Nutjobs Ranting About Politics.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by baltassoc
It's only racist because you felt the need to insert the word "Islamic." Let's try it without:

I would like to kill all the people who would capture a school, rape 13 year old girls, shoot babies, make mom's do a Sophie's choice and eventually kill hundreds of kids[.]

Yeah, see, makes perfect sense without it, and not racist at all. And more accurate, I suspect. Unless you're giving the Baptists a free pass to rape and murder kids. And maybe you are, Hank. Maybe you are.

Well i wanted to give Wonk the proof he wanted, so I'd like to keep the word in. As to Baptists*, the guy who taught me to do lititgation had a rule against arguing hypotheticals- I just deal with the facts.

*btw Baptists can be any of several races.

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The best bomb we can drop on the Arabs is globalization. We must flood their countries with American goods and basically westernize their culture.

I've seen far too many photos of Nike and Gap-wearing Muslims burning effigies representing Western culture to believe that would make any difference.

We could probably subsidize western franchises in the mideast for a fraction of the price.

Great idea!

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by bilmore
Islam isn't a race.

I was about to post:
After all the crap you just spewed, you're going to pull that card?

But I decided that was a whiff. Perhaps you are not a racist, but you're certainly a sophist.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Well i wanted to give Wonk the proof he wanted, so I'd like to keep the word in. As to Baptists, the guy who taught me to do lititgation had a rule against arguing hypotheticals- I just deal with the facts.

It's a shame the guy who taught you litigation didn't also teach you about materiality. The "Islam" part isn't material. The killing kids and raping babies part is. If you think differently, then Baltassoc has a point.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by bilmore
And all those good germans who hated the jews figured they were okay as long as they weren't actually turning on the gas.

Ohhhhh! Resignation so early in the game! Or do we give you a pass because you didn't actually use the word "Nazi"?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by baltassoc
I was about to post:
After all the crap you just spewed, you're going to pull that card?

But I decided that was a whiff. Perhaps you are not a racist, but you're certainly a sophist.

You lost me. Hank can make his post non-racist by not basing it on religion, but pointing out that religion ain't race is a whiff?

I guess I don't get it, which maybe counts as the essential whiff.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Ohhhhh! Resignation so early in the game! Or do we give you a pass because you didn't actually use the word "Nazi"?

Son, while they are dragging your body around the ring three times with the horses, you shouldn't use the word "early". You start to sound like Monty Python's knight.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by taxwonk
It's a shame the guy who taught you litigation didn't also teach you about materiality. The "Islam" part isn't material. The killing kids and raping babies part is. If you think differently, then Baltassoc has a point.

Help me non-denominational supreme being!

You said its racist to hold bilmore's view. His view was that he'd like to kill those Islamic terrorists who would do this crap. I point out that, if that's racism- okay I am a racist. The Islamic part is material because that what the fucking argument was about.

Say my garage has ants eating the wood. Calling an exterminator to kill the ants in my garage isn't hating the good ants out in the yard. And the fact that I didn't ask him to spray for termite? Well, I hadn't seen any termites yet.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by bilmore
You lost me. Hank can make his post non-racist by not basing it on religion, but pointing out that religion ain't race is a whiff?

I guess I don't get it, which maybe counts as the essential whiff.

Shit, bilmore, I gave you credit for a fairly funny joke, and you didn't even mean it. What am I going to do with you?

Obviously, my repeating Hank's characterization of hating "Islamic peoples" as racist (and given the way he wrote this, I think it's open to debate whether or not that is religious or racial bigotry, as he seems to be open to the possibility of hating someone who is of the same ethnicity as a "people" normally considered Islamic, but who is not - for example, a Christian Arab) was technically incorrect.* It is not racist, it is merely bigoted. I, and the board, stand corrected and shall be sure to use the correct term from now on.


*Unless you are suggesting that one of the other groups might be considered a race: Rapists. Baby Killers. Hostage Takers. Don't remember any of those groups from Intro to Geography.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Shit, bilmore, I gave you credit for a fairly funny joke, and you didn't even mean it. What am I going to do with you?

Obviously, my repeating Hank's characterization of hating "Islamic peoples" as racist (and given the way he wrote this, I think it's open to debate whether or not that is religious or racial bigotry, as he seems to be open to the possibility of hating someone who is of the same ethnicity as a "people" normally considered Islamic, but who is not - for example, a Christian Arab) was technically incorrect.* It is not racist, it is merely bigoted. I, and the board, stand corrected and shall be sure to use the correct term from now on.


*Unless you are suggesting that one of the other groups might be considered a race: Rapists. Baby Killers. Hostage Takers. Don't remember any of those groups from Intro to Geography.

I crap bigger'n you.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Shit, bilmore, I gave you credit for a fairly funny joke, and you didn't even mean it. What am I going to do with you?

Ah, so I DID whiff.

Oh well . . .

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I crap bigger'n you.

You'll have to take up your excretory concerns with Atticus, I'm afraid. I can't really help you.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Gattigap
GWB continues to provide us with nifty anecdotes on the campaign trail.



Hah! Let's see Edwards trot out some poor med-mal victim to counter that!

These days, I'll wait to see it for myself. You never know what AP and Reuters will make up, at the expense of the POTUS.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by sgtclub
These days, I'll wait to see it for myself. You never know what AP and Reuters will make up, at the expense of the POTUS.

C'mon, be fair. Those people were probably WISHING they could boo. The AP guy just picked up on that. We pay them to be that discerning.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Obviously, my repeating Hank's characterization of hating "Islamic peoples" as racist

for the record i sure as shit wasn't the one who brought racism accusations into this.