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- By Phillip Brownlee
- Posted March 31, 2006 at 12:16 p.m.
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Hamas is not a “terrorist” organisation but rather distributes food and medical supplies to the destitute Palestinians. A very small percent of Hamas tries to make Israel pay for slaughtering Palestinians, but lacks any real weaponry.
Proof of this is found it the fact the Bush and Rice are trying to cut=off much needed charitable funding. They admit it.
Bush and Rice complain that Hamas won’t recognize Israel. That problem is easy to solve. Hamas only needs to point north and say: “That’s Israel, that big pile of shit right there.”
Now Israel is recognized, what next?
Recognition should be a 2-way street. Israel has refused to recognize the right of Palestine to exist.
Quote of the Day:
“The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.”Franz Liszt
Here is a good scatter topic for open thread:
What is an invention you think needs inventing? Is there a sevice that you think people would pay for that is not being met? Do YOU have ideas for an invention or a service? Float ‘em here.
I’ll get you started.
THink of all the empty, unused rooftops, commercial and otherwise. Wouldn’t it make sense to mount solar panels on these and feed the power collected back onto the grid? Utilities won’t like it but maybe they could get in on it. Maintenance and such.
That’s my idea. What’s yours?
Israel always does something to put statehood just out-of-reach for the Palestinians. Their favorite is ” not doing enough to fight “terrorism.”
That’s kind of comical because the Israelis are the “terrorists.”
With all the billions we’ve given the Israelis last year, we could have rebuilt New Orleans, complete with a new levee system.
We built the entire country of Israel and made billionaires out of half of them, and between that and their Iraq “war” we’re going broke doing it.
If the Israelis lose being able to claim being “terrorized” they lose being able to suck billions out of the US Treasury.
They’re going to keep their “terrorism” even if they have to blow-up a few US cities to do it.
9/11 worked like a charm.
I hope that others enjoy this as much as me! lol
http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm
Viva La Raza Blanco!!
Small arms class.
Nathan and I have scheduled a handgun safety class for Saturday, April 29th. at the Cheney firing range. Time to be determined later, but probably in the morning.
For safety purposes we ask that the only handguns present be the ones we bring.
There will be an instructional period followed by actual hands on firing of the weapons. The class will stress hand gun safety and its purpose is to familiarize the student with handguns enough that they will be comfortable taking a formal class toward qualifying for a CCP. We will have a .38 special and two .45 semi automatics.
Total time will be two to three hours. We’ll supply all of the hand guns, targets and ammo.
We would like to limit the firing participation of the class to 6 people, no more than two firing at a time. Each person firing will be supervised by either Nathan or me at all times.
In the he classroom phase we’ll allow more participants than 6, but actual hand gun firing will be limited to 6, on a first come basis.Let us know if you are still interested.
Hank
Hank, count me in. If you get more than 6, I’ll step aside since the course is a refresher for me.
No problem XXX,
You’re in no matter what. The boy is looking forward to being on the range with you!
Even if no one signs up Nathan and I will be out there, I have about a 120lbs of wad cutter I need to use up before it goes stale.
Hank
XXX,
The concern is safety. I trust you with guns, but if I am going to moniter people it has to be a safe number.
Things get a bit hectic when you are trying to watch the other idiots that may or may not be shooting on the range while you are trying to teach someone and help them too.
I will talk to my army friend. If he can come he will bring a whole assortment of handguns too.
He is my co instructor from many of the other classes we have taught.
I guess you’re saying that bringing my RPG is just out of the question. Oh, well, another day.
Why must I be the one who has to hold the target?
Ed,Because you show up?
Yeah, well, Walker, the target is a picture of you. I couldn’t see that looking through the little eye-holes, but when I turned it around, man, are you one ugly dude.
You won’t get any argument from me there:-)
Something I don’t see discussed here is the diebold voting systems.
The machines in Ohio that registered more votes for Bush than people voted.Florida after having successfully tested the Diebold systems and finding serious flaws is threatened with a lawsuit from Diebold and now can’t buy voting machines.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/montereyherald/news/nation/14196163.htm?source=rss&channel=montereyherald_nation
What is happening to our country when people who expose problems with the system are indicted. Is there no protection for whistleblowers anymore?http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/31/193414/510
Sum1…
Protection for whistleblowers? Hell, they dont want to protect whistleblowers, bushco wants to PROSECUTE whistleblowers. And the media telling the story. Just ask the people who outed the NSA and their evil lackey, the NYT.
The difference between a whistleblower and a terrorist loving traitor?
One appears in credible news sources.
The other appears on fux news.
Guess which one is which!
