a warning 6 weeks ago.

Good lord, spare your moral judgments and stick with the facts - you asked for the response from the right-side of the blogosphere and I listed several leading sources that all disproved your assertion.

Yes, I'm exactly right.

Are you at all serious? Where do you want to start?

Beauchamp this.
 

Jesus, how little bait does it take?

ETA: Because you'll like it, search for the Clapton/Winwood bits from the Crossroads guitar festival on Youtube. "Clapton Winwood Crossorads" works.

I am correct that you are the person who was a big Traffic fan, right?