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Rage?
April Fools!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got Me.
Hey, anybody know if Jed is ok?
I haven’t read anything by Jed in a long time, I think.
Jed? You still out there? Come down off yer fences, desperado!! Some of us miss you!
Yep. Hehe!
You’re right, you know: I’m crazy as a bedbug!
Good question, flike. I remember him mentioning surgery, but I don’t know what for.
He’s probably okay. He could just be busy or something. I see Ray Thomas has returned after a long absence.
Really, surgery? I guess I missed that.
Jed, all the best and heal up quick.
Hope all your ice cream is chocolate and your nurses are pretty, hurry back!
Bush and Rice are Zionist flunkies, but what kind of creeps go before the United Nations and propose to starve 1.3 million people?
I expect from shit-for-brains Zionists, but not Americans, we’re better than that.
I guess when the mind snaps, it’s Kady bar the door.
Riverbend (Iraqi blogger) thinks Rice is pure evil.
Rage, Aside: Rice has got to be the ugliest thing to wear two pounds of make-up on this planet. Pure Butt-ugly.
Ed, maybe that’s why she’s never been married or had any kids. Or maybe she doesn’t like men. Who knows?
A little humor:
“I live in a semi rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road. The reason: “Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don’t think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.”From Kingman, KS.
And this:
“The stoplight on the corner buzzes when its safe to cross the street.I was crossing with an intellectually challenged coworker of mine. She asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. Appalled, she responded, “What on earth are blind people doing driving?!” She was a probation officer in Wichita, KS ___________________________________________________
Yikes, it seems as if I and others here will be classified as “terrorists”! My tin-foil hat must be of the 10 gallon variety.
A Virginia training manual used to help state employees recognize terrorists lists anti-government and property rights activists as terrorists and includes binoculars, video cameras, pads and notebooks in a compendium of terrorist tools.
The manual, discovered by the Virginia News Source, is keen to emphasize that terrorists are not only Middle Eastern in scope and the main focus is afforded to domestic terrorism.
Included with Hamas, Al-Qaeda and Islamic Jihad, the following groups are identified as terrorist organizations.
In any anti-government and militia movementsAre property-rights activistsAre in any racist, separatist and hate groupsAre an environmental and animal rights activistAre a religious extremistAre in a street ganghttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/280306trainingmanual.htm
Viva La Raza Blanco!!
XXX, don’t laugh at your probation officer friend, I had a patient who was legally blind and I’d catch him driving all over Wichita in his RV. No matter how much I lectured, threatened, etc. he refused to stop doing it. He finally died without killing anyone, for which I was very grateful.
XXX, Reminds me of an episode in the military: three soldiers went out on the town to do some serious drinking. They got stopped and the driver was arrested for drunk driving.
The duty officer asked him why he didn’t have a designated driver, as the base required. He answered thst he did. When asked why the designated driver wasn’t driving, and expecting an answer that the designated driver was drunk, the arrested driver calmly informed him the designated driver didn’t have a drivers license, and didn’t know how to drive.
IQ . . . a terrible thing to waste:-)
For all who thought the journalist who was realesed by her captives was not threatened by them, here is what she said after leaving Iraq:
“”At any rate, fearing retribution from my captors, I did not speak freely. Out of fear, I said I wasn’t threatened. In fact, I was threatened many times,” she said. “Also, at least two false statements about me have been widely aired: One — that I refused to travel and cooperate with the U.S. military, and two — that I refused to discuss my captivity with U.S. officials. Again, neither statement is true.”"
Sorry: The link
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-04-01-carroll_x.htm
Well, they did kill her translator for no particular reason (a good friend of Riverbend’s, its turns out–before working as a translator, he ran a music shop. . ).
http://riverbendblog.com
It’s the January 12 post. . .(she doesn’t provide links to individual posts, so you just gotta scrolllllll down.
Ian, the suckers are spying on the Quakers! The QUAKERS!?! Simply put, if you disagree with the Bush regime, you’re a terrorist. The definition of “terrorist” is so (deliberately) vague in the Patriot Act as to be almost meaningless. Alien and Sedition Acts, anyone?
Oops. Well, I’ve made that boo-boo only once before (I confused Damoon some time back).
The above post was accidently written by Richard M. Nixon (deceased), not Ian.
I’m madder than hell today that The Eagle devoted the front page to Phelps and his clueless family. Why do we even give a s**t about why he does what he does, he’s explained himself for years, there was nothing new regarding his motives in the paper today. The Eagle is without a doubt his best ally, without them, he’d have no way to stroke his ego and perpetrate his message of hatred.
Damoon, a likely explanation: the revenue McClatchy stands to receive from syndicating this to other newspapers.
I didn’t buy Sherry Chisenhall’s “can’t we just all get along?” argument, either.
Oh–Riverbend does have direct links–how unobservant of me:
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#113709584389005811
Agreed, Damoon. Almost lost my breakfast when I looked at the paper and saw his ugly disgusting face on the front page. He makes me sick.
Oh wow…that family from Hutchinson can be so PROUD of themselves and their hooligan children. They are so proud that they can go on television and admit they are total failures as parents, and need help from a ‘nanny’ to bring them under control.
Next stop, Jerry Springer…
“New York City Losing Blacks, Census Shows”
Well by damn, somebody better get out there and find them!
maybe they have Michael Jackson’s disease and are turning whitelol
They should stop looking for the negroes during the night and they might have better luck finding them.
V.L.R.B!!
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
Tom De Lay not to run again for his house seat!
Figures he can’t win.
(more likely he figures he would be running from prison)
JR, you know I had to go check that out! Now we need to find out why. My guess is, somebody has a picture of him in a compromising situation with a goat.
Another one bites the dust…(and another one’s gone and another one’s gone, another one bites the dust)
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1179853,00.html
De Lay broke the news to Chris Matthews. MSNBC
That might be telling…………
I’ll check that link later XXX it was too slow…..busy?
If there are photos of De Lay with a goat…..how are we to tell the difference?
Good riddance to bad rubbish like DeLay!
I would implore evryone to read Civil War II by Tom Chittum. It is available, free, at the following link.http://www.geocities.com/anakonda_fi/
Viva La Raza Blanco!!
BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS
Homeland Security Depty Press Secretary Brian Doyleunder investigation on charges he solicited child pornography over the internet.
Ewwwwww creepy
It’s a scandal a day with this bunch!!!!
BREAKING NEWS CORRECTION
Homeland Securuty deputy press secretary Brian Doyle ARRESTEDon charges of soliciting a minor over the internet.
Guess those guys don’t have enough terrorist chatter to monitor.
This one was busy using his governement computer sending porn and encouraging what he thought was a 14 year old girl to send naked pics.
Story here:http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBB3U7ZMLE.html
Let’s keep in mind that this guy is still INNOCENT until proven guilty (yes, it even applies to Bushies, though |S| I half-suspect they’re soulless bloodsucking invaders from the planet Tralfamadore! |/S|). This also, like the previous shoplifting incident, appears to be an off-the-job recreational activity (ahem).
Still, is this very definition of IRONY or what?
The DEPUTY SECRETARY of HOMELAND SECURITY??
Who protects us from THEM?
Indeed Rage,
This I guess is why Osama bin laden and the Anthrax attacker remain at large.
Like Jimmy Kimmel, I have been hooked to the TV show “Lost”.
Does anybody else think “Lost” may have “Jumped the Shark”? (I like this term now that I know what it means.)
4,8,15,16,23,42 >execute
I’m hooked on Lost too.
I keep wondering how it can get any weirder.
What the hell happened to Desmond?
Is DeLay still running the House? Sounds like his redistricting trick to rig the game. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060406/pl_nm/congress_dc_2
I can’t believe the Eagle missed a FRONT PAGE story yesterday! Yes.. a historic event that happens only twice every 100 years… and twice in one day! At exactly 2 minutes and 3 seconds after 1AM and 1PM yesterday, the time/date was 01:02:03 04/05/06. Did the Eagle report that? Well.. the kids thought it was interesting anyway!
Ya know, we sure havent seen heckler around here lately. I wonder if he is busy or posting under a different name?
I wonder … what ever happened to the anthraz investigation? I wonder … did the fact that the genetics traced to the US military have something to do with the dropping of the investigation? I wonder …
…or the fact that it was democrats who received the anthrax letters? hmmmmm
On a different note, regarding DeLay coming out (or is that going out?) to Chris Matthews, I heard there was an off screen comment by Matthews that slipped through. Seems he admitted to hating dems.
Huh? Matthews said that?
Tomorrow we get another open thread and I will be fielding ideas as to another meet up. Maybe during River festival?
JR, that’s an excellent suggestion. My family tends to schedule around the RF, so it’s at least a good possibility I could make a second get-together, unlike the first.
Just don’t make it on the 20th. Please?
Good to know RD.
I’ll see which way the wind blows on this on the new open thread later today.
Expected a NEW open thread today.
River fest is coming. A good time for a meet up?
What say you folks?
It’s gotta be a weekend, or I’m not there, period.
Nice work chief
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